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Everyone's username is a sly reference about something
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It's like so many NYT articles. You ask yourself who the intended audience was, and it always seems that their ideal reader is someone who doesn't know anything about the topic, but wants to sound informed about it to their friends.
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Love Wins Always
7 months ago
But Bannon and Stephen Miller do. We've created fictional influencers—from Bane to Tyler Durden to Rick Sanchez to Cartman to Heath Ledger's Joker—who made villainy seem so hip, and dehumanized victims' pain so hilarious, that a wave of propagandists with teenage mentalities saw their chance.
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Max Read
5 days ago
we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis
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LessBadProblems.bsky.social
5 days ago
Trump didn't warp the party, that was done before him by the very "Never Trump" elites who thought they could control the racist, misogynistic part of society starting in the 60s. They took over no later than 2010. Trump is a symptom, a catalyst, not the cause. He just gave them permission.
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Jeff Abraham
9 days ago
"Sell their houses to who, Ben? Fucking Aquaman?!!" will live in my head forever.
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A.R. Moxon
8 days ago
But honestly, few of us can say the best thing we ever did is also the last thing we ever did.
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James Harris
9 days ago
I am imposing tariffs on everyone ahead of me in my fantasy football league standings.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
14 days ago
Well that’s convenient now that there are only two.
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Steve Vladeck
about 1 month ago
Tweet less; research more.
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Rich Raho
about 1 month ago
“Our age has witnessed a dramatic collapse of faith in institutions of all kinds. The benign examination of institutional life that is vital for societal health has turned into a corrosive instinct to attack every major institution…“ - Cardinal McElroy
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Tamar
about 1 month ago
I tend to think every nerdy trans woman should read Margaret Atwood's The Loneliness of the Military Historian and sit with it for a moment no matter what it is exactly she's nerdy about, but that goes double for you
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47788/...
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The Loneliness of the Military Historian
This is why few people ask me to dinner, though Lord knows I don’t go out of my way to be scary. If I roll my eyes and mutter, if I clutch at my heart and scream in horror like a third-rate actress ch...
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47788/the-loneliness-of-the-military-historian
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Doug Smith
about 2 months ago
Blacks and minorities thought that Obama's election signaled that America was finally ready to listen. The Right thought that now that they'd "allowed" one of "Those People" to be elected, that Blacks and minorities would have to shut up.
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William Gibson
about 2 months ago
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Erin Cook
about 2 months ago
Unfortunately, I have learnt too much today and my brain has popped
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ryan cooper
about 2 months ago
as Stephen says you have to think about batteries, the grid etc, it's not quite that simple. but beyond obvious that China is going to be absolutely swimming in dirt cheap electricity within 5-10 years
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Eephus Tosser
about 2 months ago
The follow-up post is the best part.
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Brendan O’Kane
6 months ago
staring at the kid, trying your best to love them but always at the back of your mind you're thinking "you ruined my ley lines"
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Don Moynihan
about 2 months ago
"Smart People Don't Like Me": An Analysis of Right-Wing Grievance Politics (2026)
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David Roberts
2 months ago
What centrist libs can't seem to internalize is that the US contains a large, longstanding, well-funded political movement that *wants political violence and authoritarianism*. It does not need to be provoked in any way in order to pursue those goals.
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Anna Bower
2 months ago
The markings that supposedly expressed “transgender ideology” were………..a series of arrows.
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Don Moynihan
2 months ago
Everyone is an expert until you need to do the hard stuff
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Tongue Stud Window
2 months ago
They are telling themselves that they are modeling proper behavior but in reality they are rewarding improper behavior.
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Laura Jedeed
2 months ago
a 30 caliber cartridge is between 2 and 3 inches long, half inch diameter at most. not sure how much ideology you can fit on one of those Doesn't matter I guess. This is about to be fucking horrific
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸
2 months ago
Horst Wessel, 1907–1930.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Wessel
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FujiiPonta
2 months ago
Lawyers for detained former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte say he suffers from significant cognitive deficiencies that affect his memory and daily functioning, documents made public by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday (September 11) showed.
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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Duterte defence says ex-Philippine president suffers deteriorating cognitive condition
Lawyers for detained former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte say he suffers from significant cognitive deficiencies that affect his memory and daily functioning, documents made public by the International Criminal Court on Thursday showed.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/duterte-defence-says-ex-philippine-president-suffers-deteriorating-cognitive-2025-09-11/
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Tom Scocca
2 months ago
No better evidence that "The Cathedral" is fake than allegedly liberal journalists tripping over their dicks to praise, as a champion of free discourse and expression, a guy who made one of his central accomplishments a blacklist of professors
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Angry Staff Officer
2 months ago
The deeper we go into the hellmouth, the more impressed I am that Anne Frank kept a diary I can barely find the energy to write at all
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Teddy Wilson
2 months ago
Nothing good will come from today.
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Febriana Isnaini
2 months ago
It's also subtle racism, as if people in the Global South like Indonesia aren't capable of forming their own thoughts to fight back. Not to mention delegitimize the movement even though we all work together to mobilize and help each other.
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Febriana Isnaini
2 months ago
It's funny that Americans (mostly) on here would go, "The protests in Indonesia are the result of US' destabilization because they join BRICS" and the hot take is to stop supporting us. Ignorant and uneducated take, I think.
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Dennis Detwiller
2 months ago
Because 15 billionaires most likely to profit from that recession own every newspaper and news program in the United States.
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2 months ago
For those of you too young to remember Donald Rumsfeld defending the Iraq invasion, this is what it was like.
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TK - The Korean
2 months ago
Hit dogs holler, and Newt Gingrich and Mike Pompeo pipe up when Moonies get raided.
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Greg Stolze
2 months ago
Who was it said, "Anyone who's been within 20 feet of a cow on a farm knows EXACTLY the problem pasteurization was trying to solve"?
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jamelle
2 months ago
supreme irony that the party of lincoln is now the party of taney
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Anton Gerashchenko
2 months ago
Lavrov: "For lasting peace, new territorial realities must be recognized under international law." They want international recognition of Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories. If that happens, that will mean completely destruction of existing international law and order.
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Alejandra Caraballo
2 months ago
With all due respect to my colleague professor Sunstein, there's an absolute sickness in parts of academia that views social oppobrium as actual censorship without any sort of analysis of power dynamics. It's absurd. You do not have to have reverence for all views!
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Anat Shenker-Osorio
2 months ago
Yes, it's true. Someone did take your job. And your healthcare, pension, wage hikes and life off a single income. It just wasn't immigrants, welfare recipients, queer people or women having abortions. If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
3 months ago
It’s worrisome that even local advocates are responding with debates about effective crime prevention strategies - important to discuss of course. But not responsive to Trump’s capricious power grab.
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Joshua Erlich
3 months ago
we are living in a time of profound suffering and profound opportunity. restoring the post-war status quo is not a solution, and the real roadblock to fixing our country is that nearly all of the will to be innovative is on the side of the fascists.
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Eric Smith
3 months ago
People posting about how they’ve never seen em dashes used before the rise of ChatGPT are really great at telling folks they’ve never read a book before.
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Gaius (from Tribunate)
3 months ago
I honestly can’t believe there are still any AI skeptics out there. This tech is obviously revolutionary
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Patricia Wallinga ⛵🎵
3 months ago
Art grappling with the aftermath of World War I is an all-time obsession of mine. Hell has come to Earth on a scale and in a manner never seen by humans, and you may well have been in the middle of it. Now you have to go back to being, what, 20? 30? As if you haven't lived through Armageddon?
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Nicki Washington, Ph.D.
3 months ago
On this Chairteenth, we celebrate the good folks of Montgomery, especially our guy AquaMayne. Special shout out to the folks who, within 72 hours, recreated this in their apartment complex. A COMMUNITY!! 💀
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Robert Saunders
3 months ago
The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined. The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.
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Crucible Of Words
3 months ago
The author of this piece is stealing a living
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botany
3 months ago
i am once again calling for the abolishment of opinion pieces
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Vicente Valentim
3 months ago
In line with other recent work (like arguments I make in my book and empirical evidence from
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John Carl Baker
4 months ago
"A king, again, is the most inconsistent of men; show him reasonable respect, and he is angry because you do not abase yourself before his majesty; abase yourself, and he hates you for being a toady."
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Nicholas Grossman
4 months ago
Part of my answer to "how'd we get here?" is an elite, institutional culture deeply opposed to calling bullshit. To do so is uncouth, uncivil, biased. Stated rationales must be taken at face value. There's no such thing as bad faith. Questioning motives is wrong. It's just debate, have some respect.
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Chris Geidner
4 months ago
Voicing a concern similar to what I and others have written, Kagan concludes: “By means of such actions, this Court may facilitate the permanent transfer of authority, piece by piece by piece, from one branch of Government to another.“
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