Nathan St. Pierre

Nathan St. Pierre

@nathanstpierre.com

I write code for a living in cascadia, but I used to work as a gigging musician in the baptist buckle of the Bible belt (Texas). I'm much happier now.

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Nathan St. Pierre reposted

Somebody said "They voted for racism and got poverty" The thing is... social scientists and economists have been saying for the last 50 years Racism is austerity

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Look, I'm not trying to be unsympathetic to the politicians in the article. But non-pols get these threats daily. Woman got doxxed and their kids threatened for disclosing they were harassed by a serial predator. I got an artisanal hand-written death threat mailed to my apartment. Deal with it.

Reconstructionist@unavaleable.bsky.social

"Your fault, you deserve it." is some crazy work

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"Just because I have no evidence and the evidence that exists says the opposite of what I'm saying and I've been proven to lie about everything every time I talk and... Wait what was my point? "

Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social

Democrats refuse to acknowledge terrible injustices just because I completely made them up

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Protest ICE? You're a terrorist. Get killed by ICE like Renee Nicole Good? You're a terrorist. Commit a violent insurrection for Trump? You get pardoned and taxpayer money.

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Tony Bourdain taught us all that a place is full of good food, good people, and good experiences despite very shitty politics and I think it’s kind of classically American to have thought we were excluded from that Venn diagram

Jeff Grubb@grubb.wtf

I thought the world cup was going to be a nightmare, but I forgot that we actually love when people like us

Every time these people complain about cancel culture or being shamed or silenced, remember it's because popular opinion decided maybe traditional values on things were wrong. They will not argue this: they will say they're being oppressed by private individuals practicing their rights. Don't stop

Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social

Recall that “you’re not allowed” doesn’t mean you will be jailed or sued or prohibited; it means that other people will exercise their First Amendment rights in response to yours, to express their views and defend their neighbors. But that violates Free Speech Culture.

When I was ordering my drink "LA style" (which means no ICE) I thought to myself "you know what the most populous city in California needs? A faux reality TV turned MAGA guy who has never voted in in LA election as mayor"

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social

Me, a smart free thinker who won’t surrender to the Woke mob: how is it possible a Republican lost in Los Angeles

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“This person is controversial for acknowledging the humanity of Palestinian children” doesn’t strike me as a good look but that’s just me.

David Schraub@schraubd.bsky.social

I promise you that, no matter how hard @jewishinsider.com tries, they will never convince anyone normal that Ms. Rachel is "controversial" to anyone normal. It's embarrassing.

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Not sure I am swayed by the version of masculinity advanced by a guy who looks like “Grandpa Munster’s nephew the registered sex offender nobody talks about”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ted Cruz on Talarico: "If you were making a list of 1,000 adjectives to describe this guy, 'masculine' would not be one of them. I mean, if a stiff breeze came by it would blow him over like a feather."

It's always shitty white dudes who want to be shitty white dudes but claim moral superiority over someone. There's already a party for that. They meet at child beauty pageants, behind the guy who fell asleep in his diapers with a cell phone in his hand.

Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social

I feel like if you’re suggesting that being a misogynist dipshit is essential to political success, that says more about you than it does about politics.

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The podcast bros said they were supporting Trump for two reasons: He wouldn’t start any wars, and he’d release the Epstein files. Massie lost tonight for two reasons: (a) forcing the release of the Epstein files, and (b) trying to restrain Trump’s war in Iran.

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The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

Ari Berman@ariberman.bsky.social

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

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Fox News has always been the epitome of the playground bully personality

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social

Fox News hosts are now openly advocating for little kids to be mocked on the school playground if they are overweight - essentially saying it should be public policy. "It is a part of the MAHA movement, this is part of the, a central part of the MAHA movement." www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/dis...

"our nation can finally assume our neglectful father would maybe say he loved us but he's dead so we'll never know and can't stop this behavior"

Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social

Trump’s pathology is naked and writhing obscenely: They never respected us, but now we’ve made them respect us

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Trump’s pathology is naked and writhing obscenely: They never respected us, but now we’ve made them respect us

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump in response to a question about Iran firing on US ships and why that doesn't violate the ceasefire: "They respect us. They didn't used to respect us. But they respect us more than we've ever been respected. Our country now is the hottest country anywhere in the world."

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It’s amazing how hardened we’ve gotten to this ludicrous, offensive, deeply un-American assertion.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

"It's treasonous" -- Trump claims Democrats who criticize his war on Iran are committing treason

Nathan St. Pierre reposted

I went peepee in the potty today. Aced it. There was a sink and a tub and a trash can but I didn’t peepee in any of those. I used the potty. The part where you should lift the seat cover first is very easy. They say “which part do you pee in?” And I say “the water part.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I took three cognitive tests. Aced all of them, by the way. I'm the only president to take a cognitive test. I don't think Obama could pass it. The first question is very easy -- it's a lion, a giraffe, a bear, and a shark. They say, 'Which one is the bear?'"

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Ruling: True. We can't believe a word that comes out of the Trump administration on any topic. Not even whether Iran has agreed to peace talks or how many missiles we have left. It's no wonder people assume he staged one or more of his assassination attempts.

The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social

One reason conspiracy theories are reaching bipartisan status may be because this man lies like he breathes, the press corps magnifies his lies, and no one knows what's true anymore. I'll leave it to @beyerstein.bsky.social to provide a ruling. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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"Do you regret your heated rhetoric?" "No. Do you regret your chilled rhetoric? Do you regret sitting on the sidelines as norms fell away and so many laws were broken? Do you regret pretending like this was all normal and you alone were savvy enough to see that Both Sides Are To Blame?"

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They told me there would be no math. And they were right.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."

Hey @kenwhite.bsky.social , is Todd Blanche a good lawyer?

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: In his first press conference as acting attorney general, Todd Blanche said Tuesday that President Donald Trump has a “right” and “duty” to order the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate his political enemies. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Speaking of visibility, America has absolutely shown its whole goddamned ass on trans issues, displaying its cultural capacity to be whipped into stupid fear and hatred of a tiny group by cynical demagogues. We have met the enemy and he is us.

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really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

Michael Li (李之樸)@mcpli.bsky.social

Today is the 128th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship in U.S. v. Wong Ark Kim.

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They started a war of choice for absolutely no reason, with no real strategy and no real preparation, and the end result will be a global situation that is, in every single way, worse than what it was when they started.

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social

Amazing. But it seems that the US is *assuming* that Iran will emerge from the war vastly stronger. able to either dictate or seriously contest sovereignty over the strait, exact tolls, etc.