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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 3h

This is true but I doubt the capacity of the legal system to effectuate such punishments Miss all the shots you don't take tho

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 8h

I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 5h

Networks are natural monopolies, so here we are.

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nancy 10/5/26 “Sluggo’s Terrible New Hat” Part 7

Nancy shudders, reflecting on her past week of Sluggo Hat Trauma… this week, the nightmare continues….

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"South Korea has already run the experiment. Its law requires the National Assembly to vote on presidential impeachment by anonymous ballot, and that rule has now removed two presidents." [@andycraig.bsky.social]

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A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis

Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The best ethics reform package would be consequences

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't know why this surprises me, but I assumed you'd have Dwarf Fortress on your list.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"There is a lot of ruin in a nation."

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There's already a pretty good economic incentive for this; peopl with an undergrad science degree and then a JD often go into patent law and make bank. The root issue is most people who choose to become lawyers are doing so because they don't have enough maths for med school.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He had *south carolina* as a tossup

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I very much fear an unstable equilibrium where every party across the west believes it will have two to four years to loot and crush its enemies but won’t bother trying to govern in the long term, because the voters are too fickle

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is not a problem you can fix with calm, reasoned debate. you can't even fix it by improving people's lives with policy. there is no clear, proven, non-violent solution to this issue. finding one is the most significant problem of our age.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

what is goin on with that left toe

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No, you're correct, this one is arguably even better than

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Jim Davis, Online @jimdavisonline.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

AI has democratized the experience of being kicked in the head by a horse

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One of the interesting things about Trump's America is that virtually anyone who has *literally any moral beliefs at all* eventually ends up bitterly opposed to Trump. Hence stuff like Resistance Liberal Bill Kristol or Kamala Supporter Liz Cheney.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In spite of being of the correct generation to have grown up while "Peanuts" was still in active publication, it's always a little surreal to be reminded that the most popular comic strip in the English-speaking world for fifty solid years was about an eight-year-old with clinical depression.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...

liberalcurrents.com

We Have No Supreme Court

The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nurses can be. The bigger marker is that both take advanced degrees of one kind or another.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ok, I may have been misunderstanding. I thought you meant like personal care aides specifically.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I mean, it's obvious why. Nobody wants to do care work, and the pay is worse than Target. Plumbers at least make bank, potentially.

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On the Hegseth thing, I just stop every so often to sit in the disgust of a government official just casually tossing around slurs in a prepared speech

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the actual answer. Reconstitute the supreme court as a rotating panel of randomly selected federal appellate judges.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a civil claim, so trump can't pardon it. Pardons are for criminal charges, not civil.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ok, how does a klan act claim differ from any other 1983 claim?

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...

newrepublic.com

The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too

The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Skipped the Nazis, huh.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah, trump can pardon domestically but not in the Hague.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Technically speaking, more serial murder than mass murder. Lots of individual separate murders.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It is, but the reason is that literally everyone knows Trump did crimes, that isn't news (Republicans just think crimes are ok when Trump does them)

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

that chatbot doing that unsafe/violative thing is not it 'going rogue' or an 'unfortunate incident of unintended consequences,' it’s the logical and devastating consequences of an unsafe product put out by irresponsible companies that have been conditioned to believe consequences dont exist for them

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Guilty of talking to a black woman.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

By the time someone like Trump has been elected to leadership, so many different parts of society have all separately and individually failed. Blaming the office of the presidency itself is like blaming the heart for multi-systemic organ failure.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Goddammit, now I have to figure out a whole new-ass Witcher 3 build I thought I had this problem solved ten years ago

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For the same reasons. Only authoritarians even want that kind performative bullshit. They have to keep doing it in new ways to reinforce everyone's compliance.

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

With alt text. I yelled

INTRODUCTION

The equities here could not be more one-sided. Defendants admit that they
provide a service without fully knowing how it works.

This is not just any service. It is one that Defendants themselves concede poses an existential risk to the continued
survival of humankind.

Defendants claim they cannot stop barreling forward with their potentially civilization-ending endeavors unless they are forced to do so by the
government. They have asked the government to tie them to the mast.

Plaintiff brings good news to the Defendants: The Florida Attorney General is answering your
cry for help with a motion to enjoin you from harming Floridians with your reckless, unacceptably risky product.

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Hieronymous Alloy @hieronymous.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This has been my take too. It isn't that people think they've personally hit rock bottom; it's that we all think we're about to go over the edge of the cliff. Good ol' Wile E. Coyote Time Economy right now.

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