Rob Noblin

the position of the roberts court is both that racism isn’t real and that the constitution mandates a colorblindness so strict that it neither recognizes nor can act on social inequalities. incidentally, this is essentially the court’s holding in plessy v. ferguson.

38, but I traveled a lot on business.

What was your favorite early class NOT in your major? Mine was Intro to Psych. The professor was a rock star lecturer with such strong views on immediate feedback that the tests were scratch off multiple choice so that you learned your answer was right:wrong the instant you made it.

The way you square low party favorables with an okay generic ballot and very strong special election performance is that the Democratic base is ready to crawl over broken glass to oppose Republicans and furious at party leadership for not feeling the same.

Isn’t that now a basic divide between the two sides? As I told a conservative acquaintance of mine, “Each side hates elites. It’s just that y’all think they are Hollywood actors and university professors. We think they are CEOs and billionaires.”

Trump and the American People — Two Ships Crossing in the Night I wanted to take a moment today to highlight something that to...

@joshtpm.bsky.social: You can't transform a state like the American republic from a civic democracy if a substantial majority of the population opposes it. And there's no question that substantial opposition is what we're seeing.
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One more crucial aspect here is that Republicans are confident they can do this stuff and SCOTUS will back them up, but if a D president or congress were to try to do the same, SCOTUS would find a way to block it. (See, e.g. student loans)

Well actually, it took place years earlier at a defunct amusement park in Stanford, Indiana. 😜

Maybe it’s just me, but I will say that I find the normal, Washington D.C. reportorial voice and attitude—worldly, knowing, ironic—off-putting when writing about a child rapist.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

The “no evidence” phrase that courts employ is ill-used in just that way. It rarely means that there is a complete absence of evidence. Rather, it usually means that there is some evidence, but the author is not persuaded.

This weird column is emblematic of the sort of special pleading that dominates mainstream coverage of trump. There’s a ream of propensity evidence, extensive opportunities, and a growing sheaf of chummy statements from Trump evincing detailed knowledge and winking approval of Epstein’s crimes.

What’s the most random/obscure thing you quote?

From “Max Dugan Returns”

McPhee: Can you make money from philosophy?
Dugan: You can if you have the right one.

I love that movie!

According to this Supreme Court, President Biden's Department of Education was exceeding its power by trying to forgive peoples' student loans.

President Trump, on the other hand, has the power to just completely dismantle the entire Education Department.

Had fun sketching with Urban Sketchers North Orange County at the Santa Ana Zoo today.

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So there it is. They finally managed to kill someone in one of their Rambo cosplay events. Stephen Miller is responsible for this needless death. Theses thugs who in many cases were able to get legit police jobs think they’re doing a bin Laden compound raid or something.

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who or Transformers.

Look Who’s Groking (Heckling 1989)

The fact you’re all so upset about it is proof positive that taking a crap on the kitchen table is a legitimate form of visual art.

people's fixation with starting a new third party is so funny. you know you can just take over one of the existing ones?

The media made a HUGE deal out of "basket of deplorables" and "cling to their guns or religion."

But, of course, it will totally ignore Trump saying he hates Democrats: "I hate them. I believe they hate their country."

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

the president may not like the idea of spending $7 billion on after school programs, but it IS NOT UP TO HIM. what this administration asserts, again and again, is that the president has sovereign authority over nation

🚫 What’s being cut:

– NIH: –$19.5B
– CDC: –$4B
– Cancer research: –$3.1B
– SNAP: –$30B
– Education: –$12B

💰 What’s being funded:

– ICE detention: +$45B
– Tax cuts for the wealthy: +$4.5T over 10 years

This is the trade.

It also goes even further back to the “greasers” of the 1950s.

🚨 BREAKING: New CBO score reveals GOP Senate bill slashes $930 BILLION from Medicaid — the largest cut in history.

That means 10M+ could lose coverage.

💸 Earlier GOP plan: $700B
📉 New plan: $930B

This is a full-scale attack on America’s most vulnerable. #KillTheBill