that pales in significance next to the question of which fellow citizens.

once you understand that the right is them and the left is anyone who fails to cherish, worship, and protect them, you understand that of course it is the left who has attacked them.

we believe in your freedom to speak admiringly of us.

a job you’ve considered secure and built your budget around is a great point of leverage.

i think this is unfortunately accurate. towards the end of the Biden Administration, i'd have said the ship of state was turning, insane doctrines ("no industrial policy") of prior decades were cast aside. although it would be coming from behind imperfectly, you should not count the US out. now?

before the civil war we were "these united states". after these guys are through, that might seem aspirational.

we are united in our opposition to political violence.

“Authorizes the State Department to revoke passports to any individual who been charged, convicted, or determined to have knowingly aided, assisted, abetted, or otherwise provided material support to a foreign terrorist organization.” // how narrow or broad might such a determination be?

they were tired of being mocked as conspiracy theorists, so when they found themselves in power, they had an idea. “let’s us actually conspire! *we* then can mock them as conspiracy theorists, if they accuse us of what we’re obviously doing. if they don’t, well, then they are just vain dupes!”

Okay!

(i’m not commenting on religions, except to the degree they behave as political movements.)

cut him loose in what sense? is your view that the Trump administration will start restricting travel unless SCOTUS intervenes to forbid it? (or perhaps the same dynamic but more quietly, the administration only does it once they’re pretty sure the court will play ball?)

what odds would you give to some Americans being prevented from international travel (by eg passport revocation) at the pure discretion of the executive branch, within the next three years?

yet more evidence that the writers lack subtlety. ht @pamelahayter.bsky.social

every accusation is a confession, part MDLVXIII.

it’s rather astonishing how a news event that to a first, second, and third approximation has nothing at all to do with trans people has nevertheless been dominated by controversializing about trans people.

there is a bit of an eat-your-vegetables aspect, but in the same way that in the old days National Enquirer and Weekly World News might have been “more fun” than your daily newspaper, but you weren’t actually all that tempted to do your reading there.

@jorgeo.bsky.social great to see you!

totally a good idea to trust US tech cos with your confessions.