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It just feels like everything is being flattened. Rape, genocide, wildfires, etc etc is all just fodder for internet discourse rather than turning points that lead to… something, anything better or different.
It’s so true. It’s actually horrifying to see the memes and jokes about this.
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
It just feels like everything is being flattened. Rape, genocide, wildfires, etc etc is all just fodder for internet discourse rather than turning points that lead to… something, anything better or different.
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"What need have I of all your sacrifices?" says the Lord...
Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is offensive to Me...
Learn to do good. Seek justice. Aid the oppressed. Uphold the rights of the orphan. Plead for the widow."
Isaiah 1.11 to 17
Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is offensive to Me...
Learn to do good. Seek justice. Aid the oppressed. Uphold the rights of the orphan. Plead for the widow."
Isaiah 1.11 to 17
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
"What need have I of all your sacrifices?" says the Lord...
Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is offensive to Me...
Learn to do good. Seek justice. Aid the oppressed. Uphold the rights of the orphan. Plead for the widow."
Isaiah 1.11 to 17
Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is offensive to Me...
Learn to do good. Seek justice. Aid the oppressed. Uphold the rights of the orphan. Plead for the widow."
Isaiah 1.11 to 17
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Chris Murphy: "I don't think anybody with ambition right now should be planning on running for president in 2028 because we might not have a free and fair election in 2028. We all have to be in the business of saving our democracy right now."
November 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Chris Murphy: "I don't think anybody with ambition right now should be planning on running for president in 2028 because we might not have a free and fair election in 2028. We all have to be in the business of saving our democracy right now."
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the toronto blue jays are america's team
October 28, 2025 at 2:54 AM
the toronto blue jays are america's team
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”
Per Danny Kemp via press pool
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
November 1, 2025 at 3:09 AM
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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This chart is absolutely essential.
It explains why Trump removed America from the Iran Nuclear Deal in 2018.
Because it was *working*.
Trump needed a cause for war, so he manufactured it. This has all been in the works for some time now. He was never "weighing options."
It explains why Trump removed America from the Iran Nuclear Deal in 2018.
Because it was *working*.
Trump needed a cause for war, so he manufactured it. This has all been in the works for some time now. He was never "weighing options."
June 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This chart is absolutely essential.
It explains why Trump removed America from the Iran Nuclear Deal in 2018.
Because it was *working*.
Trump needed a cause for war, so he manufactured it. This has all been in the works for some time now. He was never "weighing options."
It explains why Trump removed America from the Iran Nuclear Deal in 2018.
Because it was *working*.
Trump needed a cause for war, so he manufactured it. This has all been in the works for some time now. He was never "weighing options."
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i don't mean to come off as rude but we cannot sustain ourselves on outrage and anger forever. i think it's even more important now to post about other things too. even if it gets less engagement. you never know who will find it cool and interesting.
It’s a real mindfuck when most ppl wanna post about their latest failures/successes, or weird shit they saw in the wild or cool stuff they made…but the country is a cesspool so cool/weird shit seems trite.
June 21, 2025 at 2:18 AM
i don't mean to come off as rude but we cannot sustain ourselves on outrage and anger forever. i think it's even more important now to post about other things too. even if it gets less engagement. you never know who will find it cool and interesting.
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Don’s right. Trumpism not just permits, but demands, overt hostility to a wide array of American values, institutions, culture, and people. Trumpism hates much more of America than it loves.
Two things:
1. The purpose of these visa checks is to reduce any sort of dissent against the Trump administration globally.
2. Social media posts that reflect "hostile attitudes our citizens, culture, government or institutions" would disqualify the majority of Trump admin officials.
1. The purpose of these visa checks is to reduce any sort of dissent against the Trump administration globally.
2. Social media posts that reflect "hostile attitudes our citizens, culture, government or institutions" would disqualify the majority of Trump admin officials.
June 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Don’s right. Trumpism not just permits, but demands, overt hostility to a wide array of American values, institutions, culture, and people. Trumpism hates much more of America than it loves.
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There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.
June 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.
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i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!
Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad?
www.nytimes.com
June 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!
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It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling.
Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
June 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling.
Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
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not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
June 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
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You must always be more disciplined than the forces brought against you. They're allowed to make mistakes. They make the rules. Your mistakes will be used as justification for your own repression.
June 8, 2025 at 5:35 AM
You must always be more disciplined than the forces brought against you. They're allowed to make mistakes. They make the rules. Your mistakes will be used as justification for your own repression.
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The MSM is fascinated by the Trump/Musk feud; but the actual story - which is one of venal oligarchs fighting over the spoils of a nation they are gutting - is oddly being ignored.
If you strip away the egos and shitposting, the Trump-Musk feud is really an argument over how comprehensively to screw over poor and working people—over how best to make our society a meaner, crueler, less equal, more savage place.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1962...
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1962...
The Real Reason for the Trump-Musk Feud is Uglier than You Think
Strip away the ego contest, and what you really see here is a competition about how screw over poor and working people more effectively.
newrepublic.com
June 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The MSM is fascinated by the Trump/Musk feud; but the actual story - which is one of venal oligarchs fighting over the spoils of a nation they are gutting - is oddly being ignored.
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worth remembering that when Trump announced a travel ban in 2017, people literally went to airports to protest. Eight years later, Trump announces a new one and it's not even front page news.
We're the frogs and the water is getting awfully hot.
We're the frogs and the water is getting awfully hot.
June 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
worth remembering that when Trump announced a travel ban in 2017, people literally went to airports to protest. Eight years later, Trump announces a new one and it's not even front page news.
We're the frogs and the water is getting awfully hot.
We're the frogs and the water is getting awfully hot.
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Here’s a rare member of the U.S. Senate who seems to understand how close we are to a dictatorship.
Chris Murphy: "We can't be preparing for the 2026 election. It might not come. All of our focus right now has to be on protecting the democracy, about stopping the corruption."
June 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Here’s a rare member of the U.S. Senate who seems to understand how close we are to a dictatorship.
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"Musk is a greedy kleptocrat whose life’s work boils down to stealing from the poor to pad his own bottom line. That’s his legacy. He could’ve changed the world for the better; he had every resource available to him to do so. Instead, he made it markedly worse."
Elon leaves with reputation in tatters
As Musk's time in the White House comes to an end, let's be clear about his legacy.
plus.briantylercohen.com
June 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"Musk is a greedy kleptocrat whose life’s work boils down to stealing from the poor to pad his own bottom line. That’s his legacy. He could’ve changed the world for the better; he had every resource available to him to do so. Instead, he made it markedly worse."
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your energy actually is finite and spending time fighting about the former president while the current president is putting this country in a wood chipper seems like a bad use of it
May 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
your energy actually is finite and spending time fighting about the former president while the current president is putting this country in a wood chipper seems like a bad use of it
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My suggested answer to these questions is we currently have a president systematically dismantling our constitutional republic, alliances & institutions while committing unprecedented fraud & grift, so I’m not really concerned about an 82 year old retired president right now.
May 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
My suggested answer to these questions is we currently have a president systematically dismantling our constitutional republic, alliances & institutions while committing unprecedented fraud & grift, so I’m not really concerned about an 82 year old retired president right now.
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THE PRESIDENT, WHO HAS NUCLEAR CODES AND TALKS TO HEADS OF STATE CONSTANTLY, CAN'T FLY AROUND ON A JET GIVEN TO HIM BY THE MOST CORRUPT OIL WIERDOS ON EARTH
THERE IS NO OTHER "ANGLE" TO THIS STORY
THERE IS NO OTHER "ANGLE" TO THIS STORY
May 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
THE PRESIDENT, WHO HAS NUCLEAR CODES AND TALKS TO HEADS OF STATE CONSTANTLY, CAN'T FLY AROUND ON A JET GIVEN TO HIM BY THE MOST CORRUPT OIL WIERDOS ON EARTH
THERE IS NO OTHER "ANGLE" TO THIS STORY
THERE IS NO OTHER "ANGLE" TO THIS STORY
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This is most of what the Founders of America were opposed to, what they set up a new government to avoid
*Open bribery
*Masked armed officials arresting residents without warrants, citizens who try to intervene
*Arrests for engaging in non-violent speech
*Destruction of government capacities
*Massive economic uncertainty and damage
*Unprecedented targeting of government power against political enemies
*Masked armed officials arresting residents without warrants, citizens who try to intervene
*Arrests for engaging in non-violent speech
*Destruction of government capacities
*Massive economic uncertainty and damage
*Unprecedented targeting of government power against political enemies
May 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This is most of what the Founders of America were opposed to, what they set up a new government to avoid