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It’s wild that “I want art made by artists, not the vomit that comes from stealing art made by artists” is a hot take in this era, but here we are
November 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
It’s wild that “I want art made by artists, not the vomit that comes from stealing art made by artists” is a hot take in this era, but here we are
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"But the exodus of lawyers has created an opportunity to understand what’s happening within the agency. We interviewed more than 60 attorneys who recently resigned or were fired from the Justice Department."
November 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"But the exodus of lawyers has created an opportunity to understand what’s happening within the agency. We interviewed more than 60 attorneys who recently resigned or were fired from the Justice Department."
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Between this and USAID, the Trump Administration will likely reach Pol Pot killing fields numbers of deaths without ever firing a single shot.
NEW: An analysis finds that NIH funding cuts have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants that were enrolled in studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease.
November 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Between this and USAID, the Trump Administration will likely reach Pol Pot killing fields numbers of deaths without ever firing a single shot.
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“I’ll fight until hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on”
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
“I’ll fight until hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on”
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Trump is a mix of the geriatric self aggrandizement of Leonid Brezhnev, and the sexual history of Lavrentiy Beria.
November 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Trump is a mix of the geriatric self aggrandizement of Leonid Brezhnev, and the sexual history of Lavrentiy Beria.
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There’s a cult of ignorance in the US and always has been.
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
- Isaac Asimov
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
- Isaac Asimov
November 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
There’s a cult of ignorance in the US and always has been.
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
- Isaac Asimov
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
- Isaac Asimov
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I think it’s great that our media elites have decided that men in their 30s saluting Hitler are just rambunctious kids who got carried away, while 16-year old girls being trafficked and raped by billionaires are “underage women” making informed choices. Definitely reflects well on us as a society.
November 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I think it’s great that our media elites have decided that men in their 30s saluting Hitler are just rambunctious kids who got carried away, while 16-year old girls being trafficked and raped by billionaires are “underage women” making informed choices. Definitely reflects well on us as a society.
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Trump admin Is attempting to massive cut federal transit funds, seeking to:
1–Eliminate transit account, which funds billions of $ in capital expenses for transit agencies
2–Prevent state DOTs from “flexing” funds for transit
These changes, if they occurred, would be devastating for US transit.
1–Eliminate transit account, which funds billions of $ in capital expenses for transit agencies
2–Prevent state DOTs from “flexing” funds for transit
These changes, if they occurred, would be devastating for US transit.
POLITICO Pro: Trump administration proposals seek to eliminate transit funding
DOT recently sent two proposals to the White House budget office seeking to pare back transit money.
subscriber.politicopro.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Trump admin Is attempting to massive cut federal transit funds, seeking to:
1–Eliminate transit account, which funds billions of $ in capital expenses for transit agencies
2–Prevent state DOTs from “flexing” funds for transit
These changes, if they occurred, would be devastating for US transit.
1–Eliminate transit account, which funds billions of $ in capital expenses for transit agencies
2–Prevent state DOTs from “flexing” funds for transit
These changes, if they occurred, would be devastating for US transit.
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It just needs to be way easier to lose your license and your car for reckless driving, because a few months of major societal disruption 5 years ago taught people that driving in such a way that kills others or themselves is nbd
so uhhhhh is anyone going to do anything about the epidemic of drivers just blasting through red lights these days? @timdonnelly.com investigates: nygroove.nyc/why-does-no-...
Society broke down and all, but you really still need to stop at red lights
I can't believe we need to explain this one, but it seems that we really do
nygroove.nyc
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
It just needs to be way easier to lose your license and your car for reckless driving, because a few months of major societal disruption 5 years ago taught people that driving in such a way that kills others or themselves is nbd
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Where is @apstylebook.com on this?
I can't believe this hasn't been standardized before.
Because the language we're seeing in the news is reprehensible.
I can't believe this hasn't been standardized before.
Because the language we're seeing in the news is reprehensible.
A reminder:
An under-aged girl = a child
Sex with a child = rape
Hiding behind euphemisms and bureaucratic legalese protects our feelings, but clouds the truth.
An under-aged girl = a child
Sex with a child = rape
Hiding behind euphemisms and bureaucratic legalese protects our feelings, but clouds the truth.
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Where is @apstylebook.com on this?
I can't believe this hasn't been standardized before.
Because the language we're seeing in the news is reprehensible.
I can't believe this hasn't been standardized before.
Because the language we're seeing in the news is reprehensible.
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Weirdly, nobody questions the fact that a president can be convinced within a few minutes, posts his new "policies" across his socials and when confronted, says he has no idea.
THAT is the problem, not the clowns with bad ideas.
THAT is the problem, not the clowns with bad ideas.
November 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Weirdly, nobody questions the fact that a president can be convinced within a few minutes, posts his new "policies" across his socials and when confronted, says he has no idea.
THAT is the problem, not the clowns with bad ideas.
THAT is the problem, not the clowns with bad ideas.
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you might as well call it the Senatorial Coverup Act for fuck's sake, it is really that bad.
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
you might as well call it the Senatorial Coverup Act for fuck's sake, it is really that bad.
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read the actual bill text and this is quite literally a provision designed solely to impede civil and criminal investigations into United States Senators and their staff. www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.appropriations.senate.gov
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 AM
read the actual bill text and this is quite literally a provision designed solely to impede civil and criminal investigations into United States Senators and their staff. www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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This is a really remarkable piece of writing and in its particulars it describes so, so many people
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
This is a really remarkable piece of writing and in its particulars it describes so, so many people
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I say that once you're elected to the Presidency, you are permanently a ward of the state. Your food and shelter and transportation are comfortable and completely paid for by the public but you basically become a monk with a stipend and zero assets to your name
The president should make 26MM for life.
*But* all their work thereafter is public domain, and they cannot be paid or otherwise compensated for any other act.
You get to be comfortable. But no profiting from the office.
*But* all their work thereafter is public domain, and they cannot be paid or otherwise compensated for any other act.
You get to be comfortable. But no profiting from the office.
November 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I say that once you're elected to the Presidency, you are permanently a ward of the state. Your food and shelter and transportation are comfortable and completely paid for by the public but you basically become a monk with a stipend and zero assets to your name
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This is an excellent idea!!!
November 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This is an excellent idea!!!
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And that’s why we here see a Court that can suddenly use normal logic and perceive the consequences of its own actions.
Meaning they know *exactly* what they're doing when they allow Trump and Vought to destroy NIH, and thus destroy most or all US cancer research. /end
Meaning they know *exactly* what they're doing when they allow Trump and Vought to destroy NIH, and thus destroy most or all US cancer research. /end
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 AM
And that’s why we here see a Court that can suddenly use normal logic and perceive the consequences of its own actions.
Meaning they know *exactly* what they're doing when they allow Trump and Vought to destroy NIH, and thus destroy most or all US cancer research. /end
Meaning they know *exactly* what they're doing when they allow Trump and Vought to destroy NIH, and thus destroy most or all US cancer research. /end
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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For those of us who've been paying attention, this has become what we expect, but for a lot of normies, this will read as Anne Frank level Nazi shit and it's breaking through.
Getting new details on this now:
As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection.
The arrest reportedly took place in front of children.
19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...
The arrest reportedly took place in front of children.
19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...
November 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
For those of us who've been paying attention, this has become what we expect, but for a lot of normies, this will read as Anne Frank level Nazi shit and it's breaking through.
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Centre-left politicians worried about anti-car policies polling badly in the short term need to remember: every measure that pushes people to cycle or use public transport ultimately creates more centre-left voters; every measure that leads to more people driving creates more right-wing voters
There should be a tax on ridiculously bloated road boats registered in urban areas, because (a) they cause obvious problems in such areas (b) they are bad for the environment (c) they are dangerous for children (d) they are awful, and driving them should be expensive and socially stigmatised.
Cars the U.K are up to 55% larger today than they were in the 1970s and there are twice the number of motors on our roads as there were 30 years ago, but anti-Low Traffic Neighbourhood and anti-cycle lane campaigners keep claiming they 'cause congestion'.
Okay.
Okay.
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Centre-left politicians worried about anti-car policies polling badly in the short term need to remember: every measure that pushes people to cycle or use public transport ultimately creates more centre-left voters; every measure that leads to more people driving creates more right-wing voters
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That’s the second reported and sourced story on US soldiers not being fed today
Army closes only dining facility on Kansas base due to government shutdown trib.al/5WGvUOq
Army closes only dining facility on Kansas base due to government shutdown
The only dining facility for junior troops at the Army’s Fort Leavenworth in Kansas has been closed due to funding issues.
trib.al
November 6, 2025 at 12:17 AM
That’s the second reported and sourced story on US soldiers not being fed today
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Seems like a good time for the Speaker of the House to swear in Rep. Grijalva.
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Seems like a good time for the Speaker of the House to swear in Rep. Grijalva.
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The US Army is advising its soldiers in Germany to go to German food banks because of the shutdown. home.army.mil/bavaria/abou...
November 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The US Army is advising its soldiers in Germany to go to German food banks because of the shutdown. home.army.mil/bavaria/abou...
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Pay your taxes and STFU.
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Pay your taxes and STFU.