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She/Her, from the US, Politics, Philosophy, Birds, Diplomacy, Militarism, Trans/Lesbian Issues, and Unrequited Love
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Someone suggested that I be on this site more and Twitter less for obvious and good reasons.
Anyway have a live blog of The Brothers Karanazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Anyway have a live blog of The Brothers Karanazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Feels like "guy who owns at least two jigsaws" is the exact right target for jigsaw ads
November 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Feels like "guy who owns at least two jigsaws" is the exact right target for jigsaw ads
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I don’t understand why Weiss thinks the desired outcome of CBS News coverage is debate.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I don’t understand why Weiss thinks the desired outcome of CBS News coverage is debate.
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The entire debate about whether Democrats should moderate or focus on economic vs identity issues is moot if the media is just going to report that they're doing SJW Shit irregardless
November 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The entire debate about whether Democrats should moderate or focus on economic vs identity issues is moot if the media is just going to report that they're doing SJW Shit irregardless
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Not to defend this lady and her fantasy strategies, but if you conceive of Trump as Hitler or Hitler-aspirant (or dare I say it...a fascist despot), it makes total sense to criticize showing up at the White House and shaking his hand and saying you look forward to working together on affordability
November 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Not to defend this lady and her fantasy strategies, but if you conceive of Trump as Hitler or Hitler-aspirant (or dare I say it...a fascist despot), it makes total sense to criticize showing up at the White House and shaking his hand and saying you look forward to working together on affordability
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This was the first If Books Could Kill podcast I listened to, and it was phenomenal.
It's not jus a good takedown of one book, but it's a good takedown of this entire genre of "sprawling history of the world" type books.
Think it nails two critical points that plague all punditry.
It's not jus a good takedown of one book, but it's a good takedown of this entire genre of "sprawling history of the world" type books.
Think it nails two critical points that plague all punditry.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This was the first If Books Could Kill podcast I listened to, and it was phenomenal.
It's not jus a good takedown of one book, but it's a good takedown of this entire genre of "sprawling history of the world" type books.
Think it nails two critical points that plague all punditry.
It's not jus a good takedown of one book, but it's a good takedown of this entire genre of "sprawling history of the world" type books.
Think it nails two critical points that plague all punditry.
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The crime is not what we were doing protesting in the 10th floor elevator lobby of 26 Federal Plaza.
The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.
The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.
NEW: Brad Lander says he wants a trial, not a deal to drop his charge stemming from an arrest by ICE.
After Arrest by ICE, City Comptroller Rejects Deal and Seeks Trial
Other officials arrested while protesting at 26 Federal Plaza in September will have their federal charges dropped if they avoid arrest inside a federal building for six months.
www.thecity.nyc
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The crime is not what we were doing protesting in the 10th floor elevator lobby of 26 Federal Plaza.
The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.
The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.
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Everyone under thirty googling mark sanford then googling Appalachian trail
November 18, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Everyone under thirty googling mark sanford then googling Appalachian trail
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The biggest revelation in Lizza’s tell-all tonight is that Mark Sanford was running for president in 2020. I genuinely had zero recollection of this.
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The biggest revelation in Lizza’s tell-all tonight is that Mark Sanford was running for president in 2020. I genuinely had zero recollection of this.
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All my random politically unaware friends are making Trump/Epstein jokes. You know what they haven’t said? “I heard Hakeem Jeffries promise to lower the cost of groceries”
The usual suspects are telling Dems that Epstein won’t win elections, get back to “affordability” and I think my head might explode. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...
Force A Referendum On The Epstein Coverup
It divides Republicans much more than "affordability" or any other economic issue.
www.offmessage.net
November 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
All my random politically unaware friends are making Trump/Epstein jokes. You know what they haven’t said? “I heard Hakeem Jeffries promise to lower the cost of groceries”
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The power of Fox News isn’t that they push conservative ideas, it’s that they are willing to set any kind of ideological consideration aside at the drop of a hat to boost Republicans regardless of what they do at any given moment.
November 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The power of Fox News isn’t that they push conservative ideas, it’s that they are willing to set any kind of ideological consideration aside at the drop of a hat to boost Republicans regardless of what they do at any given moment.
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She has produced no work of substance! Her 'achievements' in journalism are all just gossipy details she got through personal access. She also had relationship with a source while covering his political rival and lied about it until confronted! She should be treated like Stephen Glass.
November 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
She has produced no work of substance! Her 'achievements' in journalism are all just gossipy details she got through personal access. She also had relationship with a source while covering his political rival and lied about it until confronted! She should be treated like Stephen Glass.
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Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
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Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
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Rhetoric taken directly from Nazi Twitter. I can tell you the precise accounts even
JD Vance: "Democrats' idea was the way you get more prosperity is that you import more and more low wage servants."
November 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Rhetoric taken directly from Nazi Twitter. I can tell you the precise accounts even
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I don't think it gets mentioned enough that Bovino is a member of the civil service. He is not a political appointee. Yet he still engages in constant open partisanship while in uniform and with a DHS flag behind him.
Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
November 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I don't think it gets mentioned enough that Bovino is a member of the civil service. He is not a political appointee. Yet he still engages in constant open partisanship while in uniform and with a DHS flag behind him.
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We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.
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Elon is a bullshit artist vaporware hawker and it’s totally correct to mock this specific stupid claim, but it is sort of depressing how him associating himself so strongly with techno-utopianism has negatively polarized so many against it.
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Elon is a bullshit artist vaporware hawker and it’s totally correct to mock this specific stupid claim, but it is sort of depressing how him associating himself so strongly with techno-utopianism has negatively polarized so many against it.
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Look, all I ask is that McBride be given the same benefit of the doubt you all will inevitably give the next orc declared The Authentic Voice Of The Working Class (TM).
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Look, all I ask is that McBride be given the same benefit of the doubt you all will inevitably give the next orc declared The Authentic Voice Of The Working Class (TM).
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i think Senator Lander has a ring to it
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
i think Senator Lander has a ring to it
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hate that this went down exactly like March
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
hate that this went down exactly like March
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Do politics-knowers know how insane this sounds to everyone else? "Democrats shut down the government for 40 days but don't worry, they knew going into it that they weren't gonna get their demands met".
If you're looking for a reason people hate Democrats...
If you're looking for a reason people hate Democrats...
Folks, no party or faction that has triggered a shutdown has ever gotten its demands met in a shutdown. That was always the risk going in. People (like me) were saying you were going to have to deal with eventual disappointment going in.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Do politics-knowers know how insane this sounds to everyone else? "Democrats shut down the government for 40 days but don't worry, they knew going into it that they weren't gonna get their demands met".
If you're looking for a reason people hate Democrats...
If you're looking for a reason people hate Democrats...
There is an old joke that Chinese propaganda makes the US look way cooler than we can make ourselves look.
I guess it's only neighborly to return the favor.
I guess it's only neighborly to return the favor.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There is an old joke that Chinese propaganda makes the US look way cooler than we can make ourselves look.
I guess it's only neighborly to return the favor.
I guess it's only neighborly to return the favor.
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Mamdani will implement sumptuary law. Ladies will have to carefully measure how many ounces of gold are in their girdles, and wearing pearls on hats will be banned except for wives or courtesans of foreign mercenaries.
November 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Mamdani will implement sumptuary law. Ladies will have to carefully measure how many ounces of gold are in their girdles, and wearing pearls on hats will be banned except for wives or courtesans of foreign mercenaries.
Mamdani will implement sumptuary law. Ladies will have to carefully measure how many ounces of gold are in their girdles, and wearing pearls on hats will be banned except for wives or courtesans of foreign mercenaries.
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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across all wikipedias in all languages, vietnamese wikipedia's "game boy" article is the only place that uses the public domain shots of hillary clinton as a tetris addict taken on air force one
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
across all wikipedias in all languages, vietnamese wikipedia's "game boy" article is the only place that uses the public domain shots of hillary clinton as a tetris addict taken on air force one