Cricket
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Five minutes into this dumb speech and no mention of invading Venezuela?
C'mon, Trump. I thought you were going for the biggest distraction a 'peacetime' president like you could reach for: war.
C'mon, Trump. I thought you were going for the biggest distraction a 'peacetime' president like you could reach for: war.
December 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Five minutes into this dumb speech and no mention of invading Venezuela?
C'mon, Trump. I thought you were going for the biggest distraction a 'peacetime' president like you could reach for: war.
C'mon, Trump. I thought you were going for the biggest distraction a 'peacetime' president like you could reach for: war.
Wow. Trump cannot get through this brief lil speech at all.
He's stumbling over his own words left and right.
"Extract?" "Release?"
No, no. Skip it.
He's stumbling over his own words left and right.
"Extract?" "Release?"
No, no. Skip it.
December 18, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Wow. Trump cannot get through this brief lil speech at all.
He's stumbling over his own words left and right.
"Extract?" "Release?"
No, no. Skip it.
He's stumbling over his own words left and right.
"Extract?" "Release?"
No, no. Skip it.
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Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot
December 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot
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The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
I fucking hate how Spotify is a "social media" app, not a music app.
Why can't I just listen to music and be left alone? Why does it HAVE to be social?
#cancelSpotify
Why can't I just listen to music and be left alone? Why does it HAVE to be social?
#cancelSpotify
December 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I fucking hate how Spotify is a "social media" app, not a music app.
Why can't I just listen to music and be left alone? Why does it HAVE to be social?
#cancelSpotify
Why can't I just listen to music and be left alone? Why does it HAVE to be social?
#cancelSpotify
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WHO AMONG US hasn't sat down 11 times with a journalist and a tape recorder only to be shocked that they'd publish stuff we talked about?
December 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
WHO AMONG US hasn't sat down 11 times with a journalist and a tape recorder only to be shocked that they'd publish stuff we talked about?
Oh, so I guess the war against Venezuela begins tomorrow.
Still all about that OpSec, huh.
Still all about that OpSec, huh.
December 17, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Oh, so I guess the war against Venezuela begins tomorrow.
Still all about that OpSec, huh.
Still all about that OpSec, huh.
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Not to beat a dead horse here but there is nothing magic about socialization any more than there is about privatization. The question is which institutional arrangement gets you the most efficient and equitable distribution of those goods. Whispering "single-payer" like an incantation is not a plan.
Simply getting the state to socialize all that risk is not an alternative to substantially reducing the risk. If you do the former without the latter, you're basically hamstringing the state and penalizing low-income Californians who live outside the WUI.
This is what passes for progressivism and climate policy in California. Jane Kim’s answer for elevated fire risk and actuarial risk? Put it on the public dime. Urban renters should bail out well to do exurban property owners and landlords in fire zones. FAIR plan is already a ticking time bomb!
December 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Not to beat a dead horse here but there is nothing magic about socialization any more than there is about privatization. The question is which institutional arrangement gets you the most efficient and equitable distribution of those goods. Whispering "single-payer" like an incantation is not a plan.
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That’s pretty literal.
December 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
That’s pretty literal.
We, as the public, are still outraged over the debacle that happened to the Pentagon press corps, right?
It definitely seems like these questions should be asked at the Pentagon presser.
It definitely seems like these questions should be asked at the Pentagon presser.
Hegseth on the second Sept 2 strike: "Of course we're not going to release a top secret full unedited of that to the general public"
December 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
We, as the public, are still outraged over the debacle that happened to the Pentagon press corps, right?
It definitely seems like these questions should be asked at the Pentagon presser.
It definitely seems like these questions should be asked at the Pentagon presser.
No healthcare, but they will invasively look at private parts of immigrant children.
Wow.
Disgust doesn't do the feeling justice.
"TANJ. There ain't no justice." -Larry Niven
Wow.
Disgust doesn't do the feeling justice.
"TANJ. There ain't no justice." -Larry Niven
December 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
No healthcare, but they will invasively look at private parts of immigrant children.
Wow.
Disgust doesn't do the feeling justice.
"TANJ. There ain't no justice." -Larry Niven
Wow.
Disgust doesn't do the feeling justice.
"TANJ. There ain't no justice." -Larry Niven
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Being the director of the FBI and releasing a couples podcast while a mass shooter is on the loose is a wild choice
lot of awful and insane stuff going on. but if you really want to have a brain bleed this holiday season don't lose sight of Stephen Miller's wife doing a video podcast with the FBI director and his gf about their love life
December 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Being the director of the FBI and releasing a couples podcast while a mass shooter is on the loose is a wild choice
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I’m sorry, but that’s not how this works.
December 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I’m sorry, but that’s not how this works.
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Fucker wants to stay out of prison...
December 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Fucker wants to stay out of prison...
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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I didn't think it was possible for his Rob Reiner post to be the second most repulsive thing he said today. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
Trump on Brown University: You would really have to ask the school about that because this was a school problem. They had their own guards, their own police, their own everything but you would have to ask that question to the school and not to the FBI.
December 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I didn't think it was possible for his Rob Reiner post to be the second most repulsive thing he said today. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
All this showed me is that we are destroying our R&D capacity by fighting and demonizing science at exactly the time we need to do the opposite. And the tech bros who are supposed to help make that happen are too busy worshipping their own LLMs and calling them AGI.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
All this showed me is that we are destroying our R&D capacity by fighting and demonizing science at exactly the time we need to do the opposite. And the tech bros who are supposed to help make that happen are too busy worshipping their own LLMs and calling them AGI.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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kyrsten sinema seemingly had a long-term plan to cash out of her senate job by establishing a reputation as someone who was connected to both parties, so at minimum it is good to see her get to find out that her name is mud
December 16, 2025 at 4:59 AM
kyrsten sinema seemingly had a long-term plan to cash out of her senate job by establishing a reputation as someone who was connected to both parties, so at minimum it is good to see her get to find out that her name is mud
Still can't bring yourself to print the word "lies," can you, @nbcnews.com ?
"Trump administration official LIE about recent tragedies." Is it that hard?
Does it give the proper weight to the massive outrage? Yes.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
"Trump administration official LIE about recent tragedies." Is it that hard?
Does it give the proper weight to the massive outrage? Yes.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Trump officials have posted inaccurate info in wake of recent tragedies
Senior administration officials released confusing, incorrect or misleading information after the Brown University shooting, Charlie Kirk's assassination and the National Guard members shooting.
www.nbcnews.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Still can't bring yourself to print the word "lies," can you, @nbcnews.com ?
"Trump administration official LIE about recent tragedies." Is it that hard?
Does it give the proper weight to the massive outrage? Yes.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
"Trump administration official LIE about recent tragedies." Is it that hard?
Does it give the proper weight to the massive outrage? Yes.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
I dunno that I can ever really think of Ron Howard in the same way after making "Hillbilly Elegy" and whitewashing that moron JD Vance.
Man's a ghoul, just like his boss.
Man's a ghoul, just like his boss.
December 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I dunno that I can ever really think of Ron Howard in the same way after making "Hillbilly Elegy" and whitewashing that moron JD Vance.
Man's a ghoul, just like his boss.
Man's a ghoul, just like his boss.
Private equity is the single largest economic threat to America in a generation.
After taking over housing and healthcare, private equity is now buying up software used by volunteer fire departments — making it even harder for rural communities to respond to emergencies.
The only winners from private equity's price-gouging spree are wealthy investors.
The only winners from private equity's price-gouging spree are wealthy investors.
Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Private equity is the single largest economic threat to America in a generation.
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I’m running out of words to describe this ugly, vile piece of shit who’s squatting in the people’s house right now. Imagine the uproar if any other president before him had put out this message after Rob Reiner and his wife were brutally murdered.
Fuck all the way off Donald Trump! 🖕
Fuck all the way off Donald Trump! 🖕
December 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I’m running out of words to describe this ugly, vile piece of shit who’s squatting in the people’s house right now. Imagine the uproar if any other president before him had put out this message after Rob Reiner and his wife were brutally murdered.
Fuck all the way off Donald Trump! 🖕
Fuck all the way off Donald Trump! 🖕
