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If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad.

submitted 6 hours ago • 50 comments

Hot take: The real problem with the Florida Nazi student paper is originalism itself. If your constitutional methodology’s only available criticism of “ethnic cleansing is required, actually” is that they got 18th and 19th century history wrong, then your constitutional methodology is trash.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

we actually don’t have to listen to the people who are cheerleading war who were also cheerleading war 20+ years. we’re the adults in the room now and we have the power to say fuck no to shitty ideas.

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

Someone on Twitter posted that they had run into Philip Glass at their lower Manhattan polling place, saying nice things about Mamdani. The campaign put this up as a quote-tweet within the hour.

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

The History Cinematic Universe, as it were.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

this is such an important point. i do not think that the typical american understands that for most of their lives, someone like james madison or george washington or thomas jefferson was surrounded by black people.

submitted 3 days ago • 66 comments

The order to release Mahmoud Khalil…………”denies the result of the 2024 election.”

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

In national elections, liberals like me ask leftists to be coalition partners — hold their noses and vote for a candidate they don't love to beat someone truly terrible. In New York, the shoe is on the other foot. And we should be clear that we're willing to do what we ask of our partners.

submitted 4 days ago • 130 comments

i see this kind of sentiment all the time and i think a lot of people forget that the American South's idea of libertarianism is "the government won't interfere with your segregation policy"

submitted 5 days ago • 44 comments

The NYC Bar Association says ICE agents wearing masks "appears to be an effort to evade accountability, and to decrease transparency in response to increasing allegations of government overreach, abuse of power, and violations of constitutional rights." Statement www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

Don’s right. Trumpism not just permits, but demands, overt hostility to a wide array of American values, institutions, culture, and people. Trumpism hates much more of America than it loves.

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments

It’s a shame the Don’t Tread On Me flag was appropriated by the pro treading on me community because it’s a pretty badass flag and I am tired of being tread upon.

submitted 9 days ago • 72 comments

People will tell you that they view property destruction as equivalent to violence against a person, but that's not true. They think property destruction is worse

submitted 8 days ago • 180 comments

I don't care what you think about PSL. That letter is dangerous. What Hawley is doing is setting the stage to do the same to all Left groups.

submitted 12 days ago • 19 comments

a fairly deeply held belief of mine is that Americans want immigration to work the way they think it already does: you can get in legally if you’re patient on a reasonable timescale, and if you’re here long enough to put down community roots you shouldn’t get kicked out regardless

submitted 12 days ago • 50 comments

Those who know me will attest to my pragmatic temperament, but I can't get behind criticizing the flag optics of people protesting a police state (speaking of optics). The idea that you can proudly represent your Mexican lineage and still be 100% an American is, to me, the very idea of America.

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

The critics focused on tone because they largely agreed with the right substantively on the race and gender issues in question, but wanted to avoid saying so openly to preserve their social standing and self-image as liberals.

submitted 54 days ago • 7 comments

A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here

submitted 56 days ago • 319 comments

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that everyone is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

submitted 67 days ago • 412 comments

Plenty of precedent for treating these thugs as lawless kidnappers and charging them as such.

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

The untimely death of Stephen Jay Gould, and his singular ability to ridicule this shit for the general public, is one of the great unacknowledged tragedies of this century.

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

Just a reminder that these are the people purporting to be outraged by antisemitism on campus. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

submitted 74 days ago • 32 comments

so much of the fascist movement country is supported by the belief that parents own their children and have a right to ensure they turn out a specific way

submitted 74 days ago • 54 comments

One of the things that makes this poem so striking is the idea that America is a new, distinctive, and extraordinary kind of society — an idea, as I've said before, people in this country used to take for granted and that the right has tried to bury under "Western civilization" claptrap.

submitted 75 days ago • 12 comments

This is the inevitable outcome of transphobic ideology. It harms cis people as well as trans if you don't fit a stereotype. If you don't look or act a specific way conjured up in the minds of the gender critical brigade you are, what they consider, a fair target. www.thepinknews.com/2025/03/27/c...

submitted 89 days ago • 60 comments

Among other things, this is an invitation for states to seek USG cooperation against their dissidents in exile in the US

submitted 89 days ago • 10 comments

for the trump administration even this few black people is a few too many

submitted 98 days ago • 92 comments

unpopular stance: ACAB includes Scully but not Mulder, because there's absolutely no way Fox Mulder understands what the law really is or that his job is to enforce it. he has less capacity for moral cognition than a K9 unit.

submitted 98 days ago • 170 comments

I don't think Democrats should surrender on "DEI" for the same reason I don't think we should surrender on "trans sports". The actual demand in both cases is that the affected caste of people disappear from public society, and that is not something we should (or can!!) deliver upon.

submitted 101 days ago • 38 comments

This country’s founders knew that “treason” was a claim so vulnerable to abuse that they took the trouble to define it narrowly in the constitution: “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” /1

submitted 105 days ago • 41 comments

A lot of our fellow Americans, some of those who are most deeply concerned about Trump's attack on our constitution and way of life, are simply cowards. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

submitted 107 days ago • 72 comments

Holy shit. This is so fucking weak. If I had spent money on an education here I would be so disgusted by this response. Taking notes from Nazis on how to handle antisemitism. My goodness.

submitted 108 days ago • 29 comments

Literally anyone who looks at "leading law firms" and their racial/gender population and thinks "this is DEI gone too far," has told on themselves that they think POC and women simply do not exist in the working world.

submitted 109 days ago • 15 comments

bathroom bills were considered a hugely bigoted overreach a decade ago and the backsliding on trans rights is the result of a sustained propaganda campaign by elites the pendulum can swing back the other way if you try, and anyone who is not willing to do so is showcasing their own bigotry

submitted 113 days ago • 39 comments

oh i stand corrected, a DEI quota filler

submitted 117 days ago • 1 comment

issue with “hire more conservative professors” is that they don’t mean “hire a smart guy who happens to think taxes should be lower”, they mean “hire a movement conservative”, and these days there are multiple litmus tests for being that type of person that are “insist this false thing is true”

submitted 119 days ago • 69 comments

"I played a big joke on you by acting like a Nazi in public and making you think I'm a Nazi. Ha ha, oh man, you look like a big idiot now."

submitted 122 days ago • 1 comment

finally foamers are rising up

submitted 123 days ago • 3 comments

no one ever banned the Associated Press from the White House for not saying "Latinx"

submitted 126 days ago • 36 comments

Zero point zero chance Trump is aware of an apocryphal Napoleon quote. This reeks of Musk, who no doubt got it from some rando twitter groyper.

submitted 129 days ago • 46 comments