bill-of-lefts.bsky.social
We are not required to finish the work, yet we are not free to abandon it.
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Liz Cheney was run out
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God punished us by allowing the precise set of improbable circumstances that led to this photo existing
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The republicans who believed in this were run out of Congress
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I was at an event where Cory booker was asked why he wasn’t leading protests like RFK did in the 60s. His answer was that he was good at social media and was getting so many likes on TikTok
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I used to think even the most craven politicians genuinely desired to assert power in the world, even if they didn’t have a principled reason to use that power. But the Dems didn’t even reach that level of ambition! So many of them have no higher goal than simply remaining in Congress
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We need to bring back town criers
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Retvrn
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In the final analysis, what happens when the courts order the marines to not do something, and Trump orders them to do it anyway? I genuinely don’t know, and I think we are rapidly headed for this situation.
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Do not monkey’s paw this!!! It is absolutely within the realm of possibility for him to send troops to the California governor’s mansion
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We are in the cool zone
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Yes correct
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Destroying welfare and economic regulatory capacity and increasing coercive capacity are both bad and unnerving, but in different ways
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I think most immigration enforcement is morally illegitimate but I’m willing to make some pragmatic concessions bc I know this is an extreme minority view. But I’m not willing to make concessions to a machine that delivers people up to satan
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I’ve spent a total of like four hours in Dublin on a layover, but I remember seeing an unusually high number of restaurants advertising guacamole sandwiches
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Making it difficult to cross the border legally is precisely the cause of people dying in locked semi trailers in the desert
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There are issues that bsky posters can be sheep about—ai for instance—but simply reciting verifiable facts about the administration makes you sound crazy.
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it helps to have beliefs you are unwilling to sacrifice for political expediency and "immigration is good" is a sort of non-negotiable one for a Democrat trying to succeed at any time after say 1840
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Idk how it works in Canada but withholding would make it difficult to do that
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Think about how many nominal liberals came off the loss in 2024 using "Dearborn" as a racial slur and cracking jokes about Trump deporting Latino swing voters. You need an ideology deeper than the performance of government
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*lyme lol