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David Poster Wallace
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Real Rossartrist Globalist 👍🌐
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begrudging congratulations to bari weiss, who manages to perfectly capture the zeitgeist of 2025 with "what's the point of standards?"
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Today the Supreme Court heard a very, very technical case about whether a government contractors (in this case, private prison company GEO Group) should get essentially qualified immunity for contractors (I'm oversimplifying). The answer, it seems, will be no.
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
Justices Doubt Timing of Immunity Appeal in GEO Wage Case (1)
Several US Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical of GEO Group Inc.’s argument that it can immediately appeal a lower court’s rejection of its immunity defense to escape forced labor claims from im...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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GEO was sued under forced labor laws for operating ICE's "Voluntary Work Program," which pays $1 per day to people held in ICE detention who "voluntarily" cook, clean, and maintain a facility (which cuts GEO's costs). They wanted immunity because ICE authorized it. Here's how GEO's lawyer started.
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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IN DMS TO MY LORD: fret not over the lord marshal's louis vuitton receipt my liege. Your loubs' authenticity is beyond reproach... you might ask your vassals to answer for their seditious words
IN THE SCHEMING EUNUCH GC: Imperial Fit Check 👀🤣 Son Of Heaven But Lookin Like Daddy Work At Foot Locker
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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💥🇬🇧 UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper Dodges Question on Israeli Sexual Violence

At a conference in Bahrain, UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper was asked about the documented rape and systematic sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons.

Instead of addressing what the UN Comm...
November 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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🔴 Breaking: Israeli Army Launches Criminal Investigation Into Whistleblowers Who Exposed Detainee Rape at Sde Teiman

The Israeli army has opened a criminal probe into the leak of footage from the Sde Teiman detention camp showing a Palestinian detainee – blindfolded, handcuffed, and restrained...
October 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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the people should be allowed to, at any time in a politician's tenure, hold a special referendum to have them Budd Dwyer themselves on live TV
CNN: Was the shutdown worth it?

HAKEEM JEFFRIES: We have waged a battle on behalf of the American people.

CNN: But you didn't get what you want.

JEFFRIES: At the end of the day, the fight lives on.
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Oscar Isaac says he's 'not so open to working with Disney' right now

"If they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great"

(via GQ)
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Exactly how MANY emerging-market strongmen are we going to rescue? 🤡

@politico.com 🇭🇺
www.politico.eu/article/hung...
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Canari
October 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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WIP..
November 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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oh my god
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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we can't lose the filibuster, a procedural anomaly only our opponents take advantage of, because if we try to use it they threaten to end it, though they actually won't, since they use it
We need to kill the filibuster if only so the student government people doing real government jobs can’t keep not doing actual stuff out of Fear They Could Lose The Filibuster
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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He had to ask for this thumbnail to be made while his wife is in the hospital
November 8, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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baby decided it was sick of waiting and came after 15 minutes of labor yesterday. all the nurses say shes crushing her goals and she’ll be fine (knock on wood). Jillian feels great and came home today! sadie is happy.

anyway, welcome to the world, vriska diabellestar rothschild!
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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amerika, are you going to lay down and die in the gutter
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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COVID? War in Palestine? Ukraine? January 6th? Joe Biden? Generative AI? Dubai Chocolate? Wow, you must have been WIPED after yesterday's PoGo sesh - you're talking crazy!

C'mon - let's head over to the Hamilton guy's event - I've got a HILARIOUS Harambe meme compilation to watch on the way there!
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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I will admit that this is the single funniest outcome of us doing a Keep Politics Out Of Sports after a guy kneeled
Government is shut down. Chaos in airports. 42 million going hungry. 24 million face skyrocketing healthcare costs. Economy in turmoil. And the president of the United States is in the Fox broadcast booth calling plays for a football game.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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so much suffering and sacrifice only to to agree to terms that will beget more suffering and sacrifice.
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Official statement from @jamestalarico.bsky.social on shutdown negotiations
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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The "secular democracy" of Israel bans interracial and gay marriage, shut the fuck up about Iran you stupid racist morons. I hate you all so much. You are pure evil and a stain on this earth.
November 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM