AOCincinnatus
@aocincinnatus.bsky.social
He/Him
Chicago
Annoying about politics
Fanatical about public transportation
Chicago
Annoying about politics
Fanatical about public transportation
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When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement
Florida GOP Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar to Trump: "Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far ... The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today"
September 17, 2026 at 3:02 PM
When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement
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Homeowners in California and Florida will eventually go to their state governments to make them whole when predictable climate disasters destroy their properties, and the states will beg the federal government for the money, and it will take the strength of a thousand suns to tell them, "No"
this whole thing is madness inducing but the middle paragraph here is the one that made me say "oh we're FUUUUUCKED fucked" out loud
September 19, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Homeowners in California and Florida will eventually go to their state governments to make them whole when predictable climate disasters destroy their properties, and the states will beg the federal government for the money, and it will take the strength of a thousand suns to tell them, "No"
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The site had operated as a school for nearly ten years, was on Google Maps, and had its own website.
A UN report said the failures "went beyond negligence" and may constitute war crimes.
The Pentagon investigation has been complete for months but hasn’t been released.
A UN report said the failures "went beyond negligence" and may constitute war crimes.
The Pentagon investigation has been complete for months but hasn’t been released.
September 19, 2026 at 9:42 AM
The site had operated as a school for nearly ten years, was on Google Maps, and had its own website.
A UN report said the failures "went beyond negligence" and may constitute war crimes.
The Pentagon investigation has been complete for months but hasn’t been released.
A UN report said the failures "went beyond negligence" and may constitute war crimes.
The Pentagon investigation has been complete for months but hasn’t been released.
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A Pentagon investigation found that the murder of 123 Iranian children at the school in Minab resulted from a cascade of failures, Bloomberg reports.
* Outdated intelligence that still classified the school as an IRGC facility
* Outdated intelligence that still classified the school as an IRGC facility
September 19, 2026 at 9:42 AM
A Pentagon investigation found that the murder of 123 Iranian children at the school in Minab resulted from a cascade of failures, Bloomberg reports.
* Outdated intelligence that still classified the school as an IRGC facility
* Outdated intelligence that still classified the school as an IRGC facility
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Right-wing politics is laden with contradictions, but "We're the movement of authentic, traditional masculinity who have to ask for help sounding tough from the calculator" is one of the funnier ones.
Lmao zionists on Threads leaving their ChatGPT response headers in their slop revealing they asked it to make them sound like Andrew Tate, scum attracts scum
September 19, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Right-wing politics is laden with contradictions, but "We're the movement of authentic, traditional masculinity who have to ask for help sounding tough from the calculator" is one of the funnier ones.
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If you smoke cigarettes in a large crowd, especially where no one can leave, you're a bad person
September 18, 2026 at 11:28 PM
If you smoke cigarettes in a large crowd, especially where no one can leave, you're a bad person
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ISAAC CHOTINER: well mr. cruise, im impressed. you've given me absolutely nothing
TOM CRUISE: [weirdly aggressive handshake] its been a pleasure. what was the name of that series you mentioned?
ISAACH CHOTINER: dragonball z
TOM CRUISE: goku, right. excellent, thanks for having me
TOM CRUISE: [weirdly aggressive handshake] its been a pleasure. what was the name of that series you mentioned?
ISAACH CHOTINER: dragonball z
TOM CRUISE: goku, right. excellent, thanks for having me
September 18, 2026 at 10:15 PM
ISAAC CHOTINER: well mr. cruise, im impressed. you've given me absolutely nothing
TOM CRUISE: [weirdly aggressive handshake] its been a pleasure. what was the name of that series you mentioned?
ISAACH CHOTINER: dragonball z
TOM CRUISE: goku, right. excellent, thanks for having me
TOM CRUISE: [weirdly aggressive handshake] its been a pleasure. what was the name of that series you mentioned?
ISAACH CHOTINER: dragonball z
TOM CRUISE: goku, right. excellent, thanks for having me
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“The vibes on the ground are the worst I’ve seen in my life…”
Hmmm. Can’t relate.
Hmmm. Can’t relate.
September 18, 2026 at 10:19 PM
“The vibes on the ground are the worst I’ve seen in my life…”
Hmmm. Can’t relate.
Hmmm. Can’t relate.
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also this, the hegseth purge can go both ways
you want to go along with this shit? your career ends on Jan 20, 2029
you want to go along with this shit? your career ends on Jan 20, 2029
We need to purge the military of everyone who went along with Hesgeth's bullshit. Forced retirements and tribunals. I don't care if it impacts "readiness," can't have a fascist army and a republic as the same time.
okay but like i think step 1 for D defense policy in 2029 is just "take a flamethrower (metaphorical) to military high command"
September 18, 2026 at 11:40 PM
also this, the hegseth purge can go both ways
you want to go along with this shit? your career ends on Jan 20, 2029
you want to go along with this shit? your career ends on Jan 20, 2029
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A perfectly banal sequence of human communicative actions (person A says thing, person B says they disagree with thing person A said) is gets framed using sensationalizing language ("Provocative," "under pressure," "headaches"). The insinuation: Muslims disagree. SCARY!
The NY Times is in “but her emails” mode regarding Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker. Relentless and unfair. Where’s the big story about a Republican megadonor who is a white supremacist? Maybe NYT has heard of him. His name‘s Elon Musk.
September 18, 2026 at 2:01 PM
A perfectly banal sequence of human communicative actions (person A says thing, person B says they disagree with thing person A said) is gets framed using sensationalizing language ("Provocative," "under pressure," "headaches"). The insinuation: Muslims disagree. SCARY!
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Incidentally, this story itself is good evidence why "disavowing X" is a trap. The simple act of disavowing then takes over as being the center of the controversy. The disagreement was not vehement enough, and the condemnation was not firm enough.
The NY Times is in “but her emails” mode regarding Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker. Relentless and unfair. Where’s the big story about a Republican megadonor who is a white supremacist? Maybe NYT has heard of him. His name‘s Elon Musk.
September 18, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Incidentally, this story itself is good evidence why "disavowing X" is a trap. The simple act of disavowing then takes over as being the center of the controversy. The disagreement was not vehement enough, and the condemnation was not firm enough.
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This is a trap, of course, the game of “do you condemn” is not designed to end the controversy, but to perpetuate it. As soon as you condemn, then your condemnation becomes the controversy. The goalposts shift. Only exit is not to play
Incidentally, this story itself is good evidence why "disavowing X" is a trap. The simple act of disavowing then takes over as being the center of the controversy. The disagreement was not vehement enough, and the condemnation was not firm enough.
The NY Times is in “but her emails” mode regarding Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker. Relentless and unfair. Where’s the big story about a Republican megadonor who is a white supremacist? Maybe NYT has heard of him. His name‘s Elon Musk.
September 18, 2026 at 11:37 PM
This is a trap, of course, the game of “do you condemn” is not designed to end the controversy, but to perpetuate it. As soon as you condemn, then your condemnation becomes the controversy. The goalposts shift. Only exit is not to play
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The NY Times is in “but her emails” mode regarding Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker. Relentless and unfair. Where’s the big story about a Republican megadonor who is a white supremacist? Maybe NYT has heard of him. His name‘s Elon Musk.
September 17, 2026 at 9:23 PM
The NY Times is in “but her emails” mode regarding Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker. Relentless and unfair. Where’s the big story about a Republican megadonor who is a white supremacist? Maybe NYT has heard of him. His name‘s Elon Musk.
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Yes, and also pass laws prohibiting individuals who hold fascist beliefs from serving.
September 18, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Yes, and also pass laws prohibiting individuals who hold fascist beliefs from serving.
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Speaking of guys who should be jailed, hanged, or shot.
![In September, Gaiser signed a memorandum arguing that the U.S.'s maritime strikes on alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean were lawful, comparing alleged drug traffickers to foreign nations attempting to invade the United States. 23] In November, he told congressional lawmakers that the U.S. strikes on Latin American cartels was not subject to the War
Powers Resolution and did not require congressional approval, an interpretation disputed by some legal experts as a violation of U.S. and international law. 24] That month, he authored a memorandum arguing that it was legal to detail military lawyers as immigration judges. The memorandum was criticized by some legal scholars as an unprecedented expansion of executive authority. (251](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:beirch5u3d3ybvuct27mtyxd/bafkreifzbwmtvnhyf3wbwmilyunbkuxsqhbitwouq4lffybntajnptqi3a)
![In December 2025, Gaiser drafted a memo declaring it lawful for the Trump administration
to order a military operation to seize Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. 26] The following month, he issued an opinion declaring that a federal statute prohibiting the mailing of
concealable firearms was unconstitutional. 27] In April 2026, Gaiser authored an opinion declaring that the Presidential Records Act
unconstitutionally infringed on the president's executive authority and that Trump did not need to provide presidential records to the National Archives and Records Administration, claiming that the act was "untethered from any valid and identifiable legislative purpose" [19] In May, he supported a proposal by the Department of Justice to use Keepseagle v. Vilsack (2016), a class-action lawsuit settlement, to establish the Anti-Weaponization Fund, a program to compensate victims of supposed prosecutorial
overreach. 28]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:beirch5u3d3ybvuct27mtyxd/bafkreigpgbddwcpoxjtgpree5g5gplxyf7rbnzaaqmjroecyq4wwjaihgu)
September 19, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Speaking of guys who should be jailed, hanged, or shot.
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But like everyone involved with the boat bombing massacres should be rolled up the chain of command, tried, and either jailed or, if they had any real opportunity to refuse orders and declined, hanged or shot.
September 18, 2026 at 11:41 PM
But like everyone involved with the boat bombing massacres should be rolled up the chain of command, tried, and either jailed or, if they had any real opportunity to refuse orders and declined, hanged or shot.
I would also accept flamethrower (literal) in many cases
okay but like i think step 1 for D defense policy in 2029 is just "take a flamethrower (metaphorical) to military high command"
September 19, 2026 at 1:30 AM
I would also accept flamethrower (literal) in many cases
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We need to purge the military of everyone who went along with Hesgeth's bullshit. Forced retirements and tribunals. I don't care if it impacts "readiness," can't have a fascist army and a republic as the same time.
okay but like i think step 1 for D defense policy in 2029 is just "take a flamethrower (metaphorical) to military high command"
September 18, 2026 at 11:27 PM
We need to purge the military of everyone who went along with Hesgeth's bullshit. Forced retirements and tribunals. I don't care if it impacts "readiness," can't have a fascist army and a republic as the same time.
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keith haring, grace jones, fela kuti, and jean-michel basquiat photographed by andy warhol. at mr. chow, nyc (june 1986)
September 18, 2026 at 5:38 PM
keith haring, grace jones, fela kuti, and jean-michel basquiat photographed by andy warhol. at mr. chow, nyc (june 1986)
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“Big tech isn’t scared of AI-apocalypse they’re afraid of Lina Khan” sounds like a resist lib post but it’s actually true (making it a resist lib post)
send skeet
send skeet
Based upon their documented behavior over the past few years, the tech industry is less afraid of the potential ramifications of Artificial Superintelligence than they are of Lina Khan.
September 18, 2026 at 10:59 PM
“Big tech isn’t scared of AI-apocalypse they’re afraid of Lina Khan” sounds like a resist lib post but it’s actually true (making it a resist lib post)
send skeet
send skeet
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Hearts of Iron is literally the same game as Pokémon Rangers. It's a game about drawing circles. That's what you do. Everything else is just bullshit to sell the game to unhinged Balkan ultranationalists, transsexuals, and Trump supporters.
September 19, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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desperately want to break the hold that slim, tapered, low rise pants have on my generational cohort
Fighting for working people from Michigan to Florida.
46 days to elect Abdul El-Sayed and Angie Nixon to the U.S. Senate.
46 days to elect Abdul El-Sayed and Angie Nixon to the U.S. Senate.
September 18, 2026 at 10:57 PM
desperately want to break the hold that slim, tapered, low rise pants have on my generational cohort
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The Supreme Court's "shadow docket" allows justices to effectively make rulings in secret without explaining their decisions.
Is it any wonder why so many do not trust the Roberts court?
https://www.propublica.org/article/supreme-court-shadow-docket-rulings-milestone
Is it any wonder why so many do not trust the Roberts court?
https://www.propublica.org/article/supreme-court-shadow-docket-rulings-milestone
September 18, 2026 at 8:45 PM
The Supreme Court's "shadow docket" allows justices to effectively make rulings in secret without explaining their decisions.
Is it any wonder why so many do not trust the Roberts court?
https://www.propublica.org/article/supreme-court-shadow-docket-rulings-milestone
Is it any wonder why so many do not trust the Roberts court?
https://www.propublica.org/article/supreme-court-shadow-docket-rulings-milestone
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elite DC reporters love Standing Up To Power over trivial matters when they are certain the president won't punish them for doing so
remembering again when Jake Tapper loudly stuck up for Fox News when the Obama administration moved their chair in the briefing room to the second row
Who will show more commitment to, and solidarity in support of, First Amendment values: members of the White House Correspondents Association, or opening acts for Ed Sheeran?
September 18, 2026 at 7:48 PM
elite DC reporters love Standing Up To Power over trivial matters when they are certain the president won't punish them for doing so
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well also Jake Tapper is pretty openly right wing lol
September 18, 2026 at 8:01 PM
well also Jake Tapper is pretty openly right wing lol