Not that Jeff
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Not a contrarian. But, I'm here to dissent.
FACTS. Courage over caution.
If you are a Democratic senator watching these results and the lesson you take is "I should cave and help Republicans reopen the government for nothing more than a promise written on toilet paper" then you shouldn't be in the Senate anymore
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
FACTS. Courage over caution.
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YouTube TV folks - you may have a $10 per month for 6 month discount waiting for you.
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August 18, 2025 at 1:18 AM
YouTube TV folks - you may have a $10 per month for 6 month discount waiting for you.
Settings > Membership > Manage
See if you have a promo offer there.
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July 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
"Down with the British (and all fucking kings)!" And, Happy 4th of July to all the Yanks out there!!!
a group of people are dancing in front of a row of buildings
ALT: a group of people are dancing in front of a row of buildings
media.tenor.com
July 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"Down with the British (and all fucking kings)!" And, Happy 4th of July to all the Yanks out there!!!
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The two missions of the Roberts Court are to invent rules that bind Democratic presidents, and exceptions that liberate Republican presidents to do as they see fit ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...
The Republican Justices Are Simply Doing What the Republican President Asks
The position of the Roberts Court is that presidents are sometimes allowed to break the law, but only if they are Republicans.
ballsandstrikes.org
July 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The two missions of the Roberts Court are to invent rules that bind Democratic presidents, and exceptions that liberate Republican presidents to do as they see fit ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...
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In light of the news that the US economy has *lost* jobs under Donald Trump, it bears a reminder that the US economy *never* lost jobs in *any* month under Joe Biden.
What an incompetent loser Donald is.
What an incompetent loser Donald is.
July 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
In light of the news that the US economy has *lost* jobs under Donald Trump, it bears a reminder that the US economy *never* lost jobs in *any* month under Joe Biden.
What an incompetent loser Donald is.
What an incompetent loser Donald is.
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I genuinely believe the only way we smash fascism is if the next Democratic administration is willing to use prosecutions and investigations in aggressive and norm-bending ways that make a lot of bien pensant legal academics extremely uncomfortable.
July 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I genuinely believe the only way we smash fascism is if the next Democratic administration is willing to use prosecutions and investigations in aggressive and norm-bending ways that make a lot of bien pensant legal academics extremely uncomfortable.
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A MAGA Christian nationalist dressed up like a police officer to shoot and kill Minnesota Democratic lawmakers.
We should still be talking about it. If lawmakers aren't safe, not one of us is safe.
We should still be talking about it. If lawmakers aren't safe, not one of us is safe.
June 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
A MAGA Christian nationalist dressed up like a police officer to shoot and kill Minnesota Democratic lawmakers.
We should still be talking about it. If lawmakers aren't safe, not one of us is safe.
We should still be talking about it. If lawmakers aren't safe, not one of us is safe.
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Whenever you hear conservative politicians preach from the gospel of "fiscal responsibility," remember that one of the biggest drivers of deficits lately are the Bush and Trump tax cuts, which have added nearly $10 trillion to the national debt.
June 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Whenever you hear conservative politicians preach from the gospel of "fiscal responsibility," remember that one of the biggest drivers of deficits lately are the Bush and Trump tax cuts, which have added nearly $10 trillion to the national debt.
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This is the future of power everywhere and it’s really exciting.
An awesome story about how solar microgrids kept the power on during Puerto Rico's latest blackouts.
This is bottom-up, power-to-the-people shit. Get excited!
This is bottom-up, power-to-the-people shit. Get excited!
Could Microgrids Be Puerto Rico's Answer to Endless Blackouts?
Meanwhile, feds redirect $365 million away from solar toward grid fixes
spectrum.ieee.org
June 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This is the future of power everywhere and it’s really exciting.
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If you ban Calvin and Hobbes you’re a straight up fascist son of a bitch and that’s that
How profoundly sad. The kids deprived of reading Calvin and Hobbes are the kids who need them the most. My brother put it best: "We know we’re fucked when they come for your cartoon stuffed tigers."
Let's go sit in the grass and crack open "The Days are Just Packed."
pen.org/magic-tree-h...
Let's go sit in the grass and crack open "The Days are Just Packed."
pen.org/magic-tree-h...
‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans - PEN America
The removals in Tennessee are the result of a growing political movement to control information through book banning.
pen.org
June 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
If you ban Calvin and Hobbes you’re a straight up fascist son of a bitch and that’s that
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Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal.
June 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal.
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Tariffs.
Stock market down.
Medicaid slashed
Secret police throwing anyone who looks Latino in unmarked vans.
National guard and marines deployed in LA.
No end to the wars in Gaza or Ukraine
Bombing Iran
This is the worst first six months of any presidential term in my lifetime.
Stock market down.
Medicaid slashed
Secret police throwing anyone who looks Latino in unmarked vans.
National guard and marines deployed in LA.
No end to the wars in Gaza or Ukraine
Bombing Iran
This is the worst first six months of any presidential term in my lifetime.
June 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Tariffs.
Stock market down.
Medicaid slashed
Secret police throwing anyone who looks Latino in unmarked vans.
National guard and marines deployed in LA.
No end to the wars in Gaza or Ukraine
Bombing Iran
This is the worst first six months of any presidential term in my lifetime.
Stock market down.
Medicaid slashed
Secret police throwing anyone who looks Latino in unmarked vans.
National guard and marines deployed in LA.
No end to the wars in Gaza or Ukraine
Bombing Iran
This is the worst first six months of any presidential term in my lifetime.
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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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Listen. The only way you can become a good writer is by being a shitty writer and doing it anyways. You can’t magically become a good writer by having a machine do some of the work for you. That just makes you a fraud.
June 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Listen. The only way you can become a good writer is by being a shitty writer and doing it anyways. You can’t magically become a good writer by having a machine do some of the work for you. That just makes you a fraud.
All of this ⬇️
Listen. The only way you can become a good writer is by being a shitty writer and doing it anyways. You can’t magically become a good writer by having a machine do some of the work for you. That just makes you a fraud.
June 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
All of this ⬇️
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Justice Jackson taking on Gorsuch's "pure textualism" and arguing for a more holistic reading of Congress' handiwork—worth reading in full. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
![The majority’s contention that I reject “ ‘pure textualism’ [a]s insufficiently pliable to secure the result [I] seek,” ante, at 10, stems from an
unfortunate misunderstanding of the judicial role. Our interpretative
task is not to seek our own desired results (whatever they may be). And,
indeed, it is precisely because of this solemn duty that, in my view, it is
imperative that we interpret statutes consistent with all relevant indicia
of what Congress wanted, as best we can ascertain its intent. A methodology that includes consideration of Congress’s aims does exactly that—
and no more. By contrast, pure textualism’s refusal to try to understand
the text of a statute in the larger context of what Congress sought to
achieve turns the interpretive task into a potent weapon for advancing
judicial policy preferences. By “finding” answers in ambiguous text, and
not bothering to consider whether those answers align with other sources
of statutory meaning, pure textualists can easily disguise their own preferences as “textual” inevitabilities. So, really, far from being “insufficiently pliable,” I think pure textualism is incessantly malleable—that’s
its primary problem—and, indeed, it is certainly somehow always flexible enough to secure the majority’s desired outcome.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreih3qdtlloz3yhggypbtwiveqdgzzfgapsnetvq7qsni7wfmyuovoi@jpeg)
June 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Justice Jackson taking on Gorsuch's "pure textualism" and arguing for a more holistic reading of Congress' handiwork—worth reading in full. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Stockton, CA: Heavily armed masked kidnappers drove up in an unmarked car and pulled a landscaper out of his truck and kidnapped him. When the landscaping company owner asked the men what they were doing, the kidnappers assaulted him and pulled out a metal baton.
June 19, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Stockton, CA: Heavily armed masked kidnappers drove up in an unmarked car and pulled a landscaper out of his truck and kidnapped him. When the landscaping company owner asked the men what they were doing, the kidnappers assaulted him and pulled out a metal baton.
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Domestic terrorists
Stockton, CA: Heavily armed masked kidnappers drove up in an unmarked car and pulled a landscaper out of his truck and kidnapped him. When the landscaping company owner asked the men what they were doing, the kidnappers assaulted him and pulled out a metal baton.
June 20, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Domestic terrorists
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How Soon Is Now - Johnny Marr Live At The Crazy Face Factory
YouTube video by Johnny Marr
youtu.be
June 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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“OK, Boomer” just got flipped on its head. At protests across the country this past weekend, older Americans turned out in force, leading chants, waving signs and showing that resistance has no age limit. And their passion isn’t just inspiring. It might be what helps save democracy.
Senior Voters Are Turning Out In Force To Protest Trump—And Could Be Democrats' Secret Weapon
Think voters get more conservative with age? Think again.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
June 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
“OK, Boomer” just got flipped on its head. At protests across the country this past weekend, older Americans turned out in force, leading chants, waving signs and showing that resistance has no age limit. And their passion isn’t just inspiring. It might be what helps save democracy.
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Been saying this since February, even before I got arrested for protesting. People want Dems to fight, and it’s time to show up.
Among Democrats - "Do you support Democrats like Sanders and AOC who call for a more aggressive stance towards Trump, or moderate Democrats who are willing to compromise with Trump issues important to their base?"
AOC/Bernie: 70%
Moderate Dems: 30%
Harvard-Harris / June 12, 2025
AOC/Bernie: 70%
Moderate Dems: 30%
Harvard-Harris / June 12, 2025
June 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Been saying this since February, even before I got arrested for protesting. People want Dems to fight, and it’s time to show up.
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Wait... is this the best meme ever made?
June 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Wait... is this the best meme ever made?
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Harvard correctly understands that it’s in a fight for its life and there is no appeasement that will save it. I wish a lot more institutions understood this.
Harvard was able to file a 72 page complaint less than 24 hours after Trump attacked foreign students. Guess they were expecting it
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Read Harvard’s Lawsuit Against Trump
Harvard University sued the Trump administration after it moved to block international students from enrolling.
www.nytimes.com
May 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Harvard correctly understands that it’s in a fight for its life and there is no appeasement that will save it. I wish a lot more institutions understood this.
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Please share far and wide. ICE thrives in darkness. A spotlight on Kelvin could potentially halt his deportation.
NEW — Kelvin Membreño will be deported to El Salvador by ICE tomorrow. He’s the birth father of three US citizen daughters and has become an important part of their lives.
Here their adoptive mother makes a last ditch plea to let him stay in the same country as the girls. A gutting guest essay:
Here their adoptive mother makes a last ditch plea to let him stay in the same country as the girls. A gutting guest essay:
A mother's urgent plea to stop ICE from deporting her daughters’ birth father tomorrow
He served his time in the US. He deserves to heal here, too.
www.thehandbasket.co
May 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Please share far and wide. ICE thrives in darkness. A spotlight on Kelvin could potentially halt his deportation.