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A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
March 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
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Reminder: if you predicted half the things happening now (threatening to take Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal; lawless mass firings; complete defiance of Congressional prerogatives; mass pardons of violent supporters) even a couple of years ago, Serious Thinkers would have dismissed you.
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March 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Reminder: if you predicted half the things happening now (threatening to take Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal; lawless mass firings; complete defiance of Congressional prerogatives; mass pardons of violent supporters) even a couple of years ago, Serious Thinkers would have dismissed you.
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We’ve become used to right wingers throwing tantrums every time black people are on tv in something everyone is watching (the olympics, superbowl, ect) but it’s actually fucking weird and we shouldn’t act like that’s a normal reaction
February 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
We’ve become used to right wingers throwing tantrums every time black people are on tv in something everyone is watching (the olympics, superbowl, ect) but it’s actually fucking weird and we shouldn’t act like that’s a normal reaction
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
This is amazing
February 1, 2025 at 3:55 AM
This is amazing
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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
January 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
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Dems can:
-oppose all Trump nominees until this EO is withdrawn
-deny unanimous consent to slow senate proceedings
-vote no on all cloture
-force quorum calls at every chance
It’s a constitutional crisis. There is absolutely no reason the Senate should be connecting business as usual.
-oppose all Trump nominees until this EO is withdrawn
-deny unanimous consent to slow senate proceedings
-vote no on all cloture
-force quorum calls at every chance
It’s a constitutional crisis. There is absolutely no reason the Senate should be connecting business as usual.
January 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Dems can:
-oppose all Trump nominees until this EO is withdrawn
-deny unanimous consent to slow senate proceedings
-vote no on all cloture
-force quorum calls at every chance
It’s a constitutional crisis. There is absolutely no reason the Senate should be connecting business as usual.
-oppose all Trump nominees until this EO is withdrawn
-deny unanimous consent to slow senate proceedings
-vote no on all cloture
-force quorum calls at every chance
It’s a constitutional crisis. There is absolutely no reason the Senate should be connecting business as usual.
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January 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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by freezing all federal grants, trump is fundamentally transforming the relationship between the executive and congress. he is asserting dictatorial authority over federal spending, transforming congress's lawmaking powers into advisory authority. it is a constitutional crisis
January 28, 2025 at 2:53 AM
by freezing all federal grants, trump is fundamentally transforming the relationship between the executive and congress. he is asserting dictatorial authority over federal spending, transforming congress's lawmaking powers into advisory authority. it is a constitutional crisis
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This is “our greatest hour” time, not Useless Grandpa Fumbles to Placate the Nazis in the Interest of his Investments time.
January 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
This is “our greatest hour” time, not Useless Grandpa Fumbles to Placate the Nazis in the Interest of his Investments time.
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Looking at some of those star projector lamps on Amazon and
December 29, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Looking at some of those star projector lamps on Amazon and
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This place was built it large part by a wave of trans early adopters and it’s a fucking insult that the mods here are letting a deliberate troll like Singal set up shop here to bully and harass them.
This isn’t a hard call, guys. Not at all.
This isn’t a hard call, guys. Not at all.
December 13, 2024 at 8:00 PM
This place was built it large part by a wave of trans early adopters and it’s a fucking insult that the mods here are letting a deliberate troll like Singal set up shop here to bully and harass them.
This isn’t a hard call, guys. Not at all.
This isn’t a hard call, guys. Not at all.
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Bluesky needs to ban Jesse Singal. He’s a notorious bad-faith actor who we *know* uses social media to harass and attack vulnerable people.
Letting Singal remain here is a violation of Bluesky’s own stated policies, IMO.
He should not be allowed to once again work the refs.
Letting Singal remain here is a violation of Bluesky’s own stated policies, IMO.
He should not be allowed to once again work the refs.
December 11, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Bluesky needs to ban Jesse Singal. He’s a notorious bad-faith actor who we *know* uses social media to harass and attack vulnerable people.
Letting Singal remain here is a violation of Bluesky’s own stated policies, IMO.
He should not be allowed to once again work the refs.
Letting Singal remain here is a violation of Bluesky’s own stated policies, IMO.
He should not be allowed to once again work the refs.
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some thoughts on the Singal situation, as it seems to be moving towards "nobody says anything and he stays on the platform":
I think this is a mistake, and I think it risks losing much of what made bluesky special and taking away one of the few safe-ish spaces trans people have left on the internet
I think this is a mistake, and I think it risks losing much of what made bluesky special and taking away one of the few safe-ish spaces trans people have left on the internet
December 10, 2024 at 7:07 PM
some thoughts on the Singal situation, as it seems to be moving towards "nobody says anything and he stays on the platform":
I think this is a mistake, and I think it risks losing much of what made bluesky special and taking away one of the few safe-ish spaces trans people have left on the internet
I think this is a mistake, and I think it risks losing much of what made bluesky special and taking away one of the few safe-ish spaces trans people have left on the internet
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Outfucking standing photo choice
November 29, 2024 at 2:51 AM
Outfucking standing photo choice
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With alt text, because this is far too good to leave inaccessible
November 28, 2024 at 10:58 PM
With alt text, because this is far too good to leave inaccessible
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Happy 27th anniversary of the day Barney the Dinosaur exploded on live TV.
#MacysThanksgivingParade #Macys
#MacysThanksgivingParade #Macys
November 28, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Happy 27th anniversary of the day Barney the Dinosaur exploded on live TV.
#MacysThanksgivingParade #Macys
#MacysThanksgivingParade #Macys
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(I dunno who made this image but I looooooove it)
November 28, 2024 at 7:18 PM
(I dunno who made this image but I looooooove it)
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It was truly something to be a teenager & early adult between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the World Trade Center. That’s not just a nostalgic idealization of youth; we were in a moment that’s impossible to explain now.
I just want to be in middle school and play the Sega dreamcast for the first time again, instead of wondering if I'm going to be forced to live under authoritarianism.
November 25, 2024 at 5:09 PM
It was truly something to be a teenager & early adult between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the World Trade Center. That’s not just a nostalgic idealization of youth; we were in a moment that’s impossible to explain now.
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I just want to be in middle school and play the Sega dreamcast for the first time again, instead of wondering if I'm going to be forced to live under authoritarianism.
November 25, 2024 at 6:00 AM
I just want to be in middle school and play the Sega dreamcast for the first time again, instead of wondering if I'm going to be forced to live under authoritarianism.
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some goober in mesopotamia invented agriculture and now I have to have a credit score, how is that fair
November 23, 2024 at 7:50 PM
some goober in mesopotamia invented agriculture and now I have to have a credit score, how is that fair
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It's worse than that. We started living together in smaller closely knit groups and morality evolved as an adaptive response for survival, so that's why you feel guilty eating an entire sleeve of Girl Scout cookies (I'm an archaeologist)
November 24, 2024 at 2:47 PM
It's worse than that. We started living together in smaller closely knit groups and morality evolved as an adaptive response for survival, so that's why you feel guilty eating an entire sleeve of Girl Scout cookies (I'm an archaeologist)
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Ok, let's do the story about the time my old boss, Jim, almost killed us all in a fire.
If you've heard it before, please look away now.
So anyway, the comic shop where I worked was housed in an extremely old building.
Shakespeare probably shopped there.
Vikings probably raided it at some point.
If you've heard it before, please look away now.
So anyway, the comic shop where I worked was housed in an extremely old building.
Shakespeare probably shopped there.
Vikings probably raided it at some point.
November 23, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Ok, let's do the story about the time my old boss, Jim, almost killed us all in a fire.
If you've heard it before, please look away now.
So anyway, the comic shop where I worked was housed in an extremely old building.
Shakespeare probably shopped there.
Vikings probably raided it at some point.
If you've heard it before, please look away now.
So anyway, the comic shop where I worked was housed in an extremely old building.
Shakespeare probably shopped there.
Vikings probably raided it at some point.
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This is one of those photos that you can't quite believe really happened. I encountered this grey gray owl (1 of 2) on my way home from town. It was so focussed on hunting, that I could stand to the side and watch. I didn't have my camera set to continuous shutter, so I'm stunned this came out. 🪶🌿
November 23, 2024 at 2:32 AM
This is one of those photos that you can't quite believe really happened. I encountered this grey gray owl (1 of 2) on my way home from town. It was so focussed on hunting, that I could stand to the side and watch. I didn't have my camera set to continuous shutter, so I'm stunned this came out. 🪶🌿
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David Attenborough [whispering]:
“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”
“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”
February 13, 2024 at 5:37 PM
David Attenborough [whispering]:
“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”
“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”