Adrienne
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Casual politics consumer, intense weird pop culture consumer.
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
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I'm not alone in wondering as to when Democrats will have ads up about today's Epstein disclosures. There is a ton of ammo but as a party they often seem to not understand that they're fighting a content-creation war. This should be the thing that breaks them out of this torpor.
November 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I'm not alone in wondering as to when Democrats will have ads up about today's Epstein disclosures. There is a ton of ammo but as a party they often seem to not understand that they're fighting a content-creation war. This should be the thing that breaks them out of this torpor.
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I think about this all of the time and about every topic.
In general it's useful to think about what the GOP would have done today if the shoe was on the other foot.
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I think about this all of the time and about every topic.
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Another revelation from all of these emails is that many of the richest and most powerful people in the country absolutely cannot write. Helps explain their sweaty embrace of LLMs.
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Another revelation from all of these emails is that many of the richest and most powerful people in the country absolutely cannot write. Helps explain their sweaty embrace of LLMs.
I feel like soon we are going to either see a super sus picture of Aaron Rodger’s wife, or get confirmation that he is married to a chatbot. Either way, I am looking forward to it.
November 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I feel like soon we are going to either see a super sus picture of Aaron Rodger’s wife, or get confirmation that he is married to a chatbot. Either way, I am looking forward to it.
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You think the media that considered the suggestion of influence a scandal when Clinton said hi to Loretta Lynch would be at least a little bit interested in the mountain of extremely strong hints that the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES was personally involved in CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING
The only question to me is if he was actively working with Epstein to traffic child rape victims or just along for the ride.
November 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
You think the media that considered the suggestion of influence a scandal when Clinton said hi to Loretta Lynch would be at least a little bit interested in the mountain of extremely strong hints that the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES was personally involved in CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING
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All sorts of decency set aside, the biggest political scoop in history, and they don't want it because they'll lose access to the free canapes
November 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
All sorts of decency set aside, the biggest political scoop in history, and they don't want it because they'll lose access to the free canapes
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Our leading news organizations turned a cache of ultimately-innocuous emails into a scandal-coded weeklong series of front page stories leading into the 2016 election. If they do not cover the "emails from notorious pedophile implication the President" emails with the same fervor, it's curious!
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Our leading news organizations turned a cache of ultimately-innocuous emails into a scandal-coded weeklong series of front page stories leading into the 2016 election. If they do not cover the "emails from notorious pedophile implication the President" emails with the same fervor, it's curious!
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Other folks have said it, but let me just note that:
(1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year
(2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives
Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?
(1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year
(2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives
Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Other folks have said it, but let me just note that:
(1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year
(2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives
Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?
(1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year
(2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives
Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?
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the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”
God, just a bunch of total assholes who have never read Ozymandis.
Conservative-leaning tech investors are racing to build a new American colossus, and they want something much, much bigger than the Statue of Liberty. Meet the new monuments men of the tech right and their plans for statue-maxing:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues
With proposals for a 450-foot statue of Prometheus on Alcatraz and a 650-foot George Washington, MAGA adherents are racing to build America’s largest statue.
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
God, just a bunch of total assholes who have never read Ozymandis.
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The Republicans prize the filibuster because it's an effective tool at frustrating and striking down any remotely progressive policy. The Democrats prize the filibuster because without the procedural buffer it provides they would have to go beyond proclaiming their values and actually act upon them.
It's so insane how scared of the filibuster being removed the Dems are lol. They do not fundamentally believe elections should change outcomes.
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Republicans prize the filibuster because it's an effective tool at frustrating and striking down any remotely progressive policy. The Democrats prize the filibuster because without the procedural buffer it provides they would have to go beyond proclaiming their values and actually act upon them.
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You can already see it coming; the Democratic establishment won’t have the courage to hold the Trump criminals accountable.
are you really going to imprison the goons terrorizing our cities? you just capitulated in a fight that you were very clearly winning
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
You can already see it coming; the Democratic establishment won’t have the courage to hold the Trump criminals accountable.
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The key here is @they’re gonna feel like entrepreneurs.”
Trump knows that this is always a pathway for support from a certain segment of Americans - mostly men. The desire to “invest” and be an “entrepreneur.” Even without expertise, capital, or the resilience to endure failure.
Trump knows that this is always a pathway for support from a certain segment of Americans - mostly men. The desire to “invest” and be an “entrepreneur.” Even without expertise, capital, or the resilience to endure failure.
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The key here is @they’re gonna feel like entrepreneurs.”
Trump knows that this is always a pathway for support from a certain segment of Americans - mostly men. The desire to “invest” and be an “entrepreneur.” Even without expertise, capital, or the resilience to endure failure.
Trump knows that this is always a pathway for support from a certain segment of Americans - mostly men. The desire to “invest” and be an “entrepreneur.” Even without expertise, capital, or the resilience to endure failure.
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You didn't get a vote. You got a "promise" of a vote. From a party who is disappearing nannies & gardeners and zip-tying children. A party who has flushed Due Process in America down the toilet. Who has subjugated its Congressional duties to an autocrat. That's what everybody sees, Tim.
Kaine on why he thinks just getting a vote on healthcare is a win: "We're the minority party, but everybody will get to see who is standing for them when it comes to lowering their healthcare costs"
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
You didn't get a vote. You got a "promise" of a vote. From a party who is disappearing nannies & gardeners and zip-tying children. A party who has flushed Due Process in America down the toilet. Who has subjugated its Congressional duties to an autocrat. That's what everybody sees, Tim.
Oh my god FUUUUUUUUUCK these people!
SENATOR ANGUS KING: "Standing up to Donald Trump didn't work. It actually gave him more power."
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Oh my god FUUUUUUUUUCK these people!
And we were all so excited about him at the time! I think in hindsight we were less excited about him the person & more excited about the campaign he ran, which was one of the first times I saw a Democrat refuse to be polite about their Republican opponent and just bullied them like they deserved.
i think an especially depressing part of this whole saga is that "we need to win primaries so establishment dems are replaced by true progressives" is a thing we've done before but one of the progressives we worked hard to install over the establishment pick was fetterman
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
And we were all so excited about him at the time! I think in hindsight we were less excited about him the person & more excited about the campaign he ran, which was one of the first times I saw a Democrat refuse to be polite about their Republican opponent and just bullied them like they deserved.
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And by people we mean the kind that every moderate senator spends all of their time thinking about and trying to cater to at the expense of their own base (who they love to shit on): unaffiliated, apolitical types who don’t really like politicians and sometimes vote for Republicans.
This shit is why people don’t trust the Democratic Party.
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
And by people we mean the kind that every moderate senator spends all of their time thinking about and trying to cater to at the expense of their own base (who they love to shit on): unaffiliated, apolitical types who don’t really like politicians and sometimes vote for Republicans.
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No, no, no. Senate Democrats secured the concepts of a plan for a handshake for a promise to hold a vote they will lose.
Dems have spent the past two months saying they're fighting to address the crisis of spiking healthcare costs and now they're caving for a deal that does nothing to address healthcare costs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
November 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
No, no, no. Senate Democrats secured the concepts of a plan for a handshake for a promise to hold a vote they will lose.
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Harm to SNAP recipients, federal workers, and others is real. In a normal democracy it’d make sense to prioritize reducing that harm in the short term.
In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.
In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.
two contradictory ideas that i hold in my head at the same time: 1) i think the threat to both SNAP recipients and federal workers is significant enough now that even bad deals are worth making to prevent further harm, and, 2) everyone who caves now should retire in shame
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Harm to SNAP recipients, federal workers, and others is real. In a normal democracy it’d make sense to prioritize reducing that harm in the short term.
In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.
In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.
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I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
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Remember when they said the reason they caved in March was so they could get a better deal in September lmao
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Remember when they said the reason they caved in March was so they could get a better deal in September lmao
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I don’t trust anyone who describes themselves as a moderate at this moment in time.
You just don’t want people to see the hood in your closet.
You just don’t want people to see the hood in your closet.
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I don’t trust anyone who describes themselves as a moderate at this moment in time.
You just don’t want people to see the hood in your closet.
You just don’t want people to see the hood in your closet.
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I think tonight shows why “moderate to win elections” is a real risk
the big divide in the Dem caucus, as many have noted, has been less moderate vs progressive than fight versus don’t fight
but it’s not a coincidence that basically everyone in the “don’t fight” camp is a moderate
the big divide in the Dem caucus, as many have noted, has been less moderate vs progressive than fight versus don’t fight
but it’s not a coincidence that basically everyone in the “don’t fight” camp is a moderate
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
I think tonight shows why “moderate to win elections” is a real risk
the big divide in the Dem caucus, as many have noted, has been less moderate vs progressive than fight versus don’t fight
but it’s not a coincidence that basically everyone in the “don’t fight” camp is a moderate
the big divide in the Dem caucus, as many have noted, has been less moderate vs progressive than fight versus don’t fight
but it’s not a coincidence that basically everyone in the “don’t fight” camp is a moderate