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John Brooks
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Religious studies person
ICE/prison/golf abolitionist
BLM
Anti-fascism forever
Trans rights are human rights
Red Sox and Crystal Palace diehard
He/Him
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The Office "corporate needs you to find the difference" meme. The text at the top is "Corporate needs you to find the difference between this problem and this problem" with two images - one reading "climate change" and one reading "wealth inequality" Pam says "They're the same problem"
November 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Americans exist in different factual realities, case study #380827829209093, the current main page of the Fox News website:
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Probably not where most of the attention is/should be, but pretty fucking galling and depressingly unsurprising that none of the world's most powerful men seem to have any grasp on or concern for spelling, grammar, or sentence structure.
November 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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It's pretty cool how the most powerful man on earth is a criminal idiot who has no idea how anything works.
Trump; I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over. In other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per Dollar spent, the worst Healthcare anywhere in the World, ObamaCare. Unrelated, we must still terminate the Filibuster!
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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And you tell them it's because Republicans literally want to destroy government and want your constituents to die, right?

YOU TELL THEM IT'S BECAUSE REPUBLICANS LITERALLY WANT TO DESTROY GOVERNMENT AND WANT YOUR CONSTITUENTS TO DIE, RIGHT?
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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They are all absolute fucking frauds
Trump demanded loyalty. SC Republican Nancy Mace won’t give it to him anymore. By Caitlin Byrd Updated January 8, 2021 8:17 AM Republican Nancy Mace did not hesitate Thursday when asked if she still believed in President Donald Trump, the man she helped elect in 2016. “No, I don’t,” the South Carolina Congresswoman said in an interview with The State newspaper. “I can’t condone the rhetoric from yesterday, where people died and all the violence. These were not protests. This was anarchy.”
November 9, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Submitting this sentence for Pulitzer consideration
Kim Davis, who has been divorced three times and married four, has become one of the nation’s most steadfast defenders of “biblical marriage.”
November 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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This photograph had better win a goddamn Pulitzer
Donald Trump in the Oval Office looking awkward and annoyed as other spring to action behind him to help a man who had collapsed at a WH event
November 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Mr Burns walking with Smithers after the Harvard-Yale football game saying "I don't know why Harvard even bothers to show up. The barely even won."
November 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Can we please finally concede that polling is hopelessly fucking broken and no longer of value for predicting election outcomes?
A list of elite polls showing Sherrill barely ahead, the most by 8 points. The NJ results showing Mikie Sherrill winning by 13 points
November 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Happy Not No Kings Per Se But Just This One Very Specific King Day
Guy Fawkes
November 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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This right here:
For decades, mainstream conservatives spoke proudly of how William F. Buckley Jr., the founding editor of National Review, excommunicated the paranoiac and reactionary John Birch Society from the conservative movement. The story of Buckley’s cordon sanitaire was always a bit of a myth; the border between respectable conservatism and the far-right demimonde remained quite permeable. But it was a helpful myth, since it valorized a willingness to draw lines.
November 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Post a bird announcing Dick Cheney is dead
November 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Oh hello
Aggregate poll of Trump approval from Silver Bulletin showing him at -11.8, a new low. This is also down from +11.7 to start his term, a -23.5 difference in just 10 months.
November 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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November 3, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Zohran Mamdani
November 1, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Old enough to remember July's Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford endorsed Kamala Harris. Now he says the country is ‘on a healthy swing to the right’
November 1, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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My dog was Krypto for Halloween
November 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Today, as we enter into the final weekend before the New York election, we honor and celebrate this, the Platonic ideal of Nate Silver tweets, forever may it live.
1/3/2022 Nate Silver tweet: It's probably foolish to think a NYC mayor will successfully translate into being a national political figure, but I still think Eric Adams would be in my top 5 for "who will be the next Democratic presidential nominee after Joe Biden?".
October 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Uh, what do you mean "not masculine"?
Nick Fuentes, the modern Adonis Stephen Miller, the John Wayne of our age Andy Ngo, basically the reincarnation of Gary Cooper Kyle Rittenhouse, the Platonic ideal of manliness
October 31, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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This man is a sociopath
“When he gets to the hospital, I found out, when he gets to the hospital, his aides, he comes out, the aides are in other cars, as he comes in ... the handful of aides are there and he says, ‘How is it playing? How does it look on TV?’ That was his first thought,” Karl said as he promoted his new book, “Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America.”
October 29, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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It's true, no president in recent history has achieved the soaring approval number of negative 10.4
From Huffpost: President Donald Trump on Wednesday seemed to rule out seeking a third term in 2028, admitting that the Constitution forbids it. “It’s a very interesting thing. (highlighted) I have the best numbers for any president in many years, any president,” (end highlight) he said. “And I would say that if you read it, it’s pretty clear. I’m not allowed to run. It’s too bad, obviously.” Silver Bulletin's aggregate Trump approval rating chart showing him at -10.4 approval
October 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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He has a long history of this
October 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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We did it, everybody!
Donald Trump To Leave Country Amid Government Shutdown
October 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Receptionist - "Last name, please."

Frankenstein's Monster - "Frankenstein."

Receptionist - "First name?"

Frankenstein's Monster - "Uh...I'm a monster?"

Receptionist - *typing*
FRANKENSTEIN, MO
October 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM