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Imagine Trump decided to make yoga mandatory for every American for an hour a day but his conception of yoga is actually people dueling with pistols. Would it make a lot of sense to argue the various pros and cons of mandatory yoga in that case?

That is what we are doing right now.

I appreciate all of these detailed analysis of what’s wrong with the policy, but the crucial thing to keep in mind here is that Donald Trump sincerely, literally does not understand what a tariff is and when that is your starting point, nothing beyond it really matters.

Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape

Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape

Open borders create more safety than closed ones, and most of the benefits of safety are downriver from being the sort of people who keep their borders open, thereby avoiding the terrible dangers inherent to being the sort of people who would keep their borders closed.

Going on record now to say that unless a Dem candidate runs on an explicitly stated platform of immediate detention without bail, prosecution, and imprisonment of most members of this administration, then expanding SCOTUS to overturn Trump v US so he can be tried for treason, it’s a hard no for me.

There's nobody more conformist than a conservative white dude who fashions himself a nonconformist.

Unless the Democrats refuse to learn the lesson that 1990’s neoliberal centrism is nothing but soft pedaling Nazism and nominate another placeholder like Biden, in which case there’s no ultimate difference in terms of practical outcomes. Arrest and imprison or you don’t earn my vote. Period.

Reverend Mother, I have “sinned”.

In the eternal battle to gently save my parents from sliding into MAHA territory, I agreed to listen to a podcast featuring Dr. Jerry Tennant trying to explain cancer, and even though we’ve never met, all I could think was “only @michaelhobbes.bsky.social can understand my rage.”

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

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reminder that as insurrectionists and domestic enemies of the United States, all Republicans everywhere are constitutionally banned from holding or seeking public office, so every position they hold they hold illegitimately, and every vote they receive should be deemed invalid

I want expedience and finality, untempered by delay or sympathy or pardons

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The level of contempt I have for cockroaches like this is so massive it should exert its own gravitational pull.

the rollout of the mRNA vaccines was one of the greatest public health triumphs in history and the end result has been the all-around triumph of the antivax movement and I will never get over it

There's bringing a knife to a gun fight, and then there's giving that knife to the guy with the gun and telling him to only stab at *appropriate* times, like when he is out of bullets.

it never even occurred to me that this was happening as it happened because it seemed impossible but gotdamn that's the best thing to ever happen during a super bowl halftime.

/3 Bad Bunny is an American citizen, but he could have been born on Plymouth Fucking Rock and he would still fall on the “immigrant” side of the “immigration divide” to Trump and his WaPo toadies.

NO. 68-71

Oh, were there other, less racist things, senator?

I mean, 100% morally justified if anyone sees small children being abducted to torture camps, no matter what badge or rank they hold. Legal justification or lack thereof becomes irrelevant at that point. Not free of material consequences, but morally irrelevant.

Watch the video as a recklessly driven cheap car careens around and a gang of armed thugs spring out to menace an innocent civilian, like a kidnapping or robbery or murder-for-hire.

It looks like organized crime taking place in a third-world country, because it is.

They said "free speech" and "academic freedom" but never believed in either and now in texas you need a permission slip to mention race in class and they're fine with it. Might not have worked if people with large platforms weren't furious about marginal increases of black people in their offices

All I am saying is if I had inflicted a plague of bigoted grifters onto my country and had gotten filthy rich doing it, I would be at a fucking minimum out there calling them out and helping take them down.

Chuck Schumer is going to introduce a non-binding resolution requesting that federal agents wipe their feet on the doormat before storming into a journalist's home at 2am to arrest them for angering the president.

Every time I hear this yokel speak, my immediate thought is “Jesus H. dude, be older.”

There are no rules or moral limits on how to resist Nazis. It wouldn’t have mattered if he had beaten one of them with a baton. They’re Nazis, they deserve it. That’s the only response to conservatives trying to use this as justification.

using federal resources to illegally seize the goods of another country and then diverting the proceeds to accounts only the president can control is the kind of thing the framers would’ve seen these men hanged for

this is a straightforward impeachable offense for trump, vance, rubio and every other person down the line who enabled it and the framers would have thought impeachment for it did not go nearly far enough

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

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