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can't get SHIT done living in a kink comic
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
can't get SHIT done living in a kink comic
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yes it is absolutely fine to fire people for being in the epstein files. do not try to pull this “oh i’m not for larry summers im just for employment justice” crap. being friends with *jeffrey freaking epstein* is not something that needs to be a protected category
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
yes it is absolutely fine to fire people for being in the epstein files. do not try to pull this “oh i’m not for larry summers im just for employment justice” crap. being friends with *jeffrey freaking epstein* is not something that needs to be a protected category
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People don’t vote their interests, they vote their values. Rural white people vote to give the rich tax breaks for the same reason liberal immigrant doctors vote to get themselves taxed more.
Why do poor, rural people vote for the ultra-wealthy's best interests over their own?
November 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
People don’t vote their interests, they vote their values. Rural white people vote to give the rich tax breaks for the same reason liberal immigrant doctors vote to get themselves taxed more.
It would be nice if we had more high profile dems pointing out the fact that Epstein’s best friend is telling the feds to stop going after child pornography
Online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has been getting noticeably less attention and follow-up from authorities, per NYT, as the DHS is overwhelmingly used for Stephen Miller’s immigration crusade
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
November 17, 2025 at 6:26 AM
It would be nice if we had more high profile dems pointing out the fact that Epstein’s best friend is telling the feds to stop going after child pornography
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dont sleep on fusion. fusion has the juice. look at this shit. impeccable sci fi vibe. alien curvature for reasons u wouldnt understand bc u dont know what poincare sections of the plasma beam are. it's even greebled with ports and domes and shit. u can tell the physics nerds are really cooking here
November 16, 2025 at 5:06 AM
dont sleep on fusion. fusion has the juice. look at this shit. impeccable sci fi vibe. alien curvature for reasons u wouldnt understand bc u dont know what poincare sections of the plasma beam are. it's even greebled with ports and domes and shit. u can tell the physics nerds are really cooking here
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The rhetorical move of the midwit abolitionists will be, you just haven’t read theory. I’ve read theory. This is explicit in Mariame Kaaba’s work. it’s all over the anarchist zines you love. The theorists who won’t go there still will not present an alternative that isn’t prison by another name.
November 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The rhetorical move of the midwit abolitionists will be, you just haven’t read theory. I’ve read theory. This is explicit in Mariame Kaaba’s work. it’s all over the anarchist zines you love. The theorists who won’t go there still will not present an alternative that isn’t prison by another name.
Someday at long last we will create the Make Brain Work Right Drug from the classic psychiatric paper There Is No Make Brain Work Right Drug
November 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Someday at long last we will create the Make Brain Work Right Drug from the classic psychiatric paper There Is No Make Brain Work Right Drug
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There’s a difference between “SCOTUS says rich people can do bribery and it’s legal” and “SCOTUS determined that there have been five years of Donald Trump’s life where he was incapable of being prosecuted for a crime.”
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
There’s a difference between “SCOTUS says rich people can do bribery and it’s legal” and “SCOTUS determined that there have been five years of Donald Trump’s life where he was incapable of being prosecuted for a crime.”
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this is the single biggest reason the Democratic Tea Party has to be real and immediate, because the party as currently constituted will not do this
something I've been thinking about if/when we retake power is we're really going to need to shock & awe the elites with accountability. hit em hard and fast. gotta break the entire system and don't give it time to regroup.
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 AM
this is the single biggest reason the Democratic Tea Party has to be real and immediate, because the party as currently constituted will not do this
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QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal."
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal."
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
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i know a lot of people have valid concerns about the mods here but you simply cannot be mad that they don't allow death threats lol
The account owner of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was suspended for 72 hours for expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article. The post, made 11/10, stated: "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die." 1/2
November 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
i know a lot of people have valid concerns about the mods here but you simply cannot be mad that they don't allow death threats lol
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what the formulation "israel has a right to exist" is meant to stand for is "the nation of israel has a right to define its electorate such that particular people are represented and others are not," which is something so plainly ridiculous that it cannot be stated outright.
November 12, 2025 at 4:46 AM
what the formulation "israel has a right to exist" is meant to stand for is "the nation of israel has a right to define its electorate such that particular people are represented and others are not," which is something so plainly ridiculous that it cannot be stated outright.
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“No one should be in a cage, but also there are some people who probably shouldn’t be roaming about” is a perfectly defensible take which America has no way of implementing
my controversial opinion that nobody likes is basically that we have no escalation ladder, both here and for incarceration. there are a lot of people who should not be, properly speaking, free, but unfortunately we have basically one level of restricted freedom and it's "torture pit"
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
“No one should be in a cage, but also there are some people who probably shouldn’t be roaming about” is a perfectly defensible take which America has no way of implementing
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the AI-generated chapter titles for our episodes are making me believe in the power of AI
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 AM
the AI-generated chapter titles for our episodes are making me believe in the power of AI
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you cannot create a viable third party without changing the constitution.
to change the constitution, you need control of one of the major political parties, at minimum.
anyone refusing to accept this is a fucking child i'm tired of entertaining.
to change the constitution, you need control of one of the major political parties, at minimum.
anyone refusing to accept this is a fucking child i'm tired of entertaining.
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
you cannot create a viable third party without changing the constitution.
to change the constitution, you need control of one of the major political parties, at minimum.
anyone refusing to accept this is a fucking child i'm tired of entertaining.
to change the constitution, you need control of one of the major political parties, at minimum.
anyone refusing to accept this is a fucking child i'm tired of entertaining.
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> Republicans do possibly the dumbest thing ever and allow the shutdown to be defined around the Republicans defending a suicidally bad policy (?)
> Democrats repeatedly try to surrender for no reason (??)
> Republicans refuse (???)
> Democrats surrender even harder (????)
> Democrats repeatedly try to surrender for no reason (??)
> Republicans refuse (???)
> Democrats surrender even harder (????)
November 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
> Republicans do possibly the dumbest thing ever and allow the shutdown to be defined around the Republicans defending a suicidally bad policy (?)
> Democrats repeatedly try to surrender for no reason (??)
> Republicans refuse (???)
> Democrats surrender even harder (????)
> Democrats repeatedly try to surrender for no reason (??)
> Republicans refuse (???)
> Democrats surrender even harder (????)
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The thing about this whole situation is that it was either extremely good 5D chess from Schumer where he was making offers that seemed super reasonable but knew the GOP wouldn't take, or he kept trying to surrender and the GOP were too stupid to agree
We now know what it was!
We now know what it was!
it's genuinely mind-boggling how this went from the best maneuver of Schumer's tenure to a complete omnishambling humiliation of the whole caucus in two days
Also like, the Dem leadership can't make a big show of making it about healthcare because it's the only issue that polls well enough for them to risk taking a stand on, blow out the Republicans in state and local elections in apparent vindication of that strategy, and then cave on healthcare anyway.
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 AM
The thing about this whole situation is that it was either extremely good 5D chess from Schumer where he was making offers that seemed super reasonable but knew the GOP wouldn't take, or he kept trying to surrender and the GOP were too stupid to agree
We now know what it was!
We now know what it was!
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Really seeing once again, it seems, that the real divide in the Democratic coalition is not left/lib/moderate or anything like that.
It's the fight/no-fight divide. And the 'fight' dems are the ones winning elections.
It's the fight/no-fight divide. And the 'fight' dems are the ones winning elections.
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Really seeing once again, it seems, that the real divide in the Democratic coalition is not left/lib/moderate or anything like that.
It's the fight/no-fight divide. And the 'fight' dems are the ones winning elections.
It's the fight/no-fight divide. And the 'fight' dems are the ones winning elections.
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You spend approximately a quarter of what your ancestors spend on food in 1947 and the food quality is far superior and more varied. cepr.net/publications...
In the Good Old Days, One Fourth of Income Went to Food
cepr.net
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
You spend approximately a quarter of what your ancestors spend on food in 1947 and the food quality is far superior and more varied. cepr.net/publications...
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the move was imo always to start with a take-it-or-leave-it offer that both would be anathema to the GOP and put them on the wrong side of a host of 65-35 issues. and just let them hang themselves.
I will say, I don't know what a plausible *good* outcome was -- the GOP wasn't going to sign off on good bills just because of some bad polls, I don't think online progs or Schumer/Jeffries had a clear plan to win this either?
but the Senate mods / institutionalists are throwing in the towel afaict
but the Senate mods / institutionalists are throwing in the towel afaict
November 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
the move was imo always to start with a take-it-or-leave-it offer that both would be anathema to the GOP and put them on the wrong side of a host of 65-35 issues. and just let them hang themselves.
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the OTHER thing is that no filibuster defender has yet to articulate why it is that people who happen to live in low density states not only deserve additional representation but also deserve to exercise a veto *on top of that*
November 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
the OTHER thing is that no filibuster defender has yet to articulate why it is that people who happen to live in low density states not only deserve additional representation but also deserve to exercise a veto *on top of that*
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One thing that strikes me is just how fake all of our problems related to government are
The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists.
The government shutdown was invented in 1980
The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal
The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists.
The government shutdown was invented in 1980
The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 AM
One thing that strikes me is just how fake all of our problems related to government are
The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists.
The government shutdown was invented in 1980
The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal
The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists.
The government shutdown was invented in 1980
The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal
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this is why ending the filibuster is good
“if you elect Republicans they will actually pass and implement Republican legislation” is a sentence that should be banal but everyone smart understands is an extinction-level scenario for the party as it currently exists
November 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
this is why ending the filibuster is good
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the story of this shutdown is that Trump and the Republicans have played the politics significantly worse than Chuck Schumer and folks that's a genuine accomplishment
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
the story of this shutdown is that Trump and the Republicans have played the politics significantly worse than Chuck Schumer and folks that's a genuine accomplishment
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DOGE cut a bunch of stuff that is incredibly cheap in terms of government budget but wildly effective in terms of saving lives. it is literally the least sympathetic possible program to make this argument in defense of
I dunno. I do like our government spending less money anywhere they can. I like even more if my taxes go down as a result. Since when is our job to be the world’s mom and dad? Did other countries step up to fill that gap?
November 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
DOGE cut a bunch of stuff that is incredibly cheap in terms of government budget but wildly effective in terms of saving lives. it is literally the least sympathetic possible program to make this argument in defense of