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Look, I know this could refer to countless people, but ... Andrew Sullivan. The answer is Andrew Sullivan.

Interesting take on 6-7

Be gay, do

This book is so painfully up my alley that I may just have to purchase it as a little Christmas treat.

GLHM is one of the (completely random (laudatory)) load-bearing beams of the Sky. See also Faine, Micah, Jerry. If he's now directing congressional strategy, that would be a *huge* improvement over the regular Dem consultants.

Moaning Myrtle was autobiographical self insertion

Aye, bruv.

Really excellent reporting from HamNo on what's happening in New Orleans with ICE.

Surprising stats: There are more Christians in the Asia-Pacific region than there are in North America. The *only* region with fewer Christians than North America is MENA. Link: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Those who heard the stuff about dog eating and they/them and still voted for Trump are moral failures and degenerates. I don't want them in my home because I don't trust them not to steal things. I don't want them around me because I'm embarrassed to be seen with them. I want to forget they exist.

just logged into Nextdoor for the first time in a month, the boomers are still nailing Accidental Dril tone

i know people know this, but just a reminder that the dc circuit is a 7/4 split (3 trump judges plus a ghwb judge) and yet every 3 judge panel always contains 2 trump appointed judges.

If you think things are bad in the US now, it's much worse than you know.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

NOLA in the NYT: - inserts partisan GOP criticisms of Moreno, blaming her for problems caused by Teedy's reign of terror, without any counterbalance or context - bizarrely frames Moreno's victory as if it were driven by Latino/immigrant voters (Dems with their identity politics!) archive.is/FGNus

Re Hillary Clinton. How fitting that she was the candidate that first lost to Trump in an election that should have been a cake walk. She's the embodiment of the rot that pervades the Democratic Party. Like a walking tumor.

A remarkable piece of journalism. (From Politico, of all places!)

No person has been closer to Volodymyr Zelenskyy since the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine than Andriy Yermak — and no absence may matter more. My analysis with @fabricedeprez.bsky.social on today’s massive political shakeup in Kyiv. www.ft.com/content/56f7...

For me: SoCal NO QUESTION followed by the Bay (I'm partial to Walnut Creek). Nothing hits like California.

How good is Wake Up Dead Man? Well, @leahschnelbach.bsky.social's seeing it four times in theaters:

In what may be my opus, I present my list of movies I consider to be, spiritually speaking, Thanksgiving movies. houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/a-guide-to...

I reupped Netflix for Stranger Things (yes, I realize this is embarrassing – very Hufflepuff-in-bio coded – so sue me) *but* was fretting about not being able to remember past seasons. PROBLEM SOLVED!

Saturday neighborhood pop up at the corner of Magazine & Napoleon in New Orleans. We're all bracing for the regime's assault as though we're preparing for a hurricane. We've got this.

The plan would be a stupefying, kleptocratic hand-over to Trump. He would personally (!) become head of some vast reconstruction fund for Ukraine? This plan is Putin dangling to Trump a job, for life, as a resource-engorged Russian oligarch (in case he should ever be, you know, forced out as POTUS.)

As always, who fucking knows what's going on in the White House.

We'll see. I'm not sure we should put much weight on the reassurances of Lil Marco.

Bass Pro Shop

THIS!!!!!! (Former FM of Lithuania)

This address by President Zelenskyy is heart-wrenching. Faced with the—expected— US betrayal, he must be able to count on Europe. If Europe does not help Ukraine defeat russia by all necessary means, it will bury its dignity, its principles, its legitimacy—and its security.

🧵 Especially worth it for the perfect final post

Trump’s plan is to make a democracy that is fighting for its very existence, a vassal to a brutal and oppressive dictatorship. He is making the USA an accomplice to Ukraine’s eventual destruction.

If those fash motherfuckers thought being chased into the Carolina woods was too much to endure, wait until we chase 'em into da bayou. Karma's a bitch, and she ain't forgot Alligator Alcatraz.

"All the talk of Trump pivoting to Ukraine, of Trump being angry with Putin, of Trump wanting to be an honest broker, all of it is finally dead and revealed to be the nonsense it always was. The tragedy, of course, is that people ever believed this self-destructive fantasy in the first place."

I don’t care what happens with the Texas legislative maps. Democrats should still gerrymander the shit out of blue states.

Unclear how it's going to play out here. In New Orleans proper, you'll likely see Chicago-like resistance. But the largest immigrant communities are in JP, which is fairly right-wing and also governed by Republicans.

This New Orleans operation is going to closely resemble what we just went through in Chicago.

Is it misogynistic to say that Olivia Nuzzi is ugly? Would that make the same comment regarding Stephen Miller misandrist? Why is it okay to comment on his physical appearance but not hers? Some of our modern pieties escape me.

Municipal austerity is going to amplify the effects of the imminent recession. I have no idea if it's necessary, but it couldn't happen at a worse time.

New Epstein file just dropped by the Trump DOJ ... and I've got some bad news Team Blue:

Justin, saying that AI replaces cognition is exactly congruent to saying that Ponzi schemes replace mutual funds. Convincing simulacra that appear to be doing impossible things are not replacing anything except other grifts. As labor saving tech they’re more mechanical turk than spinning jenny.

Should health insurance cost more than rent? Actually, probably yes. But not with the artificial scarcity we've built into the housing market. We can't expect people to pay what health insurance is "worth" when they're paying $2000 or more per month to live in closets in most major cities.

Fascism experts: “this is fascism! I’m getting outta here!” The Death of Expertise guy: “this doesn’t look like anything to me”

Conveniently, these will have already been built by the time they're needed. Is there any reason to let all that capital investment go to waste?

She was, it turns out, always a true believer, and for the autocrat, the lying insincere clever opportunistic courtier who doesn’t believe a word of it is more reliable than the true believer.

I'm not as anti-Pete as a lot of people on here, but this is absolutely disqualifying. "Expression in the Democratic Party"? Did Kamala squint at him the wrong way? GTFO.

I keep coming back to Watergate. Nixon was fine until opinion among the party base shifted. He resigned when enough GOP members of Congress followed the base. How does Trump lose his grip on the party? Hammer away on something that gets the base to turn on him. That seems to be Epstein.

I want boring government that works! I want policies that ensure everyone has the same chances I had, allowing you to succeed or fail on your own merits, and if you fail, you’re not abandoned on the streets, but you get to brush yourself off and try again! I want the American dream for everyone.

A remake of the Tim Curry board game murder-comedy, only all the suspects and the victim were openly in one big consensual relationship unit, called Cule

65% chance Jay, Paul, et al. interpret this as a death threat. WE LOVE TO SEE IT.