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Seeing Curtis Yarvin tweet is like if you watch a horror movie that sets up this mysterious evil villain, and then at the end of the movie comes the grand reveal… and it’s just Alf. And you can’t help but laugh and also feel a bit let down. That’s it??
September 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Seeing Curtis Yarvin tweet is like if you watch a horror movie that sets up this mysterious evil villain, and then at the end of the movie comes the grand reveal… and it’s just Alf. And you can’t help but laugh and also feel a bit let down. That’s it??
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genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.
September 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.
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OMG. They cannot have NOT known the literal most famous headline from The Onion.
July 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
OMG. They cannot have NOT known the literal most famous headline from The Onion.
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definitive evidence that the deal is terrible
Larry Summers blesses the deal Columbia cut with Trump administration
July 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
definitive evidence that the deal is terrible
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again, the NYT does not mention in this article that Trump was held liable for sexual assault. that seems like important context it is denying its readers.
Yiiiiiikes
July 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
again, the NYT does not mention in this article that Trump was held liable for sexual assault. that seems like important context it is denying its readers.
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One little optics story in all this: Trump's WH has used the optics of bill-signing ceremonies and made them EO-signing ceremonies. Members of Congress etc showing up to see him sign EOs and get the pens.
Not brand new but he's stepped it up and the image voters see is "president taking action."
Not brand new but he's stepped it up and the image voters see is "president taking action."
@trt.bsky.social This (as always) excellent @sulliview.bsky.social column speaks to the conversation we were just having about headlines, tweets and false impressions.
Trump pretends he's a dictator — and the credulous media too often nods along
His endless executive orders often are presented as actual law. They're not.
margaretsullivan.substack.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
One little optics story in all this: Trump's WH has used the optics of bill-signing ceremonies and made them EO-signing ceremonies. Members of Congress etc showing up to see him sign EOs and get the pens.
Not brand new but he's stepped it up and the image voters see is "president taking action."
Not brand new but he's stepped it up and the image voters see is "president taking action."
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yes! this dude will back down to anyone who tells him to fuck himself! this is the only response worth having!
Trump’s sputtering response to Harvard standing up to him is yet another reason why institutions should refuse to bend the knee. He’s a paper tiger, unable to argue his own case.
April 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
yes! this dude will back down to anyone who tells him to fuck himself! this is the only response worth having!
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Building on America Votes’ Spring election voter mobilization in 2023, the America Votes coalition organized again to preserve the pro-democracy majority in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court.
Read the full statement here: americavotes.org/america-vote...
Read the full statement here: americavotes.org/america-vote...
America Votes Statement on the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Results - America Votes
americavotes.org
April 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Building on America Votes’ Spring election voter mobilization in 2023, the America Votes coalition organized again to preserve the pro-democracy majority in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court.
Read the full statement here: americavotes.org/america-vote...
Read the full statement here: americavotes.org/america-vote...
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* CHINESE STATE MEDIA: CHINA, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA REACH A CONSENSUS THAT THREE SIDES WILL JOINTLY RESPOND TO THE U.S. TARIFFS
@reuters.com
@reuters.com
March 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM
* CHINESE STATE MEDIA: CHINA, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA REACH A CONSENSUS THAT THREE SIDES WILL JOINTLY RESPOND TO THE U.S. TARIFFS
@reuters.com
@reuters.com
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very helpful to democrats that one of the most unpopular people in american politics is front in center in the administration, allowing them to make the very easy case that you should vote for democrats to check elon musk.
The Democrat who just flipped a very Trumpy seat in Pennsylvania’s Senate made opposition to Elon Musk front and center in his campaign.
(lancasteronline.com/news/politic...)
(lancasteronline.com/news/politic...)
March 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM
very helpful to democrats that one of the most unpopular people in american politics is front in center in the administration, allowing them to make the very easy case that you should vote for democrats to check elon musk.
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Having had a kid die of measles in my arms as a doctor in the DR Congo, I respectfully disagree that this would be better. Vaccines save lives.
www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-it-wo...
www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-it-wo...
RFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’
“The measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Sean Hannity on Fox News.
www.thedailybeast.com
March 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Having had a kid die of measles in my arms as a doctor in the DR Congo, I respectfully disagree that this would be better. Vaccines save lives.
www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-it-wo...
www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-it-wo...
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A new poll released Monday from Siena College found that more New York City residents approve of congestion pricing than don't, a dramatic turnaround from a previous poll by the same firm back in December.
Siena Poll: Support for Congestion Pricing Keeps Rising - Streetsblog New York City
"Are we out of the Valley of Death yet?"
buff.ly
March 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
A new poll released Monday from Siena College found that more New York City residents approve of congestion pricing than don't, a dramatic turnaround from a previous poll by the same firm back in December.
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I'm old enough to remember when unilateral presidential alteration of the terms of student loan programs was considered on the right to be the greatest threat to the constitutional order.
March 8, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I'm old enough to remember when unilateral presidential alteration of the terms of student loan programs was considered on the right to be the greatest threat to the constitutional order.
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glenn youngkin easily the commonwealth's worst governor of the 21st century www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Youngkin commutes sentence of ex-officer who fatally shot unarmed man
Youngkin commuted the sentence Sunday night, writing that the three years of incarceration went beyond the state’s sentencing guidelines.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
glenn youngkin easily the commonwealth's worst governor of the 21st century www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Marco Rubio is like having Tom Wambsgabs as Secretary of State, a man whose ambition is to be an empty suit, on board to take any stance, say anything, whatever the boss wants, and sponge up some of the pain that comes back, all for the trappings, the title, the plane rides, the suits, to be there.
March 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Marco Rubio is like having Tom Wambsgabs as Secretary of State, a man whose ambition is to be an empty suit, on board to take any stance, say anything, whatever the boss wants, and sponge up some of the pain that comes back, all for the trappings, the title, the plane rides, the suits, to be there.
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Hard for me to be even-tempered about this, when I know reporters whose addresses were shared and had to briefly flee home for the crime or reporting on government agencies.
the entire conservative project is now completely on board with the hyperventilating online chud notion that reporting on someone doing something newsworthy is a form of nefarious "doxxing"
February 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Hard for me to be even-tempered about this, when I know reporters whose addresses were shared and had to briefly flee home for the crime or reporting on government agencies.
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issue with “hire more conservative professors” is that they don’t mean “hire a smart guy who happens to think taxes should be lower”, they mean “hire a movement conservative”, and these days there are multiple litmus tests for being that type of person that are “insist this false thing is true”
February 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
issue with “hire more conservative professors” is that they don’t mean “hire a smart guy who happens to think taxes should be lower”, they mean “hire a movement conservative”, and these days there are multiple litmus tests for being that type of person that are “insist this false thing is true”
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Over on X, Chris Rufo is out with a series of leaked internal chats between trans intelligence analysts at NSA, where they talked about things like coming out, bottom surgery, and their sex lives. So yeah, employees should be afraid of things like that even if they’re not fired.
NEWS: In USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones.
+ similar in the Department of the Interior
+ similar in the Department of the Interior
LGBTQ federal workers say they're terrified they're about to be fired for their gender identity, sexual orientation, or past efforts to support other queer and trans employees—in other words, a second Lavender Scare.
Honored to have their trust with this story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Honored to have their trust with this story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
February 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Over on X, Chris Rufo is out with a series of leaked internal chats between trans intelligence analysts at NSA, where they talked about things like coming out, bottom surgery, and their sex lives. So yeah, employees should be afraid of things like that even if they’re not fired.
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“I am a king and my will is law” isn’t a clever distraction from what he’s doing, it’s the central underlying justification for everything he’s doing.
Dear media:
Please do not waste time hyperventilating about this dumb comment.
It’s intended to be a distraction from all of the damaging actions he’s taking.
Focus on those.
Please do not waste time hyperventilating about this dumb comment.
It’s intended to be a distraction from all of the damaging actions he’s taking.
Focus on those.
February 19, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“I am a king and my will is law” isn’t a clever distraction from what he’s doing, it’s the central underlying justification for everything he’s doing.
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We need to show people what Trumps policies will do, not just talk about them. Moving fast and breaking things? That means the pain hits fast, too. epolitics.substack.com/p/make-it-vi...
Make It Visceral, Make It Real: We Need Stories, Not Sound Bites
Moving fast and breaking things? That means the pain hits fast, too
epolitics.substack.com
February 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
We need to show people what Trumps policies will do, not just talk about them. Moving fast and breaking things? That means the pain hits fast, too. epolitics.substack.com/p/make-it-vi...
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Congratulations to Measles and Bird Flu for their big win today!
52-48, Senate votes to confirm RFK Jr. as the next Health and Human Services secretary.
All Republicans voted YES except one: Mitch McConnell, who joined all Democrats in voting NO.
All Republicans voted YES except one: Mitch McConnell, who joined all Democrats in voting NO.
February 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Congratulations to Measles and Bird Flu for their big win today!