C. V. Andrew
@cvandrew.bsky.social
Terrible poster, but 10/10 lurker.
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Unconscionable. Full stop. No excuses to be associated with or endorse or remain silent: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Opinion | ‘The System Is Meant to Break You’: What ICE Is Doing to People Here Legally
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Unconscionable. Full stop. No excuses to be associated with or endorse or remain silent: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
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Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Honestly, Schumer should put some version of this into legislative language, thank Trump for his leadership, and then demand senate republicans vote on it by tomorrow.
Trump: "I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE."
November 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Honestly, Schumer should put some version of this into legislative language, thank Trump for his leadership, and then demand senate republicans vote on it by tomorrow.
Of course social media made everything much worse, but it’s interesting that Bill Clinton’s memoir complains about how no matter what he did (or didn’t do), the public was convinced he spent all his time during his first year focused exclusively on gays in the military.
like, these people think that debra in marietta georgia just woke up one day and decided her biggest single issue was a kid in tucson arizona playing jv tennis with their friends and that was just a completely normal concern that she came to on her own
October 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Of course social media made everything much worse, but it’s interesting that Bill Clinton’s memoir complains about how no matter what he did (or didn’t do), the public was convinced he spent all his time during his first year focused exclusively on gays in the military.
Utah deserves to be a punchline in most conversations.
Weber State University's annual Unity Conference tried to tackle the subject of censorship. Organizers said they canceled when school officials said they would have to censor some of the speakers' material.
‘I was ordered to lie’: Weber State censorship event canceled, after organizers said school wanted to censor speakers
Weber State University's annual Unity Conference tried to tackle the subject of censorship. Organizers said they canceled when school officials said they would have to censor some of the speakers' material.
www.sltrib.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Utah deserves to be a punchline in most conversations.
This thread is excellent, and I would just add, this is one of my chief complaints with SCOTUS as well. In the school prayer case, the affirmative action case, most recently the ICE raids in LA case, the Court has simply lied about the facts to reach its preferred outcomes.
Basically all my posts recently could be part of the same thread:
The problem of our time is governments—particularly the Trump administration, also the Netanyahu administration, etc—making policy based on factual premises that are not true, which they've gotten "many people" to believe are true.
The problem of our time is governments—particularly the Trump administration, also the Netanyahu administration, etc—making policy based on factual premises that are not true, which they've gotten "many people" to believe are true.
September 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This thread is excellent, and I would just add, this is one of my chief complaints with SCOTUS as well. In the school prayer case, the affirmative action case, most recently the ICE raids in LA case, the Court has simply lied about the facts to reach its preferred outcomes.
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a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason
January 23, 2025 at 5:36 AM
a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason
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Trump DOJ has deleted a National Institute of Justice study showing that “white supremacist & far-right violence in the USA outpaces all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.”Per Wayback Machine it was there on 9/12
Fascists erase violent history for one reason—to repeat history.
Fascists erase violent history for one reason—to repeat history.
September 17, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Trump DOJ has deleted a National Institute of Justice study showing that “white supremacist & far-right violence in the USA outpaces all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.”Per Wayback Machine it was there on 9/12
Fascists erase violent history for one reason—to repeat history.
Fascists erase violent history for one reason—to repeat history.
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“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”*
* Depending on race.
* Depending on race.
🚨The Supreme Court today gives Trump a license to engage in racial profiling, with Justice Kavanaugh writing in concurrence to expressly endorse ICE and Border Patrol targeting any Latinos they observe in Los Angeles speaking Spanish and then demanding their papers.
September 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”*
* Depending on race.
* Depending on race.
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SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
September 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
In addition to all the other problems, and as has become standard practice for this court, actual facts no longer matter to them. The statement that officers "promptly let the individual go" once they discover they are citizens is contradicted by the facts *of this very case.*
Most conservatives working to justify racial profiling do not come out and say "this is racial profiling and I support it." Brett Kavanaugh's problem is that, again, he is too stupid to realize that this is, to use a technical term, not a good look
September 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
In addition to all the other problems, and as has become standard practice for this court, actual facts no longer matter to them. The statement that officers "promptly let the individual go" once they discover they are citizens is contradicted by the facts *of this very case.*
Even pre-MAGA, republicans have made clear that democracy is merely a means to achieve their goals, and if democracy no longer gets them there, they will reject democracy. Liberals have failed to articulate that democracy *is an end in and of itself*.
hot take: religiosity is declining and all these mainline denominations keep trying to pass themselves off as social clubs but you can't sell people on christianity if you can't sell them on christ
the same is true of liberalism: if we can't sell people freedom all the other stuff is inessential.
the same is true of liberalism: if we can't sell people freedom all the other stuff is inessential.
September 4, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Even pre-MAGA, republicans have made clear that democracy is merely a means to achieve their goals, and if democracy no longer gets them there, they will reject democracy. Liberals have failed to articulate that democracy *is an end in and of itself*.
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ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire
Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.
www.seattletimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
Obama was a great campaigner and also a great president and this is a good thing.
August 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Obama was a great campaigner and also a great president and this is a good thing.
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I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
July 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
Getting democrats to 'rally . . . behind those ideas' is dumb. The lesson from Project 2025 is have it ready, but keep it quiet! Project 2025 was bad for Trump! He had to disavow it! The Dem nominee shouldn't spend the election talking about whatever ends up in Project 2029!
A group of Democratic thinkers plan to recreate a ready-made agenda for the next Democratic presidential nominee called Project 2029. The goal is to rally the party's leading presidential candidates behind those ideas during the 2028 primaries.
Democrats Lay Groundwork for a ‘Project 2029’
The plan to write a policy agenda for the next Democratic president is at the center of a raging debate within the party: whether its biggest problem is its ideas or its difficulty in selling them.
trib.al
June 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Getting democrats to 'rally . . . behind those ideas' is dumb. The lesson from Project 2025 is have it ready, but keep it quiet! Project 2025 was bad for Trump! He had to disavow it! The Dem nominee shouldn't spend the election talking about whatever ends up in Project 2029!
Absolutely shameful behavior from Barrett.
Woah. Fierce cut-down of the junior justice by the next-most-junior justice.
Barrett giving Jackson the back of her hand:
Barrett giving Jackson the back of her hand:
June 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Absolutely shameful behavior from Barrett.
And the thing they hate her for is bizarre: Her dissent is essentially (powerful and meaningful!) platitudes about checks and balances, separation of powers, rule of law. Barrett's response is a massive overreaction, basically, "How DARE you bring up constitutional first principles!?"
One quick takeaway from the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship case: The conservative justices fucking HATE Ketanji Brown Jackson already www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
And the thing they hate her for is bizarre: Her dissent is essentially (powerful and meaningful!) platitudes about checks and balances, separation of powers, rule of law. Barrett's response is a massive overreaction, basically, "How DARE you bring up constitutional first principles!?"
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what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.
June 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.
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If you're a member of the Democratic gerontocracy, the chances of you catching a primary challenger just went up 1000%.
June 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
If you're a member of the Democratic gerontocracy, the chances of you catching a primary challenger just went up 1000%.
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I'm going to do a real hot take here but if I were still in SoCal I'd suggest the community find them decent shelter and start bringing them home cooked food since it's horribly obvious their CinC doesn't give a shit about them unless they are in his parade.
Believe me, they know it.
Believe me, they know it.
June 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I'm going to do a real hot take here but if I were still in SoCal I'd suggest the community find them decent shelter and start bringing them home cooked food since it's horribly obvious their CinC doesn't give a shit about them unless they are in his parade.
Believe me, they know it.
Believe me, they know it.
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I don’t mean to be a caricature, but this just isn’t law. The Supreme Court is always making policy. But this is beyond. “This dicta in an emergency order will reassure the markets but just uh trust us on the law here ok no we’re not overruling Humphrey’s yet and when we do we’ll spare the fed.”
May 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I don’t mean to be a caricature, but this just isn’t law. The Supreme Court is always making policy. But this is beyond. “This dicta in an emergency order will reassure the markets but just uh trust us on the law here ok no we’re not overruling Humphrey’s yet and when we do we’ll spare the fed.”
Both the thread itself and the comments along the way are so insightful.
I actually think people are going to miss the complicated, challenging and, yes, sometimes exclusionary social graces that make society possible. You really don’t want to get rid of all metaphorical language, scripts, and lies. They grease the wheels of mutual cooperation.
May 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Both the thread itself and the comments along the way are so insightful.