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Rob Varak
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You wouldn't believe it.
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Our local news recently reported that a nonprofit is collecting toys for kids whose parents were deported. FB commenters were overwhelmingly negative. Many suggested ICE raid the toy drive and arrest the kids, too.

I hate that I’m now aware of how much of our country craves this sort of cruelty.
this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
December 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Magaziner: How many US military veterans have you deported?

Noem: We have not deported military veterans.

Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is an army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country. You deported him to Korea.
December 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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You can argue against Dale Murphy. I don't, but it's possible. But my God, you see Murphy next to Jeff Kent and choose Kent? What the hell is this!
December 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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if you start doing christmas shit before you eat at thanksgiving just remember jesus died so you, specifically, would go to hell
November 15, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Holy shit they really unloaded on the fucker
Trump getting booed at the Commanders game
November 9, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Flights are being cancelled. Food assistance is suspended. Government employees are going without pay.

But priorities are being taken care of:
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Fortunately, this is the kind of lie that people can fact-check just driving down the street.
Trump: "I don't want to hear about the affordability, because right now we're much less. If you look at energy, we're getting close to $2 a gallon gasoline."
November 7, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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there is no hierarchy of citizenship.

there are only citizens. All citizens are imbued with the same legal protections and rights in the U.S.

Some citizens born, some citizens are naturalized, both are fully and equally citizens.

the end.
November 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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It must be so fun to play with Aaron Rodgers. If you don't make literally every catch on every ball he throws to you no matter how inaccurate he puts his hands on his hips and curses at you like an alcoholic gym teacher and then after the game you have to hear about how 5G causes IBS
October 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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RIP D'Angelo, the greatest singer since Marvin departed. Who took the grit & attitude of hip-hop & alchemized it into angelic voodoo. He condensed the human condition - sex, suffering, addiction, love, oppression - into pure transcendence. A comet emitting blinding light & soul.
October 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
How does Tucker miss that 3-1 middle-middle FB?
October 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic
October 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Of course getting upset about a country song seems fairly normal for someone struggling with dementia.
October 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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TRUMP [reading this]: he's right. that is what I should focus on
The Trump administration’s threat to deploy troops in Portland is unlawful.

Here’s a thought.

Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people.
September 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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closing out a career of "oh brother, this guy stinks" moves by retiring so close to the season that the school has no choice but to internally promote your son whose only job has been as your assistant. you've gotta respect it (jk you don't have to respect it)
BREAKING: Auburn coach Bruce Pearl is retiring, a source tells CBS Sports. It's the second straight offseason CBB has had a high-profile preseason retirement (Tony Bennett at UVa in '24.) Pearl, 65, is coming off his second F4 w/ the Tigers. His son, Steven, will be named the full-time head coach.
September 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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There are two ways you can consume this: “Obama is a weakling who is tacitly endorsing Charlie Kirk because he’s not using the language and tone I would,” or “a professional communicator is making a point, I may not be the audience, and his primary aim may not be my personal emotional needs.”
Obama on Charlie Kirk:
September 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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“Terrifying.”
I can’t watch this clip without thinking of Richard Nixon, perhaps the greatest recent historical example of this coming to terrifying life: the guy who came from humble beginnings, and seeing time and time again being the hardest working and smartest kid in the room not mattering, to the…
I think one thing that makes this scene so good is that it underscores how a completely understandable, sympathetic, and rational impulse like this can lead to horror and destruction youtu.be/5X9XqD_k6TQ?...
September 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Justice David Souter was a voracious bookman (so voracious that he had to move because his home could not structurally support all of his books). One of Souter’s former clerks, litigator Mathew Rosengart, is now sharing the justice’s “Top 10 Book List."
Justice Souter’s book list
David Souter was my first boss, during the 1987-88 term of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, where I was privileged to serve as one of his two law clerks […]
www.scotusblog.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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No notes
September 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I stepped up my In Our Time listening during lockdown and it was such a blessing to have access to all those episodes.
September 10, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Arteta corner tactic:
a man in a black shirt is standing in a room
ALT: a man in a black shirt is standing in a room
media.tenor.com
August 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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As they did in Trump's first term, which led to
*checks notes*
Unified GOP control of the House, Senate, and White House in 2024
So Tom you keep saying that democrats keep losing but why are you overlooking this trend.
I just read this👇
Democrats have now overperformed in 37 out of 38 elections so far this year.
August 27, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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According to MAGA, only a radical Marxist would oppose the the federal government taking a 10% stake in a company as the price of the President allowing it to do business.
August 20, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Jesus, didn't it occur to anyone to put him out?
August 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM