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language note: don't say 'congress' when you mean 'congressional republicans'
January 5, 2026 at 2:47 PM
language note: don't say 'congress' when you mean 'congressional republicans'
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if i was running a political party and every time my opponents held power they started illegal wars for oil and crashed the economy i would simply say that repeatedly
January 3, 2026 at 4:54 PM
if i was running a political party and every time my opponents held power they started illegal wars for oil and crashed the economy i would simply say that repeatedly
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President Clinton is right. This is not getting as much attnetion as it should. The USA under Trumpstein is betraying this promise, which means any agreement involving Russia and the USA is not worth the paper it’s written on 🤷♂️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapes...
December 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
President Clinton is right. This is not getting as much attnetion as it should. The USA under Trumpstein is betraying this promise, which means any agreement involving Russia and the USA is not worth the paper it’s written on 🤷♂️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapes...
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I appreciate them taking the time to write this out because it's the equivalent of a veterinarian journal article explaining why you can't sew a porcupine inside a pig. Like what even is any of this and why must we discuss it? Everyone involved should be impeached and jailed.
Tick, tock.
Lindsey Halligan, the newly-installed prosecutor in EDVA, has less than a week to secure an indictment against James Comey before a key statute of limitations runs out.
Ben Wittes and I examine her charging options.
Spoiler alert: they all suck.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
Lindsey Halligan, the newly-installed prosecutor in EDVA, has less than a week to secure an indictment against James Comey before a key statute of limitations runs out.
Ben Wittes and I examine her charging options.
Spoiler alert: they all suck.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
September 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I appreciate them taking the time to write this out because it's the equivalent of a veterinarian journal article explaining why you can't sew a porcupine inside a pig. Like what even is any of this and why must we discuss it? Everyone involved should be impeached and jailed.
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Horst Wessel's funeral was a big production number, too.
September 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Horst Wessel's funeral was a big production number, too.
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I have lost all patience with the apparently unshakeable conviction that striking a reasonable, moderate pose means assuming the sincerity of transparently pretextual horseshit. Donald Trump does not care about reducing crime in DC. He is testing and normalizing paramilitary deployments in cities.
Is that what he is doing? Fighting crime? Phew. I thought he was using federal power to assert power over the country’s capital
August 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I have lost all patience with the apparently unshakeable conviction that striking a reasonable, moderate pose means assuming the sincerity of transparently pretextual horseshit. Donald Trump does not care about reducing crime in DC. He is testing and normalizing paramilitary deployments in cities.
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State Dep't officials asked who, exactly, can qualify for the Trump administration's South Africa refugee program.
The answer, emailed days later by a top department official, was that program is intended for white people.
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
The answer, emailed days later by a top department official, was that program is intended for white people.
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
July 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
State Dep't officials asked who, exactly, can qualify for the Trump administration's South Africa refugee program.
The answer, emailed days later by a top department official, was that program is intended for white people.
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
The answer, emailed days later by a top department official, was that program is intended for white people.
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns
June 22, 2025 at 5:08 AM
World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns
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nobody chooses where or how they were born and saying someone else born in this country is somehow less of a citizen than I am or not a citizen at all not only contradicts the plain language and intent of the amendment it contradicts basic logic
May 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
nobody chooses where or how they were born and saying someone else born in this country is somehow less of a citizen than I am or not a citizen at all not only contradicts the plain language and intent of the amendment it contradicts basic logic
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Comedians and pro wrestlers are the professions who actually understand how crowds work. But Democrats are paying statistics nerds, who manifestly do not
But comedians know how to win over crowds; they get how contingent and local discourse actually is, and that reaching people is about sizing up audiences and relying on a deep well of practical wisdom and rhetorical experience. They know that you have to have to enact an ethos, not a caricature.
May 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Comedians and pro wrestlers are the professions who actually understand how crowds work. But Democrats are paying statistics nerds, who manifestly do not
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Boarder Patrol is now scanning Americans who leave the country.
Not entering, leaving.
This isn’t border security. It’s a test run for a surveillance state.
If leaving the U.S. feels like a threat, maybe the threat is already here.
#EyesWideOpen #AuthoritarianCreep
Not entering, leaving.
This isn’t border security. It’s a test run for a surveillance state.
If leaving the U.S. feels like a threat, maybe the threat is already here.
#EyesWideOpen #AuthoritarianCreep
May 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Boarder Patrol is now scanning Americans who leave the country.
Not entering, leaving.
This isn’t border security. It’s a test run for a surveillance state.
If leaving the U.S. feels like a threat, maybe the threat is already here.
#EyesWideOpen #AuthoritarianCreep
Not entering, leaving.
This isn’t border security. It’s a test run for a surveillance state.
If leaving the U.S. feels like a threat, maybe the threat is already here.
#EyesWideOpen #AuthoritarianCreep
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Democracies have checkpoints to enter the country.
Dictatorships have checkpoints to leave the country.
Dictatorships have checkpoints to leave the country.
Stopping people traveling north INTO Canada now.
Needing to pass through a checkpoint to leave seems next level bad.
Needing to pass through a checkpoint to leave seems next level bad.
The hassle and harassment is just not worth.
DON’T TRAVEL TO THE UNITED STATES.
❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️
#canada #canadastrong #elbowsup #teamcanada #canadaunited #tariffs #tradewar #never51state #buycanadian #usa
DON’T TRAVEL TO THE UNITED STATES.
❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️
#canada #canadastrong #elbowsup #teamcanada #canadaunited #tariffs #tradewar #never51state #buycanadian #usa
May 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Democracies have checkpoints to enter the country.
Dictatorships have checkpoints to leave the country.
Dictatorships have checkpoints to leave the country.
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It pains me to say this as one of nature’s own true pedants but sometimes insisting on analytic distinctions that are critical for experts can cloud the larger moral categories that mobilize people
April 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
It pains me to say this as one of nature’s own true pedants but sometimes insisting on analytic distinctions that are critical for experts can cloud the larger moral categories that mobilize people
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6 weeks ago today, planes flew a few hundred people to El Salvador, where they’re being held at CECOT — a place from which Salvadoran officials brag no one is ever released — at US expense.
Their continued detention there is our continued shame.
Their continued detention there is our continued shame.
April 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
6 weeks ago today, planes flew a few hundred people to El Salvador, where they’re being held at CECOT — a place from which Salvadoran officials brag no one is ever released — at US expense.
Their continued detention there is our continued shame.
Their continued detention there is our continued shame.
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Already there. There's a natural born U.S. citizen being held by ICE because he did not have citizenship documentation on him when stopped georgiarecorder.com/2025/04/17/g...
April 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Already there. There's a natural born U.S. citizen being held by ICE because he did not have citizenship documentation on him when stopped georgiarecorder.com/2025/04/17/g...
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im sorry to be so divisive and partisan but i dont think the government should be inventing a criminal history out of thin air to justify sending someone to a concentration camp in a foreign country
April 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
im sorry to be so divisive and partisan but i dont think the government should be inventing a criminal history out of thin air to justify sending someone to a concentration camp in a foreign country
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If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
April 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
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For any non-attorneys reading this: This is absolutely, definitely, very clearly not okay.
the justice department's position is now that candor toward the tribunal constitutes insubordination
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...
Justice Dept. Accuses Top Immigration Lawyer of Failing to Follow Orders (Gift Article)
Erez Reuveni conceded in court that the deportation last month of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who had a court order allowing him to stay in the United States, should never have taken place.
www.nytimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
For any non-attorneys reading this: This is absolutely, definitely, very clearly not okay.
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They're destroying civil rights history because they want to repeal the Civil Rights Act
www.alreporter.com/2025/03/06/h...
www.alreporter.com/2025/03/06/h...
Historic Montgomery Bus Station, Freedom Riders Museum part of DOGE-ordered sell-off
The building housing the historic Freedom Riders Museum appears to be part of a DOGE-ordered sell-off of federal properties.
www.alreporter.com
March 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
They're destroying civil rights history because they want to repeal the Civil Rights Act
www.alreporter.com/2025/03/06/h...
www.alreporter.com/2025/03/06/h...
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Given that the Trump people did nothing to induce Russia to end the war, it’s fair to conclude that the whole idea of pursuing peace was just a pretext to renew relations with Russia.
February 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Given that the Trump people did nothing to induce Russia to end the war, it’s fair to conclude that the whole idea of pursuing peace was just a pretext to renew relations with Russia.
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