Iroh
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What we are living through is the PEAK of "drained pool politics"
Drained pool politics is the termination or defunding of public resources due to the will of one group, whether they also use the resource or not.
Think the end of public pools nationwide b/c white people refused to integrate
Drained pool politics is the termination or defunding of public resources due to the will of one group, whether they also use the resource or not.
Think the end of public pools nationwide b/c white people refused to integrate
July 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
What we are living through is the PEAK of "drained pool politics"
Drained pool politics is the termination or defunding of public resources due to the will of one group, whether they also use the resource or not.
Think the end of public pools nationwide b/c white people refused to integrate
Drained pool politics is the termination or defunding of public resources due to the will of one group, whether they also use the resource or not.
Think the end of public pools nationwide b/c white people refused to integrate
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when people vote for a guy who had dinner with two nazis, called white supremacists "very fine people," and promises to hunt down immigrants en masse, it's because of economic anxiety. when they vote for a guy who wants to make rent and food more affordable, it's because they are anti-semitic.
June 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
when people vote for a guy who had dinner with two nazis, called white supremacists "very fine people," and promises to hunt down immigrants en masse, it's because of economic anxiety. when they vote for a guy who wants to make rent and food more affordable, it's because they are anti-semitic.
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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The U.S. government detained an Indian citizen who was studying and teaching at Georgetown University, and said he had been deemed “deportable” for violating the terms of his student visa.
D.H.S. Detains a Georgetown University Academic
Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national teaching on a student visa, was deemed “deportable,” a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 6:49 AM
The U.S. government detained an Indian citizen who was studying and teaching at Georgetown University, and said he had been deemed “deportable” for violating the terms of his student visa.
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Jawdropping.
You would expect this in a dictatorship, not the United States.
This country is unrecognizable.
You would expect this in a dictatorship, not the United States.
This country is unrecognizable.
March 20, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Jawdropping.
You would expect this in a dictatorship, not the United States.
This country is unrecognizable.
You would expect this in a dictatorship, not the United States.
This country is unrecognizable.
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In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?"
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
March 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?"
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
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I'd like to bring this video to your attention.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco...
It's doing pretty significant numbers for what it is, so while I understand sharing it won't make a difference for those knee-deep in the cult of personality, I'd say it has a better-than-average chance of resonating.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco...
It's doing pretty significant numbers for what it is, so while I understand sharing it won't make a difference for those knee-deep in the cult of personality, I'd say it has a better-than-average chance of resonating.
Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
www.youtube.com
March 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I'd like to bring this video to your attention.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco...
It's doing pretty significant numbers for what it is, so while I understand sharing it won't make a difference for those knee-deep in the cult of personality, I'd say it has a better-than-average chance of resonating.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco...
It's doing pretty significant numbers for what it is, so while I understand sharing it won't make a difference for those knee-deep in the cult of personality, I'd say it has a better-than-average chance of resonating.
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I've been thinking a lot about that bumper sticker which says "everything looks like a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works" and folks it's pretty obvious to me that the people in power right now have absolutely no desire to understand how anything works.
March 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I've been thinking a lot about that bumper sticker which says "everything looks like a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works" and folks it's pretty obvious to me that the people in power right now have absolutely no desire to understand how anything works.
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So do I.
A lot of very smart people on here say that the Supreme Court's admin stay in the USAID case is no big deal.
Respectfully, I dissent.
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/chief-just...
Respectfully, I dissent.
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/chief-just...
Chief Justice Leaps In To Save Trump DOJ From Consequences Of Defying A Court Order
And cuts the legs out from under every trial judge.
www.lawandchaospod.com
February 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
So do I.
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How’s this WSJ take aging
WSJ this morning. lol at the last bit.
"Leaders on both sides need to stop describing the stakes of the election in apocalyptic terms. Democracy won't end if one or the other candidate is elected. Fascism is not aborning if Mr. Trump wins, unless you have little faith in American institutions."
"Leaders on both sides need to stop describing the stakes of the election in apocalyptic terms. Democracy won't end if one or the other candidate is elected. Fascism is not aborning if Mr. Trump wins, unless you have little faith in American institutions."
February 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
How’s this WSJ take aging
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Been seeing an increase of useful terminology developing among academics to describe the right’s appropriation of these ideas:
“inverted victimhood”
“hijacked victimhood”
“imitated victimhood”
The challenge is getting media folks to do the power analysis around victimhood claims in real time
“inverted victimhood”
“hijacked victimhood”
“imitated victimhood”
The challenge is getting media folks to do the power analysis around victimhood claims in real time
In all seriousness, it's profoundly offensive how RWers steal the language used by minoritized communities to name oppression, and appropriate it to serve their narrative of martyrdom. From perverting the meaning of "woke" to this BS "minstrelsy" schtick, it's just ludicrous and gross.
Bowled over by how weird these guys are being about tacos
August 16, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Been seeing an increase of useful terminology developing among academics to describe the right’s appropriation of these ideas:
“inverted victimhood”
“hijacked victimhood”
“imitated victimhood”
The challenge is getting media folks to do the power analysis around victimhood claims in real time
“inverted victimhood”
“hijacked victimhood”
“imitated victimhood”
The challenge is getting media folks to do the power analysis around victimhood claims in real time
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One of these days we're gonna have to reckon with the fact that "money that I spend which does not directly benefit me is a waste" is a popular sentiment.
I think we should state plainly that this is selfish on its face.
And stupid when you have awareness which extends beyond your nose.
I think we should state plainly that this is selfish on its face.
And stupid when you have awareness which extends beyond your nose.
February 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
One of these days we're gonna have to reckon with the fact that "money that I spend which does not directly benefit me is a waste" is a popular sentiment.
I think we should state plainly that this is selfish on its face.
And stupid when you have awareness which extends beyond your nose.
I think we should state plainly that this is selfish on its face.
And stupid when you have awareness which extends beyond your nose.
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Here is a 2019 version of my presentation on the complicity of Nazi lawyers that the Justice Department canceled for next week--and then uncanceled.
I don't know, but I suspect that the reaction of the community here on BlueSky was part of what changed their minds.
youtu.be/dui-0v81Z7U?...
I don't know, but I suspect that the reaction of the community here on BlueSky was part of what changed their minds.
youtu.be/dui-0v81Z7U?...
Global Ethics Month 2019: How Ethics Dies: Laws and Lawyers in Nazi Germany
YouTube video by UNC Ethics and Policy
youtu.be
January 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Here is a 2019 version of my presentation on the complicity of Nazi lawyers that the Justice Department canceled for next week--and then uncanceled.
I don't know, but I suspect that the reaction of the community here on BlueSky was part of what changed their minds.
youtu.be/dui-0v81Z7U?...
I don't know, but I suspect that the reaction of the community here on BlueSky was part of what changed their minds.
youtu.be/dui-0v81Z7U?...
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I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
January 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
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After extensive review, France has established very positive gender affirming care guidelines, and they’ve rejected the highly politicized Cass Report as simply false.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...
www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...
New French guidelines show doctors overwhelmingly support gender-affirming care - LGBTQ Nation
The medical guidelines contradict numerous conclusions from the UK's infamous Cass Review.
www.lgbtqnation.com
January 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
After extensive review, France has established very positive gender affirming care guidelines, and they’ve rejected the highly politicized Cass Report as simply false.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...
www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...
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America is now divided along a very clear fault-line: those of us who understand that Elon Musk lies somewhere between a Bond villain and a DC supervillain and those who own Tesla stock and could give a f*** about anything else, including our democracy
December 20, 2024 at 1:37 PM
America is now divided along a very clear fault-line: those of us who understand that Elon Musk lies somewhere between a Bond villain and a DC supervillain and those who own Tesla stock and could give a f*** about anything else, including our democracy
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November 14, 2024 at 1:54 AM
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