Max Bricker
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Meaningless reduced form nonsense
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BRENNAN: This isn't everything you asked for just yet, but would you acknowledge that they are complying with the spirit if not the intent of your law?
MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.
MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.
December 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
BRENNAN: This isn't everything you asked for just yet, but would you acknowledge that they are complying with the spirit if not the intent of your law?
MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.
MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.
Simply cannot understand this faction of the left's refusal to engage with statistics and political science
when we said “defer electoral strategy to the actual politicians running for actual offices” we meant “after calculating wins above replacement somehow”
December 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Simply cannot understand this faction of the left's refusal to engage with statistics and political science
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It's your birthday, Duane.
December 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It's your birthday, Duane.
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When you ask yourself, why would they go ahead and do things like this, changing signage when there's a question of the legality, you have to remember that it will cost money to undo it, and when people try to do so, they will be met with complaints that they're looking backwards and wasting money
Wasting no time, the Trump administration begins adding his name to the Kennedy Center building, ignoring the understanding that it would require an act of Congress. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Kennedy Center Adds Trump’s Name to Facade
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
When you ask yourself, why would they go ahead and do things like this, changing signage when there's a question of the legality, you have to remember that it will cost money to undo it, and when people try to do so, they will be met with complaints that they're looking backwards and wasting money
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Until the end of my days I will harbor a burning rage toward anyone who entertained the slightest inkling of defunding American aid programs
Hundreds of underage girls married off and hundreds more children kidnapped as U.S. foreign aid cuts contribute to surge in violations against persecuted Rohingya children.
Trafficked, exploited, married off: Rohingya children’s lives crushed by foreign aid cuts
Severe foreign aid cuts imposed this year by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with funding reductions from other countries, shuttered thousands of schools and youth training centers in camps for Rohingya in Bangladesh and crippled child protection programs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Until the end of my days I will harbor a burning rage toward anyone who entertained the slightest inkling of defunding American aid programs
Does Haruki Murakami have a sponsorship deal with Cutty Sark
December 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Does Haruki Murakami have a sponsorship deal with Cutty Sark
When Dems swept into office in 2008, they had one big policy objective: to reform healthcare. This was the thing that had festered too long, that was way overdue for new legislation, and that was worth spending political capital on.
Next trifecta, it better be gun control
Next trifecta, it better be gun control
December 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
When Dems swept into office in 2008, they had one big policy objective: to reform healthcare. This was the thing that had festered too long, that was way overdue for new legislation, and that was worth spending political capital on.
Next trifecta, it better be gun control
Next trifecta, it better be gun control
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if you are still out here arguing that civilians at a holiday celebration are a legitimate target for "armed resistance" because of their presumed political beliefs, you not only lack any kind of analysis of power or productive theory of change, you have alienated yourself from basic humanity.
December 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
if you are still out here arguing that civilians at a holiday celebration are a legitimate target for "armed resistance" because of their presumed political beliefs, you not only lack any kind of analysis of power or productive theory of change, you have alienated yourself from basic humanity.
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annoyance theory is a good one (that I invented) but if you are more annoyed by one group and the other group is dangerous and runs the government well
I think the best way to explain the X vs Bluesky preference is whether a person thinks the left is more annoying than the right is dangerous.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
December 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
annoyance theory is a good one (that I invented) but if you are more annoyed by one group and the other group is dangerous and runs the government well
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Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
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The chabad rabbi killed at Bondi Beach
December 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The chabad rabbi killed at Bondi Beach
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
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pluribus is the only show brave enough to ask if one mean lesbian could save the world
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
pluribus is the only show brave enough to ask if one mean lesbian could save the world
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The North won the civil war. We can make sweet cornbread if we want.
December 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The North won the civil war. We can make sweet cornbread if we want.
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calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
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The real ideological difference here is that Zohran Mamdani and Kshama Sawant represent two different factions of leftism- serious and not serious
November 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The real ideological difference here is that Zohran Mamdani and Kshama Sawant represent two different factions of leftism- serious and not serious
There are early cracked dot com videos that belong in the Smithsonian
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
There are early cracked dot com videos that belong in the Smithsonian
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Jesus to his disciples:
Idk why a bunch of libs started following me but I’m an anarchist and you will not have a good time here.
November 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Jesus to his disciples:
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US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
November 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
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“But I never thought the enemy would be ME!” cried the leopard after running for office as a member of the Friend-Enemy Distinction Party
This is a Texas Republican who was part of the January 6th mob
November 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
“But I never thought the enemy would be ME!” cried the leopard after running for office as a member of the Friend-Enemy Distinction Party
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That’s the bummer about extrajudicial violence, it turns out there are no rules to prevent it from turning on you
November 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
That’s the bummer about extrajudicial violence, it turns out there are no rules to prevent it from turning on you