The next part of the quotation is great as well. feels like something that @djinnandtonic.bsky.social could use.

Like…it’s so easy! "The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions." - George Washington in an address to Irish Immigrants in New York City, December 2, 1783

Career federal prosecutors forced to spend their holidays doing emergency redactions to protect a bunch of rich pedophiles, probably inevitable that some important things slip through "on accident"

At every opportunity to do the right thing—we’ve always done the wrong thing.

You're talking about a country in which white people bought, sold, & sent postcards of lynchings. You're talking about a country in which white people rounded up 1-2 million people of Mexican heritage & shipped them to Mexico, despite most of them being US citizens. We've always been like this.

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

It's important _not_ to give up on podcasts — because their concept is radical, and fights back against big tech (and fascist policy makers) being able to control people's voices through their platforms: www.anildash.com/2024/02/05/w...

Historian here it’s not just the Supreme Court, it’s time for a Third Reconstruction of American democracy now that we have seen how easy it is for bad actors to play the system for nefarious goals.

There’s room for somebody on the left to wrap themselves in the flag a little & make a point that the right’s rejection of America as a creedal nation—and their ad hoc, ahistorical effort to make it an ethnonationalist project instead—is distinctly *unamerican,* a rejection of the national project.

New social media just dropped. “Babe, have you seen what people are saying in the Dropbox comments?”

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.

Again, anti-wokeness is a backlash to integration of white collar work. Only white men are allowed to have prestigious jobs otherwise it's unfair bsky.app/profile/mike...

They’re not pissed off. They’re upset their shit parents and got held responsible for it. These are fundamental failures of parenting—and you’re highlighting it. Why give losers the time of day?

Conservative judges in 2025: "the founders did not understand the First Amendment to extend to aliens." James Madison, the author of the First Amendment, in 1800: "wtf are you talking about."

no quote captures Trump voters more than this from 2019: www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

This times 100. I think one of the issues in raising children in America today is that we do not treat them as people, and their quasi legal status being dependent upon the situation creates a multitude of issues where children can easily be taken advantage of and have no power to defend themselves.

this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw

I always love seeing what journalism students pull off with the right training and support. This team tracked Russian vessels in Europe and connected them to drone swarms over military bases. www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-drone...

As was clear during Trump 1, roughly 37% of Americans are committed to white supremacy &/or Christian nationalism, no matter the cost. Very much reminds me of the Reconstruction South, which doubled down on the plantation regime that had destroyed the country in the aftermath of emancipation.

Farmers (rather corporations) in the U.S. are acting like large landholders everywhere across history. They want cheap, obedient labor and high prices for their crops. They are afraid the state will in/directly expropriate them. They are, therefore, allied with whichever leader meets these demands.

I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.

That usually applies to private conversations, and if one’s conduct happens in public view, it’s fair to record. General Motors has argued in court that it has the right to collect your data because you’re driving in public with no expectation of privacy. Weeee… www.motor1.com/news/757240/...

The so called, “National Security Strategy” is nothing short of an abomination and a betrayal of everything our country stands for.

Historian of Reconstruction here, Eric Foner and I agree with this message. We did a joint presentation on this very topic in Princeton yesterday!

Courts have gutted the exclusionary rule, destroying its value, by creating so many exceptions to it, law review article "Circumventing the Fourth Amendment" argues . . . in 1941.

“There was very little they could do to convince the public to restrict the rights of gays ... But trans rights issues were a really successful wedge issue that could ... lead to restrictions on not just trans rights but also gay, lesbian, bisexual rights.” thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...

100% true. For all their faults—they had ideals. “The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respected Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges…” — George Washington

‼️ I said this about the current Supreme Court and some people looked at me crazy but I stand by it as I believe I said at the time they're doing antebellum shit well post-bellum

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...

No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

🚨 NEW/EXCLUSIVE: The FBI turned over dozens of emails to me in response to my #FOIA request that provides a behind-the-scenes look at discussions involving the review and redaction of the Epstein files www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

When a country still believes a Middle Eastern pro-slavery child rapist picks their monarch—you get this kind of barbarism that’s incompatible with the modern world.

This generation knows “nothing of the terror which the slave-power inspired; but it may be faintly conceived, when a professed minister of the Christian religion … said that it were better for him, rather than denounce slavery, "to murder his own mother, and lose his soul in hell!” C.M. Clay, 1886

The response of American Christians to the rise of MAGA fascism bears similarities to German Christians’ response to the rise of the Nazis. Some courageous German Christians confronted evil, but most went along. They attended church on Sunday while supporting the operators of the death camps. 🧵 1/

Yes. I have done this.

Gaetz rapes 17 year old child Kelly whitewashes rape of 15 year old child OK judge frees man who raped two teen girls These are all symptoms of the cancer of child marriage in America—with 300K+ such cases since 2000.😳 Has your state banned child marriage yet? www.qasimrashid.com/p/epstein-fi...

First I survive four days taking Chicago public transportation with my family and now this video appears—I’ve never felt manlier.