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lol bullshit
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Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
There’s not a polling function on here is there? The question of whether Ryan Lizza is indulging a weird fetish and/or being a sec worker appeared in my brain and I want to make it other people’s problem
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Lmao of course it’s a pay wall
November 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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More politicians should say "I can to Washington to shake things up. I shook stuff a bit and things got worse. Looks like we probably shouldn't have starting shaking."
November 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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trump cheerfully and unwittingly driving a stake through every attack line about zohran is the funniest thing I have seen all year
November 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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I literally think Mamdani went “you know, there was actually a President so popular that people kept electing him more than two terms” and Trump was like no way tell me how he did it
Trump posts:

“It was a Great Honor meeting Zohran Mamdani, the new Mayor of New York City!”

He included multiple photos of Mamdani in front of the portrait of FDR that Mamdani spoke with Trump about during his visit.
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Becoming the sort of person who leaves Google reviews of the county vital records office
November 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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“The U.S. recorded 6,600 pertussis cases in early 2025
Texas has already passed 3,500 cases this year” www.healthday.com/health-news/...
Whooping Cough Surges Nationwide as Vaccinations Fall
THURSDAY, Nov. 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Whooping cough is making a major comeback in the United States, with sharp increases now seen in Texas, Florida, Cali
www.healthday.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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should we tell everyone? should we throw a party? should we invite bill belichick?
November 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I will miss DoorDash Discourse when it’s gone for good
November 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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If the president can just raise taxes and spend money without Congressional approval, the constitution is null and void.
BREAKING: Deputy White House Chief of Staff James Blair said the administration is eyeing ways to give millions of Americans $2,000 dividend checks from tariff revenue without congressional approval, per Bloomberg.
November 19, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Wow yeah you really dodged a bullet when your 22 year old ex left your 55 year old gray haired ass wow are you ok
November 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
A man saying of his 20-years younger ex “a former child actress, she had a flair for the dramatic” and simultaneously teasing an allegation that she plotted to have him imprisoned? Idk idk idk
November 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I didn’t follow that really yucky story that closely — what is Lizza referring to when he says that Nuzzi tried to have him imprisoned?
November 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Everyone in that story sucks!!!!
November 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
You’re telling me a woman who entered a weird dependent and dangerous-feeling relationship with a much older and more powerful man at ~18 then spent years trying to recreate that dysfunctional dynamic at great cost to herself and those she loved?
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The dating pool for 40-something straight men is so bleak that one was willing to politely pretend to listen to me explain this whole situation despite being incredibly offline
the dating pool for 30-something straight women is so bleak that some are willing to settle for geriatric ex-South Carolina governors who frequent the Appalachian trail
the dating pool for 30-something straight women is so bleak that some are willing to settle for geriatric Kennedys with worms-that-aren't-really-worms for brains
November 18, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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I have decided to step away from my public commitments (posting) but I will continue teaching (faving).
November 18, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate

This streak dies tomorrow

Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months

This blind spot will remain forever
Here's the planned BLS data release schedule for Nov 2025.

On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.

This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.

Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Note active voice in thread when victim "upends" Gaetz career but passive voice in image when discussing her exploitation.

"Gaetz sexually exploited a homeless child and destroyed his career in the process" would assign a man and a republican agency. And we can't have that.
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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obsessed with this photo of cows watching the northern lights. it's the scene in a muppet movie that's so surprisingly touching you start to cry

(photographer: @ChrisReichert3 on twitter)
October 8, 2024 at 5:23 PM
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Random thoughts from my continuing adventure as a pretend Americanist.

I would desperately like to see the US History textbooks get somehow de-Boomerized. Why does an 18-year-old undergrad need to read that The Fifties May Have Seemed Like Ozzy And Harriet But It Wasn't?
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM