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6 days after Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, a Prague paper published these “10 Commandments”:
‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU:
1. Don’t know
2. Don’t care
3. Don’t tell
4. Don’t have
5. Don’t know how to
6. Don’t give
7. Can’t do
8. Don’t sell
9. Don’t show
10. Do nothing’

critical support to the cameraman hollering "HE COOKED HIIIIMMMMM" imo

The redistricting fight is so grim in part because it's one of the few parts of their agenda that they didn't outline in Project 2025. I knew most of the rest of the stuff was going to happen but they really just are declaring total war against representative democracy.

Probably better not to give them an excuse to run you down, but these “just following orders” trash shouldn’t be able to go five minutes on a public street without being called traitors and cowards.

Also Republicans are spouting BS statistics about the maps currently being skewed toward Dems. Our communicators should be out there saying the median congressional seat, the one that the parties have to win to get a majority in the House, is 2% more Republican than the nation as a whole

Let's focus on qualifications: Antoni finished grad school 5 years ago at Northern Illinois with no distinction. Dissertation: No focus on labor or data collection. Zero publications. One lifetime citation (by a former colleague).

This record would not earn you a job as junior economist at BLS.

During both Obama elections, crime was not a major campaign issue. The refocus on crime in the last decade is a backlash to the focus on police brutality (we're basically a little over a decade post-Ferguson) combined with the fact people's baselines have been reset from the 80s and 90s.

The easiest way to get ahead in Washington is to be a hack and pledge total loyalty to Trump, which is how you end up with dumb people like Oren Cass or EJ Antoni elevated to positions of extreme power

EJ Antoni has never worked in statistics collection. He is 5 years out of his PhD. He's only ever written one economics paper. His explicit, only qualifications are that he works in ultra-conservative think tanks & believes Trump's conspiracies about the BLS. Grim stuff.

again we are living through a simulation based on a particularly poorly written satirical novel published in about 1995.

(Replying to guy about gay rights) "Even if they nullify your dad's marriage, he's not going to return to your mom."

Jesus @dieworkwear.bsky.social

I think it's cool that the American right has independently invented their version of a Leninist politburo

“This is alright, you have to understand, because the president is a dim oaf. And when they drive him out to a golf course — where they’ll let him cheat badly — they don’t want him to see anything that’ll send him into a simian rage. I am very smart.”

I just can’t believe our Reichstag Fire is the Big Balls Beatdown.

we need to teach the 1930s properly so that people know the Reichstag Fire was exactly this stupid

We are truly entering the statistical Bad Place

US effectively moving to a system where tax policy is set by the executive branch, fully adhoc, unpredictable, and bespoke per company, and based in large part on the presidents' personal relationships with the company's leadership

The thing is that there really do need to be serious, life-ruining consequences for a lot of Republican electeds and officials when this is over. I have hedged on and doubted myself on this before because I believe seeking revenge is corrosive to the soul, but the thing is you have to show capacity

a caveat on the 'you couldn't be prosecuted for raping your wife until 1991' in the UK thing. this is true, the law was atrocious, etc, but *in practice* marital rape was prosecuted as *a physical assault* from at least the late 19th century onward.

In some ways the US is extremely lucky that a Dixiecrat never became president during Jim Crow

How is this different from when a Communist government confiscates private property?

homeland security RTing Kristi Noem with a join ice link and a screencap of her caricature from south park

do you ever think about how we're all gonna die?

kennedy is going to kill a lot of people

This is the content Twitter now recommends when you open the app.

really cannot comprehend how “even if you leave the Nazi bar, it doesn’t cease to exist and is therefore still a huge problem” is such a difficult concept for so many of you

yes they do in fact, that’s the thing about social media, it has cooked the brains of elites most comprehensively of all

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the voting rights act is, in its entirety, obviously constitutional under the 15th amendment, which gives congress broad and proactive authority to stop racial discrimination in voting. and you know it is obviously constitutional because roberts has had to invent entire new doctrines to gut it.

And yet the same poll has the 2026 generic congressional ballot at D+3, so that high disapproval is coming entirely from partisan Democrats themselves. If you've ever wanted to challenge an ineffective Democratic incumbent, you're not going to have a better opportunity than next year.