Blunt Realist
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“If only you knew how bad things really are”
Not half empty, the cup is just too big
Not half empty, the cup is just too big
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Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social
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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
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They put a suicide watch on the Chinese factory where iPhones were being built
Lutnick: "We invent the iPhone, which is awesome. Why do we let everyone else build it? Why can't we build it here? ... we need hundreds of thousands of Americans who work in those factories."
April 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
They put a suicide watch on the Chinese factory where iPhones were being built
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very strong headline
Trump's first 'new media' briefing hosts influencer who spent 7 days convinced the moon disappeared
'Has anyone seen the moon lately? I've been looking for 7 days.'
www.dailydot.com
April 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
very strong headline
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I suspect this slogan would not have been tremendously popular:
"Trump 2024: Your kids are going to get fewer toys and the ones they do get will cost more"
"Trump 2024: Your kids are going to get fewer toys and the ones they do get will cost more"
Trump on China: "They made a trillion dollars with Biden selling us stuff. Much of it we don't need. Somebody said, 'oh, the shelves are gonna be open.' Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more."
April 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I suspect this slogan would not have been tremendously popular:
"Trump 2024: Your kids are going to get fewer toys and the ones they do get will cost more"
"Trump 2024: Your kids are going to get fewer toys and the ones they do get will cost more"
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Could you ever have imagined you would see a headline like this in your lifetime
April 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Could you ever have imagined you would see a headline like this in your lifetime
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Imagine if another country’s president was cracking down on the opposition party’s fundraising mechanism “to cripple their opponents’ political infrastructure”
Authoritarianism is here. 🇺🇸
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
Authoritarianism is here. 🇺🇸
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
April 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Imagine if another country’s president was cracking down on the opposition party’s fundraising mechanism “to cripple their opponents’ political infrastructure”
Authoritarianism is here. 🇺🇸
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
Authoritarianism is here. 🇺🇸
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
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Forced disappearances are the trademark human rights violation of the world's most infamous dictators. Our Constitution and Bill of Rights were designed to stop arbitrary and discriminatory abuse of power and cruel and unusual punishments.
An Immigrant Held in U.S. Custody ‘Simply Disappeared’
The Venezuelan man did not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, and his family and friends had no idea of his whereabouts.
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Forced disappearances are the trademark human rights violation of the world's most infamous dictators. Our Constitution and Bill of Rights were designed to stop arbitrary and discriminatory abuse of power and cruel and unusual punishments.
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Y’all, I think I found that welfare state the right wingers keep crying about
April 24, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Y’all, I think I found that welfare state the right wingers keep crying about
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If doctors didn’t go to medical school and got all their information from vibes and facebook and practiced vibes based medicine this is what they might sound like
RFK JR: Our fertility is dropping dramatically. Teenagers in this country have the same testosterone levels as 68 year old men
April 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
If doctors didn’t go to medical school and got all their information from vibes and facebook and practiced vibes based medicine this is what they might sound like
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They’re both very evil and very stupid
April 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
They’re both very evil and very stupid
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Rinse and repeat for the foreseeable future.
April 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Rinse and repeat for the foreseeable future.
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Unpopular Pete Hegseth Forced To Drink Lunch Alone
Unpopular Pete Hegseth Forced To Drink Lunch Alone
WASHINGTON—Looking around with despair as he searched for an open seat in the Pentagon cafeteria, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was reportedly forced to drink his lunch alone Wednesday. Acco...
theonion.com
April 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Unpopular Pete Hegseth Forced To Drink Lunch Alone
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“One of the top MS-13 members”?
This woman is an officer of the court and the Attorney General of the United States.
She knows that she wields immense power and responsibility.
Yet here she is on national TV, making baseless claims about a guy her boss wrongly sent to a gulag in El Salvador.
This woman is an officer of the court and the Attorney General of the United States.
She knows that she wields immense power and responsibility.
Yet here she is on national TV, making baseless claims about a guy her boss wrongly sent to a gulag in El Salvador.
Bondi is escalating the rhetoric against Abrego Garcia, who she calls "one of the top MS-13 members" and "a terrorist"
April 17, 2025 at 2:39 AM
“One of the top MS-13 members”?
This woman is an officer of the court and the Attorney General of the United States.
She knows that she wields immense power and responsibility.
Yet here she is on national TV, making baseless claims about a guy her boss wrongly sent to a gulag in El Salvador.
This woman is an officer of the court and the Attorney General of the United States.
She knows that she wields immense power and responsibility.
Yet here she is on national TV, making baseless claims about a guy her boss wrongly sent to a gulag in El Salvador.
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Roger Parloff on the "evidence" that Abrego Garcia is a gang member: "It's double hearsay stemming from a document written by somebody indicted for misconduct."
April 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Roger Parloff on the "evidence" that Abrego Garcia is a gang member: "It's double hearsay stemming from a document written by somebody indicted for misconduct."
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Every day I wake up to a post that’s like “wow who would’ve thought?? Count Chocula, welcome to the resistance. Trix Rabbit go fuck yourself you nazi scum”
April 18, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Every day I wake up to a post that’s like “wow who would’ve thought?? Count Chocula, welcome to the resistance. Trix Rabbit go fuck yourself you nazi scum”
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I'm at the constitutional crisis / I'm at the collapsing economy / I'm at the ccccccombination constitutional crisis and collapsing economy
April 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I'm at the constitutional crisis / I'm at the collapsing economy / I'm at the ccccccombination constitutional crisis and collapsing economy
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Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely.
www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
Bukele, Abrego Garcia, and Red Lines
Emergency Triad: Are we now a country of political prisoners and gulags?
www.thebulwark.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely.
www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
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important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
April 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
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The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.
April 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.
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First came the market manipulation. Now come the bribes.
April 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
First came the market manipulation. Now come the bribes.
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The executive targets his opponents w/bogus investigations. His government disappears people w/out due process and vanishes them beyond reach. He usurps legislative power, controls public funds at will, & consolidates power. Loyalty is expected — or else.
Authoritarianism isn’t coming. It’s here.
Authoritarianism isn’t coming. It’s here.
April 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The executive targets his opponents w/bogus investigations. His government disappears people w/out due process and vanishes them beyond reach. He usurps legislative power, controls public funds at will, & consolidates power. Loyalty is expected — or else.
Authoritarianism isn’t coming. It’s here.
Authoritarianism isn’t coming. It’s here.
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"Public health experts have warned for years that such a shift would open the door to increased dental disease, especially in low-income communities. But the guy who thinks wi-fi causes cancer and 'leaky brain' is apparently unconvinced..."
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
RFK Jr. adds anti-fluoride effort to his seemingly endless to-do list
Public health experts have urged officials to support fluoridated drinking water. Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t seem to care.
www.msnbc.com
April 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"Public health experts have warned for years that such a shift would open the door to increased dental disease, especially in low-income communities. But the guy who thinks wi-fi causes cancer and 'leaky brain' is apparently unconvinced..."
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...