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Japanese Monk Racks
Brain For Haiku That Will Knock
Them On Their Asses
https://theonion.com/japanese-monk-racksbrain-for-haiku-that-will-knockthem-on-their-asses/
December 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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That’s some 🍆🥔 💩 if I ever heard it.

Nobody said that, ever.
Nobody *would* say that, ever.
Trump: "Let's go to batteries where we have to go to the Congo and get it from China. But I actually stopped the war with Congo and Rwanda and they said to me, 'please, please, we would love you to come and take our minerals.' Which we'll do."
December 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Here are all 25 red-to-blue flips this year, as well as the corresponding list. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
December 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Swing of a lot. Like +20ish
In a stealth upset, Democrat Eric Gisler flips a GOP-held Georgia House seat spanning parts of Athens and Oconee County. Gisler won 39% of vote last November. He captured 51% tonight to defeat a Republican backed by Gov. Brian Kemp and other GOP leaders.
December 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Three weeks ago:
Trump give his “Complete and Total Endorsement” to Emilio Gonzalez in the Miami mayoral race. (Trump also misspells his name.)

Tonight:
Gonzalez loses by 20 points.
December 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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It just keeps getting worse.
NEW: Pentagon lawyers asked State Dept. if US could send survivors of Trump's boat strikes to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Then Pentagon pushed to have survivors sent anywhere but the US — to prevent any US court cases. Gift link to our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Code of Conduct for United States Judges, Canon 5: "A judge should not . . . attend or purchase a ticket for a dinner or other event sponsored by a political organization or candidate... A judge should not engage in any other political activity." (All judges receive training on this.)
Via MS NOW: Emil Bove is in attendance at Trump’s speech in Pennsylvania tonight.
December 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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That is patently false: not only do immigrants score better than native-born Americans in tests, the mere presence of immigrants improve test scores for all students, when factoring in white flight

sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...
December 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Consumer Reports ranking Teslas as the least reliable used car is a surprise. I've heard so much about the low total cost of ownership of EVs, I assumed that they didn't need much maintenance.

They looked at cars from the 2016 to 2021 model years across 140,000 vehicles to get these results.
Tesla Barely Beats Jeep for Least Reliable Used Car, Owner Survey Says
Consumer Reports' latest used-car reliability leaderboard has some surprises.
www.thedrive.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Had missed this detail: Paramount’s David Ellison talked to Trump at the Kennedy Center Awards on Sunday and sat next to FCC Chair Brendan Carr
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
December 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Ossoff: "She's gonna have to give up her insurance in the middle of chemotherapy while she's fighting breast cancer. What are people supposed to do when they lose health insurance in the middle of a cancer battle? ... this is life or death"
December 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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The GOP plan is to let premiums massively spike for 21 million Americans.

And then it gives them $1k per year ONLY IF they switch to bronze plans — which it also raises the cost of.

Awful awful plan that fucks over sick people.
December 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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We really love it when people who have never had to intubate an 8 month old infant for respiratory failure tell us how to prevent RSV.
December 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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“‘You want some chicken? You ain’t getting it here, bro,’ Wayne Davis can be heard taunting the agents through the door.”

“‘Go somewhere else,’ he can be heard saying through the door.”

www.wwltv.com/article/news...
'Go somewhere else': Manager locks Border Patrol out of Kenner store
In video shared with WWL, the manager can be heard taunting agents through the locked door.
www.wwltv.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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PA residents criticize Trump's economy:

"We had to suffer going almost a week with no food... The economy is down the tubes. Health care is awful, prescriptions are terrible, groceries are off the charts. I think the only way we're going to do better is if he gets out and somebody else gets in"
December 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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New from 404 Media: a man has been charged for allegedly wiping a Google Pixel phone before CBP could search it. Search was by a CBP Tactical Terrorism Response Team, which ACLU says "interrogate innocent travelers." Man is described as an activist online

www.404media.co/man-charged-...
Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It
The exact circumstances around the search are not known. But activist Samuel Tunick is charged with deleting data from a Google Pixel before CBP’s Tactical Terrorism Response Team could search it.
www.404media.co
December 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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do you want the good news or the long-term bad news
December 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Private equity’s latest victim? Your grandma’s nursing home.
Private equity’s latest victim? Your grandma’s nursing home.
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Former CDC official Demetre Daskalakis is taking his skills back to New York, where they were honed in HIV clinics and the city health department
www.statnews.com/2025/12/03/f...
Former CDC official returns to local health care after resigning
Former CDC official Demetre Daskalakis is taking his skills back to New York, where they were honed in HIV clinics and the city health department
www.statnews.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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I can’t believe how much of the Trump era is about solving problems that *don’t* exist while making all the problems that *do* exist, worse.

There is no one who thinks the biggest problem with air travel right now is not having an area to do pull-ups.
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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They’re calling it “a politician’s ideal headline.” www.westword.com/news/colorad...
Jared Polis Promotes White Supremacist and Child Porn Defender as "Intellectuals"
The governor encouraged Coloradans to follow the controversial online personalities, saying they do "actual thinking."
www.westword.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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The Wall Street Journal reports that Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison “offered assurances” he would drastically transform CNN if he bought Warner Bros. Discovery www.wsj.com/business/med...
December 9, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Trump's attempts to deploy the National Guard into California and Oregon are a bridge too far for THE GWB JUDGE WHO AUTHORED THE TORTURE MEMOS...

...to which baby Trump 2.0 judge, just weeks into the job, says nuh-uh!

cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
December 9, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Hernandez responded: “They will not succeed. I am determined to return to my beloved Honduras and do what I do best: export a shit ton of top-quality coke to the US at prices that cannot be beat.”
Breaking News: Honduras has issued an international arrest warrant for its former president who was recently pardoned by President Trump.
Honduras Issues Warrant for Juan Orlando Hernández
The country’s attorney general said he had issued an international arrest warrant for Juan Orlando Hernández.
nyti.ms
December 9, 2025 at 3:57 AM