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charlie
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attorney with background in housing, immigration, human rights. i like books trains politics etc.
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Looking for the lunatics that are tearing things up? Marco, try looking in a fucking mirror
"We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visa," Rubio said, referring to student protesters. "I hope at some point we run out because we have gotten rid of all of them, but we're looking every day for these lunatics that are tearing things up."
April 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Good lord, Biden’s quote here reads like the last line of a Hemingway short story about a matador who’s going to die
Screenshot from the article reading: But "Biden didn't want to talk about it" and "25 minutes into the second mock debate, the president was done for the day. 'I'm just too tired to continue and I'm afraid of losing my voice here and I feel bad, he said. 'I just need some sleep. I'll be fine tomorrow? He went off to bed."
April 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Thank you for the transcription. I thought this passage was particularly good:
And in the midst of this existential fight, this battle that seems to consume everything, well, let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am. We are. We will.
March 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
chopcornpickens.bsky.social
One of the authors has ties to big Pharma? Whaaaat? What a coinkydinky
Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Myran reported grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) during the conduct of the study. Dr Fischer reported contract/employment from Health Canada (Government of Canada) and grants from CIHR during the conduct of the study. Dr Firth reported being supported by a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship (MR/Y033876/1) and the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR203308). Dr Firth has received honoraria, consultancy and/or advisory fees from Atheneum, Informa, Bayer, HedoniaUSA, Strive Coaching, Angelini, ParachuteBH, Arthur D Little Ltd, and the Richmond Foundation, independent of this work. Dr Solmi reported honoraria for advisory board or presentations from Abbvie, Angelini, Lund-beck, and Otsuka outside the submitted work. No other disclosures were reported.
February 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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People with dangerous lifestyles often find it harder to stop smoking cannabis than other people? I’m shocked, shocked
He also noted that the study could not conclusively determine whether the cannabis itself increased death risk, or whether it was other lifestyle or health factors that happen to be more common among heavy cannabis users.
February 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
chopcornpickens.bsky.social
Trump can’t delegate to Musk the power to do illegal things though!
Many are describing Musk's assault on the federal bureaucracy as a coup, which isn't quite right. Trump was, alas, elected, and delegated outsize power to Musk voluntarily!
February 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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At first glance this statement seems insane, but it makes more sense when you realize that the Americans they’re referring to are the ones who own predatory tax prep companies
Screenshot of article where republicans characterize Direct Fule as “weaponization of government against Americans”
December 15, 2024 at 3:45 PM
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Lmao
December 12, 2024 at 11:41 PM
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The system is rotten, and some doctors are part of the rot
Screenshot from article citing a report of a doctor working for an insurer who denied 121,000 claims in two months
December 7, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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No punishment too harsh for this guy
Screenshot from the article where Dr. Weiner hesitates when asked if he’s killing his patients and explains that “it depends on what you mean by killing them”
December 7, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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We used to have a nice Second Empire style City Hall…
December 6, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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Every time I’ve seen Nancy Mace in my feed today
The gang declaring “I’ve had enough of this dude” at a portrait of George Washington
November 19, 2024 at 11:53 PM
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Aren’t you concerned about missing out on the brilliant musings of the guy who wrote a profile of Emily Ratajkowski where he was amazed that she could read and have breasts at the same time??
Excerpt from TCW’s article on Emily Ratajkowski where he says it’s “unbelievable” that she’s heard of Roberto Bolano
November 17, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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What Israel has planned for Gaza:
"'The way it looks on the ground, the IDF won't leave Gaza before 2026,' an officer in one of the brigades fighting in Gaza said. 'When you see the roads being paved here, it's clear that this isn't intended for ground maneuvers or for raids by troops into various places. These roads lead, among other places, to the places from which some of the settlements were removed. I don't know of any intent to rebuild them, that isn't something we're told explicitly. But everyone understands where this is going'" – Yaniv Kubovich and Avi Scharf
November 13, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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I think this is useful

www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
screenshot from the linked article: “I think the Democratic brand has taken lots of damage, and we’re looking for a short-term strategy for a long-term problem,” he said. He thinks the party needs to re-embed with its base in the working class. The first, most actionable strategy: running candidates with strong, blue-collar backgrounds. This year, for instance, Rocha advised the campaign of Congressman Ruben Gallego, a former Marine who grew up in a single-parent family and who’s pacing to win Arizona’s Senate race. (Votes are still being counted, but he’s running far ahead of Harris.) Rocha told me that Gallego bucked the focus-tested campaign strategy and instead went by instinct: Knowing that the party is struggling with Latino men, Gallego hosted a fight night to watch a bout between Canelo Álvarez and Jaime Munguía, and his campaign sponsored a rodeo the month before the election.
November 8, 2024 at 11:33 PM
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Relevant once again
Quote from Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72: “This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it — that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. The tragedy of all this is that George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon. McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of his life, on purpose... Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?”
November 6, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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STOP THE COUNT!!!
November 6, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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Hell yes
November 5, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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Every time I see her on the news
November 2, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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October 27, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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Sleepy #cat
Sleepy cat
October 20, 2024 at 2:25 AM
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E.B. the Cat
October 18, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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Cat wants dinner
That’s my cat
October 17, 2024 at 8:13 PM