He’s hip, he’s cool, he’s 48.
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K-12 Director of Technology. CLI nerd who loves Macs. Progressive, raging anti-Trumper.
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Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
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lol if Isaac Chotiner says "I see" to you, your reputation as a person of any merit is done. Kaputt. Over. Chotiner's "I see" is Vinnie saying "He's gone and we couldn't do nothin' about it" in Goodfellas
February 1, 2026 at 11:46 PM
lol if Isaac Chotiner says "I see" to you, your reputation as a person of any merit is done. Kaputt. Over. Chotiner's "I see" is Vinnie saying "He's gone and we couldn't do nothin' about it" in Goodfellas
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it's as simple as i see no evidence that national dems intend to resist, let alone stop, fascism, and i want to convice folks to stop relying on them to do so. because fascism must be stopped and they are in the way. that's it. that's my whole entire thing.
January 28, 2026 at 2:48 AM
it's as simple as i see no evidence that national dems intend to resist, let alone stop, fascism, and i want to convice folks to stop relying on them to do so. because fascism must be stopped and they are in the way. that's it. that's my whole entire thing.
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This is why I have real fucking problem with blithe criticisms of "polarization" or "congressional dysfunction." We have a Republican member blaming his colleague for being attacked.
The problem isn't polarization or dysfunction. It's the Republican Party.
The problem isn't polarization or dysfunction. It's the Republican Party.
Rep. Randy Fine on Ilhan Omar getting attacked: "I blame Ilhan Omar for what happened"
January 28, 2026 at 4:00 PM
This is why I have real fucking problem with blithe criticisms of "polarization" or "congressional dysfunction." We have a Republican member blaming his colleague for being attacked.
The problem isn't polarization or dysfunction. It's the Republican Party.
The problem isn't polarization or dysfunction. It's the Republican Party.
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There has to be a word beyond outrage for when this loathsome, lying pack of slovenly frauds uses a Web 2.0 version of the Klan to publicly butcher the best humanity has to offer and then dare you to question their right to do it and laugh in your face about it
January 25, 2026 at 2:17 AM
There has to be a word beyond outrage for when this loathsome, lying pack of slovenly frauds uses a Web 2.0 version of the Klan to publicly butcher the best humanity has to offer and then dare you to question their right to do it and laugh in your face about it
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"Should we vote to give more money to the people shooting my constituents in the face?" is not a complicated political question. And yet, Democrats don't seem able to answer it.
January 22, 2026 at 1:05 AM
"Should we vote to give more money to the people shooting my constituents in the face?" is not a complicated political question. And yet, Democrats don't seem able to answer it.
I knew Darrell Issa was a piece of shit, but I didn’t realize he was genuinely a stupid man.
January 22, 2026 at 4:43 PM
I knew Darrell Issa was a piece of shit, but I didn’t realize he was genuinely a stupid man.
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The question is what you then do with that: do you go cry in a corner wracked with guilt, or see the world as it is, and demand it be better and *work* to make it better? One of those is self-indulgence. The other is working forward. The past is fixed, but the future is wide open
January 22, 2026 at 3:52 PM
The question is what you then do with that: do you go cry in a corner wracked with guilt, or see the world as it is, and demand it be better and *work* to make it better? One of those is self-indulgence. The other is working forward. The past is fixed, but the future is wide open
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I confess it is very difficult to shake a “well this can’t possibly escalate further” sort of thing from my head. Genuinely hard to parse an ongoing violent occupation of an American city by the unhinged racist government.
January 15, 2026 at 3:32 AM
I confess it is very difficult to shake a “well this can’t possibly escalate further” sort of thing from my head. Genuinely hard to parse an ongoing violent occupation of an American city by the unhinged racist government.
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ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms
January 14, 2026 at 1:09 PM
ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms
This such a sad story.
🕯️My cousin Brian passed away last night. After a courageous 3 wk stint with ICE. He slipped on a fellow agent’s frozen peepee puddle & somersaulted many times in the air, yelling “yabbada yabbada yabbada” & tragically aspirating (a different) agent’s pee he’d been gargling. He hated women🇺🇸💔
January 12, 2026 at 11:32 PM
This such a sad story.
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*posting on twitter* oh ho, I’ve made a wry observation. Better make sure a bunch of pedophiles see it
January 10, 2026 at 10:46 PM
*posting on twitter* oh ho, I’ve made a wry observation. Better make sure a bunch of pedophiles see it
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My love language is reading the phrase "love language", looking it up, discovering it's some American Christian thing, saying aloud "who am I, Billy Graham?" and watching the movie "Ronin" (1998, Directed by John Frankenhiemer) instead.
January 10, 2026 at 8:53 AM
My love language is reading the phrase "love language", looking it up, discovering it's some American Christian thing, saying aloud "who am I, Billy Graham?" and watching the movie "Ronin" (1998, Directed by John Frankenhiemer) instead.
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The fact that a small number of Dems are supporting or “open to” impeachment while the Republic is burning to the ground is highly alarming in and of itself.
Like, this is a 5-alarm emergency. We need something much more than procedural musings.
Like, this is a 5-alarm emergency. We need something much more than procedural musings.
January 9, 2026 at 8:17 PM
The fact that a small number of Dems are supporting or “open to” impeachment while the Republic is burning to the ground is highly alarming in and of itself.
Like, this is a 5-alarm emergency. We need something much more than procedural musings.
Like, this is a 5-alarm emergency. We need something much more than procedural musings.
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I've seen people say that the officer who murdered Nicole Good should be charged with murder, and to that I add that every officer who kept medics from arriving, who barred doctors from helping should also be charged under conspiracy doctrine.
January 9, 2026 at 12:58 AM
I've seen people say that the officer who murdered Nicole Good should be charged with murder, and to that I add that every officer who kept medics from arriving, who barred doctors from helping should also be charged under conspiracy doctrine.
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It’s easy to think that schools in Minneapolis are closed because the Feds murdered someone in the street but no, the actual reason is that while that was happening, the Feds were busy doing other heinous shit across the city like tear-gassing a school
“The move came after officials at Roosevelt High School said armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.” — www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt
Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.
www.mprnews.org
January 8, 2026 at 1:31 PM
It’s easy to think that schools in Minneapolis are closed because the Feds murdered someone in the street but no, the actual reason is that while that was happening, the Feds were busy doing other heinous shit across the city like tear-gassing a school
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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as the nation crumbles at home and abroad, senate democrats meet to decide how much ass they can suck at this moment
January 7, 2026 at 5:16 PM
as the nation crumbles at home and abroad, senate democrats meet to decide how much ass they can suck at this moment
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that's so crazy. i'm sure you put him in prison and banned him from ever holding office again right
Five years ago today, the United States Capitol was attacked in a violent insurrection incited by the President of the United States for one purpose: to overturn a free and fair election and cling to power in clear violation of the Constitution.
January 6, 2026 at 4:12 PM
that's so crazy. i'm sure you put him in prison and banned him from ever holding office again right
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You ass he's the goddamn president right now
But the attack failed because of the courage of public servants who gave proof through the night that our flag was still there by refusing to bend to pressure, threats, or intimidation. On that day, the Constitution held and we kept the Republic.
January 6, 2026 at 6:03 PM
You ass he's the goddamn president right now
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WaPo frames this with picture of a woman celebrating and the language about joy through the lens of this story on *American* reactions vs the AP who tells from the perspective of the people actually impacted.
This is one of the starkest demonstrations of propaganda in action that I have ever seen
This is one of the starkest demonstrations of propaganda in action that I have ever seen
January 5, 2026 at 1:05 AM
WaPo frames this with picture of a woman celebrating and the language about joy through the lens of this story on *American* reactions vs the AP who tells from the perspective of the people actually impacted.
This is one of the starkest demonstrations of propaganda in action that I have ever seen
This is one of the starkest demonstrations of propaganda in action that I have ever seen
So this wannabe tough guy General will be jailed for following blatantly illegal orders one day, right? No. None of these people will ever face consequences.
January 3, 2026 at 5:07 PM
So this wannabe tough guy General will be jailed for following blatantly illegal orders one day, right? No. None of these people will ever face consequences.
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Anyone who sends people to concentration camps to be tortured should be tried and, if found guilty, hanged like the Nazis they are.
December 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Anyone who sends people to concentration camps to be tortured should be tried and, if found guilty, hanged like the Nazis they are.
Can we stop calling every object a ‘build?’ We used to use the word thing and it was fine. Or the actual word for the thing we are talking about.
December 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Can we stop calling every object a ‘build?’ We used to use the word thing and it was fine. Or the actual word for the thing we are talking about.