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In the March 1981 issue of the @bulletinatomic.bsky.social, conflict resolution expert and Harvard Law School professor Roger Fisher described his “quite simple” idea to force US presidents to viscerally confront the lethal consequences of ordering a nuclear attack. books.google.com/books/about/...

So maybe I’m dense but I’m not seeing the distinction between “Congress can lay taxes to provide for the general welfare” and “Congress can lay taxes and can also provide for the general welfare.” The argument is rock stupid either way but even taking it on its own terms I don’t get it.

There was a liberal court for a few years in the mid 20th century and the right wing response was to delegitimize for DECADES right up to the point they had a supermajority, at which point it became Wrong to do so. These people think you are stupid bsky.app/profile/chri...

How stochastic terrorism works - Trump leverages the threats he induces against even Marjorie Taylor Greene's family www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m... One important reason that so many Rs are scared to challenge him.

I was in a small, funky restaurant in LA years ago, which only had a single toilet. Tried the door but locked. Waited a long time. Quiet. Finally juggled the knob again. Sigh. Just as I was gonna knock and say something out came Alanis Morrisette. Ironic.

The entire point of this slop is to divide Americans.

Amazing news...

The utter perversion of the #BrokenTimes' both-sidesing compulsion: Here it equates the right-wing ruin of New College with (checks notes) liberal (in any sense of the word) education, which it dismisses as just another "ideological bubble." Just fuck off.

Wonder if Chuck Redd has a Go Fund Me set up yet…

Rewatched "Raising Arizona" for the first time since the 80's last night with the family. When it first came out it seemed boldly surreal - I remember being delighted by that. So much so that Roger Ebert didn't quite know what to make of it. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/rais...

If you want to know why Israel is the way it is, it was built by people like this (and their predecessors who survived and were formed by prior episodes of racial and religious antisemitic violence).

My love gave me several gifts on Christmas morning but this single, perfect garlic bulb is my favorite.

A realization I’ve come to over a lifetime of reading the uniquely influential NYT is that it cycles between periods of benignity punctuated by strategic malevolence.

Jesus it’s inconceivable I’ve grown so old, but I remember when everyone in the MD/VA burbs between the ages of 18-21 drove into DC to get shitfaced and drive home.

An undertaker’s idea of nature

We’d have a utopia here in Earth if *only* Ken Martin would hand it to them…

Finally, technology has achieved what mankind has been dreaming of since time immemorial

Historian Elizabeth Gillespie McCrae's book on massive resistance uses the term "the constant gardeners of white supremacy" to describe the grassroots activists who did the key cultural work of building the coalition for massive resistance. They all seemed so nice! www.google.com/books/editio...

Great thread

Again, it is utterly shameful & demonstrates the total failure of all of our political institutions that threatening our closest NATO allies with territorial conquest has not immediately ended this presidency.

Even more telling, *the intro to the Vox podcast* casually drops in the fact (the only primary source I can find cited in any of this) that, while women now publish more books than men, MEN ARE STILL PUBLISHING MORE BOOKS NOW THAN THEY EVER HAVE BEFORE. There is MORE room now, not less.

so this is actually turning into a really good conversation about how to get your posts read on bluesky

I don’t know why but this makes me laugh so hard.

Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed

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I don't know who needs to know this, but Jesus is not everyone's savior in the United States.

Let’s goooooo!

if you're wondering why your trans friends everywhere are a little on edge right now, it's because a story about a radical conservative christian student abusing rules and processes to deliberately target a trans instructor consistently gets reframed to omit the entirety of the anti-trans bigotry

Trump’s White House UFC fight is an elevation of brutality. Fascism has appeal because its energies exist within all of us. We all have the capacity for hate and violence. What makes liberal democracy unique is how it asks us to transcend our basest selves. www.liberalcurrents.com/merry-christ...

The setup of Dukes of Hazzard replaces the Black characters with white hillbilly coded white characters.

Here's a particularly juicy nugget I found in my reporting . . .

Although fascist activist Bari Weiss is leading the charge as chief MAGA censor at CBS News, the Ellisons also installed a SECOND Trump mouthpiece there. It's a fully fascist propaganda outlet now, CBS News is gone. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

John Brennan is trying to preempt Aileen Cannon in the SDFL Grand Conspiracy conspiracy. Of particular note, Ken Wainstein notes that she may end up being a witness in any conspiracy theory tied to the MAL search. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...

This is a pretty shocking mass exodus. Heritage's legal department is basically a ghost ship at this point. And I have to imagine they'll really have to dredge the absolute bottom of the barrel to restaff it at this point. reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Of course he’s BFFs w Leonard Leo - fascists destroying democracy gotta stick together. @jennycohn.bsky.social

Hollowing out existing brands can only accelerate America’s epistemic crisis. Eventually left-of-center elites will stop reinforcing the idea that this stuff’s worth reading and we’ll all be doing our own vaccine research.

Ready or Not, Here They Come — Notes From the AI Force-Feed …. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ready...

Kennedy Center Board President weighs in on CBS controversy

Your art history post for today: by Rigoberto A. González (born 1973), Refugees Crossing the Border Wall into South Texas (The Flight Into Egypt), 2020, oil on linen, private collection. #painting #oilpainting #immigration #Refugees #Christmas

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

Pence "said Heritage had 'fallen' because it had embraced elements of isolationism, stopped backing Ukraine in the war with Russia, supported some tariffs and backed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as HHS secretary, among other things," including that they "have been willing to tolerate antisemitism."

Wait, if this is such a grand idea why not run this experiment in the wealthy suburbs of Dallas and Atlanta?

The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.

So worth a watch

JFC. The screen-shotted dipshit has clearly never done research, because some of the best discoveries you make in that process are "the garbage that you don't need to read." I don't need a dumbfuck computer to tell me what's "relevant." My god, I can feel our collective IQ lowering BY THE SECOND

My latest on the Kremlin's puppet, Tulsi Gabbard, laundering Kremlin propaganda from inside U.S. intelligence while Russia wages a genocidal war in Ukraine and escalates attacks across Europe.

Again: It was likely released selectively, as the DOJ is clearly gunning for Clinton. But there's no reason to believe it was planted, which is MT's core claim, and there's no evidence at all that the children's faces were obscured for any other reason than that they were minors.

It really does impress me how the conservative foreign policy power structures literally have zero beliefs at all, if (insert D here) was what Trump was doing, they’d all be going ape shit about how they’re not taking the China challenge seriously