Ryan Van Loan

Hey old friends from X & new followers! I'm a fantasy author. You can check out the link in my bio for my books which are about found friends overthrowing corrupt society along with magic, dead gods, & a lot of swashbuckling. I'm a former infantry NCO and polisci grad so politics comes up a lot 😅

Will anyone—anyone at all—ask Trump about the rape allegations published in an official report by the House Judiciary Democrats? Or will he continue to escape accountability for his violence?

It's pretty clear some folks on here don't understand that not every post is for them or in conversation with them. It's OK dude, just keep scrolling. Really, that's something you can do.

It's pretty clear some folks on here don't understand that not every post is for them or in conversation with them. It's OK dude, just keep scrolling. Really, that's something you can do.

I am 100% in favor of people who don't want kids not having kids, but watching your kids play on the beach on a day where all your responsibilities are asleep is a peak human experience of a type you will struggle to get elsewhere.

A tough thing in explaining to people why having children is enjoyable is that all the bad stuff is very easy to explain (lost sleep, lost time, more sickness, less sex, etc. etc.) whereas most of the really good stuff whispers.

there might be feelings better than having your kid snuggle up asleep on you but there is no feeling like it. I am a simple ape and probably you are too

Ran the numbers and I have been pretty ill (unable to work out or do much more than survive) 27% of this year so far. Haven't been this sick since I was a kid. Which they warn you about when you have kids but oof.

Apparently the data that “DataRepublican” didn’t want to show has a D+17 generic ballot (returns are 15-21% left from 2024)

it is hard to sell how effective this was. the far right here was completely lost in the past two weeks because *nothing* of their tried and true methods to dictate public opinion and the media were working. even bot farming views to pump the algo did jack shit

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

"surrender until they're at the point where you can win"

DAYS WITHOUT TRUMP MENTIONING ASS: 0.

So it begins...dig in folks www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

Also the *specific* thing the mother claims Acton lied about was that the family lived in a tent during part of her childhood. The court records show that the stepfather was arrested... in the tent where they were living.

It really needs to be emphasized that the woman Vivek is featuring in these videos fled with an accused & indicted child rapist and successfully helped him avoid trial for 20+ years.

like vance, ramaswamy is a hateful, resentful orc of a human being, and the reason i think this will hurt him politically — where this stuff didn’t hurt trump — is that ramaswamy, like vance, is also profoundly unlikeable. he has no charm or charisma or anything. just a dipshit.

Thanks to Green Apple Books in San Francisco (9th Avenue) for having me in to sign Honeyeater and Kindling! I've also left a few signed gold bookplates in case you miss out on a signed Honeyeater and want to order one through them.

Day 1 of the next Democratic administration: yank Musk's security clearance and then immediately force him to divest his controlling share of SpaceX on national security grounds.

didn't know any of this stuff about Amy Acton. gotta be one of the few people in politics who grew up in capital-p Poverty vindyarchives.com/news/2019/au...

Democrats are preparing to investigate Musk if they win control of the House in November, Politico reports. Potential probes would focus on his DOGE leadership, federal job cuts, alleged data breaches, government contracts and Starlink’s role in Ukraine.

amazing thread, amazing idea, amazing serendipitous riff on the frog-boiling metaphor

Another adjacent @jdcmedlock.bsky.social essential hit

One would be good and the other would be bad because one cause is good and the other is bad. We are not in the realm of procedural justice concerns anymore, liberalism is not obligated to be neutral on the question of its own existence.

when a side defects without consequence you are now playing a fundamentally rigged game and the only way to fix it is to ensure defectors are punished in such a way that they learn there are consequences to all their choices

Part of the answer to "how did we get here?" is that many major journalists—since 1998, Crawford has covered SCOTUS for PBS, ABC, and CBS—are lying bigots. Here Crawford is praising a guy who asked a dumb racist question, glitched out when asked why, then admitted he wanted a Christian theocracy.

the second el-sayed chose to treat tommy as an equal and not a nuisance, tommy was cooked

As we try to restore access to the No Kings instagram today, this is what I am thinking about.

The first subpoena from the new Democratic Congress should be to Mark Zuckerberg, for taking down the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of one of the largest days of civic activism in American history. No Kings. No Courtiers.

We've got to nationalize SpaceX. We have no choice. We can't operate our military without them and we can't trust them to serve our national interest. There is literally no other option.

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I like Vladeck but you paywall a controversial post & then complain people only engage with the snippet is a bit ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ Also would suggest we take a page out of Grant's book and stop being so fucking consumed by what the fascist party of America *might* do & figure out what we will do.

I think we could just stop at "In retrospect Biden was way too lenient." (yes his administration, but he owns the people he selected and their outputs)

steve is concerned with the implications of all of this for the judiciary but, with all genuine respect, i really think that one has to approach this as a problem of game theory

strategic political capture of the court has, for 40 years, been a one-way ratchet. among other things, this has inculcated a sense among conservatives that they can act with virtual impunity. showing them that their opponents will play hardball is a necessary first step toward a better status quo.

will try to answer these in a piece next week but for now i will say that part of the *point* of court expansion, in my mind, is to create a disequilibrium — a potential race to the bottom — that will force a truce.

This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama.

actually their problem is precisely the fact that some people still remember this kind of guy and what happens when you empower them

oh boy. Mike Collins is in trouble