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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
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We are now quickly moving to the point where states will have to assume their rightly ability, in extremis, to judge the actual meaning of the constitution regardless of what Republicans on the Supreme Court claim.
October 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We are now quickly moving to the point where states will have to assume their rightly ability, in extremis, to judge the actual meaning of the constitution regardless of what Republicans on the Supreme Court claim.
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Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
October 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
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For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings
And tell sad stories of the death of kings
October 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings
And tell sad stories of the death of kings
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This @davidjroth.bsky.social joint @flaminghydra.com is the kind of culture writing I love. It’s about One Battle After Another and the film serves as a starting point for a bunch of interesting ideas.
If you like good writing on the internet, Flaming Hydra is pretty great, actually.
If you like good writing on the internet, Flaming Hydra is pretty great, actually.
Struggle cinema
David Roth on 'One Battle After Another'
flaminghydra.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
This @davidjroth.bsky.social joint @flaminghydra.com is the kind of culture writing I love. It’s about One Battle After Another and the film serves as a starting point for a bunch of interesting ideas.
If you like good writing on the internet, Flaming Hydra is pretty great, actually.
If you like good writing on the internet, Flaming Hydra is pretty great, actually.
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Durbin to Bondi: "Although you've been a registered foreign agent for Qatar, you didn't recuse yourself from signing off on Trump's solicitation of a free jet from the royal family, even though this gift was clearly illegal. Connections to Bondi seem to yield more favorable outcomes for defendants."
October 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Durbin to Bondi: "Although you've been a registered foreign agent for Qatar, you didn't recuse yourself from signing off on Trump's solicitation of a free jet from the royal family, even though this gift was clearly illegal. Connections to Bondi seem to yield more favorable outcomes for defendants."
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I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...
September 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...
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I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.
September 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.
The author of this new Texas law is one sick son of a bitch
NEW @teenvogue.com: a Texas bill passed this summer mandating schools deadname trans students, leaving enforcement to districts. @kitoconnell.com speaks to trans students in TX:
“I’ve never felt more at threat here. I can’t stop thinking that everything would be so different if I detransitioned.”
“I’ve never felt more at threat here. I can’t stop thinking that everything would be so different if I detransitioned.”
Some Texas Schools Are Making Teachers Deadname Trans Students After New Bill Passed
“This can’t be interpreted as anything else but an attack directly on trans kids.”
www.teenvogue.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The author of this new Texas law is one sick son of a bitch
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The president flexed the full extent of his power to give a late night show’s staff a five day hiatus.
September 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The president flexed the full extent of his power to give a late night show’s staff a five day hiatus.
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I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".
September 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".
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Call me radical, but I think we *don't* need to have polite chats with racists who are spewing conspiracy theories that keep motivating white supremacists to massacre our fellow citizens, and we *don't* need to have bipartisan deals with fascists trying to destroy our democracy and our government.
September 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Call me radical, but I think we *don't* need to have polite chats with racists who are spewing conspiracy theories that keep motivating white supremacists to massacre our fellow citizens, and we *don't* need to have bipartisan deals with fascists trying to destroy our democracy and our government.
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Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.
September 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.
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In just a few days, you’ve really filled up the map of No Kings Day events for October 18!
Find a peaceful protest near you (or start one if you don’t see any local options) for our next nationwide day of defiance: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
Find a peaceful protest near you (or start one if you don’t see any local options) for our next nationwide day of defiance: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
September 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
In just a few days, you’ve really filled up the map of No Kings Day events for October 18!
Find a peaceful protest near you (or start one if you don’t see any local options) for our next nationwide day of defiance: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
Find a peaceful protest near you (or start one if you don’t see any local options) for our next nationwide day of defiance: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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It’s not the “violent left” wearing these stupid fkng pins.
September 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
It’s not the “violent left” wearing these stupid fkng pins.
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remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
August 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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I think this is my favorite Matthew Herbert production since Róisín Murphy's Ruby Blue. I can't stop with it!
Clay, by Herbert & Momoko
11 track album
matthewherbert.bandcamp.com
July 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I think this is my favorite Matthew Herbert production since Róisín Murphy's Ruby Blue. I can't stop with it!
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Feels like we’re struggling to come around to seeing that Robert Putnam was right.
coming around to belief that discourse about cluster of topics ranging from low birthrates to lack of third spaces all has a similar barrier in terms of articulating useful solutions.....
July 16, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Feels like we’re struggling to come around to seeing that Robert Putnam was right.
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The thing to understand is that district court judges have to follow the law and Supreme Court Justices get to just make up the law.
July 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The thing to understand is that district court judges have to follow the law and Supreme Court Justices get to just make up the law.
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America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
July 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
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If you're a member of the Democratic gerontocracy, the chances of you catching a primary challenger just went up 1000%.
June 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
If you're a member of the Democratic gerontocracy, the chances of you catching a primary challenger just went up 1000%.
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Our current Director of National Intelligence:
June 22, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Our current Director of National Intelligence:
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a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends
June 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends
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Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/
June 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/