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Finally! Cut down version of my explanation for the why behind many Dems being in ineffective reactive mode while MAGA and some Dems (perhaps a certain mayor-elect...) actually force their desired convos to the fore.
contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...
contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...
Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight, Part I
“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Tuesday Showed the Power of Magnetism.
contrarian.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Finally! Cut down version of my explanation for the why behind many Dems being in ineffective reactive mode while MAGA and some Dems (perhaps a certain mayor-elect...) actually force their desired convos to the fore.
contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...
contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...
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HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
Me looking at Brazil.
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Me looking at Brazil.
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He's saying if you let me have access to the money again, I'm gonna supercharge ICE and finish my new bunker under the ballroom and start the Purge. There's literally no other way to read that. It's "we'll never seat another Dem member of Congress again and will contest every blue state vote slate"
November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
He's saying if you let me have access to the money again, I'm gonna supercharge ICE and finish my new bunker under the ballroom and start the Purge. There's literally no other way to read that. It's "we'll never seat another Dem member of Congress again and will contest every blue state vote slate"
Did the NYT ever run a headline saying "The sexual abuse by [Weinstein/Epstein/etc exposes the United States endemic pervert culture"?
November 7, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Did the NYT ever run a headline saying "The sexual abuse by [Weinstein/Epstein/etc exposes the United States endemic pervert culture"?
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this has been one of my central arguments the past ten years. the theory underpinning the anti-democratic elements of the american constitutional order is wrong!
The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
November 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
this has been one of my central arguments the past ten years. the theory underpinning the anti-democratic elements of the american constitutional order is wrong!
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Once again, SCOTUS undermines the rule of law, its own legitimacy, and the lower federal courts with a 'back of the napkin' explanation that doesn't even bother to analyze the issue under the standards for staying an injunction—all to enable a bigoted attack on a targeted group.
NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
![This case concerns an Executive Branch policy requiring
all new passports to display an individual’s biological sex at
birth. The United States District Court for the District of
Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government
from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to
stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then
filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay fac-
tors at this preliminary stage, we grant the application.
Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends
equal protection principles than displaying their country of
birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to
a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential
treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to
establish that the Government’s choice to display biological
sex “lack[s] any purpose other than a bare . . . desire to
harm a politically unpopular group.” Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the
State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by de-
clining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress ex-
pressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiacrtgoecxjy5y7ojz7xzbun4c4nwutjcvqn4qb4p25ldpt6va5lu@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Once again, SCOTUS undermines the rule of law, its own legitimacy, and the lower federal courts with a 'back of the napkin' explanation that doesn't even bother to analyze the issue under the standards for staying an injunction—all to enable a bigoted attack on a targeted group.
I’m trying to put my finger on what do all these cities have in common…
(AP) - Airports in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago along with hubs across the U.S. are among the 40 that will see flights cut starting Friday due to the government shutdown, according to a list distributed to the airlines and obtained by The Associated Press.
@apnews.com
@apnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I’m trying to put my finger on what do all these cities have in common…
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Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
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The fact that it will take close to a full year for this blatantly illegal bullshit to stop even though it’s cost a mountain of money is a sad commentary of our justice system.
A takeaway here is that normally a Republican administration can get away with submitting Steve Bannon monologues as briefs because the outcome is pre-determined, but in the rare politically salient case where Republican justices are cross-pressured the intelligence-insulting bullshit is a problem
My take on today’s tariff arguments at the Supreme Court. Short version: LOL slate.com/news-and-pol...
November 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The fact that it will take close to a full year for this blatantly illegal bullshit to stop even though it’s cost a mountain of money is a sad commentary of our justice system.
I hadn’t realized this but fewer lawyers in public service is yet another reason to be happy about yesterday’s results.
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities where the cool jobs at
November 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I hadn’t realized this but fewer lawyers in public service is yet another reason to be happy about yesterday’s results.
“Siri, can you remind me, is it one person one vote or one square mile, one vote?”
November 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
“Siri, can you remind me, is it one person one vote or one square mile, one vote?”
Can’t have a proper democracy without proper representation.
What's happening in TX-18 is more obscene than not seating Grijalva during pro formas. Turner died in March. Abbott delayed the special election until yesterday, and now it goes to a runoff early *next year.*
Congress can and should require special elections to be held within 90 days of a vacancy.
Congress can and should require special elections to be held within 90 days of a vacancy.
November 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Can’t have a proper democracy without proper representation.
Banana republic.
U.S. TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE MANDATORY FLIGHT CUTS AT MAJOR US AIRPORTS STARTING FRIDAY IF NO SHUTDOWN DEAL IS REACHED -- SOURCES
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Banana republic.
While it's good Trump will likely lose this case, this does not change the fact that SCOTUS continues to build a made-up, Calvinball jurisprudence including the Major Questions Doctrine and (coming soon) the Unitary Executive BS, that will be weaponized against the next democratic president.
My general thought from listening to SCOTUS in the tariff case is that some conservative justices (Roberts in particular) want to use the major questions doctrine to strike this down so they can say they apply it equally and maintain it as a tool to stop any progressive advances.
More coming soon...
More coming soon...
November 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
While it's good Trump will likely lose this case, this does not change the fact that SCOTUS continues to build a made-up, Calvinball jurisprudence including the Major Questions Doctrine and (coming soon) the Unitary Executive BS, that will be weaponized against the next democratic president.
I don't know, guys, how can you say the president is a budding authoritarian when he's saying... **check the tape**... that you need a government ID to buy eggs?
Trump: "It's time for Republicans to do what they have to do and that's terminate the filibuster ... we should start tonight with 'the country's open, congratulations,' then we should pass voted ID, we should pass no mail in voting ... you go to a grocery store, you have to give ID."
November 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I don't know, guys, how can you say the president is a budding authoritarian when he's saying... **check the tape**... that you need a government ID to buy eggs?
I hope the hire the most obvious spokesperson for the ad campaign.
November 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I hope the hire the most obvious spokesperson for the ad campaign.
I see the NY state democratic party continues to work hard at being the worst in the country.
Has New York Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs resigned over Mamdani yet? I hope he hasn't, so that he can instead resign over *improving Republican margins over Trump 2024 in an anti-Republican wave election*. Trump won Nassau by just 4%—now look at this bloodbath
November 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I see the NY state democratic party continues to work hard at being the worst in the country.
She's saying "yo tango papeles" (I have a papers)
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
She's saying "yo tango papeles" (I have a papers)
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Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.
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Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this.
But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!
But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this.
But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!
But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!
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Mike Johnson, probably: “what election? I’ve been extremely busy not releasing the Epstein files, I haven’t heard about any elections”
November 5, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Mike Johnson, probably: “what election? I’ve been extremely busy not releasing the Epstein files, I haven’t heard about any elections”
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if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam