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kavanaugh not beating the allegations that he’s a dumbass
Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden.
Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
Kavanaugh in a footnote in today's opinion says "the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity."
December 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
kavanaugh not beating the allegations that he’s a dumbass
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Technically, this tweet is coming from our government. But it sounds like & reads like it’s coming from Trump’s lawyers. Trump has so completely corrupted our Justice Department.
December 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Technically, this tweet is coming from our government. But it sounds like & reads like it’s coming from Trump’s lawyers. Trump has so completely corrupted our Justice Department.
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Very military professionalism, very apolitical
December 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Very military professionalism, very apolitical
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Radical bearded cleric issues new fatwa -->
December 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Radical bearded cleric issues new fatwa -->
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Rationing is a reality of every country’s health care system, including ours, which is obvious to anybody who has ever battled insurance companies for approvals of treatments or consultations—or simply waited many months to see a specialist.
Trump’s Assault on Health Care, Seen From a Country That Does Health Care Better
Japan is a showcase for universal health care, and what we’re losing in GOP attacks on the Affordable Care Act.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Rationing is a reality of every country’s health care system, including ours, which is obvious to anybody who has ever battled insurance companies for approvals of treatments or consultations—or simply waited many months to see a specialist.
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Every homeowner should be barred from future votes on housing since the potential for gain is far higher than Jesse Zwick's piddly ass nonprofit salary.
In Santa Monica, the FPPC has disqualified pro-housing Councilmember Jesse Zwick from all future housing votes. They said that because he works for a housing non-profit, he’s “conflicted” and must recuse.
Pretty absurd. The NIMBY deep state strikes again.
www.smdp.com/state-regula...
Pretty absurd. The NIMBY deep state strikes again.
www.smdp.com/state-regula...
State regulators say Councilman Zwick is conflicted on housing votes
The California Fair Political Practices Commission has ruled that Santa Monica Mayor Pro Tem Jesse Zwick must recuse himself from housing production decisions
www.smdp.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Every homeowner should be barred from future votes on housing since the potential for gain is far higher than Jesse Zwick's piddly ass nonprofit salary.
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Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
December 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
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Oh, look there: an editorial-interference canary.
December 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Oh, look there: an editorial-interference canary.
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this increasingly seems like the thousand-dollar bill that's just lying on the sidewalk
tbh i think “build a party media apparatus” goes a long way since it at least lets you achieve a level of perpetual mobilization among part of your base and also communicate to electeds what the red meat of the day should be
December 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this increasingly seems like the thousand-dollar bill that's just lying on the sidewalk
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Nothing to see here, just a right wing hyper-nationalist government going to their party’s youth event sponsored by a group with a martyred leader they’ve pledged to avenge, recruiting people to join their masked police force devoted to removing auslanders from ze homeland.
December 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Nothing to see here, just a right wing hyper-nationalist government going to their party’s youth event sponsored by a group with a martyred leader they’ve pledged to avenge, recruiting people to join their masked police force devoted to removing auslanders from ze homeland.
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i mean this is the point i am constantly making. people want to live in an economy where *their* labor is in high demand, but *other people's* labor is in low demand. this is because people really like *service*--not just goods that substitute for service, but service by another human
I don’t remember who it was, maybe @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social?, who pointed out all those “it’s so cheap and convenient!” you hear from expats is because there are a bunch of lowly paid workers who are ‘invisible’
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WSJ: "The number of ride-hailing drivers in China tripled to 7.5 million in the four years to 2024, even though the number of rides grew only by about 60% during the same period, government data shows."
www.wsj.com/world/asia/1...
WSJ: "The number of ride-hailing drivers in China tripled to 7.5 million in the four years to 2024, even though the number of rides grew only by about 60% during the same period, government data shows."
www.wsj.com/world/asia/1...
December 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
i mean this is the point i am constantly making. people want to live in an economy where *their* labor is in high demand, but *other people's* labor is in low demand. this is because people really like *service*--not just goods that substitute for service, but service by another human
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I mean we all know what pete is doing to direct, and we all know no one in uniform will bother to contradict that because muh a-paw-lit-ukul norms, and then the institution is gonna do the pikachu face when people continue to be like "oh so you view non-GOP voters as the enemy well fuck you I guess"
The Governor of West Virginia has requested that the Purple Heart be awarded to SPC Sarah Beckstrom and Ssgt Andrew Wolfe for wounds sustained during the WVNG's mobilization in DC.
The DoD's decision on these awards will be extremely telling.
The DoD's decision on these awards will be extremely telling.
December 21, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I mean we all know what pete is doing to direct, and we all know no one in uniform will bother to contradict that because muh a-paw-lit-ukul norms, and then the institution is gonna do the pikachu face when people continue to be like "oh so you view non-GOP voters as the enemy well fuck you I guess"
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also, these "WAR" values (a) are derived from a statistical model that produces ideologically convenient results that no other open-source model replicates, (b) lack controls for important factors like fundraising and candidate experience, and (c) completely ignore uncertainty in the data. not good!
it is one thing to say "here is what our measurements tell us about the playing field," it is something very different to leap from that to "and here is why we have a better understanding of your specific circumstance and your particular electorate than you, the person who represents the district"
December 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
also, these "WAR" values (a) are derived from a statistical model that produces ideologically convenient results that no other open-source model replicates, (b) lack controls for important factors like fundraising and candidate experience, and (c) completely ignore uncertainty in the data. not good!
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Do any of these goons actually enjoy hanging out with their kids and eating a nice family dinner
December 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Do any of these goons actually enjoy hanging out with their kids and eating a nice family dinner
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He's actually mostly arguing that your knowledge of energy policy is substandard and slipshod and not reflective of reality, but we're not even really pretending to care about policy outcomes anymore I see.
There’s nothing wrong with @casten.house.gov being an electoral underperformer in a safe seat, but in his thread attacking me he is asking Democrats to defer to his political judgment. I think it’s a smarter bet to defer to folks who overperform in tough races.
December 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
He's actually mostly arguing that your knowledge of energy policy is substandard and slipshod and not reflective of reality, but we're not even really pretending to care about policy outcomes anymore I see.
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47. As Amory Lovins has said for years, no one wants a lump of coal, or a barrel of oil. All we want is a hot shower and a cold beer. And if we can get that heat and light and chilling without paying for (or burning) fuel, we're all happier... with one notable exception.
December 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
47. As Amory Lovins has said for years, no one wants a lump of coal, or a barrel of oil. All we want is a hot shower and a cold beer. And if we can get that heat and light and chilling without paying for (or burning) fuel, we're all happier... with one notable exception.
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Here's a 1941 letter that a "heritage American" named Grace Wick wrote to FDR complaining about the "alien, Jewish refugees" flooding into the country and replacing "native stock" Americans like her. She says FDR is inviting a Hitler to emerge in America to deal with this problem!
December 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Here's a 1941 letter that a "heritage American" named Grace Wick wrote to FDR complaining about the "alien, Jewish refugees" flooding into the country and replacing "native stock" Americans like her. She says FDR is inviting a Hitler to emerge in America to deal with this problem!
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Impersonal bureaucratic systems are liberation from the tyranny of the village and the tribe. Long live modernity
"village" mentality is what sustains conservatism. not being able to do anything without the Grandma Gestapo reporting your every move. depending on the easily withdrawn kindness of others instead of impersonal but reliable services. and of course obeying aristocratic landowners
Its gonna be hard to have a family in a single family house when you have to bring your prospective girlfriends to your parents' house instead of your own place.
December 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Impersonal bureaucratic systems are liberation from the tyranny of the village and the tribe. Long live modernity
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I think it's 95% that taxes aren't high enough (i.e. it is far too easy to coast on inherited wealth, financial instruments, & networks of personal connections & professional associations, & far too difficult for the well-born to fail)
December 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I think it's 95% that taxes aren't high enough (i.e. it is far too easy to coast on inherited wealth, financial instruments, & networks of personal connections & professional associations, & far too difficult for the well-born to fail)
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The habits our great men & their ilk build in their private affairs are the habits they bring to public affairs. This is why Epstein matters as more than conspiracy nonsense; it's not even the files themselves as much as that no one at the top is willing to reckon with them or their implications.
I think it's 95% that taxes aren't high enough (i.e. it is far too easy to coast on inherited wealth, financial instruments, & networks of personal connections & professional associations, & far too difficult for the well-born to fail)
December 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The habits our great men & their ilk build in their private affairs are the habits they bring to public affairs. This is why Epstein matters as more than conspiracy nonsense; it's not even the files themselves as much as that no one at the top is willing to reckon with them or their implications.
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Really sympathized with the person who chose to live across the bay and an hour from Seattle complaining how hard it is to get to Seattle. It’s also really hard for me to get to New York. Maybe I should move there if I want to be close to it?
Seattle Times opens up its pages for random people to just complain and complain about how hard it is to park in downtown Seattle, how there's supposedly shit all over the sidewalks, and oh yes, how we aren't MAGA enough. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/some...
Downtown Seattle: The good, the bad and the ugly, from readers | Op-Ed
What readers had to say about why they do or don't visit downtown.
www.seattletimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Really sympathized with the person who chose to live across the bay and an hour from Seattle complaining how hard it is to get to Seattle. It’s also really hard for me to get to New York. Maybe I should move there if I want to be close to it?
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congressional dems in 2026 and dem president in 2028 need a plan to spend this capital as fast as possible
"Who do you trust more to handle..."
Environment - 🔵D +31
Healthcare - 🔵D +24
Economic Inequality - 🔵D +22
Education - 🔵D +18
Trade/Tariffs - 🔵D +17
Jobs - 🔵D +13
Inflation/Cost of Living - 🔵D +12
Foreign - 🔵D +12
Taxes - 🔵D +10
Immigration - 🔵D +7
Crime - 🔴 R +1
AtlasIntel / December 19, 2025
Environment - 🔵D +31
Healthcare - 🔵D +24
Economic Inequality - 🔵D +22
Education - 🔵D +18
Trade/Tariffs - 🔵D +17
Jobs - 🔵D +13
Inflation/Cost of Living - 🔵D +12
Foreign - 🔵D +12
Taxes - 🔵D +10
Immigration - 🔵D +7
Crime - 🔴 R +1
AtlasIntel / December 19, 2025
December 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
congressional dems in 2026 and dem president in 2028 need a plan to spend this capital as fast as possible
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A more succinct way of saying this: wars are political and unless you resolve the political conditions that gave rise to the war you will not end the war. This is way the flurry of American-brokered peace deals keep unravelling.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
December 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A more succinct way of saying this: wars are political and unless you resolve the political conditions that gave rise to the war you will not end the war. This is way the flurry of American-brokered peace deals keep unravelling.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...