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Anselm
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Center-left | Heterodox, not neutral
Graypilled lawyer
GenX | Hapa | SW WI | Packers
I see posts saying this is a bluff…eh I see no reason it would be. A provocation leading to martial law in US cities in the first 30 days feels very possible. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/u...
Trump’s Deportation Plan Is Said to Start Next Week in Chicago
The size of the planned immigration raids is unclear, but they would be the opening step in the president-elect’s goal of overseeing the largest deportation program in history.
www.nytimes.com
January 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
We're in a moment when people believe bizarre nonsense to a dizzying breadth & depth, but it hasn't gone truly mainstream in real actions that alter society on a generational level.

The next 20 years will involve a lot of people doing really dumb and deluded stuff, with a lot of lives flushed.
By all means mock Peter Thiel’s hypercringy Financial Times op-ed, but it’s a useful window into the stunted minds of the men who just bought the government, and we need to know what makes them tick before they foist more of their bizarre ideas on us. www.offmessage.net/p/do-not-wel...
January 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Amy Coney Barrett you are out of compliance
January 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Please turn to page 12 of the Dem hymnbook and join me for another round of “We Dare Not Act”
President Biden said that he was considering pre-emptive pardons for people President-elect Trump considered his political enemies. “A little bit of it depends on who he puts in what positions,” Biden told USA Today.
Biden Says He’s Considering Pre-emptive Pardons For Trump’s Potential Targets
The president hasn’t yet decided what he will do, he said, acknowledging that the makeup of Trump’s new administration could influence his decision.
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Looking for a private service that can help me get this camel through the eye of a needle. I’ll pay anything
January 9, 2025 at 3:28 AM
All this plus we’re supposed to believe doing appearances with Cheney swung the election 😂
I’m supposed to have this tribal hatred of Liz Cheney despite her sacrificing her career to fight the one threat I care most about. And I’m supposed to have this tribal loyalty to leftists who continually refusal to do the absolute bare minimum and support a liberal Dem against that threat. Nah.
January 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Yes please
Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson is scheduled to interview Friday for the Patriots head coaching job.
January 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Maybe
January 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Jfc
January 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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1) This is just truth.

2) Dems sure as shit better target the tech oligarchs in utterly ruthless ways if/when they regain power. Because we now see that if you propose modest regulatory reform these guys will try to kill you; but if you overtly threaten their businesses, they'll work with you.
don't want to pile on here but the problem is it wasn't a crusade. Dems did a couple modest skirmishes against Big Tech power but did not remotely break it, in fact they all kept getting huge government subsidies
January 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Garland. Schumer. BIDEN.

All complicit. Sick of it.
President Biden acknowledged in a new interview released on Wednesday that he might not have been vital enough to serve another four years in office. He also said he could have won re-election against Donald Trump had he stayed in the race. Read more. nyti.ms/3DWs2ZL
January 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I refuse to discuss Greenland, if that makes me part of the problem so be it
January 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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1. Hundreds of companies who pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 4 years

But we've identified 10 promise keepers:

Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
General Mills
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft
10 corporations that kept their promises after January 6, 2021
After a violent mob stormed the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, hundreds of corporations took action to communicate to the public that democracy itself was more important than maximizing their po...
popular.info
January 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Releasing true information in the public interest is fundamentally just and far more transparent than laundering it through Russian hackers.

Serious test of whether Dem leaders are serious or caught in a hidebound Garland mindset.
this is a case where doj should just release the material anyway. and it will be a grave mistake if they don't. she has no plausible basis for jurisdiction over this.
BREAKING: Cannon has blocked DOJ from releasing Smith’s report until further proceedings.
January 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
If it leaks…would the media dare print it?
Trump is trying to block special counsel Jack Smith from releasing his final report.
January 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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probably time to stop talking about jan 6 a "failed coup." one of the more successful operations of the century if we're keeping it a buck.
January 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Anyway I know I’m obsessed with this topic but it seems to kind of break politics if the country can go through this explosion of material affluence that everyone universally loves, and then everyone under 40 immediately decides it’s always been like this and everything was better 40 years ago
January 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The corporate managers who enforce equity will have you garroted in your car before they let you build multifamily in their zip code, and the zoomer leftists taking on late capitalism swear fealty to Chipotle delivered via app while denouncing your big batch of soup as bourgeois decadence
January 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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At the time, everyone, including Republicans, understood how bad it was. Then, brick by brick, they built a foundation of lies to justify doing what they know, deep down, to be wrong. Trump betrayed the country. And so do they.
January 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Eat your veggies, libs
Mike Pence spent 4 years enabling Trump, but then defeated Trumpism at the last minute.

Joe Biden spent 4 years governing well and opposing Trumpism, but then presided over Trump's complete takeover of the federal government.

People are going to hate this pice. www.thebulwark.com/p/american-t...
American Tragedy: Joe Biden, Mike Pence, and the Futility of Intentions
Mike Pence enabled Trump for four years. Joe Biden spent four years opposing Trumpism. Ultimately, only one of them was a bulwark against authoritarianism.
www.thebulwark.com
January 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Is The Good Place the most nakedly repetitive and faux-profound TV show ever and why are my three oldest kids all diehard fans?
January 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Oh no
Wait, are burritos subject to congestion pricing?
January 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Ready for 2026
January 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This list, pure distilled “clowns with flamethrowers” energy
“Posts that critique or challenge … public figures in a way that’s perceived as harsh” will now be flagged and suppressed on X?

Welcome to China. Xi Jinping would be proud.
January 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM