To the extent we’re going to have a death penalty, I think it should be viscerally violent so as to avoid any wiggle room about what we’re doing. We should also stop corrupting the medical profession by involving them in lethal injection, which are not actually more humane than firing squads.

Personally, I'd love to see A) Nationwide redistricting B) Valuing compactness and regularity of districts C) For districts of equal population D) Ignoring state lines E) In an expanded house, F) Where each rep represents 300,000 people. But in the meantime, sure. Let's play this game.

Blazers first playoff game and I’m stuck on the east coast, WHAT DO YOU MEAN TIP-OFF IS AT 9pm?!

Blazermania back in business! 🌹

biggest game in years GO BLAZERS

Me watching the NBA this season

I’m glad they god rid of the penny, but at this point all US coin currency is basically useless. They should get rid of it and adjust state sales tax accordingly.

A Song of Ice and Fire is high fantasy Tom Clancy send tweet

As a prior NSF social science grantee, I can tell you with mathematical certainty this would be catastrophic for social science in this country. Would set us back decades, maybe even more.

I know we've all pretty decisively moved on from "imagine if Obama did…" scenarios But honestly the funniest one to date by far is definitely "imagine if Obama said 'Praise be to Allah' on Easter Sunday"

It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.

Average union soldier memoir: "at first I was like I signed up for this war, but is it really worth it? Then I saw the reality of chattel slavery and I had to be physically restrained from slaughtering every white southerner I encountered"

I think one of the most embarrassing things a person can do is not like something because someone they don’t like loves it. I think it smacks of a weak sense of self and a lack of real character. Poor emotional control. Nothing my opps do has any bearing whatsoever on what I do with my life.

Personally, I think it's important that children be taught about all the early Saddle Creek bands. Not just Cursive, but Bright Eyes, The Faint, Rilo Kiley, and even The Good Life. Hear hear!

168 children, in a decent world there would be resignations AT MINIMUM. But the world we live in isn’t decent.

We should all be absolutely horrified that our government was likely responsible for this brutal and unnecessary attack. As a father of a young girl I’m disgusted and expect HASC/SASC to investigate this and get answers IMMEDIATELY . Not in my name, not in OUR name

No one asked for this but, Rereading GoT and really, this whole thing kicks off because Caitlin Stark acts impulsively. When she suspected conspiracy she should have told everyone Bran died, hid him and had Ned and the daughters come back to winterfell for the funeral to figure out next moves .

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

"A man free of patriarchy is a man who has found not only every woman's humanity, but one who has at last discovered his own. The actual path to liberation for lonely men is feminism—because pursuing an identity based on dominating others is self-isolating." www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...

just became aware of this--the regime wants to clear-cut massive chunks of Oregon's old growth forests in the name of timber production. you have until March 23rd to comment. i know we have endless fucking things to scream at politicians about--this is an important one too.

Eisenhower

characteristically good work from Serwer. again saying: we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him

I literally don’t care about being relevant or if this platform is considered a joke. No one here does. I’m here for sports, military stuff and news, without being subjected to porn and nazi posts. I would forget twitter still exists if there wasn’t cross posting.

Don’t care about hockey, but good to see the Canadians knocked down a peg. They’ve been scoring on us a bit too thoroughly past couple months

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

Not taking anything away from the author here, just adding that "lethality" becoming the military's north star was an inevitable outcome of fundamentally misunderstanding what the military does. We wouldn't have won in Iraq or Afghanistan by being more lethal. We never even defined what winning was!

Every time you speak up - and every time you don't - there are people watching and learning about you and the world you help create.

know it’s unhealthy, but that 90s nostalgia trap stuff kinda works on me, but only when it’s the frasurbane design images.

We bought Article II of the United Nations Charter with the blood of a hundred million human beings, and less than a century later, it's being sold for nothing by people who don't even understand what they're doing.

Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp

Sadly, in response to the 9,000th lawsuit, we have made the difficult decision to turn off the KYS Machine

There’s just nothing you can do to “prepare”. In my youth, both my parents lost their jobs to tech. Mom ran a corporate presentation-making business (literal death by PowerPoint), my father a commercial editor (ousted by laptop editing software). If it comes, and it works, you’re just kinda screwed

Great piece by @jamellebouie.net on the need for ICE hearings. Get it all out there. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/o...

To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.

Seahawks- officially Americas team baybbeee. You love to see it

No Kings includes Draft Kings

people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.

Finally got around to one battle after another, my goodness that feels contemporary. Interesting to compare it to Eddington, which also takes place “now” OBAA has more respect and understanding of what’s happening in the real world and how ppl respond, while Eddington gets the online present right.

Weird how these posts never include "I support national legislation to limit gerrymandering"

The Gyre is Wydening

probably not great that every natsec-adjacent reporter has spent the last 24 hours going "ron wyden expert here, this is not cute, ron wydens only do this when they're very distressed"

Every once in awhile a Republican tears their skin mask off to reveal they are actually alien beings

i don't particularly disagree with a lot of the critiques of anarchist activism by liberals but I bristle when they act as if their best practices are any wiser. we're here because none of us figured out how to avoid being here. everyone should have some goddamn humility.

Lighting dumpsters on fire during an otherwise peaceful protest isn’t ideal, but much like people not-voting, there’s very little you can do about it, and yelling at people about it won’t help either. I know this is unsatisfactory, but we’ve been having these conversations on the left for 100 years

Reverse voting rights act

Woke 2.0 back with a vengeance. You love to see it.

This is who runs this account (watering my skeets)