Reposted by Don ZekoJonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 1hI'll say it again: It doesn't matter what Democrats say now, or intend now. They will impeach Trump, because he won't give them any choice. So I hope they're preparing themselves for it. 05114
Reposted by Don ZekoCait @caitesq.bsky.social · 4hIt turns out that cross-examination is hard, and a lot of it comes down to preparation and knowing your record 1117814
Reposted by Don ZekoCJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 3hI mean, yeah, the book and mail bans are a two-bird-one-stone thing for prisons, because they're "doing something" about contraband and also further degrading incarcerated people. Three birds, actually, because mail and books are replaced with third-party tablets and kiosks they can monetize. 0219
Reposted by Don ZekoAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13hOne thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr... 292696608
Reposted by Don ZekoI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026Fact that within a midterm cycle much of the Republican Party and the political apparatus around it dove into repealing segregation orders and debating the role of Indian people in public life is a huge indictment of the “woke went too far” idea but again acknowledging that means self reflection. 111730
Reposted by Don ZekoBen Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason." 11859261273
Reposted by Don ZekoAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac... 4953701185
Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026There's a reason d&d makes intelligence and wisdom separate attributes 3132
Reposted by Don ZekoRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Inhumane civil confinement violates Due Process if officials manifest “deliberate indifference” or the conditions are “punitive.” Judge Kaplan found both. Evidence suggested that “harsh conditions” were “a deliberate feature” to incentivize self-deportation. 5/5 213943
Reposted by Don ZekoPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026There need to be penalties for the companies and individuals who bribed Trump, not just the Trump family for taking bribes. 215636
Reposted by Don ZekoAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i am simply asking democrats to treat the supreme court as the ideological political opponent that it is 1238482
Reposted by Don ZekoDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case. 412099712
Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I am so tired of watching these vile bigots get blessed by the federal judiciary. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...newsobserver.comCan religious freedom override equal protection in a Wake school classroom?Lawyers disagree on whether families have a legal right to opt out of classes taught by a transgender teacher due to their religious beliefs. 190
Reposted by Don ZekoEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026”Frodo did not offer her tea.”static.klipy.comKendrick Lamar Singing at Super Bowl Halftime ShowAlt: Kendrick Lamar Singing at Super Bowl Halftime Show 1343
Reposted by Don ZekoJacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Taught the Fugitive Slave Act for the first time in a few years. Man, my head was spinning as I uttered my familiar refrain about how the FSA radicalized Northerners who maybe never thought much about slavery until they saw people being snatched off the street right in front of them...static.klipy.comEuphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About UsAlt: Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us 202160536
Reposted by Don Zekojamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign. 884018698
Reposted by Don ZekoAubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Hanania overtly says what you can tell a bunch of elite media and tech people believe, and his posts basically divide into three categories: 1) sexual assault isn't real and sex with teenagers is OK, 2) racial group aren't equal and Black people in particular are dumber, and 3) technocracy is 6436
Reposted by Don ZekoScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026On Sep 11 in Alamo, Texas, Luis Ochoa and another teen stopped to film ICE agents during a vehicle stop near a school. Agents pulled one from their car, struck him, used pepper spray, and detained them for 8 hrs even after they proved their citizenship, one ICE agent stating, 'I don’t give a damn.'krgv.comMother of teen detained in viral Alamo ICE arrest video deportedThe mother of a 17-year-old detained by ICE in a viral Alamo, Texas incident has been deported to Mexico, raising concerns among legal experts about potential retaliation for speaking out. 11318189
Reposted by Don ZekoRobert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026By the by, this is where the malapportionment of the Senate manifests The Democratic Party as such can compete for the chamber, but the version of the party that can win the chamber has to moderate a lot to win the tiny rural states 511718
Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It's election season and football season, so that means I get to watch several Willie Horton ads every Sunday. 151
Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Cards on the table because we keep litigating this. 1) trans rights are human rights and trans people are being horribly persecuted across the country. Defending them needs to be part of the Dem platform 2) moderates selling them out is bad policy and bad politics, with limited exceptions for... 2165
Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The question we have to ask in 2029 is if we want that to be 5-6 justices out of 9 or 5-6 justices out of 13. 2102
Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Quick, somebody get Stancil to post about the transporters in star trek 1151
Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I'm also thinking about this in my professional life because I have a very high stakes trial coming up. It's a weird inversion of the principle where I'm the general but the guys doing the dying get to make the biggest decisions. 160
Reposted by Don Zekojamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress? 430103801919
Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I found this essay persuasive and very widely applicable www.liberalcurrents.com/clausewitz-a...liberalcurrents.comClausewitz and the Supreme CourtTo forgo any effort at protecting American democracy or the rights of its people in the name of norms is mere moral cowardice. 25611
Reposted by Don ZekoChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism" 193197737
Reposted by Don Zekojamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026but again, genuinely hilarious (derogatory) for a guy whose father was a klansman to say "the presence of nazis in the republican party is because black people wouldn't shut up." oh, is that why nazis immediately began organizing in the wake of donald trump's 2016 victory too? 262951247
Reposted by Don ZekoThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Shouldn’t be wading into Discourse this early but man, there’s a huge difference between saying “the laws of war permit a lot of war, even a lot of the stuff you think is really bad about war” and “it’s neutral to positive that this specific awful thing happened,” and people are pretending otherwise 71297
Reposted by Don ZekoWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 17/09/2026our sincerely held moral beliefs and principles that we are willing to sacrifice on principle for. their cynical lies, excuses for seemingly irrational behavior that are surely explicable by some hidden opportunistic greed. 2765
Reposted by Don Zekojamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026“trump will destroy everything he cannot own in perpetuity” is one reason i am filled with dread over 2028 26590911474
Reposted by Don ZekoMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026There are thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of stories like this from the past couple of years: stone-faced, banal, unnecessary cruelty with the full weight of the federal government behind it 522889
Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I probably shouldn't engage in this particular discourse but the screen grab here is someone either totally ignorant of how government works or someone deliberately misleading people for clout. 7531
Reposted by Don ZekoJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...nbcnews.comLutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer fundsA top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues. 1773207927
Reposted by Don ZekoCait @caitesq.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Hard to put it more clearly than Andy does here: “Having constitutional government and leaving the Roberts Court in place are mutually exclusive options.” 0146
Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 13/09/2026When people who voted for trump in 2024 to make them rich send their kids to college in 15 years and wonder why their flagship state school is so much shittier and more expensive than they remember, they won't put two and two together. They should. 0132
Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The US Senate had a Republican majority in 2016. That was due to the results of the elections in 2010, 2012, and 2014. If the Dems had a majority in 2016 the supreme Court would have a 5-4 Dem majority today. Every election has effects which echo decades into the future. 27111
Reposted by Don ZekoNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026In practical terms, the closest the US has ever gotten to Medicare for All is when the ACA extended Medicaid eligibility to tens of millions of people, and it is genuinely bizarre how many M4A fans want to either pretend the Medicaid expansion never happened or downplay its significance. 48110
Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 10/09/2026We (and especially the news media) seem to be once again falling into the trap of analyzing Trump's behavior under the "could he definitely be convicted of a federal crime for doing this" standard rather than asking whether it's a good or appropriate thing for an elected official to do. 140
Reposted by Don ZekoJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Horrific though unsurprising report from @propublica.org: Ectopic pregnancy deaths have basically doubled since the end of Roepropublica.orgEctopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ... 381323739
Reposted by Don ZekoSeth Trueger @mdaware.org · 08/09/2026we can do better! better things are possible! 07216
Reposted by Don ZekoKung Hei FYat Choy!-Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026You could hit PR's listening to this 1135
Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The bird in blue feathers fled across the desert, and the coyote followed 283
Reposted by Don ZekoMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 05/09/2026It’s out of season. Intra coalition conflict season goes from Jan 21, odd years to September 1 in even years. But September 1 even years to Jan 20 odd years is strictly conflict with reactionaries season. This may require not fighting anyone in Bsky for some time 427027
Reposted by Don ZekoThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Symbols matter. They matter *deeply*. I’m not saying we should have a flag burning amendment, but people *care* about the flag and what they believe it stands for and we should recognize and work with that fact. 2775
Reposted by Don ZekoMcJulie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I believe this as well. As egalitarian marriage increasingly became the norm for male-female couples, it seemed increasingly ridiculous to not have same sex marriage 0244