Ryan Abrams
@ryanabrams.bsky.social
Actual Philly Guy now, following a lifetime of preparation. Lawyer, but not that kind of lawyer.
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I think I would take a world in which there are no minoritarian veto points on policymaking—including no judicial veto, an extremely painful prospect right now. But a world in which Biden didn’t have all his policies blocked by the courts is probably a world in which Trump doesn’t get a second term.
I really wonder how American politics would change if parties could pass their priorities with a simple majority, one at a time.
November 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I think I would take a world in which there are no minoritarian veto points on policymaking—including no judicial veto, an extremely painful prospect right now. But a world in which Biden didn’t have all his policies blocked by the courts is probably a world in which Trump doesn’t get a second term.
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There’s a whole mass of people who have a psychological need to write off anyone with power as corrupt in order to justify their own disengagement.
November 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
There’s a whole mass of people who have a psychological need to write off anyone with power as corrupt in order to justify their own disengagement.
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
Our beautiful undefeated Philadelphia 76ers who we’ve always believed in.
October 28, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Our beautiful undefeated Philadelphia 76ers who we’ve always believed in.
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VJ Edgecombe Chasedown BLOCK on Paolo Banchero
October 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
VJ Edgecombe Chasedown BLOCK on Paolo Banchero
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We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.
c o n s t a n t l y.
October 13, 2025 at 3:54 AM
We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.
c o n s t a n t l y.
Thank you for providing this public service.
October 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Thank you for providing this public service.
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Yup. Been saying whomever can break this story that his crew is sitting him in front of a TV while he gets his IV treatments before he has to go on TV or sign EOs is gonna save the fucking country
genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos
Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."
October 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Yup. Been saying whomever can break this story that his crew is sitting him in front of a TV while he gets his IV treatments before he has to go on TV or sign EOs is gonna save the fucking country
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Part of the transition from conservatism to authoritarianism is the shift from lies with some veneer of plausibility (wink wink) to lies that are demonstrably, obviously lies, such that accepting them involves an almost total subjugation of individual discernment or judgment.
October 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Part of the transition from conservatism to authoritarianism is the shift from lies with some veneer of plausibility (wink wink) to lies that are demonstrably, obviously lies, such that accepting them involves an almost total subjugation of individual discernment or judgment.
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Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question
October 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question
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The Left continues to think they can mobilize Americans on the principle that "America is bad and has always been bad."
October 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The Left continues to think they can mobilize Americans on the principle that "America is bad and has always been bad."
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baby squirrels look like if an acorn dreamed about becoming an animal
September 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
baby squirrels look like if an acorn dreamed about becoming an animal
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this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight.
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset
We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:59 AM
this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight.
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
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the entire administration has Hitler strategic goals but youth pastor tactics and charisma
heggseth's weird podcast rant (delivered to 800 generals and admirals for some reason) is just another sign of how this is a tv presidency. they don't really know how to do policy. their instinct is theater. encounter a problem? put on a spectacle
September 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
the entire administration has Hitler strategic goals but youth pastor tactics and charisma
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It is undeniable that this moment is being shaped by people who marinated for years in an informational environment where reality was not only demoted but actively disdained. It took a while for that bubble to become impermeable but it did and now we have a chunk of people who know nothing but.
September 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
It is undeniable that this moment is being shaped by people who marinated for years in an informational environment where reality was not only demoted but actively disdained. It took a while for that bubble to become impermeable but it did and now we have a chunk of people who know nothing but.
Pete is trying to incept decades of cable news conditioning into the minds of some of the most serious people we have.
It’s worth remembering, whatever you think of what they do for a living, that all of the top brass in the military have like three postgraduate degrees and just imagine what they are thinking watching this and getting implicitly reminded that they’re supposed to submit to this idiot.
Hegseth to military leaders: "Good morning and welcome to the War Department. Because the era of the Department of Defense is over. You see, the motto of my first platoon was 'those who long for peace must prepare for war.'"
September 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Pete is trying to incept decades of cable news conditioning into the minds of some of the most serious people we have.
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working up "democrats must embrace war mindset" rn, but one of my beliefs is this: dooming is itself a reaction to the fear of responsibility. if all is lost and nothing matters then you can't be criticized for your choices. it's not "cold eyed reason." it's an easy escape. comforting
Friendly reminder that I block people who post some variant of "it won't matter because nothing matters" on sight. Not even because they're wrong, but because I find this habit of saying the most tedious and predictable thing as if that makes you an edgy truth teller incredibly grating.
September 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
working up "democrats must embrace war mindset" rn, but one of my beliefs is this: dooming is itself a reaction to the fear of responsibility. if all is lost and nothing matters then you can't be criticized for your choices. it's not "cold eyed reason." it's an easy escape. comforting
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Another infuriating win for the defending Super Bowl champion Eagles where they scored 31 points and never trailed on the road against an undefeated opponent
September 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Another infuriating win for the defending Super Bowl champion Eagles where they scored 31 points and never trailed on the road against an undefeated opponent
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It's so clear that there's a huge number of professionals in the US who carry with them traumatic memories of being excluded, laughed at, or looked down up on by the Smart Kids and who have basically made hostility to Smart Kids their entire personality, ideology, & worldview.
September 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
It's so clear that there's a huge number of professionals in the US who carry with them traumatic memories of being excluded, laughed at, or looked down up on by the Smart Kids and who have basically made hostility to Smart Kids their entire personality, ideology, & worldview.
“There were two gangs-the Jets and the Sharks. They would face each other in the streets, snapping their fingers and singing show tunes in an aggressive manner. I am still in therapy to deal with the trauma.”
All of these guys are spiritually in their 60s regardless of actual age so they try to scare you by name checking neighborhoods that now have Rick and Morty-themed dispensaries
An extremely funny exchange over on Twitter between Geoffrey Ingersoll (the author of that piece calling for violence) and @mikedrucker.bsky.social:
September 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“There were two gangs-the Jets and the Sharks. They would face each other in the streets, snapping their fingers and singing show tunes in an aggressive manner. I am still in therapy to deal with the trauma.”
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Seeing Curtis Yarvin tweet is like if you watch a horror movie that sets up this mysterious evil villain, and then at the end of the movie comes the grand reveal… and it’s just Alf. And you can’t help but laugh and also feel a bit let down. That’s it??
September 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Seeing Curtis Yarvin tweet is like if you watch a horror movie that sets up this mysterious evil villain, and then at the end of the movie comes the grand reveal… and it’s just Alf. And you can’t help but laugh and also feel a bit let down. That’s it??
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I added the music
September 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I added the music