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this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
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The unrealized promise of America is good, actually, and we should fight for it
i have been thinking a bit about how any political program that requires the premise of “america bad” is a dead end
December 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The unrealized promise of America is good, actually, and we should fight for it
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To be absolutely clear:
This is genocide. Fuck this administration. Fuck anyone who supports this.
And to the Democrats, I will not vote for ANYONE who does not full throatedly support my community, including gender affirming care for trans kids. Period.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
This is genocide. Fuck this administration. Fuck anyone who supports this.
And to the Democrats, I will not vote for ANYONE who does not full throatedly support my community, including gender affirming care for trans kids. Period.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Transgender youth face national ban on medical care under new hospital rules : Shots - Health News : NPR
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday.
www.npr.org
December 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
To be absolutely clear:
This is genocide. Fuck this administration. Fuck anyone who supports this.
And to the Democrats, I will not vote for ANYONE who does not full throatedly support my community, including gender affirming care for trans kids. Period.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
This is genocide. Fuck this administration. Fuck anyone who supports this.
And to the Democrats, I will not vote for ANYONE who does not full throatedly support my community, including gender affirming care for trans kids. Period.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Any Democrat who thinks it's appropriate to "find common ground" with the Republicans on issues like high school sports teams is negotiating with a political party that does not believe trans people should exist. This policy will kill people, so maybe stop wringing your hands about volleyball.
"Men are men. Men can never become women. Women are women. Women can never become men."
December 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Any Democrat who thinks it's appropriate to "find common ground" with the Republicans on issues like high school sports teams is negotiating with a political party that does not believe trans people should exist. This policy will kill people, so maybe stop wringing your hands about volleyball.
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The extreme attack on transgender youth we are witnessing from a governmental stage was enabled by The Atlantic and The New York Times.
December 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The extreme attack on transgender youth we are witnessing from a governmental stage was enabled by The Atlantic and The New York Times.
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Requiring temporary visitors to surrender five years of social media to the U.S. sends the message that the American commitment to free speech is pretense. This simply is not the behavior of a country confident in its freedoms.
It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.
It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.
Foreign tourists could be required to disclose 5 years of social media histories under Trump administration plan
The Customs and Border Protection proposal would apply even to countries that don't require visas to enter.
www.nbcnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Requiring temporary visitors to surrender five years of social media to the U.S. sends the message that the American commitment to free speech is pretense. This simply is not the behavior of a country confident in its freedoms.
It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.
It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.
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the good that you do persists in this world
December 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
the good that you do persists in this world
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What horrific news to wake up to
Last night, my spouse & I wrapped our son's 8 Hanukkah gifts, one for each night
This evening, when we light the first candle, we'll say an extra prayer, the Mourner's Kaddish (יִתְגַּדַּל וְיִתְקַדַּשׁ שְׁמֵהּ רַבָּא)
May their memories be a blessing
Last night, my spouse & I wrapped our son's 8 Hanukkah gifts, one for each night
This evening, when we light the first candle, we'll say an extra prayer, the Mourner's Kaddish (יִתְגַּדַּל וְיִתְקַדַּשׁ שְׁמֵהּ רַבָּא)
May their memories be a blessing
NSW Police say 12 people were killed in a shooting at #Bondi Beach targeting the Jewish community
A further 29 people have been taken to hospital
An event was being held at the beach to mark the start of #Hanukkah had more than 1,000 in attendance, police say
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...?
A further 29 people have been taken to hospital
An event was being held at the beach to mark the start of #Hanukkah had more than 1,000 in attendance, police say
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...?
Bondi Beach: Twelve killed in shooting targeting Australia’s Jewish community
A Hanukkah event with over 1,000 attendees was taking place on the beach at the time of the shooting - 29 people have been taken to hospital.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
What horrific news to wake up to
Last night, my spouse & I wrapped our son's 8 Hanukkah gifts, one for each night
This evening, when we light the first candle, we'll say an extra prayer, the Mourner's Kaddish (יִתְגַּדַּל וְיִתְקַדַּשׁ שְׁמֵהּ רַבָּא)
May their memories be a blessing
Last night, my spouse & I wrapped our son's 8 Hanukkah gifts, one for each night
This evening, when we light the first candle, we'll say an extra prayer, the Mourner's Kaddish (יִתְגַּדַּל וְיִתְקַדַּשׁ שְׁמֵהּ רַבָּא)
May their memories be a blessing
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it is also just hilarious to insist that eight months of rush job “scholarship” outweighs decades of settled history and 140 years of settled law
Giving the game away. he has more “scholarly ammunition” than he did in January because a bunch of professional bootlicks and liars who have never had real jobs started lying about birthright citizenship in January.
December 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
it is also just hilarious to insist that eight months of rush job “scholarship” outweighs decades of settled history and 140 years of settled law
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Even for me, this is pretty in the weeds, but the shift in tone in SCOTUSblog's coverage since Sarah Isgur and The Dispatch took over—more deferential to the Court, more reverential of the justices as celebrities, more credulous and stenographic across the board—has been...notable
Maybe this new blog can respond, in one of its first posts, to the argument that the term “interim docket” is a deliberately misleading attempt to minimize the (very permanent) doctrinal and real-world consequences of #SCOTUS’s rulings on emergency applications?
www.stevevladeck.com/p/177-the-no...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/177-the-no...
December 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Even for me, this is pretty in the weeds, but the shift in tone in SCOTUSblog's coverage since Sarah Isgur and The Dispatch took over—more deferential to the Court, more reverential of the justices as celebrities, more credulous and stenographic across the board—has been...notable
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Vichy Washington Post is getting more and more challenging to parody
December 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Vichy Washington Post is getting more and more challenging to parody
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Tried and convicted degenerates now demanding tax payer bonanzas for storming the capitol building
Almost 400 people pardoned or granted clemency by President Donald Trump in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol are now seeking millions of dollars in payouts from the federal government.
Trump Pardoned Them for Jan. 6. Now They Want Millions of Dollars
Almost 400 people pardoned or granted clemency by President Donald Trump in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol are now seeking millions of dollars in payouts from the federal government, according to their lawyer.
bloom.bg
December 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Tried and convicted degenerates now demanding tax payer bonanzas for storming the capitol building
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we're going to win, they know it, and they shudder every day about it
NEWS: Trump officials are worried the ICC may try to prosecute them for war crimes once Trump's term ends, and are threatening sanctions against the ICC to change its founding document to grant them immunity. (via Reuters / link in reply)
December 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
we're going to win, they know it, and they shudder every day about it
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The trans person they're writing about is now a happy trans adult. Because they can never find any actual harm, they have to manufacture outrage about purely baseless harm.
You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.
archive.ph/Tmthz
archive.ph/Tmthz
December 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The trans person they're writing about is now a happy trans adult. Because they can never find any actual harm, they have to manufacture outrage about purely baseless harm.
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In spirit, content and intent, this was really no different to a Klan rally.
The exception being the wholesale absence of outrage in mainstream media.
This period of history will be an indictment on those standing silent, as much as the monster himself.
The exception being the wholesale absence of outrage in mainstream media.
This period of history will be an indictment on those standing silent, as much as the monster himself.
Trump: "Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is. With her little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch ... we ought to get her the hell out ... she's here illegally."
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
December 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
In spirit, content and intent, this was really no different to a Klan rally.
The exception being the wholesale absence of outrage in mainstream media.
This period of history will be an indictment on those standing silent, as much as the monster himself.
The exception being the wholesale absence of outrage in mainstream media.
This period of history will be an indictment on those standing silent, as much as the monster himself.
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some of the best science and pandemic prevention work — after tens of millions of pandemic deaths worldwide — defunded.
Yesterday, we sent this message to the @viralemergence.org team, bringing a (hopefully temporary) end to our project three years into what started as a decade of planned work. /1
December 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
some of the best science and pandemic prevention work — after tens of millions of pandemic deaths worldwide — defunded.
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this is cold blooded, calculated murder and Bradley should be court martialed and jailed for it
December 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
this is cold blooded, calculated murder and Bradley should be court martialed and jailed for it
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Nobody involved in this should draw a free breath for the rest of their lives
December 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Nobody involved in this should draw a free breath for the rest of their lives
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this really isn’t an exaggeration
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
this really isn’t an exaggeration
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These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
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a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
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I didn’t want to overreact, and took time to read this. Having done so, I’m adding Northwestern to the list of places I won’t visit or speak. The concessions re: international students and gender-affirming care are not merely symbolic.
Here’s the text of the Northwestern settlement with the DoJ, which includes a $75 million financial component / payoff (cc @profmarkovic.bsky.social):
November 29, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I didn’t want to overreact, and took time to read this. Having done so, I’m adding Northwestern to the list of places I won’t visit or speak. The concessions re: international students and gender-affirming care are not merely symbolic.
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The NYT definitely made a choice not to add “without evidence” to this headline.
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:20 AM
The NYT definitely made a choice not to add “without evidence” to this headline.
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I know this is correct, but it’s also really hard to sit with when those of us who STUDIED FUCKING HISTORY WERE SOUNDING THE ALARM THE ENTIRE TIME SINCE GUANTANAMO OPENED UP AGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH
A running theme of Trump II is cautious, level-headed, mainstream, career professional experts sounding existential alarms about how we aren't panicking nearly enough.
I know you already know, but for other folks who don't, Goldsmith was previously head of OLC, is a genuinely brilliant mind on executive authority and separation of powers, and is usually very cautious about making claims this unqualified and direct. That he is saying it so starkly is v significant
November 29, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I know this is correct, but it’s also really hard to sit with when those of us who STUDIED FUCKING HISTORY WERE SOUNDING THE ALARM THE ENTIRE TIME SINCE GUANTANAMO OPENED UP AGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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November 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM