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honestly nothing baffles and pisses me off me so much as "futurists" who have conniptions over trans people. like come on. the SLIGHTEST BIT of actual imagination! for once!
December 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
honestly nothing baffles and pisses me off me so much as "futurists" who have conniptions over trans people. like come on. the SLIGHTEST BIT of actual imagination! for once!
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These parents killed their child and we need to say it
“The vaccination has stuff we don’t trust,” said the father of the 6-year-old girl who died of measles. In March, Tom Bartlett wrote about his visit with a family confronting an unthinkable tragedy.
Revisit one of The Atlantic’s most-read stories of 2025: theatln.tc/yADSKik3?lin...
Revisit one of The Atlantic’s most-read stories of 2025: theatln.tc/yADSKik3?lin...
December 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
These parents killed their child and we need to say it
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Been saying for a while now that conservatives mean "a man's ability to control everyone who lives with him" when they say "family."
The right's definition of marriage "insists that a patriarchal structure, strict heterosexuality, and right-wing Christian principles are inalienable parts of that institution. Anyone who cannot conform to this sort of marriage is unworthy of marriage in the first place"
Marriage, Misogyny, and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Right Is Offering A Morally Barren Vision of The Family
Liberals cannot allow the right to monopolize the discourse on virtue and the good life or they will cede space to their rigid and hierarchical visions.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Been saying for a while now that conservatives mean "a man's ability to control everyone who lives with him" when they say "family."
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Clean power growth is now covering all new global demand. Solar and wind generated 635 TWh in the first nine months of this year, exceeding the 603 TWh rise in global electricity demand, and holding fossil generation flat for the year. buff.ly/zRmwAmg
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Q3 Global Power Report: No fossil fuel growth expected in 2025 | Ember
Solar and wind power grew fast enough to keep up with rising electricity demand in the first three quarters of 2025, as fossil fuel growth should be stagnated. Ember forecasts no growth for fossil…
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November 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Clean power growth is now covering all new global demand. Solar and wind generated 635 TWh in the first nine months of this year, exceeding the 603 TWh rise in global electricity demand, and holding fossil generation flat for the year. buff.ly/zRmwAmg
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IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.
Kristi Noem: "No American citizens have been arrested or detained. We focus on those who are here illegally. And anything you would hear or report that would be different than that is simply not true and false reporting."
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.
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No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.
Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.
Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.
October 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.
Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.
Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.
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he fact that actual modern warfare is an intensely technical bureaucratic endeavor always chafes a certain kind of person, and it’s been so long that the United States has been even threatened by the prospect of fighting a near peer professional military we have the luxury of pretending otherwise
This 'cult of the operator' appears, to me at least, wholly unsuited for modern warfare, in which victory depends primarily on the depth of your political will, the effectiveness of your logistics, the advancement of your technology and most of all the raw quantity of steel you can put in the air.
October 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
he fact that actual modern warfare is an intensely technical bureaucratic endeavor always chafes a certain kind of person, and it’s been so long that the United States has been even threatened by the prospect of fighting a near peer professional military we have the luxury of pretending otherwise
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Naked children torn from their mothers and tossed into vans.
U.S. citizens detained for hours in zip ties.
Doors kicked in and belongings stolen or destroyed.
This is the reality of Trump’s deportation agenda.
It was always about cruelty.
U.S. citizens detained for hours in zip ties.
Doors kicked in and belongings stolen or destroyed.
This is the reality of Trump’s deportation agenda.
It was always about cruelty.
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Naked children torn from their mothers and tossed into vans.
U.S. citizens detained for hours in zip ties.
Doors kicked in and belongings stolen or destroyed.
This is the reality of Trump’s deportation agenda.
It was always about cruelty.
U.S. citizens detained for hours in zip ties.
Doors kicked in and belongings stolen or destroyed.
This is the reality of Trump’s deportation agenda.
It was always about cruelty.
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I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.
September 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
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Laugh at Trump’s ridiculous innumeracy, sure. But the commander of the world’s most powerful military is responding to relevant questions about the laws of armed conflict by claiming that the existence of drug deaths in general permits him to kill anyone he feels like, which is very serious.
Reporter: The president of Venezuela called the strike on the boat illegal
Trump: What’s illegal is the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs
Trump: What’s illegal is the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs
September 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Laugh at Trump’s ridiculous innumeracy, sure. But the commander of the world’s most powerful military is responding to relevant questions about the laws of armed conflict by claiming that the existence of drug deaths in general permits him to kill anyone he feels like, which is very serious.
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It’s horrific and inexplicable. Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are objectively pro-cancer. They’re destroying the entire infrastructure that has made so much progress and is poised to make much more. People will suffer and die because of them. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
How the Trump Administration Is Dismantling America’s Cancer-Research System
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
It’s horrific and inexplicable. Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are objectively pro-cancer. They’re destroying the entire infrastructure that has made so much progress and is poised to make much more. People will suffer and die because of them. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
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What Trump's Secret Police did today.
September 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
What Trump's Secret Police did today.
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DOJ Deputy Chief Joseph Schnitt admitted that the government will "redact every republican" and "leave all the liberal, democratic people” on the Epstein client list.
He also said Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to a minimum securithy prison as "a benefit to keep her mouth shut."
He also said Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to a minimum securithy prison as "a benefit to keep her mouth shut."
September 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
DOJ Deputy Chief Joseph Schnitt admitted that the government will "redact every republican" and "leave all the liberal, democratic people” on the Epstein client list.
He also said Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to a minimum securithy prison as "a benefit to keep her mouth shut."
He also said Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to a minimum securithy prison as "a benefit to keep her mouth shut."
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twenty thousand years ago a whole bunch of wild grasses invented serfdom and their subject peoples have only recently begun to break free of their tyranny
it’s great and cool and fun to grow food but “grow your own food” as a response to a crisis when literally the entirety of civilization has revolved around the provision of food will never not make me think less of you
January 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
twenty thousand years ago a whole bunch of wild grasses invented serfdom and their subject peoples have only recently begun to break free of their tyranny
Slightly diminish a band: Foreplay Pistols
Slightly diminish a band: Firm Dan
Slightly diminish a band name: Counting Starlings.
August 13, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Slightly diminish a band: Foreplay Pistols
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August 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
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We figured out to *cure cancer* (ref: last year’s pancreatic cancer trials) and the Trump administration decided “nah.” That a society could reject a cure for cancer is astounding.
We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
We figured out to *cure cancer* (ref: last year’s pancreatic cancer trials) and the Trump administration decided “nah.” That a society could reject a cure for cancer is astounding.
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It’s possible this lie might have even encouraged some other universities to settle, which ought to be a career-ending scandal for anybody involved
August 4, 2025 at 4:16 AM
It’s possible this lie might have even encouraged some other universities to settle, which ought to be a career-ending scandal for anybody involved
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There's a certain kind of 'everything is about capitalism' leftwinger who is particularly useless at the current moment, because their argument relies on the idea that racism is somehow good for profit and rent extraction. It's not. Racism is bad for business, and the left shouldn't concede that.
August 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM
There's a certain kind of 'everything is about capitalism' leftwinger who is particularly useless at the current moment, because their argument relies on the idea that racism is somehow good for profit and rent extraction. It's not. Racism is bad for business, and the left shouldn't concede that.
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Where are the children being held?
🚨 Children, handcuffed and chained, being moved out of the LA Federal Building.
July 10 - ICE & CBP raided two Glass House Farms sites in Camarillo and Carpinteria. Up to 319 undocumented workers arrested. At least 10 migrant kids were found. The youngest was 14.
🚨 Children, handcuffed and chained, being moved out of the LA Federal Building.
July 10 - ICE & CBP raided two Glass House Farms sites in Camarillo and Carpinteria. Up to 319 undocumented workers arrested. At least 10 migrant kids were found. The youngest was 14.
July 14, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Where are the children being held?
🚨 Children, handcuffed and chained, being moved out of the LA Federal Building.
July 10 - ICE & CBP raided two Glass House Farms sites in Camarillo and Carpinteria. Up to 319 undocumented workers arrested. At least 10 migrant kids were found. The youngest was 14.
🚨 Children, handcuffed and chained, being moved out of the LA Federal Building.
July 10 - ICE & CBP raided two Glass House Farms sites in Camarillo and Carpinteria. Up to 319 undocumented workers arrested. At least 10 migrant kids were found. The youngest was 14.
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me interviewing every animal to see if their politics align with mine before raising money for an animal shelter
July 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM
me interviewing every animal to see if their politics align with mine before raising money for an animal shelter
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Per this lawyer, the mother of 3 US citizens, among others, has been abducted by “bounty hunters” at gunpoint, brought to CBP, where they demanded she sign deportation papers without seeing a judge.
When she refused, she was literally disappeared by the armed “bounty hunters” at the behest of CBP.
When she refused, she was literally disappeared by the armed “bounty hunters” at the behest of CBP.
June 29, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Per this lawyer, the mother of 3 US citizens, among others, has been abducted by “bounty hunters” at gunpoint, brought to CBP, where they demanded she sign deportation papers without seeing a judge.
When she refused, she was literally disappeared by the armed “bounty hunters” at the behest of CBP.
When she refused, she was literally disappeared by the armed “bounty hunters” at the behest of CBP.
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urban police forces are occupying armies which live outside the urban core and who are responsive to no civilian authority. when the LAPD and LASD opened fire on peaceful protests, it was not because anyone had ordered them to.
The big issue is that there are no “Dem power centers”
Democratic elected officials do not enjoy the loyalty of anyone in this country who is given a gun and the authority to use it and they’ve been whistling past this graveyard for a long time.
Democratic elected officials do not enjoy the loyalty of anyone in this country who is given a gun and the authority to use it and they’ve been whistling past this graveyard for a long time.
June 16, 2025 at 4:53 AM
urban police forces are occupying armies which live outside the urban core and who are responsive to no civilian authority. when the LAPD and LASD opened fire on peaceful protests, it was not because anyone had ordered them to.
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ok maybe the American flag scolds had a point, this photo goes hard
June 15, 2025 at 4:48 AM
ok maybe the American flag scolds had a point, this photo goes hard