Clancy Ratliff
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Professor, rhetoric and composition studies. Overdoing my best.
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 16 hours ago
I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet
about 18 hours ago
The lure of ChatGPT ys conversaciouns wythout any actual dialogue or accountabilitye. A mirrour that doth flatter by offeringe no reflectioun whatsoevir. A google searche that doth kysse up to you.
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Senator Ed Markey
about 22 hours ago
I’ve previously called out the Small Business Administration for flying the Appeal to Heaven flag–a symbol of white Christian nationalism favored by January 6 insurrectionists. Now, a high-ranking Department of Education official has it outside his office. Unacceptable. Take it down.
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Chris Hayes
2 days ago
Gotta say it's mindblowing to me that the Brown shooter is still at large and they don't even seem to have identified who they're looking for.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
2 days ago
America, you've spoken loud and clear: you do not like being stabbed in the dick with an ice pick. But what if stabbing yourself in the dick with an ice pick is the only way to fight, idk, climate change or whatever?
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Wouldn't it have been better for the Republicans to have had a contested convention in 2016? Even if it had resulted in the same outcome.
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C. Robert Cargill
3 days ago
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.
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Richy Craven
3 days ago
Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
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James Goodwin
4 days ago
Or get their kids vaccinated
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This is the worst thing about the update.
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We need permitting reform now!
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Kelly
5 days ago
Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health. The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information. They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift. Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
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Opinion | Cracking down on citizenship ceremonies encourages illegal immigration
Trump unfairly levels collective punishment against people legally in the U.S. from 19 countries.
https://wapo.st/4qbMxF0
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
6 days ago
Just a reminder that ICE didn't exist until 2002. It's not some longstanding institution that must be maintained. It was created as a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11, and it could be gotten rid of as easily as it was created.
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Two things the bluesky algorithm thinks I really want to see: 1.) photos of slime molds (YES PLEASE). 2.) gym selfie thirst traps (meh)
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WPMI NBC 15
10 days ago
Amtrak reports Mardi Gras service among most successful ever
https://mynbc15.com/news/local/amtrak-provides-boost-to-mobile-businesses
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Amtrak's Mardi Gras service boosts Mobile tourism with higher than expected ridership
Amtrak says the new Mardi Gras service that connects Mobile to New Orleans is one of the most successful services ever launched and it's on track to double the
https://mynbc15.com/news/local/amtrak-provides-boost-to-mobile-businesses
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Dick Van Dyke's 100th birthday is tomorrow. Universe, leave him alone!
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Just Jack
6 days ago
Representing oligarchs as working class heroes is a new low…even for us.
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Adam Klasfeld
7 days ago
This presidential “pardon,” as it’s for a state crime, is the equivalent of digital toilet paper, only flimsier and serving a less useful purpose.
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Hopeful in AZ
8 days ago
So it turns out an ice agent is much more likely to have an arrest record than an immigrant.
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Anon Opin
7 days ago
I don't want or need a smart washing machine or fridge. I've managed to live this long without needing an app to work an appliance.
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Noting this for later
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Bruce Little
8 days ago
The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website. No US government website can be trusted for science information.
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A pet peeve: when people want me to meet them or pick them up at a building, and they say to go to “the front.” It is NOT obvious what part of a building is the front, back, or sides.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton
8 days ago
America is the only country actively trying to kill its citizens while also asking them to feed as many words and images of themselves into a program before death so their avatars can be owned forever in a data center poisoning what was once their people's land.
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BeijingPalmer
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
9 days ago
This is a time in our nation's history that will be remembered for all the broken fools who needed so much attention.
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Swing and a miss.
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Middle Age Riot
11 days ago
There is nothing less rock and roll than kissing a despot's ass.
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jamelle
11 days ago
don't worry, john roberts says this is a legitimate exercise of presidential power and if we did anything to curb it, we would be robbing the executive of the energy he needs to do his job
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My cousin!
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Pestilence
12 days ago
Dr. Bill Cassidy’s legacy as a hepatologist, will be that he brought about more liver disease. Put that in his obit.
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Kelsey Atherton
3 months ago
Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
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I subscribe to On this Day from the Equal Justice Initiative. I didn't know this, but there was a time when women with US citizenship could have it rescinded if they married an immigrant. Men could marry women who were immigrants and not lose their citizenship. 1/2
calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
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Dec. 6, 1915 | Supreme Court Rules American Women With Foreign Husbands Lose Citizenship
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/dec/06
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton
13 days ago
There are two options for Nuzzi now. Bari Weiss' open arms or a podcast. And I swear to God, if it's the latter I do not want to see clips here. Not even to dunk on. Wait. Three options. Real Housewives villain.
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I just asked, "these vaccines are just as safe as the ones we got, right?" The pediatrician said, "even safer." Then we proceeded on the standard schedule.
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🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ 92%
14 days ago
Absolutely. What happens when they finally stop a school bus?
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An after school snack for my son, who’s a senior. He said he was “fighting the urge to eat it all right now” as I took the picture
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I hope he testifies before Congress.
truthout.org/articles/heg...
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Hegseth Ousted Admiral Tasked With Executing Boat Strikes After He Raised Alarm Over Their Illegality
Hegseth apparently told the admiral: “When you get an order … don’t ask questions.”…
https://truthout.org/articles/hegseth-ousted-admiral-who-objected-to-boat-strikes-under-his-command/
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Claire Willett
15 days ago
as a grantwriter, the lack of unrestricted funding is a MASSIVE burden on nonprofits. everyone wants to fund a new shiny pilot program that makes them look like innovators. they don’t want to help make your tried and tested programs that have served the community for 50 years more sustainable
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
16 days ago
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
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Josh Marshall
16 days ago
can only imagine what this feels like for a Somali-American teen or grade schooler.
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Asha Rangappa
16 days ago
Since I haven’t seen anyone mention this: When the U.S. commits war crimes it puts our troops in danger also, as it gives a green light to other countries that they can do the same to us
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I am so doing this
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The whole article is good.
theonion.com/earth-rumble...
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Earth Rumbles, Dishes Crash To Floor As Gerrymandering Rips Through House
SAN ANTONIO—With the GOP’s redrawn congressional maps taking effect across Texas, a local family reported Friday that the earth rumbled and dishes crashed to the floor as gerrymandering ripped through...
https://theonion.com/earth-rumbles-dishes-crash-to-floor-as-gerrymandering-rips-through-house/
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Tech I have not adopted: TiVo/DVR, Roomba/robot vacuum, Alexa/Google Home, generative AI.
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Mark Chadbourn
20 days ago
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
21 days ago
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
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Aubrey Gilleran
22 days ago
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
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Charlie Warzel
23 days ago
when its definitely not a hostage situation
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