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A jotun in an aesir world. Lawyer by training. Writer for fun.
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i’m here you fuckaas bitch

the plan to make america great again is to make us an impoverished garrison state dominated by trump and his oligarch buddies

The “Joe Rogan of the left” already exists, it’s Hasan, and the way the Democratic Party has reacted to him tells you all you need to know about the probable success of the “find a left wing Joe Rogan donors can stomach” project

It's always "we need a liberal [disinfo merchant]" and never "we need to get back to basics and address fundamental quality of life issues, like childcare, healthcare, housing, and jobs."

i mean we all *knew* the death of culture would be a bit silly but "the most soulless rich people of all time decide autocomplete is going to be our new god" is a bit beyond the pale even for this timeline

History will record Citizens United as the beginning of the end of the American Experiment. Legalized corruption.

Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309

Gonna start a GoFundMe to finance the purchase of Russell Vought’s personal data, including his browser history.

Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.

we lost two Super Hornets to the waves and I haven’t seen any discussion of the race or gender of anyone who might be at fault, which means I have a pretty good guess as to the race and gender of everyone who might be at fault

Limiting my amount of time on here to get informed is helpful. It doesn’t take too long. I need to take action in my community to really feel better, but not letting bluesky become a doomscroll is helpful.

Tremble and obey, raccoon minions.

your child will toil valiantly in the factory. it will be masculine. it will restore our national character. it will make america great again. oh my child? my child will run a lucrative rightwing podcast

Sometimes you don’t find your spirit animal as much as it finds you

Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”

It's funny how when you ask them why they think Pope Francis was "too woke" and request specific examples, they always wound up describing Christ's teachings without a hint of self-awareness.

Everyone now and again I will see someone use the phrase "woke mind virus" seriously and I will wonder what it is like to be them, and to have a head full of rancid pudding where a brain is meant to be

Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me

"The Stranger's Case," William Shakespeare Sir Thomas Moore: Act II Scene 4 ___ Imagine that you see the wretched strangers, Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage, Plodding to the ports and costs for transportation ...

The most perfect example I’ve seen in years of the mainstream media uncritically adopting right wing propaganda terminology is the use of the word “deportation” to refer to kidnapping and imprisonment in a foreign country with no legal process. I feel like I’m losing my mind often these days.

the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless

A reminder that there is no human being in the United States whom it would be legal to disappear to a Salvadoran prison without due process of law.

You can get hard, concrete proof that parliamentary systems are superior because the Trump Crash and the Truss budget crisis were basically the same and one resulted in the head of state serving for less than four weeks and the other being irrevocably in charge for four entire years

We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal

Donald Trump has a longer rap sheet than many of the people he’s kidnapped.

the only way kidnapping and illegally detaining lawful permanent residents (or citizens!) in foreign concentration camps "plays out" is we all live our lives under fascism or the fascists are jailed and many of them executed. that's it. read a fuckin book.

“We will enforce the law against rich and poor alike.”

the only way we can stop this is if we turn on each other first. we need to rip each other to shreds. we need to denounce each other for the most minor infractions conceivable, and never stop arguing. only then will some of us make some money from our efforts while ultimately not stopping this.

Anyone who says they want bipartisanship should not be trusted to hold money, teach schoolchildren, or operate heavy machinery.

Hey, I've got an idea: let the scientists working for the government keep doing their good work, and send Elon to work with his hands in the mines instead. Maybe an emerald mine?

There are a lot of ways to explain why rising bond yields in this economic environment, but if you don't know anything about economics, think of it as your father talking about a sudden, strange ache in his left shoulder during Thanksgiving.

even if we throw these people out of power the enduring legacy of Trump is that nobody can ever again trust the US government to keep a promise, and that will come back to bite us over and over again what a shameful thing this is

the next democratic administration must engage in a rigorous de-nazification of the entire federal workforce