Jane
@janee.bsky.social
Wife of @momma-rose-mtg.bsky.social
Fan of Warhammer 40k, Fire Emblem, Final Fantasy 14, and politics. Trans woman, lesbian
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Fan of Warhammer 40k, Fire Emblem, Final Fantasy 14, and politics. Trans woman, lesbian
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
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I think we should build more housing because it backs up our values as the folks who want to he municipal shining cities on a hill and not just because it’ll possibly win us votes, because it may very well cost us votes because ‘uwu you ruined my Aesthetic that is near and dear to me’
October 5, 2026 at 3:49 PM
I think we should build more housing because it backs up our values as the folks who want to he municipal shining cities on a hill and not just because it’ll possibly win us votes, because it may very well cost us votes because ‘uwu you ruined my Aesthetic that is near and dear to me’
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Gender is paying $777,000 to bring a steel job into town rather than hire ten teachers & caregivers
This always happens when we find out the details a few days later on Trump and Nutlick’s Big Announcements. Art of the Deal.
October 5, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Gender is paying $777,000 to bring a steel job into town rather than hire ten teachers & caregivers
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YES! The Hastert Rule is THE SOLE REASON the House did not pass immigration reform in 2013-2014 when Boehner had every opportunity to pass immigration reform. Even factoring out the pedophilia (which you shouldn't), he did just as much damage as Gingrich did.
Amidst all the fair criticisms for how awful Hastert was as a human, let's not forget the damage he did to our democracy.
The so-called "Hastert rule" further emboldened extremist hardball and disincentivized cross-party collaboration.
The so-called "Hastert rule" further emboldened extremist hardball and disincentivized cross-party collaboration.
Dennis Hastert, the disgraced former speaker of the House who eventually went to prison for concealing hush money payments to children he molested, dies at age 84.
cbsnews.com/news/dennis-hastert-dies-former-house-speaker-illinois/
cbsnews.com/news/dennis-hastert-dies-former-house-speaker-illinois/
October 5, 2026 at 4:46 PM
YES! The Hastert Rule is THE SOLE REASON the House did not pass immigration reform in 2013-2014 when Boehner had every opportunity to pass immigration reform. Even factoring out the pedophilia (which you shouldn't), he did just as much damage as Gingrich did.
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The seesaw between the ever-farther right & the centrist-liberal-progressive entente always sent in after to clean up the right's inevitable fuckups is intimately tied to the fact that people have not been offered this platform despite begging, repeatedly, for anyone to attempt it.
My never-ending mantra is the winning platform is anti-corruption, good governance, & expansion of participation in our democracy. Get the criminals out of govt & people's pockets & in prison; deliver real, appreciable change people can feel; & make people part of something greater than themselves.
October 5, 2026 at 6:08 PM
The seesaw between the ever-farther right & the centrist-liberal-progressive entente always sent in after to clean up the right's inevitable fuckups is intimately tied to the fact that people have not been offered this platform despite begging, repeatedly, for anyone to attempt it.
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A future dem admin could sic the ftc on him for this, maybe the sherman act would apply
Elon Musk has repeatedly used his platform to support authoritarian political figures. His backing of the AfD, Marine Le Pen, Javier Milei and Nayib Bukele has been accompanied by interventions in Brazil, Italy and Hungary, as well as direct involvement in the UK’s far-right political landscape.
Beyond AfD: Tracking Elon Musk’s Support for the Global Far Right
Elon Musk is backing the far right across multiple continents. From Germany’s AfD and France’s Marine Le Pen to Spain’s Vox, Argentina’s Javier Milei and El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, the tech billionai...
globalextremism.org
October 5, 2026 at 6:09 PM
A future dem admin could sic the ftc on him for this, maybe the sherman act would apply
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The Constitution allows it. South Korea has proven it works. If you want to make impeachment viable—and so much else is pointless if you don't—then it can be done by a simple majority adopting a simple rules change: vote on the verdict by secret ballot.
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
www.theunpopulist.net
October 5, 2026 at 5:56 PM
The Constitution allows it. South Korea has proven it works. If you want to make impeachment viable—and so much else is pointless if you don't—then it can be done by a simple majority adopting a simple rules change: vote on the verdict by secret ballot.
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I think the problem is that for whatever reason, society/the media/whoever have correctly determined we need a way to reintegrate millions of people into society and from that incorrectly determined the way to do so is for the people who were wronged to apologize to the people who wronged them.
The press is so invested in a “these aren’t bad, racist people, they were hoodwinked!” whitewash of the Trump years.
October 5, 2026 at 4:42 PM
I think the problem is that for whatever reason, society/the media/whoever have correctly determined we need a way to reintegrate millions of people into society and from that incorrectly determined the way to do so is for the people who were wronged to apologize to the people who wronged them.
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At some point the sheer degree and frequency to which these people can be demonstrably found to be lying about themselves—“I was a lifelong Democrat til da factree closed down yadda yadda”—has to be taken as evidence that the hypothesis about The Workers just being misled rubes is disastrously wrong
Working class Republican found lying about his motivations and history next to fork in kitchen
So, this very sympathetic piece where the subject is “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024”.
5 minutes of checking his facebook shows pro Trump posts as far back as 2019, and a post saying that he “stands with Trump” posted just a couple of days after Trumps coup.
5 minutes of checking his facebook shows pro Trump posts as far back as 2019, and a post saying that he “stands with Trump” posted just a couple of days after Trumps coup.
October 5, 2026 at 4:50 PM
At some point the sheer degree and frequency to which these people can be demonstrably found to be lying about themselves—“I was a lifelong Democrat til da factree closed down yadda yadda”—has to be taken as evidence that the hypothesis about The Workers just being misled rubes is disastrously wrong
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this guy sounds like a minor character in legend of the galactic heroes
“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient."
Hmm, where have I heard this before?
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
Hmm, where have I heard this before?
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict (Gift Article)
Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.
www.nytimes.com
October 5, 2026 at 4:55 PM
this guy sounds like a minor character in legend of the galactic heroes
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never the wrong time for this classic
October 5, 2026 at 5:30 PM
never the wrong time for this classic
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I stand by what I wrote early this year: Trump and Co. will definitely try to steal the midterms. And they will fail, because it's too big.
Trying to buy votes wasn't part of their scheme then. But you should see it as a sign of desperation — that they know their other malfeasance won't be enough.
Trying to buy votes wasn't part of their scheme then. But you should see it as a sign of desperation — that they know their other malfeasance won't be enough.
Trump Can’t Steal the Midterms
The case for being vigilant without panicking.
www.thebulwark.com
October 5, 2026 at 5:43 PM
I stand by what I wrote early this year: Trump and Co. will definitely try to steal the midterms. And they will fail, because it's too big.
Trying to buy votes wasn't part of their scheme then. But you should see it as a sign of desperation — that they know their other malfeasance won't be enough.
Trying to buy votes wasn't part of their scheme then. But you should see it as a sign of desperation — that they know their other malfeasance won't be enough.
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A hallmark of democratic backsliding is government leaders stealing from taxpayers and using public funds to try to get themselves electoral advantages.
Backsliding countries keep the form of elections, but corrupt leaders render them no longer free and fair by putting a state thumb on the scale.
Backsliding countries keep the form of elections, but corrupt leaders render them no longer free and fair by putting a state thumb on the scale.
The amount of money the administration is promising in order to buy votes is significantly less than the amount of money it is taking away in programs and services. And it's OUR money!
The US Energy Department will announce $150 million in new funding for power lines in Alaska on Monday as Vice President JD Vance visits the state, where Republicans are fighting to hold a critical Senate seat in the November midterm elections.
October 5, 2026 at 5:32 PM
A hallmark of democratic backsliding is government leaders stealing from taxpayers and using public funds to try to get themselves electoral advantages.
Backsliding countries keep the form of elections, but corrupt leaders render them no longer free and fair by putting a state thumb on the scale.
Backsliding countries keep the form of elections, but corrupt leaders render them no longer free and fair by putting a state thumb on the scale.
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those fancy southern lads very much thought of themselves as Cavaliers in the mold of landed European nobility (extremely derogatory) - what some today refer to as "warriors." they still got their shit rocked by their hard-drinking USMA classmates and a few college professors-turned-soldiers
Can you imagine being a Northerner at the start of the civil war. All the fancy lad West Point military guys are Southerners. Your president is a backwoods yokel one term congressman and your generals are some guys we found at a 7-Eleven. It's over for our ass...unless all those guys are geniuses
October 5, 2026 at 2:46 AM
those fancy southern lads very much thought of themselves as Cavaliers in the mold of landed European nobility (extremely derogatory) - what some today refer to as "warriors." they still got their shit rocked by their hard-drinking USMA classmates and a few college professors-turned-soldiers
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tl;dr warriors fight for their own honor and to preserve a way of life in which they are at the top of the social hierarchy. Soldiers fight to defend the constitution of the United States.
If you don't understand the difference you don't belong in power.
If you don't understand the difference you don't belong in power.
those fancy southern lads very much thought of themselves as Cavaliers in the mold of landed European nobility (extremely derogatory) - what some today refer to as "warriors." they still got their shit rocked by their hard-drinking USMA classmates and a few college professors-turned-soldiers
Can you imagine being a Northerner at the start of the civil war. All the fancy lad West Point military guys are Southerners. Your president is a backwoods yokel one term congressman and your generals are some guys we found at a 7-Eleven. It's over for our ass...unless all those guys are geniuses
October 5, 2026 at 3:02 AM
tl;dr warriors fight for their own honor and to preserve a way of life in which they are at the top of the social hierarchy. Soldiers fight to defend the constitution of the United States.
If you don't understand the difference you don't belong in power.
If you don't understand the difference you don't belong in power.
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there is no leftist literature as embarrassing as the "anticorruption is bourgeois and you have to understand that the politics of the working class are inherently patrimonial" literature which followed Lavo Jato and PT's total failure to do literally anything to reform.
the thing about Lula is that the objections to the investigation of him and his party were all procedural or political and none of them were substantive. he has a reputation as dirty, and he is, in fact, dirty.
October 5, 2026 at 4:38 AM
there is no leftist literature as embarrassing as the "anticorruption is bourgeois and you have to understand that the politics of the working class are inherently patrimonial" literature which followed Lavo Jato and PT's total failure to do literally anything to reform.
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Here's me a decade ago talking about why it was important not to let the users of virtual assistants be rude to them. I argued that to do otherwise was to let millions reinforce their misogyny--and many other forms of prejudice--that would then be taken out on women, service workers, etc.
When Robots Are An Instrument Of Male Desire
“Are these fucking people serious?! ‘Her’ entire purpose is to do what people tell her to! Hey, bitch, add this to my calendar, find me such-and-such about this-or-that, flip me a coin, tell me a joke...
theestablishment.co
October 5, 2026 at 3:55 AM
Here's me a decade ago talking about why it was important not to let the users of virtual assistants be rude to them. I argued that to do otherwise was to let millions reinforce their misogyny--and many other forms of prejudice--that would then be taken out on women, service workers, etc.
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the lesson of the Civil War is that aesthetic warrior-cult societies get their shit rocked by schoolteachers and store clerks who'd much rather be doing anything else
October 4, 2026 at 11:55 PM
the lesson of the Civil War is that aesthetic warrior-cult societies get their shit rocked by schoolteachers and store clerks who'd much rather be doing anything else
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Former MI6 chief Scarlett said that the West didnt grasp how much Ru needed to be respected and treated as a great power equal to the US. I’d say the West actually understood and nearly embraced that idea. This was a huge mistake, actually. The West shouldn’t have construed Ru's desires as needs!
October 3, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Former MI6 chief Scarlett said that the West didnt grasp how much Ru needed to be respected and treated as a great power equal to the US. I’d say the West actually understood and nearly embraced that idea. This was a huge mistake, actually. The West shouldn’t have construed Ru's desires as needs!
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sure, i guess it’s possible that jack buhring voted for biden on november 3, 2020 and by january 11, 2021 he was posting support for trump’s insurrection contesting the results of the election. but even if that were true, it belies some pretty complicated politics not articulated in the story.
October 5, 2026 at 2:55 AM
sure, i guess it’s possible that jack buhring voted for biden on november 3, 2020 and by january 11, 2021 he was posting support for trump’s insurrection contesting the results of the election. but even if that were true, it belies some pretty complicated politics not articulated in the story.
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i just want to note that as soon as i posted this i did think "oh yeah, this is just fukuyama's last man"
feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them
October 5, 2026 at 2:35 AM
i just want to note that as soon as i posted this i did think "oh yeah, this is just fukuyama's last man"
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The only people with the means to even *think* about running, even for a primary, are predominantly those who can afford to take a year or more off of working to drive around forever and knock doors and make calls.
October 4, 2026 at 8:15 PM
The only people with the means to even *think* about running, even for a primary, are predominantly those who can afford to take a year or more off of working to drive around forever and knock doors and make calls.
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This is why every boomer-ass “don’t pay them until they make a deal” proposal pisses me off so much. Like yeah, cool, make it *even more* so that only the independently wealthy can afford to be in congress. Excellent idea.
Less than 1% of major party nominees for Congress are working class. It is one of the most fundamental ways that Congress is not representative. And their views, e.g. on unregulated gambling websites, are apt to be different.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
October 4, 2026 at 8:14 PM
This is why every boomer-ass “don’t pay them until they make a deal” proposal pisses me off so much. Like yeah, cool, make it *even more* so that only the independently wealthy can afford to be in congress. Excellent idea.
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A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes
October 4, 2026 at 5:41 PM
A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes
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The core problem w/ EA today is that most of the *money* in the ecosystem has pivoted from "mosquito nets are an efficient way to fight malaria and sleeping sickness" to "quadrillions of future lives depend on me becoming a trillionaire," even if most of the people are still doing the former.
October 4, 2026 at 3:34 AM
The core problem w/ EA today is that most of the *money* in the ecosystem has pivoted from "mosquito nets are an efficient way to fight malaria and sleeping sickness" to "quadrillions of future lives depend on me becoming a trillionaire," even if most of the people are still doing the former.