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Fluorescent beige elder millennial. ✊🏽🏳️‍🌈. Writes code for money, occasionally suffers fools for fun. Rules, empathy, math. SFO🏠 #LLAP 🖖🏽
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Quare siletis juristae in munere vestro? [Why are you jurists silent about that which concerns you?]

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

"...standard tactics – and the kind of consultant advice that ...worked for Clinton in the 90s – have a real drawback: they communicate that...things are still pretty normal. Citizens take cues from elites. If elites act normally, why should everyone else be that concerned?" Guardian column:

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

"The attempt to make a past in the present is a grotesque delusion, an attempt to be in two places at once." — Fernando Zóbel

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 21 hours ago • 453 comments

Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 106 comments

legitimate reporters should have gotten off Twitter long ago but it’s pretty much unjustifiable now

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Could you imagine how much worse this would all be if there were no Bluesky?

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE

submitted 1 day ago • 275 comments

[joyfully] there is much we will not be able to save. we must remake it.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

This is pretty straightforward authoritarianism: if you don't support my toxic businesses, I will use my government power to kneecap yours.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

i demand to see this man's pupils

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

I don't know how many times I'm gonna have to yell that politico is not an honest actor before people get it

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

What a loser. Like, objectively.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I mean this without a shred of irony: The basic principles of democracy demand that Republicans who have bowed to these threats resign immediately. Their seats should be considered empty until new elections can be held

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Lol

submitted 3 days ago • 159 comments

This will all end with a lot of fresh blood. (probably in both senses)

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

goodfellas henry hill laughing dot gif

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 4 days ago • 818 comments