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.
Pinned
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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“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.”
The Trump administration has revoked the key rule allowing the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases. What's next? A big, stupid mess, reports @mollytaft.com:
The Fight Over US Climate Rules Is Just Beginning
As the EPA moves to roll back the endangerment finding, which allows it to regulate greenhouse gases, experts predict uncertainty for business and a protracted legal fight.
www.wired.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:29 PM
“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.”
“Underlying your beliefs is a sentiment that white culture is simply better” is close to the mark. But really, he has no beliefs other than violent hatred of everyone who isn’t white.
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 11:26 PM
“Underlying your beliefs is a sentiment that white culture is simply better” is close to the mark. But really, he has no beliefs other than violent hatred of everyone who isn’t white.
training can’t fix stupid
According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.
February 12, 2026 at 2:56 PM
training can’t fix stupid
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Americans less than a year after electing Hitler president: But I don't want to be poorer
February 12, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Americans less than a year after electing Hitler president: But I don't want to be poorer
the people have won the Battle of Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...
Trump Administration Live Updates: President’s Border Czar Says Minnesota Enforcement Surge Is Ending
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:38 PM
the people have won the Battle of Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...
Gallows for those who can’t be shamed. Shame for those who won’t repent.
Reparations for those they’ve hurt.
Reparations for those they’ve hurt.
Shame won't work with this regime. People need to look them square in the eye and tell them that a day will come when Democrats are in control and on that day folks like Bondi will go to prison.
wow -- Bondi throws a fit in response to Nadler's question about how many of Epstein's co-conspirators, if any, she's investigating, aggressively pointing at him and yelling. The hearing then devolves into chaos and Raskin and Bondi start yelling at each other.
February 12, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Gallows for those who can’t be shamed. Shame for those who won’t repent.
Reparations for those they’ve hurt.
Reparations for those they’ve hurt.
The invasion of Minneapolis hasn’t ended and the people are still fighting the battle.
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 12, 2026 at 2:08 AM
The invasion of Minneapolis hasn’t ended and the people are still fighting the battle.
I have cautiously positive views of AI. Still, if I could, I would only read news outlets that have banned use of generative AI like these guys.
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
February 12, 2026 at 2:06 AM
I have cautiously positive views of AI. Still, if I could, I would only read news outlets that have banned use of generative AI like these guys.
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This is exactly right. There's a good chunk of research that says prejudice tends to inflate the perceived size of target groups. Scientists don't necessarily agree on why, but there are theories. I believe it's a combination of normal cognitive errors and deliberate manufacturing/manipulation.
This is purposeful. Not only to spread disinfo, but to make their ignorant base feel like trans people are everywhere and trying to take over everything. Everything is a fear tactic to distract from the fact the GOP are the worst evil than anything they make up about trans people.
Fox News produces more trans articles than any other outlet – including LGBTQ+ ones
https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/10/fox-news-trans-articles/?utm_content=1770740405&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/10/fox-news-trans-articles/?utm_content=1770740405&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
February 11, 2026 at 6:31 PM
This is exactly right. There's a good chunk of research that says prejudice tends to inflate the perceived size of target groups. Scientists don't necessarily agree on why, but there are theories. I believe it's a combination of normal cognitive errors and deliberate manufacturing/manipulation.
Ellsworth consistently describes leftists in wildly inconsistent ways
February 12, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Ellsworth consistently describes leftists in wildly inconsistent ways
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Pam Bondi
February 12, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Pam Bondi
A runaway boulder at the Indiana Jones show. Perfect. www.ocregister.com/2025/12/31/d...
Disney World worker is injured trying to stop runaway boulder at Indiana Jones show
Disney wouldn’t disclose the worker’s injuries, citing privacy reasons.
www.ocregister.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:24 PM
A runaway boulder at the Indiana Jones show. Perfect. www.ocregister.com/2025/12/31/d...
They rejected the mRNA flu vaccine to give us this
A year ago, we were on the cusp of turning many cancers into chronic rather than terminal diseases through immunotherapy and mRNA vaccines. Today, we're working through the curative qualities of a magical horse paste instead.
National Cancer Institute studying ivermectin’s ‘ability to kill cancer cells,’ alarming career scientists
The National Cancer Institute is studying ivermectin as a potential cancer treatment, according to its top official, alarming career scientists.
www.statnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:53 PM
They rejected the mRNA flu vaccine to give us this
In the post-Chevron era, shouldn’t they take this straight to Court? www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
FDA refuses to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot
Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.
www.nbcnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:49 PM
In the post-Chevron era, shouldn’t they take this straight to Court? www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
February 11, 2026 at 1:46 AM
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
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i urgently need a lawyer/group of lawyers who can write up a risk assessment for people of various citizenship/visa/asylum statuses to get on a plane home to minnesota from detention
February 10, 2026 at 3:33 PM
i urgently need a lawyer/group of lawyers who can write up a risk assessment for people of various citizenship/visa/asylum statuses to get on a plane home to minnesota from detention
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Crank convergence is such a waste of the infinite potential of the human spirit; Naomi Wolf shouldn't be running third-tier Stop the Steal derivatives, she should be chronicling how the Catholic Church suppressed the memory of the Primordial Feminine Goddess and trying to translate Linear A.
Bill Ackman's fund, Pershing Square, manages 18 billion dollars for wealthy clients, billions of it for the Harvard Endowment
Anyways here he is uncritically eating up conspiracy slop from Naomi Wolf about stolen NYC elections
Anyways here he is uncritically eating up conspiracy slop from Naomi Wolf about stolen NYC elections
February 8, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Crank convergence is such a waste of the infinite potential of the human spirit; Naomi Wolf shouldn't be running third-tier Stop the Steal derivatives, she should be chronicling how the Catholic Church suppressed the memory of the Primordial Feminine Goddess and trying to translate Linear A.
the key difference is that “leftists” are responding to material policy issues, not imagined enemies
Seems to me like there’s a lotta similarities between the conservatives who get all worked up about the latest idiotic moral panic and leftists who get all worked up about the latest “rhetorical betrayal” by Democratic leaders in Congress.
February 10, 2026 at 9:48 PM
the key difference is that “leftists” are responding to material policy issues, not imagined enemies
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Cory Booker is getting primaried. Good.
Booker will face challenge from the left in this year’s Senate primary - New Jersey Globe
As Republicans struggle to figure out who will take on Senator Cory Booker this year, the senator has drawn a new challenge – but it’s from a fellow
newjerseyglobe.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Cory Booker is getting primaried. Good.
What does the Columbia administration have to say for itself?
NEW: Leqaa Kordia — who’s been in ICE detention for nearly a year, since ICE took her the same week as Mahmoud Khalil — has been hospitalized after having a seizure.
Her whereabouts & health are now unknown.
The Trump admin alleges she supports Hamas because…she sent money to help family in Gaza.
Her whereabouts & health are now unknown.
The Trump admin alleges she supports Hamas because…she sent money to help family in Gaza.
February 10, 2026 at 2:23 PM
What does the Columbia administration have to say for itself?
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my favourite Michael Kalecki quote: “I have found out what economics is; it is the science of confusing stocks with flows”.
Part of the problem is that we use the same word, "housing," to refer both to the flow of services and to the asset that produces those services. As if the word "ketchup" meant both the stuff we spread on burgers, and the factories that produce it.
February 9, 2026 at 7:38 PM
my favourite Michael Kalecki quote: “I have found out what economics is; it is the science of confusing stocks with flows”.
One of the more important lessons I hope people took from the superbowl halftime show is that, even if you didn’t like it, you survived.
February 9, 2026 at 7:54 PM
One of the more important lessons I hope people took from the superbowl halftime show is that, even if you didn’t like it, you survived.
All my WaPos are gone
Another cancellation, I have only 3 WaPo subscriptions left bsky.app/profile/kare...
I knew things were going to bad so I loaded up on Washington Post subscriptions. At this rate, I’ll have nothing left to cancel by the end of the year.
February 9, 2026 at 7:33 PM
All my WaPos are gone
all my WaPos are gone
I only have 4 WaPo subscriptions left to cancel. Pretty soon I’m going to have re-up another 12.
February 9, 2026 at 7:32 PM
all my WaPos are gone