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Futures traders after they saw Trump repost I AM PURPOSELY CRASHING THE ECONOMY multiple times
April 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Futures traders after they saw Trump repost I AM PURPOSELY CRASHING THE ECONOMY multiple times
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its so fucking haunting. so horrifying. how the most powerful, most influential elites in this nation, the ones who truly live in the ivory towers, in hallowed citadels, when asked to be brave—truly brave—for once in their lives, have balked at the idea
It is deeply concerning that virtually every institution capable of offering meaningful resistance to this administration has folded this quickly.
NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID.
This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
March 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
its so fucking haunting. so horrifying. how the most powerful, most influential elites in this nation, the ones who truly live in the ivory towers, in hallowed citadels, when asked to be brave—truly brave—for once in their lives, have balked at the idea
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"we are abolishing refugee and asylum claims, and doing our best to abolish legal immigration, except for Afrikaner farmers alleging discrimination" is so impossibly on the nose that it's hard to believe it's real even once you've set your expectations to what you thought was as low as possible.
March 30, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"we are abolishing refugee and asylum claims, and doing our best to abolish legal immigration, except for Afrikaner farmers alleging discrimination" is so impossibly on the nose that it's hard to believe it's real even once you've set your expectations to what you thought was as low as possible.
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Right. Dems, use your mailing lists to, like, invite us to a movie night or a big ass barbecue
Arguably not just after the election, but during election season as well. Community building matters all the time, and that includes during election season.
The fact that Dems see mailing lists solely as a fund raising tool is such a waste.
The fact that Dems see mailing lists solely as a fund raising tool is such a waste.
If candidates used their e- mail lists for community building after the election, rather that asking for money, we'd be in a much better place.
March 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Right. Dems, use your mailing lists to, like, invite us to a movie night or a big ass barbecue
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While less sensitive than the Hegseth and Walz messages, I'd note that the CIA would normally consider this statement from DCIA Ratcliffe to be classified. It reveals:
1. CIA support to a military operation.
2. Gaps in CIA coverage on the Houthi leadership.
Ratcliffe's testimony is not credible.
1. CIA support to a military operation.
2. Gaps in CIA coverage on the Houthi leadership.
Ratcliffe's testimony is not credible.
March 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
While less sensitive than the Hegseth and Walz messages, I'd note that the CIA would normally consider this statement from DCIA Ratcliffe to be classified. It reveals:
1. CIA support to a military operation.
2. Gaps in CIA coverage on the Houthi leadership.
Ratcliffe's testimony is not credible.
1. CIA support to a military operation.
2. Gaps in CIA coverage on the Houthi leadership.
Ratcliffe's testimony is not credible.
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Democrats love nothing more than setting up red lines that are in the future and then, when those red lines are crossed, doing nothing and setting up more red lines that are also in the future
Schumer: "If he defies the Supreme Court, then we are in uncharted territory ... our entire democracy is at risk. I believe that if Donald Trump should defy the courts, the public will rise up. Democrats will fight it in every single way ... autocrats only succeed if the public lets them."
March 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Democrats love nothing more than setting up red lines that are in the future and then, when those red lines are crossed, doing nothing and setting up more red lines that are also in the future
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this is exactly the right answer imo. it's going to hurt like hell for things to get broken, so bad that we wouldn't ever choose it, but once they're broken you get to build free of all the crud of path dependency and that's an opportunity.
Talked to Tim Walz as he campaigned in Wisconsin. Thought his answer to one Q I'd had for Dems - if you come back in 2028, do you rebuild everything DOGE broke? - was interesting.
"I think it's an opportunity."
www.semafor.com/article/03/1...
"I think it's an opportunity."
www.semafor.com/article/03/1...
March 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
this is exactly the right answer imo. it's going to hurt like hell for things to get broken, so bad that we wouldn't ever choose it, but once they're broken you get to build free of all the crud of path dependency and that's an opportunity.
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Imagine being obliterated in a rocket explosion 11,000 feet above the Gulf of Mexico because you picked McNeese State over Gonzaga in the Sweet 16.
March 18, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Imagine being obliterated in a rocket explosion 11,000 feet above the Gulf of Mexico because you picked McNeese State over Gonzaga in the Sweet 16.
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"I wish the US would stop being so hypocritical about war crimes" is like the ultimate monkey's paw wish. We've got it folks, the US has shed the hypocrisy and is now just boldly pro-war crimes again.
US withdraws support for EU-led war crimes investigation into Russia and Putin over Ukraine invasion: Report
The United States has decided to withdraw from an international group investigating Russias war crimes in Ukraine, marking a shift in its foreign policy. The move, expected to be formally announced so...
economictimes.indiatimes.com
March 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"I wish the US would stop being so hypocritical about war crimes" is like the ultimate monkey's paw wish. We've got it folks, the US has shed the hypocrisy and is now just boldly pro-war crimes again.
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Happy March 15 to the President of the United States and all his team.
March 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Happy March 15 to the President of the United States and all his team.
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The biggest union representing federal workers announces SUPPORT FOR A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN rather than passage of the Republican continuing spending bill. These workers--with their literal paychecks on the line--understand exactly what time it is:
(via: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bigge...)
(via: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bigge...)
March 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The biggest union representing federal workers announces SUPPORT FOR A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN rather than passage of the Republican continuing spending bill. These workers--with their literal paychecks on the line--understand exactly what time it is:
(via: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bigge...)
(via: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bigge...)
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Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.
March 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.
Obviously no way to demonstrate causality, but my trip to Canada two weeks ago was the first time the border agents actually pressed me on who I was visiting, how I knew him, where he worked, etc.
Thanks Donald!
Thanks Donald!
March 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Obviously no way to demonstrate causality, but my trip to Canada two weeks ago was the first time the border agents actually pressed me on who I was visiting, how I knew him, where he worked, etc.
Thanks Donald!
Thanks Donald!
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Can anyone name a single time a Republican congressman has gotten on social media to cape for a wildly unpopular Democratic Party policy that is hurting the economy?
🧵It was never going to be easy or painless to overturn decades of free-trade policies that have failed working people, but we have to think in years, not days.
March 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Can anyone name a single time a Republican congressman has gotten on social media to cape for a wildly unpopular Democratic Party policy that is hurting the economy?
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The single most important thing in any messaging is to understand the relationship of the speaker, the recipient of the message (who may well be imagined, either by the speaker or implicitly by the audience), and the actual audience. Liberals are absolutely awful at this almost always
March 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The single most important thing in any messaging is to understand the relationship of the speaker, the recipient of the message (who may well be imagined, either by the speaker or implicitly by the audience), and the actual audience. Liberals are absolutely awful at this almost always
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What’s so insane is that no one wants this. Even Republicans don’t want to ally with Russia. But the way American policy is being set is that Trump does or says something deranged and then Republicans immediately rush to pretend they believed and supported it all along.
February 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
What’s so insane is that no one wants this. Even Republicans don’t want to ally with Russia. But the way American policy is being set is that Trump does or says something deranged and then Republicans immediately rush to pretend they believed and supported it all along.
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Remind them that there are people out there fighting and dying, putting their lives at risk, to protect the values that our leaders are too afraid to even raise their voices to defend. Saving democracy can exact a far higher price than a lost election, not that any of our politicians seem to care.
February 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Remind them that there are people out there fighting and dying, putting their lives at risk, to protect the values that our leaders are too afraid to even raise their voices to defend. Saving democracy can exact a far higher price than a lost election, not that any of our politicians seem to care.
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Trump and Vance would NEVER, EVER, talk to Putin like that.
And everyone knows it.
And everyone knows it.
February 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Trump and Vance would NEVER, EVER, talk to Putin like that.
And everyone knows it.
And everyone knows it.
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Difficult to maintain clarity and not go a little insane with arrogance over the fact that I was unambiguously much more right on a hugely consequential thing within their domain of expertise than these people that manage like the better part of a trillion dollars.
February 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Difficult to maintain clarity and not go a little insane with arrogance over the fact that I was unambiguously much more right on a hugely consequential thing within their domain of expertise than these people that manage like the better part of a trillion dollars.
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Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]
Pedro Pascal calls out “vile and pathetic” transphobic trolls after defending trans rights
Pedro Pascal, whose sister Lux is a trans woman, is a prominent trans ally and he has no time for transphobia.
www.capitalfm.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]
extended family meme chat. Woke or broke?
February 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
extended family meme chat. Woke or broke?
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When individuals and publications labor to construct the intellectual and moral justifications for genocide, I think they should be treated like people doing that.
February 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
When individuals and publications labor to construct the intellectual and moral justifications for genocide, I think they should be treated like people doing that.
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The axis of evil used to have a rather simple ideological reference point of being anti-west, but now it’s just “no ideology, we just really fuckin love murder”
February 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The axis of evil used to have a rather simple ideological reference point of being anti-west, but now it’s just “no ideology, we just really fuckin love murder”
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The US joining Russia on this vote is astonishing.
Compare: China and India—trying to balance support for territorial integrity with consideration for Russia’s interests—have consistently abstained from such votes.
Today the US tossed aside that sort of ambiguity and simply aligned with Russia.
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Compare: China and India—trying to balance support for territorial integrity with consideration for Russia’s interests—have consistently abstained from such votes.
Today the US tossed aside that sort of ambiguity and simply aligned with Russia.
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February 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The US joining Russia on this vote is astonishing.
Compare: China and India—trying to balance support for territorial integrity with consideration for Russia’s interests—have consistently abstained from such votes.
Today the US tossed aside that sort of ambiguity and simply aligned with Russia.
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Compare: China and India—trying to balance support for territorial integrity with consideration for Russia’s interests—have consistently abstained from such votes.
Today the US tossed aside that sort of ambiguity and simply aligned with Russia.
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