Cristin Pullman
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i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist
the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.
November 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist
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All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
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You can’t hate fascists and use AI slop generators. They’re the same thing: total destruction of truth at scale.
October 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
You can’t hate fascists and use AI slop generators. They’re the same thing: total destruction of truth at scale.
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The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.
A gender lens remains one of the best ways to understand far right authoritarian regimes. Male order is imposed through a family-like structure, with women subservient and children taught that fear is the price of belonging www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home
Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasies
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.
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The U.S.’s largest estuary is showing signs of revival. Once written off as a dead zone, water clarity in Chesapeake Bay has improved, underwater grasses are expanding, and crab populations are steadier thanks to decades of pollution controls. Nature buff.ly/morNFth
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Reviving the Old Bay
To undo centuries of damage in the Chesapeake Bay, six states are fixing forests, farms, city runoff, wetlands, rivers and oyster reefs across this massive watershed.
buff.ly
September 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The U.S.’s largest estuary is showing signs of revival. Once written off as a dead zone, water clarity in Chesapeake Bay has improved, underwater grasses are expanding, and crab populations are steadier thanks to decades of pollution controls. Nature buff.ly/morNFth
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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In Opinion | “Rewriting laws to reflect the full cost of our throwaway culture could incentivize companies that poured millions of dollars into these products to invest in building a less destructive system,” Saabira Chaudhuri writes.
Opinion | Throwaway Plastic Has Corrupted Us
Disposable plastics have profoundly reshaped the way we eat, shop, raise children and understand hygiene and progress.
nyti.ms
September 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
In Opinion | “Rewriting laws to reflect the full cost of our throwaway culture could incentivize companies that poured millions of dollars into these products to invest in building a less destructive system,” Saabira Chaudhuri writes.
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Column: Follow these tips to maximize Zero Waste Awareness Week trib.al/R3RjsgK
Column: Follow these tips to maximize Zero Waste Awareness Week
Zero Waste Awareness Week encourages deliberate, simple steps to consume fewer resources, members of the Virginia Beach Clean Community Commission write in a guest column.
trib.al
August 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Column: Follow these tips to maximize Zero Waste Awareness Week trib.al/R3RjsgK
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fantastic lede from sam, and the rest of it ain’t too shabby either
August 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
fantastic lede from sam, and the rest of it ain’t too shabby either
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MAGA having a real normal one in response to the tragic flooding in Texas
July 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
MAGA having a real normal one in response to the tragic flooding in Texas
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In places throughout the U.S. where plastic bags require a fee or have been banned, fewer bags end up at the water’s edge, according to research published Thursday in Science.
Banning Plastic Bags Works to Limit Shoreline Litter, Study Finds
Using crowdsourced data from shore cleanups, researchers found that areas that enacted plastic bag bans or fees had fewer bags littering their lakes, rivers and beaches than those without them.
trib.al
June 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
In places throughout the U.S. where plastic bags require a fee or have been banned, fewer bags end up at the water’s edge, according to research published Thursday in Science.
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I regret to inform you that they’re coming out with a new version of white that doesn’t include you
June 1, 2024 at 11:46 AM
I regret to inform you that they’re coming out with a new version of white that doesn’t include you
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This is basically the old "freedom of association" defense of segregation, that white people shouldn't have to associate with black people if they didn't want to
In a few short weeks, the Supreme Court may very well find in favor of a man who is suing to stop PrEP coverage for millions because he objects to theoretical possibility that someone he employs could one day access PrEP via insurance, and this "encourages and facilitates homosexual behavior."
May 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This is basically the old "freedom of association" defense of segregation, that white people shouldn't have to associate with black people if they didn't want to
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November 25, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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“I asked ChatGPT,” well I asked your mom and she said you’ve always been a disappointment
May 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
“I asked ChatGPT,” well I asked your mom and she said you’ve always been a disappointment
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Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
Seniors Are More Conservative Because the Poor Die Off
Sometimes older voters aren’t just naturally more conservative. It’s just that wealthier and whiter people tend to live longer and healthier lives.
nymag.com
April 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
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This is what happens when advisers are too afraid to tell the boss the truth. Boss repeats the same idiotic claims of Treasury secretary, who knows better.
Again, oil prices are tanking b/c markets are pricing in global recession. Interest rates down because people are dumping stocks for bonds
Again, oil prices are tanking b/c markets are pricing in global recession. Interest rates down because people are dumping stocks for bonds
April 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This is what happens when advisers are too afraid to tell the boss the truth. Boss repeats the same idiotic claims of Treasury secretary, who knows better.
Again, oil prices are tanking b/c markets are pricing in global recession. Interest rates down because people are dumping stocks for bonds
Again, oil prices are tanking b/c markets are pricing in global recession. Interest rates down because people are dumping stocks for bonds
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Thousands protest President Trump and Elon Musk across Hampton Roads:
Thousands in Hampton Roads protest Trump, Musk as part of nationwide ‘Hands Off!’ rallies
Angered by federal policies, layoffs, buyouts and sweeping cuts, thousands of Hampton Roads residents protested the reaching actions of the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Govern…
www.pilotonline.com
April 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Thousands protest President Trump and Elon Musk across Hampton Roads:
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It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
April 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.
April 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.
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Reacher has gotta be the funniest show in existence.
Entire show about a big guy that extrajudicially murders dozens of people in between scenes where he turns to the camera and says “I am a liberal and in this house we believe in WOMEN’S RIGHTS”
Entire show about a big guy that extrajudicially murders dozens of people in between scenes where he turns to the camera and says “I am a liberal and in this house we believe in WOMEN’S RIGHTS”
March 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Reacher has gotta be the funniest show in existence.
Entire show about a big guy that extrajudicially murders dozens of people in between scenes where he turns to the camera and says “I am a liberal and in this house we believe in WOMEN’S RIGHTS”
Entire show about a big guy that extrajudicially murders dozens of people in between scenes where he turns to the camera and says “I am a liberal and in this house we believe in WOMEN’S RIGHTS”
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Nothing I can write makes this funnier than it already is.
March 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Nothing I can write makes this funnier than it already is.
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Stephanie McMurray’s “Masters of Small Worlds” — a brilliant study of why poor southern whites not only tolerated but embraced slaveholders who treated them with contempt — is important here. If the church and the press convince you that you and the oligarchs are one, you’ll happily shoot your foot.
This is a very sad story, but what makes me crazy is that people tried to explain that this is what would happen and got caricatured as "woke" hysterics www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.
ICE's deportation actions signal that anyone who isn't a US citizen is 'at risk – period,' immigration attorney says.
www.usatoday.com
March 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Stephanie McMurray’s “Masters of Small Worlds” — a brilliant study of why poor southern whites not only tolerated but embraced slaveholders who treated them with contempt — is important here. If the church and the press convince you that you and the oligarchs are one, you’ll happily shoot your foot.