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Growing up a trash ass part of the Midwest, a highlight of everyone’s year was going to the county fair and paying $5 to take three swings at an old Mercury Cougar with a baseball bat or a sledgehammer. I believe the fire department raised about half their budget that way.
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
Damnit this is good writing, @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social.
December 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Growing up a trash ass part of the Midwest, a highlight of everyone’s year was going to the county fair and paying $5 to take three swings at an old Mercury Cougar with a baseball bat or a sledgehammer. I believe the fire department raised about half their budget that way.
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
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December 13, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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the cycle usually goes like this:
1. Dems refuse to seriously challenge corporate power
2. The electorate gets frustrated, votes Republican, believes populist lies
3. Dems point out things are shitty, get re-elected, lack the backbone to challenge corporate power
4. rinse, wash, repeat
1. Dems refuse to seriously challenge corporate power
2. The electorate gets frustrated, votes Republican, believes populist lies
3. Dems point out things are shitty, get re-elected, lack the backbone to challenge corporate power
4. rinse, wash, repeat
December 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
the cycle usually goes like this:
1. Dems refuse to seriously challenge corporate power
2. The electorate gets frustrated, votes Republican, believes populist lies
3. Dems point out things are shitty, get re-elected, lack the backbone to challenge corporate power
4. rinse, wash, repeat
1. Dems refuse to seriously challenge corporate power
2. The electorate gets frustrated, votes Republican, believes populist lies
3. Dems point out things are shitty, get re-elected, lack the backbone to challenge corporate power
4. rinse, wash, repeat
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Yeah we have more Revolutionary War history than Boston or Philadelphia. No, we don't make it our whole personality nygroove.nyc/nyc-revoluti...
New York’s Revolutionary War history is cooler than Boston and Philly’s, actually — here’s where to find it
A guide to what to do with yourself once you've finished the new Ken Burns
nygroove.nyc
December 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Yeah we have more Revolutionary War history than Boston or Philadelphia. No, we don't make it our whole personality nygroove.nyc/nyc-revoluti...
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Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
U.S. seizes ‘very large’ oil tanker off Venezuelan coast, Trump says
The seizure was a significant escalation in the U.S. pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his country’s oil-dependent economy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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'Why don't people from countries with free universal healthcare, generous public safety nets, no gun crime and high taxation want time to the US?' Is that what you mean?
December 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
'Why don't people from countries with free universal healthcare, generous public safety nets, no gun crime and high taxation want time to the US?' Is that what you mean?
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My dad was a state judge and made me take the KERRY EDWARDS bumper sticker off my car in 2004 because the title was in his name.
When I was a judicial law clerk in Montana, Pres Bush flew into the Billings airport for a rally.
I wanted to see Air Force One and asked the judge I clerked for if I could go. He said no, that it wouldn’t be appropriate.
And I was just a clerk. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
I wanted to see Air Force One and asked the judge I clerked for if I could go. He said no, that it wouldn’t be appropriate.
And I was just a clerk. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
Judge Emil Bove Faces Ethics Complaint for Attending Trump Rally
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
My dad was a state judge and made me take the KERRY EDWARDS bumper sticker off my car in 2004 because the title was in his name.
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I see the Australian social media ban is off to a great start.
Nobody knows you're a dog on the Internet. 🐕
Nobody knows you're a dog on the Internet. 🐕
December 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I see the Australian social media ban is off to a great start.
Nobody knows you're a dog on the Internet. 🐕
Nobody knows you're a dog on the Internet. 🐕
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Over 250 people quarantined in South Carolina as measles outbreak rages flip.it/suFsPa
Over 250 people quarantined in South Carolina as measles outbreak rages
16 cases are linked to a church, which followed exposures at four schools last week.
flip.it
December 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Over 250 people quarantined in South Carolina as measles outbreak rages flip.it/suFsPa
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Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.
December 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.
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I see this sort of proud posturing a lot and it's really a wonderful way to loudly demonstrate to everyone you have absolutely no idea what's going on
Music Icon Pharrell Criticizes Political Division: “I Don’t Believe In Either Side”
Pharrell Williams is making his feelings about American politics unmistakably clear.
newzsquare.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I see this sort of proud posturing a lot and it's really a wonderful way to loudly demonstrate to everyone you have absolutely no idea what's going on
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Mamdani won the race for mayor but this guy might have done himself the most good in that contest.
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Brad Lander set to challenge Rep. Dan Goldman from the left
The city comptroller and former mayoral candidate will have the endorsement of Zohran Mamdani, two people tell POLITICO.
www.politico.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Mamdani won the race for mayor but this guy might have done himself the most good in that contest.
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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It's truly wild to me that this just keeps happening. Coca-Cola runs an AI ad and people overwhelmingly react with disgust. They do it again, and people are disgusted again. Now McDonald's makes an AI ad that's so bad that so many people are furious about it they pull it down.
People hate AI slop!
People hate AI slop!
McDonald's Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery
McDonald's Netherlands is catching flak for a stupefying AI-generated video, which was roundly condemned on social media.
futurism.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It's truly wild to me that this just keeps happening. Coca-Cola runs an AI ad and people overwhelmingly react with disgust. They do it again, and people are disgusted again. Now McDonald's makes an AI ad that's so bad that so many people are furious about it they pull it down.
People hate AI slop!
People hate AI slop!
Yessssssss!
Lander going after Rep Dan Goldman in NY-10
*BRAD LANDER TO LAUNCH HOUSE BID AS SOON AS WEDNESDAY: POLITICO
*BRAD LANDER TO LAUNCH HOUSE BID AS SOON AS WEDNESDAY: POLITICO
December 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Yessssssss!
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me dressed up and exercising at the airport before my 8 hour flight
December 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM
me dressed up and exercising at the airport before my 8 hour flight
Remember the fuss when The Martian was nominated in the comedy categories of the Golden Globes? That was 1,000,000 x closer to a comedy than most of the musical/comedy nominations this year. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is a psychological drama with a couple of laughs in it.
December 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Remember the fuss when The Martian was nominated in the comedy categories of the Golden Globes? That was 1,000,000 x closer to a comedy than most of the musical/comedy nominations this year. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is a psychological drama with a couple of laughs in it.
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Friends tell me that John Noble Wilford has died. A giant of American journalism and a genius of science writing across many disciplines, John wrote the most famous lede in the history of journalism: “ Men have landed and walked on the moon.” Godspeed, Noble John.
www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/s...
www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/s...
The Story of 8 Unforgettable Words About Apollo 11 (Published 2019)
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Friends tell me that John Noble Wilford has died. A giant of American journalism and a genius of science writing across many disciplines, John wrote the most famous lede in the history of journalism: “ Men have landed and walked on the moon.” Godspeed, Noble John.
www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/s...
www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/s...
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I can’t believe that in this day and age, people are still wearing fir.
December 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I can’t believe that in this day and age, people are still wearing fir.
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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
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To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.
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The Trump administration said on Friday that it would waive an $11 million fine levied against Southwest Airlines over the company’s 2022 holiday travel meltdown, when the airline canceled nearly 17,000 flights. The penalty had been part of a fine imposed by the Biden administration.
Trump Administration Waives $11 Million Southwest Airlines Fine
The penalty was part of a fine imposed by the Biden administration after it determined the airline had failed to provide prompt customer service and refunds to passengers in 2022.
nyti.ms
December 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The Trump administration said on Friday that it would waive an $11 million fine levied against Southwest Airlines over the company’s 2022 holiday travel meltdown, when the airline canceled nearly 17,000 flights. The penalty had been part of a fine imposed by the Biden administration.
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If they pretend they haven’t heard about the story of the day, end the interview right there.
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
December 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
If they pretend they haven’t heard about the story of the day, end the interview right there.
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
“I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”
