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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-regularly-happens-3/
December 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.
WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney
December 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Oh hey, and while you’re at it, the e-book for The Girl in the Road is only $4.99….!
The Girl in the Road: A Novel
A Novel
bookshop.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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This is an incredible book. A couple of years after reading The Actual Star, it still sits with me.
December 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
December 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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19 Acts Who Pulled Their Music Off Spotify This Year ino.to/USAPEmr
19 Acts Who Pulled Their Music Off Spotify This Year
Why King Gizzard, Deerhoof, Kadhja Bonet, and more opted to remove their work from music's biggest streaming platform.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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I wish people understood that climate change is not going to wait for them to mentally prepare for it
December 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Daughter didn't like my coloring page.
December 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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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 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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This panel from 1985 never gets old.
November 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
That face
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Wishing a conflict-free and low-stress Thanksgiving to the adult children of divorce, the eldest daughters, the overworked moms, the estranged siblings, the secretly queer grandchildren, the orphans, and the survivors spending today alone.
November 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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This is the thing: in a climate-catastrophic world, nowhere will be permanently safe. Nowhere. We will have to move and move and move. So all of the posturing of various nations about keeping immigrants out is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
November 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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I am really losing patience with Americans who treat their elected officials like celebrities they have to defend, instead of representatives they have to hold responsible. Grow the fuck up. Millions of lives are at stake.
November 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Maybe put some goddamn scientists in charge of your government science departments and not a rotting Halloween pumpkin.
November 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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A horrendous report on ABC radio from a Brisbane doctor doing a second tour in Gaza with Medecins sans Frontières. She says the ceasefire is in name only, the genocide continues and the deprivation of basic food, shelter and resources means even the injured haven’t what the need to heal.
November 18, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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The more MTG can split MAGA the better. I just would strongly recommend no one on our side actually trust her! She could flip back again quickly if she sees it in her best interest to do so.
This just in: Marjorie Taylor Greene is still as vile, bigoted and despicable as before.
November 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Donald Trump said “quiet piggy” to a female reporter because she dared to ask about the Epstein files, and as bad as that is, the fact that none of her colleagues defended her, is even worse.
November 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
What I lack in ambition I make up for in depression
November 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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You have to understand what pieces like this from the NYT are and are not.

They are not an honest assessment of the state of politics today.

They are a negotiation tactic—an effort by a calcified, right-leaning legacy institution to steer the discourse in a direction more palatable to elites.
November 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point
November 8, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Congress right now is extremely relatable because I too would like not to do my job and still get paid
November 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM