Ian Diamond

Copied w/ one edit IT ALWAYS BEGINS AS A JOKE. LISTEN ME BOTH OF YOU. ONE SEES A FATHER OR A MOTHER OF WHOM THEY DO NOT APPROVE-- AND THEIR BRATS WON'T SHUT UP. AND THE PARENTS ARE SO EXHAUSTED THAT THEY JUST LET THEIR CHILDREN SCREAM. ALL STICKY AND CREAM, ALL STICKYG AND CRYING G AND HITTING AND WILD. AND YOU SAY TO YOUR FRIENDS. YOU SHOULD HAVE TO PASS A TEST TO BREED." DO YOU UNDERSTAND? "YOU LD HAVE TO GET LICENSED TO HAVE KIDS. IT STARTS AS A A JOKE. THEN PERHA THERE RE IS IS TRAGEDY TRAGEDY, THERE A POSTPARTUM MOTHER WHO SHOULD'VE GOTTEN HELP, BUT HER INSURANCE DID NOT COVER THE THERAPY. THE TEST COMES OUT. AND YES. THERE'RE SOME PROBLEMS, BUT NOTHING THAT CANNOT BE IRONED OUT. YES? BUT NOW ANYONE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS, WITH A CRIMINAL RECORD, IS BARRED FROM BECOMING A PARENT. AND YOU THINK, "WELL THAT IS SENSIBLE YES? BECAUSE YOU'VE NEVER KNOWN ANYONE LIKE THAT. SO WHO IS TO TELL YOU THEY ARE NOT LIKE THEY ARE PORTRAYED IN STORIES? DANGEROUS, CRIMINAL--THESE WORDS EXPAND AND YOU THINK, GOOD YOU THINK THOSE CHILDREN WILL BE SAFE NOW. THE FIRST TESTS ARE DRAFTED. FATHER ERRED BECAUSE HE WAS RAISED BELIEVING MEN ARE PATHET IF THEY ARE CAREGIVERS SUDDENLY IT IS ANYONE WITH DIABETES ES, ANYONE WITH CANCER. BECAUSE THEY COULD DIE AND LEAVE THEIR CHILDREN ORPHANED SO HOW DARE THEY EVER TRY TO HAVE CHILDREN? IT IS DEAF COUPLES, DISABLED COUPLES, INTERRACIAL COUPLES, GAY COUPLES.. BECAUSE DON'T THEY KNOW HOW HARD THEY'RE MAKING IT FOR THE CHILDREN? THEN IT IS WHOEVER THEY WANT. THEN ONE DAY--IT IS YOU. SOME GENE SOME HISTORY, SOME PAST BEHAVIOR--AND SUDDENLY, YOU TOO ARE SICK, DANGEROUS CRIMINAL --HUMAN HATE CAN ADAPT TO ANYTHING. YOU THINK SAFE [Cut here rather than truncate the end] BUT IF SOMEONE HATES COME UP WITH THE REASON AFTER THE FACT ONLY THEN DO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU PUT IN POWER. ONLY THEN DO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU STRIPPED AWAY THERE IS TERRIBLE POWER IN A JOKE, IN A STORY, IN TAKING THE TRUTH AND MAKING IT UGLY. UNDERSTAND CHILDREN?

Colossus agrees.

Ranking Member Jamie Raskin Prepared Remarks for the Judicial Conference September 16, 2025 Thank you, Chief Justice Roberts, for the invitation. Forgive my directness here but the times are serious, as you know, our time is short. I have just five minutes and don't want to trespass on Senator Cruz's time. Sometimes these days I feel as if all the foundational principles are being trampled and lost. Often, I hear my colleagues in the House, and these are fellow Democrats, get up to protest some Executive usurpation of legislative power and they begin their lament with the plaintive cry, "We are a coequal branch of government..." And I always feel they have lost the argument right there just by repeating that fifth-grade dogma. First of all, co-equal is not even a word. It's an embarrassing redundancy like "very unique" or "irregardless. "

But there's a reason all legislative power is vested in the Congress and there's a reason it's in Article I. The Founders had a revolution against monarchy and its constant assaults on liberty. In America, the Framers determined, only the representatives of the people would have power to declare wars, pass budgets, impose taxes and tariffs, and so on. Article lis pages and pages of all the powers vested in Congress. Then you get to Article Il, which is tiny. The key paragraph says a president shall be removed from office upon impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors. If we are co-equal, why do we have the power to impeach, try, convict, remove and permanently disqualify the president and he doesn't have the power to impeach, try, convict, remove and disqualify us? The core job of the president is plain: "To Take care that the laws are faithfully executed." That's it. Not abused, not thwarted, not impounded, not redirected, but faithfully executed. A lot of the cases entering the federal courts are variations on this theme.

Here's the remarkable thing: Americans have brought over 300 cases in federal district courts against the Administration so far for usurping legislative powers, defying federal laws, or violating the rights of the people. This summer, researchers found that plaintiffs were winning an astonishing 77% of the cases in the district courts. Moreover, they found that President Trump was losing about equally before Republican-appointed judges (72%) and Democratic-appointed judges (80%). The numbers in the federal circuit courts of appeal are similar, with plaintiffs against the Administration winning overwhelmingly and again without a sharp partisan valence to the appeals courts' voting. A good example is the birthright citizenship case where four district court judges, two appointed by Republican presidents and two appointed by Democratic presidents, all struck down the President's purported negation of birthright citizenship. Then, on appeal, three circuit courts again all ruled against the Administration. But everything is flipped when the cases come to the Supreme Court.

This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face.

democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

To my 10th grade English teacher, who said, “Make the conclusion count.”

YOU CAN'T JUST HELP PEOPLE--
Sure you can.
BUT PEOPLE MIGHT ABUSE THE HELP--
Sure.
BUT THAT'S WRONG--
Who cares.
BUT WHAT IF THEY WERE LYING--
So what.
BUT THEY DIDN'T EARN-
Money is made up.
BUT THAT'S NOT FAIR-
So what, you want to stop helping people because a few people might abuse it? Fuck off.

If you’re not outraged by this, you really should be.

Good morning !

doing a big heist where I steal everything I need to make pasta from the grocery store, leaving behind only the equivalent value in cash (as a calling card)

Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize

Trans people deserve better than this. They deserve dignity, autonomy, and the same freedom as anyone else to be who they are. We as a culture have failed them, and until Trans folks are free to make their own choices, none of us are.

The messenger soundtrack is a pretty good mix of pace for a workout, that and Katana Zero