Just John

This was what Judge Millett was getting at today in the D.C. Circuit oral argument. If the government doesn't have to give you notice or a hearing before removing you from the country, what's to stop them from removing you - literally you, the person reading this - from the country tomorrow?

And you are my favorite.

I believe that it is the strength of our connections with our community, neighbors, coworkers, family and most especially chosen family - it is the strength of these connections that defend us the most against the world.

Now is the time to strengthen those connections.

I'm really starting to lose my patience with Allistics. All this stating of "Vaccines don't cause Autism!" And yet they never address the problem of "Why do anti-vaxxers think that having Autism is worse than dying of typhoid fever?"

Why isn't anyone but us saying THAT WE AREN'T A DISEASE??

How an arcane Treasury Department office is now ground zero in the war over federal spending | CNN Politics A few weeks before Donald Trump was sworn in as president, members of his transition team went to the Treasury Department to talk about the handover of power.

The payment system at Treasury has been taken over.

“90 percent of all federal payments, including Social Security benefits, tax refunds and payments to federal workers and contractors. That adds up to a billion annual transactions totaling more than $5 trillion.”

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Opus Dei, the Supreme Court and J. D. Vance: a speculation I saw an above-the-fold NYT article last week, describing JD Vance’s conversion to Catholicism. He was attracted to the faith, according to the article by “its small, energetic world of conservative C...

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Thanks to George Conway for posting Caroline Kennedy's letter so everyone is informed about RFK Jr. Please repost far and wide.

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A Jan. 6 defendant tells NPR why she turned down Trump's pardon Pamela Hemphill, who pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor charge and spent 60 days behind bars for her role in the Capitol riots, says she no longer believes the lies President Trump promoted.

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Excellent post

So far here’s a list of companies reinforcing their commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion:
Apple
Costco
Bank of America
Delta
JP Morgan
Marriott
Microsoft
Procter & Gamble
Goldman Sachs
American Airlines
Southwest Airlines
United Airlines
Catholic Health

This was reported. A lot. Not just by @motherjones.com etc, but by the biggest outlets. The bigger question is: why didn’t people see/believe/care about that reporting.

Stop blaming reporting entities for information ecosystem issues outside of their control.

Also…subscribe to some stuff ffs.

VICTORY! Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of 702 Data Unconstitutional In a landmark ruling, a federal district court held that backdoor searches of databases full of Americans’ private communications collected under Section 702 ordinarily require a warrant. Congress sho...

A federal court has declared that warrantless searches of US person’s communications collected for national security purposes is unconstitutional. Now it’s our job to make sure Congress knows that when they renew this law in a little over a year.

If you've never read "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," do it today. I regularly teach it in my argumentative writing courses because it's so good.

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*Wife with ADHD Object Impermanence sets random object down in random location*
*Me with Autistic "everything has a place and somebody put it there for a reason" noticing random object*: Huh, I guess that lives there now.

Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's *adolescent* energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...

Why Liberals Struggle to Cope With Epochal Change The error of their mythology about 1989 matters because we face another such moment of historical rupture today.

“If liberals are to respond effectively to the challenge of a new Trump administration, they will need to reflect critically on what happened in 1989, and discard the story they’ve always told themselves about it,” writes Ivan Krastev: www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Unique and credible insight

i'm not going to hand it to tom fucking cotton, but he is 100% correct here, and all of the people cheering not-yet-president-trump for telling tech companies to ignore a law passed with a bipartisan majority in congress are greasing a chute they do not realize they will be thrown down

No matter where you fall on the TikTok ban, the President undoing by “executive order” a law passed by Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court is an unconstitutional abuse of power.

Feeling every iota of my nuerospiciness today. I think I'll stay home until I'm fit for neurotypical consumption. Y'all be safe and be well out there.

"Scooby Dooby Doo unto others what you would have them Yabba Dabba Do unto you."

A phone picture looking at an apartment building with a few palm trees in front of it, near dusk. The sky is still blue, but looming behind the building in the distance is an enormous cloud of smoke from the Palisades Fire near Los Angeles. The smoke is stained orange from the sun behind it.

🧵 I live in Los Angeles. We have not had to evacuate and are safe, but like many people here, I have friends who have lost everything. I realize I can't combat the firehose (see what I did there?) of bullshit spewing about this disaster from internet and media sources, but I'll say this:

"Why didn't you fight back against the Chinese?"
"Well, war is obsolete, you know. Of course the mind can rationalize fighting back...but the heart, the heart would never understand. Then you would be divided in yourself, the heart and the mind, and the war would be inside you."

linux is really easy to use when you accept that it's not windows

I'm John, I miss too many classes to make the grade I am capable of. (I got an A...)

Sweden is prepared.
“A new Swedish version of the brochure ‘In case of crisis or war’ will be sent to all households from 18 November for two weeks. Here you will find a version in English to download, order or listen to.“

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