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The antidote to poisonous dishonesty is saying the truth out loud.
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· Jul 29
Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.
This is one of the most awe inspiring moments I ever experienced. Rewatching it ~2012 I started to think about the forgotten people responsible for transmitting and preserving knowledge. Librarians, and the people who maintain buildings storing documents …
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Woke: post-racial means “equality”
Broke: post-racial means “whites only”
Bespoke: post-racial means “being able to freely tweet slurs”
Broke: post-racial means “whites only”
Bespoke: post-racial means “being able to freely tweet slurs”
New at Tusk: According to Ben Shapiro and other conservatives, they were promised a post-racial nation, and Barack Obama broke the deal.
When the right broke, according to the right
"That's what radicalized you all?"
open.substack.com
September 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Woke: post-racial means “equality”
Broke: post-racial means “whites only”
Bespoke: post-racial means “being able to freely tweet slurs”
Broke: post-racial means “whites only”
Bespoke: post-racial means “being able to freely tweet slurs”
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Who was the 1/5/2021 pipe bomber?
What were 8 Congresspeople doing in Moscow 7/4/2018?
What happened to the translator's notes from Helsinki?
What's in Trump's tax returns?
Why did MTG ask for a pardon before going into Congress?
Lots of mysteries that will never be solved.
What were 8 Congresspeople doing in Moscow 7/4/2018?
What happened to the translator's notes from Helsinki?
What's in Trump's tax returns?
Why did MTG ask for a pardon before going into Congress?
Lots of mysteries that will never be solved.
September 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Who was the 1/5/2021 pipe bomber?
What were 8 Congresspeople doing in Moscow 7/4/2018?
What happened to the translator's notes from Helsinki?
What's in Trump's tax returns?
Why did MTG ask for a pardon before going into Congress?
Lots of mysteries that will never be solved.
What were 8 Congresspeople doing in Moscow 7/4/2018?
What happened to the translator's notes from Helsinki?
What's in Trump's tax returns?
Why did MTG ask for a pardon before going into Congress?
Lots of mysteries that will never be solved.
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Hegseth fires general officers and JAGs, cracks down on dissenting views in military, orders killing civilians at sea without legal rationale, calls generals to Quantico to demand loyalty.
Trump deploys troops to U.S. cities.
"What are Trump and Hegseth up to? It's a mystery!"
Trump deploys troops to U.S. cities.
"What are Trump and Hegseth up to? It's a mystery!"
September 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Hegseth fires general officers and JAGs, cracks down on dissenting views in military, orders killing civilians at sea without legal rationale, calls generals to Quantico to demand loyalty.
Trump deploys troops to U.S. cities.
"What are Trump and Hegseth up to? It's a mystery!"
Trump deploys troops to U.S. cities.
"What are Trump and Hegseth up to? It's a mystery!"
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I think “we protest Harris because we’d get arrested if we protested Trump” is rational, but I feel like you can’t say that and also expect people to treat said protesting as an especially brave or noble act then.
September 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I think “we protest Harris because we’d get arrested if we protested Trump” is rational, but I feel like you can’t say that and also expect people to treat said protesting as an especially brave or noble act then.
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I really cannot overemphasize how much the Vice President follows neo-Nazis on Twitter. Swastikas! Race war! The whole thing! He’s not even trying to hide it, and that’s because he knows liberals and the media will be too embarrassed to attack him for it. We are doing this to ourselves
September 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I really cannot overemphasize how much the Vice President follows neo-Nazis on Twitter. Swastikas! Race war! The whole thing! He’s not even trying to hide it, and that’s because he knows liberals and the media will be too embarrassed to attack him for it. We are doing this to ourselves
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I guess my point here is that MAGA has become totally unashamed to admit that they are racist, but somehow the rest of society has become ashamed to call them racist. Which gives them this incredible advantage of being able to express openly racist ideas and never be called on it
Ask Matt Walsh what the Founders and the first oh 200 years of America thought about Catholics. Total bigoted dumbass. Shame that Dearborn Michigan sided with him in protest.
September 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I guess my point here is that MAGA has become totally unashamed to admit that they are racist, but somehow the rest of society has become ashamed to call them racist. Which gives them this incredible advantage of being able to express openly racist ideas and never be called on it
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Did you hear the story this week about how Google admitted that Biden made it ban people on social media? It's making the rounds in the MAGAverse. It's also not accurate. The real story is Google caving to pressure from Jim Jordan.
Jim Jordan Celebrates Google Caving To His Pressure In Letter That Says Caving To Government Pressure Is Wrong
Look, if you want to cut to the chase: the lawyers working for Google and Meta know that the MAGA world is very, very stupid and very, very gullible, and it's very, very easy to tell them…
Look, if you want to cut to the chase: the lawyers working for Google and Meta know that the MAGA world is very, very stupid and very, very gullible, and it's very, very easy to tell them…
Jim Jordan Celebrates Google Caving To His Pressure In Letter That Says Caving To Government Pressure Is Wrong
Look, if you want to cut to the chase: the lawyers working for Google and Meta know that the MAGA world is very, very stupid and very, very gullible, and it's very, very easy to tell them something that they know will be interpreted as a “victory” while actually signaling something very, very different. You could just reread my analysis of Meta and Mark Zuckerberg’s…
www.techdirt.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Did you hear the story this week about how Google admitted that Biden made it ban people on social media? It's making the rounds in the MAGAverse. It's also not accurate. The real story is Google caving to pressure from Jim Jordan.
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Another example of Ezra Klein believing and repeating complete nonsense because he consumes huge amounts of right-wing propaganda
Ezra Klein explains why he is against the “oppositional” approach of Dems. One example he gives is blatantly false: immigration.
But more important: Klein shows how folks like him almost always casually throw vulnerable people under the bus in the name of “practicality.”
But more important: Klein shows how folks like him almost always casually throw vulnerable people under the bus in the name of “practicality.”
September 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Another example of Ezra Klein believing and repeating complete nonsense because he consumes huge amounts of right-wing propaganda
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Republican candidate Kevin Farmer says he wants to serve as a true employee of the people.
Cincinnati City Council Candidate Wants to Make Change Among ‘Mob Boss’ Politicians
Republican candidate Kevin Farmer says he wants to serve as a true employee of the people.
www.citybeat.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Republican candidate Kevin Farmer says he wants to serve as a true employee of the people.
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Despite all of his issues, TR is by definition more woke than the 12 fuckers who owned slaves.
Even Teddy Roosevelt (our least "woke" president ever) called Wounded Knee "a massacre," in which "squaws, children, unarmed Indians, and armed Indians who had surrendered were killed, sometimes cold-bloodedly and with circumstances of marked brutality." 5/
September 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Despite all of his issues, TR is by definition more woke than the 12 fuckers who owned slaves.
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OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
September 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
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Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person. Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile is in select theaters October 2.
September 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person. Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile is in select theaters October 2.
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When you have an administration that so constantly, shamelessly, openly lies, pretty soon there’s no faith in any information streams coming from the administration, so there’s no way to convey true information in a way that lands right, which leads to more chaos.
September 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
When you have an administration that so constantly, shamelessly, openly lies, pretty soon there’s no faith in any information streams coming from the administration, so there’s no way to convey true information in a way that lands right, which leads to more chaos.
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What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.
September 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.
Having a poorly written one-off villain from a mid-90s syndicated tv action series as president is all it’s cracked up to be.
September 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Having a poorly written one-off villain from a mid-90s syndicated tv action series as president is all it’s cracked up to be.
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I'm so sick of uber rich mad men, sadist authoritarians and morally vacant boot lickers.
September 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I'm so sick of uber rich mad men, sadist authoritarians and morally vacant boot lickers.
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Kimmel: "This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this."
September 24, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Kimmel: "This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this."
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No one thinks it’s the media’s job is to take down Trump.
We just want him covered like he was a Democrat. Actually not even that harshly. Just cover him as he actually is.
We just want him covered like he was a Democrat. Actually not even that harshly. Just cover him as he actually is.
September 23, 2025 at 1:31 AM
No one thinks it’s the media’s job is to take down Trump.
We just want him covered like he was a Democrat. Actually not even that harshly. Just cover him as he actually is.
We just want him covered like he was a Democrat. Actually not even that harshly. Just cover him as he actually is.
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Gentle reminder that in the late '50s, the U.S. government did not censor comics. Comics companies censored themselves.
Not sure why that crossed my mind today but there it is...
Not sure why that crossed my mind today but there it is...
September 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Gentle reminder that in the late '50s, the U.S. government did not censor comics. Comics companies censored themselves.
Not sure why that crossed my mind today but there it is...
Not sure why that crossed my mind today but there it is...
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Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again
September 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again
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As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended.
It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.
It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.
September 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended.
It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.
It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.
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i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.
September 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.
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BREAKING — Notices for the Disney+ price increase went out at noon ET today, confirming my scoop from last night. Details: www.vulture.com/article/disn...
September 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
BREAKING — Notices for the Disney+ price increase went out at noon ET today, confirming my scoop from last night. Details: www.vulture.com/article/disn...
The tweet is just obviously correct if the god of the Old Testament exists.
With each day, this tweet becomes more prescient.
September 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The tweet is just obviously correct if the god of the Old Testament exists.