Joe Poulin
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Tell me something you love learning about! (But not if you’re one of those asshole harassers who hates women)
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It is 1998. I am at the kitchen table writing Batman fanfic but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
It is 1998. I am at the kitchen table writing Batman fanfic but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal
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NEW: D.C. Circuit won't review Trump admin contempt appeal further, sending matter back to Boasberg.
The latest order over the Trump administration's actions sending flights to El Salvador on March 15.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
The latest order over the Trump administration's actions sending flights to El Salvador on March 15.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
D.C. Circuit won't review Trump admin contempt appeal further, sending matter back to Boasberg
The latest order over the Trump administration's actions sending flights to El Salvador on March 15.
www.lawdork.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
NEW: D.C. Circuit won't review Trump admin contempt appeal further, sending matter back to Boasberg.
The latest order over the Trump administration's actions sending flights to El Salvador on March 15.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
The latest order over the Trump administration's actions sending flights to El Salvador on March 15.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
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This man will never taste pierogi again
Dershowitz: The predecessor on your show described Epstein as a convicted pedophile. He pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. That’s not a pedophile.
November 15, 2025 at 2:53 AM
This man will never taste pierogi again
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Operation Change The Topic From Epstein
November 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Operation Change The Topic From Epstein
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Whereas crimes of passion might be perpetrated by people who have momentarily taken leave of their senses, the felling of an oak tree is necessarily premeditated. And the economic benefits are often clear
Tree murders and the economics of crime
Rich people can’t stop cutting down each other’s woodland
econ.st
November 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Whereas crimes of passion might be perpetrated by people who have momentarily taken leave of their senses, the felling of an oak tree is necessarily premeditated. And the economic benefits are often clear
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Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.
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I think it’s great that our media elites have decided that men in their 30s saluting Hitler are just rambunctious kids who got carried away, while 16-year old girls being trafficked and raped by billionaires are “underage women” making informed choices. Definitely reflects well on us as a society.
November 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I think it’s great that our media elites have decided that men in their 30s saluting Hitler are just rambunctious kids who got carried away, while 16-year old girls being trafficked and raped by billionaires are “underage women” making informed choices. Definitely reflects well on us as a society.
This reminds me of a discussion decades ago about justifying torture in the Tom Clancy genre. Yes, if you work hard enough to come up with, “oh, but what if you could cause Hitler mild discomfort and therebye prevent a hydrogen bomb from going off under NYC?????”
How often is that the scenario?
How often is that the scenario?
Dylan Roof. Osama bin Laden. Hitler. There *absolutely* are people for whom the death penalty is warranted and appropriate.
It's not most people to whom a death penalty would apply, and therefore there shouldn't be one
It's not most people to whom a death penalty would apply, and therefore there shouldn't be one
Keir Starmer is right. The death penalty is never the answer for any country. It’s inhumane, costly & doesn’t deter crime. It has no place in the civilised world. Most of Europe abolished the death penalty decades ago & has been better, safer without it:
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November 14, 2025 at 5:05 AM
This reminds me of a discussion decades ago about justifying torture in the Tom Clancy genre. Yes, if you work hard enough to come up with, “oh, but what if you could cause Hitler mild discomfort and therebye prevent a hydrogen bomb from going off under NYC?????”
How often is that the scenario?
How often is that the scenario?
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This headline is further evidence that no one who doesn’t support sexual assault, rape, and fascism should give ANY money to the New York Times.
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 1:40 AM
This headline is further evidence that no one who doesn’t support sexual assault, rape, and fascism should give ANY money to the New York Times.
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QUESTION: WHY DID @bsky.app SUSPEND SARAH KENDZIOR?
If this can happen to her without swift corrections or transparency, then it can happen to me, or you, or anyone else who stands up to power.
REINSTATE SARAH KENDZIOR AND MAKE THINGS RIGHT!
If this can happen to her without swift corrections or transparency, then it can happen to me, or you, or anyone else who stands up to power.
REINSTATE SARAH KENDZIOR AND MAKE THINGS RIGHT!
November 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
QUESTION: WHY DID @bsky.app SUSPEND SARAH KENDZIOR?
If this can happen to her without swift corrections or transparency, then it can happen to me, or you, or anyone else who stands up to power.
REINSTATE SARAH KENDZIOR AND MAKE THINGS RIGHT!
If this can happen to her without swift corrections or transparency, then it can happen to me, or you, or anyone else who stands up to power.
REINSTATE SARAH KENDZIOR AND MAKE THINGS RIGHT!
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Our leading news organizations turned a cache of ultimately-innocuous emails into a scandal-coded weeklong series of front page stories leading into the 2016 election. If they do not cover the "emails from notorious pedophile implication the President" emails with the same fervor, it's curious!
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Our leading news organizations turned a cache of ultimately-innocuous emails into a scandal-coded weeklong series of front page stories leading into the 2016 election. If they do not cover the "emails from notorious pedophile implication the President" emails with the same fervor, it's curious!
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When I think of tikkun olam, the work of healing the world, I think of Turquoise and her husband feeding one family at Thanksgiving and from that humble and loving beginning, thousands of children in Durham being fed over winter break.
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III. A REASONABLY-CONDENSED-ISH HISTORY
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This will sound repetitive to the OG's, but there are only so many different ways I can narrate the same shenanigans for 10 straight years!
Know that entire books could be written just on Foodraiser logistics drama 🤪
III. A REASONABLY-CONDENSED-ISH HISTORY
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This will sound repetitive to the OG's, but there are only so many different ways I can narrate the same shenanigans for 10 straight years!
Know that entire books could be written just on Foodraiser logistics drama 🤪
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
When I think of tikkun olam, the work of healing the world, I think of Turquoise and her husband feeding one family at Thanksgiving and from that humble and loving beginning, thousands of children in Durham being fed over winter break.
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Gov. Pritzker: “All I can say is that whether it was the loss in the elections a week ago that's led to Donald Trump deciding to pull CBP out or the fact that Greg Bovino is a snowflake…Whatever it is, the people of Chicago have deserved better than having CBP and Greg Bovino in this city.”
November 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Gov. Pritzker: “All I can say is that whether it was the loss in the elections a week ago that's led to Donald Trump deciding to pull CBP out or the fact that Greg Bovino is a snowflake…Whatever it is, the people of Chicago have deserved better than having CBP and Greg Bovino in this city.”
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Once more from yesterday, on some federal employees and how pissed they are about the Democrats throwing in the towel.
"What is the point of the Democrats? What in the fuck was the point of this shutdown?"
"What is the point of the Democrats? What in the fuck was the point of this shutdown?"
'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."
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November 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Once more from yesterday, on some federal employees and how pissed they are about the Democrats throwing in the towel.
"What is the point of the Democrats? What in the fuck was the point of this shutdown?"
"What is the point of the Democrats? What in the fuck was the point of this shutdown?"
Remember that even while we work to destroy Schumer, there are still people like this who are either paid to support the oligarchs or just so incredibly stupid that they’re willing to say it’s more important to fight the Dems than the fucking fash.
They’re just as bad as Schumer.
They’re just as bad as Schumer.
This is now the most important thing in America: Democrats must lose completely.
They brought this on themselves. They forced this on all of us.
They brought this on themselves. They forced this on all of us.
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Remember that even while we work to destroy Schumer, there are still people like this who are either paid to support the oligarchs or just so incredibly stupid that they’re willing to say it’s more important to fight the Dems than the fucking fash.
They’re just as bad as Schumer.
They’re just as bad as Schumer.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Axios reports that Reps. Shri Thanedar, Veronica Escobar, Sylvia Garcia, and Emily Randall, all part of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, are the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth sitting Democratic congresspeople to demand that Chuck Schumer cease being Senate Minority Leader.
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Axios reports that Reps. Shri Thanedar, Veronica Escobar, Sylvia Garcia, and Emily Randall, all part of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, are the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth sitting Democratic congresspeople to demand that Chuck Schumer cease being Senate Minority Leader.
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
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So what did other cultures do before prisons.
Prisons were only for people you could not kill...and those people were captives or hostages essentially. Royals. People with money and/or allies.
Aztecs would enslave you, but the word 'slavery' means LOTS OF DIFFERENT THINGS. Aztec 'slavery' ...
Prisons were only for people you could not kill...and those people were captives or hostages essentially. Royals. People with money and/or allies.
Aztecs would enslave you, but the word 'slavery' means LOTS OF DIFFERENT THINGS. Aztec 'slavery' ...
yeah it's quite wild to think that PRISONS were ...a reform from maiming people or killing them.
Judge Turpin's intro in Sweeney Todd has him sentencing a child to hang in a case he wasn't paying attention to
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
So what did other cultures do before prisons.
Prisons were only for people you could not kill...and those people were captives or hostages essentially. Royals. People with money and/or allies.
Aztecs would enslave you, but the word 'slavery' means LOTS OF DIFFERENT THINGS. Aztec 'slavery' ...
Prisons were only for people you could not kill...and those people were captives or hostages essentially. Royals. People with money and/or allies.
Aztecs would enslave you, but the word 'slavery' means LOTS OF DIFFERENT THINGS. Aztec 'slavery' ...
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From street marches to court battles to the ballot box - we’ve challenged the power of this exceptionally unpopular president.
The lesson from each success we've had is that we need to ramp the political pressure up, always up, not back down, now more than ever.
The lesson from each success we've had is that we need to ramp the political pressure up, always up, not back down, now more than ever.
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
From street marches to court battles to the ballot box - we’ve challenged the power of this exceptionally unpopular president.
The lesson from each success we've had is that we need to ramp the political pressure up, always up, not back down, now more than ever.
The lesson from each success we've had is that we need to ramp the political pressure up, always up, not back down, now more than ever.
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Shaheen took my friend's heartfelt video and put her office's message and logo at the end
& then she caved last night
Using Amanda as a mouthpiece & then voting the way you did is despicable, Jeanne
Amanda MAY REALLY NOT SURVIVE losing healthcare
SHAME on you, Shaheen
& shame on your office too!
& then she caved last night
Using Amanda as a mouthpiece & then voting the way you did is despicable, Jeanne
Amanda MAY REALLY NOT SURVIVE losing healthcare
SHAME on you, Shaheen
& shame on your office too!
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If Republicans don't extend the ACA enhanced premium tax credits, h...
"To see that tax credit go away could mean life or death for many—could mean life or death for me."
If Republicans don't extend the ACA enhanced premium tax credits, health care will be priced...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Shaheen took my friend's heartfelt video and put her office's message and logo at the end
& then she caved last night
Using Amanda as a mouthpiece & then voting the way you did is despicable, Jeanne
Amanda MAY REALLY NOT SURVIVE losing healthcare
SHAME on you, Shaheen
& shame on your office too!
& then she caved last night
Using Amanda as a mouthpiece & then voting the way you did is despicable, Jeanne
Amanda MAY REALLY NOT SURVIVE losing healthcare
SHAME on you, Shaheen
& shame on your office too!
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We need fighters, not folders. And fighters who are effective at messaging. Neither of that is Schumer. That is why Chuck Schumer must go as Democratic Senate leader. My new article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/chuck-schu...
Chuck Schumer must go as Senate Democratic leader. Period.
We need a more effective fighter
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November 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
We need fighters, not folders. And fighters who are effective at messaging. Neither of that is Schumer. That is why Chuck Schumer must go as Democratic Senate leader. My new article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/chuck-schu...