Shawn
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i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"
How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
December 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"
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I genuinely do not believe left vs. center is a useful heuristic and especially not right now because what matters is fight vs. don't fight and all of the substack guys who like to talk about WAR as a metric for evaluating politicians are on team "don't fight if our data says it's not 95/5"
On the other hand, WAR for a +13 Dem seat is supposed to be used to not run up the score but to shave the margin and elect someone more to the left, not the center!
But this just keeps going to show those guys don't understand what politics actually is and why it exists.
But this just keeps going to show those guys don't understand what politics actually is and why it exists.
December 21, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I genuinely do not believe left vs. center is a useful heuristic and especially not right now because what matters is fight vs. don't fight and all of the substack guys who like to talk about WAR as a metric for evaluating politicians are on team "don't fight if our data says it's not 95/5"
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“We must stop eating!” cried Toad as he ate another.
December 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
“We must stop eating!” cried Toad as he ate another.
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I know people are rightly going to be worried about child health, their own health. But we also can't afford this. Like, John Hopkins did an estimate (next link) and every measles case during outbreaks cost on average $43,000 to treat. That kid who got tetanus cost $1 million dollars to treat /1
BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Under RFK Jr., U.S. plans to stop recommending most vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I know people are rightly going to be worried about child health, their own health. But we also can't afford this. Like, John Hopkins did an estimate (next link) and every measles case during outbreaks cost on average $43,000 to treat. That kid who got tetanus cost $1 million dollars to treat /1
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“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia.
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
December 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia.
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
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All you really need to understand about water usage in the western United States is that every single use - even the ones that sound egregiously wasteful like AI data centers - rounds down to 0 compared to what irrigated agriculture uses
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
All you really need to understand about water usage in the western United States is that every single use - even the ones that sound egregiously wasteful like AI data centers - rounds down to 0 compared to what irrigated agriculture uses
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If we get absolutely destroyed an election because we stood with trans people, stood against the government kidnapping “immigrants“ off the street, etc., then let us go down with all flags flying
December 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
If we get absolutely destroyed an election because we stood with trans people, stood against the government kidnapping “immigrants“ off the street, etc., then let us go down with all flags flying
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The State of Israel, as it exists now, is unquestionably an apartheid state, and if you believe in liberal precepts of human rights and dignity and *don't* think it should be subject to international sanctions and isolation, I think it's incumbent upon you to justify that special treatment.
What Should Israel Do?
Like many Americans, I’ve spent much of the last six months arguing about Israel and Palestine online. In doing so, I’ve found myself perennially frustrated by how abstract the discussi…
nathangoldwag.wordpress.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The State of Israel, as it exists now, is unquestionably an apartheid state, and if you believe in liberal precepts of human rights and dignity and *don't* think it should be subject to international sanctions and isolation, I think it's incumbent upon you to justify that special treatment.
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Nobody involved in US or Israeli politics even questions the idea that Israel has a right to maintain direct military rule over 33% of its population indefinitely, and that is why there is simply no way to even begin a constructive dialogue on this.
In 34 paragraphs total, Dan Shapiro devotes exactly one (1) of them to what Israel's responsibilities are in order to keep Democrats from becoming more pro-Palestine. Here's his suggestions:
December 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Nobody involved in US or Israeli politics even questions the idea that Israel has a right to maintain direct military rule over 33% of its population indefinitely, and that is why there is simply no way to even begin a constructive dialogue on this.
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they won't vote to expand the courts, or abolish the filibuster. not without a hard shove.
December 19, 2025 at 2:39 AM
they won't vote to expand the courts, or abolish the filibuster. not without a hard shove.
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these incurious corrupt mediocrities with a bloated sense of their own dignity are delusional beyond description
December 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
these incurious corrupt mediocrities with a bloated sense of their own dignity are delusional beyond description
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shake up the senate caucus or we lose the republic
LOL - Senate (and House) Republicans are ending their "probe" into Hegseth's boat strikes after they got Schumer, Durbin and majority of the Senate Democratic Caucus to vote for a $900 billon defense authorization bill for Trump/Hegseth.
December 19, 2025 at 2:37 AM
shake up the senate caucus or we lose the republic
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the failure to actually jail people for this is what made Trump's return in 2024 possible
thinking about how few people know about the false electors scheme is genuinely depressing
thinking about how nobody in the democratic party has signaled a willingness to reopen that question is also depressing
i'm just really depressed, i think
thinking about how nobody in the democratic party has signaled a willingness to reopen that question is also depressing
i'm just really depressed, i think
I also developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt of this, using the investigative methods of "reading the words that the president regularly spoke and wrote in public forums."
December 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
the failure to actually jail people for this is what made Trump's return in 2024 possible
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Again, nobody really denies that Israel is an apartheid state anymore, the only question is whether or not you think that's good.
Try wrapping your mind around this map released earlier this year by the United Nations Office of Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs, describing and delineating restrictions of roads and land access for Palestinians in the oPT, sans Gaza.
December 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Again, nobody really denies that Israel is an apartheid state anymore, the only question is whether or not you think that's good.
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"Look forward not backward" needs to be destroyed as an impulse within the Democratic party. Just a stupid policy that's taken nothing but Ls my whole life
December 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"Look forward not backward" needs to be destroyed as an impulse within the Democratic party. Just a stupid policy that's taken nothing but Ls my whole life
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If all of the 150k missing are, as expected, dead, this will go far past 60k dead and roughly match the Rape of Nanjing in death toll.
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:42 AM
If all of the 150k missing are, as expected, dead, this will go far past 60k dead and roughly match the Rape of Nanjing in death toll.
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when i talk about how free-associating your way from [policy X] to [imagined harm to a marginalized person] being a real problem with real effects beyond social media, it's this kind of shit i am talking about
www.liberalcurrents.com/in-praise-of...
www.liberalcurrents.com/in-praise-of...
December 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
when i talk about how free-associating your way from [policy X] to [imagined harm to a marginalized person] being a real problem with real effects beyond social media, it's this kind of shit i am talking about
www.liberalcurrents.com/in-praise-of...
www.liberalcurrents.com/in-praise-of...
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the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport
Amtrak reports Mardi Gras service among most successful ever https://mynbc15.com/news/local/amtrak-provides-boost-to-mobile-businesses
Amtrak's Mardi Gras service boosts Mobile tourism with higher than expected ridership
Amtrak says the new Mardi Gras service that connects Mobile to New Orleans is one of the most successful services ever launched and it's on track to double the
mynbc15.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport
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Unironically the one place I support automated policing with harsh enforcement is traffic violations
Speeding, reckless driving, and DUIs should absolutely fuck you over, preferably by a percentage of your annual income, and have very few strikes before you become a permanent public transit user
Speeding, reckless driving, and DUIs should absolutely fuck you over, preferably by a percentage of your annual income, and have very few strikes before you become a permanent public transit user
A man is dead after he was struck by an SUV while walking his dogs Saturday morning in Hopkinton, RI. Police say the driver was arrested. She had previously been arrested over 100 times. on.nbcboston.com/XEE5YAX
Man walking his dogs fatally struck by car in Hopkinton, RI; driver arrested
A man was walking his dog Saturday morning when he was hit and killed by an SUV in Hopkinton, Rhode Island, and the driver involved has been arrested
on.nbcboston.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Unironically the one place I support automated policing with harsh enforcement is traffic violations
Speeding, reckless driving, and DUIs should absolutely fuck you over, preferably by a percentage of your annual income, and have very few strikes before you become a permanent public transit user
Speeding, reckless driving, and DUIs should absolutely fuck you over, preferably by a percentage of your annual income, and have very few strikes before you become a permanent public transit user
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woo woo brain rot isn't some amusing character quirk, it's not harmless, it's literal child murder
December 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
woo woo brain rot isn't some amusing character quirk, it's not harmless, it's literal child murder
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This is strictly a personal observation from living in LA, but RFK scares me so much because otherwise orthodox liberals with a woo food and chemicals streak are being converted into lunatic conservatives.
SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power.
In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
Liam Neeson Narrates Anti-Vax, Pro-RFK Documentary
The Taken actor can be heard calling mRNA COVID vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news
December 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
This is strictly a personal observation from living in LA, but RFK scares me so much because otherwise orthodox liberals with a woo food and chemicals streak are being converted into lunatic conservatives.
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"The thing is, even if you're just thinking in terms of fiscal value, having gone through a degree program and being able to put it on your resumé/CV isn't the most significant return on your investment: the way you have further developed your mind is."
December 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"The thing is, even if you're just thinking in terms of fiscal value, having gone through a degree program and being able to put it on your resumé/CV isn't the most significant return on your investment: the way you have further developed your mind is."
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Transition is a matter of free will and freedom. Trans people are going to do it anyway and you cannot stop them.
We are full human beings with the right to decide our lives for ourselves and no one has a right to stand in the way of that.
We are full human beings with the right to decide our lives for ourselves and no one has a right to stand in the way of that.
one of the main reasons trans healthcare moved away from strict gatekeeping and toward informed consent & GAC is that trans ppl who were denied the means to transition would simply seek it out elsewhere
What did you think would happen when you restricted access to care?
December 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Transition is a matter of free will and freedom. Trans people are going to do it anyway and you cannot stop them.
We are full human beings with the right to decide our lives for ourselves and no one has a right to stand in the way of that.
We are full human beings with the right to decide our lives for ourselves and no one has a right to stand in the way of that.
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cool that the official position of the administration appears to be that black people don’t really count as americans
"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
cool that the official position of the administration appears to be that black people don’t really count as americans
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Exactly. It's disingenuous to call it a purity test to say "You shouldn't be beholden to right-wing billionaires pushing right-wing policies and right-wing candidates."
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
No, Progressives Don’t Want “Purity.” They Just Want Some Courage.
When left-leaning Democrats complain about corporate influence, it’s not a “purity test.” It’s a demand for a better politics.
newrepublic.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Exactly. It's disingenuous to call it a purity test to say "You shouldn't be beholden to right-wing billionaires pushing right-wing policies and right-wing candidates."
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
newrepublic.com/article/2039...