Alex Abbott

This is a logic of a 5 yo. A lower court HAS issued a long opinion resolving the issue. If you can't resolve the issue differently, don't issue an unexplained opinion that, for all functional purposes, resolve the issue in the exact opposite way.

Thank you, felt like I was losing it. It's entirely consistent and I thought that was obvious.

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

This is infuriating. She excuses the orders as "preliminary," but that's an argument for applying settled law or preserving the status quo. Allowing POTUS to disregard Congressional appropriations and fire independent agency heads are neither, they're a radical restructuring of Constitutional order.

I know exactly why leftists aren't celebrating this ceasefire Why not celebrate the ceasefire? Because, while it's a relief, it won't undo all the suffering and death of the past two years.

I agree with all of this: forward.com/opinion/7754...

This is not enough, but it is a start. And we should celebrate that start and keep pushing for more.

The Rams' defense at the end got his team a win against the Colts earlier this year & led to almost no one noticing the blatantly bad strategic decision that preceded it (being too conservative).

the biomedical advances of the past twenty years have also been incredible. in a way, it really feels like we’ve been slouching towards utopia, so to speak, while society collapsed out from under us bc of changes in information technology/media diets

Despite their crowing about innovation Silicon Valley might be one of the greatest enemies of progress. Trump & DOGE, aided by tech money and social media, is destroying innovation in medicine, climate, and consumer tech, while AI threatens to stall progress on decarbonization.

I thought the entire NFL was fucking up by not signing him for pennies this offseason to be more than a backup and damn it that was right

Like seriously tho can people actually evaluate players, I'm not even good at FF, I'm actually mid at best at it

No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

The aspiring fascists in the Trump administration are clearly terrified by the idea of mass protests, showing up to a No Kings near you is going to do more for the struggle against fascism than your entire corpus of microblog posts

www.nokings.org

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

Remember, this is how much it has cooked people’s brains after like one year. Think of what 10 years of this will do. Think of the brains of kids who will grow up not only unable to spot AI but unable to understand “real” and “AI generated” as two different concepts.

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More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Go Reds West

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Along with the Antifa nonsense, the goal here is to reclassify any dissent as dangerous. Which is not something elected officials in a democracy do.

The correct response to Republicans widely depicting the coming protests as terrorism is to go out and protest. Each person should get 10 more people to do so. If Republicans are going to hint at violent state responses to legitimate protest, the only answer is bigger numbers.

It’s very much Not Great to have GOP leadership describe a planned non violent march as being in service a the “terrorist wing”

This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

bsky.app/profile/jame...

Zuckerberg is a clueless goofball

If the "how can you post about SPORTSBALL when we're LIVING under FASCISM" scolds paid attention to sportsball, they'd know what happens when a manager tries to get through a series using only his high-leverage relievers. There's no better example of why you can't go through life in panic mode 24/7

Past time for news media to treat Trumps dangerous--and worsening--disconnection from reality like the serious story it is. The longer they gone on without doing that, the harder it is to assume that the reason theyre not is bc they approve of all of this deranged lawlessness

Nahhh the Euchre playing, industrial parts are Midwestish for sure

When the lawyers are doing jury selection:

"Did you spill Dr. Pepper or Mr. Pibb?"

"How is that relevant?"

"We'd like to learn more about your educational mindset."

Either he's incapacitated to the point of not being able to perform regular duties, or he's disappearing every couple of weeks for multi-day medical treatments. It's incredible - were it not so predictable - that Jake Tapper & everyone else in the national media no longer cares about this issue.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

theonion.com/this-war-wil...