Pinned
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My grandpa was born in the US to German parents. He had younger cousins who were in Hitler youth in Germany. Decades later I talked with some of them about it (with the ruthless candor of youth). Why did you do that? What were you thinking? What they described was a lot like this.
Happening now: Texas leaders announcing a rollout of a statewide program to put TPUSA chapters in high schools and colleges across the state. Gov. Abbott adds that schools that stand in the way should be reported to the Texas Education Agency.
December 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
My grandpa was born in the US to German parents. He had younger cousins who were in Hitler youth in Germany. Decades later I talked with some of them about it (with the ruthless candor of youth). Why did you do that? What were you thinking? What they described was a lot like this.
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Can’t speak for anyone else, but I could go for a hostile takeover right about now.
December 9, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Can’t speak for anyone else, but I could go for a hostile takeover right about now.
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Read this as an American woman and then go break something.
December 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Read this as an American woman and then go break something.
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Going on shark tank to pitch my idea of a sex robot that looks like Mr. Bean
December 9, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Going on shark tank to pitch my idea of a sex robot that looks like Mr. Bean
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I can’t go on like this.
*continues to go on like that*
*continues to go on like that*
December 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I can’t go on like this.
*continues to go on like that*
*continues to go on like that*
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Stricter corporate regulations? All well and good but what we really need is to have these soulless motherfuckers driven into the sea.
December 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Stricter corporate regulations? All well and good but what we really need is to have these soulless motherfuckers driven into the sea.
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oh hey look it’s the thing literally everyone said would happen
Two months after President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting H-1B visas, soaring costs are roiling rural health care facilities that have long struggled to find staff.
Rural America relies on foreign doctors. Trump’s visa fee shuts them out.
The Trump administration’s demand for companies to pay a $100,000 fee to hire an immigrant worker using an H1B visa has created turmoil among rural health providers.
wapo.st
December 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
oh hey look it’s the thing literally everyone said would happen
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“.. By my count, today's $12B farmer bailout is the FIFTH thing that Trump's tariffs were gonna pay for.”
- @scottlincicome.bsky.social
- @scottlincicome.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
“.. By my count, today's $12B farmer bailout is the FIFTH thing that Trump's tariffs were gonna pay for.”
- @scottlincicome.bsky.social
- @scottlincicome.bsky.social
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Everyone is selling innovation and none of it works. What if I started an agency that sold denovation. Build you a last-gen project that actually fucking works.
December 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Everyone is selling innovation and none of it works. What if I started an agency that sold denovation. Build you a last-gen project that actually fucking works.
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Demonstrators march in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and other cities, calling for an end to femicide, rape and misogyny.
‘Stop killing us’: Huge crowds rally in Brazil, decrying rise in femicide
Demonstrators march in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and other cities, calling for an end to femicide, rape and misogyny.
bit.ly
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Demonstrators march in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and other cities, calling for an end to femicide, rape and misogyny.
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Our infrastructure isn’t ready for what’s coming.
The Bay took over the highway during this morning's #KingTides in Marin.
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Our infrastructure isn’t ready for what’s coming.
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Respectfully, Congresswoman, you voted with Republicans to strip due process from immigrants and to praise Trump's ICE. This year.
Now you're upset?
Votes have consequences. Minnesotans deserve better.
Now you're upset?
Votes have consequences. Minnesotans deserve better.
ICE agents followed a Burnsville family home from the store, failed to present a warrant and entered their home with guns drawn. They detained 4 legal citizens who presented documentation, leaving a 7 year-old without parents.
A seven-year-old. Let that sink in. Trump’s ICE is out of control.
A seven-year-old. Let that sink in. Trump’s ICE is out of control.
ICE agents detained four people from a Burnsville home, according to family members, including a 7-year-old's parents and the husband of a pregnant woman.
December 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Respectfully, Congresswoman, you voted with Republicans to strip due process from immigrants and to praise Trump's ICE. This year.
Now you're upset?
Votes have consequences. Minnesotans deserve better.
Now you're upset?
Votes have consequences. Minnesotans deserve better.
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"Starting Jan. 1, in six states selected to take part in a federal pilot program, traditional Medicare recipients will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered --
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
Thousands of Washington state Medicare users could soon have claims denied by AI
Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny.
www.kuow.org
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"Starting Jan. 1, in six states selected to take part in a federal pilot program, traditional Medicare recipients will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered --
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..."
www.kuow.org/stories/thou...
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Literally all of the good things
In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
news.cornell.edu
December 9, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Literally all of the good things
“Are you in danger of losing your home or not being able to afford food? We won’t actually do anything for you —we were just curious. That’ll be $8.”
"When asked about the charges, a Novant Health spokesperson said in an email that the survey asking about safety, housing and food security became a billable service in 2024."
Surprise! Your health care provider added a fee for that questionnaire you filled out
Some doctors now bill patients for surveys that screen for problems. Patients say they should not be charged for checking a few boxes.
www.northcarolinahealthnews.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
“Are you in danger of losing your home or not being able to afford food? We won’t actually do anything for you —we were just curious. That’ll be $8.”
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Because Trump has no idea how trade imbalances work or why they exist.
Trump launches trade war against China. Chinese exports soar. American exports collapse. This was not a smart thing for America to have done.
China’s Trade Surplus Climbs Past $1 Trillion for First Time
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Because Trump has no idea how trade imbalances work or why they exist.
More of this type of messaging, please. What do we want? What is the most straightforward way to finance it?
Exactly.
Exactly.
Tax the rich.
Invest the money in making housing, health care, and child care affordable.
Invest the money in making housing, health care, and child care affordable.
December 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
More of this type of messaging, please. What do we want? What is the most straightforward way to finance it?
Exactly.
Exactly.
So happy for them.
Our economy will be decimated & it’s based on figures that don’t exist & can’t happen because tariffs are paid by people here who will be increasingly unemployed & unable to buy anything, but it sure does sound nice, doesn’t it?
Our economy will be decimated & it’s based on figures that don’t exist & can’t happen because tariffs are paid by people here who will be increasingly unemployed & unable to buy anything, but it sure does sound nice, doesn’t it?
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
So happy for them.
Our economy will be decimated & it’s based on figures that don’t exist & can’t happen because tariffs are paid by people here who will be increasingly unemployed & unable to buy anything, but it sure does sound nice, doesn’t it?
Our economy will be decimated & it’s based on figures that don’t exist & can’t happen because tariffs are paid by people here who will be increasingly unemployed & unable to buy anything, but it sure does sound nice, doesn’t it?
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can we skip to the part where the union dissolves or there’s a new constitutional convention or something this is exhausting
December 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
can we skip to the part where the union dissolves or there’s a new constitutional convention or something this is exhausting
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this kind of knocking everything down because you won one election is really troubling. that's our information, our data, our institutions, and you're a temporary caretaker. you shouldn't be able to just raze what came before, even if you want to go in another direction. shit is really broken
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
December 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
this kind of knocking everything down because you won one election is really troubling. that's our information, our data, our institutions, and you're a temporary caretaker. you shouldn't be able to just raze what came before, even if you want to go in another direction. shit is really broken
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Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
The part that I can't figure out is what John Roberts thinks he is doing. He used to seem to be a judge who was very attentive to appearances, I think on a theory that you can't draw too much attention to yourself without undermining your ability to continue to shape the law.
December 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
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news outlets: court appears poised to expand presidential power
Trump: Magna Carta is woke crap
Trump: Magna Carta is woke crap
December 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
news outlets: court appears poised to expand presidential power
Trump: Magna Carta is woke crap
Trump: Magna Carta is woke crap
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How do Sotomayor, Jackson, and Kagan face going to work each day, knowing they have to deal with the criminal insanity of the other 6?
December 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
How do Sotomayor, Jackson, and Kagan face going to work each day, knowing they have to deal with the criminal insanity of the other 6?
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I wrote “I am conscious” on a price of paper and put it in my photocopier. It printed out a paper that said “I am conscious.” Literally shaking rn does this mean my copier is sentient? (/sarcasm)
December 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I wrote “I am conscious” on a price of paper and put it in my photocopier. It printed out a paper that said “I am conscious.” Literally shaking rn does this mean my copier is sentient? (/sarcasm)
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My assessment of the Trump national security strategy: "it sees the United States’ adversaries as partners in that war, but it does not see how much U.S. power relies on the voluntary assistance of other countries."
The Only War the White House Is Ready for Is Culture War
The new U.S. National Security Strategy is a moral and strategic disaster.
foreignpolicy.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
My assessment of the Trump national security strategy: "it sees the United States’ adversaries as partners in that war, but it does not see how much U.S. power relies on the voluntary assistance of other countries."