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Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
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He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.
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The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
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Unbelievable - you literally wire money to some unspecified account. I assume this is so Trump can treat it as a slush fund he can deploy unconstrained by Congress (in violation of the Constitution).
December 15, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Unbelievable - you literally wire money to some unspecified account. I assume this is so Trump can treat it as a slush fund he can deploy unconstrained by Congress (in violation of the Constitution).
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I killed Facebook probably 7 years ago at this point, and I was a very very early Facebook user. Why is anyone with half a brain still on Facebook?
On the day of a violent antisemitic terror attack, Facebook is just feeding me blatant antisemitic conspiracies about it.
December 15, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I killed Facebook probably 7 years ago at this point, and I was a very very early Facebook user. Why is anyone with half a brain still on Facebook?
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Read this thread.
It's exactly right. But also note on the internet related stories—the banning of TikTok and the attack on Sec 230—Democrats happily helped MAGA accomplish their goals and people have cheered it on.
Democrats trying to destroy 230 are not helping you. They're helping Trump.
It's exactly right. But also note on the internet related stories—the banning of TikTok and the attack on Sec 230—Democrats happily helped MAGA accomplish their goals and people have cheered it on.
Democrats trying to destroy 230 are not helping you. They're helping Trump.
There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it."
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
December 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Read this thread.
It's exactly right. But also note on the internet related stories—the banning of TikTok and the attack on Sec 230—Democrats happily helped MAGA accomplish their goals and people have cheered it on.
Democrats trying to destroy 230 are not helping you. They're helping Trump.
It's exactly right. But also note on the internet related stories—the banning of TikTok and the attack on Sec 230—Democrats happily helped MAGA accomplish their goals and people have cheered it on.
Democrats trying to destroy 230 are not helping you. They're helping Trump.
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This week had more new measles cases than sales of “American Canto”.
Hope the media is proud.
Hope the media is proud.
December 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This week had more new measles cases than sales of “American Canto”.
Hope the media is proud.
Hope the media is proud.
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Hey we just had a bunch of Sherpas tote plutonium up a 25,000 ft mountain in India once and then we just left it up there www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device in the Himalayas? (Gift Article)
A plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the world’s highest mountains in a covert mission that the U.S. will not talk about.
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Hey we just had a bunch of Sherpas tote plutonium up a 25,000 ft mountain in India once and then we just left it up there www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The best way to test this is for a group of students to file complaints against every single professor on campus, leaving the school with no ability to teach at all.
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
December 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The best way to test this is for a group of students to file complaints against every single professor on campus, leaving the school with no ability to teach at all.
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ok so why should anyone vote for democrats
This is the vice chair of the Democrat caucus straight up saying that even if Dems win the midterms, they might not impeach Trump.
December 13, 2025 at 2:53 AM
ok so why should anyone vote for democrats
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BTW that Erika Kirk interview was a huge success for CBS News, it went viral, just, uh, not for the reasons that Bari wanted
December 13, 2025 at 3:10 AM
BTW that Erika Kirk interview was a huge success for CBS News, it went viral, just, uh, not for the reasons that Bari wanted
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this is a 3-car pileup of
• only having one job that keeps you at the big table so you're playing it at 11 because it's already slipping away
• when you only talk to people like you so you +1 each other until you hit sephiroth
• when your AI brain's filtering that through a 100% daytime tv database
• only having one job that keeps you at the big table so you're playing it at 11 because it's already slipping away
• when you only talk to people like you so you +1 each other until you hit sephiroth
• when your AI brain's filtering that through a 100% daytime tv database
December 13, 2025 at 4:28 AM
this is a 3-car pileup of
• only having one job that keeps you at the big table so you're playing it at 11 because it's already slipping away
• when you only talk to people like you so you +1 each other until you hit sephiroth
• when your AI brain's filtering that through a 100% daytime tv database
• only having one job that keeps you at the big table so you're playing it at 11 because it's already slipping away
• when you only talk to people like you so you +1 each other until you hit sephiroth
• when your AI brain's filtering that through a 100% daytime tv database
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NEW: The Trump-Vance White House has falsely accused an ally of Pope Leo — Sr. Norma Pimentel — of illegal activity tied to migrant aid, and cut off all federal funding to Catholic Charities in Texas.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
Trump-Vance White House Targets Beloved Nun in Texas, Retaliates Against Catholic Charities
Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley — praised by Pope Leo as an “agent of hope” — now faces a six-year federal funding ban. Church leaders say it’s a vendetta by the Trump-Vance White House.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
NEW: The Trump-Vance White House has falsely accused an ally of Pope Leo — Sr. Norma Pimentel — of illegal activity tied to migrant aid, and cut off all federal funding to Catholic Charities in Texas.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
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ya can't park there
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December 13, 2025 at 4:32 AM
ya can't park there
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In St. Louis, a historical marker is going up for a prison where a slave trader kept Black people he bought and sold. It’ll be located on what sits there now: a parking garage for the Cardinals baseball stadium. The team declined to contribute money toward the marker. www.stlpr.org/culture-hist...
New plaque will mark notorious St. Louis slave prison site near Busch Stadium
The bronze historical plaque will be installed at the site of a slave prison once owned by Bernard M. Lynch, a nationally known trader of enslaved men, women and children.
www.stlpr.org
December 13, 2025 at 4:50 AM
In St. Louis, a historical marker is going up for a prison where a slave trader kept Black people he bought and sold. It’ll be located on what sits there now: a parking garage for the Cardinals baseball stadium. The team declined to contribute money toward the marker. www.stlpr.org/culture-hist...
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it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind
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It could have been easy for Andy Kim to not focus on fighting Democratic machines in Jersey once he won his Senate seat and defeated the Murphy Machine. But the fact he's still doing it shows he's sincere about it.
Andy Kim seeks to topple the Democratic machines in 2027
Andy Kim seeks to topple the Democratic machines in 2027
The New Jersey senator said he will be "stepping up" to take on elected officials who "fuel corrupt machine politics."
dlvr.it
December 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
It could have been easy for Andy Kim to not focus on fighting Democratic machines in Jersey once he won his Senate seat and defeated the Murphy Machine. But the fact he's still doing it shows he's sincere about it.
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🙃
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
🙃
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A classic of the genre
December 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A classic of the genre
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Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.
December 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
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Holy toledo!
In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
news.cornell.edu
December 9, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Holy toledo!
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The degree of damage to a functional, non-state media system they might do in just a few years is remarkable. Honestly not sure if/how it gets rebuilt.
New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."
Behind Paramount’s Relentless Campaign to Woo Warner Discovery and President Trump
David Ellison has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Discovery, taking his case directly to shareholders after Netflix clinched a deal.
www.wsj.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The degree of damage to a functional, non-state media system they might do in just a few years is remarkable. Honestly not sure if/how it gets rebuilt.
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Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify: