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Thinking about that time I got quoted in the National Review about Bari Weiss

Counterpoint: Everyone in this treasonous illegitimate administration should be hauled before Nuremberg 2.0 and pay with their lives for the fucked up shit they've done.

Screenshot of Space Runaway Ideon in which a woman with pink hair says, “My name is Sheryl Formossa, not "you bitch."

I’ve only seen a little bit of You Bitch so far but she seems fun

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@adamposen.bsky.social on gold buyers:

The spice must flow.

He would renege on both. We’ve seen him refuse to spend money appropriated by Congress and we can’t count on SCOTUS to enforce the constitution.

This kind of made me laugh when Dune was popular - guys the Fremen are *not the good guys*, in any large scale sense.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

How ADHD people see the world:

The Suburban Case for Transit Reform Trips don’t end at the city limits, so why do our transit agencies?

Humpty Dumpty keeps falling off the wall, and while we’ve gotten very efficient at putting him back together each time, it’s time to start thinking about the wall as the real problem.

New from me on A City That Works: The Suburban Case for Transit Reform

I find the "you don't criticize your generals when you're at war" defense of underperforming electeds very weird. Of course you do! It's done constantly!

God when the Israelites fashioned a Golden Calf:

heroes with conviction always center the suffering of the dispossessed

She DIDN'T get fired from the New York Times! She RESIGNED after trying to get them to fire her, which they refused to do.

BLUESKY: you can handle moderation yourselves! remember: we protect us!

BLUESKY WHEN TRANS PEOPLE DO THAT: nope. nope nope nope.

Bluesky engineers when their website is successful

He just needs a different sobriquet.

Early zoning codes commonly treated multifamily housing as a commercial use. You still sometimes see this in codes. Because the money is handed to a landlord instead of a bank, it's not a residential use. It's the same Anglo-American anti-commmercial hysteria that killed off corner groceries.

Frieren modelo time

I don’t really understand the people who think we shouldn’t situate the current moment in context of the last 25 years in American politics, including the actions of the three Democrats who were president during that time

the thing about being staunchly anti gambling is that it will always put you on the right side of history

i think the key to understanding a lot of establishment discourse is that basically only the left and liberals are capable of being viewed as subjects capable of judgement which is why GOP rule is essentially treated as a force of nature

Ban socialists all you want. The idea will never die. Humanity could be nuked back to the stone ages and it would return

I can't tell the difference between the allies and the nazis because they both invaded france

That account is embarrassing but calling them "Libs of TikTok for the left" is kiiiiiiiind of a stretch my dude

There’s a kind of person who is the reason that blocks and bans exist. They’re also the ones who argue loudest that blocking is evil, and you’ll be stuck in a filter bubble or an echo chamber if you deprive yourself of their sparkling wit. You should block these guys faster than anyone.

To be serious for a moment, you deserve to be lampooned for talking about robobigotry like it's a real problem when our government is currently funding multiple ethnic cleansing campaigns. Criticizing people for saying the computer doesn't have feelings is completely self-centered and ridiculous.

Don't hurt my favourite line of code's feelings, they matter, it's not like they're trans or from Gaza!!