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Recovered geologist; recuperating lawyer; political junkie; fantasy/sci-fi addict

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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

16.11.2025 23:43 — 👍 36244    🔁 23651    💬 889    📌 2003
If they win, Democrats will have to use their newfound authority to rethink, even dismantle, agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They may need to walk back the Bush-era decision to consolidate those agencies and others under a single department, given the wild abuses perpetrated under this administration and its predecessors. It will need to give serious thought to major political and social reform, including D.C. statehood, a federal ban on partisan gerrymandering, a new voting rights act and federal protections for reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, including the rights of gender and sexual minorities. Democrats will also need to embrace the legislature’s constitutional authority to structure the executive branch and the judiciary, up to and including Supreme Court reform.

If they win next year, Democrats will need to treat the next Congress not as a return to the status quo ante but as the beginning of a new era in which the principal task is to roll back the president’s effort to create and consolidate a personalist dictatorship. They’ll need to fortify the American political system against future attempts to play dictator and lay out a project of genuine democratic renewal. None of this is possible without a willingness to use power rather than just hold it. What we’ve seen this week is that there are still too many Democrats whose instinct is to retreat to normalcy rather than face the conflict at hand.

If they win, Democrats will have to use their newfound authority to rethink, even dismantle, agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They may need to walk back the Bush-era decision to consolidate those agencies and others under a single department, given the wild abuses perpetrated under this administration and its predecessors. It will need to give serious thought to major political and social reform, including D.C. statehood, a federal ban on partisan gerrymandering, a new voting rights act and federal protections for reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, including the rights of gender and sexual minorities. Democrats will also need to embrace the legislature’s constitutional authority to structure the executive branch and the judiciary, up to and including Supreme Court reform. If they win next year, Democrats will need to treat the next Congress not as a return to the status quo ante but as the beginning of a new era in which the principal task is to roll back the president’s effort to create and consolidate a personalist dictatorship. They’ll need to fortify the American political system against future attempts to play dictator and lay out a project of genuine democratic renewal. None of this is possible without a willingness to use power rather than just hold it. What we’ve seen this week is that there are still too many Democrats whose instinct is to retreat to normalcy rather than face the conflict at hand.

Jamelle was cooking.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

14.11.2025 12:50 — 👍 5457    🔁 1610    💬 152    📌 153

Whoa! Quite an education packed in a 30 second video.

14.11.2025 05:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The whole thing is one hella bingo card.

13.11.2025 02:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this:

u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.

13.11.2025 01:38 — 👍 13445    🔁 1332    💬 195    📌 69
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12.11.2025 16:58 — 👍 1205    🔁 225    💬 5    📌 8

And then getting mad about the ensuing bill for the time spent responding to said “research” explaining why it’s wrong/inapplicable etc.

12.11.2025 15:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Weird that we have a planet-wide magnetic defense system that self activates when the sun decides to attack but it is very pretty

12.11.2025 02:21 — 👍 2626    🔁 415    💬 16    📌 10

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

11.11.2025 15:41 — 👍 276    🔁 43    💬 2    📌 2

Isn’t that part of the attraction of a law degree? The entire world of things you can do with it, none of which remotely involve appearing in court? (Disclaimer: I regularly appear in court on behalf of clients)

11.11.2025 18:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

But if this really is the reason, why only 8? And why only those not vulnerable on re-election?

11.11.2025 13:57 — 👍 51    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

It also happened when travel disruptions became very real

11.11.2025 03:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My issue is that the “deal” guarantees nothing. Unless SOMETHING gets the Rs in congress to assert actual control, prior appropriations and legislation mean nothing.

11.11.2025 03:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You protected nothing. NOTHING! Millions suffered and will continue to suffer for NOTHING!

10.11.2025 04:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah, I'm sorry, but you do not keep the government shut for more than a month and then NOT get a deal on the main item you have been messaging on without completely shifting the blame dynamic.

10.11.2025 01:24 — 👍 3721    🔁 885    💬 39    📌 31

No. Just no. You cannot possibly believe this. On what planet will Republicans “guarantee” a vote on ANYTHING! Willful blindness at best.

10.11.2025 01:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“I, then say your name [lol 😱], do solemnly swear …” Swiss cheese brain.

09.11.2025 23:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays.

Listen in ⬇️

09.11.2025 05:48 — 👍 3270    🔁 1266    💬 108    📌 127
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This woman is calling houses of worship pretending to have a 2-month-old baby who is out of formula and asking them for help.

Most of them are failing. This Islamic Center did not

Link to her account: www.tiktok.com/@nikalie.mon...

07.11.2025 00:36 — 👍 638    🔁 133    💬 14    📌 7
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What a queen

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And this is why Judge McConnell is big mad

bsky.app/profile/klas...

06.11.2025 21:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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2021 Pulitzer Prize Remarks from Wesley Morris | The New York Times Company I have to admit that I was not looking forward to following you Public Service winners. It was kind of like last year: Mike Schwirtz was like I’m gonna keep it brief because we want to hear what…

"In 2020, zero Black [NYTimes] employees received the highest rating, while white employees accounted for more than 90 percent of the roughly 50 people who received the top score" is especially notable because Wesley Morris won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2021: www.nytco.com/press/2021-p...

06.11.2025 17:33 — 👍 72    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 0

My jaw just kept dropping until it hit the floor 😂 that was AMAZING

06.11.2025 18:15 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

as a thought exercise for everyone reading ross douthat's latest missive in the NYT, i want you to think about sending an email to your entire company with the subject line "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?", then think about the over/under on the number of minutes/hours you would still be employed

06.11.2025 13:31 — 👍 1408    🔁 329    💬 38    📌 19

Ellis turns to the testimony of U.S. Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino. How he denied using force against a man he tackled and said he didn't see the Rev. David Black hit by pepperballs.

"More telling," she says, "defendant Bovino admitted that he lied."

06.11.2025 16:22 — 👍 1545    🔁 337    💬 16    📌 49

Oooh, Judge Ellis is going to cut loose I see!

06.11.2025 16:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis just took the bench. She's expected to rule on a request for a preliminary injunction governing the use of force by federal agents in Chicago.

06.11.2025 16:11 — 👍 1171    🔁 358    💬 10    📌 105

Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that.

But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.

You can’t negotiate with people like that.

05.11.2025 02:41 — 👍 9557    🔁 1917    💬 148    📌 54

4 court hearings today:
1) Review of Trump's tariffs in SCOTUS
2) Hearing on FBI's review of Jim Comey material w/o new warrant
3) Closing arguments and deliberation for sandwich guy in DC
4) Preliminary injunction hearing for CBP/ICE invasion of Chicago, featuring Greg Bovino vids

05.11.2025 10:25 — 👍 1522    🔁 365    💬 21    📌 16

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