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For that matter, I think a lot of the defensive anger at gay men from other men is actually from how acknowledging our existence preemptively threatens “making” them impose such restrictions on themselves. Something you ALSO see in this story.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 2h

You saw this with the way the logic of homophobia requires enforcing unprecedented levels of restriction on homosocial affection.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 2h

The logic of transphobia is pushing people towards demanding completely unprecedented levels of gender segregation.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 6h

It’s striped, which the work of Toby Fox has taught me is what makes somebody a kid.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 17h

In my head today: If they drive you to the crimin’, they’re a fed. If they drive you to the crimin’, they’re a fed. If you don’t know much about ‘em, and you can’t get there without ‘em, If they drive you to the crimin’, they’re a fed. (Don’t claim credit for this old meme, obviously)

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 17h

I mean, yeah, I’m here for it.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 17h

Holy shit, POTUS just killed a bunch of Ukrainian civilians, seemingly because they didn’t back up his fake story about a ceasefire their enemies were ignoring. This is such a wild fucking betrayal.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 18h

Okay, but Liberal Currents is pretty solidly LibLeft, tbh. Like lib first, but left is definitely coming along, too.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 18h

Thinking about this again.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 18h

I will say, my problem with the Laken Riley Act vote (besides the law itself, obviously) is that it undermines Ossoff’s best selling point—his hatred of the GOP and willingness to go balls to the wall to fight them. The LRA was a moment of foolish and pointless cowardice.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 19h

nobody is ever allowed to tell me shit about America's culture of rugged individualism ever again

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 20h

Well, I’d really like a tight labor market, anti-cyclical financial stimulus to individuals, and a broad and deep welfare state, tbh. All of which are inflationary policies.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 15/10/2026

The existence of moving chains has been documented in multiple cities across different countries using increasingly fine-grained and sophisticated data. The relationship between housing supply, demand, and rent growth is well known. Denying these phenomena is quackery.

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Movin’ On Up: How Costly New Homes Create Affordable Old Homes - California YIMBY

In housing policy, a common theory of how to provide the maximum number of affordable homes to the greatest number of people is known as “filtering:” the process through which aging homes depreciate, ...

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 15/10/2026

This article quotes a sociology professor, a lawyer, and an architect who reject the notion that housing prices are set by supply and demand and do not believe that building more homes reduces rents. It is the housing policy equivalent of platforming climate change deniers.

sacbee.com

Would building housing reduce poverty in California? Sacramento-area experts split

A recent study argued that building housing could lower state’s poverty rate, currently the second-highest in the U.S. behind Louisiana.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 21h

It also suggests that there is no sustainable majority antagonistic to authoritarianism or in favor of basic civil rights, just a temporary coalition that hates inflation.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 21h

I mean that’s not true in all kinds of ways, but it’s the way it’s effecting them in a way they understand to be POTUS’ fault—but that’s also disillusioning for democracy because it means that it’s very hard to do leftist policy that is in any way inflationary even if it improves welfare.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 23h

“Textualism” is not actually a coherent idea—you are always importing a conception of purpose and intent when you interpret statute. And a decade and a half of practice demonstrate that parliament absolutely did not conceive of a strictly biological reading of sex (because it’s ridiculous).

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 23h

Pollsters fed the list to voters, but I am genuinely upset that nobody is asking voters about the fact that we’re still semi-regularly murdering civilians in the gulf and the eastern pacific for no apparent reason.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 23h

I mean it’s disillusioning as fuck (and very bad for leftist policy longterm) that the electorate doesn’t think of the last 10 years as a generational trauma, but “6.50 diesel” is, but like… we have both now.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 23h

I mean, my issue is that I've felt that we've been going through a generational national trauma pretty much consistently since 2016 and thus far the electorate has stubbornly refused to agree with me.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I mean. Yes. I do in fact hate the German Reich and I have quite a few reservations about the Federal Republic and I’m going to note they HAVE begged for forgiveness and even offered my family its citizenship back if we want it. The Russian state has done literally the opposite for its crimes.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

“Sex is read contextually in the statute depending on application and can overlap with gender identity and orientation in a variety of contexts as sex reflects a capacious social category as do all other protected classes covered by the Act.” Boom.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

They absolutely could have and indeed, multiple state courts in blue states with shockingly similar laws DO, in fact, read it differently. They chose not.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Like the US constitution is RIDICULOUSLY hard to fix. The UK doesn’t have any kind of court-controlled super law. There is literally nothing that 51% of parliament couldn’t change. And certainly not a statute passed in 2010 and most recently amended LAST YEAR.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

“Parliamentary amendment” is literally just “a normal statute passed by a bare majority like any other law.” The government could do it literally today with its current votes. Moreover the SCUK decision does not command this outcome. Labour is ACTIVELY choosing this outcome.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Jesus Christ, what is WRONG with Britain?!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2026

i think it is fun when people write things that are just totally in tension with easily observable reality. like, this is “charlie brown had hoes” levels of nonsense: “in his first term Trump largely respected the cultural consensus of the Obama years.” www.compactmag.com/article/how-...

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How ‘Woke 1’ Radicalized the GOP

On May 30, 2020, five days after the death of George Floyd, the head of a prominent DC-area think tank issued a stentorian condemnation of the killing and the bigotry she said had enabled it.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The denaturalization push against Ilhan Omar is so much worse than even previous abuses of federal authority and investigative power. It’s not just that it’s a targeted investigation, but that it’s an effort to achieve something that could NEVER possibly be legitimate.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2026

steve is concerned with the implications of all of this for the judiciary but, with all genuine respect, i really think that one has to approach this as a problem of game theory

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2026

will try to answer these in a piece next week but for now i will say that part of the *point* of court expansion, in my mind, is to create a disequilibrium — a potential race to the bottom — that will force a truce.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I think expansion to make a bench open to more thorough structural reform is pretty essential, yeah.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I’m thinking about Article III protections for the current justices—having created the office of Supreme Court Justice as a distinct thing (rather than an administrative designation an Article III judge receives when selected to serve for a case), can we turn them into mere circuit judges.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I’m trying to decide if this is capable of being done by statute. But I like it as an idea.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The strongest argument for court packing is that any other lever of control is that it leaves the court as a power center to frustrate you. Burning its legitimacy is a feature BECAUSE it leaves the Court itself compromised and unable to directly oppose Congress during the trifecta term.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Calendar manipulation is the only one that achieves the necessary level of insulation during the term of the next presidency, but also has basically all of the deficiencies of court packing WHILE leaving the court majority intact as a power center to oppose you in violation of the calendar statute.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Okay, I’ve read the whole piece and the problem is that it fundamentally doesn’t cope with the fact that without a radical shift in membership, the federal judiciary CANNOT otherwise be reformed quickly and certainly as it MUST be in order to do the OTHER structural reforms necessary in this crisis.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

“The federal legal apparatus is working to strip the citizenship of a member of Congress and then deport her, because she’s from an ethnic group the president and his top aide despises,” is open executive-branch authoritarianism with no parallel in US history

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Amanda Hoey @amandahoey.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The median voter assumes that there is an easy way for immigrants to come here legally that people don’t do because, idk, reasons, and the best possible thing Democrats could do for their electoral prospects is make that actually true, stick it in a dry budget bill, and never speak of it again.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Ukraine? I think deportation is a bad idea. Now. Extradition? That’s a thought.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Russia’s propaganda efforts have been ridiculously, OP-levels of effective?

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I dunno, I wouldn’t mind a high court of justice if we could avoid all the stuff before and after.

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Stardust Coyote (郊狼) 🇹🇼🇵🇸🇺🇦 @coyotestail.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

love it when anarchists say this because most "local community" councils irl in places like new england or small rural towns are typically deeply *right wing* and hate immigrants and queer people despite representing a "broad swathe" of the entire population. leftism is supposed to be COSMOPOLITAN.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Congress should pass a law deeming pardons issued to protect or support wrongdoing by an executive officer or the president, or which are otherwise self-interested by the President, are per se invalid and just rebuild the courts with people who will uphold it.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I mean that would be great if Article V were functional. But it’s not and enables the same small conspiracy against democracy to hold the constitution hostage to protect themselves. I think a long term response is going to involve judicial cabining of the pardon power with legislative support.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I read DC comics, I’m not insulted. I know I deserve judgment.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This renders useless, first and foremost, our interceptor drones. It doesn't limit our ability to attack inside Russia, it limits our ability to stop another apartment building or school full of civilians from being hit. Wow, just wow.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Just so you understand the scale of betrayal: first, our "partners" didn't warn Ukraine about the incoming ballistic missiles, so the air raid alert wasn't activated before impact, robbing people of their chance to survive. Then, Starlink was restricted to stop working at speeds above 100 mph.

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Lawsome @lawsomepup.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Make what you want to see in the world? There are public domain busts you could copy, right?

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