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she/her. trans and proud of it. software engineer. functional programming enthusiast. #jj-vcs, #elixir, etc. big on civic technology and social democracy has takes about too many subjects product of Somerville, MA
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The "Tacos Chotiner" tweet remains undefeated

“It should be illegal for you to be mean to me and legal for me to kill you” is basically the Republican platform.

prepare for what follows

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant. This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

what is it called when people who aren't cops and don't have a warrant drag you away, because I don't think "arrest" is the word

This is bravery and decency. This is what people upset about this administration want. If you really believe this stuff is wrong, and you have a public profile and principles and want to say you're a leader, then get out there and do the damn thing.

Zuck reliably making the worst moves regardless of whatever technological wave he’s trying to shoehorn his way into

Remember that Saddam Hussein was an evil, brutal dictator. And the US war to remove him led to over a decade of strife, killed 1+ million, displaced millions more, allowed ISIS to emerge, and gave Iran free rein to meddle in the levant. Moral condemnation is not strategy.

No law enforcement employee in the United States should be allowed to appear like this in public. If what you’re doing is morally acceptable and your credentials are genuine, do your job while sharing your whole face.

Once again, we have data on this - you can poll Americans, ask if they think Kamala was to their right, & get a number of those who do It's 6%

The fact is that in the United States, right-wing violence 1. Is much more common than left-wing violence 2. Furthers the interests of the Republican Party, while what little left-wing violence exists mainly causes headaches for Democrats 3. Is coddled by the Republicans

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Material conditions in 2024 were far from the worst in US history, let alone the world. “Bad material conditions made America go fascist” can’t explain why it didn’t go fascist in worse ones. When facts and theory come into conflict, scientific says adjust the theory. Ideologues adjust the facts.

If it wasn't obvious I'm strongly opposed to the US getting involved in a war with Iran. This is Israel's mess, they can deal with it on their own.

there is absolutely a nuclear weapons program. there is a nuclear weapons program because until this point the threat of nuclear breakout had substantially constrained iran's enemies' ability to take action against iran rather than its proxies. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/w...

It's pretty notable that mainstream, establishment discourse never ever ever considers giving liberal politicians credit for crime reductions. It's almost axiomatic that if crime goes down under a center-left leader it's either unremarked upon, or must be driven by something else.

as unreasonable as it is to imagine that you could abolish policing functions entirely, the mainstream view of how the criminal justice system functions is similarly insane

Vibe coding has been great for me to be honest, but my coworkers have told me that they find the buzzing noise distracting.

NO WAR WITH IRAN

“Obama and Trump are both evil” is like a 7th-grade level understanding of politics at best, I’m sorry to say

one of the basic ideas underlying the modern press is that they can re-earn the right wing's trust in its accuracy by telling them things which are self-evidently false

What exactly is it about internet right-wingers that make them ride so hard for countries that go 0-1 in wars. Nazi Germany. Confederacy. Rhodesia. I mean Mussolini at least beat Ethiopia. He had a .500 batting average, and it’s like that makes them all allergic to him.

we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him

I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me say it again: we don't have a cancellation problem. We have never had a cancellation problem. To the contrary, we have a problem that "disgrace" is a very temporary embarrassment— an brief entr'acte more than an intermission.

defend itself from what?

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.

the acceptance of queer people in mainstream society is woefully understated by radical leftists. this isn’t the 80s! i had three 70+ year olds *brag* to me yesterday about their queer kids/niblings/etc. and the rest of the people at the protest were shoulder-to-shoulder with us! in a small town!

it really demonstrates the incoherence of worldviews which put violent protest at their center that they criticize nonviolent protest as performative. correct. protest is a performance. violence is also a performance.

in a just world open carriers would be domed the moment they stepped outside their front door

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