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… and The Onion had no choice but to admit it was bested by reality and shut down.
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 13, 2025 at 1:55 AM
… and The Onion had no choice but to admit it was bested by reality and shut down.
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yeah my most out there technology and crime belief that be implemented is if we can mandate new cars have backup cameras we can mandate they have ignition interlock devices. the first time you get caught driving over the limit it gets turned on. extremely doable technological non-carceral solution.
There was a DUI diversion program (Montana? Dakota?) that required 3 a day breathalizer that was more or less a wild success. If you miss check in, you get an overnight in county. Apparently this had effects on *all cause* mortality.
November 12, 2025 at 4:26 AM
yeah my most out there technology and crime belief that be implemented is if we can mandate new cars have backup cameras we can mandate they have ignition interlock devices. the first time you get caught driving over the limit it gets turned on. extremely doable technological non-carceral solution.
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Politico may have a better read.
November 12, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Politico may have a better read.
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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Once they were in the shutdown though they could have made it about anything. Put clips of ICE abducting children on endless loop and say “do we keep funding a govt that does *that*?” Then you might get federal workers clamoring not for concessions but a strike.
Again, requires believing in things.
Again, requires believing in things.
This was a doomed exercise from the outset. They picked a fight to give the GOP something they thought they would want anyway, and have now been embarrassed into capitulating on even that. Beyond pathetic.
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Once they were in the shutdown though they could have made it about anything. Put clips of ICE abducting children on endless loop and say “do we keep funding a govt that does *that*?” Then you might get federal workers clamoring not for concessions but a strike.
Again, requires believing in things.
Again, requires believing in things.
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
Four years ago my baby spent two days on a ventilator because RSV put him into respiratory failure. His little brother got immunized, so when he had RSV it was just like a moderate cold.
people can buy more stuff today than ever before, more or less. compared to more than 3-4 years ago and it’s not even close. we are vastly wealthier on average now than even within near living memory
November 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Four years ago my baby spent two days on a ventilator because RSV put him into respiratory failure. His little brother got immunized, so when he had RSV it was just like a moderate cold.
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Mamdani embodies a pro-Palestinian politics that truly distinguishes between the state of Israel and the Jewish people, and truly takes antisemitism seriously as its own problem. That makes him a threat to those who want to absolutely conflate antisemitism and anti-Zionism, whether the ADL or WoL.
The pro-Palestine group Within Our Lifetime has already decided that Zohran Mamdani has sold out the pro-Palestine cause... by condemning swastikas drawn on a Jewish day school in Brooklyn. forward.com/culture/7822...
Mamdani's first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
After someone spraypainted a swastika on a yeshiva, Zohran Mamdani condemned antisemitism. Somehow, this generated conspiracy theories.
forward.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Mamdani embodies a pro-Palestinian politics that truly distinguishes between the state of Israel and the Jewish people, and truly takes antisemitism seriously as its own problem. That makes him a threat to those who want to absolutely conflate antisemitism and anti-Zionism, whether the ADL or WoL.
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Reminder that Republicans don't really believe in religious liberty. Religion is a tool for enhancing their political power, and any expression of faith to the contrary must be suppressed.
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Reminder that Republicans don't really believe in religious liberty. Religion is a tool for enhancing their political power, and any expression of faith to the contrary must be suppressed.
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virtue signalling is good actually
Performative decency is actually *so* important for this reason.
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
It tricks the 10% of ghouls into thinking that there are only 1% of ghouls.
And it makes the 30% of people that don't care one way or another follow the mostly decent crowd
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
virtue signalling is good actually
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Dems need to start talking more about how Trump’s dementia means that he can’t distinguish his fantasies from reality. He has completely lost touch with the real world and only knows what his sycophantic courtiers are telling him.
Trump: "If you look at affordability, which they campaigned on, they lied. Because they talked about 'Oh, prices are up' -- no, prices are down under the Trump administration and they're down substantially."
November 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Dems need to start talking more about how Trump’s dementia means that he can’t distinguish his fantasies from reality. He has completely lost touch with the real world and only knows what his sycophantic courtiers are telling him.
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I know we all gave up on LAT for good reason some time ago, but they've had some really good coverage of the immigration-related invasion.
Seems significant the LAT portrays the victim’s story first here, with ICE in rebuttal.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say
Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.
www.latimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I know we all gave up on LAT for good reason some time ago, but they've had some really good coverage of the immigration-related invasion.
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Is there ever going to be an interviewer who pushes back and tells him that immigrants seeking asylum is different than insane asylums?
O'DONNELL: Are we going to war against Venezuela?
TRUMP: I doubt it. They emptied their mental institutions and insane asylums into the United States of America
TRUMP: I doubt it. They emptied their mental institutions and insane asylums into the United States of America
November 3, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Is there ever going to be an interviewer who pushes back and tells him that immigrants seeking asylum is different than insane asylums?
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Man...when you're being accused of having Nazi sympathies, maybe don't rail against an unseen "power structure" that secretly controls media narratives?
"It's really interesting to have this whole power structure essentially turn on to try to drag my name through the mud." Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner describes the resistance he has experienced within the Democratic Party.
www.threads.com/@thebriefing...
www.threads.com/@thebriefing...
The Briefing with Jen Psaki (@thebriefingwithpsaki) on Threads
"It's really interesting to have this whole power structure essentially turn on to try to drag my name through the mud." Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner describes the resistance he has experienc...
www.threads.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Man...when you're being accused of having Nazi sympathies, maybe don't rail against an unseen "power structure" that secretly controls media narratives?
As usual, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social has the take I would have come up with I were a smarter person and better writer than I am.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
As usual, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social has the take I would have come up with I were a smarter person and better writer than I am.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
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I don't really wanna weigh in on the Platner thing (would rather my eyeballs be poked w/ needles) but going w/ "the idea that you must be perfect" when the issue at hand is an SS tattoo on his body for EIGHTEEN YEARS is hilarious
October 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I don't really wanna weigh in on the Platner thing (would rather my eyeballs be poked w/ needles) but going w/ "the idea that you must be perfect" when the issue at hand is an SS tattoo on his body for EIGHTEEN YEARS is hilarious
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harry reid straight up said "mitt romney cheats on his taxes and i can prove it," and he didn't cheat, and he couldn't prove it, and it was a story for almost a month, and the democrats somehow did not learn that they can just say "donald trump is a pedophile"
October 28, 2025 at 3:44 AM
harry reid straight up said "mitt romney cheats on his taxes and i can prove it," and he didn't cheat, and he couldn't prove it, and it was a story for almost a month, and the democrats somehow did not learn that they can just say "donald trump is a pedophile"
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Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
October 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
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The Islamophobia that has emerged in this mayoral campaign has been truly deplorable. And the fact that so much of it has been in the name of ostensibly protecting me as a Jew both fills me with shame and also makes me feel exploited.
Mamdani: "The bigger question is whether we are willing to say goodbye to ... anti-Muslim sentiment that has grown so endemic in our city that when we hear it, we know not whether the words were spoken by a Republican or a Democrat."
October 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The Islamophobia that has emerged in this mayoral campaign has been truly deplorable. And the fact that so much of it has been in the name of ostensibly protecting me as a Jew both fills me with shame and also makes me feel exploited.
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The whole Platner defense seems to amount to, if someone is wearing swastika armband but then take it off and claim they were wearing it by mistake, you must immediately embrace them. And if you have lingering suspicions, don’t you think you’re being just a bit whiny and neurotic?
October 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The whole Platner defense seems to amount to, if someone is wearing swastika armband but then take it off and claim they were wearing it by mistake, you must immediately embrace them. And if you have lingering suspicions, don’t you think you’re being just a bit whiny and neurotic?
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I feel like as the opposition party, the Dems should probably make sure they can confidently proclaim themselves the “no Nazis” party. But, you know… 🤷🏼
October 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I feel like as the opposition party, the Dems should probably make sure they can confidently proclaim themselves the “no Nazis” party. But, you know… 🤷🏼
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I resent having to have an opinion about a small subnational entity on the other side of the world but obviously the guy is infiltrating a left organisation for bad reasons and it’s shockingly clear. Being a candidate is a duty your party puts you up to, not a god given right for birthday boys
CNN confirms that multiple sources suggest Graham Platner knew his tattoo was a Nazi symbol years prior to launching his campaign — and is now blatantly lying about it.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
October 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I resent having to have an opinion about a small subnational entity on the other side of the world but obviously the guy is infiltrating a left organisation for bad reasons and it’s shockingly clear. Being a candidate is a duty your party puts you up to, not a god given right for birthday boys
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if we ever get a leg up on the fascists again we should consider giving people cute little medals and ribbons for everything like the soviets did. so you grew a big pumpkin? commendation from the governor. gold medals for efficient warehouse stocking. jeweled medallions for safe driving
October 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
if we ever get a leg up on the fascists again we should consider giving people cute little medals and ribbons for everything like the soviets did. so you grew a big pumpkin? commendation from the governor. gold medals for efficient warehouse stocking. jeweled medallions for safe driving
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The thing with this take is there's 8 months until the election. Like the whole point of a primary process is to like shake bad shit loose so you don't have to commit to shitty people
Sen. Bernie Sanders is doubling down on his support for Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, saying there might be "one or two more important issues" than the Marine veteran's tattoos.
Exclusive: Bernie Sanders slams media's coverage of Graham Platner
"I'm not overly impressed by a squad of media running around," Sanders said.
www.axios.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The thing with this take is there's 8 months until the election. Like the whole point of a primary process is to like shake bad shit loose so you don't have to commit to shitty people