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· Jan 17
not exactly what the woman said, but same energy. the soliloquy this is from had me bawling at the time
now, i don't do this, i'm just much too shy around people i don't know and don't check in enough with the people i do. but as an ideal to aspire to? gotta be my lodestar
now, i don't do this, i'm just much too shy around people i don't know and don't check in enough with the people i do. but as an ideal to aspire to? gotta be my lodestar
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Someone should ask Starmer and Mahmood whether they think the Kindertransport, for example, should have been a return ticket. Whether Alf Dubs, rather than becoming a Labour MP and now Lord, ought to have been sent back with his family to Czechoslovakia once it was liberated from German rule.
This contribution to the volume of human misery is yet another policy from Labour based on a false premise, in this case that refugees are overly attracted to Britain. It will increase bureaucratic limbo, thus making worse the problem of "cohesion" it purports to solve.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Someone should ask Starmer and Mahmood whether they think the Kindertransport, for example, should have been a return ticket. Whether Alf Dubs, rather than becoming a Labour MP and now Lord, ought to have been sent back with his family to Czechoslovakia once it was liberated from German rule.
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And not to get too real on a late night post, but yeah.
I am *so* fucking done with people acting like this is normal. That the president of our country can just flat out lie and it’s not a big deal. That an entire branch of our government has been subverted to the whims of a serial liar.
I am *so* fucking done with people acting like this is normal. That the president of our country can just flat out lie and it’s not a big deal. That an entire branch of our government has been subverted to the whims of a serial liar.
As someone who has had multiple MRIs, you absolutely know what the techs are imaging before they put you in the machine, because if there is any sort of metal in the target area you *really* need to let them know beforehand since cleaning bloodstains out of the tube is NOT a good time
Trump: I had an MRI and the result was outstanding.
Reporter: Was it your brain?
Trump: I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well.
Reporter: Was it your brain?
Trump: I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well.
November 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
And not to get too real on a late night post, but yeah.
I am *so* fucking done with people acting like this is normal. That the president of our country can just flat out lie and it’s not a big deal. That an entire branch of our government has been subverted to the whims of a serial liar.
I am *so* fucking done with people acting like this is normal. That the president of our country can just flat out lie and it’s not a big deal. That an entire branch of our government has been subverted to the whims of a serial liar.
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kinda seems like journalists have a bad tendency for the same sort of kneejerk reaction that other media people had when MeToo first happened
"what? so now it's illegal to go to dinner and share a hotel room and fall in love with your interview subjects?"
"what? so now it's illegal to go to dinner and share a hotel room and fall in love with your interview subjects?"
November 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
kinda seems like journalists have a bad tendency for the same sort of kneejerk reaction that other media people had when MeToo first happened
"what? so now it's illegal to go to dinner and share a hotel room and fall in love with your interview subjects?"
"what? so now it's illegal to go to dinner and share a hotel room and fall in love with your interview subjects?"
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This is the rule of Starmer’s Labour, nothing more or less. A Britain that exists for the rich, the nobility, the AI barons, and blames all problems on refugees.
The country that prohibits my wife and I from living there because our income isn’t high enough, even though I am British.
The country that prohibits my wife and I from living there because our income isn’t high enough, even though I am British.
November 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
This is the rule of Starmer’s Labour, nothing more or less. A Britain that exists for the rich, the nobility, the AI barons, and blames all problems on refugees.
The country that prohibits my wife and I from living there because our income isn’t high enough, even though I am British.
The country that prohibits my wife and I from living there because our income isn’t high enough, even though I am British.
I’m pretty sure we are looking at the last, best chance to stave off complete disaster over the next two or three years. Incrementally getting back to the same status quo ante that led us here will not fix what ails us, and we may not get a decent chance to ensconce freedom again for quite a while.
I mean my position is that the American constitutional order has, for a number of reasons only some of which directly concern Trump, collapsed
Any seeming "normalcy" gained without a real remaking will be a cheap illusion. I take the Biden years as vindication for this view.
Any seeming "normalcy" gained without a real remaking will be a cheap illusion. I take the Biden years as vindication for this view.
November 15, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I’m pretty sure we are looking at the last, best chance to stave off complete disaster over the next two or three years. Incrementally getting back to the same status quo ante that led us here will not fix what ails us, and we may not get a decent chance to ensconce freedom again for quite a while.
there we go!
Good work by COURIER @couriernewsroom.bsky.social
One of many examples of the new journalistic models evolving to fill existing-journalism voids.
One of many examples of the new journalistic models evolving to fill existing-journalism voids.
This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate.
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
November 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
there we go!
what is wrong with them
I hope this won’t delay your profile of the Wallet Inspector
Olivia Nuzzi's memoir is a combustive portrait of America, President Trump and the scandal with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that upended her career.
In an exclusive interview with The New York Times, she recalls the infatuation that consumed her, Kennedy’s use of psychedelics and much more.
In an exclusive interview with The New York Times, she recalls the infatuation that consumed her, Kennedy’s use of psychedelics and much more.
November 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
what is wrong with them
people are too stupid to believe this
Deflation is bad, folks!
Fed Governor Stephen Miran: "Cutting down net migration to 0, potentially even negative because of the deportations that have been occurring, I think is very deflationary."
November 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
people are too stupid to believe this
señor cardgage total lawnsharkin’
November 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
señor cardgage total lawnsharkin’
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I for one could never follow a nepo baby of the bourgeois elite. I’d rather follow a true revolutionary like a Lenin, a Guevara, a Castro, a Robespierre, or at the very least an FD Roosevelt.
downwardly mobile educated alienated elite-adjacents clearly are a large part of the contemporary american left's constituency, but it's such a stupid thing to have a complex about or considering particularly damming. read like any history book ever about who starts political movements.
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I for one could never follow a nepo baby of the bourgeois elite. I’d rather follow a true revolutionary like a Lenin, a Guevara, a Castro, a Robespierre, or at the very least an FD Roosevelt.
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Nabokov: I am going to write about a monster doing sick shit
Readers: wow this book is hot.
Nabokov: oh so all you are monsters and cant comprehend the text.
Readers: wow this book is hot.
Nabokov: oh so all you are monsters and cant comprehend the text.
Any time people start with the ephebophelia nonsense I want to point them to this quote by Nabokov about Lolita where he just fucking eviscerates an interviewer claiming that Humbert Humbert was the equivalent of 40 year olds marrying 20 year olds:
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Nabokov: I am going to write about a monster doing sick shit
Readers: wow this book is hot.
Nabokov: oh so all you are monsters and cant comprehend the text.
Readers: wow this book is hot.
Nabokov: oh so all you are monsters and cant comprehend the text.
what can you even say, this is just evil
Yes, that is as Kafkaesque as it seems; the BIA is saying that a child adjudicated to be abused, abandoned, and neglected, who has already been approved for a status that will permit the child to get a green card, should nonetheless be deported instead — because of backlogs outside of their control.
November 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
what can you even say, this is just evil
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Remember when that train derailed in Ohio and we heard about it for months?
Contrast - what have you seen about this since the week it happened?
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/u...
Contrast - what have you seen about this since the week it happened?
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/u...
The blast that killed 16 people at a Tennessee workplace set off 24,000 pounds of explosives, authorities say | CNN
The catastrophe at a Tennessee explosives plant started in a building that made devices used for mining and detonated more than 24,000 pounds of explosives, authorities said Friday.
www.cnn.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Remember when that train derailed in Ohio and we heard about it for months?
Contrast - what have you seen about this since the week it happened?
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/u...
Contrast - what have you seen about this since the week it happened?
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/u...
took this pic 12 years ago, need this energy
November 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
took this pic 12 years ago, need this energy
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Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/phil...
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/phil...
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Imagine having the audacity to suggest patience. The sheer moral depravity and decadence to believe it is an option in the face of rape and torture camps full of families. Our souls will be permanently damned for it.
November 14, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Imagine having the audacity to suggest patience. The sheer moral depravity and decadence to believe it is an option in the face of rape and torture camps full of families. Our souls will be permanently damned for it.
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They should invent a government that isn’t senile pedophile adolf hitler
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 AM
They should invent a government that isn’t senile pedophile adolf hitler
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Any other time, any other President, and "the dude was in a global conspiracy to fuck them kids" would have been 24/7 coverage. Even Dubya.
I remember the fucking Lewinsky coverage. Our media have become craven hacks carrying water for rich pedophiles and I feel insane typing that but there it is.
I remember the fucking Lewinsky coverage. Our media have become craven hacks carrying water for rich pedophiles and I feel insane typing that but there it is.
November 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Any other time, any other President, and "the dude was in a global conspiracy to fuck them kids" would have been 24/7 coverage. Even Dubya.
I remember the fucking Lewinsky coverage. Our media have become craven hacks carrying water for rich pedophiles and I feel insane typing that but there it is.
I remember the fucking Lewinsky coverage. Our media have become craven hacks carrying water for rich pedophiles and I feel insane typing that but there it is.
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I pick on doctors and reporters a lot because they tend to have that terrible combination of god complexes and public adulation. But I am also generally skeptical of all professional cultures and so should you be.
November 14, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I pick on doctors and reporters a lot because they tend to have that terrible combination of god complexes and public adulation. But I am also generally skeptical of all professional cultures and so should you be.
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One of the many reasons we have to fight the rise of the far right is the risk they pose to undoing the progress we *have* made.
Lot of people are already passing this around with the usual "WHY ISN'T ANYONE DOING ANYTHING" shrieks, while ignoring the fact that the article literally says that this is a *significant* decrease from the warming that we were on track for even a few years ago.
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
One of the many reasons we have to fight the rise of the far right is the risk they pose to undoing the progress we *have* made.
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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i think this is maybe literally true and the social glue connecting trumpworld to competent people who act like they have things to lose was rape
Oh god is the reason why Trump is so much more unstable term 2 is because Epstein is dead???
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
i think this is maybe literally true and the social glue connecting trumpworld to competent people who act like they have things to lose was rape
there will be some ppl who think themselves liberal who will cheerlead this, mark my fucking words
>get blown the fuck out in elections due to the state of the economy
>everyone is yelling at you about Epstein again
>your entire foreign policy is floundering and erratic
Errrr…uhhhh…we should uh….start a new conflict?
>everyone is yelling at you about Epstein again
>your entire foreign policy is floundering and erratic
Errrr…uhhhh…we should uh….start a new conflict?
"Senior military officials on Wednesday presented President Trump with updated options for potential operations in Venezuela, including strikes on land, according to multiple sources familiar with the meetings at the White House. "
November 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
there will be some ppl who think themselves liberal who will cheerlead this, mark my fucking words
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So “it turns out Spanberger took positions that strongly challenged Trump on immigration in ways that some Democrats have been reluctant to do.”
The @gregsargent.bsky.social analysis re VA’s gov race seems significant underscoring why Ds need to go on offense re Trump/Miller’s deportation regime.
The @gregsargent.bsky.social analysis re VA’s gov race seems significant underscoring why Ds need to go on offense re Trump/Miller’s deportation regime.
This has gotten lost: Abigail Spanberger won big after vowing to RESCIND Glenn Youngkin's executive order directing local cooperation with ICE and voting AGAINST the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act. Yet she gained bigly with working class.
New piece laying this out:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
New piece laying this out:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
November 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
So “it turns out Spanberger took positions that strongly challenged Trump on immigration in ways that some Democrats have been reluctant to do.”
The @gregsargent.bsky.social analysis re VA’s gov race seems significant underscoring why Ds need to go on offense re Trump/Miller’s deportation regime.
The @gregsargent.bsky.social analysis re VA’s gov race seems significant underscoring why Ds need to go on offense re Trump/Miller’s deportation regime.
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You actually don’t hate the NYT enough
how about a piece of investigative journalism that accuses a mayoral candidate of fraud based on an application for college he filled out when he was 17 that a neo-Nazi gave the paper because they were racist? you're insulting the intelligence of everyone here to imply this is about standards
I am not defending Landon’s relationship with Epstein. In fact, the NYT didn’t even try to defend it. He left the paper. What I’m saying is that a piece of investigative journalism that exposes a secret, criminal act such as statutory rape requires far more than what is in these emails.
November 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
You actually don’t hate the NYT enough