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Most Excellent Theophilus
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You can, in fact, get shoes that well made for between $500 and $900 nowadays.
I’m sorry but if you really think you could get better shoes a century ago for cheaper than today your brains are COMPLETELY COOKED
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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you can either regulate, add subsidies, and/or expand public insurance programs, or:
The new Republican plan same as the old Republican plan: Fucking die already.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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for what it's worth I think "they would rather starve Americans than pay for health care" is a winning message
November 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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We’re watching Joyce Carol Oates slowly torture a Boer to death in real-time
Good God
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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ICE won't allow communion to be given in detention centers because demons quail and shiver at the divine presence in the Host.
November 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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I support the Holy Office in its persecution of the American Heresy.
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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at the end of the day, market insurance cannot provide insurance for sick people. It isn’t because insurers are greedy (though they are); it’s because every insurer would go bankrupt.
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Notice: “work sucks” when directed at men means that we need better working conditions and higher pay. “Work sucks” when directed at women means that they should drop out and have babies.
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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You spend your adult life fighting against a dictator with opulent, garish tastes. You finally prevail and walk the insides of the dictator’s abandoned palaces: gaudy, obscene, covered in gold bought with the people’s money.

And then the next thing you know…
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Personally, I would like to be the guy who loses money paying for health insurance. I’d like to be that guy for a long time.
November 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
If I can't get Barilla I'm going to become an insurgent
Well, they're about to reap their rewards.

Affected brands: Agritalia, Aldino, Antiche Tradizioni Di Gragnano, Barilla, Gruppo Milo, Pastificio Artigiano Cav. Giuseppe Cocco, Pastificio Chiavenna, Pastificio Liguori, Pastificio Sgambaro, Pastificio Tamma, and Rummo.
November 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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If you made the senate have zero members, the states would all technically have equal suffrage in the senate
Abolish the Senate. I am absolutely dead serious.
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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The Senate needs to hold the line for a government funding deal that protects healthcare and lowers costs. Not one that sells out the American people.
November 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Good morning to everyone but especially to Lady Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, whose judgement against Rudy Giuliani for defaming them and turning their lives upside down cannot be pardoned away by the president
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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this is why Canadians complain about American politics so much btw
WASHINGTON (AP) — Canada has lost its measles elimination status because of continued spread, international health experts say.
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Hoax (noun): Something real that actually happened that one dislikes and would've preferred hadn't happened

For example, "Democrat Shutdown Hoax" or "Russia hoax"
Trump in lengthy new post says he will reward air traffic controllers who have worked through the shutdown, punish those who took time off.
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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And you tell them, because the President has been illegally trying to usurp Congress and can't be trusted to uphold his end of any deal.
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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If we can't politically message "Trump will actually murder Americans with famine and pestilence to get what he wants, which is money and avoiding justice for RAPING GIRLS" then fucking hang it up.
November 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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In passport line in Prague remembering my best experience in US:

Agent: why are you here?

I’m a Professor, giving a talk.

What’s you subject?

Political Philosophy.

My favourite!!

Really??

No. I say that to all the Professors.
November 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM