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Kim Scarborough 🇺🇦
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· Sep 11
There's a term for people who are in favor of murdering their political opponents.
There's a term for people who are in favor of murdering their political opponents.
September 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
There's a term for people who are in favor of murdering their political opponents.
On the same topic:
September 3, 2025 at 12:21 AM
On the same topic:
I don't care for Greenwald at all, but he's not wrong here. I feel like Bluesky had a chance to become the new Twitter, but it took a wrong turn with its hysterical shunning of @jessesingal.com (and, to a lesser extent, of @brianna.bsky.social), thereby ensuring it would just become an echo chamber.
September 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I don't care for Greenwald at all, but he's not wrong here. I feel like Bluesky had a chance to become the new Twitter, but it took a wrong turn with its hysterical shunning of @jessesingal.com (and, to a lesser extent, of @brianna.bsky.social), thereby ensuring it would just become an echo chamber.
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One of the more depressing features of the past decade has been seeing how quickly and easily the right abandoned the genuinely good principles it once pretended to care about. Free trade; federalism; free speech. They jettissoned everything they had a point about & kept all the loathesome bits.
Trump and his MAGA movement have mastered the art of projection, accusing the left of doing what they themselves have done. But now, Trump has taken that to a new level, becoming the manifestation of an oppressive state that the right has always warned against. So why aren't more sounding the alarm?
Trump Is The Bogeyman The Right Always Warned Us About
Where is the outrage now that Trump has manifested the right's deepest darkest fears about an oppressive state?
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
August 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
One of the more depressing features of the past decade has been seeing how quickly and easily the right abandoned the genuinely good principles it once pretended to care about. Free trade; federalism; free speech. They jettissoned everything they had a point about & kept all the loathesome bits.
My (Chicago) congressman is a worthless mediocrity. Trump is about to commence a military occupation of the city, and here's his latest post:
Chicago is one of the most dangerous cities for birds.
My bill will help change that by requiring all federal buildings to use bird-safe materials nationwide.
My bill will help change that by requiring all federal buildings to use bird-safe materials nationwide.
An Illinois Building Was a Bird Killer. A Simple Change Made a World of Difference.
Chicago is one of the most dangerous cities in the United States for migrating birds, and a glassy lakefront conference center was especially lethal.
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
My (Chicago) congressman is a worthless mediocrity. Trump is about to commence a military occupation of the city, and here's his latest post:
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All prohibitionism is the same. Once a brain has sunk into the delusion that it is possible to control others' behaviors and thoughts, and the moral imbecility that it is right and good to impose such controls on others who do not desire it, there is no bottom.
August 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
All prohibitionism is the same. Once a brain has sunk into the delusion that it is possible to control others' behaviors and thoughts, and the moral imbecility that it is right and good to impose such controls on others who do not desire it, there is no bottom.
Thin-skinned academic snob says what?
August 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Thin-skinned academic snob says what?
"These guys didn't finish college, therefore they're evil" is quite a take.
August 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"These guys didn't finish college, therefore they're evil" is quite a take.
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We are seven months in, and the speed with which vital civic institutions are capitulating to authoritarian demands we once would have regarded as inconceivable in an established liberal democracy is jawdropping. I hadn't thought I was polyannaish about America, but it's really stunning.
July 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
We are seven months in, and the speed with which vital civic institutions are capitulating to authoritarian demands we once would have regarded as inconceivable in an established liberal democracy is jawdropping. I hadn't thought I was polyannaish about America, but it's really stunning.
Maybe it's just because I'm an American, but this strikes me as deeply creepy. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
The rapists, paedophiles and terror offender given shorter sentences than Lucy Connolly
Britain’s ‘two-tier justice system’ means you can get more jail time for an ill-judged tweet than for some of the worst offences imaginable
www.telegraph.co.uk
July 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Maybe it's just because I'm an American, but this strikes me as deeply creepy. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
This is a pretty ridiculous conclusion to draw from the article. All he's saying is that the New York case was purely political, and really was unjustified from a legal perspective. And he's right! You can hate Trump, as I do, and still recognize that fact.
Jake Tapper likes Trump and wants him to win
Jake Tapper Slams ‘Problematic’ Lawfare Against Trump — and the Media for Indulging It
CNN's Jake Tapper called out the legal action taken against Donald Trump by New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
www.mediaite.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:18 AM
This is a pretty ridiculous conclusion to draw from the article. All he's saying is that the New York case was purely political, and really was unjustified from a legal perspective. And he's right! You can hate Trump, as I do, and still recognize that fact.
Once you have paid him the Dane-geld, you never get rid of the Dane.
May 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Once you have paid him the Dane-geld, you never get rid of the Dane.
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Democratic socialists and other leftists often just cannot be persuaded that capitalism is not, in some way, the final boss of politics, even behind the fascists. But they're wrong, they've always been wrong. Fascism, reaction, these things don't rise out of capitalism, they're distinct.
This is what I mean about worrying about demsocs interpreting the current crisis through a lens of wishful thinking
This is not "ordinary people vs elites" this is America vs the people who hate it. MAGA is a brainrot, not a class
This is not "ordinary people vs elites" this is America vs the people who hate it. MAGA is a brainrot, not a class
man I'm sorry, I love AOC, but the "oligarchy" thing, where they attempt to fit Trump into the framing of the Bernie 2016 campaign, is just not accurate
April 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Democratic socialists and other leftists often just cannot be persuaded that capitalism is not, in some way, the final boss of politics, even behind the fascists. But they're wrong, they've always been wrong. Fascism, reaction, these things don't rise out of capitalism, they're distinct.
Most overrated president: FDR
Most underrated president: Jimmy Carter
Best president: George Washington
Worst president: You have to ask?
Most underrated president: Jimmy Carter
Best president: George Washington
Worst president: You have to ask?
April 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Most overrated president: FDR
Most underrated president: Jimmy Carter
Best president: George Washington
Worst president: You have to ask?
Most underrated president: Jimmy Carter
Best president: George Washington
Worst president: You have to ask?
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Many of the people who fall into the first category referenced here no longer even refer to themselves as libertarians, for what it’s worth, because the second category—and the Libertarian Party—have ruined the label.
There are two kinds of libertarians: Those who oppose the state because they reject hierarchy and oppression, and view the state as the main tool for imposing both, and those who oppose the state because they support hierarchy and oppression and view the state as the main barrier to achieving both.
April 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Many of the people who fall into the first category referenced here no longer even refer to themselves as libertarians, for what it’s worth, because the second category—and the Libertarian Party—have ruined the label.
Called it.
Many people have the naive belief that the courts will stop Trump. Well, what if he just ignores their rulings? The judicial branch doesn't have its own police force. It depends on the executive to enforce its orders, and Trump is purging everyone in the DOJ who isn't loyal to him personally.
March 17, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Called it.
Been saying this for years. People are actually dying from lack of organs, all just because people think selling organs is "icky". www.cato.org/blog/legal-m...
A Legal Market for Organs
An alternative approach is to legalize the purchase and sale of organs. This would expand the supply—from living and deceased donors—benefiting both the recipients and the donors.
www.cato.org
March 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Been saying this for years. People are actually dying from lack of organs, all just because people think selling organs is "icky". www.cato.org/blog/legal-m...
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"I'm willing to let my own kids die rather than admit I'm an ignoramus who believes the claims of idiots," said Slackjaw H. Yokel.
"The vaccination has stuff we don't trust," said the father of the 6-year-old girl who died from measles at the end of last month. Tom Bartlett visited with a family confronting an unthinkable tragedy:
The Texas Girl Who Died From Measles
Her father tells her story.
www.theatlantic.com
March 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
"I'm willing to let my own kids die rather than admit I'm an ignoramus who believes the claims of idiots," said Slackjaw H. Yokel.
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Unfortunately the bifurcation of everyone who used to be on Twitter into two separate platforms has made both websites way more likely to take the bait for shit that confirms whatever their priors are.
There is simply no Axios article that won’t send this website into a tailspin, huh?
March 8, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Unfortunately the bifurcation of everyone who used to be on Twitter into two separate platforms has made both websites way more likely to take the bait for shit that confirms whatever their priors are.
@giselelagace.bsky.social What happened to your website?
March 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM
@giselelagace.bsky.social What happened to your website?
I'd support blue state–secession if I could get a guarantee that we'd retain the First and Fifth Amendments. (Second Amendment would be nice too, but I know that'd be lost.)
March 5, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I'd support blue state–secession if I could get a guarantee that we'd retain the First and Fifth Amendments. (Second Amendment would be nice too, but I know that'd be lost.)
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can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
March 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
My general rule of thumb is that the odds of somebody being right is inversely proportional to their confidence.
February 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
My general rule of thumb is that the odds of somebody being right is inversely proportional to their confidence.