The H is O
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The H is O
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Just some guy with 3 kids and not enough hobbies.
GOP: If you hold people accountable for unapologetically saying racist stuff its cancel culture!

Also GOP: If you say or post anything online we don't like or we interpret as something we don't like we will f*cking kill you!
November 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.
September 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Having to click through and hope a mass shooter is a white guy so the event hopefully won’t be used against vulnerable groups is really a sign of the times.
Southport mass shooting: 3 killed, 8 injured in Southport, man charged with murder
Three people were killed and eight others were injured after a mass shooting at the Southport Yacht Basin. A suspect is in custody.
www.wral.com
September 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.
If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there
September 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This is where we are at as a country. Millions of people not dying a premature death is bad for businesses because of pension costs.
GLP-1 drugs could save millions of lives — and spark a pension crisis
GLP-1 drugs are so powerful that, in 20 years, they can save millions from premature death, a leading insurance company says.
www.marketwatch.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
We have been brainwashed to think everything is an individual choice and no company or leader is at fault. We have a predatory economy. From global warming to even getting scammed. We blame individuals instead of the systems that have failed to prevent us from ending up where we are.
The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity.

As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.
Most US adults think individual choices keep people in poverty, new AP-NORC/Harris poll finds
A new AP-NORC poll finds that most U.S. adults think personal choices are a major driver of poverty and homelessness, while fewer blame a lack of government support.
apnews.com
September 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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September 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."
Ashli Babbitt Already Got What She Deserved
She doesn't deserve full military honors.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
August 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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the actual sources of Trump's power are not Trump himself - a feckless and lazy incompetent - but the media and judiciary, who swoop in and clean up all his messes after the fact.
August 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Newsflash: we're NOT gonna be able to care for our children. Or anyone else. Here in rural WNC, we're going to lose our one (1) hospital, several primary care practices, and also our nursing homes. Fun!
The states and the American people know that the GOP and Trump took a torch to Medicaid. And the chickens are already coming home to roost.
August 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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The silence of every single democrat in the country on every single issue that I have made up in my head is deafening. And their refusal to condemn all of the made up things that no one has ever even thought of that I am writing down on this piece of paper is frankly why they lose elections.
August 25, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Good thing Microsoft didn’t already spend $13 Billion on this slop. Get ready for another bubble to burst Gen X!
It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes | Defector
It’s not AI winter just yet, though there is a distinct chill in the air. Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division. A new report out of MIT finds that 95 percent of compa...
defector.com
August 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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socialism (noun): “any of various egalitarian economic and political theories or movements advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods”
Lutnick says Intel has to give government equity in return for CHIPS Act funds
The potential deal would convert the CHIPS ACT grants into equity, but wouldn't come with governance rights in Intel, Lutnick said.
www.cnbc.com
August 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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What if we wish for America to finish fifth behind a bunch of more talented countries that worked harder and then spend the rest of its life complaining as if it should have won
The masquerade to save women's sports was always the appetizer.
August 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Just a reminder, Yuengling is an enthusiastically anti-worker, anti-labor beer company.
August 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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People really seem to resist the idea that they are talking about X rather than Y because some wealthy, powerful people decided to keep X in the public eye & suppress discussion of Y. It makes them feel like pawns, being used. But guess what? You're a pawn, being used.
August 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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“Crimes rates are dropping and we’ve got to get these kids into the system any way we can.”
USA: A school district in Tennessee said doctor’s notes will no longer excuse a child’s absence.

"The policy states that after just 3 absences, schools will start intervention. If the student misses school for 8 or more days, they will be referred to juvenile court."
School district says doctor’s notes will no longer excuse child absences
A school district in Tennessee said doctor’s notes will no longer excuse a child’s absence.
www.fox19.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
This is a beautiful piece of writing. It is refreshing to see a pro golfer who has some perspective and doesn't only care about success on the golf course.
Scottie Scheffler’s Revealing—and Relieving—Open Championship Win
Scheffler’s week started with a press conference where he questioned his level of fulfillment in golf, and it ended with his fourth major victory
www.theringer.com
July 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Democrats should loudly let it be known right now that anyone who is carrying out corrupt orders—or illegal ones— on Trump's behalf will not be able to hide behind bureaucratic obscurity later. They will be held accountable—politically, or if needed, legally as well.

newrepublic.com/article/1980...
July 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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the commonwealth of virginia in the 21st century is a diverse, cosmopolitan place where some of the best of the old and the new mix to form something exciting, and these people hate it.
July 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Maybe this is all a ploy to goose the economy every couple of months. Threaten tariffs. People get scared and go buy a bunch of stuff to avoid them. Pause the tariffs. Rinse and repeat.
It is now clear that average tariffs on August 1 are set to be higher than they were on "Liberation Day." Only a fool would look back to the chaos of early April and conclude that the problem was that the announced tariffs were too small.

If you're not worried, you're not paying attention.
July 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Brief Congress update: my very own district in "deep red east NC" has been drifting to the center for years.

It's flippable in '26.

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July 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM