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Liberal. Music is my passion. From AC/DC to Mahler to Monk to Kendrick. I love sports too. And Guided By Voices is the best rock band of the last 40 years and Kubrick is my fav Director.
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Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.
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Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
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I honestly don't know what I did to deserve this incredible tribute. I can only say I'm honored, flattered, and humbled—and, of course, deeply grateful to everyone who made this accolade possible. I pledge to do my utmost to live up to it. 🙏🏼🤗
August 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I honestly don't know what I did to deserve this incredible tribute. I can only say I'm honored, flattered, and humbled—and, of course, deeply grateful to everyone who made this accolade possible. I pledge to do my utmost to live up to it. 🙏🏼🤗
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He's so unwell. He doesn't give a rat's ass about peace, our country, global stability, or anything like that.
It's all about him, his feelings, his ego.
And until journalists start reporting it that way, they will continue to deceive themselves and those who watch and read them.
It's all about him, his feelings, his ego.
And until journalists start reporting it that way, they will continue to deceive themselves and those who watch and read them.
HOW are you getting it done?
By pushing the victim to surrender.
WHY wouldn’t there be a war if you were president?
Because you would’ve allowed Russia to bulldozer Ukraine.
Also, BORING. YAWN.
By pushing the victim to surrender.
WHY wouldn’t there be a war if you were president?
Because you would’ve allowed Russia to bulldozer Ukraine.
Also, BORING. YAWN.
August 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
He's so unwell. He doesn't give a rat's ass about peace, our country, global stability, or anything like that.
It's all about him, his feelings, his ego.
And until journalists start reporting it that way, they will continue to deceive themselves and those who watch and read them.
It's all about him, his feelings, his ego.
And until journalists start reporting it that way, they will continue to deceive themselves and those who watch and read them.
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Seems like it'd be a short meeting if Trump were innocent, because they could just release the files like they promised all along. Just redact the victims' names but let the rest fly, right?
Huh.
Wonder why it's taking a high-level strategy session instead.
Huh.
Wonder why it's taking a high-level strategy session instead.
August 6, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Seems like it'd be a short meeting if Trump were innocent, because they could just release the files like they promised all along. Just redact the victims' names but let the rest fly, right?
Huh.
Wonder why it's taking a high-level strategy session instead.
Huh.
Wonder why it's taking a high-level strategy session instead.
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Gosh, I’m sorry, @nytimes.com, I guess I must’ve missed all your extensive reporting on Donald Trump’s non-volatile, steady, stable, calm, thoughtful, deliberate, deliberative, measured, reasoned, dispassionate, judicious, careful, prudent, sagacious, and sapient side 🙄
August 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Gosh, I’m sorry, @nytimes.com, I guess I must’ve missed all your extensive reporting on Donald Trump’s non-volatile, steady, stable, calm, thoughtful, deliberate, deliberative, measured, reasoned, dispassionate, judicious, careful, prudent, sagacious, and sapient side 🙄
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oh absolutely. the issue is that trump is too vindictive to have just let sleeping dogs lie. he wanted to get revenge on everyone that aggrieved him in his first term. i am 100% certain, in fact, that the project 2025 stuff was sold to him as a tool for getting that revenge.
August 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
oh absolutely. the issue is that trump is too vindictive to have just let sleeping dogs lie. he wanted to get revenge on everyone that aggrieved him in his first term. i am 100% certain, in fact, that the project 2025 stuff was sold to him as a tool for getting that revenge.
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All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.
July 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.
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Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.
July 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.
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WSJ has a serious investigative news desk bc their non-opinion stuff has to reliably inform people in the business/finance worlds of the social conditions that will shape the economy. the NYT politics desk and senior leadership, otoh, seem to have decided their core mission is to discipline the left
July 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
WSJ has a serious investigative news desk bc their non-opinion stuff has to reliably inform people in the business/finance worlds of the social conditions that will shape the economy. the NYT politics desk and senior leadership, otoh, seem to have decided their core mission is to discipline the left
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Colbert will be all right, maybe even better off. The world's his oyster and I'm sure MSNBC and Netflix will come calling. He could stand up the biggest late night YouTube channel in days. But they are just torching the Late Show, an institution, solely to appease a dictator. And that fucking sucks.
July 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Colbert will be all right, maybe even better off. The world's his oyster and I'm sure MSNBC and Netflix will come calling. He could stand up the biggest late night YouTube channel in days. But they are just torching the Late Show, an institution, solely to appease a dictator. And that fucking sucks.
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A lot of Trump’s appeal comes down to the fact that people whose lives are boring & mediocre because they aren’t particularly bright, talented, or motivated, would very much like to hear a story in which actually it’s someone else’s fault.
oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
July 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A lot of Trump’s appeal comes down to the fact that people whose lives are boring & mediocre because they aren’t particularly bright, talented, or motivated, would very much like to hear a story in which actually it’s someone else’s fault.
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People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
July 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
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Very striking how every right-wing conspiracy freakout was just a prophecy of what they planned on eventually doing - whether it was Jade Helm or FEMA camps, the moment they had the opportunity to make these imaginary monstrosities they came up with come to life, they did
July 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Very striking how every right-wing conspiracy freakout was just a prophecy of what they planned on eventually doing - whether it was Jade Helm or FEMA camps, the moment they had the opportunity to make these imaginary monstrosities they came up with come to life, they did
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Twenty years ago the Republican party stood for huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east, but then Donald Trump totally remade the party and realigned American poltiics, and now the Republica party stands for...huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east.
June 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Twenty years ago the Republican party stood for huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east, but then Donald Trump totally remade the party and realigned American poltiics, and now the Republica party stands for...huge tax cuts for the rich and wars of choice in the middle east.
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There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.
June 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.
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shoutout to every idiot who believed that trump would "end the wars"
June 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
shoutout to every idiot who believed that trump would "end the wars"
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one reason to get out in front of an issue is you look sincere when the public comes around instead of like a big fucking Alpha Energy loser
June 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
one reason to get out in front of an issue is you look sincere when the public comes around instead of like a big fucking Alpha Energy loser
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@pelosi.house.gov: "On January 6th...we begged the president of the United States to send in the National Guard. He would not do it...And yet, in a contra-constitutional way, he has sent the National Guard into California. Something is very wrong with this picture."
June 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
@pelosi.house.gov: "On January 6th...we begged the president of the United States to send in the National Guard. He would not do it...And yet, in a contra-constitutional way, he has sent the National Guard into California. Something is very wrong with this picture."
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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
June 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
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Not a doctor. Not a scientist. No. A longtime heroin addict and current steroid enthusiast who perjured himself in confirmation hearings in order to pursue a twisted agenda that will kill more Americans than Osama Bin Laden.
Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts
www.nytimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Not a doctor. Not a scientist. No. A longtime heroin addict and current steroid enthusiast who perjured himself in confirmation hearings in order to pursue a twisted agenda that will kill more Americans than Osama Bin Laden.
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My advice to Democrats would be to stop letting Republicans set the terms of debate, start making it clear you’re acting on principles instead of polls, and fire Rahm Emmanuel into the sun.
Bitch you're the only person talking about this shit! This is letting the other side dictate the debate!
We've been beaten over the head with Alexander Hamilton quotes for a decade and yet party leadership still hasn't internalized the easiest thing: "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."
We've been beaten over the head with Alexander Hamilton quotes for a decade and yet party leadership still hasn't internalized the easiest thing: "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."
June 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
My advice to Democrats would be to stop letting Republicans set the terms of debate, start making it clear you’re acting on principles instead of polls, and fire Rahm Emmanuel into the sun.
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I’ve said it before but it is embarrassing that so many intellectuals spent years in small factional battles over the propriety of calling this fascism.
In preparation for next week’s parade/demonstration, tanks are being moved into Washington, DC today. Unprecedented.
(Photo from a colleague in DC)
(Photo from a colleague in DC)
June 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I’ve said it before but it is embarrassing that so many intellectuals spent years in small factional battles over the propriety of calling this fascism.
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There is something very flawed with the way any left-coded viewpoint requires validation from some horrible conservative asshole - that most people understand is an asshole! - to be taken seriously. Oh even Piers Morgan agrees, must be valid then!
May 29, 2025 at 6:35 AM
There is something very flawed with the way any left-coded viewpoint requires validation from some horrible conservative asshole - that most people understand is an asshole! - to be taken seriously. Oh even Piers Morgan agrees, must be valid then!
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You want to know why Thompson, Tapper, et al. spend their days hassling Dems? Because Dems *care*. Dems react. Dems make them feel like they have agenda-setting power. Dems beg & scrape for their approval.
Republicans don't give a shit. Writing about GOP crimes doesn't bring the same ego boost.
Republicans don't give a shit. Writing about GOP crimes doesn't bring the same ego boost.
NPR published a story 5 days ago about three high ranking Trump officials with clear ties to Hitler-admiring antisemites and it barely made a ripple. These are the kind of stories that used to end political careers. Now the subjects of the stories just hold up a middle finger and keep plowing ahead.
I talked to NPR about seeing DHS White House liaison Paul Ingrassia at a Nick Fuentes rally last year.
May 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
You want to know why Thompson, Tapper, et al. spend their days hassling Dems? Because Dems *care*. Dems react. Dems make them feel like they have agenda-setting power. Dems beg & scrape for their approval.
Republicans don't give a shit. Writing about GOP crimes doesn't bring the same ego boost.
Republicans don't give a shit. Writing about GOP crimes doesn't bring the same ego boost.