Mikhail Gorbaechev
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Once a Reverend of the Avocado kind. The General Secretary is dead, long live the General Secretary.
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
about 3 hours ago
Hello friends, I recently lost my health insurance + benefits & am currently looking at a bill of over $16,000 for which I cannot pay. This would not necessarily be an issue if I were not visually impaired and currently out of full time work, but I am humbly asking for assistance now. Any bit helps.
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could literally one thing anywhere not be Gender for like fifteen seconds
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mtsw
about 10 hours ago
Trump take job
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You ever think about how Matt Yglesias should be spat on every time he leaves the house?
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about 6 hours ago
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jamelle
about 8 hours ago
related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America
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jamelle
about 8 hours ago
i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesn’t like into a bespoke ideology. it’s not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded “ism” responsible for everything he doesn’t like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.
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Only white man I have any interest in for 2028 other than the Khan.
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about 9 hours ago
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Senator Chris Van Hollen
about 9 hours ago
Today, I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer. In April, when I met with him in El Salvador, Trump said he would never set foot in the U.S. again. This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
about 13 hours ago
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My best friend and I saw Transformers 2 in theatres, and at a moment where Shia Laboeuf and Megan Fox are running in slow mo with the quiet keening of an explosion behind them, he loudly say "YO THIS SHIT HAPPENED TO MY COUSIN ONCE"
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about 9 hours ago
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Jesus fucking Christ.
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Yes I can actually.
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yeah man maybe you should stop before the white line
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Matt
about 16 hours ago
i think much of the camera discourse honestly is white affluent people who drive to work from the suburbs never getting tickets from racist cops and wanting things to mostly stay that way
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I think Bovino's dad should have maybe died in prison.
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Michael Caley
about 17 hours ago
excellent Times piece getting at the core of the US escalation with Venezuela Marco Rubio is a deranged anticommunist bent on overthrowing the Venezuelan and Cuban regimes and everything is downstream from that
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
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We are going to have to fight immigration as a front in the messaging war, so we should consider picking our battlefield as much as possible rather than let the Republicans do it.
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about 17 hours ago
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Nathan Goldwag
1 day ago
I think it is theoretically possible that an election entirely about health care would be better for Democrats than one fought over immigration. I also think the chance that the GOP *allows* that is approximately nil, and so it behooves us to try and figure out how to fight on immigration as well.
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Naomi Kritzer
1 day ago
This article is sympathetic towards ICE but still a good read because it's clear that Minneapolis and Saint Paul are doing AMAZING work (with a little assistance from our weather).
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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ICE operation shows the difficulty of immigration arrests amid pushback in frigid Minnesota
NBC News was granted exclusive access to accompany Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers as they tried to arrest targets in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-operation-immigration-arrests-minnesota-rcna248609
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)
1 day ago
the appropriate response to Gaza is South Africa-level BDS and a no-fly zone. the appropriate response to El-Fasher is full-scale UN intervention
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Matthew Downhour
1 day ago
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
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At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/africa/2025/12/05/at-least-60000-murdered-in-sudanese-city-which-resembles-a-slaughterhouse/
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Acyn
1 day ago
Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew speaks out after ICE arrest: I think what I would have to say to Karoline is just because you went to a catholic school doesn't make you a good catholic.
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"Speed cameras and ignition interlocks are carceral" really emphasizes that for many people, carcerality is about whether laws are enforceable at all rather than whether they are enforced through prisons.
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Glonzo In Exile 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦
1 day ago
I honestly don't think this is all that terrible of a poll for Talarico. It's definitely not a "Crockett entering ends the race" kind of lead for Crockett.
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Jim Costa's district is safe, there's no reason for him to be doing this.
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*most racist guy you've ever met voice* I am on the left and think it's bad when we focus on Palestine for purely tactical reasons
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utopia deferred
1 day ago
nobody is coming to save you, we can only build power together
act.dsausa.org/s/4536.Xd0xHm
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Listen I'm not going to front like I'm the best driver in the world. I absolutely have a lead foot. And this is a bad quality and if/when I get tickets, I deserve them.
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Nathan Goldwag
1 day ago
No, Matty has actually been pretty consistent he doesn't just want people to compromise in candidate selection or in specific races, he wants to impose party discipline on anybody left-of-center to try and shift the entire range of acceptable popular opinion.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
1 day ago
i'll say this, though, i think habitual speeding and reckless driving offenses should be treated with the same kind of seriousness that DUI/DWAI offenses are, because, as a pedestrian, i'm far more likely to be hit by someone not paying attention or speeding while stone sober than someone drunk
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Tina Smith
1 day ago
Somali Minnesotans can speak to this xenophobia so clearly because they feel the consequences of his hateful words. Read what Faisa has to say:
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John Pfaff
1 day ago
See also: debates about speed cameras. There's a problematic reflex among some progressive reformers to move from "conventional criminal legal responses are bad" to something too close to "accountability in general is bad." I think (as Jamelle argues here) it's rooted in not thinking abt victims.
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Ned Resnikoff
1 day ago
As I never tire of reminding people, the two plausible alternatives to automated traffic enforcement are that we either rely on the discretion of individual police officers or we simply don't enforce traffic laws at all. We have been trying both alternatives now and they are failing us.
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William B. Fuckley
1 day ago
Ignition interlocks are a *less carceral* option! DUI is a common crime, many drunk drivers are not societal threats in other aspects, and we have a device that notably reduces proclivity to drive drunk without otherwise restricting their liberty.
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axaxaxas lmao
2 days ago
It's been over a year and countless iterations but *finally* I can announce that my Masters thesis project, a historical strategy deckbuilder based on the Late Bronze Age is finally playable! Requires Tabletop Simulator to play as this is still just a prototype of the eventual game, but enjoy!
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The Jagged Time by Stephen Friedrich
Because
https://subrosagames.itch.io/the-jagged-time
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TBH there are circumstances you should probably be able to do this and keep your job, but none of those circumstances involve you also calling said customers a racial slur and saying "I'm a racist."
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jamelle
1 day ago
there is a very good book about transatlantic exchange of fascist, eugenicist and racist ideas in the early 20th century and how those ideas shaped the nazi government in its early years. this has been transformed in popular understanding to "the nazis copied jim crow"
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
1 day ago
Yeah people don't really realize it yet but in 2028 almost every single Democratic candidate for president is going to be attacked relentlessly by the pro-Israel lobby, even the most rightward flanking ones on the issue.
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Brad Lander
1 day ago
If I were a Member of Congress, I would not have voted with Republicans to censure Rashida Tlaib (like 22 House Dems did). But I sure would have already introduced a resolution to censure this bigot:
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jamelle
1 day ago
honestly, if i were trying to design a place for the political opposition to take a stand against trump, i couldn't have done better than abrego garcia. by trying to destroy basic constitutional protections, it was *trump* who made this a dispute over due process and the Constitution.
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jamelle
1 day ago
someone tell the California ACLU who is disproportionately more likely to be killed in traffic accidents including those involving people under the influence
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Tiara Mack
1 day ago
In a shock to absolutely no one, the spineless dem’s “plan” to reopen the government and force an ACA vote didn’t work and healthcare subsidies are gone. Healthy people will take the tax penalty. Sick people will go broke or die. Those are the options in 2026.
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rev. howard arson
1 day ago
the thing that makes me angriest about arguments from Yglesias and Bazelon is the bland, placid insistence that it is not just imperative to vote for politicians with no principles, but that if you as a private citizen have principles then you may as well be turning on the gas chambers yourself.
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jamelle
1 day ago
there are pundits who will say that immigration is trump's strongest issue and that picking fights around immigration helps him on the margins. but i think this misunderstands the way public opinion works, as evidenced by trump's declining fortunes on his handling of immigration.
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Sharon
1 day ago
it's why left-YIMBYism is, imo, the correct position from a political economy point of view. the trade offs of rent control vs zoning + development reform really mean that the costs of the former are offset by the latter
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ryan cooper
1 day ago
rereading this from four years ago, I was not nearly harsh enough about these people
theweek.com/politics/100...
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Dr. Oz's campaign and the hidden danger of woo woo cranks
Oprah's woo woo army tries to sneak into the Senate
https://theweek.com/politics/1007628/dr-ozs-campaign-and-the-hidden-danger-of-woo-woo-cranks
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Marxist-Tolkienist-Zelenskyist 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴
1 day ago
yeah i'm not being funny but most arguments against rent controls, while they may be /economically/ sound, are bad from the perspective of /political/ economy
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Adam Serwer
1 day ago
Anti-vaxxism is an ideology with maybe the dumbest combination of pointless and evil that has ever existed
bsky.app/profile/nyti...
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