200 Years from now the ritual greeting of Minnesota is gonna be "Good morning and Fuck Ice to you!" People won't quite remember why, but it'll be a dead giveaway for being from Minnesota.

I can not believe we're going to have the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet get us into the kinds of situations that centuries long blood feuds develop over because we can't get our shit together against the transnational illiberal internationalè.

Constitutional Redemption, Jack Balkin:

Whoever made this 🫡

After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

that crowd surrounding them and shaming them *even after they just watched ICE murder a woman in front of them* should legitimately strike terror into the heart of the admin, ICE and DHS specifically

Generations to come will be as sceptical of our histories as we are of Procopius

THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS MEANS! We are being governed by people stuck in the distant past, without a clue about today's reality or tomorrow's probabilities.

This! You can't fight the illiberal and fascist Internationales with a fractured local political polity. We've been getting our asses kicked for most of a decade now because they do ideological cross national alliances and we're still out here blaming the cross national opposition to them!

i really, truly, sincerely believe that righting the equilibrium for the united states depends upon congressional democrats reclaiming congress' first-amongst-equals role in governance, and everything short of that — including a transformative president — is a failed half-measure

This isn't just plausible, it's probably the most likely explanation. Like I don't know what more folks need to see to stop assuming these idiots have anything close to a plan or larger strategy.

no no no, you don't get it. Observations of reality are an endorsement of that reality even if your commentary about those observations of reality are about how stupid and bad it is in every possible way

This hits the nail on the head. The only thing I will add is that there very much is an asymmetry to the rules for Dems vs all other political groups. These things would matter if a Dem campaign did them. The goal is to restore it mattering for everyone else. That's really hard.

Five years from now it can open its own Bluesky account

I don't have much hope of it actually happening even if/when Dems win back power, but is nice to see one Dem politician bring it up

I don't know. Fits my experience with Libertarians to a T.

This is really really bad if true. People are willing to forgive successful rule breaking a whole lot more rule breaking and forgive it a whole lot easier than unsuccessful rule breaking. It'll very much change the narrative all around if true.

grim posthumous scenario i had not previously considered: you post a picture of the missile headed straight for you, and are memorialized by a bunch of random assholes complaining about alt text

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST THEY WERE GOING TO DO THIS ON CHRISTMAS BUT COULDN'T BECAUSE PRESIDENT DEMENTIA GOT ADHD AND WANTED THEM TO BOMB SOMEWHERE ELSE INSTEAD I AM GOING TO LOSE MY FUCKING MIND I AM THE JOKER I HAVE UNDERGONE COMPLETE AND UTTER JOKERFICATION I AM SO ANGRY ALL I CAN DO IS LAUGH.

I get to post the best image I've ever made again. Happy New Year's!

The theoretical underpinnings of Murc’s Law

What fascinates me is how all of these countries would vote in, or have already voted in, their local equivalents of Trump with a minimum of fuss.

Uht oh... The foreshadowing of where this thing is going to go off the rails has arrived.

G'night

sheeeeeit :(

It's way too early for me to be laughing this hard. 🤣

As always the problems begin when *other people* use python, a group that includes your past self from two weeks ago

"Now listen here you little..." /satire

Gandalf:<presciently builds deep understanding of critical topic> Gandalf:<assembles transdisciplinary KT team> Gandalf:<saves world> Department of Countable Beans:

the two ways of acting with muppets: 1. play it as if they are also human actors (michael caine) 2. play it as if you are also a muppet (tim curry)

All of these Muppet Christmas Carol posts have reminded me of why it is so good. Michael Cain treats the Muppets like they are other professional actors and for all the jokes it's a serious movie. The other GOATed Muppet story of Muppet Treasure Island works because Tim Curry is a Muppet.

still my favorite christmas post

This essay put to words a thought I just couldn't quite explain about "It's a Wonderful Life" in that the story isn't actually about George. It's about the people, but especially Mary, around him who bless and benefit George. It's a wonderful life because those people want you in it.

"President Trump emphasized that he expects the first two hulls to hit the water in two and a half years, a timeline that is not plausible given current understanding of the constraints imposed by the laws of physics."

chat is it good for a republican president to be underwater with white people

Across every demographic, including like, white people, men, etc., the word "Republicans" just means "the bad ones"

Sometimes when you hear hoofbeats it really is horses and not zebras.

Oh goody. Just what we need: self-referencing academic digital logging. Surely this will make everything better.

Not now, enormous 68-million- year-old egg nicknamed 'The Thing'.

There are people being paid by the federal government to sit around and think of increasingly outrageous posts to titillate Nazis on the 9th most popular social media site in the U.S.

I honestly still can’t believe they did this it’s just photos on a desk! it’s not even in the same league as his fucking birthday note! removing it after the fact is the biggest possible “we are covering shit up” signal they could possibly send, couldn’t look guiltier if they tried

The perfect encapsulation of my mutuals doesn't exi

I guess I just think it’s completely preposterous to think that political candidates should make no effort to move public thinking on an issue

I agree with this, which is why I am certain that the next big SCOTUS play is to nerf standing for everyone but Congress as a whole. SCOTUS's anti-standing rulings are very under reported and so hard to understand I don't even think the Robert's majority does beyond 'not you bc we no like you'

NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader. So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.