Just Some Rando
@zimmsy.bsky.social
"The measure of a life
Is a measure of love and respect
So hard to earn, so easily burned
In the fullness of time
A garden to nurture and protect" - Neil "The Professor" Peart
Water finds its level. Always.
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Is a measure of love and respect
So hard to earn, so easily burned
In the fullness of time
A garden to nurture and protect" - Neil "The Professor" Peart
Water finds its level. Always.
Neat: https://clearsky.app/
They don’t want to survive as a party.
They have made very clear that their immediate - and longterm - goal is to achieve indefinite dominance of our system and our society. They’ll follow 47 further into the abyss. They’re in far too deep to turn back now, or for the foreseeable.
They have made very clear that their immediate - and longterm - goal is to achieve indefinite dominance of our system and our society. They’ll follow 47 further into the abyss. They’re in far too deep to turn back now, or for the foreseeable.
For the GOP to survive as a party, they need to dump Trump. He knows it too. That's why he's so obsessed with naming buildings after himself. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/its-about-ti...
It’s About Time For Republicans to Dump Donald Trump
For the GOP, Trump is not the future. He is also a past which they are going to actively have to distance themselves from.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
They don’t want to survive as a party.
They have made very clear that their immediate - and longterm - goal is to achieve indefinite dominance of our system and our society. They’ll follow 47 further into the abyss. They’re in far too deep to turn back now, or for the foreseeable.
They have made very clear that their immediate - and longterm - goal is to achieve indefinite dominance of our system and our society. They’ll follow 47 further into the abyss. They’re in far too deep to turn back now, or for the foreseeable.
I think so, unfortunately. Today’s college seniors were 12 years old when 45/47 came down the escalator and immediately plunged our overall dialogue into the deepest sewer. They should have it hammered home that there used to be a better way. That “angry illiterate adolescent” wasn’t always embraced
Do political science profs have to explain to their students that, for most of American history, it was actually borderline unthinkable that elected officials and their spokespersons would constantly talk like trashy reality show contestants?
After calling Schumer a "Palestinian," Leavitt refers to "Gavin Newscum." So she's just ripping off her boss's smears now.
November 14, 2025 at 6:45 AM
I think so, unfortunately. Today’s college seniors were 12 years old when 45/47 came down the escalator and immediately plunged our overall dialogue into the deepest sewer. They should have it hammered home that there used to be a better way. That “angry illiterate adolescent” wasn’t always embraced
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The SNAP fight at the Supreme Court is officially over. Trump's Department of Justice acknowledges that SNAP is now fully funded through the end of the fiscal year and thus withdraws its request for an additional stay. The end of the shutdown mooted the case before SCOTUS could touch the merits.
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The SNAP fight at the Supreme Court is officially over. Trump's Department of Justice acknowledges that SNAP is now fully funded through the end of the fiscal year and thus withdraws its request for an additional stay. The end of the shutdown mooted the case before SCOTUS could touch the merits.
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I am sorry that your life is so shallow that you have never met anyone who makes principled decisions that are not driven by money or transactional behavior and cannot fathom it but it is not my job to disabuse you of that pretty shitty dystopic worldview
November 14, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I am sorry that your life is so shallow that you have never met anyone who makes principled decisions that are not driven by money or transactional behavior and cannot fathom it but it is not my job to disabuse you of that pretty shitty dystopic worldview
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the average first-time home buyer age is the highest it's ever been at 38. that's because nobody has the money to afford a house anymore. except, apparently, the people who pick our fruit and clean our homes
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
the average first-time home buyer age is the highest it's ever been at 38. that's because nobody has the money to afford a house anymore. except, apparently, the people who pick our fruit and clean our homes
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It’s not over but when it is I will never, ever forget the “serious people” who buckled and compromised and abetted the torture and crime and murder for a fascist lottery ticket.
I think the core point is that trump had a honeymoon in which capital/media/political opposition all decided he was the one true voice of america. he did a lot of horrible things with that (including murdering 100s of thousands), but didn't consolidate power...
November 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
It’s not over but when it is I will never, ever forget the “serious people” who buckled and compromised and abetted the torture and crime and murder for a fascist lottery ticket.
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This is worth every second
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 AM
This is worth every second
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The mythical media trump—who knows anything about what he's talking about—is on a collision course with the sudden need to pretend to know nothing at all about a story that he's had lots of help trying to forget.
Round Up the Usual Suspect - Truthdig
The media version of Donald Trump as the author of his own administration isn't the one leaving his DNA at the crime scene.
www.truthdig.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The mythical media trump—who knows anything about what he's talking about—is on a collision course with the sudden need to pretend to know nothing at all about a story that he's had lots of help trying to forget.
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🚨Megyn Kelly in 2023 re Russell Brand: “You’re 31 years old & you have sex allegedly w a 16-year old?… She was a minor. Just because you can’t be prosecuted for it doesn’t mean it’s right.”
Kelly yesterday re Epstein: “there’s a difference between a 15-year-old & a 5-year-old”
@motherjones.com:
Kelly yesterday re Epstein: “there’s a difference between a 15-year-old & a 5-year-old”
@motherjones.com:
Megyn Kelly suddenly finds pedophilia very hard to define
When a 16-year-old accused Russell Brand of rape, Kelly begged conservatives to condemn him. Now she's splitting hairs about men "into the barely legal type."
www.motherjones.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
🚨Megyn Kelly in 2023 re Russell Brand: “You’re 31 years old & you have sex allegedly w a 16-year old?… She was a minor. Just because you can’t be prosecuted for it doesn’t mean it’s right.”
Kelly yesterday re Epstein: “there’s a difference between a 15-year-old & a 5-year-old”
@motherjones.com:
Kelly yesterday re Epstein: “there’s a difference between a 15-year-old & a 5-year-old”
@motherjones.com:
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if you hate the writer, do not share the writer's articles. people clicking on the articles is how the writer gets paid. "how do THEY still have a job in journalism, when so many talented people are being laid of?!" you, because of you. you are why.
November 14, 2025 at 1:39 AM
if you hate the writer, do not share the writer's articles. people clicking on the articles is how the writer gets paid. "how do THEY still have a job in journalism, when so many talented people are being laid of?!" you, because of you. you are why.
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The author(s) of this memo will come out and they should be shunned the rest of their careers in the law. (Seeing as how John Yoo is a law professor, I’m not getting my hopes up)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The author(s) of this memo will come out and they should be shunned the rest of their careers in the law. (Seeing as how John Yoo is a law professor, I’m not getting my hopes up)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
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NEW: Before Biden's team course-corrected on inflation, they made some missteps—and Trump and his team are repeating them. New from the estimable @crampell.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/affordabil...
www.thebulwark.com/p/affordabil...
How to Lose on Affordability
Trump has learned nothing from how badly Dems bungled inflation last year.
www.thebulwark.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
NEW: Before Biden's team course-corrected on inflation, they made some missteps—and Trump and his team are repeating them. New from the estimable @crampell.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/affordabil...
www.thebulwark.com/p/affordabil...
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Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/phil...
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/phil...
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
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I fear that as management turns increasingly to AI to write their emails and their reports, work that can be done poorly in automation, they will think all work can be treated this way, and they will lose whatever critical capacities they once possessed when they had to draft their own emails
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I fear that as management turns increasingly to AI to write their emails and their reports, work that can be done poorly in automation, they will think all work can be treated this way, and they will lose whatever critical capacities they once possessed when they had to draft their own emails
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Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
“The policy defines race ideology as, among other things, ‘a concept that attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity.’”
These GOP-led efforts will ruin their states’ public universities. Sad!
“The policy defines race ideology as, among other things, ‘a concept that attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity.’”
These GOP-led efforts will ruin their states’ public universities. Sad!
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
“The policy defines race ideology as, among other things, ‘a concept that attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity.’”
These GOP-led efforts will ruin their states’ public universities. Sad!
“The policy defines race ideology as, among other things, ‘a concept that attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity.’”
These GOP-led efforts will ruin their states’ public universities. Sad!
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
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Jasmine Crockett: "If people decide that they want to continue to support person who may be a pedophile themselves or a person who obviously is covering on pedophiles, that's on them. But they should at least know the devil they decided to pick."
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Jasmine Crockett: "If people decide that they want to continue to support person who may be a pedophile themselves or a person who obviously is covering on pedophiles, that's on them. But they should at least know the devil they decided to pick."
“OMG if I have tuh make up duh sturries, uh weeeelll!”
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
“OMG if I have tuh make up duh sturries, uh weeeelll!”
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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There's a tendency among a certain type of poster to assume everything they hate about politics and the state can be blamed on avarice, and I'm here to tell you it's actually worse than that.
I continue to disagree with this. The goal of mass detention is mass deportations. A private prison company leasing 100 beds to ICE gets paid the same if the beds are filled by 100 people for a year each or 1,000 people for a few days each. They don't earn more with long-term detention.
It's not about deporting them. It's about detaining them indefinitely and enriching Prisons for Profiteers and the grift the Convict in the Oval Office collects per detainee.
November 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
There's a tendency among a certain type of poster to assume everything they hate about politics and the state can be blamed on avarice, and I'm here to tell you it's actually worse than that.
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According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
dailyfreepress.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
I am related to people for whom this message resonates.
I know I am not alone in this.
The USA is doomed with people like this in positions of power.
I know I am not alone in this.
The USA is doomed with people like this in positions of power.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I am related to people for whom this message resonates.
I know I am not alone in this.
The USA is doomed with people like this in positions of power.
I know I am not alone in this.
The USA is doomed with people like this in positions of power.
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There's no problem Vance won't blame on immigrants, even if he has to invent the problem himself.
A few weeks ago he was insisting immigrants lived in cramped squalor and their (white) neighbors had a right to be upset about that.
Now they're so rich they're snatching up all the good houses? OK.
A few weeks ago he was insisting immigrants lived in cramped squalor and their (white) neighbors had a right to be upset about that.
Now they're so rich they're snatching up all the good houses? OK.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
There's no problem Vance won't blame on immigrants, even if he has to invent the problem himself.
A few weeks ago he was insisting immigrants lived in cramped squalor and their (white) neighbors had a right to be upset about that.
Now they're so rich they're snatching up all the good houses? OK.
A few weeks ago he was insisting immigrants lived in cramped squalor and their (white) neighbors had a right to be upset about that.
Now they're so rich they're snatching up all the good houses? OK.