economics not beating the “astrology for men” allegations with quotes like this
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economics not beating the “astrology for men” allegations with quotes like this
Yesterday, after enjoining DOJ/DHS from removing dozens of unaccompanied Guatemalan minors, Judge Sooknanan ordered DOJ to file 4 status reports *later that same day*—with a 5th still due this morning—to prove it complied. (“Presumption of regularity” is gone for this DOJ.) ... 1/2
A Florida court detained a US Citizen for being an "illegal immigrant." He showed the court proof of citizenship. The court agreed—& held him anyway. I criticized the ruling online & a Florida judge responded by trying to strip me of my law license. I fought back www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-florida-...
Perfect example of why media is fucked
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
I just think it's worth reiterating that this content free, vibes-based, know-nothing grievance based approach to election analysis was the thing Nate opposed in creating 538! Like, he has literally become the thing he started his career to oppose. It's amazing.
It's literally on the page of English dishes man. Are you going to do other cuisines? I'm sure many are just dying to hear your thoughts about their food culture. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
I give a shit, asshole.
My daughter is trans. I'm not going to enthusiastically endorse someone who wants to have charlie kirk be a leading voice on trans policy. 1
It's not a purity test you fucking idiot. If you think he's the only one doing anything, you're an ignoramus, and need to get out more. Off the top of my head, Pritzker, Moore and Beshear would eat him alive. Do you even know who any of those people are?
No one did that. Newsom has hired an excellent social media company, nothing more. And there are at least 10 better candidates. Do you know any of them? Could you name three? If not, maybe go educate yourself a bit, so you don't sound like a petulant child.
You have reading comprehension issues. You are also a political amateur if you are yelling at someone 3 years before the election, about a guy who's unlikely to be the nominee. This is not a game. Getting hard at the appearance of everything shiny and new helps Trump, no proxy needed.
I wrote thousands and thousands and thousands of words begging people to vote for Biden and then Harris. and yet I'm accused of campaigning for Trump because I would like to vote for someone who doesn't hate my daughter. I'd be ppl to look at Pritzker? he's good!
This I think *can* be one of the real pathways to antisemitism (and, really, many types of extreme views) on social media
You can trace basically every inane ritual of the legal profession back to "white guys didn't want Black people or women in the office"
During Jim Crow, many states mandated that anyone seeking to register to vote or apply to a state university had to have multiple voters/alumni “vouch” for their character. It was an easy if unsubtle way to maintain all-white (or mostly-white) institutions
oh right, forgot I already wrote this. trump's unfit because he's a fascist, not because he's in mental decline. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/trump-isnt...
Yeah “surprising,” as a 2008 law requires unaccompanied kids from countries other than Canada/Mexico to be "placed in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interest of the child." A 3AM plane to Guatemala—ignoring potential harm upon arrival—is not that. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
donald trump is serving prince philip
Microsoft Employees Protest Company’s Ties To Israel https://theonion.com/microsoft-employees-protest-companys-ties-to-israel/
This shit sucks man. Medically proven and effective treatment that would save trans youth a lifetime of pain and discomfort in their own bodies thrown in the trash because our country enables the most evil people imaginable.
Genocide. We all need to keep collectively calling it exactly what it is. Especially us cis folks. When they’re done gunning for the most vulnerable groups they’ll just go after the next most vulnerable and won’t stop because they never stop. Thats what hatred is. It’s Genocide, plain and simple.
"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
You went from saying it was libelous to admitting that it was not. How about now Josh? www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tell them they don't know what genocide means. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Still believe that Josh? www.bbc.com/news/article...
I really think a lot of people with big Twitter platforms are just mad that there’s a viable competitor where they’re not as popular
The thing about Curtis Yarvin is that he is stupid. Very, very stupid. Here he is mixing up "Roma" and "Romanians." He is very stupid.
area man incapable of separating the Roma vs the Romanians
JFK feeling the same way about RFK Jr as the rest of us.
What's the most amount of red flags you can fit in a paragraph?
I don’t know how to fix this. Because this is pretty much, Word for Word exactly what Ken is doing at the DNC. Like this is his plan this is what he’s been talking about every single time he opens his mouth. I don’t know how to get people to know that democrats.org/news/dnc-and...
there’s a special place in hell for drew ensign
Every Labor Day I remember that the holiday was moved from May 1 to September not only for the Haymarket attacks but to break up the possibility between the US and the international labor movement (which celebrates in May). And it worked!
Look I know there have been some spats on here lately but if you want something unifying to loathe — per WSJ, Kyrsten Sinema is apparently cashing in substantially on Trump 2.0, touting her personal ties to the administration and her shaping of some of its EOs in areas like AI
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
Blocks and blocks of Chicagoans marching against Trump’s fascism.
Well now you know how the NY Times would airbrush Dr Mengele
There's a reason that the people who complain that Bluesky isn't welcoming never explicitly say WHO isn't being welcomed. Who should we be nicer too? Be specific about the kind of people you want here. I'd've quote posted this. But he turned replies and quotes off. Making me feel very unwelcome.
Keir Starmer just appointed Tim Allan, a board member of the anti trans hate group, Sex Matters, to be his new communications director.
my guy has never heard of New York City
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says Elon Musk is “one of the only people in the world” who could build Houston’s much-needed tunnel system for flood water mitigation. But Musk's Boring Company has never completed a major public project in Texas.
I’ve tried googling to figure out what Lisa Cook’s sorority defending her on the mortgage fraud allegations has to do with any judge recusing from a case. Doesn’t seem to be any connection, as far as I can tell.
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You guys see where this is going? Right?
There’s zero chance that an NYT op-ed would have changed a single Republican senator’s vote
![Genocide justification is the claim that a genocide is morally excusable/defensible, necessary, and/or sanctioned by law.[1] Genocide justification differs from genocide denial, which is an attempt to reject the occurrence of genocide. Perpetrators often claim that genocide victims presented a serious threat, justifying their actions by stating it was legitimate self-defense of a nation or state. According to modern international criminal law, there can be no excuse for genocide.[2][3] Genocide is often camouflaged as military activity against combatants, and the distinction between denial and justification is often blurred.[4]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j76trmiofvaxxpvx2vnb2vwf/bafkreia4twc2qbwkmn3ozstknikbeo5xx56elnzdkycdjkzfkwehmvk4jq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Laughing at Antonin Scalia is illiberalism on par with Trump targeting law firms. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
" Donald Trump wants to erase this history, because it casts a poor light (to put it mildly) on his own fascist dreams of a hierarchical, patriarchal, racist American future in which wealthy white men are entitled to the reverence, servility, and bodies of everyone else."
I could now go on about how it took 3.5 years to get here, and how much the previous German government, and partly this one, failed to realize this simple fact. But for now, let’s just be glad that the metaphorical floor of what must be done has finally been reached. 1/3
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
It’s a little weird to demand people vote for a candidate as a necessary lesser evil three years before you even know if they’re going to be the candidate
ICE procurement activity since August 22, totaling ~$19M. Companies highlighted in yellow are new to the "Who's Profiting from ICE?" map, available here: bit.ly/3TgUZEq Source: USAspending.gov
Trump’s plan to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War shows (once again) that his self-characterization as the “pro-peace” candidate was complete bullshit. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
What a gang of mindless amateurs in Washington accomplished in Beijing:
I mean, this is fine. if this was more or less the floor it would be...not great, but not enraging?
The thing is, every time you defend Newsom as a great candidate and what “we” need, you’re telling trans people that you’re willing to throw them under the bus You can sit in my mentions and whine about how I’m criticizing Newsom too much and I will continue to highlight how your transphobia sucks
they all sound like internal corporate memos. the sentences don't even really seem connected. it's like they picked them out of a hat.
There's something really funny about how Gen Z has realised that all you have to do is film yourself making shocked faces and mouthing WOOOOW to hit songs from the 70s and 80s and put it on YT and it's basically a free money transfer service from boomers
Obsessed with the absolute shade of referring to Giuliani as “Former Masked Singer contestant”
Creative writing prompt: Make a simple press statement about a car accident sound suspicious on at least three different levels.
Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security in which she’ll help oversee election security.
Then why does Naperville produce so many Nazis?
Have they arrested the shooter for murder?!
Voting for Brexit, stopping the small boats – none of it will ever appease those who wage war on immigration | Nesrine Malik
Can you please step down? This is embarrassing.
Why are you in favor of genocide? Tell this Jew I don't know what I'm talking about. Genocide scholars say Israel is committing genocide. They know more than both of us. What say you, Ritchie? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
The world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president says. There was no immediate response from the Israeli foreign ministry.
Wild To Witness: Ritchie Torres Falls Apart Under Adam Friedland's Humanity youtu.be/6V9hA3IHV8Q?...
if you haven’t watched the adam friedland show interview with ritchie torres you absolutely should. he really confronts him on his sycophantic support of isreal, and this end “hot mic” clip to me is so revealing
Did you? newrepublic.com/post/199737/...
uh huh. newrepublic.com/post/199737/...
Keep posting through it. youtube.com/shorts/M8Vuz2bP6eQ?si=T4GLJKz5sP7w730F
That's great. You're a soulless politician with no beliefs. And you will never be a Senator. youtube.com/shorts/M8Vuz2bP6eQ?si=T4GLJKz5sP7w730F
Fuck off bigot. youtube.com/shorts/M8Vuz2bP6eQ?si=T4GLJKz5sP7w730F
Tangential but it’s notable that when California does things it gets reported as “Newsom” and when Illinois does things it gets reported as “Illinois”
This is why I found it so funny the ivys and snob schools rolled over so fast and got double fucked for doing it. These are the same people getting duped putting 50 grand in a shoebox. Rich and priveleged Americans are the easiest people to scam and bully because they've never deal with it before.
Better answer: If there’s proof of an actual crime, Justice Department can file charges and access all documents. Otherwise, fuck off.
Let’s have a big debate about settled science because idiots don’t understand it.
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
A truly evil administration top to bottom
part of the growing chasm between the supreme court and the lower and intermediate courts is that the supreme court has not punished the government for its overwhelming disrespect of the bench
Newsom appears to have hired a decent social media team...but, like, that's somewhat undermined when you're inviting charlie kirk on your podcast so you can crawl on your belly and lick his fascist boots. 1
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
Out of the first five questions, four are about gender identity. There isn't even a pretense that they're looking for qualified educators. They're interviewing candidates for the bathroom police.
Gonna be more of those.
Beauty retailers starting to communicate to customers what we all knew was coming
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Sparkle Sooknanan holds an emergency hearing as the Trump admin is reportedly trying—imminently—to deport hundreds of Guatemalan children without required process or access to representation. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71240...
Judge: I got a call at 2:36 a.m. because the govt chose this time on a holiday weekend to execute this plan. I have been up since then. I haven't been able to reach anyone from govt until this morning at 9:30 a.m. So absent this intervention, all children would already have been sent to Guatemala!
One side thinks I should not be considered a human being. I disagree! But of course the problem is my incivility.
Yeah this fucking sucks. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
There's an AnaÏs Nin quote somewhere in her diaries about how she hated the United States' intellectual culture of rhetorical domination and winner/loser debate.
White people not rejecting racism is having world destroying consequences and until they do I don’t know what to say or do
It appears the Trump admin may again be lying to a federal judge.
A judge dismissed the case, finding no probable cause after Florida police arrested a man as part of Ron DeSantis’ crackdown over rainbow chalk ark memorializing the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
