you do suicide by police on the streets. you do suicide by secret police on social media.

the oath you took to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States was not an oath to protect and defend John Roberts' interpretation of it.

i'd kind of like a timed block feature. it's better to block than to engage when people are shitposting and trolling, but i don't like permanently isolating myself from people. i want the incentive blocking encourages (be civilized or be ignored), but without permanently banishing people.

i think we can agree that the nomination we all watched him withdraw from was rather young.

an irony of these times we're living through is it's failure of the Reagan Revolution that's about to put an end to the New Deal.

i think we have to concede that republican nannygates are spicier.

perhaps it was the wisdom of the American people to heighten the contradictions.

sometimes i worry that it is our inclination to insist upon competent fascists.

the richest man on the planet understands that you may suffer some hardship.

“even if i am lying to you, the sin is yours for failing to give me the benefit of the doubt.”

They’re just not even pretending anymore. Except when Democrats threaten to do anything similar. Then it’s *Radicals Destroying The Constitutional Order*. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... via Kevin Drum

would the bluesky analog of “tweep” be “skype”?

all these takes as if Harris lost on "the issues". her takes on the issues poll much better than his takes, my dear popularists. she lost because he was perceived by low information, go-with-your-gut, voters as someone willing to let it hang out while she was cautious, scripted, hiding something.

before Trump, in these United States, what fraction of Congressional elections are competitive?

we’re living in an 80s movie in which the bad kids occupy the principal’s office and announce over the squealing PA there will be changes. all the kids cheer! you are supposed to cheer.

sometimes you lose touch with it in the confusion of the quotidian. but then all of a sudden clear and pure the stupidity shines through, blinds you and leaves you breathless.

“you can be ground to dust, and the echoes of your ghost will be used by your grandchildren to justify new atrocities. the death of your babies will be used to explain why someone else’s babies must die.” ~Phillip Mendonça-Vieira okayfail.com/garden/theyr...

[new draft post] Plutocracy as a positive ideal drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/11/19/p...

“A central pillar of American democracy is that no man is above the law. But Mr. Trump isn’t an ordinary man.” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o... ht @jamellebouie.net // well then. which truths do we hold self-evident?

“i saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked” i think to myself, man, y’all really dodged a bullet.