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a decade of working for an employer which was the subject of major public controversy throughout has given me less than zero sympathy for people who affirmatively make the decision to freelance defenses of their employers when they fuck up

the more times i see this the more I think it belongs in a textbook about using woke language to reactionary ends

I think the "you can't deliver the Eucharist to people in detention" is what caused this unity. Not even the most conservative American clerics can swallow that affront to God.

This is the official website of 38 year olds and woof. theonion.com/gop-maintain...

I’m sorry, this is some of the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard. It was not a story, it was a racist dog whistle. What does merit a story is how this info was leaked by a neo-Nazi and somehow made its way before an editor of the paper of record. That web of relationships I think merits investigation

we should abolish tiktok

it's not a house of someone Epstein knows, it's Epstein's house

Why would there be a risk that the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES would just *be* in a guys house???? Like, is that possible? That the PRESIDENT(!!!) would be in the house of guy that Jeffrey Epstein calls on from time to time??? What was he doing???

It's just, if only the NYT had a crack team of investigative reporters that could find out what was up with the world's most notorious child sex trafficker having regular email correspondence with <checks notes> ONE OF THEIR OWN EMPLOYEES.

Guy qting info dump from Democrats Investigation Committee: youd think those democrats would look into this, but alas they dont have the will

so uh, what was Merrick Garland doing

Thinking about the longest serving Republican Speaker of the House, and also theories that are like gravity is a theory. Now to check on the latest news from House Dems and any investigations they might be pursuing…

society has progressed past the need for Virginia Republicans

Look, having a dog is not the same as having a kid. That said, I find myself saying “drop it, leave it, stay, sit, take that out of your mouth” an awful lot.

Incredible feeling when the two year old finishes his puzzles and the reaches up for a high five. Right on buddy!

what the heck is a pre-k report card and why are they doing enough math to merit an entire section??? the only real thing you'd be learning in pre-k is "social emotional growth" anyways!!

i preordered this

Unfortunately you have to primary everyone, not just because they don't have what it takes to fight, but because they don't have what it takes to rebuild. Last thing you want is them to win by default and then tread water until the next Trump comes to power

books have no tech tree, no fog of war

This would be an honorable argument, even if I still think they should have held out. It's insulting, or proof of profound stupidity, to say "oh now we got a promise that they're gonna vote on it." Come on. Do you need help tying your shoes in the morning? Do you need me to come inspect your wallet?

*why the fuck do people think AIPAC would care about the government shutdown* i mean, it’s “literally medieval-level anti-Jewish propaganda,” that’s the answer, but i find myself compelled to demand to know how people think things work, even when those people are de facto nazis

they understand insurance. the entire premise of libertarian opposition to mandatory insurance is that they should not have to care about anyone else and be permitted to take risks. it's the same opposition to vaccination and taxation. they are bad neighbors.

There's really no way around the fact Israel has successfully turned the United States into a deeply antisemitic country in an open, blunt way that it wasn't before and it is going to be the norm for several generations.

Da Joos Have Stabbed Us In Da Back this can only end well. this is the shit I love to see, from the people who want to defeat the <checks notes> Nazis? wait a minute...

The paranoid style of American politics, continued.

The thing about Marxism is that it is an ideology of political economy more dependent on graphs and spreadsheets than almost any other. So it's not great that so many self-professed leftists seem so hell-bent on hating the idea of graphs. Makes you think they're in it for something else...

Will the House come back into session? Will they seat Rep Adelita Grijalva? Will they release the Epstein files? Or will something even more momentous occur today?!?

This thought has been bouncing around my head all weekend so I’m releasing it here now: A lot people here, and Dems in the Senate, would fail the Gom Jabbar. Can you endure pain, great pain, if it is to avoid an even worse fate, or to achieve a great victory?

even within your own lifetime it is difficult to recall how much better everything you eat, drink, and touch is than it used to be

For example, I made this today, a flaky apple tart with neither dairy nor gluten. It’s fucking delicious. Dairy-free butter technology is on a different planet than even 10 years ago. Gluten-free flour, this stuff is almost magic these days

It is important to remember that if the Dems were empowered to enact the party platform without opposition we would be living in a leftist utopia of your wildest dreams.

This thought has been bouncing around my head all weekend so I’m releasing it here now: A lot people here, and Dems in the Senate, would fail the Gom Jabbar. Can you endure pain, great pain, if it is to avoid an even worse fate, or to achieve a great victory?

As one of your constituents, respectfully this is cowardly shit. “Guarantees a vote” do you frickin hear yourself? Why not have the vote right now? You have betrayed the Commonwealth and the US at large, and for what? What was my family’s and other fed employees sacrifice for if this is the outcome

For example, I only learned Quisling was the name of a guy this year. We’re gonna get more synonyms for quisling this year I guess

potential revision to the “everyone is 12” theory: everyone is 12, except for Donald Trump, who is 5

if ai was a race the british would have way more slurs about it

There’s 2 million civilian and a further 1 million military employees of the federal government, and I have no idea how many contractors. They *cannot* and *will not* wait another year for a paycheck. That’s fucking crazy.

So what's the big fuckin deal then buddy? Why are you fighting against a fraction of a fraction, and losing????

Hillel: put your right foot in Gentile: done Hillel: now take it out Gentile: ...ok Hillel: put your other foot in, shake it all about Gentile: wait what? Hillel: what is hateful to you do not do to another Hillel: that's what it's all about

not a fresh take, I know, but I just feel like emphasizing how serious I am about this we sincerely should build out something like what they're trying to do with ICE, but slightly slower and more cautious, and following the actual law, but enforcing laws that haven't been in decades

we should fund more cops and prisons, and they should be used to go after public corruption

like, I think a big reason why a lot of long standing understandings and laws against corruption generally aren't enforced is that people have generally understood that there are certain things you get away with in reality, if not on paper I think people who rely on that should become afraid

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

It’s not really about antisemitism!! It’s about whether they all become literal, for realsies Nazis or not.

straight-up jury nullification. this guy did it, confessed to it, and the jury instructions explicitly said that if he did it intentionally, it was assault.

i sincerely really think people, even among liberals, vastly underrate the extent to which feminism and women's rights have been completely abandoned by our side because of latent hostility to female presidential candidates who beat labor/working class focused candidates in primaries