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This is indeed important. Gambling is awful and should be banned from sea to shining sea. BUT ALSO, this is behind a pay wall, WHO PAYs FOR CNN?!?!
For @cnn.com, a story about gambling addiction, gambling sobriety and how that changes many young men’s relationships to friends, family, and sports fandom. www.cnn.com/2026/02/01/s...
February 3, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)
February 1, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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You know who should be most worried about the Epstein Files? Iran.
February 1, 2026 at 6:40 AM
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The funny thing about a certain type of angry conspiracy guy is that they’re literally being confronted with an elite paedophile ring and a tyrannical government at the same time right now, and because it isn't being done by the people they wanted it to be done by they’re all being pussies about it
January 31, 2026 at 9:20 AM
No matter how disorganized the left will always find a way to form a perfect circular firing squad.
What you need to understand is that I kind of can’t. I’ve been blocked out. I can try to do other, similar-ish things but this nonsense is making it much harder for me to touch the grass I desperately want to touch. It’s frustrating!
Just keep doing what you're doing irl.
January 30, 2026 at 1:26 PM
I am nothing if not a Gen X douche so my answer is David Foster Wallace.

Deep mental illness does not excuse stalking. Explains it but does not excuse it.
Question for the Skyline: What was your HARDEST "cancel"?? Like the actor/singer/athlete that was the hardest to drop.

I feel like it's always people I don't fw getting canceled so it's never really a loss.

The hardest one was maybe TI because I actually liked multiple albums by him.
January 29, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Bill Kristol being the only one with any balls on either side of the aisle has totally changed how I think about him.

He is a man of honor which means he actually believed invading Iraq was the best thing for American safety. This was insane but he was not a grifter like the rest.
Where we are:
1. With the action in GA, the FBI has been mobilized as part of the plan to steal the 2028 election. And the DNI being on the scene is beyond ominous.
2. After bring chaos and illegality and killings to MN, the ICE assault on that city and others will continue with minimal changes.
January 29, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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Where we are:
1. With the action in GA, the FBI has been mobilized as part of the plan to steal the 2028 election. And the DNI being on the scene is beyond ominous.
2. After bring chaos and illegality and killings to MN, the ICE assault on that city and others will continue with minimal changes.
January 29, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Tim Cook wants to maximize value for shareholders. That’s it. He would push his mother in front of a train to meet this goal. This has always been the case of every CEO. When will this be understood?
In response to the killing of two U.S. citizens by federal immigration officers, Apple CEO Tim Cook sent a note to his staff praising Trump for “his openness to engaging on issues that matter to us all”
January 28, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Not sure it is possible but with the strong unions it might be. NATIONAL NURSE STRIKE!
January 25, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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We talk about ideology as creating political sides, and it matters, but watching what's happening in Minneapolis, it's just so clear that what separates Americans who are living up to the best that label represents, and those who are intent on destroying it, is character. Who has it, who doesn’t.
January 24, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is
January 23, 2026 at 10:08 PM
I totally agree that grok is evil and should be destroyed but isn’t the bigger problem that millions of dirtbags want to nudify young girls?
We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
Musk’s Chatbot Flooded X With Millions of Sexualized Images in Days, New Estimates Show
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Isn’t this exactly what Enron did?
"He pointed to Meta’s recent deal to develop a $30 billion data center project in Louisiana, in which the project’s debt is held in a separate entity off Meta’s books. Such deals remind Odlyzko of the creative financing that led to the Great Recession in 2007."
These prophets of economic doom are worried about another collapse
The current investment boom is triggering déjà vu for some economists and traders who successfully predicted past economic crashes.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 17, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Even with the imminent fascist take over of America, there will always be people that can’t resist some good old democratic infighting.

We will all be in Red Dawn style reeducation camps and this asshole will be all: “At least we don’t have Newsom!”
Californians are NOT going to vote for Gavin Newsom. They're telling you now, with YEARS to go before the election. Fair warning. Please support better candidates, there will be many to choose from.
January 16, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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Most people don't realize how vast our great nation is. Truly amazing
January 13, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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I feel bad for Aaron Rodgers*

*is what I would say to signal to my family I have been kidnapped.
January 13, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail
What's your favourite thing that's been made by an absolute cunt?
January 5, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Hot take: Airport lounges are never that nice and the food is never good.
December 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
How did the leftist fringe get anti-vaccine to go mainstream when they can’t do that with literally anything else?
conservatives used to mock anti-vaxxers as clueless libs but as soon as it became associated with the right it took over the party and became a mainstream threat to public health
December 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I feel like All Rise News should be an Aaron Judge podcast. Could you guys talk about Him for 20% of the pod?
BREAKING

Kilmar Abrego Garcia must be immediately RELEASED from immigration custody, a federal judge rules.

Story soon on All Rise News www.allrisenews.com/subscribe
December 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This sounds like a job for @amyephillips.bsky.social !
Interesting: Urbanist group @ggwash.org is suing @ddotdc.bsky.social over its refusal/failure to release a study the city conducted on congestion pricing possibilities in downtown D.C. The study was finished in 2020, but has never been made public – even in response to FOIA requests.
December 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I’ve been shocked by many things since 2016 but perhaps the most shocking is that Bill Kristol is a fucking hero.

I would have bet my hands in 2015 I would never write those words.
I’m kind of new to the Democrats, but I thought we were FOR respecting the legal process, and also that we were AGAINST political corruption. And that it was especially important to hold to these principles at this time.

But I guess there’s some insider memo I didn’t get that would set me straight?
Jeffries claims the charges against Cueller were "very thin" and says Trump's pardon was "exactly the right outcome"
December 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Listen to your friend Spencer Ackerman. He’s a cool guy.
Happy Thanksgiving! I wrote something for everyone to discuss around the dinner table when the pie is passed around and everyone proposes specific measures to seize the wealth and break the anti-democratic power of the tech oligarchy.
How To Expropriate An Artificial Intelligence Oligarchy
An industry whose bubble is set to burst is crucial to U.S. national security, you say?
www.forever-wars.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I hate to say it but fucking Stancil is right.
The world will not snap back to normal after Democrats win an election. How do I know? Because they won in 2020 and the world only continued to go more floridly insane. We need to address the root cause of the insanity, which is the complete epistemological collapse we are living through.
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM