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WildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Francis Fukuyama keeps the winning streak alive.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
if the Dems sweep Georgia they should do Jim Crow to white people just so the Supreme Court finds it illegal
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
i don't really know how "the government is sending deportees to dangerous countries on purpose to imprison or kill them" is not a bigger story
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/06/2026
that’s right
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
torn between wanting the Supreme Court to be thrown back into the basement of the Capitol and wanting an 80-or-whatever-person Supreme Court sited on the southern axis of a completed McMillan Plan
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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
"Don't blackmail me with the supreme court" -many people in 2016
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
faux liberalism (ezra klein) vs actual liberalism (mill)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/04/2026
calls for “viewpoint diversity” are little more than demands for a quota system for political conservatives who otherwise could not hack it www.aaup.org/academe/issu...
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Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity
Demands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of truth.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Can we, as a nation, sell him for some percs?
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
you can admit and subdivide states until the marginal state is California 71
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
trained police are allowed to react with unpredictable lethal violence and untrained civilians are obligated to behave entirely predictably to the threat of lethal violence
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
We didn’t beat the British at Yorktown so I would be forced to know who Carl Schmitt is. Every time an American mentions the Friend-Enemy distinction George Washington weeps.
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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
We should have a 2nd wave of mostly-compulsory primary education that happens somewhere in your 30's or 40's. You are going to relearn history and reread classics, this time with the benefit of far more worldliness, and you'll interact with a broad slice of your community.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/12/2025
i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/11/2025
this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Everybody talks as if this is impossible, but all Democrats need is the will to power. Which is to say, the will to admit DC as 250 states so we can rewrite the constitution at will
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/11/2025
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/11/2025
one thing that other candidates need to learn from mamdani is how to deliver the most cold blooded attacks on an opponent with a smile on your face
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/09/2025
media.tenor.com
a man in a suit and tie smiles next to another man in a helmet
ALT: a man in a suit and tie smiles next to another man in a helmet
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
right. precisely. the right as presented in the media is not even the right as it presents itself, but rather "the right as it would be fair to represent them if they were worth debating."
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
It is unfortunate to speak ill of a man on the occasion of his death, and I do not do so cavalierly or idly. But how much more unfortunate to live a life that calls forth such truthful condemnation.
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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 09/09/2025
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
If you think that due process only applies to citizens then ask yourself what you would do if someone accused you of being a non citizen. Either we all have due process or no one does. The Constitution affords the former. SCOTUS has unleashed the latter.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/08/2025
trump does not intend for the next january 6th to fail www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Trump order calls for broader National Guard role in domestic unrest
President Donald Trump’s National Guard directive was issued as he touts his efforts to assert control over D.C. and muses about deploying troops to other major U.S. cities.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/08/2025
new piece from on the 60th anniversary of the voting rights act, and what the law has meant for american democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Donald Trump and John Roberts Have a Lot in Common
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
admit every block in Washington DC as its own state
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
we have to destroy the Republican majority on the Supreme Court or they will reinstitute Jim Crow
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
the reason it was extraordinarily important to persecute Trump and his sycophants under the Biden Administration is that it would have reduced Trump's support among Trump supporters. it is precisely his impunity which makes him popular among authoritarian submissives.
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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
You can just create a new district court that only has jurisdiction over the uninhabited bits of US Minor Outlying Islands and transfer them all over. This stuff is super flexible.
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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The most infuriating thing about the whole "mental acuity" stuff isn't the rank double standard, it's that even if the absolute worst case scenario with Biden were true, he would still be a better president than Trump, an out-and-out fascist.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/07/2025
the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
we need to turn Marco Rubio over to the Hague for sending people to CECOT
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
“…he presented his Texas ID, Social Security card and a wallet-sized birth certificate. The agents refused to believe he was a citizen and took him into custody. “I told them we had rights and asked to make a phone call. But they told us, 'You don't have rights to anything'," Galicia told the paper”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/07/2025
i'm reading this charles sumner speech from february 1866 and my dude is cooking
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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Wonder if there's a lesson in this. Oh well, probably not
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Jonathon M. Floyd @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
If we're ever going to have a chance of rebuilding from this mess, the left-right axis is far less important than the fight-don't fight axis. Moderates who are willing to do whatever it takes to recover from Trumpism are far more valuable to the left than "leftists" who just care about their seats.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
the reason that i am so insistent on primaries is that the supreme court will have to be expanded and the votes will be, at best, tight, and no one in a solid blue seat should be a vote which is even vaguely in question
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I think that Republicans really need to start staking out culturally moderate positions
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/05/2025
once again my full throated support and endorsement for any democrat who pursues criminal legal accountability for the DOGE boys. and i’d be fine with shipping these guys to the Hague
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/05/2025
the trump administration, obviously concerned with racial equality, thinks its illegal discrimination to spend federal dollars protecting a predominantly black community from raw sewage
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/04/2025
my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison
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futur 🔹 @futur.blue · 07/04/2025
tariffs day 6 update: mechanical keyboard hobbyist discord server discussing political violence
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/04/2025
roberts et al have divined the Actual Intent of the constitution, which is to allow the government to exercise nearly unaccountable power to strip people of their rights. it is why we fought the revolution!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/04/2025
you, a rube: “i want my kid to grow up to be a doctor or an engineer or a teacher” lutnick, a genius: “to make america great again your child will make iphones that they will not be able to afford”
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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
When Harris said it would be $4,000, the “fact-checkers” tut-tutted and claimed what she said was only “half true” because there were some lower estimates. The “fact-checkers” lied; Harris was telling the truth.
Kamala Harris
Stated on August 22, 2024 in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention:
Former President Donald Trump "intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax ... that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year."
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TRUTH-C-METER™IF YOUR TIME IS SHORT
• During his 2024 presidential campaign, former President Donald Trump has repeatedly proposed wide-ranging tariffs on imported goods.
• The specific projected dollar impact on consumers varies. Two estimates we found broadly support Harris' $4,000 figure; two others show a smaller though still significant - impact.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/04/2025
me to the united states: this could be us but you playin’
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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Yes. Stop suggesting that bad rulings need to be reversed with constitutional amendments. It grants legitimacy to the incorrect interpretations.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Schopenhauer? I hardly knowpenhau'er.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Lovely post and illustration from @helendecruz.net on one of my favourite passages from Zhuangzi, my favourite philosopher helendecruz.substack.com/p/lady-li-de...
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Lady Li: Death and the maiden
Lady Li was a daughter of the border guard of Ai. When she was first captured and brought to Qin, she wept until tears drenched her collar. But when she got to the palace, sharing the king’s luxurious...
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