@altkudzu87.bsky.social
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100% agree. Ironically, this is the only version of "broken windows" that actually makes any sense, because it has to do with the individual behavior of one person going from getting away with small crimes to getting away with big crimes, instead of being some vague theory about general contagion.
My hottest take is that letting cops park in red zones for mundane errands and coffee breaks; I think “you can break the law at your discretion as a job perk” is the small domino that ends in the large domino of “shooting protesters in the face with rubber bullets”
It must be wild to get to abuse the public then pay for it with the public's money
December 12, 2025 at 6:14 AM
100% agree. Ironically, this is the only version of "broken windows" that actually makes any sense, because it has to do with the individual behavior of one person going from getting away with small crimes to getting away with big crimes, instead of being some vague theory about general contagion.
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NEW: Colorado Gov Jared Polis (D) responds to President Trump claiming he has pardoning Tina Peters on state charges:
"No President has jurisdiction over state law nor the power to pardon a person for state convictions. This is a matter for the courts to decide, and we will abide by court orders."
"No President has jurisdiction over state law nor the power to pardon a person for state convictions. This is a matter for the courts to decide, and we will abide by court orders."
December 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
NEW: Colorado Gov Jared Polis (D) responds to President Trump claiming he has pardoning Tina Peters on state charges:
"No President has jurisdiction over state law nor the power to pardon a person for state convictions. This is a matter for the courts to decide, and we will abide by court orders."
"No President has jurisdiction over state law nor the power to pardon a person for state convictions. This is a matter for the courts to decide, and we will abide by court orders."
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Lol at every university trustee and law firm partner who concluded they had no choice but to play ball with this bumbling fool
Trump 0-3 on indicting Tish James and just had his ass handed to him by Indiana Republican legislators he threatened and bullied. Also new low in AP poll at 36% approval.
December 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Lol at every university trustee and law firm partner who concluded they had no choice but to play ball with this bumbling fool
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Say it again for the folks in the back: "The first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term." 🙌
BREAKING: Democrats and Republicans in Congress just voted to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act to restore federal workers’ union rights – the first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term. https://bit.ly/4oNyBQc
December 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Say it again for the folks in the back: "The first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term." 🙌
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The endgame of authoritarian regimes is to no longer need popular approval. So don't be too sanguine about Trump's plummeting popularity. lnk.thebulwark.com/4oIF0MJ
Trump’s Wager and the Authoritarian Shift
Is Trump getting weaker, or is the authoritarian danger increasing? Yes.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The endgame of authoritarian regimes is to no longer need popular approval. So don't be too sanguine about Trump's plummeting popularity. lnk.thebulwark.com/4oIF0MJ
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Liberals are constantly trying to indoctrinate our young people. You can see the proof in this colorful PragerU video presented by the Young America's Foundation at a Turning Point USA school club meeting.
December 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Liberals are constantly trying to indoctrinate our young people. You can see the proof in this colorful PragerU video presented by the Young America's Foundation at a Turning Point USA school club meeting.
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🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.
December 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.
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BREAKING: Judge Paula Xinis orders the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from immigration custody
December 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
BREAKING: Judge Paula Xinis orders the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from immigration custody
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This is what is going to happen. There will be a thin top layer of non-digital universities — and all the tech billionaires will send their kids to those places.
Total success to the first college/university that pledges to be AI-free and brand it as an opportunity to receive a real education.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This is what is going to happen. There will be a thin top layer of non-digital universities — and all the tech billionaires will send their kids to those places.
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I’ll never forget hearing Donald Trump’s racist “shithole countries” comment in a 2018 Oval Office meeting about immigration.
Tom Cotton and David Perdue claimed Trump didn’t say it and accused me of lying.
The truth comes out.
Tom Cotton and David Perdue claimed Trump didn’t say it and accused me of lying.
The truth comes out.
TRUMP: “I said why is it we only take people from shithole countries? Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden, Denmark… But we always take people from Somalia— places that are filthy, dirty, disgusting.”
Such a mystery what he means when he says this stuff, isn’t it?
Such a mystery what he means when he says this stuff, isn’t it?
December 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I’ll never forget hearing Donald Trump’s racist “shithole countries” comment in a 2018 Oval Office meeting about immigration.
Tom Cotton and David Perdue claimed Trump didn’t say it and accused me of lying.
The truth comes out.
Tom Cotton and David Perdue claimed Trump didn’t say it and accused me of lying.
The truth comes out.
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Rufo sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Rufo reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Rufo reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
December 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Rufo sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Rufo reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Rufo reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
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A reminder: Nearly all of the supposedly distinguished conservative thinkers you've ever heard of launched their careers performatively losing their minds over fictional Clinton/Obama era scandals that they themselves had invented.
Had missed this detail: Paramount’s David Ellison talked to Trump at the Kennedy Center Awards on Sunday and sat next to FCC Chair Brendan Carr
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
December 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
A reminder: Nearly all of the supposedly distinguished conservative thinkers you've ever heard of launched their careers performatively losing their minds over fictional Clinton/Obama era scandals that they themselves had invented.
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“.. By my count, today's $12B farmer bailout is the FIFTH thing that Trump's tariffs were gonna pay for.”
- @scottlincicome.bsky.social
- @scottlincicome.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
“.. By my count, today's $12B farmer bailout is the FIFTH thing that Trump's tariffs were gonna pay for.”
- @scottlincicome.bsky.social
- @scottlincicome.bsky.social
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The headlines on Slaughter are all about SCOTUS giving their pet more power.
Sure, that's accurate. But it is, specifically, about gutting consumer protection.
Trump's FTC head was among those WAAAAAIIIIILLLLLLLLING that the EU fined Xitter for fraudulent blue checks (of which I have one).
Sure, that's accurate. But it is, specifically, about gutting consumer protection.
Trump's FTC head was among those WAAAAAIIIIILLLLLLLLING that the EU fined Xitter for fraudulent blue checks (of which I have one).
December 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The headlines on Slaughter are all about SCOTUS giving their pet more power.
Sure, that's accurate. But it is, specifically, about gutting consumer protection.
Trump's FTC head was among those WAAAAAIIIIILLLLLLLLING that the EU fined Xitter for fraudulent blue checks (of which I have one).
Sure, that's accurate. But it is, specifically, about gutting consumer protection.
Trump's FTC head was among those WAAAAAIIIIILLLLLLLLING that the EU fined Xitter for fraudulent blue checks (of which I have one).
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It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
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Style guide:
Alina Habba is not STEPPING DOWN.
She is ending her unlawful charade that she is US Attorney.
Alina Habba is not STEPPING DOWN.
She is ending her unlawful charade that she is US Attorney.
December 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Style guide:
Alina Habba is not STEPPING DOWN.
She is ending her unlawful charade that she is US Attorney.
Alina Habba is not STEPPING DOWN.
She is ending her unlawful charade that she is US Attorney.
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At some point it may occur to the extremely wealthy people on Netflix’s side that the best way to save their deal is to make sure everyone in America knows how corrupt Trump and Ellison are. Their opponents paid off the referees! Make some noise about it!
this pretty much guarantees months and months of performative bullshit by Trump and Ellison and right wing media about how Netflix ownership would be a woke antitrust nightmare, but letting Larry and his nepobaby son dominate U.S. media would be a delightful, populist spritzer
It’s a Bidding War: Paramount Attempts Hostile Offer for Warner Bros.
David Ellison calls Netflix's $82.7 billion deal value an "inferior proposal" and tells Warners shareholders that his coalition promises $18 billion more in cash.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
At some point it may occur to the extremely wealthy people on Netflix’s side that the best way to save their deal is to make sure everyone in America knows how corrupt Trump and Ellison are. Their opponents paid off the referees! Make some noise about it!
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This is still far less than the percentage of cops who admit they've beaten their spouse and kids
More than 1 in 4 self-checkout shoppers admit they've stolen: Survey
More than 1 in 4 self-checkout shoppers admit they’ve stolen: Survey
More than a third of self-checkout thieves see the kiosks as “unpaid work” so taking small items “feels like compensation.”
ktla.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This is still far less than the percentage of cops who admit they've beaten their spouse and kids
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Apparently this happened at Tesla "Autonomy Visualized" event at the Miami storefront:
electrek.co/2025/12/07/t...
And this is your regular reminder that Elon Musk's real business is Securities Fraud and why he went all in on Trump: he doesn't want to go to jail for it.
electrek.co/2025/12/07/t...
And this is your regular reminder that Elon Musk's real business is Securities Fraud and why he went all in on Trump: he doesn't want to go to jail for it.
December 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Apparently this happened at Tesla "Autonomy Visualized" event at the Miami storefront:
electrek.co/2025/12/07/t...
And this is your regular reminder that Elon Musk's real business is Securities Fraud and why he went all in on Trump: he doesn't want to go to jail for it.
electrek.co/2025/12/07/t...
And this is your regular reminder that Elon Musk's real business is Securities Fraud and why he went all in on Trump: he doesn't want to go to jail for it.
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The hostile bid Paramount is launching to get Warner is backed by the Saudis, Abu Dhabi, and Qataris (and Jared).
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/p...
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/p...
December 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The hostile bid Paramount is launching to get Warner is backed by the Saudis, Abu Dhabi, and Qataris (and Jared).
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/p...
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/p...
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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICEBlock App developer Joshua Aaron is SUING DHS, ICE, DOJ, White House officials for violating his 1st Amendment rights when they pressured Apple to remove the app from the App Store. www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
EXCLUSIVE: ICEBlock App Developer to Sue ICE, DHS, DOJ, White House Officials
ICEBlock app developer Joshua Aaron is suing multiple federal agency officials for violating his 1st Amendment rights after they coerced Apple into removing ICEBlock from its App Store
www.muellershewrote.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICEBlock App developer Joshua Aaron is SUING DHS, ICE, DOJ, White House officials for violating his 1st Amendment rights when they pressured Apple to remove the app from the App Store. www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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Yup. The only way to understand them is they've been pickled in Fox News.
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
The part that I can't figure out is what John Roberts thinks he is doing. He used to seem to be a judge who was very attentive to appearances, I think on a theory that you can't draw too much attention to yourself without undermining your ability to continue to shape the law.
December 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Yup. The only way to understand them is they've been pickled in Fox News.
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Now that Vanity Fair dropped Nuzzi can we have Teen Vogue back?
December 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Now that Vanity Fair dropped Nuzzi can we have Teen Vogue back?
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport