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Love this. The problem with the news is too many knowledgeable opinions helping to tell compelling stories, not enough uninformed slop.
January 1, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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To translate from hyper-partisan MAGA language into plain English, when Roberts declares that the Supreme Court is a “counter-majoritarian check,” he is stating that the Court exists to ensure that the majority of Americans remain under the control of a minority.

He is undermining the Constitution.
Chief Justice John Roberts pushes for judicial independence in history-heavy report | CNN Politics
Chief Justice John Roberts touted the independence of the federal judiciary as a “counter-majoritarian check” and urged Americans rattled by partisan politics to keep faith with the Constitution.
www.cnn.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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And one new werewolf hunter! If you’re a werewolf you’re going to have to be sure you don’t live in the greatest city in the world! Let me tell you something about werewolfs, think about that word, “Where” are they? That’s the first step to finding a werewolf. The second? Telling them to leave!
January 1, 2026 at 5:15 AM
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I'm a few episodes into Dispatch. It's nice that straight people finally get to have their own video game!
December 30, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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how lame is it that so many of the funniest standup comedians you used to like all simultaneously decided to give up on putting the work into being funny and became bigoted children who bully other kids on the playground and then cry to the teacher because little billy punched them for no reason
December 31, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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As 2025 shrivels away with time zone, I just want to say

what the fuck was that?
January 1, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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Happy New Year!

The new year may not actually mean anything, but it's a cleansing time - a chance to feel like we're having a fresh start, washing away all the dirt of the previous year, feel refreshed from all the things we are scrubbing away-

Look, just take a shower.
January 1, 2026 at 6:23 AM
This is also the answer to why "new media" (aka YouTube at this point) seem so full-up with right-leaning creators: The individual talent that CAN do better generally *does* by graduating to film or TV still 🤷‍♂️

*(also applies to gaming to an extent. Huge brain drain to other fields)
A huge reason that we're in the current shitty political situation we are today is that conservatives basically had a monopoly on SEO tactics because only the biggest pieces of shit in our society were interested in how to make money from scammy SEO shit. Similar situations with influencers etc.
January 1, 2026 at 9:14 AM
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A huge reason that we're in the current shitty political situation we are today is that conservatives basically had a monopoly on SEO tactics because only the biggest pieces of shit in our society were interested in how to make money from scammy SEO shit. Similar situations with influencers etc.
January 1, 2026 at 7:46 AM
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I think its overall bad to be a content-stealing clickbait mill influencer account, but its overall good that if we're gonna have those that we have some that are on our side of the political debate.
January 1, 2026 at 7:42 AM
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If you’re someone like me who notices and is unhappy every time video switches to 48fps, AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH is a chance to feel unhappy about a hundred times!
December 31, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Weiss believes she is engaged in a game in which the point is self-aggrandizement, and that everyone else is involved in that same game, and she fundamentally cannot *understand* criticism on the grounds of integrity or virtue.
The most telling Bari Weiss incident came when "The Free Press" excused George Floyd's murder, @radleybalko.bsky.social highlighted factual errors, and Weiss's reaction was not to make corrections, but to invite Balko on a podcast.

There is no truth, there are no standards, there is only content.
Every part of this is embarrassingly lame.
January 1, 2026 at 1:21 AM
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The unholy trinity of the gop powerbrokers in your standard rural area:

- Monopoly owners (car dealerships)
- The one property owner who owns everything
- the really sketchy dentist.
De facto outlawing of car dealers and realtors as currently constituted would be a good aim for a starting point
January 1, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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Big tribute over on my Forgotten Comic Strips account on comic strips starting to enter the public domain in 1930, including Blondie, The Little King, the Mickey Mouse comic, Joe Palooka and more!
Happy New Year! And with a new year comes a new batch of newspaper comic strips entering the public domain! Today we pay tribute to the works that began in 1930, and once the clock strikes twelve will belong to all of us.
December 31, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Happy New Year! And with a new year comes a new batch of newspaper comic strips entering the public domain! Today we pay tribute to the works that began in 1930, and once the clock strikes twelve will belong to all of us.
December 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Yeah I mean this is a nice thought but if it's true why am I the most miserable MFer I know most of the time? 🤣🤷‍♂️

*(or is the idea I'd be WORSE off 🙃)
www.tomshardware.com/video-games/...
Study shows playing Super Mario Bros. and Yoshi games fights burnout and can 'enhance happiness in life'
A study revealed that games like Super Mario Bros. and Yoshi can bring back good childhood memories.
www.tomshardware.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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Donald Trump was “most culpable” for Jan 6 riot and would have been convicted in court, according to the explosive testimony of former special counsel Jack Smith, released Wednesday by the House Judiciary Committee.
December 31, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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This was such a weird historical quirk of Occupy.

4chan still was kind of a social hub for hacker troll groups like Anonymous, and their fans all loved Occupy conceptually and showed up on Day 1 in Guy Fawkes masks and thought they would of course be in charge
Things definitely went sideways at the end of Occupy in a lot of unfortunate ways, but at least in Philly it was because of deliberate state sabotage.

Like the mayor here made a deal with a bunch of 4chan white guys and claimed they represented Occupy and Occupy had agreed to disperse.
January 1, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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They could have broken the cycle by sending only male massage therapists to Epstein’s home. Funny how Trump didn’t suggest that.
"Mar-a-Lago spa’s practice of dispatching workers to Epstein’s home has not been previously reported ... The Mar-a-Lago bosses told the message therapist Epstein preferred spa services in the privacy of his own home, and warned the employee Epstein sometimes exposed himself during massages."
Exclusive | The Incident That Prompted Trump to Ban Epstein From Mar-a-Lago’s Spa
Mar-a-Lago sent an 18-year-old spa worker on a house call to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. She complained to her bosses that Epstein pressured her for sex.
www.wsj.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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In Philly that angry 4chan caucus spent most of Occupy undermining consensus decisions, then merged with the shunned Rand Paul tent and the Privileged White Guys Off Their Meds demographic to form a group they called "Reasonable Solutions" & set up their own little loser encampment across the street
January 1, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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They got super mad seeing popular protest because they weren't the stars of the show, and (in the case of 2020) COULD not be the stars of the show because they were not part of the impacted identity group.
December 31, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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These dudes and the occasional pick me gal co-host absolutely did not know shit about organizing, they thought "movement" was about bloviating into a microphone and building up enough clout that politicians felt they had to come on your show.
December 31, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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They loved that Bernie mostly dodged the issues of race and gender, they loved a vision of the left where they wouldn't have to worry about that and could be stars without having to share the stage with Black people and women, among others.
December 31, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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This, *and*

Just to riff. I think it's important to remember that before Bernie 2016, the (left) organizing world had really embraced intersectionality as at least nominally aspirational.

And a lot of the past decade of the popular "left" has been white dead ender dudes trying to hijack it all.
They mean white. A lot of the left thought this was gonna be their time to show they didn’t need “identitarianism” and it’s not worked
i wanna know which part of the left they're talking about because Black Lives Matter and the response to George Floyd's murder literally went international???
December 31, 2025 at 11:40 PM