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The Secretary of Defense goes on tv to explain he is preparing to have the military break the law.

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JK Rowling naming an Italian character:

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Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

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I literally reported this Wednesday.

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Being radicalized increasingly since 2016 has just been banging my head against this post indefinitely.

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The goal must be a society that is progressive enough that conservatism becomes ethically permissible. A conservatism of maintaining virtues rather than maintaining hierarchy. A conservatism that goes after gambling and cigarette companies instead of women and minorities. We must bring it into being

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INVENTOR OF THE HOT POCKET: in 1978 on a family trip to naples, italy, i accidentally placed a hot charcoal brick in my mouth

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btw, i will tell you this - i have been talking to people all day, and the media is missing, whether intentionally or not, how absolutely, volcanically angry the people who have been fired are, not because they lost their jobs, but because their jobs matter, to us

submitted 2 days ago • 62 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

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If I'm falling for propaganda why does it comport so neatly with what I already believe, you IDIOT

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after hearing from several of you last night, i think i have a general structure for this. it's subject to change based on feedback, but if you're a current, fired, or currently-being-litigated federal worker, i want to hear from you. here are the details.

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Calling yourself a king doesn’t make you a king. Leading the men of the West against the hosts of Mordor with the Sword that was Broken makes you a king.

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Trump's admin facing public criticism from a Generic Republican after the environment of fear that's been written about within a month of the inauguration is...really something

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THR: “.. Paramount now signaling that it’s prepared to go on the offensive .. leveraging the threat of uncovering information about Trump’s financials, including with respect to his social media company .. and the cryptocurrency he launched, in discovery.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

submitted 3 days ago • 289 comments

Mitch is one of the singular villains of American history, personally responsible for the destruction of our democracy and our government at a level above anyone save Trump himself he is a vile man on the level of John Calhoun and should be remembered as such

submitted 3 days ago • 94 comments

Tough situation. Maybe at some point we can amend the Constitution to provide a specific power Congress can use against an executive who’s unlawfully usurping its authority.

submitted 3 days ago • 58 comments

incredible exchange, @marisakabas.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 334 comments

Major news! A court in Montana has just declared SB458, a bill that "defines sex" in a way that ends the legal recognition of transgender people in Montana, as facially unconstitutional. This is the first time a bill defining sex has been ruled on! Huge win for trans people in MT!

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In Sinclair Lewis's "It Can't Happen Here," (1935) the fascist who got elected President of the United States writes in his autobiography about his realization, early in life, that being an obnoxious dunce got him far more attention than being a smart and decent person.

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This gave me a good chortle this morning. Vance has that mysterious property that I believe Terry Pratchett referred to as "Char-isn't-ma".

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True story: a few years ago, I was being interviewed by a reporter for the New York Times. I mentioned the history of eviction statutes and how they tied into Jim Crow. The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?" When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.

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This is fucking incredible.

submitted 5 days ago • 135 comments

the people who regard even the threat of a war with canada as an amusing cocktail-party anecdote and not as a moral abomination drive me mad

submitted 6 days ago • 41 comments

this is a great fucking thread.

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The legal academy needs to take really really REALLY hard and long look at itself and how it allowed so much amateur history to flood its journals with absolutely no adequate guardrails or refereeing. I’m not confident it will, but it needs to.

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Okay, so at the request of the lovely @trance.bsky.social , I'm going to tell a story about what happens when a shitty person is "just joking", and then discovers there are consequences. AKA That Time Kat Started An Antifascist Hallway Riot In The Third Grade. Grab your beverage of choice.

submitted 8 days ago • 49 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

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unironically fund hot chick lefty institutionalist finance nerd influencers “oh, so you kids want wealth redistribution do you? do we have a career path for you” “buh muh revolution” “emily here found a way to take another 450 million from a billionaire and you threw a brick at a window once”

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silently counting out fourteen-ish months

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Roses are red Our resolve hasn't faltered

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just the whiniest bigots imaginable fuck these assholes, trans people are real and far more valid than they’ll ever be

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