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Baby-boomer peers:
They are destroying your 401Ks and taking away your Social Security.
Is that enough - finally - to turn you against the GOP forever? To go out and protest in the streets?
They are destroying your 401Ks and taking away your Social Security.
Is that enough - finally - to turn you against the GOP forever? To go out and protest in the streets?
March 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Baby-boomer peers:
They are destroying your 401Ks and taking away your Social Security.
Is that enough - finally - to turn you against the GOP forever? To go out and protest in the streets?
They are destroying your 401Ks and taking away your Social Security.
Is that enough - finally - to turn you against the GOP forever? To go out and protest in the streets?
If this is true… then they are trying to start up brutal racial unrest again, on top of the economic pain everyone is about to feel, so they can use violent force on protestors. I’m sure it will be worth the clicks though Ben.
Elon Musk shared a call from conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro urging Trump to pardon Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted in the 2020 killing of George Floyd.
March 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
If this is true… then they are trying to start up brutal racial unrest again, on top of the economic pain everyone is about to feel, so they can use violent force on protestors. I’m sure it will be worth the clicks though Ben.
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I don't think there's precedent for this level of open corruption at the federal level, certainly not in the last 100+ years.
SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.
People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a…
buff.ly
March 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I don't think there's precedent for this level of open corruption at the federal level, certainly not in the last 100+ years.
This is really rough. I’m as annoyed as anyone when I see a cyber truck, but why can’t we just quietly judge in our hearts?
"A Facebook group for Cybertruck owners is full of videos and photos of passersby and other drivers flicking them off, leaving notes that say “WHAT’S ELON’S CUM TASTE LIKE?,” and “NAZI CAR,” and people kicking their cars, throwing slices of cheese at it, etc"
www.404media.co/email/5fe4b7...
www.404media.co/email/5fe4b7...
Facebook Cybertruck Owners Group Copes With Relentless Mockery
A Facebook group for Cybertruck owners is full of videos of people flicking off Cybertrucks.
www.404media.co
March 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
This is really rough. I’m as annoyed as anyone when I see a cyber truck, but why can’t we just quietly judge in our hearts?
After ten years, I will still never get over the fact that we knowingly decided to make our dumbest, cruelest person leader of the free world.
This is absolutely unhinged, even for Trump.
He’s going to tank the entire economy.
He’s going to tank the entire economy.
March 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
After ten years, I will still never get over the fact that we knowingly decided to make our dumbest, cruelest person leader of the free world.
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Trump is running the U.S. economy straight over the cliff.
Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.
March 4, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Trump is running the U.S. economy straight over the cliff.
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I’m working through Bloodlands by @timothysnyder.bsky.social right now and whooooboy
March 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I’m working through Bloodlands by @timothysnyder.bsky.social right now and whooooboy
Plain as day to everyone but the Christian nationalists who resent Jesus’ teachings.
It's why Trump likes war criminals. It's why he likes dictators. It's why he doesn't like wounded veterans or minorities or women. He's drawn to the bully & wants to join in the abuse of the weak & vulnerable. It is the inverse of the basic Christian impulse--literally evil, in the Christian frame.
March 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Plain as day to everyone but the Christian nationalists who resent Jesus’ teachings.
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Ending the night with this.
*Get your hankies*
A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.
*Get your hankies*
A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.
March 1, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Ending the night with this.
*Get your hankies*
A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.
*Get your hankies*
A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.
Amazingly stupid.
A classic example of how Google's AI is garbage, it doesn't understand that the Underground Railroad wasn't a literal railroad
March 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Amazingly stupid.
Francis Collins is also an outspoken Christian.
Francis Collins led the mapping of the human genome, and chose to do big scientific to benefit the public. He is a a former NIH Director.
He just resigned his position in government. His resignation letter:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
He just resigned his position in government. His resignation letter:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
March 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Francis Collins is also an outspoken Christian.
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To be clear, “Vance skis in jeans” is Vermont’s highest insult. This is Final Boss Nuclear Insult level in the Vermont linguistic hierarchy.
Wow: JD Vance is apparently skiing in Vermont this weekend and the locals aren’t having it. Thousands have lined the streets in protest.
March 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
To be clear, “Vance skis in jeans” is Vermont’s highest insult. This is Final Boss Nuclear Insult level in the Vermont linguistic hierarchy.
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I'm not sure what to call this if not evil.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
March 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I'm not sure what to call this if not evil.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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But also… I really miss reading literacy in adults. Can’t help but think if Americans read books, some things would be different.
But also… I really miss reading literacy in adults. Can’t help but think if Americans read books, some things would be different.
They really need a way of communicating to people who don’t read books:
March 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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But also… I really miss reading literacy in adults. Can’t help but think if Americans read books, some things would be different.
But also… I really miss reading literacy in adults. Can’t help but think if Americans read books, some things would be different.
They have
There is no possible alliance between Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount and Nietzsche’s Will to Power.
American Christians have to choose.
American Christians have to choose.
February 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
They have
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What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
February 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
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No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.
February 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.
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People need to understand that we are in an entirely new paradigm. It is now Russia the US against Ukraine and Europe. This is not a shift in US policy, it is a transformation of what kind of country the United States is in the world
February 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
People need to understand that we are in an entirely new paradigm. It is now Russia the US against Ukraine and Europe. This is not a shift in US policy, it is a transformation of what kind of country the United States is in the world
Today is endlessly embarrassing.
It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them.
Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”
Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”
GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
February 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Today is endlessly embarrassing.
Have you ever seen a responsible, strong, actually masculine man demand gratitude like this? Disgusting.
This was a disgusting display by the soft, uninformed VP Vance trying to school Zelensky, the man who has led his country through the most surprisingly resilient and effective fight for sovereignty against a global superpower.
Every negative stereotype about America is confirmed in this exchange.
Every negative stereotype about America is confirmed in this exchange.
ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about?
VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
February 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Have you ever seen a responsible, strong, actually masculine man demand gratitude like this? Disgusting.
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I am so disgusted and ashamed of my country.
Well the meeting betweem Trump, Vance, and Zelenskyy absolutely went to shit.
February 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I am so disgusted and ashamed of my country.