niraliberalism
@niral.bsky.social
near illiberalism. I used to be a lawyer. I still am one, but I also used to be one. better things are in fact possible. The most effective liberals have been those forced to compromise with leftists, not those left to compromise with conservatives.
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Gallows and Reparations
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The Nazis didn't call them "concentration camps," either.
February 8, 2026 at 3:16 AM
The Nazis didn't call them "concentration camps," either.
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Concentration camps:
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
lataco.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Concentration camps:
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
anarchists are your comrades, tow truck drivers are your comrades, day care dads are your comrades, “wine moms” are your comrades, your neighbors are your comrades
February 8, 2026 at 4:19 AM
anarchists are your comrades, tow truck drivers are your comrades, day care dads are your comrades, “wine moms” are your comrades, your neighbors are your comrades
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Amy Klobuchar running for Governor of Minnesota
February 6, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Amy Klobuchar running for Governor of Minnesota
Cute but fierce but cute
February 8, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Cute but fierce but cute
Having worked on getting these visas for Afghanis, let me say it is the absolute least we can do for people we put in deadly peril, their families in deadly peril, to save countless American lives in our pointless war. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
Congress Nixes Visas for Afghan Partners, Closing Off a Key Path
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Having worked on getting these visas for Afghanis, let me say it is the absolute least we can do for people we put in deadly peril, their families in deadly peril, to save countless American lives in our pointless war. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
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Response from New Yorkers: 🙄
Breaking News: Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi is said to be planning to endorse Jack Schlossberg, a political commentator and the grandson of John F. Kennedy, in his run for a hotly contested House seat in New York City.
Pelosi to Endorse Jack Schlossberg, Again Backing a Kennedy for Congress
The former speaker, a prodigious fund-raiser and shrewd campaign strategist, seldom intervenes in primaries but has made an exception for a Kennedy before.
nyti.ms
February 7, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Response from New Yorkers: 🙄
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The endless column inches, YouTube videos, podcasts and more given over to the largely non-existent rightwards shift of young men is exhausting.
A small fraction are getting radicalised by the online right. But most young men vote left and liberal! Even more so than millennials did at their age!
A small fraction are getting radicalised by the online right. But most young men vote left and liberal! Even more so than millennials did at their age!
The untold story that is told constantly and isn’t really true
February 7, 2026 at 12:37 PM
The endless column inches, YouTube videos, podcasts and more given over to the largely non-existent rightwards shift of young men is exhausting.
A small fraction are getting radicalised by the online right. But most young men vote left and liberal! Even more so than millennials did at their age!
A small fraction are getting radicalised by the online right. But most young men vote left and liberal! Even more so than millennials did at their age!
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Norms between adversaries are usually better maintained by mutual deterrence than by mutual forbearance.
on the balance i think partisan gerrymandering is bad but the only way it ends is if democrats weaponize it against republicans everywhere they can. wiping out republican lawmakers in blue states might bring the GOP to the table to end the practice.
February 7, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Norms between adversaries are usually better maintained by mutual deterrence than by mutual forbearance.
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We have a world to win.
Democratic Socialists of America — We are at 100,000 members!
🌹 dsausa.org/join
🌹 dsausa.org/join
February 7, 2026 at 7:24 PM
We have a world to win.
Nobody is biting when I tweet about the need for reparations so I’m going to do the Pitch Article thing, I guess
February 8, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Nobody is biting when I tweet about the need for reparations so I’m going to do the Pitch Article thing, I guess
Bought one of those fancy chairs for rocking a baby to sleep, sent in our test pilot.
February 8, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Bought one of those fancy chairs for rocking a baby to sleep, sent in our test pilot.
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
“Ensorcelled”
“Ensorcelled”
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"Where are your citations?"
"Where are your citations?"
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"No, you can't leave that here."
"No, you can't leave that here."
February 7, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
“Ensorcelled”
“Ensorcelled”
Gallows, stockades, and reparations
NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress.
“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.
But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.
“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.
But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.
Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention without prescribed medication, lawsuit says
The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.
www.nbcnews.com
February 7, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Gallows, stockades, and reparations
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Death Camp For Cutie over here
February 6, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Death Camp For Cutie over here
Let’s say, maybe, possibly, AI is useful. Power plants, factories, garbage plants are also useful.
1. AI is a new front in environmental justice battles and should be treated as seriously in locating data centers.
2. Reducing the impact of any given data center must be a policy priority.
1. AI is a new front in environmental justice battles and should be treated as seriously in locating data centers.
2. Reducing the impact of any given data center must be a policy priority.
I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.
February 7, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Let’s say, maybe, possibly, AI is useful. Power plants, factories, garbage plants are also useful.
1. AI is a new front in environmental justice battles and should be treated as seriously in locating data centers.
2. Reducing the impact of any given data center must be a policy priority.
1. AI is a new front in environmental justice battles and should be treated as seriously in locating data centers.
2. Reducing the impact of any given data center must be a policy priority.
I’ve finally taken up a consistent meditation practice to, among other things, get above my procrastination problem.
I do a lot of meditation when I should be working
I do a lot of meditation when I should be working
February 7, 2026 at 9:59 PM
I’ve finally taken up a consistent meditation practice to, among other things, get above my procrastination problem.
I do a lot of meditation when I should be working
I do a lot of meditation when I should be working
Why is it that everyone but liberal political and media institutions can call these things what they are?
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
www.pressherald.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Why is it that everyone but liberal political and media institutions can call these things what they are?
But, without Russia in the competition, the Finns have lost their motivation
Entire world: welcome to the “decathlon,” ten classic athletic skills in one event!
Finland: no. biathlon. Two things. Ski and gun
Finland: no. biathlon. Two things. Ski and gun
February 7, 2026 at 5:42 PM
But, without Russia in the competition, the Finns have lost their motivation
Apropos of nothing, I note that Mussolini’s body was dumped in the city square and left to be kicked, pelted, and pissed on by the people.
February 7, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Apropos of nothing, I note that Mussolini’s body was dumped in the city square and left to be kicked, pelted, and pissed on by the people.
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Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics
February 7, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics
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still one of the most incredible videos of all time. wellness influencers doing woo encountering an indigenous shaman in the jungles of ecuador and he's like "I need your medicine, the tiger balm" and the guy is just like "no you need to get fucking penicillin moron"
www.youtube.com/shorts/ecOsp...
www.youtube.com/shorts/ecOsp...
Indigenous jungle shaman tells us we need antibiotics…?!
YouTube video by Xiaomanyc 小马在纽约
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:45 AM
still one of the most incredible videos of all time. wellness influencers doing woo encountering an indigenous shaman in the jungles of ecuador and he's like "I need your medicine, the tiger balm" and the guy is just like "no you need to get fucking penicillin moron"
www.youtube.com/shorts/ecOsp...
www.youtube.com/shorts/ecOsp...
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NEW: U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro exchanged heated words Friday with Connecticut clergy who called on her to push for abolishing ICE.
"If the vote comes up, I will not vote to abolish ICE,” she said in the tense meeting.
My latest at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/... #nutmegsky
"If the vote comes up, I will not vote to abolish ICE,” she said in the tense meeting.
My latest at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/... #nutmegsky
DeLauro rejects calls to abolish ICE during tense roundtable with local clergy
At a heated roundtable with local clergy on Friday, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro pushed back forcefully on calls to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
www.ctinsider.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:57 AM
NEW: U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro exchanged heated words Friday with Connecticut clergy who called on her to push for abolishing ICE.
"If the vote comes up, I will not vote to abolish ICE,” she said in the tense meeting.
My latest at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/... #nutmegsky
"If the vote comes up, I will not vote to abolish ICE,” she said in the tense meeting.
My latest at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/... #nutmegsky
Eyyyy @revnathan.bsky.social I know dis guy
“I would rather you vote for what is morally correct,” Davidson said.
“Don’t talk to me about my own morality,” DeLauro shot back.
“Don’t tell your constituents what they can and can’t talk to you about,” replied Rev. Nathan Empsall. “What you are voting for is not moral.”
“Don’t talk to me about my own morality,” DeLauro shot back.
“Don’t tell your constituents what they can and can’t talk to you about,” replied Rev. Nathan Empsall. “What you are voting for is not moral.”
DeLauro to pressing clergy: 'I will not vote to abolish ICE'
The Connecticut U.S. representative found herself at odds with faith leaders.
www.ctpublic.org
February 7, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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