Jake Knanishu
@cantorsparadise.bsky.social
Plaintiff's lawyer, southerner, cheesehead
Oops! Honest mistake, but I believe she means ages 3-13, given recent developments in the age of majority.
Fox guest on how to save money during the holidays:
"Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."
"Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."
November 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Oops! Honest mistake, but I believe she means ages 3-13, given recent developments in the age of majority.
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"People often, often people" is genuinely my worst nightmare because it's one of those markers of a text as completely unedited and one you won't even notice as a writer until the moment you hit "publish"
The prose is incoherent & the only way to make it through a paragraph is to rely on the North Star or her self-pitying narcissism. The gist of this graf is “strangers obsess about me, must be because I work so hard,” but it is almost immediate lost in the morass of “typed on notes app while hiking”
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
"People often, often people" is genuinely my worst nightmare because it's one of those markers of a text as completely unedited and one you won't even notice as a writer until the moment you hit "publish"
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Arguing that people who live in the South are inherently racist, violent, and dumb has long been a way to avoid examining the problems of "progressive" policing because "we aren't like that."
November 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Arguing that people who live in the South are inherently racist, violent, and dumb has long been a way to avoid examining the problems of "progressive" policing because "we aren't like that."
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My comment on the "who is more racist" discourse is that Northern proponents of mass policing and incarceration pointed to openly racist caricatures of Southern sheriffs to avoid re-examining policing and jail in general.
November 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
My comment on the "who is more racist" discourse is that Northern proponents of mass policing and incarceration pointed to openly racist caricatures of Southern sheriffs to avoid re-examining policing and jail in general.
Someone should do some research on why we don’t see as much anti-black racism in the rest of America as in the South
Never mind, I just did
Never mind, I just did
November 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Someone should do some research on why we don’t see as much anti-black racism in the rest of America as in the South
Never mind, I just did
Never mind, I just did
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Video from nickdelacanal on Instagram of CBP trespassing on private property and giving up after a few attempts to entrap landscapers.
November 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Video from nickdelacanal on Instagram of CBP trespassing on private property and giving up after a few attempts to entrap landscapers.
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“You can’t define a woman?” Party becomes “What is a child?” Party
November 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“You can’t define a woman?” Party becomes “What is a child?” Party
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The state has a monopoly on violence(-posting)
“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence
November 15, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The state has a monopoly on violence(-posting)
Agreed. But also, that’s part of what makes “centrist” pundits just like everyone else, much to their chagrin
legitimately i think one of the core failings of centrist pundits is that they have come to define themselves by what they are against--to chart their intellectual course by who they think is being annoying this week--instead of by recourse to genuine principle
November 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Agreed. But also, that’s part of what makes “centrist” pundits just like everyone else, much to their chagrin
“By right” 🙄
This dude is such a joke
This dude is such a joke
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 10:41 PM
“By right” 🙄
This dude is such a joke
This dude is such a joke
“Thankfully, the Democrats handle all that so I can focus on using the office of President to extract money from my personal enemies for ostentatious vanity projects”
Trump: The bible tells us that one of the measures of any society is how it cares for vulnerable children and orphans—so important and so big in the bible.
November 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
“Thankfully, the Democrats handle all that so I can focus on using the office of President to extract money from my personal enemies for ostentatious vanity projects”
Fox News about to teach half the country about the soon-to-be “important difference” between pedophiles and hebephiles/ephebophiles
in case you're wondering how the cope is going www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Fox News about to teach half the country about the soon-to-be “important difference” between pedophiles and hebephiles/ephebophiles
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
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Also important to remember that everyone involved in the coverup -- whether formally or informally -- is part of the exact same conspiracy against the victims and against the nation.
November 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Also important to remember that everyone involved in the coverup -- whether formally or informally -- is part of the exact same conspiracy against the victims and against the nation.
“By the way, I’m not a pedophile. Don’t put it in the news that I’m a pedophile”
November 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
“By the way, I’m not a pedophile. Don’t put it in the news that I’m a pedophile”
Beginning to suspect that ~some people~ view power and the sexual exploitation of women as functionally identical.
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Beginning to suspect that ~some people~ view power and the sexual exploitation of women as functionally identical.
Signing all my emails the rest of the week with DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Signing all my emails the rest of the week with DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
The second sentence here is the key. Would have been very easy to present this week’s developments as, “After sweeping the elections, we are consolidating our victory, saving the hungry, and pivoting to an issue (healthcare) on which we have kicked Republicans’ asses many times”
This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.
November 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The second sentence here is the key. Would have been very easy to present this week’s developments as, “After sweeping the elections, we are consolidating our victory, saving the hungry, and pivoting to an issue (healthcare) on which we have kicked Republicans’ asses many times”
Thinking today about my old boss, a lesbian, who often referred to Kim Davis as her “second wife” and threatened to gay-marry anyone who dared insult Davis’s honor
I hope Kim Davis knows nothing but pain looking into the mirror every day to see she’s as ugly on the outside as she is on the inside. Turtle ass looking motherfucking homophobe
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Thinking today about my old boss, a lesbian, who often referred to Kim Davis as her “second wife” and threatened to gay-marry anyone who dared insult Davis’s honor
Quit on the shutdown and SNAP while you’re ahead, and pivot to healthcare?
Or spineless cowardice snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?
Two ways you can look at the reported deal. Only one of them showing up ok Bluesky though, and I don’t really get why
Or spineless cowardice snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?
Two ways you can look at the reported deal. Only one of them showing up ok Bluesky though, and I don’t really get why
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Quit on the shutdown and SNAP while you’re ahead, and pivot to healthcare?
Or spineless cowardice snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?
Two ways you can look at the reported deal. Only one of them showing up ok Bluesky though, and I don’t really get why
Or spineless cowardice snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?
Two ways you can look at the reported deal. Only one of them showing up ok Bluesky though, and I don’t really get why
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Everyone says stuff like this right now and I understand why. But if you think that 2024 shook out the way it did because enough voters didn’t know whom to blame for what’s pissing them off, then I think you should apply the same logic to this situation.
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If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Everyone says stuff like this right now and I understand why. But if you think that 2024 shook out the way it did because enough voters didn’t know whom to blame for what’s pissing them off, then I think you should apply the same logic to this situation.
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Trump is like a toddler: time he spends asleep is to be prized, not resented. Every minute he sleeps is a minute he is not tantruming or breaking things or smearing his own shit on things.
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise questions about Trump’s on-the-job performance.
Images of Trump appearing to close his eyes during Oval Office event spread across social media | CNN Politics
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise qu...
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November 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Trump is like a toddler: time he spends asleep is to be prized, not resented. Every minute he sleeps is a minute he is not tantruming or breaking things or smearing his own shit on things.
This is what it all boils down to imo. How will the generally uninformed public view Dems after this? Miserable holdouts who were always to blame and eventually caved, or the Party That Saved Thanksgiving? The terms of the alleged ‘deal’ don’t matter half as much as that
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This is what it all boils down to imo. How will the generally uninformed public view Dems after this? Miserable holdouts who were always to blame and eventually caved, or the Party That Saved Thanksgiving? The terms of the alleged ‘deal’ don’t matter half as much as that