Ragathiel

@ragathiel.bsky.social

169

Followers

203

Following

1516

Posts

He/Him; BLM, abortion rights are non-negotiable, expand SCOTUS, make DC & PR states, aggressively expand voting rights everywhere. The GOP is a fascist menace to be fought at every turn.

Posts Replies Media

Reposted by

Ragathiel

Still marveling at Gorsuch's Ohio v. EPA opinion, in which he confused nitrogen oxide (a pollutant) with nitrous oxide (laughing gas). He did this five times, never once getting it right—in an opinion overruling the EPA's own expert scientific analysis! s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

Reposted by

Ragathiel

If you steal $1000, you can be sent to prison. When health insurance companies steal $50,000,000,000, they get tax breaks, subsidies and government contracts, while the people they steal from die or go into debt. But keep blaming immigrants and poor people for rising crime.

Reposted by

Ragathiel

My wife mentioned that she needs to quit drinking coffee and the lizard part of my brain was 1st to weigh in with the thought, "More for Sméagol."

Reposted by

Ragathiel

Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

Reposted by

Ragathiel

NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech. "Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!" Video and story here: newrepublic.com/article/1834...

MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.

Reposted by

Ragathiel

Teetles in a half shell

Reposted by

Ragathiel

New from me: Where is your "institutionalism" now? radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

The Supreme Court foldsradleybalko.substack.com Faced with the most potent threat to democracy in more than a century, our most revered institution didn't just fail to hold, it aligned itself with the threat

Reposted by

Ragathiel

Trump said “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it.” But Project 2025 is run by Trump's closest aides, raising concerns about cognitive fitness for a candidate who seems unable to recall those around him. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/troubling-...

Troubling Signs of Cognitive Decline as Trump Struggles to Recognize Closest Aidesdonmoynihan.substack.com "I know nothing about Project 2025" statement triggers new concerns about his fitness to serve

Reposted by

Ragathiel

All of these guys hate that people are inventing genders and yet spend all their time online coming up with different, bespoke ways to label themselves as a different kind of guy who “exists outside hierarchy”

hotfix male. release candidate male. shovelware male

Reposted by

Ragathiel

Reply to

Katie Mack

Everyone is angry about the world and scared about the future and defensive on account of being pretty sure (correctly or not) that someone else is blaming them for something terrible and I don’t know if any of that will help but it’s probably useful to acknowledge what’s happening and breathe a bit

Reposted by

Ragathiel

Let your less-informed friends and family know about this and ask them how interested they are in finding out just who he's talking about.

Reposted by

Ragathiel

Reply to

post malone ergo propter malone

Catholic by birth? Could be of worth Catholic by conversions? I cast my aspersions

Reposted by

Ragathiel

"there's a huge amount of hype — but so far, the only companies making much actual revenue off AI are the ones selling the hardware it needs, like Nvidia." futurism.com/the-byte/ai-...

There's a Small Problem With the AI Industry: It's Making Absolutely No Moneyfuturism.com AI is not making money for investors which may be connected to businesses having trouble adopting the technology.

It's just a coincidence, surely! People are acting like the House of Saud is run by evil reactionary fundamentalists

Wow amazing how the Saudis keep showing up in these stories where they offer illegal support to far right politicians.

Reposted by

Ragathiel

Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.

(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" •www.blackpast.org On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the D...

Time for me to duck off social media for the day. Have a good one y'all! This country fails to live up to ideals so, so often but those ideals are a good and righteous thing, worth celebrating and striving for.

Reposted by

Ragathiel

i really am going to be logged off for the holiday but i would like to drop off a parting thought: publishing a monarchist anti-voting take on the fourth of july is the strongest possible indication of someone's core, true values

Reposted by

Ragathiel

Reply to

utopia deferred

White people make for the most obnoxious activists, I am sorry but goddamn

Reposted by

Ragathiel

Artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994. Now we have rare scans revealing the inner workings of the labyrinth-like metropolis. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...

Reposted by

Ragathiel

Reply to

Don Zeko

I don't want my account to become 100% posting about how bad Trump v US is but it just keeps bouncing around in my brain and revealing new ways that it's terrible. It's up there with Dred Scott and I hope I live to see that become consensus.

Reposted by

Ragathiel

Not a peep from the president or the secretary of state as its largest recipient of military assistance in postwar history does exactly what we condemn Russia for doing.

Israel turbocharges West Bank settlement expansion with largest land grab in decadest.co A settlement tracking group says Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades.

Reposted by

Ragathiel

If you think that we actually just need a civil war to settle this once and for all: 1. No, you don’t. 2. No, you don’t. 3. You are an idiot.

Trump’s re-election will mean four hideous years of the GOP playing constant Civil War Chicken at best - as this Heritage Foundation ghoul made clear - and actual civil war at worst. Avoiding that bloody nightmare is a pretty damn good reason to suck it up and vote for Biden.

Reposted by

Ragathiel

the first, second and third most important news stories this week are about the SCOTUS decision, and every columnist spending their time talking about biden old is telling you what they value. we don’t have to indulge them, though, stop your subs, stop clicking, stop talking about them.

Reposted by

Ragathiel

Just a jaw-dropper from the state whose attorney general is currently trying to execute an innocent man. innocenceproject.org/missouri-cir...

Reposted by

Ragathiel

Reply to

Popehat

/5 So, in terrible circumstances, think what people before you have endured. Think about how you can support and defend folks less able than you to endure. And fight the bastards.

Reposted by

Ragathiel

“Unpleasant things” is one heck of a circumlocution.

I've been thinking about this post from the Claremont Institute, a Trumpist think tank, ever since the SCOTUS immunity ruling. Wonder what "unpleasant things" the Trumpists have in mind. open.substack.com/pub/joelmmat...

Reposted by

Ragathiel

We've now reached 200 death row exonerations. Meanwhile, the state with the most (Florida) is pushing to limit appeals, carry out executions more quickly, allow death sentences from non-unanimous juries, and impose the death penalty for crimes other than homicide.

public.tableau.com

Reposted by

Ragathiel

I do not think this man should feel safe walking around in public.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

Reposted by

Ragathiel

All is not lost. Don’t act like all is lost.

Reposted by

Ragathiel

i think we should see the Trump v. United States ruling as a group of Republican apparatchiks taking their opportunity to vindicate Nixon and write the unitary executive into the Constitution. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...

Opinion | Your Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card Is Ready, Sirwww.nytimes.com The Nixonian theory of presidential power is now enshrined as constitutional law.