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Remembering Daniel Craig answering that question from the kid in Road to Perdition - "Why are you always smiling?"
"'Cause it's all so fucking hilarious."
"'Cause it's all so fucking hilarious."
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Well, two possibilities - every single Democrat is world-historical awful, or there’s some kind of major change in how we talk about politics that has made every random governor or senator appear nearly as bad as the worst leader in American history
At what point do you just say "fuck it we need a revolution"?
I'm neither a tankie nor even American but you guys seem to have incredibly shit candidates that nobody likes. There has to be a breaking point.
I'm neither a tankie nor even American but you guys seem to have incredibly shit candidates that nobody likes. There has to be a breaking point.
February 17, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Well, two possibilities - every single Democrat is world-historical awful, or there’s some kind of major change in how we talk about politics that has made every random governor or senator appear nearly as bad as the worst leader in American history
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Has he apologized for supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine yet? Then fuck him.
Ben & Jerry's co-founder needs your help to 'prevent the destruction' of beloved ice cream brand
www.advocate.com/news/people/...
www.advocate.com/news/people/...
Ben & Jerry's cofounder needs your help to 'prevent the destruction' of beloved ice cream brand
Ben & Jerry's cofounder, an LGBTQ+ ally, talks to The Advocate about DEI, marriage equality, Trump's ICE raids, and the fate of the company.
www.advocate.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Has he apologized for supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine yet? Then fuck him.
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Can someone remind me why this is not our guy for 2028? Young, speaks well, drops truth bombs, handsome (sorry it’s an advantage)….??
Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
February 17, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Can someone remind me why this is not our guy for 2028? Young, speaks well, drops truth bombs, handsome (sorry it’s an advantage)….??
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I bet you can make a lot of people mad by pointing out that the Ukrainians are fighting a deeply unambiguous anti-colonial war
February 17, 2026 at 1:31 AM
I bet you can make a lot of people mad by pointing out that the Ukrainians are fighting a deeply unambiguous anti-colonial war
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I can’t qwhite put my finger on it
Lololol the theme is so obvious yet some still stay acting a fool
Lololol the theme is so obvious yet some still stay acting a fool
February 17, 2026 at 12:50 AM
I can’t qwhite put my finger on it
Lololol the theme is so obvious yet some still stay acting a fool
Lololol the theme is so obvious yet some still stay acting a fool
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Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
February 16, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
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Everything else is commentary
February 16, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Everything else is commentary
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a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.
February 15, 2026 at 10:42 PM
a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.
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Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured?
Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.
Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.
February 16, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured?
Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.
Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.
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The Republicans made your health insurance premiums skyrocket to pay for this.
A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer
Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.
www.cbsnews.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:56 AM
The Republicans made your health insurance premiums skyrocket to pay for this.
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So…just like Fox News.
February 16, 2026 at 1:10 AM
So…just like Fox News.
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BREAKING: @barackobama.bsky.social clarifies his position on aliens after his answer during the speed round of our interview went viral.
February 16, 2026 at 12:09 AM
BREAKING: @barackobama.bsky.social clarifies his position on aliens after his answer during the speed round of our interview went viral.
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Watching Nuremberg and feel strongly these Nazis had an ineffective assistance of counsel claim against their lawyers, who never once noted that the Dow Jones Industrial Average was over 50,000 dollars.
February 16, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Watching Nuremberg and feel strongly these Nazis had an ineffective assistance of counsel claim against their lawyers, who never once noted that the Dow Jones Industrial Average was over 50,000 dollars.
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My main opinion on Graham Platner is if there was a 41 year old guy running in the Republican primary for the Maine Senate seat and it turned out that he had a Nazi tattoo for 15 years and then he claimed that he just didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo, none of you would ever stop screaming about it.
February 15, 2026 at 8:01 PM
My main opinion on Graham Platner is if there was a 41 year old guy running in the Republican primary for the Maine Senate seat and it turned out that he had a Nazi tattoo for 15 years and then he claimed that he just didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo, none of you would ever stop screaming about it.
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Broadly speaking: reality tv is bad for democracy, influencers are bad for democracy, streamers are bad for democracy, YouTubers are bad for democracy.
Exceptions to all categories exist, but it’s astonishing how absolutely clogged our political and media ecosystems are with low-info narcissists
Exceptions to all categories exist, but it’s astonishing how absolutely clogged our political and media ecosystems are with low-info narcissists
February 15, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Broadly speaking: reality tv is bad for democracy, influencers are bad for democracy, streamers are bad for democracy, YouTubers are bad for democracy.
Exceptions to all categories exist, but it’s astonishing how absolutely clogged our political and media ecosystems are with low-info narcissists
Exceptions to all categories exist, but it’s astonishing how absolutely clogged our political and media ecosystems are with low-info narcissists
I hope that someone with the knowhow infiltrates right wing Christian social media circles and lays the framework that the SAVE Act is the the Mark of the Beast that the Left Behind movies and books were talking about.
If you get that special voting ID it's just like pledging allegiance to Satan.
If you get that special voting ID it's just like pledging allegiance to Satan.
Democrats should propose amendments to the SAVE act that require the government to furnish free IDs to all eligible voters before requiring them, automatically register all people to vote, expand mail-in voting, and create a national voting holiday. Then watch republicans block them.
February 15, 2026 at 11:55 PM
I hope that someone with the knowhow infiltrates right wing Christian social media circles and lays the framework that the SAVE Act is the the Mark of the Beast that the Left Behind movies and books were talking about.
If you get that special voting ID it's just like pledging allegiance to Satan.
If you get that special voting ID it's just like pledging allegiance to Satan.
Make all government required IDs free of charge.
February 15, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Make all government required IDs free of charge.
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One of my black pill moments was that Biden actually focused on lifting the lowest quartiles up at the expense of the rich and the online left screamed at him about student loan forgiveness.
The vibecession was primarily driven by lower sentiment among the upper and middle classes, not the lower classes.
February 15, 2026 at 10:05 PM
One of my black pill moments was that Biden actually focused on lifting the lowest quartiles up at the expense of the rich and the online left screamed at him about student loan forgiveness.
I believe Liz Bruenig is an LLM.
February 15, 2026 at 11:39 PM
I believe Liz Bruenig is an LLM.
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Back in 2020 I saw several prominent leftist commentators say that even though they considered Trump a fascist, if Bloomberg became the Dem nominee theyd sit it out and all I heard from that was "fascism isnt actually the dealbreaker for me I say it is"
Counterpoint: if the Prince of Darkness rises from a fiery portal at the Iowa Caucus and declares his opposition to Donald Trump, I will ride to battle with the host of Hell
February 15, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Back in 2020 I saw several prominent leftist commentators say that even though they considered Trump a fascist, if Bloomberg became the Dem nominee theyd sit it out and all I heard from that was "fascism isnt actually the dealbreaker for me I say it is"
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Yes, that’s why my family left Germany because they really wanted to go to Great Britain and sort of missed it by thaaat much
February 15, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Yes, that’s why my family left Germany because they really wanted to go to Great Britain and sort of missed it by thaaat much
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A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer
Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.
www.cbsnews.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:20 PM
A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
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Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
February 14, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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This is not an area where AOC agrees with JD Vance and Josh Hawley what the fuck are you talking about
"The Ascent of populist movements is telling us that governments have have strayed too far from being responsive to the working class"
This is probably the only area where AOC agrees with JD Vance and Josh Hawley.
This is probably the only area where AOC agrees with JD Vance and Josh Hawley.
February 15, 2026 at 7:31 PM
This is not an area where AOC agrees with JD Vance and Josh Hawley what the fuck are you talking about