Émile Darkheim
@rntropy.bsky.social
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Émile Darkheim
@rntropy.bsky.social
· Sep 7
yes, Rawls was very much not around for the Founding.
But the First Founding (Constitution), Second Founding (Reconstruction Amendments), and Third Founding (Civil Rights Act et seq), were all built on Rawls' ideas, that equality of opportunity, law, and rights is the core American goal.
But the First Founding (Constitution), Second Founding (Reconstruction Amendments), and Third Founding (Civil Rights Act et seq), were all built on Rawls' ideas, that equality of opportunity, law, and rights is the core American goal.
I've been thinking a lot about how the US has three founding and how, after Trump, we will — for good or ill — experience a Fourth Founding. I've been thinking about what ideas should be included in a Fourth Founding for the US.
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As frequently discussed, half of the reason for this mentality is because these people are just genuinely stupid, but the other half is Democrats simply don’t want to believe the people they work with on a daily basis are actual sociopaths who want to see them dead
Steve Inskeep: You think the Republicans voting with you here will not only agree to these measures, but actually try to do something if the administration ignores them?
Sen Cortez Masto: If they go back on their word, then the American public will know where the Republicans stand.
Sen Cortez Masto: If they go back on their word, then the American public will know where the Republicans stand.
November 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
As frequently discussed, half of the reason for this mentality is because these people are just genuinely stupid, but the other half is Democrats simply don’t want to believe the people they work with on a daily basis are actual sociopaths who want to see them dead
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anyway if dems think I'm gonna forget this shit in 5 months, they're wrong. if they think I'm gonna forget it in 5 years, they're wrong. they have fully convinced me that purging the party of these inept losers in the senate is more important than retaking the senate in the next election cycle
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
anyway if dems think I'm gonna forget this shit in 5 months, they're wrong. if they think I'm gonna forget it in 5 years, they're wrong. they have fully convinced me that purging the party of these inept losers in the senate is more important than retaking the senate in the next election cycle
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This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.
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I don't know what alternate reality you inhabit , but the party *was* united, united around stopping a catastrophic increase in ACA premiums leading to 5+ million uninsured, and a death spiral in the ACA market, and collapse of the service and delivery system.
Here's a thought. Perhaps it's time to stop with the back & forth haggling within the party and to focus on the issue at hand - making sure the safety nets that have been destroyed in the Big Bad Bill are fixed. Dems got them to return to DC. to do that. Then we can talk in-depth about leadership.
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I don't know what alternate reality you inhabit , but the party *was* united, united around stopping a catastrophic increase in ACA premiums leading to 5+ million uninsured, and a death spiral in the ACA market, and collapse of the service and delivery system.
This is the thing that really gets me About Schumer's defenders. It was Schumer who went rogue and screwed over the rest of the party. House Dems, state Dems, even the DNC was against caving. Schumer and Senate Dems are the problem, not every other Dem in the country.
“We’re in an existential fight so let’s band together with cowards who sell everyone else out at the earliest opportunity” isn’t exactly the St Crispin's Day Speech
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
This is the thing that really gets me About Schumer's defenders. It was Schumer who went rogue and screwed over the rest of the party. House Dems, state Dems, even the DNC was against caving. Schumer and Senate Dems are the problem, not every other Dem in the country.
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“We’re in an existential fight so let’s band together with cowards who sell everyone else out at the earliest opportunity” isn’t exactly the St Crispin's Day Speech
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
“We’re in an existential fight so let’s band together with cowards who sell everyone else out at the earliest opportunity” isn’t exactly the St Crispin's Day Speech
My Edmund Fitzgerald fact is that while the ship sounds like it was named after a famous person from American history, it was actually named after the president and chairman of Northwestern Mutual, the company that built it.
For many years I assumed that the Edmund Fitzgerald song was about a shipwreck in like, 1843. But Gordo wrote it the month after it happened! News you can use.
Its November 10th, aka Combination Death of the Edmund Fitzgerald / Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
My Edmund Fitzgerald fact is that while the ship sounds like it was named after a famous person from American history, it was actually named after the president and chairman of Northwestern Mutual, the company that built it.
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
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I think the most true thing about Mamdani is he is just a good guy who chose to be public servant and wears caring on his sleeve.
That it feels like he is a rare unicorn is more of an indictment of our entire political structure across the country.
We are so used to empty suits and villains
That it feels like he is a rare unicorn is more of an indictment of our entire political structure across the country.
We are so used to empty suits and villains
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I think the most true thing about Mamdani is he is just a good guy who chose to be public servant and wears caring on his sleeve.
That it feels like he is a rare unicorn is more of an indictment of our entire political structure across the country.
We are so used to empty suits and villains
That it feels like he is a rare unicorn is more of an indictment of our entire political structure across the country.
We are so used to empty suits and villains
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For many years I assumed that the Edmund Fitzgerald song was about a shipwreck in like, 1843. But Gordo wrote it the month after it happened! News you can use.
Its November 10th, aka Combination Death of the Edmund Fitzgerald / Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day
November 10, 2024 at 5:42 PM
For many years I assumed that the Edmund Fitzgerald song was about a shipwreck in like, 1843. But Gordo wrote it the month after it happened! News you can use.
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“if we talk a lot about ICE and then win, we will be expected to do something about ICE. can’t have that!” this is setting up 2 years of dicking around with bipartisan healthcare legislation that goes nowhere. that’s the plan afaict
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
“if we talk a lot about ICE and then win, we will be expected to do something about ICE. can’t have that!” this is setting up 2 years of dicking around with bipartisan healthcare legislation that goes nowhere. that’s the plan afaict
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Hemp regulation is a genuine issue but overnight obliteration is ludicrously bad policy. Whole lot of hemp and hemp-associated businesses will go under, this criminalizes basically every delta-8/9 product with enough in it to have a psychoactive effect.
(Those 24 Senators voted the right way.)
(Those 24 Senators voted the right way.)
The shutdown deal includes a ban on hemp products that none of its negotiators debated in public.
Disappointing that only 24 senators voted against killing an amendment to strike that ban.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
Disappointing that only 24 senators voted against killing an amendment to strike that ban.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Hemp regulation is a genuine issue but overnight obliteration is ludicrously bad policy. Whole lot of hemp and hemp-associated businesses will go under, this criminalizes basically every delta-8/9 product with enough in it to have a psychoactive effect.
(Those 24 Senators voted the right way.)
(Those 24 Senators voted the right way.)
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Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.
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So @underthedesknews.bsky.social is urging folks to call your Senators especially if they are the 8 yes votes and demand they vote no on the next round. This isn’t over. Like I said earlier: it’s boots on necks time. We raise hell and we don’t abandon folks w/ ACA.
Switchboard 202-224-3121
Switchboard 202-224-3121
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
So @underthedesknews.bsky.social is urging folks to call your Senators especially if they are the 8 yes votes and demand they vote no on the next round. This isn’t over. Like I said earlier: it’s boots on necks time. We raise hell and we don’t abandon folks w/ ACA.
Switchboard 202-224-3121
Switchboard 202-224-3121
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“Instead of subsidizing the cost of health insurance we are going to give money to people to buy health insurance” is the kind of thing only a complete idiot could possibly be willing to say.
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
“Instead of subsidizing the cost of health insurance we are going to give money to people to buy health insurance” is the kind of thing only a complete idiot could possibly be willing to say.
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Single-Stair Sickos might like to learn that a lot of European cities used to produce detailed books on their built environment, including complete floor plans.
Here's a snippet from Hamburg und Seine Bauten (1914)
Here's a snippet from Hamburg und Seine Bauten (1914)
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Single-Stair Sickos might like to learn that a lot of European cities used to produce detailed books on their built environment, including complete floor plans.
Here's a snippet from Hamburg und Seine Bauten (1914)
Here's a snippet from Hamburg und Seine Bauten (1914)
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This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.
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If your religion says you can’t do something then don’t do it. Don’t get the law to force other people to conform to your religion.
Muslims can’t drink alcohol but I’ve never heard of a Muslim going to the Supreme Court to get neighborhood bars shut down.
Muslims can’t drink alcohol but I’ve never heard of a Muslim going to the Supreme Court to get neighborhood bars shut down.
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
If your religion says you can’t do something then don’t do it. Don’t get the law to force other people to conform to your religion.
Muslims can’t drink alcohol but I’ve never heard of a Muslim going to the Supreme Court to get neighborhood bars shut down.
Muslims can’t drink alcohol but I’ve never heard of a Muslim going to the Supreme Court to get neighborhood bars shut down.
This isn't the most important thing right now, but it absolutely enrages me that Schumer really thought we're all so stupid that we wouldn't see he was behind this. He really thinks we're all just a bunch of naive rubes to be manipulated and tapped for votes and donations.
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This isn't the most important thing right now, but it absolutely enrages me that Schumer really thought we're all so stupid that we wouldn't see he was behind this. He really thinks we're all just a bunch of naive rubes to be manipulated and tapped for votes and donations.
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"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org
Indivisible Launches its Largest Primary Program in Response to Senate Democrats Surrendering on the Shutdown Vote
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org
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Don’t piss on my leg then tell me to stop complaining about the rain.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Don’t piss on my leg then tell me to stop complaining about the rain.
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Toddler playrooms are an amenity that could easily be added to any new apartment building. They don't up take much space ... just like kids.
Here's a cute (but small) one in a brand new building in DC
Here's a cute (but small) one in a brand new building in DC
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Toddler playrooms are an amenity that could easily be added to any new apartment building. They don't up take much space ... just like kids.
Here's a cute (but small) one in a brand new building in DC
Here's a cute (but small) one in a brand new building in DC
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I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives
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Musk is a deeply fragile character who wants more than anything to be admired and respected, even loved. His tragedy is that he has literally no idea how to achieve that. His curse is that everything he says or does fuels precisely the opposite outcome.
I think this one has got to him because he's posted at least three separate responses to this over the last 10 hours:
November 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Musk is a deeply fragile character who wants more than anything to be admired and respected, even loved. His tragedy is that he has literally no idea how to achieve that. His curse is that everything he says or does fuels precisely the opposite outcome.
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The Republican Senate majority is built on minority rule, enabled by unequal representation & the two-party system.
The GOP hasn’t won more total votes or represented more people than Dems since the 1990s. They’ve won the Senate in 7 of 13 elections since 2000 anyway
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
The GOP hasn’t won more total votes or represented more people than Dems since the 1990s. They’ve won the Senate in 7 of 13 elections since 2000 anyway
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The Republican Senate majority is built on minority rule, enabled by unequal representation & the two-party system.
The GOP hasn’t won more total votes or represented more people than Dems since the 1990s. They’ve won the Senate in 7 of 13 elections since 2000 anyway
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
The GOP hasn’t won more total votes or represented more people than Dems since the 1990s. They’ve won the Senate in 7 of 13 elections since 2000 anyway
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...