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Surely nobody had this on their Trump II bingo card, did they?

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Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

submitted 18 days ago • 1866 comments

Abolish ICE, that misbegotten creature of the Patriot Act. Bury every stone from every building, and salt the earth where they stood. (1/4)

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Erstwhile WI Supreme Court Justice Gableman agrees to give up his law license over 2020 Trump election misdeeds: apnews.com/article/gabl...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I was told there would be no gender ideology

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It is still very weird to me that there are people who were like “nah, he’s not going to do this exact thing he keeps saying he’s going to do that is contained in a 900+ page manifesto that he and his friends have been working on for four years.”

submitted 29 days ago • 158 comments

I'm pleased that this seems to work consistently.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Wrote about how the camps will come for the rest of us www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 35 days ago • 8 comments

The moment when I regret getting irritated at the cable management and ripping it all apart.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

You hope your email finds me well. I hope your email doesn't find me. We are not the same.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Becoming a “thank you for your service” guy for a car dealership is the logical endpoint of American conservatism

submitted 40 days ago • 329 comments

The key takeaway from today's executive town hall: "Be the toaster, not the toast". I wonder if he had to go to LinkedIn to find that piece of...wisdom?

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

For the record: I like Canada, and I like Canadians. I think of Canada like a classmate that made better choices than my household did. Exhibit A: Trump talking about Canada like it's the 51st state.

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

What. The. Actual. F. I guess Republicans in Congress are okay with this? “Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

submitted 50 days ago • 50 comments

My most profuse apologies for this.

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Mahmoud Khalil should be at home with his pregnant wife. Instead, he's been illegally abducted & had his constitutional right to free speech & due process stripped. We're demanding his immediate release and we cannot allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. #FreeMahmoudKhalil

submitted 54 days ago • 450 comments

YouTube Music just laid this playlist of '70s hits on me, named "You Look Like You Could Use A Fuckin' Lamp". I don't know what this portends for the day, as my office is well-supplied with lamps.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Today's scripture is from Saint Harlan of Ellison: "You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant".

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder: there is no such thing, in the United States, as an "illegal protest".

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Sky near sunset tonight.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Calling people out in the real world "NPCs" is quite a tell about the speaker's mindset: a completely fictional hierarchy of merit with the player always near the top, with those below being subhuman and their lives & property forfeit. It's culture wreckage that benefits Steve Bannon to this day.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

+29 dB for an F-35 taking off from the airport 4 miles away.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

This tracks: if you believe intelligence is "what you are" instead of "what you do", you sign on to the notion of an overclass that can make no mistakes and is also forever unattainable -- unless you won the birth lottery. Not too far from signing onto the "divine right of kings".