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Oh lord the 2% target rate has hit Grandpa's mold-streaked brain and he's determined to do better than that.

“prison abolition” in terms of like, “have something basically unrecognizable compared to american corrections” seems fine to me—the problem is just overdoing the language to sound radical. I think that’s where people started, and then negatively polarized themselves into much dumber positions

Remember he's not a political appointee, he's a civil servant

He's gonna hit mandatory retirement in a couple years, but a thing the next dem admin needs to accept and act appropriately on is DHS generally and the Border Patrol specifically is full of (younger) cretins just like him

Yeah, MSS will be looking at the F-35's before the day is out.

I do have to say, props to prison abolitionists for shifting from "prison abolition requiring going back to lynching is a horrific lie by our enemies" to "lynchings and blood feuds are actually European peasant indigenous ways of knowing."

these posts--from the same poster--a leftist!--speak to how the lure of the imagined natural grips even people on the left. but actually what is "natural" to humanity fucking sucks. most of human history is a story of violence, scarcity, and rape from which we have only recently escaped

i think that it is critically important to retaliate.

ngl if the liberal government doesn't collapse and the UK/US go full postliberal, i think there's a non-zero chance of this

sorry but this is such a funny post from someone self identifying as a hobbit in her username

>"secret webpage that's not accessible by your browser through normal means"

what the fuck are you talking about?

not really a great sign for the consolidation of your personalist regime if your same-party allies are openly talking about their presumed campaigns before you’ve even gotten through the first year of your term

also kinda inescapable now that the dixiefication of rural american is directly linked with a homogenizing reactionary turn

some people are edging dangerously close to trying to both-sides the goddamn Civil War but leftishly, and no, absolutely not, we are not doing that

Every backwards rural shithole in the history of the entire world has been a hotbed of reaction but everyone from French radlibs to Chinese communists thinks they’re the ones who are going to turn it around. There is nothing new under the sun.

if white voters in southern states were the same as white voters in New York this would be every electoral map of our lifetimes

Thankfully, with tariffs, Trump has built a literal "price go down" button.

The US is not a liberal democracy, and hasn’t been since January. Constitution, rule of law, checks and balances, individual rights — all not in operation.

It’s now a mixed regime, autarky, competitive authoritarianism.

Not at risk. Not could be. Is.

Doesn’t mean that’s forever. But it is now.

Prosecutor, D.C. metro area: The D.C. office is hemorrhaging bodies, and they will probably get rid of two competent people for stating relevant facts that were on the record. I don’t think people will truly understand what’s happening to justice in America until it impacts them. Even my family: My parents voted for Trump. I don’t think they see it as a priority. I mean, they’re not going to be criminally indicted anytime soon. When I tell them what’s happening, I don’t think they really believe me. It would take a lot of restraint not to retaliate in the next administration. A lot of career people are helping the administration now. I have a list in my head, and if we get out of this, some of them I’m holding to account. A lot could be validly criminally probed. But the back-and-forth will not be good.

I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.

If Trump creates a pan-Latino political identity the way that the civil rights era helped produce a shared black political identity, and Latinos start voting as a bloc against Republicans to even a fraction a degree black voters do, it’s literally curtains for the GOP. Lights out. Game over.

Progressives have echoed the right in calling for a revival of manufacturing. This is a mistake. Automation and global competition have killed manufacturing jobs in virtually all middle-income and advanced economies. Manufacturing's share of employment has broadly continued to fall in the United States despite strident efforts by Presidents Biden and Trump to arrest it. Today roughly one in 12 American workers is employed in manufacturing. Putting up trade barriers against China will not work. China itself has lost millions of manufacturing jobs over the past decade and a half.

Dani Rodrik in the NYT the other day with a pretty compelling argument about making service sector jobs into good jobs

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...

I find the "just triangulate" pundits annoying for various reasons but one place I have to admit they have some people's number is that there are a lot of folks on the left who just do not seem to understand that people who sincerely disagree with them exist

everyone from the left to the center wants it to be the case that the crucial election Democrats lost demonstrates the failure of the campaign tactics of their rivals on the left or center

but Harris outperformed by big margins in swing states. wherever she campaigned, she did well, relatively.

Yeah, losing the Exorbitant Privilege™ is probably the most catastrophic tail risk of this moment, short of like an American Failstate and an RFKlague

everyone who wants Democrats to focus on throwing immigrants and trans people under the bus needs to explain why this is not going to be the end result

These people do not believe that the middle and professional classes have moral standing to do politics in their material self interest.

I thought the vscode ssh extension's automatic port forwarding feature was neat and assumed it was doing something smart like watching procfs but no it's looking for localhost URIs in stdout

It is absolutely insane that "the GOP regularly wins supermajorities in the Deep South because white southerners reliably vote for the GOP at a rate outstripping any other demographic" is consistently taken as morally normative, instead of a simple descriptive statement.