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You can't just call him that, you have to express it:

There is plenty of stuff even rich people aren’t allowed to own. You can’t have a nuclear weapon. You can’t have a mountain gorilla if you’re not a licensed facility. Expand the list of shit no one is allowed to own or use.

Very excited about the neocons Benjamin Button-ing back into Trotskyists

It’s pretty startling that it’s become a feature of the Roberts Court that they save the most outrageous and infuriating usurpations of the Constitution for the last day they are in session and then disappear for months onto the planes and boats of the billionaire friends safe from public scrutiny.

This is a subject I have been brooding about for some time. I am grateful to the Washington Monthly for posting this piece. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...

Just to give a sense of how insane the birthright citizenship stuff is, this is what the constitution actually says about the matter. There is literally nothing controversial about it. Either 2+2=4 or nothing means anything.

I was adopted via closed adoption, born in North Carolina. It was closed so I have no knowledge of or access to my biological mother’s details. It also means my biological mother isn’t on my birth certificate. So if birthright citizenship becomes a patchwork right, what’s someone like me to do?

OK, now there's a proper write-up: CDC Pulled Its Own Thimerosal Report, So We're Publishing It. The CDC posted credible reviews on thimerosal and the MMRV vaccine. The thimerosal report has since been taken down. infoepi.substack.com/p/cdc-pulle...

what do you mean 'normal tools'?

there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.

The way people are losing their fucking minds over a proposal for a publicly owned grocery store should give you some insight into how a proposal for public libraries would be greeted today if they didn't already exist.

People outside tech starting to realize how quality software and typing/generating code fast are not correlated

RIP Jim Parkinson, an iconic Oakland-based typeface designer who designed or refined the nameplate of every magazine and newspaper you know

Don't tell me these ICE guys are just doing their jobs.

Interview w/ Mike German, who infiltrated neo-Nazis in the 90s, and is one of the FBI's sharpest critics, had a book out in Jan about the bureau downplaying the threat of far-right violence: www.brennancenter.org/policing-whi...

always have to remember the right will get hysterical over every issue of the day it does not matter about validity or truth it is all about feeding their constant outrage machine

Zohran should commit to launching a municipal satellite constellation and run hurricane forecasting through the Parks Dept

Official data is in today, and America set a new record-high for solar power in April, with generation up 31% compared to last year!

As I keep saying, I do not think people know that there is basically no legal way to immigrate here by applying.

CEO compensation graphed next to employee compensation. 🙃

Don't mind me. Just addin' another slide to my cyberfascism talk.

Deporting children of military veterans because they were born on an overseas military base. This man has no citizenship now.

The Occam/Chekhov/Chesterton Razor/Gun/Fence matrix. Summer’s off to a productive start.

This is remarkable. New Quinnipiac poll finds support for path to legalization for most undocumented immigrants has risen to 64%. Only 31% want most of them deported. That's a 14 point net swing for legalization since Trump took office. On immigration generally, he's at 41-57!

I know the impulse is to say “how the fuck could you not see what they were going to do?” but if people are upset at what’s happening I think we have to place most of our anger at the institutions and news sources that misled them into thinking that all the deportees would be ms-13 members

"The problem with the polling and all the emphasis on data in contemporary politics is that it does not take into account that the electorate doesn’t really exist until election day, and the politician and his or her campaign are actively creating that electorate."

Historically speaking, what's abnormal isn't 30-somethings entering leadership positions, it's 88 year olds running for re-election to Congress.

Smash Remix 2.0.0 has released, now featuring the voice acting of the original Smash 64 announcer Jeff Manning. Download Page: smash64.online/remix Code Registry: github.com/JSsixtyfour/... Sound Test list and credits: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...