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Literally every single time that people unite to tell dem leadership what they want, leadership comes back with 12% of what they want and says “you should love us now and give us more money” like fuck you guys, abolish ICE.
If you’re 80 years old, go take a vacation ffs and stop meddling in politics.
Gavin Newsom of the future of nothing.
Gavin Newsom of the future of nothing.
Nancy Pelosi is retiring from Congress, but she has more campaigns in mind. Among them: Boost Gavin Newsom as a potential contender for the White House in 2028.
Pelosi's new campaign: Boost Newsom for 2028
Publicly and privately, Pelosi has been touting the California governor.
www.axios.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:10 PM
If you’re 80 years old, go take a vacation ffs and stop meddling in politics.
Gavin Newsom of the future of nothing.
Gavin Newsom of the future of nothing.
Trump is on the side of killing the earth part 7,000
The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that manufacturers will no longer earn a credit for installing engines that automatically turn off when vehicles come to a complete stop and restart when drivers take their feet off the brake pedal. The star...
TAT: [Attacking Science]
TAT: [Attacking Science]
Trump Administration Ends Credit for Start-Stop Feature in Cars
Manufacturers will no longer get a credit toward vehicle emissions standards by installing engines that automatically stop at red lights.
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Trump is on the side of killing the earth part 7,000
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Sometimes I get a little upset when I live in a collapsing dystopia for many years
February 16, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Sometimes I get a little upset when I live in a collapsing dystopia for many years
No one wants to hold out through three more years of this crap for a centrist Democrat to say we can do just a tiny bit better.
Newsom can eat shit.
Newsom can eat shit.
February 16, 2026 at 1:50 AM
No one wants to hold out through three more years of this crap for a centrist Democrat to say we can do just a tiny bit better.
Newsom can eat shit.
Newsom can eat shit.
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sorry Pink Floyd, turns out that we needed education. a lot of it. all of the education, really
February 15, 2026 at 5:38 AM
sorry Pink Floyd, turns out that we needed education. a lot of it. all of the education, really
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"the elite of the antebellum South were degenerate gamblers who financed their lifestyles with industrialized rape and would kill you for pointing this out" is a straightforwardly accurate statement
February 14, 2026 at 2:28 PM
"the elite of the antebellum South were degenerate gamblers who financed their lifestyles with industrialized rape and would kill you for pointing this out" is a straightforwardly accurate statement
Part of why humans are better than AI is that humans have a world model, an actual real world model of how things work. AI doesn’t.
February 15, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Part of why humans are better than AI is that humans have a world model, an actual real world model of how things work. AI doesn’t.
Cologne should be a privilege. You should have to take a test to show you can resist putting on so much that you take out a one block radius around you.
February 15, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Cologne should be a privilege. You should have to take a test to show you can resist putting on so much that you take out a one block radius around you.
Part of a functioning democracy would involve incentives that made it easy and good to remove congress members who clearly had failing cognition….
It’s not a good thing for a meaningful number of Congress members to be absolutely cooked at any one time.
It’s not a good thing for a meaningful number of Congress members to be absolutely cooked at any one time.
February 15, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Part of a functioning democracy would involve incentives that made it easy and good to remove congress members who clearly had failing cognition….
It’s not a good thing for a meaningful number of Congress members to be absolutely cooked at any one time.
It’s not a good thing for a meaningful number of Congress members to be absolutely cooked at any one time.
It’s not illegal if no one is ever held accountable for it.
The law is what is enforced.
The law is what is enforced.
February 15, 2026 at 10:52 AM
It’s not illegal if no one is ever held accountable for it.
The law is what is enforced.
The law is what is enforced.
It’s really sad seeing NPR fail so badly at reporting what is actually happening.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a calm and reassuring message to America's allies in Munich, after more than a year of President Donald Trump's often-hostile rhetoric toward allies. n.pr/4qHYOAJ
Rubio reassures trans-Atlantic ties with Europe at Munich Security Conference
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a calm and reassuring message to America's allies in Munich, after more than a year of President Donald Trump's often-hostile rhetoric toward allies.
n.pr
February 14, 2026 at 1:02 PM
It’s really sad seeing NPR fail so badly at reporting what is actually happening.
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Seems as good a time as any to remind everyone that this lets you batch delete everything you've said on a topic
dr.eamer.dev/skymarshal/
dr.eamer.dev/skymarshal/
February 14, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Seems as good a time as any to remind everyone that this lets you batch delete everything you've said on a topic
dr.eamer.dev/skymarshal/
dr.eamer.dev/skymarshal/
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Another absolute necessity: outlaw the billionaire strategy of dodging taxes by living off of tax-free loans against their stocks/real estate holdings. No more "buy-borrow-die."
fortune.com/2026/01/14/w...
fortune.com/2026/01/14/w...
California's wealth tax doesn't fix the real problem: Cash-poor billionaires who borrow money, tax-free, to live on | Fortune
Billionaires live under "buy, borrow, die," and California's wealth tax wouldn't touch that. An estimated $1 trillion of wealth has already fled.
fortune.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Another absolute necessity: outlaw the billionaire strategy of dodging taxes by living off of tax-free loans against their stocks/real estate holdings. No more "buy-borrow-die."
fortune.com/2026/01/14/w...
fortune.com/2026/01/14/w...
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We have the chance this year to not only take back the House (or if we're dreaming, even the Senate), but to primary the hell of a lot of D losers and shift the party significantly to the left. We have the chance to lean on ALL of our reps to actually do something.
February 13, 2026 at 5:19 AM
We have the chance this year to not only take back the House (or if we're dreaming, even the Senate), but to primary the hell of a lot of D losers and shift the party significantly to the left. We have the chance to lean on ALL of our reps to actually do something.
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So, do the United States have any sort of legislative body that can check/rein in the president or what have you? I've heard they do, but I've never really seen the evidence.
February 13, 2026 at 11:14 PM
So, do the United States have any sort of legislative body that can check/rein in the president or what have you? I've heard they do, but I've never really seen the evidence.
You call this a paper?
Braden Peters, known as Clavicular, has emerged as a beacon for a group of narcissistic, status-obsessed young men. He wants to take his fixation with “looksmaxxing” mainstream.
Looks Aren’t Everything? Clavicular Begs to Differ.
Braden Peters, known as Clavicular, has emerged as a beacon for a group of narcissistic, status-obsessed young men. He wants to take his fixation with “looksmaxxing” mainstream.
nyti.ms
February 13, 2026 at 10:16 PM
You call this a paper?
The word you're looking for is lied. He lied. These people only know how to lie.
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p
RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.
n.pr
February 13, 2026 at 9:19 PM
The word you're looking for is lied. He lied. These people only know how to lie.
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"zoomers are killing the bar industry" oh interesting was it zoomers who decided a drink should cost seventeen dollars
February 13, 2026 at 8:20 PM
"zoomers are killing the bar industry" oh interesting was it zoomers who decided a drink should cost seventeen dollars
Remembering pre Trump 2.0 when people said this is going to be handmaid’s tale and most of the dem party being like nah. And then it was.
So when we say ICE is Gestapo and Schumer says nah they just need cameras…
This is the same.
So when we say ICE is Gestapo and Schumer says nah they just need cameras…
This is the same.
February 13, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Remembering pre Trump 2.0 when people said this is going to be handmaid’s tale and most of the dem party being like nah. And then it was.
So when we say ICE is Gestapo and Schumer says nah they just need cameras…
This is the same.
So when we say ICE is Gestapo and Schumer says nah they just need cameras…
This is the same.
The centrist position is the entire Trump administration should be put on trial.
The reasonable position is dumping them all out of an airplane at 23,000 ft.
The reasonable position is dumping them all out of an airplane at 23,000 ft.
February 13, 2026 at 11:52 AM
The centrist position is the entire Trump administration should be put on trial.
The reasonable position is dumping them all out of an airplane at 23,000 ft.
The reasonable position is dumping them all out of an airplane at 23,000 ft.
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This is the third time Ring has backed off of some Orwellian practice because of public outcry; in the two previous cases it went right back to the evil as soon as the uproar died down. There is no reason to suspect this will be any different.
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Flock off
buff.ly
February 13, 2026 at 2:43 AM
This is the third time Ring has backed off of some Orwellian practice because of public outcry; in the two previous cases it went right back to the evil as soon as the uproar died down. There is no reason to suspect this will be any different.
Why can’t the bad people die instead of the good people ffs
February 13, 2026 at 2:25 AM
Why can’t the bad people die instead of the good people ffs
We basically have until the midterms to prove that democracy still exists in the US and then if we lose the only way forward sure looks a lot extremely violent.
250 years to this moment.
Wild. What a time to be alive.
250 years to this moment.
Wild. What a time to be alive.
February 13, 2026 at 2:21 AM
We basically have until the midterms to prove that democracy still exists in the US and then if we lose the only way forward sure looks a lot extremely violent.
250 years to this moment.
Wild. What a time to be alive.
250 years to this moment.
Wild. What a time to be alive.
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Wow, look at that, you don't just have to roll over like a fucking coward
New York City leaders rehung the Pride flag in front of the Stonewall National Monument in a chaotic scene that included an American flag briefly being removed, a rebuke of the Trump administration’s efforts to remove the symbol from federal property.
New York leaders, defying Trump, rehang Stonewall Inn Pride flag in chaotic scene
The Trump administration had removed the LGBTQ+ symbol, citing a policy limiting what can be displayed on federal property.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Wow, look at that, you don't just have to roll over like a fucking coward