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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
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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This furious reaction is a reminder that the reckoning for Trump's tariffs is about to crash down on the US economy and they know it.

Any Democrat with any sense at all should be talking nonstop *now* about how it's all Trump's fault because they're going to be pushing back hard when it happens.
April 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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ONE IF BY LAND

TWO IF BY D.C.

the north end church in boston

it’s 250 years today

@northendpage.bsky.social
April 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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let’s look back at what has happened so far

Cory Booker giving a 25 hour speech: everyone loved it, raised his profile

Van Hollen flies to El Salvador and meets Abrego Garcia: everyone loved it, raised his profile

Schumer publicly caved: everyone hated that

just a general note to Dems
i have no doubt that senator van hollen was genuinely concerned for the safety and welfare of abrego garcia BUT ALSO this is what i'm talking about when i say POLITICAL AMBITION. van hollen may well make himself a household name and nationally recognized political figure with this move
April 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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If people hate Elon now what will they do when they find out he made it more likely they’ll die of cancer and never get their social security checks?
April 2, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.
April 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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RFK Jr will kill your friends and family. He doesn’t care if your kids get poisoned and/or die.
An FDA worker confirms what I've seen out there.

CDC's entire FOIA office is gone.

The FDA's communications and web office were cut.

"The FDA as we know it is gone."
April 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Most of all: Don't. Let. Up.

Start each and every conversation by asking why there haven't been impeachments yet. When they're getting annoyed, get louder. When they threaten retaliation, call their bluff.

Let's bury the outdated notion of "when they go low, we go high" once and for mf'ing all
The Signal leak is a prime moment for Democrats to get caught trying. Call for resignations or impeachment hearings or both. Be omnipresent in the media demanding and explaining accountability measures. Don’t let this fade away. Treat this the way the GOP treated Hillary’s emails. Make it a thing.
March 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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It’s impossible to state how spineless, ineffectual, and dumb Schumer is as leader. Just reprehensible. AOC should announce she’s primarying him right now and she’d have enough donations by tomorrow for the rest of her career.
Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader, said he would vote for a Republican-written bill to keep federal funding flowing past a midnight Friday deadline, making a forceful case for why Democrats could not allow a shutdown that many of them have demanded. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
March 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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I cannot possibly construct a good argument for giving money to the DSCC after watching this. And part of my job is working to help elect Democrats. Is that a good thing, @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social? Asking for a friend.
WATCH--@chrislhayes.bsky.social to Sen. Chuck Schumer: "What is the cost you see to the constitutional order of a shutdown that isn't already being done now?"
March 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Why are we here if not to FIGHT when they try to hurt the American people?
March 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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AOC whipping Dems to contact Senators shows who is really the leader of the opposition right now.
March 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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First impressions on the US-Ukraine deal are that Ukraine has shown that its always best not to grovel, apologize or become desperate with Trump. He cut their aid, helped kill their people, and they kept fighting with their head held high. They made him look cruel and he blinked
March 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Trump: I’m going to kill your loved ones.
Democrats: [wave placard]
Trump: Especially the black ones. And the gay ones
Democrats: [strenuously wave placards]
March 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Vance and others close to him are setting up the intellectual basis for American withdrawal from and hostile rivalry towards the EU based on the claim that a democratic Europe has betrayed an authoritarian vision that Vance presents as the epitome of "Western" civilisation.
February 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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i am 100% of the belief that simply forcing take-writers to answer the question "who specifically said this and why are they significant" would result in substantially fewer bad takes circulating in the world
if i ever teach a class on argumentative writing i am going to use these paragraphs as an example of how to NOT write persuasively for an audience.
February 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: an administration (and its supporters) who believe that they are not limited by the rule of law have no moral or philosophical claim to the protection of the rule of law. “The law is whatever we say it is” warrants the same in response.
February 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Gov Hochul can fire the mayor. She should have done so when the scope and scale of his cascading congenital corruption career was laid out in federal indictments. She waited for him to go to trial. Now that injustice has taken its course she is the only reason he remains in office. Step up Hochul.
February 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...
theonion.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Donald Trump's negotiation style is threatening to set himself on fire if he doesn't get four tires on his new car, then declaring victory because he got the car for MSRP, then calling the salesperson a slur
February 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.

Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
www.wired.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
February 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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January 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM