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This is something a villain in Captain Planet would do. His name would be Senator Oozemore and he’d have hundred dollar bills falling out of his pockets all the time.
Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.
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January 12, 2026 at 6:45 PM
This is something a villain in Captain Planet would do. His name would be Senator Oozemore and he’d have hundred dollar bills falling out of his pockets all the time.
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i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
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Just read a passage in a book that describes elderly people as time machines: able to recall the past whilst being reminders to younger people of the future that awaits them. I think that’s a pretty magical understanding of age.
November 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Just read a passage in a book that describes elderly people as time machines: able to recall the past whilst being reminders to younger people of the future that awaits them. I think that’s a pretty magical understanding of age.
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Actually, Benny, the Constitution disagrees.
You don’t need to believe in God to be an American — you just need to believe in freedom. You know, like the freedom to believe whatever you want.
That’s why the founders banned religious tests for public office.
You don’t need to believe in God to be an American — you just need to believe in freedom. You know, like the freedom to believe whatever you want.
That’s why the founders banned religious tests for public office.
Benny Johnson: If you don't believe in God, then “you're not an American, actually”
November 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Actually, Benny, the Constitution disagrees.
You don’t need to believe in God to be an American — you just need to believe in freedom. You know, like the freedom to believe whatever you want.
That’s why the founders banned religious tests for public office.
You don’t need to believe in God to be an American — you just need to believe in freedom. You know, like the freedom to believe whatever you want.
That’s why the founders banned religious tests for public office.
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
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The Episcopalians have been activated. Repeat: the Episcopalians have been activated.
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
October 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The Episcopalians have been activated. Repeat: the Episcopalians have been activated.
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[Manager at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory struts out of the bathroom:] Great news, ladies! Guess who just finally unclogged the middle toilet?
My ‘Miracle on Ice’ bill just passed out of Congress!🎉🏅🏒
This bill will award the 1980 U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team, which beat the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, with a Congressional Gold Medal. (1/2)
September 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
[Manager at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory struts out of the bathroom:] Great news, ladies! Guess who just finally unclogged the middle toilet?
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He deserves to be roasted for his performative cowardice, but I think it’s under-noticed that Markwayne is seeking praise for driving his own car, like a filthy peasant.
Markwayne Mullin: "I'm not joking when I say this. I drive around Washington DC in my Jeep - yes, I drive myself - & I don't buckle up. The reason I don't buckle up - people can say whatever they want - is because of carjacking. I don't want to be stuck in my vehicle when I need to exit in a hurry."
August 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
He deserves to be roasted for his performative cowardice, but I think it’s under-noticed that Markwayne is seeking praise for driving his own car, like a filthy peasant.
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An owl with some attitude.
August 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
An owl with some attitude.
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No, JD, belonging in America does not depend on how many generations of your family have lived here. The values of this country matter - deeply - to who we are and what it means to be American.
August 12, 2025 at 1:31 AM
No, JD, belonging in America does not depend on how many generations of your family have lived here. The values of this country matter - deeply - to who we are and what it means to be American.
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July 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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So sad that my six-year love affair with my Instant Pot has ended like this.
Gone in an Instant
The Pitch: Economic Update for June 18th, 2025
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June 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
So sad that my six-year love affair with my Instant Pot has ended like this.
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Here's your lede: "In the latest indication of an incipient police state...."
June 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Here's your lede: "In the latest indication of an incipient police state...."
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June 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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I just heard ICE is going to Boston, and I have never wanted to see something more. Boston is an entire city with a speech impediment, generational trauma, and the collective impulse control of a toddler that just full-on ate an entire tin of Zyns. Let’s see who deports who.
June 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I just heard ICE is going to Boston, and I have never wanted to see something more. Boston is an entire city with a speech impediment, generational trauma, and the collective impulse control of a toddler that just full-on ate an entire tin of Zyns. Let’s see who deports who.
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Republicans are trying to restrict mifepristone using a junk science published anti-abortion activists.
Here's lead author Ryan Anderson admitting the goal is to ban abortion pills nationwide.
Oh, and he used to work for the Heritage Foundation, home of Project 2025 🤡
Here's lead author Ryan Anderson admitting the goal is to ban abortion pills nationwide.
Oh, and he used to work for the Heritage Foundation, home of Project 2025 🤡
May 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Republicans are trying to restrict mifepristone using a junk science published anti-abortion activists.
Here's lead author Ryan Anderson admitting the goal is to ban abortion pills nationwide.
Oh, and he used to work for the Heritage Foundation, home of Project 2025 🤡
Here's lead author Ryan Anderson admitting the goal is to ban abortion pills nationwide.
Oh, and he used to work for the Heritage Foundation, home of Project 2025 🤡
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He thinks there’s a cargo ship full of VCR tapes steaming toward the Port of Blockbuster that he’s going to exact these tariffs upon, doesn’t he
May 5, 2025 at 12:15 AM
He thinks there’s a cargo ship full of VCR tapes steaming toward the Port of Blockbuster that he’s going to exact these tariffs upon, doesn’t he
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The Trump horror show continues. But I bring you these small reasons for modest hope to remind you that there are still some cause for optimism. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/twelve-small-reasons-for-modest-hope
April 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The Trump horror show continues. But I bring you these small reasons for modest hope to remind you that there are still some cause for optimism. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/twelve-small-reasons-for-modest-hope
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TOMORROW is the big day. Read Heads Up News and tell a friend! www.headsupnews.org/p/the-moment...
The moment has come to take to the streets
April 5 protests will be a resistance test
www.headsupnews.org
April 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
TOMORROW is the big day. Read Heads Up News and tell a friend! www.headsupnews.org/p/the-moment...
Want to join me for this Hands Off event?
April 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Want to join me for this Hands Off event?
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Opinion | I am a Republican because I believe in traditional family values. Here's why I support a government run by two men who between them have 19 children by 8 different women.
March 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Opinion | I am a Republican because I believe in traditional family values. Here's why I support a government run by two men who between them have 19 children by 8 different women.
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This is one of the greatest things I have ever seen
March 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This is one of the greatest things I have ever seen
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Erich Fromm, The Heart of Man (1964)
March 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Erich Fromm, The Heart of Man (1964)