If AES loses the general election, it doesnt just free up Trump to destroy the Supreme Court. It will validate every electability argument the mods make against the progs for a generation. The real battle has only just begun.
Dana Decker
@thedanadecker.bsky.social
Astronomy, walking, photographs, mathematics
thedispatch.com/newsletter/b... January 30, 2025 by Nick Catoggio Thom Tillis, the most pitiful mollusk in a Republican Senate aquarium chock full of invertebrates,
This New York Times article, which ran a week before Christmas last year, didn’t get the attention it deserved. It detailed Trump and Epstein's predatory behavior toward women – “a game of ego and dominance” in which “female bodies were currency.” Here’s a gift link and a thread. 1/6🧵
‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women (Gift Article)
The president has tried to minimize their friendship, but documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were cur...
nytimes.com
I feel the same way when people say like our institutions are bigger and more important than one man, I think it’s been conclusively proven true that no they aren’t
Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 3d agoThis point is just objectively true youtu.be/ODE1D6NV1xQ?...
Robert Kagan bulwark podcast July 30 2026 (interviewed by JV Last) at approx 45 minute mark audioboom.com/posts/893398...
The reflecting pool saga is interesting because it crystallizes how capricious fascism is: Making stuff up (ie lying), criminalizing people, and acting with impunity.
Ad over at the hellsite. Why is it Permain Basin? Should be Permian Basin.
Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino posted this video of the Oval Office and it somehow looks even more embarrassing than I realized
MAGA jump rope rhyme: Con man, sadist, criminal, thief, rapist, traitor, Commander in chief.
Worst part of the new @status.news report is that the Bari Weiss team appears to get its view of what is actually happening in the world from Twitter. They were asking Vega to include things that *weren't real* b/c they didn't know any better. www.status.news/p/cecilia-ve...
WALL STREET RALLIES AS AI FEVER RETURNS! MICRON SOARS 13%, NVIDIA EXTENDS GAINS, LIFTING THE S&P 500 AND NASDAQ DESPITE BRENT CRUDE NEARING $92 AND RISING INFLATION CONCERNS.
The Call by Remedios Varo, 1961. Source: National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
"When six justices walk away from those they are supposed to protect, state constitutions hold the line. That is not defiance. That is the design." The Supreme Court's credibility is starting to run dry with state courts.
Niko Bowie@nikobowie.bsky.social · 2w agoThis state supreme court opinion pulls no punches: “This court does not anchor Hawaiʻi’s due process rights to the federal floor. Especially one that keeps sinking. . . . State constitutionalism makes it easy to consider Roberts Court jurisprudence ‘white noise.’”
The epic investigation in the New Yorker by Heidi Blake seems to have lit a fire under UK criminal justice bureaucrats, who'd messed up last time they had a chance to prosecute the Tates (including some pretty horrendous victim blaming Blake recounts). Journalism matters for justice.
Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse
How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.
newyorker.com
Greek soldiers rampage out of large walled horse WHY IT MATTERS: the towers of Ilium have been toppled ZOOM IN: this is great news for MENELAUS, bad news for PRIAM SPLIT SCREEN: Cassandra vindicated but it’s Odysseus who gets the win
Please read this book. An essential American parable about how we sell our entire selves to the most charismatic of con men. I'll never forget the ending of this book, and deeply want to see a film audience grapple with it.
Drew Dietsch@drewdietsch.bsky.social · 3w agoHope I'll see this finally get to the screen in my lifetime.
The fact that it is now impossible to remove a complete lunatic from the most powerful position in the world is a clear sign that our constitution has failed. The genius of our founders is very overrated
11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies’ Archive of Americana Architecture: Download, Use & Re-Mix
11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies’ Archive of Americana Architecture: Download, Use & Re-Mix
Many connoisseurs of architecture are enthralled by the modernist philosophy of Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, and I M Pei, who shared a belief that form follows function, or, as Wright had it, tha...
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