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And… we f-ing won another one! Keep it coming. Watch out Home Depot. Karma is a stink that stays on you.
And… we f-ing won another one! Keep it coming. Watch out Home Depot. Karma is a stink that stays on you.
Spotify Confirms ICE Recruitment Ads Are No Longer Running on Platform
Spotify has confirimed that ICE recruitment ads are no longer running on its platform following criticism from last year.
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January 8, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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And… we f-ing won another one! Keep it coming. Watch out Home Depot. Karma is a stink that stays on you.
And… we f-ing won another one! Keep it coming. Watch out Home Depot. Karma is a stink that stays on you.
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Since yesterday, many people have DM’d to say that they were strongly affected by my essay & wished they could share it.
So I've revised, expanded, & posted it for free on both Substack & Patreon.
Please feel free to share.
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So I've revised, expanded, & posted it for free on both Substack & Patreon.
Please feel free to share.
www.patreon.com/posts/this-i...
catvalente.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...
December 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Since yesterday, many people have DM’d to say that they were strongly affected by my essay & wished they could share it.
So I've revised, expanded, & posted it for free on both Substack & Patreon.
Please feel free to share.
www.patreon.com/posts/this-i...
catvalente.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...
So I've revised, expanded, & posted it for free on both Substack & Patreon.
Please feel free to share.
www.patreon.com/posts/this-i...
catvalente.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...
Excuse me, what?!??
December 17, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Excuse me, what?!??
What a dumb fucking idea.
Breaking news: U.S. Coast Guard allows a new workplace harassment policy to take effect, downgrading the definition of swastikas and nooses from overt hate symbols to “potentially divisive” despite facing backlash over the new language.
Coast Guard enacts policy calling swastikas, nooses ‘potentially divisive’
The Coast Guard’s workplace harassment manual that downgrades the definition of swastikas and nooses quietly went into effect this week.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
What a dumb fucking idea.
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also, a #narrativedisorder angle: contrast this grim picture with the decades of media showing us totally unrealistic projections of what it's like to live in the US, from the NYC apartments of FRIENDS to idk the suburbia of TO ALL THE BOYS I LOVED BEFORE to any small-biz romcom...
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
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www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
also, a #narrativedisorder angle: contrast this grim picture with the decades of media showing us totally unrealistic projections of what it's like to live in the US, from the NYC apartments of FRIENDS to idk the suburbia of TO ALL THE BOYS I LOVED BEFORE to any small-biz romcom...
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this isnt cranky, this is literally journalism 101. These people are not journalists they are corporate lackeys who use Word instead of Excel
while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
November 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
this isnt cranky, this is literally journalism 101. These people are not journalists they are corporate lackeys who use Word instead of Excel
Really struggling with other people’s reading comprehension today. Please read all the words, folks, not just the ones you think are there.
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Really struggling with other people’s reading comprehension today. Please read all the words, folks, not just the ones you think are there.
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Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
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Remember Jamal Khashoggi.
November 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Remember Jamal Khashoggi.
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
I first learned about this last year, but I hadn’t connected it with social media and the way people talk to each other online until reading this thread.
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I first learned about this last year, but I hadn’t connected it with social media and the way people talk to each other online until reading this thread.
This a very coherent point and probably the best possible strategy moving forward. No one should starve because there are monsters in congress.
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This a very coherent point and probably the best possible strategy moving forward. No one should starve because there are monsters in congress.
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Statement from Mikie Sherrill "sharply criticizing Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as 'malpractice' and a betrayal of the people who are 'counting on us to fight for them'." bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sen-... h/t @gregsargent.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Statement from Mikie Sherrill "sharply criticizing Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as 'malpractice' and a betrayal of the people who are 'counting on us to fight for them'." bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sen-... h/t @gregsargent.bsky.social
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Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
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Senate Democrats are the only group of people in America that could look at the election results from *less than a week ago* and conclude, “Ah, what the people want now is for us to roll over and show our bellies to the reactionary creeps”
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Senate Democrats are the only group of people in America that could look at the election results from *less than a week ago* and conclude, “Ah, what the people want now is for us to roll over and show our bellies to the reactionary creeps”
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I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
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I can’t support this bill. It doesn’t meet the urgency of the moment and deliver actual relief that can pass both chambers of Congress.
I’ve been clear that we need real action to stop the devastating health care cost increases that are hurting millions of families. 1/2
I’ve been clear that we need real action to stop the devastating health care cost increases that are hurting millions of families. 1/2
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I can’t support this bill. It doesn’t meet the urgency of the moment and deliver actual relief that can pass both chambers of Congress.
I’ve been clear that we need real action to stop the devastating health care cost increases that are hurting millions of families. 1/2
I’ve been clear that we need real action to stop the devastating health care cost increases that are hurting millions of families. 1/2
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There ya go. I love how our elected officials always get Lucy footballed by Republicans but the libs often get Lucy footballed by their own representatives. Stop falling for it. They're feckless turds.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
There ya go. I love how our elected officials always get Lucy footballed by Republicans but the libs often get Lucy footballed by their own representatives. Stop falling for it. They're feckless turds.
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After a judge ordered Donald Trump to make SNAP payments, the wannabe king declared he will defy a court order and won't help people afford groceries.
Trump's message to 42 million Americans: eat dirt.
Trump's message to 42 million Americans: eat dirt.
November 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
After a judge ordered Donald Trump to make SNAP payments, the wannabe king declared he will defy a court order and won't help people afford groceries.
Trump's message to 42 million Americans: eat dirt.
Trump's message to 42 million Americans: eat dirt.
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"But Her Emails" he cried softly
What the actual f*ck?!!!
“Members of Trump’s National Security Council, including White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post and interviews with three U.S. officials.“
“Members of Trump’s National Security Council, including White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post and interviews with three U.S. officials.“
Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say
Trump’s national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis. But new revelations about his team’s operational security are piling up in the inbox.
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October 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"But Her Emails" he cried softly
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Percentage Hispanic population
Passaic County, NJ: 42.74%
Kern County, CA: 54.9%
Riverside County, CA: 49.72%
Fresno County, CA: 53.61%
Orange County, CA: 34.1%
Los Angeles County, CA: 48%
What happens when Kavanagh stops meet Roberts' disdain for the VRA
Passaic County, NJ: 42.74%
Kern County, CA: 54.9%
Riverside County, CA: 49.72%
Fresno County, CA: 53.61%
Orange County, CA: 34.1%
Los Angeles County, CA: 48%
What happens when Kavanagh stops meet Roberts' disdain for the VRA
Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
Justice Department to Monitor Polling Sites in California, New Jersey
WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Justice announced that it will monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot ...
www.justice.gov
October 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Percentage Hispanic population
Passaic County, NJ: 42.74%
Kern County, CA: 54.9%
Riverside County, CA: 49.72%
Fresno County, CA: 53.61%
Orange County, CA: 34.1%
Los Angeles County, CA: 48%
What happens when Kavanagh stops meet Roberts' disdain for the VRA
Passaic County, NJ: 42.74%
Kern County, CA: 54.9%
Riverside County, CA: 49.72%
Fresno County, CA: 53.61%
Orange County, CA: 34.1%
Los Angeles County, CA: 48%
What happens when Kavanagh stops meet Roberts' disdain for the VRA
Not the shut down government or the creeping fascism? The president’s priority is a ballroom. What a small, petty man.
Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
October 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Not the shut down government or the creeping fascism? The president’s priority is a ballroom. What a small, petty man.
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Here are the principals on the job
October 23, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Here are the principals on the job
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"Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.“
— Ursula K. Le Guin
— Ursula K. Le Guin
October 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.“
— Ursula K. Le Guin
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I don’t know that I can adequately describe how much I hate this.
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I don’t know that I can adequately describe how much I hate this.