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It feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence.
the thesis of “these dumb liberal women would disperse if they were met with violence” seems to ignore the part where two observers have in fact been shot and killed in the street, and the response has been a greater mobilization in terms of raw numbers then the New England colonies in April 1775
This is the line the Stephen Miller faction is trying to push, and if they aren’t crushed within the Trump admin by other factions thereof, they’re gonna call up Amerimaidan.
They like him and want to help him
After Trump tells NBC News he could maybe use a "softer touch" on immigration, we immediately get the "different tone" narrative from CNN.
Brianna Keilar: "A change of tone for the president. Softer touch."
David Chalian: "He acknowledged learning something that this requires a softer touch."
Bezos gets to choose on a whim to destroy the Washington Post, just as Thiel can destroy Gawker, Musk can ruin Twitter, Ellison can take over TikTok, etc. Millions of others' opposition counts for near nothing.
Provo is going woke I’m afraid. Utah county will fall
Class solidarity is strongest amongst the elites. Tucker supposedly hates Hunter & demonized him nightly on his show yet he felt confident in asking for this favor.
remember when Tucker Carlson asked Hunter Biden for help getting Tucker's kid into college?
college application help is my go-to example for how American guanxi works - in its most powerful form, it can't be a simple market transaction, but still grows out of business and power relationships
well here's one news story about the thing I've been obsessively tweeting about for days (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
Epstein Helped Woody Allen’s Daughter Get Into College, Emails Show
So, remember that Episcopal bishop in New Hampshire that told priests to get their wills in order because “we are entering a new era of martyrdom"?
I ran across historical precedent for that today.
It's from a radio transcript
@rns.org produced about a Lutheran bishop in Denmark…
…in 1943.
The American belief in the difficulty of cooking is the product of a multicultural society and cosmopolitan liberal elite aspiration of home cooks to prepare cuisines from a variety of ethnic traditions that employ distinct sets of staple ingredients in this essay I will
fish sauce and chili peppers are her go-to for inflexible ingredients? really?
Dems should co-endorse and tell people to vote based on the first letter of their own last names
‘Blood in the water.’ Why Republicans fear an upset in MTG’s backyard.
A 21-person race to succeed Marjorie Taylor in Congress has Georgia Republicans on edge, worried the crowded field could benefit Democrats.
“I will never cancel the visionary who wrote a book length apologia of Slobodan Milosevic” is disqualifying enough, even if you don’t know the pedo stuff!
incredible 🤣
And you gathered your hair behind your head
Like God was gonna catch you by the ponytail
this is a crucial point
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Lol sesame noodles are an "I'm tired and don't want to cook so I'll throw something together with pantry ingredients" meal
why are we like this in america
This was Biden's whole deal and everybody hated it.
My campaign ad in 2028: you will go months without thinking about politics. Your government will function. You will be able to worry about what color the dress is or if the boy in the balloon is okay, not whether you’ll wake up to a tweet about invading Vanuatu because I saw a tik tok.
Doomerism is a demonic temptation:
“And if you fall again, then rise again, without despairing at all of your salvation, no matter what happens. So long as you do not surrender yourself willingly to the enemy, your patient endurance, combined with self-reproach, will suffice for your salvation.”
I taught a class on “hope” last year and the few theorists who’ve written on it all point out that hope is the harder choice - that despair is easy and too often fashionable
DC is actually being treated thoroughly as occupied territory. Tearing down monuments/media institutions, hostile takeover of its core economic engine and industry, suppression of its local municipal government and security forces
In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires.
I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.
we are a decade into trump as a politician and everyone with any power to push back on his abuses continues to stick their head in the sand about how he responds when you don’t
Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening
oh my god the ENDLESS SCREEDS about how Biden Isn't Doing Anything For The Workers And The Cost Of Living
now we're gonna use our fucking longform post feature (cause she has the official "I support the CSAM Machine" blue check) for ENDLESS NUANCE about Trump's fucking Food Simulations????
When my kids are my age and hanging out on holonet social media, there's gonna be a post about how someone's grandpa gets PTSD from hearing whistles and it will be ratioed into the next habitable cluster because people find out grandpa was an ICE agent who dodged the Truth and Reconciliation trials
"ICE guys are pretty miserable. I don’t think morale is particularly high for them. They’re freezing, they’re getting shouted at. They can’t go anywhere without being tailed by 5 cars. They get out and immediately there's a crowd of 100 people shouting at them, blowing whistles as loud as they can."
Inside the resistance with Will Stancil
"It's something I could do to keep them from stealing my neighbors."
our government used a Blackhawk helicopter in a major American city, detained children and zip-tied U.S. citizens all to target... squatters
and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public."
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building
The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...
One big, cruel grift bankrolled by some the worst men - and a reminder that all education is political.
A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan.
It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash.
“ICE GTFO OF MN”
Minneapolis February 4, 2026
pom poko is one of my favorite bands, so i'm finally getting around to watching the movie
This feels personal. 😠
OPINION: Humans Should Be Slightly Smaller So We Can Easily Consume Them
BY: your cat
Womp, womp
"’It could be that small numbers of posts were removed or shadowbanned in a way that is not visible in the overall trends,’ wrote the researchers, who added that users who experienced that the word ‘Epstein’ was being blocked in private direct messages was not possible to study…”
If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can:
drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
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I just want to call this line from petitioner's counsel out specifically:
"We shouldn't need a specific court order to ask the DOJ not to put somebody's life in danger."
Bars.
Theres legit so many b2b bullshit SaaS companies that could be replaced by claude and one programmer in a day
the new NYT piece on our national burrito taxi addiction offers a fascinating glimpse of the mentality that fuels a certain someone's hideous empire of endless scamming
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/d...So for those interested. A person in the Epstein files who was UK ambassador to the US till last Sept, is being investigated by police over leaking confidential govt information to Epstein in 2009, and is likely to be charged.
He has links to our PM so it’s a good chance we’ll have a new PM soon.
jiminy christmas, while some people really don't want to go beyond midwest lutheran seasonings, it's really easy for people to just... add sauces and spices and whatever.
if this were coming out of any number of other mouths they’d be getting absolutely roasted for their caucasity. maybe she is anyway I dunno
like historically this sort of thing is rather popular. nations went to war for spices, people spent good chunks of their disposable incomes on spices.
I do as I must.
They’ve been on this for a minute. More teaching + post tenure review (and contracts) plus ai supercharged productivity surveillance tools also makes professors more vulnerable to student evals, which gives admin more power to fire you. That’s the plan.
"Imposing minimum teaching requirements...has been touted as a way to cut costs and 'better focus university resources in the classroom,' .... The notion is also gaining steam in conservative circles as a means of ensuring faculty productivity and curbing 'intellectually unserious' research."
The Campaign to Make Professors Teach More
Lawmakers say faculty members don’t work enough. Is this about productivity or punishment?
One of my favourite foreign policy photo games is 'count the women'. Because it's a visual representation of how much the entire discourse has changed in just a year
Nine women, 47 men, if you're interested
Meanwhile, during all the delays, ICE agents are pressing detained individuals to self-deport, claiming they'll never get out otherwise. All AFTER the Court has ordered their release. And then when they are release, they're dumped on the side of the road, in 0° weather, in Crocs.
The Supreme Court settled this in 1954 (Accardi): immigration judges are supposed to be neutral. If they bend to the executive's whims instead of acting neutrally, deporting people bc the President dislikes them, the deportations are unlawful.
supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...
Accardi v. Shaughnessy, 347 U.S. 260 (1954)
Accardi v. Shaughnessy
Within a month of our President calling all Somalis "garbage," saying "they contribute nothing" that "they come from hell," "I don't want them in our country," the DOJ appears to be creating a separate process for deportation proceedings based on nationality just for Somalis.
I have never seen anything like it. I don't know what's actually going on, but several attorneys reached out to me this morning and said all of their Somali clients were also transferred to the same judge and now have court on the same date in March. And I don't know for sure why. But it's chilling
I'm not sure what to make of it, but every Somali I represent in immigration court currently (8 of them) have today had their hearings cancelled and their judges reassigned. They're now all assigned to a video judge from Louisiana and scheduled for court hearing in one month. 🧵
CIA Agent goes to doctor. Says she's depressed.
Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great unstable government is in town tonight. Go and start a color revolution. That should pick you up."
CIA Agent bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor... America is that color revolution.”
Sedevacantism, more and more people are saying. There is no valid office holder, all acts are void, the 46th president was Pence [2 weeks], and the 47th was Biden.
Bro they're actually gonna get Maduro to say he helped rig the 2020 election in exchange for dropping the charges aren't they?
The latest on Gabbard as fringe conspiracy drives her voting investigation: “The sources said the goal was to work with the FBI to investigate claims that Venezuela had hacked voting machines in Puerto Rico.”
Exclusive: US spy chief's office investigated voting machines in Puerto Rico
A team working for President Donald Trump's spy chief, Tulsi Gabbard, last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico's voting machines, said Gabbard's office and three sources familiar with the pre...
It was
@asharangappa.bsky.social who first put this idea in my head, but really starting to feel like they're gonna try to get Maduro to cop to some insane 2020 election conspiracy in exchange for leniency
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Exclusive: US spy chief's office investigated voting machines in Puerto Rico
A team working for President Donald Trump's spy chief, Tulsi Gabbard, last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico's voting machines, said Gabbard's office and three sources familiar with the pre...
I have no doubt they're going to try everything they can, but they literally don't have the guys to pull this off. And the more this starts to look like a blue wave, the harder it's going to get for them to engineer something different.
There were 89,000 polling places in 2022.
8 states have all-mail elections.
At least 5,000,000 Americans marched in the October No Kings demonstrations.
They have 15,000 guys. They couldn't "surround the polls" if they wanted to.
Chicago: Isn’t it weird that sometimes Ashland is a Boulevard and sometimes it’s an Avenue? We’ll explain the history behind this curiosity this evening on public radio.
Boston: Yeah this street runs north-south and east-west and will intersect with itself 7 times; f you if you can’t figure it out.
No child, but especially not a sick second grader on the way to urgent care, should be detained by ICE and then trapped in a facility with measles. I cannot stand by while my constituents' rights are stripped.
I’m headed to Dilley to conduct oversight and do everything I can to bring them home.
