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it's telling that instead of letting the free market decide who's labor is more valuable they are passing laws to mandate lack of freedom of movement for (young, black) players to put the thumb back on the scale for (older, white) coaches
This morning on ESPN's First Take, Nick Saban argued player and coach pay are "totally different markets."
"That's like asking me 'Does a student's scholarship equal the professor's pay?' I mean, how much value does a coach create for a university?" 📺 💰️
"That's like asking me 'Does a student's scholarship equal the professor's pay?' I mean, how much value does a coach create for a university?" 📺 💰️
September 30, 2026 at 3:39 PM
it's telling that instead of letting the free market decide who's labor is more valuable they are passing laws to mandate lack of freedom of movement for (young, black) players to put the thumb back on the scale for (older, white) coaches
These ghouls would welcome a nuke on a city, because that would be the end of civil liberties and democratic rule in America forever
asked about gas prices, Trump says "if you want to see turmoil and a travesty, let them take out a city with a nuclear weapon ... let them hit us with a nuclear weapon"
September 29, 2026 at 1:09 AM
These ghouls would welcome a nuke on a city, because that would be the end of civil liberties and democratic rule in America forever
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A conservative influencer was passing around the literal worse csam anyone knows of and elon personally unbanned him and got him on the payroll, like what else do you need to know
September 11, 2026 at 2:39 PM
A conservative influencer was passing around the literal worse csam anyone knows of and elon personally unbanned him and got him on the payroll, like what else do you need to know
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Protect trans kids.
September 9, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Protect trans kids.
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August 28, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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A Christ that needs and desires Caesar’s trappings of power is no deity and can save no one. A Christianity that desires Caesar’s power cannot represent Christ.
August 25, 2026 at 11:36 PM
A Christ that needs and desires Caesar’s trappings of power is no deity and can save no one. A Christianity that desires Caesar’s power cannot represent Christ.
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"Democratic Socialists of America extends our deepest condolences to the family, friends, and fans of Dolly Parton, a hero of the working-class and an inspiration to us all."
August 25, 2026 at 8:59 PM
"Democratic Socialists of America extends our deepest condolences to the family, friends, and fans of Dolly Parton, a hero of the working-class and an inspiration to us all."
The joker was a failed comedian who got shot and fell into a vat of median voter opinions. It scarred him and drove him insane
August 23, 2026 at 10:06 PM
The joker was a failed comedian who got shot and fell into a vat of median voter opinions. It scarred him and drove him insane
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Re-upping this video. It's so revealing of the mentality we're up against.
Reactionary Evangelicalism is less a religion and more a political machine. MAGA pastor Shane Vaughn recently made this clear, telling his followers to abandon all moral principles.
"Lay down your convictions. We don't need them right now. Lay down your principles." h/t @rightwingwatch.bsky.social
"Lay down your convictions. We don't need them right now. Lay down your principles." h/t @rightwingwatch.bsky.social
August 20, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Re-upping this video. It's so revealing of the mentality we're up against.
I guessed 108/177 countries in 16m 59s in the Elsewhere Challenge
🦊 26/44 🦅 27/30 🦁 18/52 🐪 13/22 🐼 24/29
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The Elsewhere Challenge | World Map Quiz
Test your geography knowledge! How many countries can you correctly identify on a world map?
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August 7, 2026 at 3:30 AM
I guessed 108/177 countries in 16m 59s in the Elsewhere Challenge
🦊 26/44 🦅 27/30 🦁 18/52 🐪 13/22 🐼 24/29
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Stealing from us like we're conquered territory. Intolerable.
The Trump regime admitted in court filings that the cancellation of clean energy grants for Hawaiʻi was because the state voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, rather than the previously stated reasons of advancing energy needs or economic viability.
Trump Administration Lawyers Admit Hawaiʻi Funding Cuts Were Partisan
The admission about terminated clean energy grants emerged in recent court filings, confirming what many already suspected.
www.civilbeat.org
August 5, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Stealing from us like we're conquered territory. Intolerable.
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For our mega-survey on populist attitudes, we asked whether people would prefer a more multi-party system or a two-party system. The former blew the latter out of the water. Asked about specific reforms to get there, people are less sure. Also, Trump populists are the most fond of the status quo.
Americans Hate the Two-Party System But Don’t Know What Should Replace It, ISMA Populism Survey Finds
Voters overwhelmingly want something different, but don’t know or understand the reform options on the table
www.theunpopulist.net
July 31, 2026 at 6:52 PM
For our mega-survey on populist attitudes, we asked whether people would prefer a more multi-party system or a two-party system. The former blew the latter out of the water. Asked about specific reforms to get there, people are less sure. Also, Trump populists are the most fond of the status quo.
They don’t want you to know there is more than one horse #multiplehorses #notjustone
July 29, 2026 at 8:40 PM
They don’t want you to know there is more than one horse #multiplehorses #notjustone
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July 23, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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remember the conservative plan for schools: 1) elite secular academies for the wealthy, 2) religious instruction to brainwash the middle class and 3) a prison-like rump public school system to discipline the lower classes into mindless servitude
New from @josephinelee.bsky.social, in our magazine: Districts across the state are arresting and citing young children children for common misbehavior, leaving lasting trauma as the Legislature rejects bills to raise the age of criminal responsibility and floods schools with even more police.
In Texas Schools, a Crisis of Arrests of Kids as Young as 10
A groundbreaking data analysis shows how districts across the state are arresting and citing children for common misbehavior, leaving lasting trauma as the Legislature rejects bills to raise the age…
www.texasobserver.org
July 13, 2026 at 5:01 PM
remember the conservative plan for schools: 1) elite secular academies for the wealthy, 2) religious instruction to brainwash the middle class and 3) a prison-like rump public school system to discipline the lower classes into mindless servitude
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I don't think the government of a democracy should have masked secret police that roam the country murdering people, with their actions treated as totally outside the law.
July 9, 2026 at 3:18 PM
I don't think the government of a democracy should have masked secret police that roam the country murdering people, with their actions treated as totally outside the law.
Consequences. There must be consequences
A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive.
One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.
Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.
(Published Dec. 2025)
One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.
Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.
(Published Dec. 2025)
What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
www.propublica.org
July 9, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Consequences. There must be consequences
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People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.
Worse than Twitter, private discussions (text, email, whatever) among like-minded wealthy lunatics who are all surrounded by yes-men who talk like ChatGPT in maximum ass-kissing mode.
July 3, 2026 at 2:43 PM
People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.
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Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate
July 2, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate
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Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below.
“The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ
“The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ
![Still, most freed Blacks resisted the pressure to self-deport. Instead, many started organizing toward the creation of the kind of Nation the colonizationists opposed—one that guaranteed liberty and justice for all. In the decades leading up to the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, Black Americans organized and gathered at more than 600 local and national conventions across the country. There, delegates erected the political and intellectual scaffolding for the Fourteenth Amendment and, later, for the Black Civil Rights Movement more generally.
Critically for present purposes, these visionaries already understood themselves to be American citizens. “The refrains ‘we are Americans’ and ‘we are citizens’ echoed in conferences throughout the North.” Moreover, “[b]irthright figured importantly” as “delegates frequently characterized their status as that of native-born citizens.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreieuwdbxpjo22e7fg26a65dobwofwaytq6ilqp4cy7bcicw5fsk63a)
![The delegates argued that, as such, they had the requisite allegiance, so, at a minimum, the Federal Government owed them the duty of protection.
The famed orator Frederick Douglass was one of these delegates. Capturing the spirit of the moment, Douglass proclaimed that Chief Justice Taney—the author of the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 19 How. 393 (1857)—“[could] do many things, but he [could not] … change the essential nature of things.” In the absence of the artificial evils of slavery and racial subordination, Douglass explained, “the glorious birthright of our common humanity, will become the inheritance of all the inhabitants of this highly favored country.”
Do note this: The citizenship thesis of the Colored Conventions was thus not that some new status should be created and conferred on freed Blacks.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreidxenf7ggfe5sghdwpe5v7pwn3kfh4mqkxiccusnrknq7zfr7qhtm)
![It was instead that freed Blacks already had a rightful claim to citizenship because they had been born on American soil. After all, the Nation, from its founding, had “boldly proclaim[ed] that all men are born free and equal, and that consequently life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, are inherent in every individual, vested inalienably by natural birthright.” No ideal was more inherently American. Now, “rest[ing their] cause on the republican standard of the revolutionary Fathers,” freed Blacks were “knock[ing] at the doors of the constitution and demand[ing] an entrance.” And “[i]f … asked what evidence [they] bring to sustain [their] qualifications for citizenship, [they would] offer them certificates of … BIRTH and NATIVITY.” Would the Nation live up to its promise?
Such universalist appeals were a conscious choice. Yes, Black Americans had suffered a singular wrong. And yes, they had “fought and bled” for the Union, paying a steep price for their freedom. But the delegates did not rest on these laurels. Rather, they drew upon the moral and political force of the universal principles that were already core to the Nation’s identity.
That bears repeating: Freed Blacks did not advocate for a unique set of rules that catered only to their situation. Nor did they seek to advance their own position relative to, or at the expense and exclusion of, other marginalized groups.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreig7o5wpfpkbjt7zcvghbco4zafj6m64etq7blz7r542gh7b3gn3oa)
![Instead, those whose gatherings helped galvanize the push for full equality understood that “[a] diverse origin does not disprove a common nature, nor does it disprove a united destiny.” The firmest foundation for freedom would require an anticaste reset—“both for his sake and for ours”—and would benefit all.
During his U. S. Senate candidacy, Abraham Lincoln developed a similar vision. In the lead-up to the now-famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln explained that the promise of liberty and equality in the Declaration of Independence “was held sacred by all, and thought to include all.” Lincoln expressly and intentionally linked the fate of Black Americans and immigrant groups (“among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all” of the Founders), and noted that the Nation’s future hinged on a universal definition of citizenship that excluded neither. He explained that the Declaration’s promise that “all men are created equal” was the “electric cord … that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together,” regardless of race or descent.
The case was made. First, there was war. And then, the delegates’ (and Lincoln’s) universalist view of citizenship made its mark on the Constitution.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreigucpltb6mmwuwxswipazl56ki3v4dmsr7fx4lkmf5jncrsuvwp4a)
July 1, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below.
“The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ
“The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ
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They want us to be buyers-of-last-resort for Trump's Saudi and Big Oil paymasters. Their oil assets will otherwise go stranded as the rest of the world moves on to cleaner, cheaper solar energy. We pay, they laugh.
A new WoodMac report finds that the Trump administration's refusal to issue lawful permits for renewable energy development is putting 92 gigawatts of energy and $121 billion worth of investment at risk.
The same administration that says the need for power is a "national emergency."
The same administration that says the need for power is a "national emergency."
Stalled US Permits Threaten $121 Billion in Wind and Solar Investment, Report Shows
Trump administration policies that have stalled permits for renewable energy projects are putting more than $121 billion of investment at risk and slowing
www.insurancejournal.com
June 30, 2026 at 6:37 PM
They want us to be buyers-of-last-resort for Trump's Saudi and Big Oil paymasters. Their oil assets will otherwise go stranded as the rest of the world moves on to cleaner, cheaper solar energy. We pay, they laugh.
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then lets just get rid of scotus altogether
Kavanaugh says that Constitution is an "enduring document" and that new exceptions to birthright citizenship can be added for "modern situations that were unknown or unanticipated by the Constitution’s Framers"
June 30, 2026 at 4:07 PM
then lets just get rid of scotus altogether
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With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.
June 30, 2026 at 2:43 PM
With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.
Put SOCTUS back in Congress’s basement
June 30, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Put SOCTUS back in Congress’s basement