zoobadger
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Long-time Chicagoan. Minor league intellectual. Dad, has too many cats, semi-retired. Hater of small-minded grievance and the MAGA cult it fuels and sustains.
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A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
September 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
September 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
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Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired
September 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired
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The FBI right now could probably use all those experienced senior career professionals with decades of investigative experience that they fired for absolutely no reason.
September 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The FBI right now could probably use all those experienced senior career professionals with decades of investigative experience that they fired for absolutely no reason.
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all of this makes total sense when you recognize that “freedom” here means the freedom to dominate those you view as your subordinates and “tyranny” is when someone threatens that “freedom” or worse, when those subordinates try to claim power as political equals
IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction
August 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
all of this makes total sense when you recognize that “freedom” here means the freedom to dominate those you view as your subordinates and “tyranny” is when someone threatens that “freedom” or worse, when those subordinates try to claim power as political equals
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I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally
August 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally
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People crawling out of their caves to kiss Trump's fat orange ass in public. At least we'll know who to ostracize, shun, and ignore when this stupid, pathetic regime finally shits the bed.
August 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
People crawling out of their caves to kiss Trump's fat orange ass in public. At least we'll know who to ostracize, shun, and ignore when this stupid, pathetic regime finally shits the bed.
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Newsom: "He's a failed president. Who else sends ICE at the same time we're having a conversation like this? Someone who's weak. Someone who's broken. Someone whose weakness is masquerading as strength."
August 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Newsom: "He's a failed president. Who else sends ICE at the same time we're having a conversation like this? Someone who's weak. Someone who's broken. Someone whose weakness is masquerading as strength."
Lack of objection to Trump ending reliable economic statistics tells us that billionaires feel completely shielded from market downtowns or economic declines.
They stay filthy rich no matter what. No need to make decisions based on sound and reliable data.
They stay filthy rich no matter what. No need to make decisions based on sound and reliable data.
August 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Lack of objection to Trump ending reliable economic statistics tells us that billionaires feel completely shielded from market downtowns or economic declines.
They stay filthy rich no matter what. No need to make decisions based on sound and reliable data.
They stay filthy rich no matter what. No need to make decisions based on sound and reliable data.
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if i were a pro-trump financial type i might view the destruction of reliable government data with the kind of anger and apprehension that might lead me to reevaluate my politics, but then if i’m a financial guy throwing my weight behind strongman rule, i’m already too stupid to breathe
August 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
if i were a pro-trump financial type i might view the destruction of reliable government data with the kind of anger and apprehension that might lead me to reevaluate my politics, but then if i’m a financial guy throwing my weight behind strongman rule, i’m already too stupid to breathe
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Samuel L Jackson said this Two
Years ago........
Years ago........
July 31, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Samuel L Jackson said this Two
Years ago........
Years ago........
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It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.
July 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.
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DOJ after seeing Trump’s name in Epstein files.
a man is typing on a dell computer while a woman looks on
ALT: a man is typing on a dell computer while a woman looks on
media.tenor.com
July 24, 2025 at 7:37 AM
DOJ after seeing Trump’s name in Epstein files.
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(Fox News, two weeks from now)
"Pedophilia is good, actually. It *literally* means you love children. I guess Democrats hate children? Pathetic."
"Pedophilia is good, actually. It *literally* means you love children. I guess Democrats hate children? Pathetic."
July 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
(Fox News, two weeks from now)
"Pedophilia is good, actually. It *literally* means you love children. I guess Democrats hate children? Pathetic."
"Pedophilia is good, actually. It *literally* means you love children. I guess Democrats hate children? Pathetic."
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The fact that the President of the United States posts a fake video of a kneeling Barack Obama being handcuffed and we’re supposed to pretend it’s perfectly normal, everyday stuff shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
July 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The fact that the President of the United States posts a fake video of a kneeling Barack Obama being handcuffed and we’re supposed to pretend it’s perfectly normal, everyday stuff shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
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Saw this! Great review Marcus Green.
In a time when the right openly applauds mass cruelty and cheers people being rounded up like cattle in Los Angeles parks, while its religious arm dares to somehow preach with a straight face that empathy is actually toxic...
www.thestranger.com/film/2025/07...
In a time when the right openly applauds mass cruelty and cheers people being rounded up like cattle in Los Angeles parks, while its religious arm dares to somehow preach with a straight face that empathy is actually toxic...
www.thestranger.com/film/2025/07...
The Undocumented Socialist Alien Who Keeps Saving America
A summer blockbuster about an undocumented alien with unyielding socialist values who continuously bails out a country clearly undeserving of him. Is it any wonder that James Gunn’s Superman movie, re...
www.thestranger.com
July 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Saw this! Great review Marcus Green.
In a time when the right openly applauds mass cruelty and cheers people being rounded up like cattle in Los Angeles parks, while its religious arm dares to somehow preach with a straight face that empathy is actually toxic...
www.thestranger.com/film/2025/07...
In a time when the right openly applauds mass cruelty and cheers people being rounded up like cattle in Los Angeles parks, while its religious arm dares to somehow preach with a straight face that empathy is actually toxic...
www.thestranger.com/film/2025/07...
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Don’t look away: The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come
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The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come
Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.
www.propublica.org
July 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Don’t look away: The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come
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There are only three political positions in America today
1) I like the fascism
2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)
3) I oppose the fascism
The rest is details
1) I like the fascism
2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)
3) I oppose the fascism
The rest is details
June 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
There are only three political positions in America today
1) I like the fascism
2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)
3) I oppose the fascism
The rest is details
1) I like the fascism
2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)
3) I oppose the fascism
The rest is details
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the more i think about this the more i think that his campaign was a showcase for how centrists *say* they want democrats to campaign. the issue is that what this looks like varies from place to place. i would not expect mamdani to be able to win in virginia, but a mamdani-style campaign could!
what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.
June 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
the more i think about this the more i think that his campaign was a showcase for how centrists *say* they want democrats to campaign. the issue is that what this looks like varies from place to place. i would not expect mamdani to be able to win in virginia, but a mamdani-style campaign could!
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It's been so weird to watch a president learn things in real time when fielding a question from the press. Then, whatever word or concept he learns, he uses in the next few social media posts. It's like when a 3rd grader learns a new fact about dinosaurs.
June 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
It's been so weird to watch a president learn things in real time when fielding a question from the press. Then, whatever word or concept he learns, he uses in the next few social media posts. It's like when a 3rd grader learns a new fact about dinosaurs.