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25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
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My three-year-old was reading the Epstein emails when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why is the nice orange man joking with the sex offender on his computer?" And when I told her "Because women made it impossible to joke in the workplace," she started crying.
November 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
My three-year-old was reading the Epstein emails when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why is the nice orange man joking with the sex offender on his computer?" And when I told her "Because women made it impossible to joke in the workplace," she started crying.
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The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown
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October 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
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“Reach across the aisle and talk to Republicans. Find common ground and build consensus…” absolutely horseshit advice & expectation. I have no common ground with willfully ignorant, racist, misogynistic, Christ-fascist bullies.
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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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October 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
“Reach across the aisle and talk to Republicans. Find common ground and build consensus…” absolutely horseshit advice & expectation. I have no common ground with willfully ignorant, racist, misogynistic, Christ-fascist bullies.
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Weird thing where people say “no one could have predicted it” when really what they mean is their political commitments and orientation were such that they ignored everyone who was predicting it
Sorry but “no one could have“ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations
Sorry but “no one could have“ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations
October 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.
September 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.
Everyone needs to understand this. Cults CAN AND DO survive the death of their charismatic leader. MAGA will not end when Trump dies; it won’t even meaningfully change.
September 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Everyone needs to understand this. Cults CAN AND DO survive the death of their charismatic leader. MAGA will not end when Trump dies; it won’t even meaningfully change.
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May James Dobson burn and rot below for all eternity. A cruel, venal man who caused grave harm with every breath he took.
August 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
May James Dobson burn and rot below for all eternity. A cruel, venal man who caused grave harm with every breath he took.
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anyway the choice america faces going forward is live in the confederacy or do reconstruction for real and purge those motherfuckers from all of public life. and there isn’t really an in-between.
August 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
anyway the choice america faces going forward is live in the confederacy or do reconstruction for real and purge those motherfuckers from all of public life. and there isn’t really an in-between.
Just thinking about how gender conformity bullies are happy to misgender people/use the “wrong” pronouns when the intention is to be malicious, mocking, or mean.
August 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Just thinking about how gender conformity bullies are happy to misgender people/use the “wrong” pronouns when the intention is to be malicious, mocking, or mean.
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why destroy the department of education?
would you believe there's a creepy evangelical organization operating in broad daylight but under the radar whose meteoric rise goes a long way towards explaining it?
today's column:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
would you believe there's a creepy evangelical organization operating in broad daylight but under the radar whose meteoric rise goes a long way towards explaining it?
today's column:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Who Benefits from Destroying the Department of Education
This week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration can go ahead with its ambitious, ruinous plan of gutting the Department of Education, firing...
buttondown.com
July 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
why destroy the department of education?
would you believe there's a creepy evangelical organization operating in broad daylight but under the radar whose meteoric rise goes a long way towards explaining it?
today's column:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
would you believe there's a creepy evangelical organization operating in broad daylight but under the radar whose meteoric rise goes a long way towards explaining it?
today's column:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Is this the “socially liberal but fiscally conservative” ideal that people keep voting for?
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
www.theatlantic.com
July 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Is this the “socially liberal but fiscally conservative” ideal that people keep voting for?
Ok whoever chooses the music for The Bear, I adore your taste in music. Using REM’s Strange Currencies and Love & Rockets’ Haunted While the Minutes Drag as the background for Carmie & Claire scenes is absolute *chef’s kiss*
July 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Ok whoever chooses the music for The Bear, I adore your taste in music. Using REM’s Strange Currencies and Love & Rockets’ Haunted While the Minutes Drag as the background for Carmie & Claire scenes is absolute *chef’s kiss*
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Whether it's Republicans behaving like autocrats or Democrats pointing out that Republicans are behaving like autocrats, both parties have contributed to the sense that America is backsliding into autocracy.
July 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Whether it's Republicans behaving like autocrats or Democrats pointing out that Republicans are behaving like autocrats, both parties have contributed to the sense that America is backsliding into autocracy.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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This is a compilation of 5 episodes exploring the current situation with the anti-vax movement in North America. Extremely informative and well done. Highly recommend.
This is a compilation of 5 episodes exploring the current situation with the anti-vax movement in North America. Extremely informative and well done. Highly recommend.
Anti-Vax America: The Complete Series
Podcast Episode · It Could Happen Here · 2025-06-21 · 2h 48m
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June 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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This is a compilation of 5 episodes exploring the current situation with the anti-vax movement in North America. Extremely informative and well done. Highly recommend.
This is a compilation of 5 episodes exploring the current situation with the anti-vax movement in North America. Extremely informative and well done. Highly recommend.
Annoying thing re dealing w/narcissists: not being able to point out how funny their self-contradictory behaviors are. Person bullied me my entire life about not being correctly feminine-I need a boob job, tighter clothes, more submissive attitude, to lose weight, to gain weight, different hair, etc
June 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Annoying thing re dealing w/narcissists: not being able to point out how funny their self-contradictory behaviors are. Person bullied me my entire life about not being correctly feminine-I need a boob job, tighter clothes, more submissive attitude, to lose weight, to gain weight, different hair, etc
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so much of the fascist movement country is supported by the belief that parents own their children and have a right to ensure they turn out a specific way
"Untrue, impossible, & ableist": We join @autisticadvocacy.org in condemning HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s ignorant, absurd promise that “by September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures.”
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/04/trum...
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Trump and Kennedy Spouting Dangerous Autism Misinformation - Autistic Self Advocacy Network
Today in a cabinet meeting, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised that “by September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures.” This al...
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April 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
so much of the fascist movement country is supported by the belief that parents own their children and have a right to ensure they turn out a specific way
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the best part is none of Trump's base will ever ever ever doubt themselves or him. they are fundamentally ruined as people. he could execute their children in front of them and they'd still vote for him.
Maybe everyone can see it now, but the world's richest people have tanked it all to restock assets and get liquid after years of illegally playing with funny money. They used "the wokeness" as a cudgel and it worked. The next Disney princess WILL be white, as we all eat beans under the highway.
April 3, 2025 at 1:09 AM
the best part is none of Trump's base will ever ever ever doubt themselves or him. they are fundamentally ruined as people. he could execute their children in front of them and they'd still vote for him.
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This @cnn.com interview w/ the inimitable @kkdumez.bsky.social is worth the read as we head toward Trump's inauguration.
If you're not a Christian nationalist & are standing quietly by while the far-right takes over, Kristin has a strong dose of smelling salts for you.
www.cnn.com/2025/01/12/u...
If you're not a Christian nationalist & are standing quietly by while the far-right takes over, Kristin has a strong dose of smelling salts for you.
www.cnn.com/2025/01/12/u...
White Christian nationalists are poised to remake America in their image during Trump’s second term, this author says | CNN
Donald Trump’s second term will empower the White Christian nationalist movement, says scholar Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of “Jesus and John Wayne.” “It will transform our government,” she says. “Th...
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January 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
This @cnn.com interview w/ the inimitable @kkdumez.bsky.social is worth the read as we head toward Trump's inauguration.
If you're not a Christian nationalist & are standing quietly by while the far-right takes over, Kristin has a strong dose of smelling salts for you.
www.cnn.com/2025/01/12/u...
If you're not a Christian nationalist & are standing quietly by while the far-right takes over, Kristin has a strong dose of smelling salts for you.
www.cnn.com/2025/01/12/u...
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Whether it's right-wing outlets reporting things that are not true or liberal outlets reporting things that are true, both sides have a reporting problem.
January 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Whether it's right-wing outlets reporting things that are not true or liberal outlets reporting things that are true, both sides have a reporting problem.
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I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it a thousand times more: We are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian. — Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.
December 10, 2024 at 9:05 PM
I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it a thousand times more: We are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian. — Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.
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I keep getting hung up on the "but that's not true" of it all and I genuinely don't know how to function in a world where that's increasingly irrelevant the higher up the power chain you go.
November 21, 2024 at 2:20 AM
I keep getting hung up on the "but that's not true" of it all and I genuinely don't know how to function in a world where that's increasingly irrelevant the higher up the power chain you go.