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Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
One of my grad school roommates interned for the Ayn Rand or Gold Standard Institute but is also a big fan of Amy Klobuchar
My uncle is a latino catholic finance guy who likes Bernie Sanders, Mitt Romney, Biden, Hillary, Kamala Harris, Obama, Bloomberg and Ron de Santis. Identifies as a centrist, totally incomprehensible politics
November 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
One of my grad school roommates interned for the Ayn Rand or Gold Standard Institute but is also a big fan of Amy Klobuchar
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I used to not believe that a black man becoming president broke the brains of conservatives but that is clearly the case and Trump is a prime example
Trump: I want the money to go into an account for people where the people buy their own insurance. They will feel like entrepreneurs. Call it Trumpcare… anything but Obamacare. Obamacare is a disaster just like he was.
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I used to not believe that a black man becoming president broke the brains of conservatives but that is clearly the case and Trump is a prime example
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every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
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There were some very bad ones around Andor
Time to stop dooming over the shutdown deal and focus on what really matters: Pointlessly hostile left-coded Star Wars hot takes.
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
There were some very bad ones around Andor
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I love this website.
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I love this website.
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Star Wars prequel show about the Republic Senate's procedural machinations during the Valorum era
November 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Star Wars prequel show about the Republic Senate's procedural machinations during the Valorum era
The cavers clearly weren't willing to go to the mattresses any more and pay the potential costs of a continued shutdown:
-tens of millions starving
-millions in destitution
-collapse of domestic air travel (people and cargo)
-potential economic collapse
-tens of millions starving
-millions in destitution
-collapse of domestic air travel (people and cargo)
-potential economic collapse
like this is basically it, the melts melted under pressure
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The cavers clearly weren't willing to go to the mattresses any more and pay the potential costs of a continued shutdown:
-tens of millions starving
-millions in destitution
-collapse of domestic air travel (people and cargo)
-potential economic collapse
-tens of millions starving
-millions in destitution
-collapse of domestic air travel (people and cargo)
-potential economic collapse
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I am not going to speculate, because we don't speculate. But you know what this is.
November 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I am not going to speculate, because we don't speculate. But you know what this is.
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Also the RIF language actually has teeth, not just "no russ you can't do the horseshit you were trying as a shutdown tactic" but "anyone who takes any action in support of planning any RIF between now and 30 Jan has exposure for a federal felony with a 5 year statute of limitations"
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Also the RIF language actually has teeth, not just "no russ you can't do the horseshit you were trying as a shutdown tactic" but "anyone who takes any action in support of planning any RIF between now and 30 Jan has exposure for a federal felony with a 5 year statute of limitations"
Kentucky Fried French Fries
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Kentucky Fried French Fries
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books have no tech tree, no fog of war
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
books have no tech tree, no fog of war
Not new information but man the used car market really is messed up
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Not new information but man the used car market really is messed up
Yeah there is a reason why Pritzker waged and won a proxy war against Durbin to take over the IL Dems
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Yeah there is a reason why Pritzker waged and won a proxy war against Durbin to take over the IL Dems
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W promoted the “ownership society”. eventually it all came crashing down. Trump has his “asset based economy” which is simply juicing a few tech stocks and crypto so the affluent can cover the real world economic cracks
bsky.app/profile/carl...
bsky.app/profile/carl...
“.. The economy is increasingly dependent on ‘three narrow, interconnected 'A-pillars':
1) affluent consumers
2) artificial intelligence-fueled investment
3) asset price gains”
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
1) affluent consumers
2) artificial intelligence-fueled investment
3) asset price gains”
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
W promoted the “ownership society”. eventually it all came crashing down. Trump has his “asset based economy” which is simply juicing a few tech stocks and crypto so the affluent can cover the real world economic cracks
bsky.app/profile/carl...
bsky.app/profile/carl...
I mean the shutdown is still on for the rest of the week (at least)
Wait did...they not get what they wanted last night? What is happening?
*TRUMP OFFICIALS SAY SUPREME COURT SHOULD KEEP FOOD AID ON HOLD
*TRUMP: ALL AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS MUST GET BACK TO WORK, NOW
*TRUMP: AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS NOT WORKING WILL BE 'DOCKED'
*TRUMP OFFICIALS SAY SUPREME COURT SHOULD KEEP FOOD AID ON HOLD
*TRUMP: ALL AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS MUST GET BACK TO WORK, NOW
*TRUMP: AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS NOT WORKING WILL BE 'DOCKED'
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I mean the shutdown is still on for the rest of the week (at least)
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Astonishing: Bovino and his agents showed up at the Bean this morning to pose for pictures. While Border Patrol snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’” The neighborhood where they are least welcome and most acutely felt. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Border Patrol Agents Pose At 'The Bean' For Apparent Photo Op
The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, "Everyone say, Little Village!"
blockclubchicago.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Astonishing: Bovino and his agents showed up at the Bean this morning to pose for pictures. While Border Patrol snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’” The neighborhood where they are least welcome and most acutely felt. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
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Uncomfortable truth about US politics is we’ve been in a constitutional crisis this whole century, and there is no way out short of a revolution. Kind of a midwit thing where the super low-info voters get that and the polisci professors get that and everybody else is like, Dems gotta try harder!!
The Republican Senate majority is built on minority rule, enabled by unequal representation & the two-party system.
The GOP hasn’t won more total votes or represented more people than Dems since the 1990s. They’ve won the Senate in 7 of 13 elections since 2000 anyway
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
The GOP hasn’t won more total votes or represented more people than Dems since the 1990s. They’ve won the Senate in 7 of 13 elections since 2000 anyway
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Uncomfortable truth about US politics is we’ve been in a constitutional crisis this whole century, and there is no way out short of a revolution. Kind of a midwit thing where the super low-info voters get that and the polisci professors get that and everybody else is like, Dems gotta try harder!!
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"And So We See" by Nicholas Roerich, 1922.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"And So We See" by Nicholas Roerich, 1922.
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you're hearing about the wide awakes more and more
on a side note i’m becoming really fascinated with the history and politics of radical republicans from 1855 to 1870
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
you're hearing about the wide awakes more and more
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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People want Democrats to hit the off button that America refused to push last November when it mattered.
I learned a lot tonight, namely that a critical mass of people on my side had no clear idea what they actually wanted out of this beyond hopes that if the shutdown broke enough stuff, they'd get whatever was on their wishlist, and their preferred time horizon was "indefinite."
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
People want Democrats to hit the off button that America refused to push last November when it mattered.
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Democrats need to stop thinking like an electoral opposition party and start thinking like insurgents trying to engineer the overthrow of a dictator. But elected Dems seem temperamentally unable to do this.
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Democrats need to stop thinking like an electoral opposition party and start thinking like insurgents trying to engineer the overthrow of a dictator. But elected Dems seem temperamentally unable to do this.