This is obscene.

Another headline could be "In contrast to Republicans, Democrats are horny for adults"

Does everyone remember Adriana Smith, the Georgia nurse who was declared brain dead while nine weeks pregnant? The black woman who was kept alive without the consent of her family because of the fetus? Baby “Chance” was born in June. He’s still in the NICU.

Anything we can actually do, we can afford.

Never forgive, never forget

I watched "No Other Land" with my students last week and afterwards, one commented at how their focus on Gaza these past years had diverted them from thinking enough about the grinding repression in the West Bank.

Reminder

Talked at length with Beshara Doumani about how olive harvest season has turned from a celebratory time to a time of strife and bloodshed because the attacks by settlers in the West Bank. As he put it, they want to create “a million little Gazas.” www.merip.org/2025/11/the-...

This is horrible. This is also what prisons in New York State are like.

Biggest disappointment in Biden’s presidency

Gonna start running every single charge I can on my Amex, my pointsmaxxing schemes be damned, just to make the small business bourgeoisie eat the Amex interchange fee

going to also give a shout-out to dv shelters, healthcare hikes and snap shutoff almost certainly means a spike in domestic violencee, they’re also hurting from lack of federal grants from the shutdown

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

I think you've gotta either abolish Border Patrol or purge it and hire an entirely new workforce. It's existed for over 100 years and the culture has been positively rancid for every single day of that.

okay one more thing, if the filibuster was so critical to the interest of small states, why is it that it didn't exist until the middle of the 19th century and wasn't actually used with any regularity until well into the 20th?

the OTHER thing is that no filibuster defender has yet to articulate why it is that people who happen to live in low density states not only deserve additional representation but also deserve to exercise a veto *on top of that*

the only time the filibuster has ever been used to protect a particular interest of a set of states is to kill anti-lynching and civil rights legislation. that's it.

This is the funniest version of the strategy, when you realize that ultimately the ask is “hey voters, support candidates you don’t like.” When you say it like that…it seems less practical.

At the heart of this is the belief by a lot of elite media figures that, because most people in their immediate social circle are Democrats, they should be able to police the behavior of all Democrats the way you discipline a medium sized social group.

Zohran is an extremely good example of someone engaging in harsh, structural criticism of the Israeli regime without adopting even a little bit of spillover hostility to American Jews. It is in our best interest, among many other reasons, that he wins.

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

'“Critics say” is the tell, and does it ever go on telling.'

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

i think a democratic majority should refuse to do anything that remotely smells like it might convince low information people that a vote for trump is a vote for the superdole

it’s because we are too pro social this sincerely is why they keep beating us. it’s not “we can’t moderate on social issues/throw minorities under the bus,” it’s “if they give us a chance to reduce harm to anyone, we always cooperate”

This was literally a thing in classical political theory, that "the mob" will vote for tyrants because he pays them

"You can't pray" really raising some legal questions

(whispering) the form of the protest is never inevitable and always reflects a choice

It's bad manners to force the issue but in a lot of environmental advocacy (not necessarily climate), there is remarkable ambivalence about whether or not there should be people at all.

right. the existence of a Black Ph.D plus a normal bell curve on intelligence is sufficient evidence to disprove the most common type of scientific racism.

In addition to Netanyahu, Turkey's warrant accuses 37 suspects of genocide and crimes against humanity, lncluding Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and army chief Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

Honestly it’s a real testament to the workforce’s profession and dedication that things haven’t broken more noticeably. That’ll change as people can’t afford to work even if exempt

Guy with a sandwich: “Fuck you armed agent of the state.” Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”

In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.

Ukraine should blow them up anyways

Trump had an incident and just danced around to YMCA for half an hour and the press covered it as “that zany Trump, he’s at it again!”

The motte and bailey this guy and thousands of other pro Israel pundits do on this is really quite pernicious. They talk about supporting two states and Palestinian freedom in the abstract and then call you an antisemite if you suggest that a settler who kills a Palestinian should be jailed.

the median voter loves themselves some SYMBOLISM! makes me wonder if that Great Gatsby halloween party that Trump threw at Mar-a-Lago might end up being a bigger than expected thing too.

KBJ threaded the needle thanks to CA1’s unfinished business. -if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her. -if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet. -instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.

::movie trailer voice:: They said he was retired, but Bill Kristol has one more regime to change...

Abolish Border Patrol.

If given the ability to actually implement their party’s manifesto, Democrats would finally bring social democracy to America, and Republicans would cause the most amount of destruction possible short of a nuclear war.

this is why ending the filibuster is good

if this had been the mood in 2021 we'd have 52 states and 15 SCOTUS justices right now

One thing that strikes me is just how fake all of our problems related to government are The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists. The government shutdown was invented in 1980 The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal

virtue signalling is good actually

and if you *are* a ghoul, faking decency is the price of admission into polite society. seethe about it on your own time

Performative decency is actually *so* important for this reason. It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls. And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd

Part of the issue that we have is that with the way that the vote in March was orchestrated we do not know who makes up the surrender caucus

I think the question "is Trump a good politician?" is genuinely a complicated one. He is extremely good at running for office in the United States as is, slotting into deep-rooted material and cultural dysfunctions that other politicians who are less sociopathic were loath to prod so directly.