Anyway there is no "middle." There are just actual policy positions and POWER.

But certainly an approach if you don't want any pushback on your orders to do illegal war crimes....

“We need to roll up our sleeves, talk to people on the ground, and ignore everything they tell us.”

But status quo Dems seem doomed to go way of Whigs if they don't pick either a platform, or candidate, that **excites** base plus +5% of independents or disaffected. Exciting a centrist majority in polling does NOT translate to new GOP defections on election day, we have proof from '16, '20, & '24.

Cannot emphasize enough how often this was articulated to decision makers from like 2015 on.

what the dems want is an army of volunteers to do all the basic on the ground boring but necessary fundamentals to help them win but also for the volunteers to 1. never ask for anything 2. never criticize the party 3. accept being spited during campaigns and scapegoated during losses

Ah yes, the same predatory approach carjackers and kidnappers use... approach target when vulnerable, while pretending to be nice so you can get close enough to do harm. @cnn.com calls these pick-up-artist/conman tactics at redpill run man camps "relearning the art of face-to-face communication."

So natch, the "private organization" chose to include the Dixie Swastika. 1/ "The state decided not to participate because of the high costs so the booth is sponsored by private orgs," Jones wrote." www.rawstory.com/confederate-...

From @kelciemmorris.bsky.social

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

To give you a sense of the improbability of this event: The building that was struck (China Zun) is one block south of the Chinese state television headquarters. And in an immense stroke of irony, China Zun is also one block east of China's World Trade Center

Sadly, Pope Leo also wound up in the same room with him shortly after becoming pope. Apparently as an expert on fundraising. As Epstein and it would seem Cholakian knew, you can get into a bewildering array of interesting rooms if you seem to have a knack for raising money.

Italian stone? We don’t have quarries in America?

"The Trump administration took aim at the separation of church and state Friday, issuing a draft report...[saying] the separation concept is a legal error and that Americans should view religion as an 'essential support' and always remember “the Creator who made us and bestows our rights.” #GiftLink

Trump, a guy even Epstein thought was depraved, is using the govt to traffic vulnerable children. 500 at once. Trump's family separation policy from 2017-2021 amounted to "enforced disappearance" (a human rights crime). This is worse. www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

No gov’t official’s oath is empty ceremony. Oaths of office are not an antiquated formality—they are part of the accountability infrastructure of the Republic. We should understand them as such & insist that they, like other legal texts, must carry meaning. bsky.app/profile/samh...

Fascinating document. One thing I appreciate is its emphasis on the substantive effect of the judicial oath. I’m certain Roberts would say is if his decisions favor rich over poor, it is not he, but the law which is doing so—& that the effects of his rulings aren’t significant, only their intent.

Don't worry, the war will be over again on Monday before the markets open.

"Control the Supreme Court". That's the most telling statement.

.So you have rights except when there is an emergency when they have to be temporarily suspended, but the state of emergency can become permanent: the Patriot Act, surveillance, interrogations at borders, etc. Every liberal constitution has the power to enact emergency decrees..

"Were the bigots actually right all along??" No. GFY. (They hid my comment, just like they want all the queer people to hide, so I'm sharing it again!)

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I was in Belfast last week, where a local resident said the attacks were not about immigration, but racism. He knew white immigrants who took part in the attacks and Black Belfast-born residents who were attacked.

I’m so tired of these white women who dominate online harm work but exclude anyone who has real insight and expertise They are simply the acceptable face of surveillance. That’s why they are allowed to do what they do Notice they never speak on edtech privacy or data harms

I crashed a road safety conference & one of Q&A sessions had a Q about distracted driving. Most panelists gave the usual spiel. But The planners from Guelph pointed out that that kids can be distracting and also that Finland has phones and no deaths. It's solvable, we are just doing it wrong.

Lukashenka knew that arresting children for eating ice cream would make him a laughingstock abroad. Zuckerberg knows that threatening Wynn-Williams for standing in wooden silence on a stage makes him look like history's most guillotineable billionaire. 40/

But I think they've decided that this is a price worth paying, because: a) They've done even *worse* things since Wynn-Williams parted ways with the company; and 36/

Which raises an interesting question: what *else* can they do to her? Once they've secured civil damages that exceeds her net worth several times over, why shouldn't she just flout her agreement? "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose," and all that. 24/

Together, these clauses - routinely used by Meta to silence would-be whistleblowers - meant after Wynn-Williams's book was published, Meta got its arbitrator - a lawyer paid by Meta to adjudicate disputes instead of an actual judge - to order her to never promote or even speak about her book. 21/

Zuck is also revealed to have given the Chinese state access to all of Facebook and the power to censor content they disliked, as part of a failed bid to get permission to offer a Facebook service in China. 18/

But it's also full of stories about the severe personal failings of Facebook's executive team, especially Sheryl Sandberg, Joel Kaplan and Mark Zuckerberg. 14/

This act of anti-ice cream thuggery has pushed Wynn-Williams over the edge and now she's sued to invalidate her contract: www.theguardian.com/technology/2... 32/

The Overton Window is so far right the Bushes are now considered moderates.

Still chuckling every time I see "hard" Left used to describe Democratic Socialists in the U.S. Just complete political illiteracy.

Favorable views of the internet industry: 60% in 2015, 41% in 2025. That slide needs a political target. Tenant screening — algorithmic scores, junk fees, lifelong eviction-record stigma — is precise, legible, and affects 110 million renters. Ideal first bill for insurgent candidates.

Recent French national average temperatures: - impossible in a pre-industrial world, - about 1 year in 40 years in a 1.5C world - 1 in 10 years in a +2 °C world - 3 degree world - happens every other year interactive/method/maps here (également en français): benmsanderson.github.io/futureevent/

"Even more so, the public can’t petition to unseal the documents because—and we can’t believe we’re writing this in an open democracy—they don’t know the documents exist."

"[W]e can’t believe this is a sentence we have to write: We didn’t have access to the DOJ filing on the docket responding to our own filing."

Exactly this💯 And imagine how it’d feel not to have our health insurance tied to our employment and have reasonable healthcare costs…

Either way that is a LOT of tokens

There's nothing else to do at the reflecting pool but loiter. It's literally the whole reason it exists, it's a public space where people are invited to linger and loiter.

During late 2020, Trump began to install loyalist-hacks in key national-security positions. But he didn't appoint enough of them to mount a successful coup. In 2026, we're starting from a government already brimming with loyalists and fire-right extremists. And it's not getting any better.

PlayStation is deleting over 500 purchased movies from its customers' accounts 🎞️ • Includes films like 'Terminator 2', 'Rambo', 'Apocalypse Now', 'Hot Fuzz', and 'Moonlight' • No mention of refunds • Comes after a licensing deal ended

Musk is everything he claims Soros is x10

While the number is less than the prior assumption, it's actually worse...because net enrollment has continued to drop off *since* February across the states I have data for...and especially because the ACA includes a 90-day grace period, which likely means an even sharper drop from March to April.

Most criminal cases do not receive media scrutiny. I think it's worth noting that whenever a case does receive media scrutiny, the policing and prosecution are rife with misconduct and error.

my hot take on zohran is i like the guy but there’s about 7 million times as much ink spilled about him than could ever be warranted by a mayor, because all of our media live within 2 square blocks of each other in nyc and have had their brains destroyed by Online

Hey americans, Mike Johnson controls congress not to conduct govt business on behalf of the people, but to protect a criminal syndicate known as the GOP... You'd think there would be a "break glass in case of emergency" sort of mechanism to deal with Mike. An amendment about tyranny or such

If you’ve been finding yourself on the same side as the guy who lionized the “Sistah Souljah moment” as a signal and heraldic moment in Democratic politics, maybe check your priors.