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Sick simple Tyrone, or something.

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It's interesting that the older and more in-the-pocket-of-the-GOP social media platforms seem to be showing me either the latest abuses by the GOP or the posts of others who tell stories from the past about the more dramatic forms that zero tolerance for not-sees can take, and has taken in the past.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I mean, let’s be clear about this. US Citizenship and Immigration Services has faced cuts. USCIS is funded by immigration application fees. It specifically is not supposed to cost the taxpayer ANYTHING. & that money can’t be spent elsewhere. This isn’t an efficiency calculation!

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

I was just reading a quote, and after a couple of lines, I thought "this is James Baldwin." Sure enough, it was. I'm just pleased to notice that I've read enough James Baldwin to recognize his voice in print. Everyone should read James Baldwin, is what I'm saying.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

I want what they have 😿

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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

submitted 10 days ago • 596 comments

Here's my piece with @rooseveltinstitute.org colleague Emily Divito on how the Musk-Treasury payments scandal is worse than it appears. When people lose trust in the money and payments systems, that's how panics, bank runs, and financial crises happen. 1/ news.bloomberglaw.com/tax-insights...

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

www.courtwatch.news/p/lawsuits-r...

submitted 17 days ago • 1582 comments

Urgent trans and nonbinary update: I called a passport office and got a sympathetic rep who told me officially any information about gender markers is posted online. Unofficially, they literally whispered, they have heard the same rumors about passports being confiscated.

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Same goes for being in a place where the vast preponderance of scientific evidence for gender diversity gets ignored because it doesn't agree with what someone "feels" should be true, or what their blown-dry megapastor tells them is true.

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From the Twitter archives.

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A Mississippi state senator has filed a bill called the “Contraception Begins at Erection Act,” which would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo”

submitted 31 days ago • 1325 comments

I wish every Dem office would read this and internalize it. "The only sensible and dignified course of action is to accept that Republicans are in charge and to focus in on making their unpopular actions as painful as possible...The job of the opposition is quite literally to oppose. Get to it."

submitted 31 days ago • 111 comments

This from @aoc.bsky.social. The targeting of migrants for detention & deportation, without due process, is an outrage in itself. But it’s also about profiteering. “I want folks at home to look at which members of congress are invested in private prison companies…& look at the votes on this bill.”

submitted 31 days ago • 198 comments

The rules, if you are keeping track: If a single left activist anywhere in the world says "defund the police," it becomes the official position of the Democratic Party, now and forever. If the president's top surrogate repeatedly sieg-heils on stage, it's ambiguous, impossible to interpret.

submitted 33 days ago • 134 comments

The Social Net Worth https://thedevilspanties.com/archives/16493

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

the god damn government wants to tell me what my gender is and im gonna tell em to go to hell and kiss my fuckin ass, what about that doesnt sound like a Real American to you fuckin cowards

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Keep your eyes on Jack Schlossberg. He's without a doubt, the best Kennedy warrior to keep the heat on RFK, Jr., the biggest embarrassment to the family. He's just not going to let RFK, Jr. get away with anything.

submitted 96 days ago • 265 comments

This is my latest Substack entry, on the eve of uncertainty that’s hard to comprehend. Please take a read and subscribe. Thanks so much. 💜

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

The constitution forbids leveraging public office to make money because doing so degrades public trust in the office, opens you being manipulated by foreign actors who understand your motives, and it fundamentally violates the very idea of government as an entity of service to others.

submitted 35 days ago • 63 comments

The #BrokenTimes and #BrokenPost still haven't reported on the Nazi invited to Trump's inauguration but--bless them--the Guardian has. Giorgia Meloni among far-right figures to attend Donald Trump’s inauguration www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 35 days ago • 9 comments

Chapter 17 “On Tyranny” @timothysnyder.bsky.social covers words that are now ordinary such as extremism & terrorism used to increase people’s fears. Simply look how the GOP has taken very rare issue of sexual assaults by drag queens compared to those by male preachers - the exception vs the reality

submitted 36 days ago • 13 comments

Fwiw, I tried to get more about Yarvin into my critique of Andreessen’s ridiculous “techno-optimism” manifesto: www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/o...

submitted 35 days ago • 77 comments

This is the most insane house I've ever seen, like Randyland and the Winchester mansion had a baby. At no point did I know what was coming in the next picture, nor could I guess the next line in the description. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

submitted 36 days ago • 406 comments

Here’s a tip: don’t go looking up the Tom Clancy novel, Debt of Honor.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Anti-abortion advocates are running ads to find & encourage men to betray and sue their partners. This makes me sick. wapo.st/40nfmD2

submitted 36 days ago • 217 comments

Folks forgot about this with all the focus on TikTok, but Meta/Facebook was selling your data to China for years. And do you really think they were the only ones?

submitted 36 days ago • 109 comments