Once I said that our society has made jails the "third space" where people form connections with others, and I stand by this claim.

If we don’t get out of this, the tragedy won’t be that evil people managed to end the America experiment. It will be that such unimaginably stupid evil people managed to end the American experiment.

No, it was a successful coup. None of the people who led it were punished, and are in fact back in power, rewarded for their efforts to break the system by running it. Donald Trump is currently the dictator he attempted to become 5 years ago, and it’s because nobody treated trying as a crime.

Big: Wyoming supreme court just struck down abortion ban. And get this: The reason is a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare! Quite the backfire. We explained this lawsuit a few years back:

I wonder who would want to see the absolute destruction of NATO.

We should send more presidents to prison. In the five years since January 6th, two other democracies both faced their own version of insurrectionists attempting to overturn elections. Both countries handled it better — and more definitively — than we did. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-ways-...

Beginning 2022, I started having arguments with people who didn't experience the loss of a loved one to COVID & associate "lockdown" with sourdough starters & WFH rather than Zoom funerals. I just had to accept that we did not have a shared reality, nor were they willing to remember.

I haven't noticed any increase in Blueksy's rancidity, but I keep seeing lamentations about it. It's almost as if no one can be exposed to a representative sample of an entire social media platform.

it's very annoying to see white people pretend they were born yesterday and ask why media is ignoring the drop in crime. you know why! now what are you going to do about your racist AF colleagues????

my hot take is that I don't think it's this website specifically that's toxic. the Circumstances are toxic and nobody really knows what to do about it so they come online and scream. and if I may offer an alternative: actually going outside and screaming feels better.

Because of the lack of black and brown people in it.

If Dems talked like this regularly, we wouldn't have to focus on "how to win close elections in difficult environments." We would have a lot fewer close elections, and a lot fewer difficult environments.

We should reenact more slave revolts. Just people out there in revolutionary costume, going what up its Denmark Vesey

little-flying-robots.ghost.io/rejecting-re... We live in an age where the Internet and LLMs are encouraging ever more people to reject reality entirely. Here's my thoughts on why this is happening, and why the Terminally Online turn amongst the powerful is so dangerous.

Folks at the risk of patting myself on the back I think I might have gotten the closing line right.

Every time I see a discussion of AI (aggregate interpolation), I feel the urge to write something in longhand.

my gender reveal party

Every other week it's like, "Here's a weird little racist who is friends with the most powerful people on earth and he hosts dinner parties where he discusses the best way to kill you specifically."

I'm not sure how much it would matter electorally but if nothing else it would just feel good to have leaders that aren't ashamed to take their own side in a fight

Once you accept that we'll have to make him leave in 2029, there's no reason not to make him leave today.

Embrace presidential sedevacantism

Pluralism cannot defend itself. We must.

“Somehow, Dick Cheney returned.”

Apes do read Thucydides; they just don’t understand him.

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I *love* writing actual physical to friends and family. There is something deeply soothing and connecting about it, and the satisfaction of dropping a letter in the mailbox is shockingly profound. Highly recommended.

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He might still.

This was just a few months after January 6, which is when I knew law enforcement organizations had every interest in defending January 6 because that was how they would amass power. Police do not work for "the people." (Then, of course, Biden funded them anyways.)

There is no living with these people.

I've said it a lot lately: the problem with nonconsensual deepfake porn of adults isn't the "porn" part, it's the "nonconsensual" part. That HAS to be accounted for when regulating, otherwise you're just banning legal porn, which is (1) unconstitutional but (2) what the Heritage Foundation wants.

In the last century, the United States was part of an alliance that liberated Europe and helped Germany write a modern constitution. It sure would be nice if they returned the favor.

the rich men have decided the poors and blacks and browns and yellows and all the womens have become too uppity, demanding uppity things like “rights”, so instead of letting us live they are setting the house on fire with us locked inside

Make something new and then don’t sell the rights, just sit on them like a rights hoarding dragon or Bill Watterson

Each day this continues is a signal to the rest of the world that we were okay with it

So far I don't think Ronald Reagan's twelfth term is going any better than the last eleven but I'm keeping an open mind

the remnants of my very drunk new year's eve online shopping spree keep arriving but im an almost 40 year old man so i just bought like... winter gloves and wool socks

Post a famous bathroom scene

Trump Announces Plans to Acquire Alaska: tinyurl.com/3s4k8dfn

When I came out, I expected a lot of "WHAT" and "NO WAY" and "BUT HOW, YOU ARE SO VERY WOMANLY" reactions from my friends and family, and literally everyone led with the same first sentence, "oh, that makes sense." My mother said "that makes sense of a lot of things" and then declined to elaborate.

There is absolutely no reason to permit this illegitimate regime to remain in power for another day.

Now, let me get this straight; your entire country is above the timberline?

Endorse. The Republican plan to “Make America Healthy Again” is literally to kill people they perceive as weak or genetically inferior, leaving just “the healthy” MAHA is just Nazism, and Republican rule will result in the intentional killings of vast numbers of innocent people.

Wine moms have been right since 2016 but some people have unresolved parent issues and won’t forgive them for wearing cringe hats