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We are not required to finish the work, yet we are not free to abandon it.
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No. 21: 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin. Not necessarily the book I’d recommend if you want a deep *economic* explanation of the 1929 crash, but a lot of very interesting human insights into the bankers convinced themselves to continue inflating a giant speculative bubble
Should I blow up whatever tenuous relations I have with my father’s extended family by telling my cousin that he is spreading der sturmer level propaganda about Muslims
November 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Should I blow up whatever tenuous relations I have with my father’s extended family by telling my cousin that he is spreading der sturmer level propaganda about Muslims
The Germans knew; they just didn’t want to think about it.
As I have said before, the broader silence on the ethnic pogrom of terror across this country is one of those things you can’t help noticing from the loudest special boy politics knowers on here.
Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari of Arizona’s 3rd District describes the “horrific conditions” she witnessed inside the Eloy ICE Detention Center near Phoenix — including a leukemia patient “vomiting blood,” detained in February and forced to wait eight months before finally seeing an oncologist...
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The Germans knew; they just didn’t want to think about it.
it’s a shame that the antichrist is also the funniest man in the country
Trump: We gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It’s much better than the Congressional Medal of Honor because soldiers get the Congressional. And they’re in very bad shape because they're dead. She gets it and she's a healthy, beautiful woman. And they’re rated equal
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
it’s a shame that the antichrist is also the funniest man in the country
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From the outside it might look like ICE officers wear masks to avoid accountability, but in reality they are a way to avoid accountability.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
From the outside it might look like ICE officers wear masks to avoid accountability, but in reality they are a way to avoid accountability.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
I’m a moron and I vote
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I’m a moron and I vote
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NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
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I really wish they would message it as "we changed course to get SNAP funded because withholding SNAP funds was unexpected", it is at least a cohesive reasoning for why they couldn't have done this deal at the start and avoided this pain.
November 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I really wish they would message it as "we changed course to get SNAP funded because withholding SNAP funds was unexpected", it is at least a cohesive reasoning for why they couldn't have done this deal at the start and avoided this pain.
Given softbank’s previous financial hiccups, this is probably a buy signal for nvidia lol
Japanese giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its entire stake in tech giant Nvidia for $5.83 billion.
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Given softbank’s previous financial hiccups, this is probably a buy signal for nvidia lol
The difference is that they made a hell of a lot of federal workers miss paychecks and snap recipients worry about where their next meal was coming from. You can’t play with people‘s live like this without delivering anything.
The people mad today were equally mad six months ago when the same thing happened and then forgot it happened mostly. With that said I think the risk for Dems is that the rage persists in an inchoate way that can’t even really be cured, since no one remembers where it came from
November 11, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The difference is that they made a hell of a lot of federal workers miss paychecks and snap recipients worry about where their next meal was coming from. You can’t play with people‘s live like this without delivering anything.
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my controversial opinion that nobody likes is basically that we have no escalation ladder, both here and for incarceration. there are a lot of people who should not be, properly speaking, free, but unfortunately we have basically one level of restricted freedom and it's "torture pit"
November 11, 2025 at 5:31 AM
my controversial opinion that nobody likes is basically that we have no escalation ladder, both here and for incarceration. there are a lot of people who should not be, properly speaking, free, but unfortunately we have basically one level of restricted freedom and it's "torture pit"
gillibrand — the worst New York can get
Gillibrand says she is not doing interviews when I asked if she had spoken with Zohran Mamdani since his victory.
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
gillibrand — the worst New York can get
There were a lot of now defunct websites—Everyday Feminism, Thought Catalog—that introduced a ton of shibboleths into the teenage millennial brain
I want to dig through the web archives and figure out how exactly it became a truism among The Millennials that respectability politics are actually a bad thing. I feel like it happened by way of a broken telephone reception of Stokely Carmichael.
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 AM
There were a lot of now defunct websites—Everyday Feminism, Thought Catalog—that introduced a ton of shibboleths into the teenage millennial brain
This is why life insurance usually timely pays out claims—it is a functional market, bc it can deny coverage.
The basic problem of health insurance: if you want sick people to be able to get insurance, then the insurance product ceases to be traditional insurance, bc the insurer cannot price risk. Once you accept that sick people should get insurance, you must accept some variety of a socialized system.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 AM
This is why life insurance usually timely pays out claims—it is a functional market, bc it can deny coverage.
The basic problem of health insurance: if you want sick people to be able to get insurance, then the insurance product ceases to be traditional insurance, bc the insurer cannot price risk. Once you accept that sick people should get insurance, you must accept some variety of a socialized system.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The basic problem of health insurance: if you want sick people to be able to get insurance, then the insurance product ceases to be traditional insurance, bc the insurer cannot price risk. Once you accept that sick people should get insurance, you must accept some variety of a socialized system.
Wait Fetterman didn’t even try to salvage it with the amendment? Lmao
The shutdown deal includes a ban on hemp products that none of its negotiators debated in public.
Disappointing that only 24 senators voted against killing an amendment to strike that ban.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
Disappointing that only 24 senators voted against killing an amendment to strike that ban.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Wait Fetterman didn’t even try to salvage it with the amendment? Lmao
Interestingly, ChatGPT did not understand what the hemp provision did. lawyers, i guess we still have jobs
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Interestingly, ChatGPT did not understand what the hemp provision did. lawyers, i guess we still have jobs
Not that it matters, but the “sue the government, collect $500k” provision effectively violates the 27th amendment
Anyway the eight Dem senators were too lazy to do this
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Not that it matters, but the “sue the government, collect $500k” provision effectively violates the 27th amendment
Anyway the eight Dem senators were too lazy to do this
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Anyway the eight Dem senators were too lazy to do this
Kaine, Unable
My statement on the funding deal to reopen government, protect federal employees, and vote to protect health care:
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Kaine, Unable
festerman being one of the undertakers of the hemp trade is extremely funny given his political history. Maybe the stroke also destroyed this part of his brain, but legal weed is historically something he actually cared about
But like actually where did the political will to take the hemp industry out back and shoot it come from
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
festerman being one of the undertakers of the hemp trade is extremely funny given his political history. Maybe the stroke also destroyed this part of his brain, but legal weed is historically something he actually cared about
the Republican attempt to appeal to young men by becoming the vice party (crypto, weed, sports gambling, transgressive racism) may fail after all
A prohibition movement ready to make weed de facto illegal again seems like it’ll be ready to roll again in the future, but it seems like it’d be a death by a thousand cuts type situation, in lieu of the very long odds of outright making it illegal again in legal states
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
the Republican attempt to appeal to young men by becoming the vice party (crypto, weed, sports gambling, transgressive racism) may fail after all
I think we can make Joe Rogan the Joe Rogan of the left
The GOP just hates successful direct to consumer businesses, first was the de minimus exception for shipping, now they kill hemp derived THC, what will they kill next
But like actually where did the political will to take the hemp industry out back and shoot it come from
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I think we can make Joe Rogan the Joe Rogan of the left
watching shark tank and a woman claimed that western medicine couldn’t treat her thyroid disease. respectfully, lol
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
watching shark tank and a woman claimed that western medicine couldn’t treat her thyroid disease. respectfully, lol
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But like actually where did the political will to take the hemp industry out back and shoot it come from
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
But like actually where did the political will to take the hemp industry out back and shoot it come from