10/7 justifies everything and nothing justifies 10/7 apparently.

Also interesting that Blinken attempts to obscure what Israel did by appealing to "Israeli trauma", but then he attempts to say there is no hierarchy of trauma. And so he can justify what Israel did but seems incapable of understanding what Palestinians do in response to occupation and apartheid?

"We have to maintain our leverage over this country, which does whatever it wants anyway because we won't use any of the leverage in question" is the position of a liar.

The argument that Blinken seems to have landed on is that the US did in fact ignore its own laws to supply Israel with weapons, but Israel would have done everything it did regardless of whether or not the US abetted and defended it. This is actually an argument in favor of ending weapon transfers.

this is why Ds need to expand the court first thing, if they ever get a trifecta. the right wing supreme court is a robed christofascist legislative body of last resort, and it will strike down literally every Democratic priority just because.

people on bluesky may be annoying but people on threads are braindead

this is what happens when you report factual information on threads:

i posted this to threads earlier and have many people in my replies saying i’m lying and that this never happened? so many cooked brains.

There's 4 other candidates in South Carolina. Find one, vote for them and not this piece of crap. We don't campaign on people's sexuality. We are not Republicans.

ugh; this quite vile homophobic ad is by graham's senate opponent. I want graham to lose, but not through homophobic bullshit.

Don’t do this. Stop now.

ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her. (Published Nov. 2025)

This is absolutely a case of "unpopular defendant being used to get people to approve of a precedent that will fuck everything". Meta is shit and I hate them, but I especially hate their behavior is so egregious it is making people approve of a really terrible precedent.

There's a billion other problems with this verdict, and yeah, part of what NM was alleging is that failure to employ age verification is grounds for deeming Meta's sites a defective product. (Which is contrary to, like, so much case law!)

--because any proof that they had evidence of harmful effects (or even suspected they might exist) can be used to manufacture liability if they don't perfectly mitigate any harm (and as we all know it's impossible to perfectly mitigate harm).

I am extremely not a fan of the product liability theory of social media lawsuits because they set a terrible precedent that any safety research or experimentation creates liability; in a perverse incentive it means sites are better off *not* researching safety improvements --

we might see 70 percent disapproval!

Remember when USPS had a contract to buy a fleet of EVs and Trump made them cancel it and go back to gas?

I mean look

Fetterman should resign. I'd urge his constituents to call him and tell him to resign. He's betraying those who voted for him and embracing fascism. He should get out of the way.

We will protest war, murder and illegal deportations by ICE, corruption, and yes, Mr Fetterman, lack of paychecks for TSA workers. Join us on Saturday!

I wish I was sure that trump's is the only US admin that would vote against this.

another one! here is goose tucked in. cutey!

hey, there's another! Here is gusgus very much asleep so you can't tell what a terror he is.

okay, did get one more paid sub for the sale. really hoping for a few more here before the day drags to an ignominious close. it's 40% off, $30/year. www.everythingishorrible.net/subscribe

Parody is no longer possible.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social there's a room in Hell reserved for you

You cultivated a media environment that made empowered and encouraged the government to crack down violently on student dissent. You shoved the gag in their mouths and ask why they're silent?

If you ask the genius media knowers they'll say not everything a magazine or newspaper publishes comes with the full endorsement of the publication in question and my response to that is yes it does. It's very simple in fact.

This is genuinely a bombshell. All courthouse arrests should cease immediately. There should be a Congressional investigation & civil rights actions for every illegal abduction of immigrants trying to follow the rules and appear in court. (2/2)

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

I don't even know what to say about how bad this is. People have been denied due process by not being able to attend court hearings for fear of being kidnapped; other people HAVE been kidnapped for showing up to do the exact thing we say we want.

Fox is a fine poll but it does run a bit to the GOP; Q and AP polls earlier today also solid but run low on Trump approval. He's somewhere between 38% and 40% approval, and as low as any new president (DDE on) has been at any point in their first two years = and staying at that low for longer.

This is super cool and the kind of “trying stuff” thinking we need

"In America, we fetishize misery. We treat suffering like a virtue, and it’s not. We live in the wealthiest country in the world. We don’t have to live like this." trib.al/FZNd9iA

wrote about how aipac has been badly weakened—and how progressives really should not help it out by overstating its influence. I think that Track AIPAC site often overstates AIPAC's power and I think that helps AIPAC, which is bad. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/aipac-does...

With one blog post you have done more to legitimate a reactionary project than I have done in a year fighting against it. You should be ashamed of yourself.

I did not submit an amicus brief, despite repeated requests to do so. I am not publishing my work ahead of oral arguments. I am continuing to do my best research, analysis, and writing to correct the record. And I’ve done something amiss? No. Don’t think so.

What strikes me as especially odd about this is that Prof. Moyn is a historian by training! If people just made things up about things he really cares about in his space and to achieve a legal rule he found morally repugnant to boot, would he shrug it off? Why should I be blamed for others’ agency?

I said the same thing to Ilan, when he demanded I “hurry up” my work or said that I was too late to influence the Supreme Court. I don’t care! My work is in the search for truth, I am not seeking power over the law or to tell judges what to do. I care about history. Why does the legal academy not?

I would have loved to have a conversation about this @samuelmoyn.bsky.social passage. But let me just say that, again, I am not a lawyer doing litigation. I’m a law profeeeor who does historically oriented work in the search for truth. Am I supposed to sit back and let someone distort the annals?

Democrats face impending dam break on Cherfilus-McCormick: House Democrats are privately expressing growing discomfort with Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) amid serious allegations of misusing $5 million in FEMA funds, tax fraud, and campaign finance violatio… https://ranked.news/391403?u=b

And Labour didn't need to do this to win in the UK in 2024, either. I think that's part of why we're seeing this full court press in the media to get Dems to move right on trans issues. It's an election they'll win no matter what their policies are, so NYT types are trying to get them to move right

This is extra offensive for 2 reasons: 1) Students at my campus are organizing like crazy to stand up to ICE. It is inspiring. 2) The last time they protested a war the NYPD stormed the campus, beat a bunch of them up, and then the city installed perimeter fencing that has been up for 2 years…

1. No robot shall...hey have you notice the drapes? Aren't they great? 2. We've been working hard on the ballroom. No one ever could build a ballroom, and I'm building it. And the arch. I saw one station yesterday where gas was $1.75. Autopen. 3. Robots? Big explosions.

Add to the impeachment file.

Rather than deliver on his campaign promises, Trump prioritizes vanity projects and his mass deportation-detention agenda over the American people. I opposed the Make the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Act as another distraction from this Administration.

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

This is so important to highlight. Democrats are already surging in popularity because of how awful the GOP is, any Dem who's side-eyeing trans people should be raising all the freakin' red flags. Please listen to us when we point out bigots and fascists, especially blue ones who are harder to spot.

One of the greatest marketing tricks pulled by centrist opinion writers is to convince people they somehow speak for a silenced, contrarian, rational minority — when in fact what they write is 80-90% exactly what mainstream corporate Dem thought is on any given subject