Absalom Detarame
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Defund the Police also a pattern cut from similar cloth.
1. Actual injustice is demonstrably shown.
2. Rhetoric heats up.
3. One small step towards reform.
4. Reactionary backlash, backslide.
Police budgets actually went *up* after Defund, despite no fundamental reforms. And now my city has ICE.
1. Actual injustice is demonstrably shown.
2. Rhetoric heats up.
3. One small step towards reform.
4. Reactionary backlash, backslide.
Police budgets actually went *up* after Defund, despite no fundamental reforms. And now my city has ICE.
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Defund the Police also a pattern cut from similar cloth.
1. Actual injustice is demonstrably shown.
2. Rhetoric heats up.
3. One small step towards reform.
4. Reactionary backlash, backslide.
Police budgets actually went *up* after Defund, despite no fundamental reforms. And now my city has ICE.
1. Actual injustice is demonstrably shown.
2. Rhetoric heats up.
3. One small step towards reform.
4. Reactionary backlash, backslide.
Police budgets actually went *up* after Defund, despite no fundamental reforms. And now my city has ICE.
The rich will not flee the cities because living in cities is amazing and exciting, while living in rural america sucks and is boring. The only people who do not realize this are rural americans who have been made to terrified to actually go into cities.
Also, moving is a pain in the ass.
Also, moving is a pain in the ass.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The rich will not flee the cities because living in cities is amazing and exciting, while living in rural america sucks and is boring. The only people who do not realize this are rural americans who have been made to terrified to actually go into cities.
Also, moving is a pain in the ass.
Also, moving is a pain in the ass.
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Hahahahahahaha holy fuck not only did they get nothing they got worse than nothing! Absolute fucking idiots all of them!
of all the things about this deal that are pissing me off this might have pissed me off the most
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Hahahahahahaha holy fuck not only did they get nothing they got worse than nothing! Absolute fucking idiots all of them!
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Your election day reminder that the Pundit class works for Capital not Labor. They are not intentionally full of shit, their lifestyle and worldview can't help but be myopic.
I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-)
he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit
he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit
The Democratic Party Needs to Learn from Zohran Mamdani's Guts and Backbone
Zohran Mamdani did something different, and it made all the difference.
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Your election day reminder that the Pundit class works for Capital not Labor. They are not intentionally full of shit, their lifestyle and worldview can't help but be myopic.
Charlie Kirk's wife is starting to wear pleather pants because she knows it will remind JD Vance of a couch.
November 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Charlie Kirk's wife is starting to wear pleather pants because she knows it will remind JD Vance of a couch.
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The "Deciding To Win" centrists dismiss base mobilization, but the actual 2024 data shows: the more blue a place was in 2020, the lower its turnout was in 2024.
Swing voters weren't nearly as important as Dem-leaning irregular voters not voting at all. The base wasn't mobilized, so we lost.
Swing voters weren't nearly as important as Dem-leaning irregular voters not voting at all. The base wasn't mobilized, so we lost.
October 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The "Deciding To Win" centrists dismiss base mobilization, but the actual 2024 data shows: the more blue a place was in 2020, the lower its turnout was in 2024.
Swing voters weren't nearly as important as Dem-leaning irregular voters not voting at all. The base wasn't mobilized, so we lost.
Swing voters weren't nearly as important as Dem-leaning irregular voters not voting at all. The base wasn't mobilized, so we lost.
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Poll: Americans say “too divided”
Pundit: Dems are being too divisive
Poll: Legal system unfair
Pundit: The public thinks Trump should get away with crimes
Poll: Low trust in media
Pundits: MSM is too far left
Every time they see a nonspecific term and assume everyone thinks like a Republican.
Pundit: Dems are being too divisive
Poll: Legal system unfair
Pundit: The public thinks Trump should get away with crimes
Poll: Low trust in media
Pundits: MSM is too far left
Every time they see a nonspecific term and assume everyone thinks like a Republican.
I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division."
Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.
November 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Poll: Americans say “too divided”
Pundit: Dems are being too divisive
Poll: Legal system unfair
Pundit: The public thinks Trump should get away with crimes
Poll: Low trust in media
Pundits: MSM is too far left
Every time they see a nonspecific term and assume everyone thinks like a Republican.
Pundit: Dems are being too divisive
Poll: Legal system unfair
Pundit: The public thinks Trump should get away with crimes
Poll: Low trust in media
Pundits: MSM is too far left
Every time they see a nonspecific term and assume everyone thinks like a Republican.
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Why do young liberals love Zohran Mamdani? We talked to 3 elderly Staten Island conservatives who can’t correctly say his name.
November 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Why do young liberals love Zohran Mamdani? We talked to 3 elderly Staten Island conservatives who can’t correctly say his name.
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This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.
October 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.
HOWARD THE DUCK is playing at my local dive bar. Howard yells "Tora, Tora, Tora!" and "Banzai!"
This suggests that there was not only a Duck Japan, but also Duck WWII, Duck Pearl Harbor, and Duckywood Movie about Duck Pearl Harbor thirty years later.
This suggests that there was not only a Duck Japan, but also Duck WWII, Duck Pearl Harbor, and Duckywood Movie about Duck Pearl Harbor thirty years later.
October 17, 2025 at 3:46 AM
HOWARD THE DUCK is playing at my local dive bar. Howard yells "Tora, Tora, Tora!" and "Banzai!"
This suggests that there was not only a Duck Japan, but also Duck WWII, Duck Pearl Harbor, and Duckywood Movie about Duck Pearl Harbor thirty years later.
This suggests that there was not only a Duck Japan, but also Duck WWII, Duck Pearl Harbor, and Duckywood Movie about Duck Pearl Harbor thirty years later.
Can we at least get actual fascists out of power before radical centrism drowns us all in Takes, please?
I could be a little sensitive because I'm living in a city literally under an occupation w/real consequences, but imagine this being the preoccupation of a real person right now? For 1.6k folks
I could be a little sensitive because I'm living in a city literally under an occupation w/real consequences, but imagine this being the preoccupation of a real person right now? For 1.6k folks
So you know how disappointed the far left was when ordinary liberals defeated Trump in 2020, because they wanted it to be a crisis only leftist politics could fix? As we continue to see evidence of Dems turning the tide on Trump with the shutdown, ICE protests, etc. that disappointment is back.
October 14, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Can we at least get actual fascists out of power before radical centrism drowns us all in Takes, please?
I could be a little sensitive because I'm living in a city literally under an occupation w/real consequences, but imagine this being the preoccupation of a real person right now? For 1.6k folks
I could be a little sensitive because I'm living in a city literally under an occupation w/real consequences, but imagine this being the preoccupation of a real person right now? For 1.6k folks
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> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
October 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
Me, after 18 hours of sleep: "God made me sleepy because He knew if I was well rested, I'd be too powerful to contain."
October 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Me, after 18 hours of sleep: "God made me sleepy because He knew if I was well rested, I'd be too powerful to contain."
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Remember how lefties used to say "abolish ICE" back in the 2010s, and got roundly scolded by the centrists for it ever since, and now events have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were 1000% on the correct side of history, but somehow they're still being scolded? Fun.
September 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Remember how lefties used to say "abolish ICE" back in the 2010s, and got roundly scolded by the centrists for it ever since, and now events have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were 1000% on the correct side of history, but somehow they're still being scolded? Fun.
Literal "banality of evil" demonstration.
Now watch as the conversation turns to..... "What SHOULD the quota be?" Instead of, like, "let's not round up people and put them into camps."
Now watch as the conversation turns to..... "What SHOULD the quota be?" Instead of, like, "let's not round up people and put them into camps."
according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
Stephen Miller’s Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests In Immigration Raid
When ICE agents arrested over 300 Korean workers at a Georgia battery plant, a daily immigrant arrest quota was likely on their minds.
www.forbes.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Literal "banality of evil" demonstration.
Now watch as the conversation turns to..... "What SHOULD the quota be?" Instead of, like, "let's not round up people and put them into camps."
Now watch as the conversation turns to..... "What SHOULD the quota be?" Instead of, like, "let's not round up people and put them into camps."
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Those same centrist people are now chastising liberals for being too shrill about Trump. Say what you want about the tenets of neoconservatism, but at least a lot of neocons are on the right side now. Can’t say that for many centrists.
September 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Those same centrist people are now chastising liberals for being too shrill about Trump. Say what you want about the tenets of neoconservatism, but at least a lot of neocons are on the right side now. Can’t say that for many centrists.
Not the first, but maybe the largest.
Also, a depressing fact: After the Kent State killings, polls indicated ~3/5ths of the US blamed the protestors, not the guard.
Also, a depressing fact: After the Kent State killings, polls indicated ~3/5ths of the US blamed the protestors, not the guard.
It's feel like we're counting down to the first mass killing of US citizens by the US military.
September 7, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Not the first, but maybe the largest.
Also, a depressing fact: After the Kent State killings, polls indicated ~3/5ths of the US blamed the protestors, not the guard.
Also, a depressing fact: After the Kent State killings, polls indicated ~3/5ths of the US blamed the protestors, not the guard.
A bunch of hateful morons destroyed the most powerful and prosperous society that every existed, mostly out of boredom and incuriosity.
Unfortunately, he is wreaking havoc in the real one.
RFK Jr. is living in a pretend anti-vax world
Unfortunately, he is wreaking havoc in the real one.
www.motherjones.com
September 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
A bunch of hateful morons destroyed the most powerful and prosperous society that every existed, mostly out of boredom and incuriosity.
Apropos of nothing: If you can get past the unsavory lore of one of the leads, might I recommend (VEEP, etc.) Armando Iannucci's *incredible* farce-noir THE DEATH OF STALIN, based on the French comic LA MORT DE STALINE?
One of my top five favorite films, probably.
One of my top five favorite films, probably.
August 30, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Apropos of nothing: If you can get past the unsavory lore of one of the leads, might I recommend (VEEP, etc.) Armando Iannucci's *incredible* farce-noir THE DEATH OF STALIN, based on the French comic LA MORT DE STALINE?
One of my top five favorite films, probably.
One of my top five favorite films, probably.
Imagine spending huge money on a rural compound and XXL tactical kit all because you are afraid of the most overpoliced city on the planet.
The brave American Patriot: terrified of Times Square.
The Subway is fucking amazing.
The brave American Patriot: terrified of Times Square.
The Subway is fucking amazing.
Fear of the New York City subway is a mark of low moral character.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...
The Subway Is Not Scary
Fear of the subway is a mark of low moral character.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
August 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Imagine spending huge money on a rural compound and XXL tactical kit all because you are afraid of the most overpoliced city on the planet.
The brave American Patriot: terrified of Times Square.
The Subway is fucking amazing.
The brave American Patriot: terrified of Times Square.
The Subway is fucking amazing.
Another consequence of _Citizens United_ -- it didn't just corrupt the GOP.
Here’s what I see:
A) The vast majority of Dems have coalesced around a morally clear platform.
B) The vast majority of elected Dems have coalesced around protecting and pleasing their donors.
C) Those two encampments are miles apart.
A) The vast majority of Dems have coalesced around a morally clear platform.
B) The vast majority of elected Dems have coalesced around protecting and pleasing their donors.
C) Those two encampments are miles apart.
August 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Another consequence of _Citizens United_ -- it didn't just corrupt the GOP.
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always be fighting for love & justice 💕
August 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
always be fighting for love & justice 💕
Originalism has always been a scam.
The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.
Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
August 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Originalism has always been a scam.
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The problem isn't that transphobic parents are being ignored, it's that they're *lying about basic facts.* This is the dynamic on nearly every issue of public interest, from guns to climate change to economics.
"The bigots are lying again" is a fucking great message for democrats and it's true.
"The bigots are lying again" is a fucking great message for democrats and it's true.
August 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The problem isn't that transphobic parents are being ignored, it's that they're *lying about basic facts.* This is the dynamic on nearly every issue of public interest, from guns to climate change to economics.
"The bigots are lying again" is a fucking great message for democrats and it's true.
"The bigots are lying again" is a fucking great message for democrats and it's true.