Stephan
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There’s a good reason this Daniel Craig meme is ubiquitously representative of European governance.
November 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
There’s a good reason this Daniel Craig meme is ubiquitously representative of European governance.
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It's actually not swindling to tell people what they want to hear if you actually intend on doing those things. Swindling would be something like, just for example, announcing a fake Hyperloop system solely to kill California's high speed rail initiative.
November 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
It's actually not swindling to tell people what they want to hear if you actually intend on doing those things. Swindling would be something like, just for example, announcing a fake Hyperloop system solely to kill California's high speed rail initiative.
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oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
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As I’ve gotten older, I’ve started to realize that we acclimate very quickly to the events which constitute History Unfolding Before Us, so much so that we’re lulled into the useless belief that Nothing Ever Happens.
No! We are in the middle of significant change. Take care to pay attention.
No! We are in the middle of significant change. Take care to pay attention.
Americans have staged two of the three biggest protests ever since just this summer, Democrats won by unprecedented margins Tuesday, Trump’s approval rating is the lowest it’s ever been, and the government is straight up closed until further notice.
Things have already happened and are happening.
Things have already happened and are happening.
November 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve started to realize that we acclimate very quickly to the events which constitute History Unfolding Before Us, so much so that we’re lulled into the useless belief that Nothing Ever Happens.
No! We are in the middle of significant change. Take care to pay attention.
No! We are in the middle of significant change. Take care to pay attention.
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Call me a radical leftist but I'd actually prefer my taxes fund SNAP and Medicaid instead of golf trips for millionaires.
October 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Call me a radical leftist but I'd actually prefer my taxes fund SNAP and Medicaid instead of golf trips for millionaires.
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Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time.
All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."
It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.
All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."
It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.
October 21, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time.
All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."
It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.
All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."
It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.
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Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market.
Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.
Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.
Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.
Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.
BREAKING: Amazon Web Services
A massive AWS outage early this morning sent major websites and apps down for several hours
Tracking site Downdetector has received over 8 million reports around the globe
A massive AWS outage early this morning sent major websites and apps down for several hours
Tracking site Downdetector has received over 8 million reports around the globe
October 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market.
Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.
Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.
Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.
Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.
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A big problem w/US politics is that often the people that run for office come from a class of people that have the money to have the time, and as such have more in common with the current robber barons then the people they represent. We reward wealth with undue respect, and that needs to change.
The Dem base is now way, way to the left of its elected representatives, for sure.
Boomer moms are out in the streets begging Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to get their shit together and fight back.
Boomer moms are out in the streets begging Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to get their shit together and fight back.
I think the lib politicians might have a problem if the dsa politicians are dominating the stage at these lib protests. the problem being that the lib representatives suddenly do not look particularly lib
October 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
A big problem w/US politics is that often the people that run for office come from a class of people that have the money to have the time, and as such have more in common with the current robber barons then the people they represent. We reward wealth with undue respect, and that needs to change.
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CNN: 100+ US Citizen children abandoned because Trump regime deported their parents
ProPublica: 170+ US citizens arrested & tortured by ICE—almost all are Latino
Northwestern: 150 year study proves immigrants have ALWAYS had lower crime rates than US citizens
The Trump regime is a fascist regime
ProPublica: 170+ US citizens arrested & tortured by ICE—almost all are Latino
Northwestern: 150 year study proves immigrants have ALWAYS had lower crime rates than US citizens
The Trump regime is a fascist regime
October 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
CNN: 100+ US Citizen children abandoned because Trump regime deported their parents
ProPublica: 170+ US citizens arrested & tortured by ICE—almost all are Latino
Northwestern: 150 year study proves immigrants have ALWAYS had lower crime rates than US citizens
The Trump regime is a fascist regime
ProPublica: 170+ US citizens arrested & tortured by ICE—almost all are Latino
Northwestern: 150 year study proves immigrants have ALWAYS had lower crime rates than US citizens
The Trump regime is a fascist regime
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October 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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These people are so incompetent that I do think not that long from now anybody who capitulated without a fight is going to look profoundly foolish and weak (more so than they already do).
ICE official testifies that DHS “prematurely” sent Abrego Garcia a notice that he would be removed to Ghana.
Just this morning, Ghana’s foreign minister wrote on X that the country had “directly and unambiguously conveyed to US authorities” that Abrego cannot be deported there.
Just this morning, Ghana’s foreign minister wrote on X that the country had “directly and unambiguously conveyed to US authorities” that Abrego cannot be deported there.
October 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
These people are so incompetent that I do think not that long from now anybody who capitulated without a fight is going to look profoundly foolish and weak (more so than they already do).
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i think the key to understanding a lot of establishment discourse is that basically only the left and liberals are capable of being viewed as subjects capable of judgement which is why GOP rule is essentially treated as a force of nature
The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.
Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."
October 6, 2025 at 12:39 AM
i think the key to understanding a lot of establishment discourse is that basically only the left and liberals are capable of being viewed as subjects capable of judgement which is why GOP rule is essentially treated as a force of nature
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I think again about @jamellebouie.net’s piece referring to the Lincoln speech where he was basically like “the South is simply not going to give us any choice about this, there is nothing we can say that will talk them around other than total capitulation to everything they want”
Political violence is a bad thing, it is not a thing I support in and of itself, but it’s simply a fact that one side of this conflict appears committed to not leaving any alternatives open
I mean they’re doing it right fucking now
I mean they’re doing it right fucking now
October 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I think again about @jamellebouie.net’s piece referring to the Lincoln speech where he was basically like “the South is simply not going to give us any choice about this, there is nothing we can say that will talk them around other than total capitulation to everything they want”
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Theo Von being publicly upset that ICE is using him joking about people being deported in their content is like, what did you expect?
You promoted the big guy on your own podcast, and you made the joke. Enjoy the limelight buddy, you earned being the face of kidnapping random people!
You promoted the big guy on your own podcast, and you made the joke. Enjoy the limelight buddy, you earned being the face of kidnapping random people!
September 24, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Theo Von being publicly upset that ICE is using him joking about people being deported in their content is like, what did you expect?
You promoted the big guy on your own podcast, and you made the joke. Enjoy the limelight buddy, you earned being the face of kidnapping random people!
You promoted the big guy on your own podcast, and you made the joke. Enjoy the limelight buddy, you earned being the face of kidnapping random people!
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under trump i made $75k/yr, under biden i made $200k/yr and bought a house, under trump i make $100k a decade older and more senior than when i made $75k
and i work in manufacturing, which bidenomics surged and which trump tariffs are trying to destroy
and i work in manufacturing, which bidenomics surged and which trump tariffs are trying to destroy
Def was my experience as a millennial in the Biden Boom years. I entered the pandemic with basically zero net worth and exited Biden's Presidency as a homeowner with several hundred thousand in net worth. 2021 and 2022 were the highest earning years in my career
The received standard tale of Millennials' economic woe is obsolete.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
September 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
under trump i made $75k/yr, under biden i made $200k/yr and bought a house, under trump i make $100k a decade older and more senior than when i made $75k
and i work in manufacturing, which bidenomics surged and which trump tariffs are trying to destroy
and i work in manufacturing, which bidenomics surged and which trump tariffs are trying to destroy
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they get mad when you quote Charlie Kirk. they get mad when you don't quote Charlie Kirk. they are mad at the sum total of human knowledge.
September 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
they get mad when you quote Charlie Kirk. they get mad when you don't quote Charlie Kirk. they are mad at the sum total of human knowledge.
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September 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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I would love to be a proud patriot and say "them foreigners don't understand us" but no they've got it exactly right, that is precisely what happened and why, including why the same politicians who spent years courting investment from Korean companies suddenly cheered its destruction.
idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...
September 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I would love to be a proud patriot and say "them foreigners don't understand us" but no they've got it exactly right, that is precisely what happened and why, including why the same politicians who spent years courting investment from Korean companies suddenly cheered its destruction.
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there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him
September 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him
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I had no wish for him to be murdered, but I’ll harshly judge anyone who flies their flag at half staff for that hateful extremist or talks about honoring his memory. There was no honor in his life.
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I had no wish for him to be murdered, but I’ll harshly judge anyone who flies their flag at half staff for that hateful extremist or talks about honoring his memory. There was no honor in his life.
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Trump's use of red state National Guards in DC is really about viciously turning Americans against each other, about stoking hate and violence *among Americans.* JB Pritzker's response is so good because it lays *this* bare.
Me and @brianbeutler.bsky.social on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1997...
Me and @brianbeutler.bsky.social on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1997...
August 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Trump's use of red state National Guards in DC is really about viciously turning Americans against each other, about stoking hate and violence *among Americans.* JB Pritzker's response is so good because it lays *this* bare.
Me and @brianbeutler.bsky.social on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1997...
Me and @brianbeutler.bsky.social on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1997...
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Words/phrases Democrats should never use:
* bipartisan
* my Republican friends
* real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans)
* yea (when voting on Republican bills)
* distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did)
* woke (in derogatory sense)
* bipartisan
* my Republican friends
* real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans)
* yea (when voting on Republican bills)
* distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did)
* woke (in derogatory sense)
August 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Words/phrases Democrats should never use:
* bipartisan
* my Republican friends
* real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans)
* yea (when voting on Republican bills)
* distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did)
* woke (in derogatory sense)
* bipartisan
* my Republican friends
* real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans)
* yea (when voting on Republican bills)
* distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did)
* woke (in derogatory sense)
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I think one issue about the way racial segregation is taught at least how i was taught in hs, is teaching the primary harms are the segregating and the huge difference in quality of services but not emphasis on the ways that segregation was enforced
Slavery was much worse than you were taught. White Supremacist terrorism and lynching was much worse than you were taught. Jim Crow and racial segregation was much worse than you were taught. The legacy of slavery is much worse than you were taught.
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
August 20, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I think one issue about the way racial segregation is taught at least how i was taught in hs, is teaching the primary harms are the segregating and the huge difference in quality of services but not emphasis on the ways that segregation was enforced