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without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law. revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.

again, the supreme court did not write the constitution (or the declaration) and—despite what you may think—they don't have the monopoly on the interpretation of those documents. the people have a say, and if the court is out of step with the people, that's a problem for the court, not the governed

i don't want to win a unifying 70-30. i want to win 51-49 based on promises of vengeance.

Stephen Miller thinks it’s terrible that I can vote

STOP RESTING ON MY LAURELS

Ban this garbage product. If it kills cats, it’ll kill kids.

6 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Biden, generally a lukewarm backer of trans rights as President, uses Intl International LGBTQ+ Leaders Conference speech to slam Reps/Trump for turning trans rights into "political football...into something scary, something sinister."

Resistance libs welcomed South Park into the anti-Trump fold with open arms. Our founder Evan Urquhart was a bit less joyous to see the anti-woke edgelords of South Park recognize, at last, the dreadful pandora's box that widespread anti-wokeness opened up. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

It’s my theory that some men jump from “my wife thinks differently than I do in certain ways” to “women think differently from men” to “women are incapable of X” very quickly

This is New York, friends.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller December 04,1939

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller December 6,1948

our king speaks to us from the beyond

I'm not Italian, but I don't think "capisce" is pronounced "copy shay" Also, never heard of the "PICF" arm of Homeland Security. This is "A.i." bullshit. Do not share; consider muting or blocking the account spreading it.

I read this like Riders on the Storm.

it’s pomegranate season where my pomegranate freaks at

Seeing lots of posts about Stranger Things and reminded me that a crucial skill to have is to be able to bail on any show or movie or book or whatever that even seems like it has the potential to fucking suck. Nope. Dump it. Not my problem.

the leader of a college republican group at OU says that the quality of Samantha Fulnecky's essay was "indefensible" and that the trans grad student who graded it graded it correctly: www.kswo.com/2025/12/05/p...

One cool thing about the streaming era is that every show you ever hit the ejector button on after 2/3 of an episode sits there in the list of things it tries to nudge you to watch forever. It doesn't show you the shows you are currently finishing and enjoying however. But that's business baby.

I'm not a Mongoose I'm a goose every day of the week

Bitch, please. The guillotines are already sharpened.

qualified immunity 101

in honor of Duke winning the acc championship do people want to hear the voicemail Steve Spurrier left me in 2008 while I was in class explaining to me how the coaches’ poll bosses told him he couldn’t continue his tradition of putting Duke at No. 25?

personally i think Matthew 25 is culturally pretty normal and i wish gavin newsom would take it to heart

SUNDAY WITH NANCY AND SLUGGO

If there were to be such a civil war, god forbid, 90% of the suburban beardo hardasses will cry and puke and shit the first time they have to try to kill someone, and then there will be a certain number of the biggest fucking "pussy" freaks you've ever seen who absolutely come alive.

I moved here 20 years ago from Baton Rouge and the late night options were better there than in DC. it’s always been like this.

Look, we're just going to have Thanos about 36% of the population.

But why were they on his property, he asked.

Is there anything more to say? Kremlin says US national security strategy document ‘largely consistent' with Russia's vision www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/kr...

How ’bout some coffee? Don’t mind if I do. Take a little ride on my donkey, I love that donkey. Hell, I love everybody.

Call me a killjoy, but you should not be able to purchase something that will grow into a 15 foot long apex predator (with serious husbandry requirements!) for the price of a new iPhone

There are entire vast edifices online built to skim attention and brand recognition away from the actual work of reporting and writing, and it drives me abosolutely fucking nuts

Finally saw the first episode of Pluribus and now I'm craving a donut

Oh nice they opened a cute new wine bar down the street [five seconds of looking into it later] I can't wait to go there and have to use the fucking computer to pour my own wine.

so i haven’t paid attention to football in a long time and you people are trying to tell me Indiana can play football now?

I'm afraid that this (AI?) comment trying to get my ass on the Turning Point USA reddit of all places is the most accurate thing ever written about my work.

The camera got hit by lava, I think, just a minute ago while we were watching. I'm not sure if it's functional anymore.

I am hopelessly addicted to the Kilauea live cam

I’ve only saved two non-family member voicemails and one was Steve Spurrier linked here and the other was the late Sen. Tom Coburn telling me I was destroying America with my reporting.

the reason no one with name recognition wants to run for Governor is that everyone wants to win a statewide seat in texas where they don't actually have to deal with texas politics. Who wants to be a Dem governor with *this* legislature? At least if you're a Dem senator you get to confirm judges

Sabrina Carpenter. Robert De Niro. Mark Ruffalo. Everyone who drives a Subaru. Elmo. The color chartreuse.

The Coast Guard seized a bunch of drugs in the Pacific WITHOUT having to blow up people who may or may not actually be drug traffickers. www.cbsnews.com/news/coast-g...

We have legitimately scary and bad ideas being pushed by people who, if they did not control the levers of power, would best be described as dorks. It is a dumb world. Dangerous and scary. But dumb as well.

New insult just dropped

This was a real tough watch at times, as intended, but also somehow light and cozy. Wild tonal shifts back and forth from traumatic to silly satire that are pretty seamless. Genuinely very funny too. Another true poster made it big. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The source said Barghouti's condition was described as “extremely difficult and very dangerous”. The Palestinian Authority’s Commission of Detainees’ Affairs said it had gathered information that appeared to corroborate the report of a recent attack. www.middleeasteye.net/news/marwan-...

CNN found that IDF shot starving Palestinians trying to collect flour. The IDF bulldozed their bodies into shallow, unmarked graves. Left to decompose, scavenged by dogs, and never documented. Families may never learn what happened to their loved ones. www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...

Trump-Trump-Trump voters are hopeless but you could absolutely convince Obama-Trump-Biden-Trump voters to throw him in jail. They’re Play-Doh.

Health experts are alarmed as Republicans degrade the country’s pivotal HIV programs—and break promises made during Trump’s first term. This story was originally published by @19thnews.org.

Heyyy NYC! @anyonecomics.bsky.social is holding a winter fair on Sunday, 12/7 - featuring comics creators like @priyahuq.art @rpdub.bsky.social and more! Go get your holiday presents from awesome local artists! www.anyonecomics.com/events/anyon...

Yep. That's a house sparrow.

The critical thinking skills leaving my body as I watch Landman

[extremely loud incorrect buzzer noise]

Marwan Barghouti’s son: Released prisoner said guards ‘physically shattered’ my dad, cut off part of his ear www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Almost every day I ask my cat how it is that a goose and a cat ended up living together. He doesn't get it either

If I were a powerful partisan figure, I would simply demonstrate cultural normality rather than going to the DealBook Summit to discuss how we need to become normal (which, to be clear, we are not).

Ex-Israeli Supreme Court president: judiciary under 'systematic delegitimization campaign' www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Putting Ms. Rachel next to Tucker Carlson for “antisemite of the year” is textbook shanda behavior from these grifters who for no reason other than engagement baiting purport to speak on behalf of all Jews and get too many people to believe them.

FWIW part of the reason governors, police and state militia should actively block ICE / Border Patrol is that Americans will absolutely not support bloody civil conflict. Even in the middle of J6 there was only one chud who was willing to die for him. Support is not that deep.

If you want a little inspiration, look at the quotes and replies to this post. ❤️👍💪

Hero!❤️ Bryan Reisberg spends one day a week taking shelter dogs out of their kennels, slipping them in a “adopt me” backpack and carrying them around New York. His goal is to help people see shelter dogs the way he does: curious, sweet and full of potential. www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

Found my old figure drawing portfolio from college, and a delightful piece I'd *completely* forgotten about. (Please excuse some of the rather janky anatomy.)

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of DC entered a TRO last night preventing the DOJ from using the evidence gathered from Prof. Daniel Richman (James Comey’s former attorney) in the Comey prosecution. She held Prof. Richman is “likely to prevail” in the case.

thank you @marisakabas.bsky.social for including @thecity.nyc in this, you’re a real one

Thinking you want civil war when you really want a safer version of the purge is unfortunately common

This is straight out of that part of the Bible where Jesus says to strike the other cheek, preferably with a missile, after hitting the first one

IMO some of the reactionary centrists are professional contrarians who were used to being the smartest kid in the room but as the room got bigger the only way to shield their egos was deciding that Everyone Else is Wrong, Actually. Many such cases!

Just tried this with [Gabriel García Márquez voice] One Hundred Dollars Worth of Indian Food.

NYC info: To get Novavax, you should know the 2025 version is "Nuvaxovid." It was tricky to find. But official Nuvaxovid site seems to work now. CVS site showed Nuvaxovid as a choice only after I filled in the form with my personal info. I believe all local CVS, Walgreens, Duane Reades have it.

Trump and Netanyahu want to kill @unrwa.org , but most governments see it as essential to sustain the lives of Palestinian civilians under Israeli assault. The UN General Assembly votes overwhelming to renew UNRWA's mandate for three years, by a vote of 151 to 10.

I’d missed this when it first came out and even with everything that’s happening, it’s fully shocking to say we should abandon the 14th amendment because it’s “seemingly what people want”

While a Border Patrol agent ate at a Charlotte Longhorn Steakhouse last month, someone stole his uniform, badge, laptop and magazines. Aside from a Border Patrol uniform, badge and $2,000 laptop, a fanny pack with pistol magazines & a $2K Border Patrol radio was taken. Per Charlotte-Mecklenburg PD

Haaaaaayy

Sighing, pressing the "Everybody is 12" button

The Delaware River and Bay Authority has a delightful ferry float they bust out for the Lewes Christmas parade. (Previous year photo from someone else here, I was busy holding a toddler.)

Sadly, he was holding the camera.

Palestinian Authority officials oppose release of Marwan Barghouti, source says Majid Faraj and Hussein al-Sheikh have reportedly requested the Fatah leader be excluded from the potential Israel-Hamas swap deal, source says (May 2024) www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaz...

The same class of people that is afraid of the subway

when my ffs surgeon asks me what i want im just going to make them watch all of Face/Off

I crack the other egg. Surely we have diminished one another. (Ray Carver)

If this is true -- which I honestly doubt -- it would be another example of Elon Musk being incredibly late to any memetic trend that crosses his path, and sweatily grabbing onto it in liue of anything so complex as a personality

If you’re flying into or through San Francisco, and have the time to walk over to the SFO Museum location in terminal 1, I highly recommend their current small-but-mighty “Women of Afrofuturism” exhibit!

Bethlehem Christmas tree lit up for first time since Gaza war www.arabnews.com/node/2625306...

“President Donald J. Trump and his cronies have abandoned the principles of democracy and openly embraced the hierarchical society the U.S. fought against in World War II.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-6...

America’s team, baby

I need this kid to stop talking it’s ruining the moment for me

"Trump has said that he was “98% involved” in the selection of this year’s slate of honorees: Sylvester Stallone, George Strait, Gloria Gaynor, KISS and Michael Crawford."

for what it's worth i'm not sure that the "Jasmine Crockett can't win a statewide race" conventional wisdom is as settled as people think it is. She's constantly doing resist media hits and for a base that wants a "fighter" she certainly appears to fit that bill. I wouldn't totally underestimate her

‘Bloodshed was supposed to stop’: no sign of normal life as Gaza’s killing and misery grind on www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

😢 💖 "While at an asylum court hearing on Sept 18, my husband was taken by ICE. He was the sole breadwinner for our family, and now we are struggling to survive. We cannot afford, rent groceries for our children, and we are searching for legal assistance."

COVID sucks, don't get it.

Devastating. And while the drop in state funding (in real dollars) isn’t the only cause, it’s a huge one in this case and across the country.

I probably owe it to them to draw Polaris too…..

I liked Mendoza a lot more before he started talking. Woah.

150,000 people are missing in Al Fasher since the UAE-backed RSF took over More than 60,000 believed to have been killed by the RSF #KeepEyesOnSudan www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I was invited to speak for the Brooklyn Women’s Writing Group at Bushwick library and halfway through introducing the panelists, we had to stop to kill a cockroach. I love you NYC ❤️

Still possible and plausible given this country that Luigi didn't do it and another young guy with access to a gun and a grievance against health insurance companies did it. Because America. Which would also be weird considering how "Luigi" has become a verb with a specific meaning.

the houston city council race mailers are getting a little wild

The cornerstone of Star Wars, the foundational driving force of it, is that George Lucas really fucking hates Richard Nixon (justifiably so). Projects that don't start from that are doomed. This is why Andor is good and the Filoni stuff is not.