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History's most successful legal podcaster, co-host of 5-4 pod. He/Him
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I made a starter pack of people I follow who (a) post about news, politics, and law a lot, (b) don't post about a ton of other things, (c) have interesting takes that make me think. don't be offended if you're a mutual but not included, it's probably bc of (a) or (b) not (c)
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about 7 hours ago
they can come into the tent when they admit they were wrong and change their views we all joke about Woke Bill Kristol but he is for the most part the perfect example - he has, legitimately, become much more progressive you can’t bring in people who are mad he’s not delivering on horrible shit
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rev. howard arson
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if my grandpa did that i would make sure i had the number of a funeral home in my phone
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rev. howard arson
about 4 hours ago
probably nothing that our 79 year old president Bruises who just got a MRI for no reason is busting into rooms he shouldn't be in to mumble about the afterlife
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
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Trump, 79, Crashes Wedding to Ramble About Heaven
The president made himself the guest of honor at a Mar-a-Lago wedding.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-79-crashes-wedding-to-ramble-about-heaven/
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Peter
about 11 hours ago
there’s some truth in this, but the gap between deep red and blue states isn’t explained by voter suppression alone. the white populations in deep red states vote republican at very high rates. both things are load-bearing.
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i’m gonna be furious for the rest of my life that this guy was not only allowed to walk free but re-enter public and political life. just such a profound and pathetic failure.
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about 14 hours ago
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he didn't even have the decency to tag it adult content
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about 17 hours ago
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about 17 hours ago
what’s really keeping bluesky from popping off is theres not enough michael thirst traps
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I am, apparently, following the most straight laced group of politics posters on this site
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about 17 hours ago
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the sooner people internalize this about the dems, stop projecting their fantasies on the party, and start demanding more, the better off we’ll all be.
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about 19 hours ago
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not to beat a dead horse but they do this not out of some belief about maximizing electoral returns but out of an aversion to rhetorically committing themselves to doing something about epstein/corruption/ICE/whatever other issue they’re avoiding, should they win power back
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YESSSSSS
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about 19 hours ago
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southpaw
about 20 hours ago
They are planning to do to us what they did to L.A. and Chicago.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/n...
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the climax of the season 1 finale of the OA is genuinely one of the most unintentionally funny scenes in television history.
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about 19 hours ago
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now that dasha is in the news again I'd appreciate it if one of you posted the "praaaxiiss" video please and thank you
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olive consumer
about 20 hours ago
The line is not that Marjorie Taylor Greene has seen the error of her ways and realized that she, in all her idealism, was snookered by bad actors and conspiratorial pedophiles. It is that she enabled them until it became so obvious that she either had to turn on her masters or share their guilt.
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olive consumer
about 20 hours ago
Not to get all Sun Tzu on it, but when the enemy is weak and divided amongst itself, you do not relieve the enemy by allowing their partisans into your camp. You drive them closer together, force them into tighter company, and intensify their conflict.
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cait (and adonis)
about 20 hours ago
schadenfreude delivery from the bad place
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Thomas Zimmer
about 20 hours ago
There is absolutely nothing old or consolidated about *multiracial, pluralistic democracy* in America. It only started 60 years ago. And the conflict over whether or not it should be allowed to endure and prosper has been the central fault line in U.S. politics ever since.
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Hannah Posts 🍂
1 day ago
See what I mean
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Hannah Posts 🍂
1 day ago
Some ducks look like they should have arms. Others, not so much
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Mark Harris
about 21 hours ago
I got an actual "Your silence on this subject is deafening" message this AM, so, super-quick: Nobody here owes anyone commentary about anything. This is a public park. It's full of interesting people. We hang out here, make friends, and chat, and then we leave to do whatever it is we do. That's it!
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Weed Detective
about 21 hours ago
Criterion channel has this streaming again as part of the Nakadai tribute collection. It's also free on Tubi!
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about 21 hours ago
Can you kick in the door that's already rotted off its hinges if you insist on slashing both your ACLs first? The major question of our time.
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Walker Bragman
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This is could well be a historic midterm for Democrats. Don’t waste it on centrists who won’t come through when it matters. Run vocal progressives. You won’t end Trumpism without anti-corruption crusaders and warriors for social and economic justice who believe in taxes & big, universal programs.
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it's incredible how badly they've bungled this despite near total elite buy-in or at least acquiescence in industry, finance, higher education, political media, and especially congress and the courts
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thinking about getting a big print of this from the norman rockwell museum and framing it and putting it up over my desk. while I work, I'll have a visual reminder of what we're fighting for and who we're fighting against. idk is that weird
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'Swas
about 21 hours ago
You were first on the list!...Because it was alphabetical, and "5-4" comes before "Abughazaleh" (whatever happened to her?), but still!
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every once in a awhile I'm reminded that the new republic listed me and my cohosts as among the top 24 political influencers of 2024 and laugh. I like to imagine like, idk, being pulled over for a DUI and asking the cop, "do you know who I am?? TNR listed me as a top 24 political influ
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justin van wormer
about 24 hours ago
What regular people want, and downward mobile out of touch lefties like you don’t understand, is to minmax the efficiency of their recreation to achieve optimal Economic returns for all parties.
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JW Mason
about 21 hours ago
Besides the other ways this is silly, I’m always struck by the language of “cross-subsidization” in these contexts. The assumption is that profits are fixed (or nonexistent) so the only way for one customer to pay less is for another customer to pay more.
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Coach Finstock
6 months ago
Olivia Nuzzi whenever someone runs the garbage disposal: I should call him
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as much as I talk shit about Jeffries on here, he's still miles better than Schumer/Durbin and almost certainly better than anything Schatz/Murphy could deliver, because the Dem Senate caucus itself is a major problem and Jeffries benefits greatly from simply not being in and poisoned by it
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Timothy McBride
about 22 hours ago
Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
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Brendel
about 22 hours ago
They should ask this about every movie. Why isn’t Pennywise in Nights in Rodanthe with Richard Gere and Diane Lane?
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bort
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accusing donald trump of being gay with putin: boorish, tinged with homophobia saying donald trump sucked bill clinton off: ok to find funny as it actually happened
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the Democratic Party should have 2 major goals for the next time it holds power: (1) completely rebuild the destroyed federal government capacity, and (2) crush the GOP, which enabled so much corruption and immiseration. destroy their funding, jail their leaders, make it so a new party has to emerge
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Robert Daniel Pickard
about 22 hours ago
sink their lifeboats
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Frankendarling
1 day ago
All the replies here are sending me.
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Holy Priceless Collection
1 day ago
Literally the only time I've ever enjoyed looking at photos of Ol' Shithead.
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even if we luck into this scenario, still wildly important for the next admin to be vindictive and vengeful and bring down the hammer on EVERYONE they possibly can while passing a bunch of democracy-enhancing laws and rebuilding the fed govt or we are frankly fucked & will be back here soon
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when even cernovich is saying stuff like this its not great
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Anonymous policy lawyer
about 23 hours ago
Big problem: The current bench of Democratic lawmakers recently signaled continued commitment to the filibuster, as
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the absolute best case scenario is trump becomes so unpopular that his own party loses faith in his ability to maintain governing power regardless of election rigging, troop deployment, etc, in which case they will cut him loose and make all that stuff even harder for him to pull off.
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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine
1 day ago
Uh. I don't think that Nuzzi piece is "ironic" guys
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