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The fact that it at least anecdotally seems to be a semi-regular practice to tell white people a minority got the job in order to soften the blow of rejection really should put the elite woke panic into perspective.
December 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The fact that it at least anecdotally seems to be a semi-regular practice to tell white people a minority got the job in order to soften the blow of rejection really should put the elite woke panic into perspective.
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Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
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He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.
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Mark Kelly here, reaching out one more time to test how many fake spam numbers you will allow me to text you from before you decide to block an American space hero
December 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Mark Kelly here, reaching out one more time to test how many fake spam numbers you will allow me to text you from before you decide to block an American space hero
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So honored to wear art by incredible kids in Gaza.
I told everyone their names, their stories and showed their pictures.
I told everyone their names, their stories and showed their pictures.
November 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
So honored to wear art by incredible kids in Gaza.
I told everyone their names, their stories and showed their pictures.
I told everyone their names, their stories and showed their pictures.
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A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor.
A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.
A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 AM
A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor.
A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.
A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.
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capitalism is rule by warlords. medieval brutality with a glaze of decorum that peels off as the populace loses power.
November 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM
capitalism is rule by warlords. medieval brutality with a glaze of decorum that peels off as the populace loses power.
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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 they had made.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
November 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“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 they had made.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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The kicker here is pure cinema.
October 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The kicker here is pure cinema.
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The Cheesecake Factory employs more workers than the coal industry.
I'm not kidding.
I'm not kidding.
September 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The Cheesecake Factory employs more workers than the coal industry.
I'm not kidding.
I'm not kidding.
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would be interesting to see what would happen if a good religion journalist asked him or Leavitt or whoever if this means Trump holds to a works-based salvation theology.
August 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
would be interesting to see what would happen if a good religion journalist asked him or Leavitt or whoever if this means Trump holds to a works-based salvation theology.
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The entire imperial presidency, created by both parties since WWII, needs to go. Every single one of these magic "national emergency" clauses must be scrapped.
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One thing Trump is good at is demonstrating which bits of law and burearucracy need fundamental overhauls. "If I want to do something illegal I just declare an emergency" might need a look.
August 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The entire imperial presidency, created by both parties since WWII, needs to go. Every single one of these magic "national emergency" clauses must be scrapped.
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Re-upping this from November. Some of us have consistently tried to warn about what was to come. Many of us were treated as hysterical.
August 6, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Re-upping this from November. Some of us have consistently tried to warn about what was to come. Many of us were treated as hysterical.
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I actually would like to see more pro-democracy messaging in politics but instead of throwing it around like a magic word you could tell people how it connects to their social and economic life experience. Here are a hundred ways your life is shitty because a handful of evil dorks make the decisions
August 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I actually would like to see more pro-democracy messaging in politics but instead of throwing it around like a magic word you could tell people how it connects to their social and economic life experience. Here are a hundred ways your life is shitty because a handful of evil dorks make the decisions
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Du Bois on what these assholes were really like
July 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Du Bois on what these assholes were really like
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The US stopped have a north and a south divide and instead has an urban and rural/exurban one, and the rural areas, regardless of where they're located, took on the culture of the rural south. We universalized the worst America has to offer.
July 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The US stopped have a north and a south divide and instead has an urban and rural/exurban one, and the rural areas, regardless of where they're located, took on the culture of the rural south. We universalized the worst America has to offer.
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Everyone in academia knows👇. By the time everyone starts speaking out loud, it will be too late. Programs will close. Tens of thousands of staff will be laid off. Entire fields of study at major universities will simply disappear. And “just do lawsuits” will look shamefully pathetic as a response.
The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.
July 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Everyone in academia knows👇. By the time everyone starts speaking out loud, it will be too late. Programs will close. Tens of thousands of staff will be laid off. Entire fields of study at major universities will simply disappear. And “just do lawsuits” will look shamefully pathetic as a response.
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Old Man Yells At Clouds
No one wants to hear this message. Not our university leaders. Not the media (I & colleagues have tried & failed repeatedly). Everyone just wants to pretend doing the definition of insanity is going to work this time. Sleepwalking into epic disaster.
No one wants to hear this message. Not our university leaders. Not the media (I & colleagues have tried & failed repeatedly). Everyone just wants to pretend doing the definition of insanity is going to work this time. Sleepwalking into epic disaster.
July 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Old Man Yells At Clouds
No one wants to hear this message. Not our university leaders. Not the media (I & colleagues have tried & failed repeatedly). Everyone just wants to pretend doing the definition of insanity is going to work this time. Sleepwalking into epic disaster.
No one wants to hear this message. Not our university leaders. Not the media (I & colleagues have tried & failed repeatedly). Everyone just wants to pretend doing the definition of insanity is going to work this time. Sleepwalking into epic disaster.
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A total failure of collective action and understanding the politics of the moment. Fiddling with lawsuits while Rome burns.
July 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
A total failure of collective action and understanding the politics of the moment. Fiddling with lawsuits while Rome burns.
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👇🎯
One reason it’s so hard to explain these problems to people who are not academics, again, is bc our university leaders have been <totally absent> from the public square. They haven’t even bothered to try & communicate, loudly, publicly, & collectively, the stakes to voters. It’s maddening.
One reason it’s so hard to explain these problems to people who are not academics, again, is bc our university leaders have been <totally absent> from the public square. They haven’t even bothered to try & communicate, loudly, publicly, & collectively, the stakes to voters. It’s maddening.
July 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
👇🎯
One reason it’s so hard to explain these problems to people who are not academics, again, is bc our university leaders have been <totally absent> from the public square. They haven’t even bothered to try & communicate, loudly, publicly, & collectively, the stakes to voters. It’s maddening.
One reason it’s so hard to explain these problems to people who are not academics, again, is bc our university leaders have been <totally absent> from the public square. They haven’t even bothered to try & communicate, loudly, publicly, & collectively, the stakes to voters. It’s maddening.
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Big Money turning to fascism not because they needed protection from socialism but because they were bored and poisoned their brains with social media is the story of this century I think
oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
July 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Big Money turning to fascism not because they needed protection from socialism but because they were bored and poisoned their brains with social media is the story of this century I think
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Hard to personalize this time when the entire system is reticulating to enable fascism, but you're not going to look back and wish you caved, no matter how much it feels like that now.
“Mr. Ryan’s resignation is a victory for intimidation and fear over the rule of law.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/o...
Opinion | What the University of Virginia Should Have Done
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June 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Hard to personalize this time when the entire system is reticulating to enable fascism, but you're not going to look back and wish you caved, no matter how much it feels like that now.
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June 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM