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Learning to shut the fuck up is praxis.
February 16, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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I’m not funny or hot enough to get away with being mean
March 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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genuinely remarkable how depraved this government is
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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NEW: "George Santos with a Gun" — here's the first in a series of reports based on my 9-month investigation into Rep. Cory Mills. sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/george-san...
‘George Santos With a Gun’: The Untold Story of Cory Mills, A Mercenary In Congress
The Florida Republican has tried to leverage his legislative role to the benefit of his arms business. With that business now in foreclosure proceedings, Mills has little to show for it.
sollenbergerrc.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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just an utter joke of a court.
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three democratic appointees, #SCOTUS puts Texas's new House maps back into effect for (and, presumably, through) the 2026 midterms.

The three Democratic appointees, in an opinion by Justice Kagan, dissent.

I'll post the ruling shortly.
December 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Sometimes I try to estimate what percentage of the US population is politically unreachable. By the Manhattan Institute's measurements, just north of 1/3 of GOP voters do not believe in the efficacy of vaccines or the historical record of the Holocaust or 9/11

manhattan.institute/article/the-...
The New GOP: Survey Analysis of Americans Overall, Today’s Republican Coalition, and the Minorities of MAGA
A new national survey conducted by the Manhattan Institute examines today’s Republican Party and the coalition assembled by Donald Trump in 2024. It is one of the most exhaustive studies to date of th...
manhattan.institute
December 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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My Spotify Wrapped says I spent 164,733 minutes yearning for the forever unattainable?
December 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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I'm personally against turning everyone in the U.S. into degenerate gamblers, which seems to be the path we're on
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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At least the only person hurting me is me, and that’s all I can handle
December 4, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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When god closes a door he fires a shotgun through it point blank
November 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Why do men need an exclusive vision of virtue? Why don’t they want a universal, ungendered ideal of a good life? Why won’t they share in that striving with us?
December 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Lmao
December 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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it’s posts like this that make me imagine how much easier life is if you have no scruples and just dedicate yourself to grifting
December 2, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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abuser mentality explains a lot of our politics, it really does lol
December 2, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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as a catastrophic chronic fuckup, tom paine gives me a lot of hope
December 1, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Broke: "I want justice."

Woke: "I want justice, but I'll settle for revenge."

Bespoke: "I want revenge. If we accidentally get justice along the way as a byproduct, fine."
December 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
look at this fucking branding
December 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM
strong floor, no ceiling, excessive bathrooms
Oh shit waddup
December 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Tell us, old man, how shall we be employ’d?
November 30, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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November 30, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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God keeps giving me His easiest battles and it’s really fucking up my self-esteem
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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The subcategorization/tropefication of popular fiction has been very bad in general, both for authors and readers.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
when you've done none of the reading but pay partial attention to the hate preacher in your southern baptist church
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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I saw a thread on here a while back explaining how pre-teens have started saying “That’s AI” when they don’t believe something, and I was stunned how many replies were celebrating this. “Hell yeah, the kids are discerning,” etc.

No! No that’s not what that means.
sorta coming around to the view that the social danger of genAI images is less that they'll make people believe fabricated things are real and more that they'll make people believe real things are fabricated
November 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM