if you believe this, every single one of you has to be prepared to demand this of your Dem representatives in 2029 and be prepared to primary them if they stand in the way

This is so stupid. this is so fucking stupid

It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies. This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week. This is almost everything the government is doing.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

The new reporting also highlights that Blinken was constrained by the White House in his pursuit of the postwar plan, as Biden and McGurk et al believed that the more pertinent question was a temporary ceasefire and hostage deal while Blinken believed in the necessity of a comprehensive deal.

Its more than just a barrier, its an actual cost. There are risks to doing it that could actually leave you worse off than before, it doesn't just impede progress. People lose jobs when they reveal a dx and ask for accommodations. In the US, that means losing health care too.

More proof of what @prisonculture.bsky.social says that most people in this country have no idea what's going on: Yesterday two different clients told me they wanted to take their cases to the Supreme Court because they knew there was still a liberal majority.

Couldn't even convince Kamala Harris that he wasn't a careerist hack

This is literally just untrue, he never did that. All he said was he doesn't hold those views anymore, he never apologized for them.

I don't consider the Supreme Court to be legitimate. I also know that the Democratic party is not up to the challenge of disempowering the court so the illegitimate court will continue to exist for years to come. Folks will have to figure out how to move with this in mind.

It is kinda wild how the president is evidently receiving some kind of regular medical care that requires IVs and we don't know what's up

Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...

h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content

I respect those who admit now that Biden supported Israel to the hilt and that they lied about this during the election in order to feel better about the way they voted than those who still feel the need to lie

Yet another Biden administration official admits, after the fact, that the Biden administration's and more broadly America's policy of supporting Israel unconditionally does not work and needs to change.

Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice

once again, "the supreme court will act as a bunch of partisan republican hacks" is the single most accurate heuristic for predicting its behavior, putting any coherent legal theory to shame because fuck you, that's why

Van Hollen was already one of the leading critics of the Israeli state in the Senate but you can really tell Mamdani's victory has emboldened him, among others.

I don't care if a non-disabled person accesses a disability accommodation for the same reason I don't care if a child whose parents are rich gets free lunch at school. We don't need to means test being a kind person. I have better things to do with my time than be a cop over social services.

Glad Van Hollen will say what's true.

it's baffling to me to see abstain or against votes from countries that were colonies for centuries. You have a histoy of kidnapping kids and killing native population by imperial colonizers, and now you're taking an imperial colinizer side

I absolutely /adore/ that Mr Walker appears /genuinely shocked and confused/ by the notion that friends and adversaries should be held to the same moral standards.

A lot of comments under this are saying things like "It's not OUR jobs to stop this, it's the job of Congress to stop it!" and like...NO. It IS our jobs as citizens to stop this; Congress is not some customer support line for us to lodge complaints with. We must be active in our civic virtue. TLDR:

Having to identify oneself as disabled to access accommodations is, on its own, a huge barrier to getting many disabled people the accommodations they need.

half-remembering a meme about how if you ignore the environment or assume it to be equal you'd come to the conclusion that most popes have been italian because of some genetic predisposition towards popery present in the people of italy. in isolation IQ tests are basically just that

Similar dynamic underway in a narrower sense vis a vis Palestine, Democratic voters want candidates who are more in tune with their positions on Palestine, Democratic leadership are zealously against this, and so you can either get a Mamdani or you can get a crackpot like Platner.

I've always been pro-Palestine but one of the things that soured me on "two-state solution" fetishists was hearing them talk about their vision of a Palestinian state. Basically they require it to be demilitarized and clearly subordinate to Israel, which is to say - not sovereign.

I do think the contrast between how Biden spoke about Ukraine and how he spoke about Palestine did play a role, albeit, a more minor one, in accelerating the changes in perspective among Democratic voters. They saw the hypocrisy pretty clear aa day.

“I’m an anti-imperial leftist which is why I think Russia should be allowed to do an imperialism. I am very smart.”

“A Ceasefire in Name Only” — @scotnational.bsky.social is not afraid to call out Israel's continued attacks on Gaza

“I think we have to be careful with the Nazi comparisons” people are always waiting until we are five minutes until the Holocaust and then they’re like well it’s only ethnic cleansing not a Holocaust

When I talk to my students about law and resistance, I talk about how people tend to think in terms of whether they would’ve acted in 1942, but that they should instead ask themselves what they would’ve done in 1933.

an actual lefty candidate managed a 13 point shift left from 2024 on midterm-level turnout in fucking Tennessee we are going to win

What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.

It is essential to remember that Sensible centrists got everything they wanted in the UK. The left smashed, their Competent Sensible politicians won by a landslide last year and have a huge majority and the policies they dreamed of implemented. And the result is endless horror.

This is a profoundly anti-Black country. Not just racist but ANTI-BLACK. It is foundational and everpresent.

Call it what it is: ethnic cleansing.

He's literally the opposite of Fetterman by the way, he also had a stroke, literally two days after Fetterman in fact, and he became even more dark woke

every artist can easily do this when this happens, and if they don’t, we should ask why

It's honestly shocking, because they had everything they needed to do it. All three branches of government. All the regime had to do was pace itself and give cover to its allies, but they just couldn't do it. They wanted to bully more than they wanted to win.

We are not out of the woods, not by a long shot. The horrors are here, they have not receded. At the same time, the regime has overplayed its hand and failed in its efforts of total consolidation of power. I don't see a path to their realizing totalitarian control.

I know it is going to sound strange, but I am entering this holiday season with such relief. Everything reminds me of what I was feeling after the election last year, and what I was feeling was the possibility of successfully totalitarian fascism and sudden collapse. I'm celebrating their failure.

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

I wonder how Democrats feel about the fact that non-Democrats constantly experience culture shock when closely exposed to their *politics.*

Non-Democrats: Shouldn't the Democratic party try to fight, just a little. Democratic leadership and many of their voters: WE CAN'T DO THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE DON'T HAVE THE VOTES. lolololol

it’s fun watching people see what trans folks have been warning of for years. the media has no capacity to inform about the politicization of health care

In December 2024, Van Hollen penned an open letter to Biden and urged him before his term ended to •Recognize Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital, •Suspend all offensive military assistance to Israel as the law demands •Embargo all settler goods from being imported

Jesus Christ. JESUS Christ. Jesus CHRIST. Yes, this person is correct, remigration is a white supremacy term for ethnic cleansing, basically. And the Department of Homeland Security, WHICH SHOULDN'T EVEN EXIST, just used the term. An official government account. That is...that is beyond fucked.

Van Hollen is being personally credited as the chief pressure point that made Israel release a Palestinian teenager with American citizenship from their dungeons, where he was held for 9 months without even a criminal charge.