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December 31, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...
The year politics became brainrot
You don’t bring a persuasive argument to a gunfight.
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December 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...
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the naked, gleeful racism of this, combined with the specter of countless wannabe influencers traumatizing kids nationwide, makes it bleak even for the second Trump administration
Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.
December 31, 2025 at 3:41 AM
the naked, gleeful racism of this, combined with the specter of countless wannabe influencers traumatizing kids nationwide, makes it bleak even for the second Trump administration
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Your kids don’t have the ability to decide to protect themselves so you need to do it for them. Get them vaccinated.
EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected.
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U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
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December 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Your kids don’t have the ability to decide to protect themselves so you need to do it for them. Get them vaccinated.
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Both Satanic Panic and QAnon are just remixes of anti-semitic blood libel. It's sort of shocking to realize how mainstream this stuff has always been in right wing Christianity, especially among evangelicals
We saw a revival of these witchcraft notions with QAnon. Kids weren’t “merely” abused or trafficked in some of that lore—they were being consumed, sacrificed, their blood transmuted into immortality elixir
December 31, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Both Satanic Panic and QAnon are just remixes of anti-semitic blood libel. It's sort of shocking to realize how mainstream this stuff has always been in right wing Christianity, especially among evangelicals
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It's stuff like this that makes it so amazing whenever somebody yells at Pete Hegseth or whoever in a restaurant and the entire news media superstructure spends 10 days fretting over civility and comity.
Oh. my. god. This is the Asst. US Atty General calling people -- in print -- "hoes."
December 31, 2025 at 12:35 PM
It's stuff like this that makes it so amazing whenever somebody yells at Pete Hegseth or whoever in a restaurant and the entire news media superstructure spends 10 days fretting over civility and comity.
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pedocon theory once again inescapably true
Matt Gaetz, former Trump AG pick, had sex with underage girl while in Congress, House Ethics report says
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Matt Gaetz, former Trump AG pick, had sex with underage girl while in Congress, House Ethics report says
Matt Gaetz resigned from Congress after President-elect Donald Trump picked him to be attorney general, putting the fate of the House Ethics report in question.
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December 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
pedocon theory once again inescapably true
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Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.
December 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.
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renaming mar-a-lago "black lives matter, trans rights are human rights, and no human is illegal" and then getting mad when kid rock declines to perform there
December 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
renaming mar-a-lago "black lives matter, trans rights are human rights, and no human is illegal" and then getting mad when kid rock declines to perform there
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Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.
December 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.
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Worth remembering: some of the most horrific policies in history were enacted through “proper” legal processes. The Nuremberg Laws were passed by a legislature. Jim Crow was law. Apartheid was law.
December 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Worth remembering: some of the most horrific policies in history were enacted through “proper” legal processes. The Nuremberg Laws were passed by a legislature. Jim Crow was law. Apartheid was law.
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This is why I don’t trust the "Never Trump" Bulwark guys. They’re perfectly comfortable with real people being harmed, so long as the harm comes via a process they can label “liberal democracy.”
December 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This is why I don’t trust the "Never Trump" Bulwark guys. They’re perfectly comfortable with real people being harmed, so long as the harm comes via a process they can label “liberal democracy.”
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people’s faith in the law is getting people they’d rather ignore killed
She helped pass a bill—which is 100% part of liberalism. Maybe you don’t like the bill. Maybe the bill will hurt some people and have bad outcomes. But that’s part of liberal democracy.
December 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
people’s faith in the law is getting people they’d rather ignore killed
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anyone taught by wurman should ask the university of minnesota law school for a refund
I regret to inform you there’s a new post telling us we’re rubes who’ve missed the obvious & clear meaning of the Const’n for a century.
This is the type of post you make when your goal is to juice engagement from those who want nothing more than to be told their policy goals are const’l commands.
This is the type of post you make when your goal is to juice engagement from those who want nothing more than to be told their policy goals are const’l commands.
December 30, 2025 at 4:26 AM
anyone taught by wurman should ask the university of minnesota law school for a refund
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why is it my responsibility to ‘give’ politicians ‘credit’? this is a framework that’s never made sense to me. standing for liberal democracy is a very basic part of the job in a way that medically brutalizing children is not
And if you refuse to give someone credit for standing for liberal democracy just because they don’t agree with your policy preferences, you’re missing the big picture. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-marjor...
Why Marjorie Taylor Greene Gives Me Hope
People don’t change—but they can remember who they are.
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December 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
why is it my responsibility to ‘give’ politicians ‘credit’? this is a framework that’s never made sense to me. standing for liberal democracy is a very basic part of the job in a way that medically brutalizing children is not
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you do not and should not hand it to MTG under any circumstances
it is useful for us, politically, that she's broken with Trump - because "Rs in Disarray" is a good narrative
but she herself is still a vicious antisemite and transphobe and nobody progressive should lose sight of that
it is useful for us, politically, that she's broken with Trump - because "Rs in Disarray" is a good narrative
but she herself is still a vicious antisemite and transphobe and nobody progressive should lose sight of that
Should also add that right before she quit, Marjorie Taylor Greene passed a bill through the House to ban gender-affirming care for minors. She is not a moderate. She is still super right wing. She just felt Trump no longer could accomplish her goals.
“Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you’re wrong.” Read the inside story of how Marjorie Taylor Greene went from zealous Trump cheerleader to his loudest Republican critic: nyti.ms/3Lbzi88
December 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
you do not and should not hand it to MTG under any circumstances
it is useful for us, politically, that she's broken with Trump - because "Rs in Disarray" is a good narrative
but she herself is still a vicious antisemite and transphobe and nobody progressive should lose sight of that
it is useful for us, politically, that she's broken with Trump - because "Rs in Disarray" is a good narrative
but she herself is still a vicious antisemite and transphobe and nobody progressive should lose sight of that
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This is so fucking dangerous.
December 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This is so fucking dangerous.
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So far, I haven't had any right wingers explain how that aligns with their stance -- did the facility hire kids for the day? Are the auditors in on the scam, and writing up fake violations to make it more believable? Who knows!
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December 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
So far, I haven't had any right wingers explain how that aligns with their stance -- did the facility hire kids for the day? Are the auditors in on the scam, and writing up fake violations to make it more believable? Who knows!
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And their objection isn’t that they have been compelled to make such an apology, because they never have.
What they object to is that others feel the conviction to not only confess to racism’s crimes but seek to make reparation.
What this tells us is that social pressure is extremely effective.
What they object to is that others feel the conviction to not only confess to racism’s crimes but seek to make reparation.
What this tells us is that social pressure is extremely effective.
Ok all sarcasm aside, what these white supremacists are really talking about is when they are asked to apologize for doing racist things. Which happens. Because racism is something to apologize for. What they are saying is that no one should have to apologize for racist actions or statements.
Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.
December 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
And their objection isn’t that they have been compelled to make such an apology, because they never have.
What they object to is that others feel the conviction to not only confess to racism’s crimes but seek to make reparation.
What this tells us is that social pressure is extremely effective.
What they object to is that others feel the conviction to not only confess to racism’s crimes but seek to make reparation.
What this tells us is that social pressure is extremely effective.
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This is MTG'w bill. She personally authored. It's happening now, not in the past.
Spare me her redemption arc.
Spare me her redemption arc.
December 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This is MTG'w bill. She personally authored. It's happening now, not in the past.
Spare me her redemption arc.
Spare me her redemption arc.