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@jwlicinio.bsky.social
California-based Jewish transfem lawyer of color (they/she). Legal Fellow at @facoalition.bsky.social. Everything is gender. Opinions are exclusively my own, reposts are not endorsement.
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this is me. when you’re yelling at me this is who you’re yelling at
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Interesting position rn where Iran could wipe most of the US operational air force within about 20 minutes with a preemptive barrage of <100 missiles w/submunition warheads. All those aircraft are just parked in Jordan, Saudi, and Qatar.
They won't, though.
They won't, though.
February 18, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Interesting position rn where Iran could wipe most of the US operational air force within about 20 minutes with a preemptive barrage of <100 missiles w/submunition warheads. All those aircraft are just parked in Jordan, Saudi, and Qatar.
They won't, though.
They won't, though.
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meanwhile on the other site some dude with 47k followers is so mad about I & @jamellebouie.net saying gender affirming surgery for minors isn't a thing - particularly my misuse of literally - that he has been @'ing me about it for over 24hr (also he's gotten like 26 likes because lol, dead website)
February 18, 2026 at 9:14 PM
meanwhile on the other site some dude with 47k followers is so mad about I & @jamellebouie.net saying gender affirming surgery for minors isn't a thing - particularly my misuse of literally - that he has been @'ing me about it for over 24hr (also he's gotten like 26 likes because lol, dead website)
my wife needs a new PC because the one I built 7 years ago broke and I’m currently checking my mailbox every day to check if my tax refund has come in so I can grab one of the last prebuilts in stock at Microcenter like I’m fighting for a spot on the embassy helicopter in Saigon. I love technology
AI is revolutionizing the world! A Playstation now costs $5,000 and this is the last phone you will ever own.
“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.”
@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
February 18, 2026 at 9:27 PM
my wife needs a new PC because the one I built 7 years ago broke and I’m currently checking my mailbox every day to check if my tax refund has come in so I can grab one of the last prebuilts in stock at Microcenter like I’m fighting for a spot on the embassy helicopter in Saigon. I love technology
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"I am special, I am immune to The Algorithm, it will not change me"
you are not special and it will make you worse
you should leave
you are not special and it will make you worse
you should leave
This is a very interesting new paper in Nature about the role that feed algorithms on X play in influencing political attitudes.
No paywall: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
No paywall: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 18, 2026 at 8:04 PM
"I am special, I am immune to The Algorithm, it will not change me"
you are not special and it will make you worse
you should leave
you are not special and it will make you worse
you should leave
wow who could have seen this coming I’m sure it’s not related to the fact that social services don’t exist anymore and every interstate highway is littered with potholes
notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
February 18, 2026 at 8:54 PM
wow who could have seen this coming I’m sure it’s not related to the fact that social services don’t exist anymore and every interstate highway is littered with potholes
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we have no idea where the truth social posts are coming from and who posts them
February 18, 2026 at 8:47 PM
we have no idea where the truth social posts are coming from and who posts them
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If Biden had forgotten which country one of his ambassadors was assigned to it would have dominated the news for a month
Trump: "Herschel Walker, speaking about loyal. How good a football player was Herschel? Now he's ambassador to the Bahamas. I don't know. Bahamas. Bermuda. Is he Bahamas? Whatever. It's a nice place."
February 18, 2026 at 8:43 PM
If Biden had forgotten which country one of his ambassadors was assigned to it would have dominated the news for a month
Am I the only person in the world who actually understands what the legal status of Taiwan is? I didn’t think it was that hard tbh it’s pretty standard “overthrown dynasty establishes rump state on the frontier” type stuff it’s happened like 4 times before
February 18, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Am I the only person in the world who actually understands what the legal status of Taiwan is? I didn’t think it was that hard tbh it’s pretty standard “overthrown dynasty establishes rump state on the frontier” type stuff it’s happened like 4 times before
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I stopped caring about island chains and sixth generation fighters and whatnot when I realized this was the most anyone on either side of the Pacific had considered such things.
February 18, 2026 at 6:55 PM
I stopped caring about island chains and sixth generation fighters and whatnot when I realized this was the most anyone on either side of the Pacific had considered such things.
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the enormously funny fact is that if Taiwan drops their claim to the owning the mainland, this would be seen as an affront to the PRC
Also the US recognised that Taiwan is part of China and that the People's Republic is the official government of China but that doesn't constitute recognising that the PRC is the government of Taiwan.
You may now see why AOC can't state this clearly!
You may now see why AOC can't state this clearly!
February 18, 2026 at 8:35 PM
the enormously funny fact is that if Taiwan drops their claim to the owning the mainland, this would be seen as an affront to the PRC
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The official US policy over Taiwan is about as comprehensible as the Schleswig-Holstein Question was. To misquote Palmerston, only three people have ever understood it, Richard Nixon, who is dead, a Chinese professor, who has gone mad, and I, who have forgotten.
it's insane to me that the mainstream press is mad at AOC over Taiwan when like, Taiwan policy is basically something basically 5% of the US FP elite can genuinely say coherently
I stopped caring about island chains and sixth generation fighters and whatnot when I realized this was the most anyone on either side of the Pacific had considered such things.
February 18, 2026 at 8:27 PM
The official US policy over Taiwan is about as comprehensible as the Schleswig-Holstein Question was. To misquote Palmerston, only three people have ever understood it, Richard Nixon, who is dead, a Chinese professor, who has gone mad, and I, who have forgotten.
I think what’s happening is that leftists became so much better at producing art than right wingers that that just kind of gave up and decided to spend all their time yelling about it on the internet instead
There used to be a ton of right-leaning artists, poets, writers etc. This kind of person doesn't really exist anymore because all right wing energy is aimed at asserting the intrinsic superiority of this or that arbitrary genetic group on a podcast
February 18, 2026 at 7:35 PM
I think what’s happening is that leftists became so much better at producing art than right wingers that that just kind of gave up and decided to spend all their time yelling about it on the internet instead
a… a what? a what???
Q: As Trump's popularity rises around the world, do you think we might be watching the emergence of a global MAGA movement?
LEAVITT: I sure hope so
LEAVITT: I sure hope so
February 18, 2026 at 7:29 PM
a… a what? a what???
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leave it to Jeffrey Toobin to be like 2 years behind the curve AND ignore major scholarship on the matter
This article criticizes liberals for not articulating an alternative to originalism, but @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social does just that in THE ORIGINALISM TRAP: her "inclusive constitutionalism" would use the law to **expand** rights, rather than constrict them. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/o...
Opinion | The Plan for a Radically Different Supreme Court Is Here
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:41 PM
leave it to Jeffrey Toobin to be like 2 years behind the curve AND ignore major scholarship on the matter
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tbh i think a lot of this comes down to the hollowing out of state capacity in global nations
neoliberalism has basically driven so many states to P3s that people don't get "states doing things" is still possible, but not necessary radical
neoliberalism has basically driven so many states to P3s that people don't get "states doing things" is still possible, but not necessary radical
china is incredible in its own way but don't mistake that with it being a radical government
February 18, 2026 at 7:12 PM
tbh i think a lot of this comes down to the hollowing out of state capacity in global nations
neoliberalism has basically driven so many states to P3s that people don't get "states doing things" is still possible, but not necessary radical
neoliberalism has basically driven so many states to P3s that people don't get "states doing things" is still possible, but not necessary radical
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i jokingly refer to my politics as "red abundance" primarily because i'm a social democrat who primarily thinks we should be building things
people want to be part of a grander narrative, i feel
people want to be part of a grander narrative, i feel
Yeah I think why China hype hits so good for so many people is that it's largely a materialist polity that justifies itself with income growth, lower prices, and public projects when The Culture War has become the dominant form of politics elsewhere with many other issues falling to the wayside
February 18, 2026 at 7:17 PM
i jokingly refer to my politics as "red abundance" primarily because i'm a social democrat who primarily thinks we should be building things
people want to be part of a grander narrative, i feel
people want to be part of a grander narrative, i feel
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Recall the majority opinion in Plyler the justices pointedly said they wanted to avoid creating and underclass of people who wouldn't have a public education due to a legal status beyond their control. And now HF wants to go back to that. Fog horning racism.
The Heritage Foundation is now calling for the overturn of Plyler vs. Doe, the Supreme Court ruling that banned states from denying an education to the children of undocumented immigrants.
February 18, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Recall the majority opinion in Plyler the justices pointedly said they wanted to avoid creating and underclass of people who wouldn't have a public education due to a legal status beyond their control. And now HF wants to go back to that. Fog horning racism.
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"no border control" they would send men to hunt you down & return you to your lord, & would mutilate you for your insolence. You would be arrested by local authorities for traveling on any lord's domain without their imprimatur of one of his peers.
February 18, 2026 at 7:18 PM
"no border control" they would send men to hunt you down & return you to your lord, & would mutilate you for your insolence. You would be arrested by local authorities for traveling on any lord's domain without their imprimatur of one of his peers.
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this is exactly why I am absolutely not willing to overlook anyone who was once “advocating for ending USAID” as merely committing a little oopsie-daisy-booboo, by the way
The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
www.reuters.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:50 AM
this is exactly why I am absolutely not willing to overlook anyone who was once “advocating for ending USAID” as merely committing a little oopsie-daisy-booboo, by the way
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Whenever I think of live service gaming and balancing, I think of this comic
February 16, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Whenever I think of live service gaming and balancing, I think of this comic
I love journalistic sexism
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 8:53 PM
I love journalistic sexism
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FWIW, I just emailed NYT's standards editor to ask about the paper's policy on this. Will update if I get a response.
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 7:42 PM
FWIW, I just emailed NYT's standards editor to ask about the paper's policy on this. Will update if I get a response.