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Bisexual Satanist veteran who's really into Martin Luther King Jr. “The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and racism."
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is it good if over half of americans think we currently don’t live in a legitimate state?

If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

hey would it bother our congressional leaders too much to all go tell trump to fuck himself for calling himself the king? if you could just deign to do that, it would be nice.

fact check: since congestion pricing started, subway crime is down 36%.

I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

What Ilan Wurman and Randy Barnett are doing isn’t best understood as legal scholarship. It’s more like wartime public relations, or like SEO. It’s creating bullshit that will give dishonest judges a pretext to pretend that there is a serious constitutional dispute. They’re fascism’s fixers.

Trump: I AM A KING! NYT: Trump displays a "fondness for regal themes"

Political liberalism has a lot of flaws but one of the cool things about it is how it's constructed around the insight that monarchy is a fundamental affront to human dignity 👍

Tennessee Republicans want to hit nonprofits — including faith groups — who help migrants and undocumented people with possible felonies. Incredible quote from the bill’s sponsor. tennesseelookout.com/2025/02/17/b...