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communism with Etruscan characteristics
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had occasion to observe earlier today that "i think we should prosecute everyone in the government who has committed a crime to the fullest extent of the law" is, in literal fact, very close to just proposing The Terror at this point
February 16, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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Lol
Counterpoint: if the Prince of Darkness rises from a fiery portal at the Iowa Caucus and declares his opposition to Donald Trump, I will ride to battle with the host of Hell
February 15, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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The headquarters of the Republican Party in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, was vandalized.
February 15, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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This is a really good point about the value of publicly- funded knowledge work. Having to beg wealthy people for research money means only the kind of research values by the so-called elites gets funded.
One advantage of the NIH public funding system is that the scientific community—average scientists—influences funding decisions.

This is a more democratic process than a system that involves begging Jeffrey Epstein for largess.
February 15, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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Newsom vetoed a bill that would've prevented insurance discrimination against trans people and allowed people to stockpile 6 months of HRT.

So yes, not only would he do this, he is actively doing it right now by endangering our access to healthcare in order to protect insurance companies.
I've literally had people on here tell me in replies that a President Newsom would murder trans people.
February 13, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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this quoted post is uninformed nonsense. policy changes towards trans people have been profound at both the state and federal level.

the EEOC won’t even process charges of trans discrimination right now for fucks sake.
now, personally, I don’t care about making fun of streamers but I simply wouldn’t pretend to give a shit about trans people while minimizing their oppression and doing this in support of vote shaming for a transphobe like Newsom 2 years early
February 15, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Easily almond cluster it will make me sweaty
For those that need more accurate alt text
February 15, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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"the elite of the antebellum South were degenerate gamblers who financed their lifestyles with industrialized rape and would kill you for pointing this out" is a straightforwardly accurate statement
February 14, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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sometimes you'll learn that, like, Napoleon did legal reforms which are the basis for many countries legal systems today. with slavery you learn that men would rape people and enslave their own children
February 14, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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slavery is one of the rare things historically where the more you learn about it the more you realize your initial assessment was correct and it was in fact one of the most evil things ever to occur
Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
February 14, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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This is 100 percent true and every single person who laments the loss of the antebellum South in any way should be forced to read firsthand accounts of what planters did to enslaved people with their eyeballs pinned open until reality sets in
"the elite of the antebellum South were degenerate gamblers who financed their lifestyles with industrialized rape and would kill you for pointing this out" is a straightforwardly accurate statement
February 15, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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valentine's day isn't just for couples, it's also a day to celebrate love. for instance, i would love it if housing prices came down.
February 14, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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Some people are calling it the flag of Woke 2
February 14, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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A benefit of free buses I hadn’t heard enough about until this piece from @galvinalmanza.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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February 14, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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This is probably ok
February 14, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Fondly remembering that the biggest fights w admin during bargaining when I was in HGSU were about third party arbitration for sexual harassment allegations
kinda on the nose that all the worst men in academia were emailing a literal human trafficker for advice on their "i sexually harassed yet another grad student" type problems
February 14, 2026 at 9:11 PM
they tried to upsell me on donkey………….
they tried to upsell me on donkey
February 14, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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A 16 year old San Antonio kid was essentially killed by a football coaching staff during an offseason workout.

Players were subjected to punishment drills and repeatedly noted the distress of their teammate, to no avail.

After he collapsed, the rest of the team was compelled to continue the drill.
February 13, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is
(3) But the Democrat view is also bad: while it's fine for people at Princeton and Harvard to study Latin and Sanskrit, public higher education is about job training and $ ROI. There is no room for the idea that curiosity-driven inquiry is a good that should be supported by the public.
February 13, 2026 at 3:54 PM
every fuck ing human being should be allowed to spend 4 years learning how to read Cicero or Sumerian cuneiform if they want to
(3) But the Democrat view is also bad: while it's fine for people at Princeton and Harvard to study Latin and Sanskrit, public higher education is about job training and $ ROI. There is no room for the idea that curiosity-driven inquiry is a good that should be supported by the public.
February 14, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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This is a vivid, horribly relevant read. “She does not sleep well. And as you lift up her pajama top to check her rash one morning, you see that her breathing is labored, shadows pooling between her ribs when she sucks in air. You suffer an icy moment of realization: This is a medical crisis.”
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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This is an enormous victory for the Palestinian solidarity movement, for civil liberties and for our common humanity.

The real crime is this government’s complicity in genocide - and we will not rest until we have justice for the Palestinian people.
February 13, 2026 at 10:49 AM