Matthew Brannigan
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Zohran is a generational talent, but I really worry the democrats are gonna take away all the wrong lessons from this, because none of the rest of them can do this.
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Zohran is a generational talent, but I really worry the democrats are gonna take away all the wrong lessons from this, because none of the rest of them can do this.
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my offer to america: we bring woke back
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
my offer to america: we bring woke back
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Pulitzer material
March 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Pulitzer material
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I hate how accurate this feels right now🫣
March 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I hate how accurate this feels right now🫣
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Somewhere, Jeff Bezos is angrily clicking “track shipment” to see what happened to his new editorial page.
March 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Somewhere, Jeff Bezos is angrily clicking “track shipment” to see what happened to his new editorial page.
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I’m not going to the Joint Address. I will be live posting and chatting with you all here instead. Then going on IG Live after.
March 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I’m not going to the Joint Address. I will be live posting and chatting with you all here instead. Then going on IG Live after.
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he thinks he’s king. he issues executive orders (royal decrees) and the entire society is expected to obey
March 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
he thinks he’s king. he issues executive orders (royal decrees) and the entire society is expected to obey
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In the words of my man Thomas Paine, you know why they call it nobility — no-ability.
"This shift [to inheritocracy] has alarming economic and social consequences, because it imperils not just the meritocratic ideal, but capitalism itself. ... It creates a rentier class that faces a series of bad incentives." www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
February 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
In the words of my man Thomas Paine, you know why they call it nobility — no-ability.
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It would be a shame if people spammed this email address with nonsense as well.
Trump's Interior Dept leaders are directing staff to submit a list of accomplishments to this new email address:
accomplishments@doi.gov
Imagine if people everywhere -- accomplishments@doi.gov -- flooded this email address -- accomplishments@doi.gov -- with random accomplishments from last week.
accomplishments@doi.gov
Imagine if people everywhere -- accomplishments@doi.gov -- flooded this email address -- accomplishments@doi.gov -- with random accomplishments from last week.
February 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
It would be a shame if people spammed this email address with nonsense as well.
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Gee I wonder why Trump might be so hot to fire them
Oversight agency finds Trump’s federal worker firings unlawful, asks for some employees to be reinstated
The findings could have sweeping impacts for the tens of thousands of recently dismissed workers.
www.govexec.com
February 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Gee I wonder why Trump might be so hot to fire them
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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
February 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
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So my preferred escape atm is watching all of Gilmore Girls with my 10yo but I’m finding it v distracting to wonder how much of Stars Hollow would be red pilled by now (a lot I think!)
February 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
So my preferred escape atm is watching all of Gilmore Girls with my 10yo but I’m finding it v distracting to wonder how much of Stars Hollow would be red pilled by now (a lot I think!)
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Here’s an idea: Hochul removes Adams and replaces him with someone who will tell the Secret Service that the next time Trump comes to Manhattan the Secret Service can block the streets themselves without the help of the NYPD
Gov. Hochul: "Think about this next time you're stuck in traffic." www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhFl...
February 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Here’s an idea: Hochul removes Adams and replaces him with someone who will tell the Secret Service that the next time Trump comes to Manhattan the Secret Service can block the streets themselves without the help of the NYPD
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It’s very funny to me when people write “would Canada and Greenland get statehood?” content from DC, which has the population of New Brunswick and no statehood.
U.S. media: Interviewing retired Democrats about whether taking over Canada would help them electorally
Canadian media: Interviewing retired counterinsurgency advisors on what a campaign of resistance against an armed invasion would look like
Canadian media: Interviewing retired counterinsurgency advisors on what a campaign of resistance against an armed invasion would look like
February 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It’s very funny to me when people write “would Canada and Greenland get statehood?” content from DC, which has the population of New Brunswick and no statehood.
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Republicans have for years attacked federal workers as the enemy, a left wing woke army in their delusional Fox News dreams. I’m originally from the DC region. These people are our friends and neighbors, normie moms and dads who keep this country running. And we should stand up for them.
February 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Republicans have for years attacked federal workers as the enemy, a left wing woke army in their delusional Fox News dreams. I’m originally from the DC region. These people are our friends and neighbors, normie moms and dads who keep this country running. And we should stand up for them.
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Resources for Federal workers:
Resources for Feds (current & recent)
About this Document This document has been compiled from a variety of different volunteers who have served in the federal government and who are looking to provide information to help people access ex...
docs.google.com
February 16, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Resources for Federal workers:
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And lo, we are all screwed
February 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
And lo, we are all screwed
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PLEASE REPOST - While doing consumer protests & also change ad preferences to minimize how big corporations monetize your data.That’s what really rakes in the $. Here are some ways:
Google: support.google.com/My-Ad-Center...
Amazon: www.wired.com/story/amazon...
Meta: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Google: support.google.com/My-Ad-Center...
Amazon: www.wired.com/story/amazon...
Meta: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
February 13, 2025 at 6:24 AM
PLEASE REPOST - While doing consumer protests & also change ad preferences to minimize how big corporations monetize your data.That’s what really rakes in the $. Here are some ways:
Google: support.google.com/My-Ad-Center...
Amazon: www.wired.com/story/amazon...
Meta: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Google: support.google.com/My-Ad-Center...
Amazon: www.wired.com/story/amazon...
Meta: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Polio survivor Mitch McConnell voted against RFK Jr. today because he knows he’ll harm public health. He had a chance to stop all this after January 6th and convict Trump in the Senate but was too big of a coward. He gets no credit for his “courage” today.
It's very cute how Mitch McConnell is doing his little protest votes on Trump nominations now that he's one foot in the grave. He had more power than anyone to stop Trump from ever becoming president again by pushing to convict him in the Senate four years ago but he was too big of a coward.
February 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Polio survivor Mitch McConnell voted against RFK Jr. today because he knows he’ll harm public health. He had a chance to stop all this after January 6th and convict Trump in the Senate but was too big of a coward. He gets no credit for his “courage” today.
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Yes, key point here is that cosmopolitan liberalism is demanding. It requires us to continually expand outward the sphere of people who merit our concern. As I tried to argue in the piece, this is one thing that makes it attractive and worth aspiring to, and better than the Vance/MAGA worldview:
February 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Yes, key point here is that cosmopolitan liberalism is demanding. It requires us to continually expand outward the sphere of people who merit our concern. As I tried to argue in the piece, this is one thing that makes it attractive and worth aspiring to, and better than the Vance/MAGA worldview:
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That only makes it more of a challenge.
February 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
That only makes it more of a challenge.
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in the runup to the Ukraine war, US conservatives were jacking themselves off to footage of Russian VDV guys doing hand to hand combat. Then 90% of those guys were wiped out in the first day of the war because it turns out hand to hand combat isn't very important if they shoot your helicopter down
this attitude — paperwork is for sissies, real wars are won by Big Strong Men — is traditionally a harbinger of ruinous for defeat for everyone who holds it
Bureaucracy, famously not important in war
February 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
in the runup to the Ukraine war, US conservatives were jacking themselves off to footage of Russian VDV guys doing hand to hand combat. Then 90% of those guys were wiped out in the first day of the war because it turns out hand to hand combat isn't very important if they shoot your helicopter down