Matt Pennig
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Mamma mia
(donald, vaffanculo)
(donald, vaffanculo)
Trump trade war costs US Italian pasta: “Exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in America too costly and are preparing to pull out of U.S. stores as soon as January.” Via WSJ
Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves — The Wall Street Journal
Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of tariffs it has levied
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November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Mamma mia
(donald, vaffanculo)
(donald, vaffanculo)
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The core problem is Democrats want the government to function and Republicans want it to cease existing
November 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The core problem is Democrats want the government to function and Republicans want it to cease existing
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These women have completely transformed civic life in my community and continue to do amazing things like this over and over again.
Today was the period drop at Neighbors, Inc. I don’t even feel these photos do it justice. But you’re looking at $12,000 and 1,303 pounds of pads, tampons, incontinence pads, cups, and other assorted hygiene gear.
November 4, 2025 at 4:20 AM
These women have completely transformed civic life in my community and continue to do amazing things like this over and over again.
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not trying to sound cheesy but sometimes you have to remember that the earth is beautiful and full of amazing things to experience and its worth living for those no matter how bad things get
November 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
not trying to sound cheesy but sometimes you have to remember that the earth is beautiful and full of amazing things to experience and its worth living for those no matter how bad things get
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this felt like getting shot 30 times in a row
Take this quiz to die instantly www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/
Beyond the Ballot Quiz - The Survey Center on American Life
www.americansurveycenter.org
October 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
this felt like getting shot 30 times in a row
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A guy I used to work with was a tenured psych/CS professor as well as on an elite amateur crew team.
He said "you're never going to make learning easier, just like you're never going to make rowing easier."
I think about that a lot.
He said "you're never going to make learning easier, just like you're never going to make rowing easier."
I think about that a lot.
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
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October 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
A guy I used to work with was a tenured psych/CS professor as well as on an elite amateur crew team.
He said "you're never going to make learning easier, just like you're never going to make rowing easier."
I think about that a lot.
He said "you're never going to make learning easier, just like you're never going to make rowing easier."
I think about that a lot.
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12% of US grocery spending is SNAP.
If you wanted to replace it completely with food banks run off donations, you'd need about one in ten grocery stores to become a food bank.
If you wanted to replace it completely with food banks run off donations, you'd need about one in ten grocery stores to become a food bank.
October 27, 2025 at 3:52 AM
12% of US grocery spending is SNAP.
If you wanted to replace it completely with food banks run off donations, you'd need about one in ten grocery stores to become a food bank.
If you wanted to replace it completely with food banks run off donations, you'd need about one in ten grocery stores to become a food bank.
Impeach the motherfucker challenge
October 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Impeach the motherfucker challenge
Stop calling them “democratic norms” and start calling it “the ragged but enduring faith that humanity is better than this kind of shit”
this is a fearless, clear, alarming explainer by @edwardluce.bsky.social on how Trump is trampling over democratic norms in the USA
www.ft.com/content/1377...
www.ft.com/content/1377...
The Trump Supremacy
Opponents in disarray, allies in line, followers enthralled — the US president is already on his way to building a new world order
www.ft.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Stop calling them “democratic norms” and start calling it “the ragged but enduring faith that humanity is better than this kind of shit”
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These things matter! These things matter a LOT, because they all help uphold the idea that the country does not belong to a strongman with unilateral imperial command & the power of life and death. They subordinate our President to the rule of law. They say he is a leader and a servant, not a lord!
October 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
These things matter! These things matter a LOT, because they all help uphold the idea that the country does not belong to a strongman with unilateral imperial command & the power of life and death. They subordinate our President to the rule of law. They say he is a leader and a servant, not a lord!
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Trump unilaterally bulldozing the East Wing *is the same phenomenon* as his admin murdering innocent fishermen without trial or kidnapping people off the streets through ICE - it *ALL* reflects a profound contempt for the mythos and rituals of American consensus identity and rule of law.
October 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Trump unilaterally bulldozing the East Wing *is the same phenomenon* as his admin murdering innocent fishermen without trial or kidnapping people off the streets through ICE - it *ALL* reflects a profound contempt for the mythos and rituals of American consensus identity and rule of law.
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I do not think "America always sucked so who cares if the elected President is destroying civic property to replace it with shoddily built palatial compounds, that's not important compared to ICE seizures" is a winning message.
1: it's all the same phenomenon!
2: Americans care about America.
1: it's all the same phenomenon!
2: Americans care about America.
October 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I do not think "America always sucked so who cares if the elected President is destroying civic property to replace it with shoddily built palatial compounds, that's not important compared to ICE seizures" is a winning message.
1: it's all the same phenomenon!
2: Americans care about America.
1: it's all the same phenomenon!
2: Americans care about America.
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the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction
October 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction
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as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life
and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility
and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility
October 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life
and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility
and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility
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The Star Tribune building is 3 blocks from the park where the Minneapolis march started. And for a newspaper that now considers itself statewide, there were more than 70 events scheduled outside of the Twin Cities, throughout Minnesota.
100,000-150,000 people march through downtown Minneapolis but it doesn’t make the front page if the Star Tribune. Instead, the top left story is “Ooo e-bikes dangerous.” How many head injuries from car/pedestrian, car/bike and car/car crashes are a year? Do they get top billing?
October 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The Star Tribune building is 3 blocks from the park where the Minneapolis march started. And for a newspaper that now considers itself statewide, there were more than 70 events scheduled outside of the Twin Cities, throughout Minnesota.
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When a media outlet doesn’t give strong coverage to a big protest, it’s a problem for the protest. When a media outlet doesn’t give strong coverage to the single biggest one-day protest in US history, it’s a problem for the outlet.
October 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
When a media outlet doesn’t give strong coverage to a big protest, it’s a problem for the protest. When a media outlet doesn’t give strong coverage to the single biggest one-day protest in US history, it’s a problem for the outlet.
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Me and the boys when the king kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
October 16, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Me and the boys when the king kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
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Anyway, venmo me if you wanna help stock our local food shelf’s inventory. Crisis levels. Our neighbors are struggling. We have raised $30+K in six annual drives and it flies off the shelves. Top requested item, 1 in 3 adults and 1 in 4 teens experience period poverty every mo. Halloween deadline.
October 15, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Anyway, venmo me if you wanna help stock our local food shelf’s inventory. Crisis levels. Our neighbors are struggling. We have raised $30+K in six annual drives and it flies off the shelves. Top requested item, 1 in 3 adults and 1 in 4 teens experience period poverty every mo. Halloween deadline.
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8yo, as I try to objectively answer his questions about the period drive: “Wait. I can’t believe you have to pay for pads and tampons. Every month?? It’s, like, a major NEED. And then you can’t even use help (Ed. note: He means SNAP) if you don’t have enough money? They should change that.”
October 15, 2025 at 2:23 AM
8yo, as I try to objectively answer his questions about the period drive: “Wait. I can’t believe you have to pay for pads and tampons. Every month?? It’s, like, a major NEED. And then you can’t even use help (Ed. note: He means SNAP) if you don’t have enough money? They should change that.”
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JUST PAY YOUR F*CKING TAXES
Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"
October 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
JUST PAY YOUR F*CKING TAXES
Beeves just out there knowing what they worth. Good for them.
Beef is just crazy expensive rn, especially compared to other commodities
October 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Beeves just out there knowing what they worth. Good for them.
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Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
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Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.
Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?
October 6, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.