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this is small comfort given he has state power and i don’t but i am struck by what an obviously weak and fragile man miller is. a blubbering piss baby whose entire affect and personality is an attempt to make up for his profound feelings of inadequacy
MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower. It's absurd we'd allow a nation in our backyard to become a supplier of resources to our adversaries
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
January 5, 2026 at 11:52 PM
this is small comfort given he has state power and i don’t but i am struck by what an obviously weak and fragile man miller is. a blubbering piss baby whose entire affect and personality is an attempt to make up for his profound feelings of inadequacy
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no one wants to hire me. because my whimsy is a liability
January 5, 2026 at 2:03 AM
no one wants to hire me. because my whimsy is a liability
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The death toll from the attack on Venezuela is now at 80, per Venezuelan officials. That includes civilians. Every article about the attack, or how the US somehow claims it will run the country, should mention the fact that, you know, people died, including civilians. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Live Updates: As Venezuela Projects Defiance, Rubio Says U.S. Will Use ‘Leverage’ to Advance Its Interests
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 10:51 PM
The death toll from the attack on Venezuela is now at 80, per Venezuelan officials. That includes civilians. Every article about the attack, or how the US somehow claims it will run the country, should mention the fact that, you know, people died, including civilians. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.
Right.
If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
a lot of problems wouldn't exist if we had a congress with even an ounce of self interest
January 4, 2026 at 11:52 PM
yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.
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NEW POST — Happy New Year's Eve! 🥳 Our Top 10 Most Diverse Films of 2025 list is now out. It wasn't a particularly inclusive year for cinema, but the gems are there. Plus a weird amount of romcoms. We love love I guess ❤️ medium.com/cinemania/to...
Top 10 Most Diverse Films of 2025
Graded on Gender, Race, LGBTQ, Disability, and more
medium.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:16 PM
NEW POST — Happy New Year's Eve! 🥳 Our Top 10 Most Diverse Films of 2025 list is now out. It wasn't a particularly inclusive year for cinema, but the gems are there. Plus a weird amount of romcoms. We love love I guess ❤️ medium.com/cinemania/to...
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They get it. They just like him and want to help him rule over us like a king
NYT doesn’t get it. He’s terrorizing nonwhite people, seizing imperial power, perverting the government, and spewing hateful lies. This is pro-Trump gaslighting.
December 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
They get it. They just like him and want to help him rule over us like a king
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NEW REVIEW — Our writer @supergavigator.bsky.social gave #Wicked an A- but found #WickedForGood a disappointing follow-up. What changed? www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...
Wicked: For Good — Mediaversity Reviews
“ Wicked: For Good imparts an awful message about friendship.”
www.mediaversityreviews.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
NEW REVIEW — Our writer @supergavigator.bsky.social gave #Wicked an A- but found #WickedForGood a disappointing follow-up. What changed? www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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SCOTUS just allowed Alabama's execution of Anthony Boyd:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Justice Sotomayor wrote this vivid dissent blasting AL for using the method of nitrogen gas.
@laurengill.bsky.social's reporting from an AL execution shows you why: boltsmag.org/alabama-nitr...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Justice Sotomayor wrote this vivid dissent blasting AL for using the method of nitrogen gas.
@laurengill.bsky.social's reporting from an AL execution shows you why: boltsmag.org/alabama-nitr...
October 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
SCOTUS just allowed Alabama's execution of Anthony Boyd:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Justice Sotomayor wrote this vivid dissent blasting AL for using the method of nitrogen gas.
@laurengill.bsky.social's reporting from an AL execution shows you why: boltsmag.org/alabama-nitr...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Justice Sotomayor wrote this vivid dissent blasting AL for using the method of nitrogen gas.
@laurengill.bsky.social's reporting from an AL execution shows you why: boltsmag.org/alabama-nitr...
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my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
September 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
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This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.
regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society
September 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.
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8/ Unfortunately, “Cyberselfish“ predicted the future but did not sell well.
Borsook's writing career hit the rocks as tech fortunes skyrocketed astronomically in the 2000s. She is now elderly, disabled and struggling to survive as the rest of the world finds out what she knew a long time ago.
Borsook's writing career hit the rocks as tech fortunes skyrocketed astronomically in the 2000s. She is now elderly, disabled and struggling to survive as the rest of the world finds out what she knew a long time ago.
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
8/ Unfortunately, “Cyberselfish“ predicted the future but did not sell well.
Borsook's writing career hit the rocks as tech fortunes skyrocketed astronomically in the 2000s. She is now elderly, disabled and struggling to survive as the rest of the world finds out what she knew a long time ago.
Borsook's writing career hit the rocks as tech fortunes skyrocketed astronomically in the 2000s. She is now elderly, disabled and struggling to survive as the rest of the world finds out what she knew a long time ago.
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A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
September 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
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“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives
September 18, 2025 at 2:14 AM
“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives
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Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
September 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
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Worth noting that Republicans have been sending the U.S. military into U.S. cities to assist their illegal kidnapping and terror squads, and to assist their violent persecution of homeless people. Worth noting that the Republican President just last week declared war on Chicago via meme.
September 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Worth noting that Republicans have been sending the U.S. military into U.S. cities to assist their illegal kidnapping and terror squads, and to assist their violent persecution of homeless people. Worth noting that the Republican President just last week declared war on Chicago via meme.
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of all of the cable segments I am not going to watch, this is the one I am not going to watch the most
September 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
of all of the cable segments I am not going to watch, this is the one I am not going to watch the most
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writing crime haikus to my crime partner which i decorate with a crime drawing for his birthday card
September 9, 2025 at 4:47 AM
writing crime haikus to my crime partner which i decorate with a crime drawing for his birthday card
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The lesson that NEEDS taking here is that, more than anything, people just do not get involved in civics and that, if people DID, things would be better.
Get involved. For real.
Get involved. For real.
The prosecutor of Newport News, Virginia, never faced any opponent over his eight reelection races—over three decades. This year, he drew his first challenger—Shannon Jones, who identifies as a progressive prosecutor—and lost.
Your Guide to the 2025 Prosecutor Elections
Key races will shape the politics of criminal justice from Philly to Seattle—plus a wild card in New Jersey. But most of November’s 66 prosecutor races feature just one candidate, as usual.
boltsmag.org
September 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The lesson that NEEDS taking here is that, more than anything, people just do not get involved in civics and that, if people DID, things would be better.
Get involved. For real.
Get involved. For real.
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Kinda shocking to learn that 1,648 missing persons reports have been filed for Indigenous people in Pierce County in the last 20 years. For reference, there are only about 16k Indigenous residents of the county.
www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/a...
www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/a...
1,648 missing Indigenous person reports in 20 years in Pierce Co. What’s being done?
“When I pull the list I know I’m not getting everybody,” a State Patrol coordinator said.
www.thenewstribune.com
September 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Kinda shocking to learn that 1,648 missing persons reports have been filed for Indigenous people in Pierce County in the last 20 years. For reference, there are only about 16k Indigenous residents of the county.
www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/a...
www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/a...
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The Schmitt speech today is beyond reprehensible, but it’s also just such a weird moment in American politics where people like Schmitt have to reconstruct an alternate history where *they* are “Heritage Americans”. Bro you are German and Catholic the founding fathers did not want you on the team
what's interesting is that schmitt/hochman/whoever wrote this is aware enough of how foreign this is to the actual american experience that they have to include "continental europeans" into this category of legitimate americans
September 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The Schmitt speech today is beyond reprehensible, but it’s also just such a weird moment in American politics where people like Schmitt have to reconstruct an alternate history where *they* are “Heritage Americans”. Bro you are German and Catholic the founding fathers did not want you on the team
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People obsessed with this country's "heritage" are violently opposed to ever actually addressing its real heritage, so all they're left with are consumerism and symbols chosen for their plausible deniability. Imagine claiming the Cracker Barrel logo as your birthright.
September 1, 2025 at 11:20 AM
People obsessed with this country's "heritage" are violently opposed to ever actually addressing its real heritage, so all they're left with are consumerism and symbols chosen for their plausible deniability. Imagine claiming the Cracker Barrel logo as your birthright.
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Those who trade their liberties for cheap egg shall have neither liberty nor egg bsky.app/profile/phas...
GIVE ME LIBERTY ERR WAIT GIVE ME CHEAP PRICES
August 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Those who trade their liberties for cheap egg shall have neither liberty nor egg bsky.app/profile/phas...
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my landlord charges $10 to process a debit card payment and i would lie down in traffic for the first state lawmaker who makes this illegal
Small scale good governance thing that is a prime target for some kind of regulation: the various extortionate apps and cards you have to use to pay to do laundry these days in any kind of apartment building. There’s no reason you should have to prepay LaundroBuddy at least $50 with a 25¢ fee
August 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
my landlord charges $10 to process a debit card payment and i would lie down in traffic for the first state lawmaker who makes this illegal