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There is a certain kinda boomer progressive that is so deep in the ZPG that they can't even see it anymore. Why aren't people flocking to Kansas, Bob?

I remember back in 2011, after Amazon had already reaped a massive price advantage in the Billions of dollars by not collecting sales tax, Bezos hired a bunch of people to lie about the proposition he was trying to pass here in CA that formalize the theft he was already committing, what a bozo

Jeru piano stabs

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When someone attacks a synagogue, a certain segment of people go searching for something that synagogue has said or done in support of Israel, to prove why the attack is actually justified. This article is the Islamophobic equivalent, and it's equally horrific and racist. nypost.com/2026/05/18/u...

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Shake it, baby! 🐢

I myself do not require a handjob to fill out a ballot to prevent fascists from disappearing my neighbors. This is because voting is a civic obligation I have to others not a special lil treat I hand out

Hey ladies: that Civil Rights Act that they’re trying to overturn also protects women from being discriminated against in employment because of sex. It outlaws, among other things, a “marriage bar”: refusing to hire married women or firing previously single women upon marriage.

Yeah, so nearly 20 years ago, this small coffee shop started building a mailbox where they could receive a catalog of beans, they could find cheaper beans or fair trade beans, or whatever.

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Nintendo doesn't want me to share my many likeness (and copyright) infringing dollies, and I can't be arsed to connect my switch to my laptop, so enjoy the bootlegs

Democrats need to understand we’re already in a revolutionary moment. The American republic built in the 60s and 70s is being swept away by Republicans and the Supreme Court. It’s up to us to fight for a liberal democratic future. My latest: www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

I will never stop talking about this: The lovely and profound "If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known" is from an NYT article about the author accidentally being CC'd on an email where his friends were making fun of him for renting goats.

This is what happens when there's historically low trust in the Presidents of the United States of America

It’s interesting how few people make an affirmative case for political violence or how it would solve a given problem, but they are very insistent on attacking your character if you point out that it’s a bad idea because of how important it is for online brand signaling.

On April 30, Senators Durbin, Whitehouse, and Coons voted to advance a nominee who wouldn't say Biden won in 2020 or answer questions related to January 6. During her hearing, Whitehouse called the responses "preposterous" — then voted for her anyway. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/senator-wh...

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I like how Bluesky has enough of a rep now that progressive media types don't recycle their TikTok slop, like how Adam Conover didn't try his "Karen Bass is boosting Spencer Pratt the same way Clinton helped Trump win the Republican primary"

I’m aware this is news to CBS and this dude but we were literally shouting about this a year ago, it’s not unearthed, and it’s even stupider than you think: the cruise ships paid their salaries. It literally paid more than it cost. We gave money back rather than control disease because RFK

Aha but have you considered that they are also laundering money

his go-to move, going back to the "Paul Ryan is a serious wonk" days, is offering false compliments to powerful conservatives so that other powerful conservatives promote him as a serious, even-handed thinker. It's a fundamentally dishonest schtick but a hugely profitable one.

seeing other students get the same grade for doing nothing seems... like the definition of de-moralizing

The idea that elections are supposed to make you feel great is a major part of what led us down the primrose path to Calais

You will find people on this very site who tell you this was a net negative for society overall and then cover for how overtly barbarous they sound with "just being a pragmatist over here!"

Not a new observation here, but one of the core bits of maga is to act as a comforting blanket for the mentally softest motherfuckers who have ever lived, people given the goddamned vapors if the world deviates in any way from what they understood when they were 13

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Yeah @ericafails.bsky.social understands what I want to see in a comic

this is so profoundly dishonorable

If you're like "I don't recognize our shared values, but I know you need my participation, so here's my terms or I'm going home" I simply do not think you can be surprised when people assume you do not share any values

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

headline: huge shift in generational behavior! human condition will never be the same! all norms have fallen! article: 2% shift in vodka buying habits in specific cohort, according to vodkastats DOT com

I think a lot of podcasters in this vein should be interpreted as “reactionary” in the most literal sense that they are extremely vacuous and form their politics by following trends of resentment against whatever they see on social media

False. StS2 is designed to play on an airplane that's in an extended holding pattern because the destination airport has been taken over by mercenaries

The only nominative determinism I believe in is for people named Braden. I hope you are a professional clown, because I'm never going to take anyone with that name seriously. Broden? Sure. Brandon? LFG. Braden? Not. Even. Once.

Read Ed Blum's lawsuit against the Congressional Black Caucus's scholarship program He's suing under one of the nation's very first civil rights laws and, wouldn't you know it, he never actually quotes the whole statute There's a reason for that! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

The AI version of Zuck would have to lose more than $70B to be considered below replacement

I think another reason many Americans Feel Bad About the Economy: There is a constant barrage of information indicating to the casual observer that people who run scams and lie and refuse to play by the rules aren't just going unpunished, they're *making way more money than you are* as a result.

Contrast, for a moment, the tech optimism of hucking a crew into moon orbit with the current regression into mercantilism brought to us by e-gold

Nostalgia hitting pretty hard in times like these Take me back to the Empire Club

The self and the cyberself in quiet introspection

Coming out against slopulist tax cuts and for an FDR-like social compact, rare Ro Khanna win