I didn't resent the ultra rich until they made their wealth our problem.

Hey, @schiff.senate.gov @amyklobuchar.com @whitehouse.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov, I would hope at the least the Judiciary Committee would send the Chief Justice a letter reminding him of 28 USC §455(b)(2), which requires Kavanaugh to recuse himself, without any exercise of discretion.

Sometimes I think about the fact that the man I forced to retire from his plum position in the federal judiciary for sexual harassment represented Donald Trump in his Twitter lawsuit appeal and how one of his former clerks was Brett Kavanaugh and another former clerk was Trump’s former head of OLC.

As @bradmunchen.bsky.social notes, the rise in Tesla's stock, completely detached from any material business event, is fueled by strategic messaging and gamma squeezes. Financial media is failing us an order of magnitude worse than political media. It's a giant con and Wall Street is in on it.

What the Trump regime is doing is clear evidence that the American separation of powers has failed. The larger piece of evidence though is that all of this could be stopped if like just a dozen people in the other branches decided to.

This year, during aseret y'may teshuvah, I want to deepen my ability to stay connected to love and trust - even when afraid, activated, or angry. I want to trust more that the people who love me most can hold my autistic nature during those waves and to follow that love back into a regulated place.

Do not weaponize us. Do not pretend fighting “causes” is the same as defending our lives. If you want to defend autistic people - start by centering autistic leadership, stop amplifying genocidal rhetoric disguised as “science,” and refuse any policy that treats our existence as negotiable.

I would love a bot that dubbed every Stephen Miller speech in the voice of The Simpsons' Squeaky-Voiced Teen.

*clears throat* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

In my head, Elon is sharing about the AI loli he made and beats off to, while Trump is sharing about the actual teenagers he molested with Epstein.

There is nothing wrong with autistic people and we do not need to be “cured.”

The dragon in question

Riley Gaines running into a brick wall at full speed?

Bearing a cross on wheels is a great metaphor for Christian oppression

Ken's takes on speech, law, and culture are a lighthouse beacon on a stormy night: piercing through the fog and bullshit obscuring everything to show the clear path home. Looking forward to part two.

Uhhhh am I missing something or is this not just two minutes of Charlie Kirk getting thoroughly pwned (including by himself)???

Bibi was able to take the tactical defeat of 10/7, which, for a brief moment, engendered an almost unprecedented international support for Israel, and turn it into the most consequential strategic defeat (by his own standards) in Israel's history.

so the president just tweeted out an offense worse than watergate, we all realize that right?

I don't understand why the largest seltzer brand doesn't team up with the largest hard seltzer brand. They can call them "White Croix."

This is a simple, straightforward scandal the press knows how to cover and the normies can understand in a sentence: quid pro quo bribery and cover-up. Jeffries/Schumer said they wanted to "wait for the right pitch" before swinging. It doesn't get easier to knock it out of the park than this.

Testing a theory: reskeet if "every ICE agent will be unmasked and tried for their crimes" would get your vote

In the oral argument in the immunity case, Trump's lawyer's answer to the question, "What would be the check on the President just using his officers to break the law?" was, "People will not follow illegal orders." We're about to find out whether that's true.

😲 RIGHT UNDER OUR NOSES, the U.S. Air Force has become a *domestic prison bus service* for Kristi Noem and her growing army of ICE abductors ⤵️

When the LA protests broke out, the Discourse included a lot of lefties saying it was stupid/wrong to bring the American flag to protests, due to all of America's past and present sins. This is why they were wrong. This photo will change hearts and minds. This photo will break through to normies.

One way our media and political systems are ill equipped for this moment is that they need One Big Scandal™ to latch onto: something uniquely extreme to justify extreme consequences, like impeachment. But when Trump commits a new, clearly impeachable offense daily, they can't latch on.

Like, I don't know how to tell you that if criminal lawyers and Black folks are giving you the same advice about risk mitigation around the cops, you really should just listen.

The Black people I've worked with through the non-profit I co-founded have shared with me incredible wisdom I just didn't have access to otherwise, most impactfully around solidarity and trust-building in organizing. And y'all would be wise to listen and learn too.

*siiiiiiigggghhhh*

I’m sorry @vanityfair.com hiring Nuzzi is such a fucking gut punch to all the great underemployed journalists out there who don’t sext with their sources, which, to be fair, is pretty much everyone except Olivia Nuzzi

It's been said many times over the last 8 months by people much sharper than I am: If Trump were actually a Russian asset, what would he be doing differently than he's already doing?

Rich people, especially rich people in the media & entertainment industries right this moment: The point of having fuck you money is saying “fuck you” when it counts.

When Abrego Garcia went to SCOTUS, I said to my colleagues at the time it was one of those pivotal make-or-break moments for the Republic. This is the next one.

this is some pitch perfect Minnesota Nice

Oh HELL no. If you have to sign up to know the location of a protest, then you should absolutely not trust that organization. At all.

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

What the Trump regime is doing is clear evidence that the American separation of powers has failed. The larger piece of evidence though is that all of this could be stopped if like just a dozen people in the other branches decided to.

Back in Boston for the first time in quite awhile. My years here were really formative, and it both feels like yesterday and a million years ago. Big feels. Also I'm happy to report Logan is still under construction as it will be until the end of time.

Got it. DC is just the Sudetenland and Jeffries is basically Chamberlain.

I was texting my spouse that a friend of ours was going to IOP (for mental health support) and they thought I had misspelled that they were going to IHOP (for breakfast) and now we simply agree there should be an Intensive House of Pancakes.

What Charlie Kirk and Jesus have in common is that American Christofascists absolutely hate it when you quote them directly.

The spouse came home with some new stickers. They're a hell of a sticker picker. 🥇

What Charlie Kirk and Jesus have in common is that American Christofascists absolutely hate it when you quote them directly.

At least three commenters, every single time Ken White posts anything:

*me, looking at the comments of another of Joel's posts in this genre*

By noting that not all Jews live there, and not all who do voted for the current government. This is not complicated.

Let's say it again: 1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off. 2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off. It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.

My brain is a microcosm of early Bluesky. It's mostly thoughts as weird as Alf hog and it's always deeply uncomfortable for everybody when one of them escapes containment.

I think this point is far more important than we realize. The fact that we consume completely different media showing us completely different things is a huge driver of division.

There's a Texas state rep right now named James Talarico (oh hey, he's here, hi @jamestalarico.bsky.social) who is a rising star in the Democratic party with a bright future. Smart, principled, and clear in his communication. Follow him and keep an eye out.