it's difficult to articulate at the moment, and not a popular opinion here, and I don't say this from a centrist standpoint: I don't think "trump II is illegitimate and all his actions are null and void" is something you can/should say up until the point where you have the actual power to enforce it

🚨🚨" Some leaders have chosen to hunt them down and deport them through operations that are both unlawful and cruel. My government has chosen a different way: a fast and simple path to regularize their immigration status." Spanish PM Pedro #Sanchez on why #migrants are essential for Western society:

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pivot to wiki :)

I know this is kind of spitting into the wind, but I'd like to make an effort: Just because ICE calls them "administrative warrants" doesn't make that the most accurate term for them. They are forms. ICE forms. Signed by an ICE employee. Authorizing an arrest, but still, a _form._

yes

what has happened is that people have substituted the feelings that they get from social media for the actual rigorous process of learning and knowing things. to counter this, we must PIVOT TO WIKI: organizing information in a purposeful way by leveraging different formats for said info.

Here's the thing: no Ds actually bothered to establish the record of Trump I after the fact. There was never even a simple list of all the bad shit he did from a D perspective. Jan 6 happened and Biden admin and the Party at-large decided to just work on passing bills.

Poasting being frictionless has taught a lot of people to learn the wrong lessons about coalitions, allies, and negotiations. A more progressive primary candidate to Hochul may have better stances, but Mamdani cannot do rent/childcare/buses with vibes. he needs state money and a gov he can trust

like this post and I will go get a gyro for a late dinner. ignore and I will eat nothing

I am not comfy with the idea of turning llm classifier outputs into hard numbers that go on a graph like this.

YOOOO THIS IS HUGE

nyt delenda est

#NMGov Michelle Lujan Grisham has now signed the Immigrant Safety Act into law www.koat.com/article/new-... The three House Dems who voted against it all sit in seats that went Harris+14 or better. The candidate filing deadline for the Democratic primary is March 17.

also SEC schools have football money that makes their campuses & dorms really nice value for what you get. most of my freshman class at bama did not have to share bedrooms with each other

bruh

alright alright don't yell at me but I feel like Chuck wouldn't post this particular list if he didn't think he could get these items. I think it's a good set of things for the short term minority position

YOOOO THIS IS HUGE

Ugh

interesting

that's not right, they also have wildly destructive tax cuts for the rich

we also need to expand the supply of colleges, especially "elite" ones (those with the strictest qualifications)

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

composable moderation is a good idea but the current implementation is half-assed. not fully solvable but I would start with 2 things 1 is that you should be able to appeal them if they have specific purposes and if bsky mods find enough evidence of false flagging, the blocklist is dissolved

gun to my head right now my primary ranked slate I think is Pritzker Buttigieg Harris and rep. Casten & sen. Murphy as sleeper picks each has significant caveats of course and I expect this to change once campaigning actually begins

not that it's an excuse per se but I really do think there's something to the idea of the Senate simply being *that flawed* as an institution that the only rational course of action to those within it seems irrational to those outside it. the amount of continuity in it rivals that of SCOTUS

this needs to be bigger

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this too is pivot to wiki

I don't hate the idea of more media, but you gotta answer 2 big qs: 1. what is the outlet's purpose such that it's a more valuable use of marginal $ than a tiny chance of winning? r we doing partisan media? who gets editorial control? 2. how are you going to get people to pay attention to them?

"I agree this administration needs to face accountability. But I think the American spirit of unity we will see when people reject the GOP at the ballot box will be greater accountability than any criminal penalty" [EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER]

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hey Ds it's time to recognize these billionaire controlled outlets as your enemy. stop posting on X

JD Vance had the opportunity to be a normal human being and show some empathy for the family of a man who was murdered. To nobody's surprise, he’s doubling down on being an asshole.

I will never vote to send U.S. taxpayer dollars to Israel. Especially when communities here at home are being told there's no money for schools or healthcare.

don't think this is right because what people are doing is taking their awareness of the symptom (UI pop exists) and backfilling in the root causes. only real way out is mass amnesty in waves up until republicans fold and agree to reforms

new outlets should consider the bounty model for media funding

this too is pivot to wiki

Today, for @publicenterprise.bsky.social, I'm doing some buy-side research for policymakers: How do renewable energy project financing conditions challenge public agencies' ability to deliver on their clean energy goals? Here's our latest research note: publicenterprise.org/report/resea...

Pushing back on this a little bit: Media conglomeration is bad but it does not prevent us from organizing & disseminating truth. If big media is ignoring it, and it's not breaking through social media algorithms... those aren't our only two options

sc instead of qp because I've already annoyed Caley about this but I really want to emphasize that there is no inherent civic benefit to starting up new local *newspapers* in the current attention bc you cannot get people to pay attention to them! we must organize information w/ *purpose*.

the ninth amendment has always felt to me like a sleeping giant of constitutional interpretation

We told you. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Ohio people. Please write your state representatives and senators asking them to support SJR 7. It would allow municipalities to use a land value tax. If you are unaware of the benefits of a land value tax over something like a property tax, then I'm more than happy to discuss.

And just look at the responses this headline generates. “Democrats are dumb why didn’t they just slash health services to the bone?“