D.M. Ridley
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If your parents say things like “China is going to eliminate The Stanley Cup” you need to have the hard conversation about elder care solutions
Trump, in the middle of his latest unhinged Truth Social screed, claims that if Canada makes a trade deal with China, "the first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup."
February 9, 2026 at 11:20 PM
If your parents say things like “China is going to eliminate The Stanley Cup” you need to have the hard conversation about elder care solutions
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If you knew who Dick Cheney was, you were in a class of high-info voters who Kamala won
She bragged about getting endorsed by Dick Cheney
All the complaints about her campaign are basically stupid nitpicks and the people convinced they’d have changed EVERYTHING by adjusting the words in her ads or whatever are out of their minds. Trump’s support was built out of years of irresponsible false nostalgia for his hellish first presidency
February 6, 2026 at 12:12 AM
If you knew who Dick Cheney was, you were in a class of high-info voters who Kamala won
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Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene on Twitter. It’s 2026 and one of the few Republicans who seem capable of acknowledging that 2+2=4 is the person who was first politicized by Qanon.
January 25, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene on Twitter. It’s 2026 and one of the few Republicans who seem capable of acknowledging that 2+2=4 is the person who was first politicized by Qanon.
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Law is a technology, and it has saved easily as many lives as antibiotics.
Like, in a very elemental anthropological way, we have laws for a reason, and it's because people won't tolerate it otherwise
The solution to blood feuds was never "well you should just not get so mad when someone you love is murdered." It was the law, it was justice
The solution to blood feuds was never "well you should just not get so mad when someone you love is murdered." It was the law, it was justice
the uvalde cop scum were acquitted because the law favors cop scum, and while i do respect and value the rule of law, if this is where it ends, either the law is going to have to change or our acceptance of the law is going to have to change, and you do not need a telescope to see the danger here
January 22, 2026 at 6:24 AM
Law is a technology, and it has saved easily as many lives as antibiotics.
All this talk of the 25th Amendment is great, but I repeat: it was never designed to deal with a senile or malicious President who wouldn't go quietly. If Trump pushes back, it takes a 2/3 vote of both houses of Congress to oust him.
Impeachment is a lower bar.
(And yes, we should do that.)
Impeachment is a lower bar.
(And yes, we should do that.)
“.. After one president who went senile in office and another who is nuttier than a Payday candy bar, we can only conclude that the 25th Amendment of the Constitution is just there for decoration.”
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January 20, 2026 at 7:04 PM
All this talk of the 25th Amendment is great, but I repeat: it was never designed to deal with a senile or malicious President who wouldn't go quietly. If Trump pushes back, it takes a 2/3 vote of both houses of Congress to oust him.
Impeachment is a lower bar.
(And yes, we should do that.)
Impeachment is a lower bar.
(And yes, we should do that.)
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Hey, NATO/EU:
He’s a liar.
He’s a fraud.
He doesn’t have a mandate.
80% of us can’t stand him.
We want you to do what our Congress won’t do, which is stand up to him and tell him to go fuck himself.
He’s a liar.
He’s a fraud.
He doesn’t have a mandate.
80% of us can’t stand him.
We want you to do what our Congress won’t do, which is stand up to him and tell him to go fuck himself.
January 20, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Hey, NATO/EU:
He’s a liar.
He’s a fraud.
He doesn’t have a mandate.
80% of us can’t stand him.
We want you to do what our Congress won’t do, which is stand up to him and tell him to go fuck himself.
He’s a liar.
He’s a fraud.
He doesn’t have a mandate.
80% of us can’t stand him.
We want you to do what our Congress won’t do, which is stand up to him and tell him to go fuck himself.
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How it started/how it's going
January 18, 2026 at 3:08 PM
How it started/how it's going
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The condescension from some of these people is off the charts. You think we aren't doing everything we can to oppose Trump? Fuck off and enjoy your peaceful, well-run democracies and at a minimum have the decency to shut your mouth.
January 17, 2026 at 9:29 PM
The condescension from some of these people is off the charts. You think we aren't doing everything we can to oppose Trump? Fuck off and enjoy your peaceful, well-run democracies and at a minimum have the decency to shut your mouth.
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just got out of an uber. the driver was telling me how he has to work 16 hour days, seven days a week, at two different jobs to afford rent. he doesn't have healthcare and he worries about retirement. "i would feel a lot better if we owned greenland," he told me. then he cried.
January 17, 2026 at 8:33 PM
just got out of an uber. the driver was telling me how he has to work 16 hour days, seven days a week, at two different jobs to afford rent. he doesn't have healthcare and he worries about retirement. "i would feel a lot better if we owned greenland," he told me. then he cried.
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Don, slamming down an Uno card on the chessboard-
“BINGO!”
“BINGO!”
January 17, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Don, slamming down an Uno card on the chessboard-
“BINGO!”
“BINGO!”
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Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.
January 16, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.
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The first step is to admit that you fucked up massively by refusing to do the One Simple Trick which would have prevented ALL of this: Filling in a little oval next to the Black lady’s name on a piece of paper.
OWN your colossal fuckup.
THEN we’ll listen to your ideas about how to fix things.
OWN your colossal fuckup.
THEN we’ll listen to your ideas about how to fix things.
The election was over a year ago. The fascists are at our doorsteps at this very moment. What's your strategy now? Because saying "I was right all along" doesn't do much for the people currently being brutalized, abducted, and murdered by ICE
January 16, 2026 at 3:13 AM
The first step is to admit that you fucked up massively by refusing to do the One Simple Trick which would have prevented ALL of this: Filling in a little oval next to the Black lady’s name on a piece of paper.
OWN your colossal fuckup.
THEN we’ll listen to your ideas about how to fix things.
OWN your colossal fuckup.
THEN we’ll listen to your ideas about how to fix things.
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One possible frame for this running debate is that, for the repliers' world to come about, a variety of other institutions would have to fail, amounting to total constitutional collapse. Is that possible? Yes, more than many of us realized. Is it here? No, and it's less likely than it was 6 mo. ago.
set aside whether it is legal or not. what do you think an executive order is, and what do you think the relationship of the president is to a governor or state secretary of state is? do you think the president is their boss?
I think my question is, if he issues an executive order cancelling the election, even if it isn't legal, if a bucketful of states comply on some level, what impact would that have on the overall election. Can it theoretically just be sandbagged by a handful of intransigent states?
January 15, 2026 at 5:37 PM
One possible frame for this running debate is that, for the repliers' world to come about, a variety of other institutions would have to fail, amounting to total constitutional collapse. Is that possible? Yes, more than many of us realized. Is it here? No, and it's less likely than it was 6 mo. ago.
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Let’s talk about abolishing ICE.
Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.”
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Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.”
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January 14, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Let’s talk about abolishing ICE.
Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.”
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Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.”
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This is not a novel observation, but I really don't think the admin quite understands the level of radicalization that is happening to opposition elements that were not previously radicalized in the slightest.
January 11, 2026 at 7:15 PM
This is not a novel observation, but I really don't think the admin quite understands the level of radicalization that is happening to opposition elements that were not previously radicalized in the slightest.
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Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
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The digital editor of the National Catholic Reporter has written the most cogent and hard-hitting critique of JD Vance I've ever read, worth a thousand couch jokes
www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...
www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...
January 8, 2026 at 10:38 PM
The digital editor of the National Catholic Reporter has written the most cogent and hard-hitting critique of JD Vance I've ever read, worth a thousand couch jokes
www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...
www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...
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Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.
For the love of all that is decent and holy: abolish ICE
January 8, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.
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Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis.
Say bad things are bad.
Say bad things are bad.
January 7, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis.
Say bad things are bad.
Say bad things are bad.
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[slaps roof of liberal institutions] this bad boy can assimilate everyone and everything, provide shared prosperity, and the only culture it can't tolerate is intolerance
need to end decades of civil strife? generate economic growth? have you tried LIBERALISM? order now, supplies are unlimited
need to end decades of civil strife? generate economic growth? have you tried LIBERALISM? order now, supplies are unlimited
December 31, 2025 at 11:52 PM
[slaps roof of liberal institutions] this bad boy can assimilate everyone and everything, provide shared prosperity, and the only culture it can't tolerate is intolerance
need to end decades of civil strife? generate economic growth? have you tried LIBERALISM? order now, supplies are unlimited
need to end decades of civil strife? generate economic growth? have you tried LIBERALISM? order now, supplies are unlimited
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And I think liberals should stop taking the bait and ceding ground on immigration.
Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
December 31, 2025 at 11:31 PM
And I think liberals should stop taking the bait and ceding ground on immigration.
Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
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I'm entirely serious about this: until you internalize the view that urban America is Real America, you won't see the urgency of structural reform of an American government whose fundamental structures so disadvantage its population centers—the great engines of its prosperity, progress, & culture.
Another good practice for the New Year would be for all the non-fascists in America who want to opine about politics to really begin believing that urban America is Real America & that its denizens are The Authentic People. Get some self-respect & drop the volkish nationalist view that they're not
And I think liberals should stop taking the bait and ceding ground on immigration.
Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
January 1, 2026 at 3:03 PM
I'm entirely serious about this: until you internalize the view that urban America is Real America, you won't see the urgency of structural reform of an American government whose fundamental structures so disadvantage its population centers—the great engines of its prosperity, progress, & culture.
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I'd go further. I'm with Dante. The best human existence is possible only in cities.
I'm entirely serious about this: until you internalize the view that urban America is Real America, you won't see the urgency of structural reform of an American government whose fundamental structures so disadvantage its population centers—the great engines of its prosperity, progress, & culture.
Another good practice for the New Year would be for all the non-fascists in America who want to opine about politics to really begin believing that urban America is Real America & that its denizens are The Authentic People. Get some self-respect & drop the volkish nationalist view that they're not
January 1, 2026 at 9:07 PM
I'd go further. I'm with Dante. The best human existence is possible only in cities.
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Stewardship. Understanding that you didn't make it, you don't own it, but you are 100% responsible for it and responsible to it.
The polar opposite of Trumpism.
The polar opposite of Trumpism.
January 1, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Stewardship. Understanding that you didn't make it, you don't own it, but you are 100% responsible for it and responsible to it.
The polar opposite of Trumpism.
The polar opposite of Trumpism.