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A little too on the nose if you ask me

Makes sense that republicans would gravitate towards the least athletic sport

From Powerlessness to Power We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.

“Let us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.”

The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.

Among other things, Bari Weiss seems to be a really mediocre writer

Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration.

Congress can:
- Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage)
- Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes
- Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same
- Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction

It can be done.

Why does jeffries always look like he wandered into the wrong room

From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless. The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence. ICE isn’t that. Not even close. ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse. You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do. But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize. In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses. That difference matters. Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with. And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

At a certain point, anger should be directed at the caucus because they're the ones keeping him there.

Like because president sun set needs reminders of where he is

It’s the I don’t know what I’m doing dog scientist meme but Bari Weiss

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

Pretty good summation of modern day conservatism TBH

Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center

Imagine if our elected leaders had 1/10th this much integrity or moral strength

Demonstrators at the January 7, 2026, evening vigil for Renee Nicole Good. A tall flag reads "Fuck ICE."

Minneapolis.

If Jeffries and Schumer don’t get behind this it’s time for their respective caucuses to cast them aside

Renee Good was murdered by the trumpist gestapo

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

Schumer and Jeffries

The US now borrowing strategy from one battle after another

It’s a feel good space for a man who is too mentally and emotionally fragile to deal with the world outside his hermetically sealed alternate reality

Feel like it's going to be a DOD situation where they pretend in press releases that it's Department of War but all official documentation still says Department of Defense

We’re going to need the equivalent of german de-nazification after WWII once this admin is gone

Really gotta question the entire White House's grasp on reality if they think a war with Venezuela will do anything but cause already declining approval ratings to reach terminal velocity

Time to break out the worst person you know made a great point meme

When you hire a white man because they’re a white man that’s not identity politics. Identity politics is when you get hired and you’re not a white man. The anti wokeness hysteria was always a backlash to integration of white collar jobs bsky.app/profile/jami...

1000 class action lawyers just received their wings

"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...

"I guess I have a very different view of the dangers and real-world consequences of your position than what you explored with Justice Kavanaugh. My understanding was that independent agencies exist because Congress has decided that some issues, some matters, some areas should be handled in this way by nonpartisan experts—that Congress is saying that expertise matters with respect to aspects of the economy and transportation and the various independent agencies that we have. "So having a president come in and fire all the scientists and the doctors and the economists and the PhDs and replacing them with loyalists and people who don't know anything is actually not in the best interest of the citizens of the United States."

Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):

One of my most conservative-coded opinions is that one of the reasons we're in this mess is because of the profound decadence, solipsism, moral rot, and general lack of personal virtue afflicting much of the upper PMC / bourgeoisie.

These are all the same person at different ages