Clay
@congratsthunder.bsky.social
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"Of course, it doesn’t feel right to want IT to HAPPEN. And it’s obviously not okay to try to make IT HAPPEN. That’s not what this is ABOUT, just to make things CLEAR LEGALLY as far as VARIOUS AGENCIES are concerned."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...
When It Happens
It’s been so long, you sometimes forget that eventually, IT will HAPPEN. It’s impossible to say when IT will HAPPEN. But it can’t be too long until...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"Of course, it doesn’t feel right to want IT to HAPPEN. And it’s obviously not okay to try to make IT HAPPEN. That’s not what this is ABOUT, just to make things CLEAR LEGALLY as far as VARIOUS AGENCIES are concerned."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
October 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
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if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
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Tolkien, who saw almost all his friends die in the Somme, and knew the seduction of despair, wrote both Denethor and Saruman as doomers.
October 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Tolkien, who saw almost all his friends die in the Somme, and knew the seduction of despair, wrote both Denethor and Saruman as doomers.
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The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.
Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.
#NoKings
Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.
#NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.
Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.
#NoKings
Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.
#NoKings
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Of the 2,500 No Kings gatherings across America, few were more saturated in American history—in flags and historical costumes—than the one on the Battle Green in Lexington, where the Minutemen fought another king 250 years ago.
I returned to the site of the original "No Kings" protest
A letter from Lexington’s Battle Green.
www.motherjones.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Of the 2,500 No Kings gatherings across America, few were more saturated in American history—in flags and historical costumes—than the one on the Battle Green in Lexington, where the Minutemen fought another king 250 years ago.
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Really think the biggest win today aside from just numbers is negatively polarizing the regime of 12-year-olds into fully adopting #YESKINGS as their official stance.
October 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Really think the biggest win today aside from just numbers is negatively polarizing the regime of 12-year-olds into fully adopting #YESKINGS as their official stance.
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To quote @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
October 19, 2025 at 12:52 AM
To quote @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him
October 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him
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every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
October 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.
September 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.
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shit ain’t over til it’s over
September 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
shit ain’t over til it’s over
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chuck's gotta go, man
just can't even pretend to meet the moment we're in, you cannot be out there talking about bipartisan funding for the health care system when the VP is threatening your constituents with loss of employment and freedom for speaking their minds in public
just can't even pretend to meet the moment we're in, you cannot be out there talking about bipartisan funding for the health care system when the VP is threatening your constituents with loss of employment and freedom for speaking their minds in public
Schumer on government funding: "Our position remains this: We want to keep the government open by engaging in bipartisan negotiation where we can address some of the grave harms Donald Trump has caused to our health care system and help Americans with the cost of living."
September 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
chuck's gotta go, man
just can't even pretend to meet the moment we're in, you cannot be out there talking about bipartisan funding for the health care system when the VP is threatening your constituents with loss of employment and freedom for speaking their minds in public
just can't even pretend to meet the moment we're in, you cannot be out there talking about bipartisan funding for the health care system when the VP is threatening your constituents with loss of employment and freedom for speaking their minds in public
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If you’re reading this, you feel it. We’re fighting “the long defeat.” Ian Bassin offers some inspiration for our dark moments, to bolster each other and endure in defense of our democracy. https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-hard-won-hope-of-the-long-defeat
The hard-won hope of the long defeat
A mindset for a dark time
www.ifyoucankeepit.org
September 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
If you’re reading this, you feel it. We’re fighting “the long defeat.” Ian Bassin offers some inspiration for our dark moments, to bolster each other and endure in defense of our democracy. https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-hard-won-hope-of-the-long-defeat
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Things that didn’t previously require “debate”:
- posse comitatus
- birthright citizenship
- two-term presidential limits
- due process before deportation
- posse comitatus
- birthright citizenship
- two-term presidential limits
- due process before deportation
As President Donald Trump pushes the bounds of military activity on domestic soil, a debate has emerged over a nearly 150-year old law that regulates when federal troops can intervene in state issues.
Trump's domestic troop deployment tests the limits of a nearly 150-year-old law
President Donald Trump's recent actions have sparked debate over the Posse Comitatus Act, a law from 1878 that limits military involvement in domestic affairs.
bit.ly
August 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Things that didn’t previously require “debate”:
- posse comitatus
- birthright citizenship
- two-term presidential limits
- due process before deportation
- posse comitatus
- birthright citizenship
- two-term presidential limits
- due process before deportation
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it's insane that for basically my entire adult life every election has been The Most Important Election and to save democracy we all have to abandon our principles and play nice with fascists and vote for a guy everybody hates. and now here we are and it turns out none of that saved democracy anyway
August 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
it's insane that for basically my entire adult life every election has been The Most Important Election and to save democracy we all have to abandon our principles and play nice with fascists and vote for a guy everybody hates. and now here we are and it turns out none of that saved democracy anyway
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[Govt injects a ton of money into economy, revenues skyrocket]
Bosses: My business is great! I'm a genius!
[Free money goes away, revenues drop]
Bosses: This is because woke made all my employees lazy
Bosses: My business is great! I'm a genius!
[Free money goes away, revenues drop]
Bosses: This is because woke made all my employees lazy
July 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
[Govt injects a ton of money into economy, revenues skyrocket]
Bosses: My business is great! I'm a genius!
[Free money goes away, revenues drop]
Bosses: This is because woke made all my employees lazy
Bosses: My business is great! I'm a genius!
[Free money goes away, revenues drop]
Bosses: This is because woke made all my employees lazy
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Whatever deity or being came up with the whole "It's really easy to destroy things but really hard to re-build them" rule of the universe was an asshole.
July 9, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Whatever deity or being came up with the whole "It's really easy to destroy things but really hard to re-build them" rule of the universe was an asshole.