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Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
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Fun fact: this is explicitly why Dick Wolf created Law & Order: he violently hates defense attorneys and felt tere weren't enough shows about how defendants and their lawyers are scum
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Fun fact: this is explicitly why Dick Wolf created Law & Order: he violently hates defense attorneys and felt tere weren't enough shows about how defendants and their lawyers are scum
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
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I truly believe a big reason why Democrats are failing to appropriately respond to the moment is a pathological refusal to admit that there were aspects of the American status quo pre trump that were extremely fucked up and unjust
October 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I truly believe a big reason why Democrats are failing to appropriately respond to the moment is a pathological refusal to admit that there were aspects of the American status quo pre trump that were extremely fucked up and unjust
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Liberals have this mental model they keep trying to update where they try to fit the words and actions of right wingers into a consistent moral framework while in reality what the right believes is "I should get everything I want" and "I can say or do anything to get that"
September 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Liberals have this mental model they keep trying to update where they try to fit the words and actions of right wingers into a consistent moral framework while in reality what the right believes is "I should get everything I want" and "I can say or do anything to get that"
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Like, you can say they're hypocrites I guess but it's much more accurate to say that they're people who've completely strangled their moral capacity; they simply do not have an ethical core or meaningful values, they just say whatever is convenient in the moment. Bad faith as a way of life.
September 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Like, you can say they're hypocrites I guess but it's much more accurate to say that they're people who've completely strangled their moral capacity; they simply do not have an ethical core or meaningful values, they just say whatever is convenient in the moment. Bad faith as a way of life.
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Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔
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September 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔
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The story of how the mafia & World Trade Center intertwined--from the complex's conception, through its construction & maintenance, to its destruction & nightmarish clean-up--is easily the most horrifying story we've ever covered on The Outfit. I was shocked how little it had been looked at. 🧵:
On The Outfit, today, September 11th, we have a very special episode, exploring the single most baffling and underexamined story we have ever covered on the pod: how the mafia profited from the World Trade Center.
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World Trade Center: The Towers the Mob Built
open.spotify.com
September 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The story of how the mafia & World Trade Center intertwined--from the complex's conception, through its construction & maintenance, to its destruction & nightmarish clean-up--is easily the most horrifying story we've ever covered on The Outfit. I was shocked how little it had been looked at. 🧵:
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this is such a depressing misread of why Trumpism wins
American voters aren't drawn to parables
They want an enemy and they want to see that enemy hurt
American voters aren't drawn to parables
They want an enemy and they want to see that enemy hurt
‘The Bible doesn’t tell us about research studies conducted by Saint Peter. Data is going to lose to parables every time.’ (Paraphrasing)
This is why bizarre bs, rumors, and propaganda from this administration are so effective. And - filling in the blanks -why the responses have been so inadequate.
This is why bizarre bs, rumors, and propaganda from this administration are so effective. And - filling in the blanks -why the responses have been so inadequate.
August 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
this is such a depressing misread of why Trumpism wins
American voters aren't drawn to parables
They want an enemy and they want to see that enemy hurt
American voters aren't drawn to parables
They want an enemy and they want to see that enemy hurt
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One of the things that has pretty annoying is that if you have any kind of bullshit meter, if you have anything inside of yourself that doesn’t enjoy being lied to, the last couple of years of almost every area of public life have been driving you up a fucking wall
August 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
One of the things that has pretty annoying is that if you have any kind of bullshit meter, if you have anything inside of yourself that doesn’t enjoy being lied to, the last couple of years of almost every area of public life have been driving you up a fucking wall
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The dumbest most boring and hateful losers stomping their feet and getting whatever they want is getting really really old
July 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM
The dumbest most boring and hateful losers stomping their feet and getting whatever they want is getting really really old
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it genuinely makes me so exhausted how often parental abuse is at best ignored and at worst enabled by so, so many people, and equally as many systems of power. children are more likely to be abused at home, by a parent or family member, than by anyone else, and yet “parents’ rights” come first.
i understand this is one of those things you're never supposed to say because it makes parents mad, but statistically speaking, "parents care about their children's best interests and can be trusted to be appropriate guardians of those interests" is an incredibly unsafe and unsupported assumption.
July 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
it genuinely makes me so exhausted how often parental abuse is at best ignored and at worst enabled by so, so many people, and equally as many systems of power. children are more likely to be abused at home, by a parent or family member, than by anyone else, and yet “parents’ rights” come first.
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Very striking how every right-wing conspiracy freakout was just a prophecy of what they planned on eventually doing - whether it was Jade Helm or FEMA camps, the moment they had the opportunity to make these imaginary monstrosities they came up with come to life, they did
July 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Very striking how every right-wing conspiracy freakout was just a prophecy of what they planned on eventually doing - whether it was Jade Helm or FEMA camps, the moment they had the opportunity to make these imaginary monstrosities they came up with come to life, they did
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I once met a man named Jacob. He was in his seventies, a small man, stooped and bent, who looked much older than he was. He was kind and gracious, and was used to people being put off by his posture and size. His story of how he ended up like that is informative. 1/
“The Department of Homeland Security has formally instituted a new requirement that members of Congress and their staff provide a week of notice before they visit immigration detention facilities, a policy that is at odds with a federal law that allows lawmakers to make unannounced oversight trips.“
ICE to require lawmakers to give a week’s notice before detention visits.
www.nytimes.com
June 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I once met a man named Jacob. He was in his seventies, a small man, stooped and bent, who looked much older than he was. He was kind and gracious, and was used to people being put off by his posture and size. His story of how he ended up like that is informative. 1/
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I don't know if there's ever been a culture more in love with charlatans than ours. "Success" defined entirely by how good you are at tricking people into giving you money. An entire country of aspiring slop merchants
May 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I don't know if there's ever been a culture more in love with charlatans than ours. "Success" defined entirely by how good you are at tricking people into giving you money. An entire country of aspiring slop merchants
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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the thing about global right wing movements going all in on transphobia is that it makes it basically impossible to ignore how foundational the construction and enforcement of gender is to every part of what is wrong with this world. thankfully for them, cis people are very good at ignoring things
May 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
the thing about global right wing movements going all in on transphobia is that it makes it basically impossible to ignore how foundational the construction and enforcement of gender is to every part of what is wrong with this world. thankfully for them, cis people are very good at ignoring things
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It’s really wild how there is no reason to deport anyone, let alone children and US citizens and LPRs and students and people undergoing cancer treatment etc. it’s all a fake solution to a made up problem enacted by violent racists who are stealing from you
April 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
It’s really wild how there is no reason to deport anyone, let alone children and US citizens and LPRs and students and people undergoing cancer treatment etc. it’s all a fake solution to a made up problem enacted by violent racists who are stealing from you
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there is this constant lurid fantasy that cis men will pretend to be trans women to gain covert access to girls and women because in this scenario we're imagining predators are not the fathers or grandfathers or teachers or priests or cops who are already granted that access. come the fuck on.
April 17, 2025 at 12:52 AM
there is this constant lurid fantasy that cis men will pretend to be trans women to gain covert access to girls and women because in this scenario we're imagining predators are not the fathers or grandfathers or teachers or priests or cops who are already granted that access. come the fuck on.
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Trump’s Justice Department is currently asking the Supreme Court for permission to build a deportation machine that can disappear anyone, citizen and immigrant alike, to a foreign prison forever, permanently extinguishing their constitutional rights with zero due process. slate.com/news-and-pol...
April 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Trump’s Justice Department is currently asking the Supreme Court for permission to build a deportation machine that can disappear anyone, citizen and immigrant alike, to a foreign prison forever, permanently extinguishing their constitutional rights with zero due process. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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The thing underlying most American prosperity from the beginning was slavery. We offshored that and now these guys are like wait. We should be using local slaves
Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America."
April 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The thing underlying most American prosperity from the beginning was slavery. We offshored that and now these guys are like wait. We should be using local slaves
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Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
April 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
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alright here's a Take: checks and balances (and federalism) were supposed to protect against tyranny. But instead they just prevented a "tyranny of the majority" from doing universal health care and gun control, and it turns out they do basically nothing to stop an autocrat
March 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
alright here's a Take: checks and balances (and federalism) were supposed to protect against tyranny. But instead they just prevented a "tyranny of the majority" from doing universal health care and gun control, and it turns out they do basically nothing to stop an autocrat