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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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My last word on the matter
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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10/10 take. No notes.
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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What a banger
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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"I am openly defying a court order so I can starve children if Democrats don't let me take healthcare away from millions"

once again we are in 'too evil for a saturday morning cartoon' territory
Trump says the SNAP money that he’s been ordered by a court to release won’t be released until the government shutdown ends.
November 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag?
KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag.
CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this?
KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla
CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable.
KOKO: Hostility Interviewer
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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If you have no skill or desire for hard work, you can make up the difference with luck, but there is no amount of hard work that can make up for just never getting a chance
Hard work is often (not always) necessary, but not sufficient. One mostly needs luck. Too many lucky people think they got where they are because of hard work, and look at less fortunate people wrongly assuming they lacked effort, and worse, derive from this a false sense of moral superiority.
October 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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"Where Nixon had to contend with a Supreme Court that rejected his claim of absolute immunity and a Congress that stood ready to impeach him, the other branches of govt these days have no interest in reining in Trump. He can do a Watergate every week safe in the knowledge that no one will stop him."
Trump posts his Watergate tapes
It ended Nixon's presidency. For Trump, it's just another Saturday.
www.publicnotice.co
September 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity.

"To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."
How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women
"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.
www.teenvogue.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia
September 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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September 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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there was a large enough pro-life Dem caucus in the House that it almost sank Obamacare! basically all of them lost their seats in the Tea Party wave, and we’ve only seen congressional races get more nationalized since then

shitty policy stances aren’t enough to win over these voters
The Democratic tent already had many, many anti-abortion democrats, who got wiped out because — and this is the crucial point! — independents and republicans *did not vote for them*
Ezra Klein 🤝 Neera Tanden

Despite the overwhelming popularity of abortion rights in all states, we should surrender instead
September 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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the right wing writes more coffee-based fanfiction than the AU section on AO3 does
Surveillance footage shows a Starbucks worker did not write “Loser” on a drink ordered in honor of Charlie Kirk, despite a right-wing activist generating outrage over the incident that led to the coffee shop's temporary closure
Chicago Starbucks Worker Did Not Write 'Loser' On Order Honoring Charlie Kirk, Company Says
A Starbucks spokesperson said time-stamped surveillance footage shows an employee did not write the note, which had prompted online outrage and the store's temporary closure this week.
blockclubchicago.org
September 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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This is funniest possible headline for a song literally called "Song for Bob Dylan"
The David Bowie Song You Didn’t Know Was Dedicated to Bob Dylan
In Song For Bob Dylan, Bowie fearlessly critiqued one of the biggest names in music. But what was the real story behind this enigmatic track?
collider.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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This is how i feel about Quibi. I could have stopped it
September 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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tim taylor: we all know that gender is a performance, al

al: i don't think so, tim. that's a common misreading of butlerian theory, which refers to the linguistic "performative act," e.g. naming a ship. however, the symbolic interactionist school does understand everyday life as dramaturgy
September 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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The Democratic party that could have stood up for Palestine would have absolutely bodied Trump in round 2.
September 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Yoda: yeah hi sorry but I didn’t even like this guy before he was evil and the last time I saw him he was killing children

Luke: thank you for your wisdom Master Yoda

Yoda: no I’m saying it’s bullshit I have to sit on a log with this guy

Obi: yeah I wasn’t going to say anything but he murdered me
September 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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I’ve finished setting up my government-mandated shrine to St. Charlie Kirk. I will pray to Him every day that I can become more and more racist in my remaining years. As required by law.
September 19, 2025 at 3:39 AM
NSFW a band

Cock for Two Twins
Kate's Bush
Anal Sex Pistols
Kendrick Loadmore
M69
BJ Harvey
NSFW a band

Two in the Pink Floyd
September 19, 2025 at 4:59 AM