Morgen Muffel
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Morgen Muffel
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· Nov 10
Schumer has to go. Jeffries has to go. Leadership has to be replaced.
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We had congressional hearings when parents just suspected heavy metal was leading some kids to suicide.
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
December 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
We had congressional hearings when parents just suspected heavy metal was leading some kids to suicide.
“If hope is hiding, it often hums first.”
Damn that’s a good line. If you have ever had a relationship with music you know the truth of it
Damn that’s a good line. If you have ever had a relationship with music you know the truth of it
Dear listeners,
When the days feel narrow and the noise gets loud, try a song.
Not as escape — as evidence.
Someone, somewhere, once felt this too and made something that still holds.
If hope is hiding, it often hums first.
When the days feel narrow and the noise gets loud, try a song.
Not as escape — as evidence.
Someone, somewhere, once felt this too and made something that still holds.
If hope is hiding, it often hums first.
December 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“If hope is hiding, it often hums first.”
Damn that’s a good line. If you have ever had a relationship with music you know the truth of it
Damn that’s a good line. If you have ever had a relationship with music you know the truth of it
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did a video a few days ago making the case for supreme court expansion www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjB_...
Why Democrats need to expand the Supreme Court
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
did a video a few days ago making the case for supreme court expansion www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjB_...
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which is easier: passing legislation with a simple majority or assembling the 67 Senate votes necessary to remove a justice? bsky.app/profile/wood...
Wouldn't it be easier just to impeach a few?
December 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
which is easier: passing legislation with a simple majority or assembling the 67 Senate votes necessary to remove a justice? bsky.app/profile/wood...
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There will come a time when people of good faith are empowered to uphold the law.
When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent.
The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.
When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent.
The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.
"They had done nothing wrong. They were not protesting. They were not chasing ICE vehicles. They were simply shopping."
Matt DeMateo recounts how three U.S. citizens, including a toddler, were tear gassed in Cicero by federal agents.
Matt DeMateo recounts how three U.S. citizens, including a toddler, were tear gassed in Cicero by federal agents.
December 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
There will come a time when people of good faith are empowered to uphold the law.
When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent.
The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.
When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent.
The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.
For those of us that clocked the fascism early, this is delightfully validating
those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
For those of us that clocked the fascism early, this is delightfully validating
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New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..."
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
December 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..."
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
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Once you take away the false claim that authoritarians offer “brutal efficiency” you are just left with the brutal part. Authoritarianism might seem like a hack to get things done, but is a system of govt that ultimately fails for the reason Trump is failing.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/democrats-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/democrats-...
December 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Once you take away the false claim that authoritarians offer “brutal efficiency” you are just left with the brutal part. Authoritarianism might seem like a hack to get things done, but is a system of govt that ultimately fails for the reason Trump is failing.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/democrats-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/democrats-...
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hmm. im just gonna say it: your kids are estranged from you for a reason and making tiktoks about how you're the victim is probably emblematic of it. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...
These Moms Are Done Being ‘Doormats’ for Their Estranged Children
Parents publicly blast their adult offspring for cutting them off, drawing tens of thousands of online followers.
www.wsj.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
hmm. im just gonna say it: your kids are estranged from you for a reason and making tiktoks about how you're the victim is probably emblematic of it. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...
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The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
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the unstated assumption of Yglesias saying that we need to be with the Nazis for Discourse Reasons is a presumed interest in finding common ground with or convincing Nazis to stop being Nazis.
i'll just say that is not how i, personally, am interested in solving the Nazi problem.
i'll just say that is not how i, personally, am interested in solving the Nazi problem.
December 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
the unstated assumption of Yglesias saying that we need to be with the Nazis for Discourse Reasons is a presumed interest in finding common ground with or convincing Nazis to stop being Nazis.
i'll just say that is not how i, personally, am interested in solving the Nazi problem.
i'll just say that is not how i, personally, am interested in solving the Nazi problem.
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Just to get ahead of this: Print the post out and bring it to the next Mike Johnson presser. You already know what his move will be. There’s no excuse to not be prepared for it.
December 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Just to get ahead of this: Print the post out and bring it to the next Mike Johnson presser. You already know what his move will be. There’s no excuse to not be prepared for it.
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I do not think the right is remotely prepared for the scale of celebration that we’ll see When It Happens
December 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I do not think the right is remotely prepared for the scale of celebration that we’ll see When It Happens
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A movement that demands grace and empathy whenever someone from their side suffers while offering none to the other isn’t really a movement that gives a shit about anything other than power and control
December 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A movement that demands grace and empathy whenever someone from their side suffers while offering none to the other isn’t really a movement that gives a shit about anything other than power and control
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I hope they eventually figure out what's wrong with his brain, and when they do I hope the official medical name for it is Trump Derangement Syndrome.
December 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I hope they eventually figure out what's wrong with his brain, and when they do I hope the official medical name for it is Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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When fear is the only tool you know how to use, you're pretty much cooked the minute people stop being afraid of you.
December 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
When fear is the only tool you know how to use, you're pretty much cooked the minute people stop being afraid of you.
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The Heritage Foundation is an authoritarian Christian Nationalist organization.
Treat their people accordingly.
Treat their people accordingly.
In case you ever needed proof that the Heritage Foundation is not a conservative organization, here we have them cheering on the Federal Government threatening to strip all funding from a state that does not make political decisions the President likes. Any true conservative would be howling.
The US government is now a mafia organization.
December 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The Heritage Foundation is an authoritarian Christian Nationalist organization.
Treat their people accordingly.
Treat their people accordingly.
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We have to listen to bigoted handwringing about how we have to abandon trans people and marginalized communities and immigrants while the clearest election winning message is right there.
"Do the rich have too much political power?"
Yes: 80%
No: 8%
YouGov / Dec 8, 2025
Yes: 80%
No: 8%
YouGov / Dec 8, 2025
December 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
We have to listen to bigoted handwringing about how we have to abandon trans people and marginalized communities and immigrants while the clearest election winning message is right there.
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I see this sort of proud posturing a lot and it's really a wonderful way to loudly demonstrate to everyone you have absolutely no idea what's going on
Music Icon Pharrell Criticizes Political Division: “I Don’t Believe In Either Side”
Pharrell Williams is making his feelings about American politics unmistakably clear.
newzsquare.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I see this sort of proud posturing a lot and it's really a wonderful way to loudly demonstrate to everyone you have absolutely no idea what's going on
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“How did American democracy backslide?”
“Two ways: gradually, then suddenly”
Trump is the culmination of GOP trends that have been accelerating since at least Ford’s pardon, then Reagan’s rogue pre-presidency foreign policy & Iran-Contra, through everything in the GWB admin. All of it unpunished.
“Two ways: gradually, then suddenly”
Trump is the culmination of GOP trends that have been accelerating since at least Ford’s pardon, then Reagan’s rogue pre-presidency foreign policy & Iran-Contra, through everything in the GWB admin. All of it unpunished.
Trump and Co. haven’t been dismantling US institutions just this year, they’ve been doing it since 2017.
America has been democratic backsliding into authoritarianism for nearly a decade. Much of what we see now builds on what they did in term 1 and advanced in the interim.
But too many denied it.
America has been democratic backsliding into authoritarianism for nearly a decade. Much of what we see now builds on what they did in term 1 and advanced in the interim.
But too many denied it.
One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
December 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
“How did American democracy backslide?”
“Two ways: gradually, then suddenly”
Trump is the culmination of GOP trends that have been accelerating since at least Ford’s pardon, then Reagan’s rogue pre-presidency foreign policy & Iran-Contra, through everything in the GWB admin. All of it unpunished.
“Two ways: gradually, then suddenly”
Trump is the culmination of GOP trends that have been accelerating since at least Ford’s pardon, then Reagan’s rogue pre-presidency foreign policy & Iran-Contra, through everything in the GWB admin. All of it unpunished.
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This is the UK Labour Party, the left-liberal party who took power in a wave election after the fascist-adjacent conservs melted down.
We MUST prevent the US Democratic Party from turning into this. It is an essential priority. If they come to power and do this it will destroy America forever.
We MUST prevent the US Democratic Party from turning into this. It is an essential priority. If they come to power and do this it will destroy America forever.
December 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This is the UK Labour Party, the left-liberal party who took power in a wave election after the fascist-adjacent conservs melted down.
We MUST prevent the US Democratic Party from turning into this. It is an essential priority. If they come to power and do this it will destroy America forever.
We MUST prevent the US Democratic Party from turning into this. It is an essential priority. If they come to power and do this it will destroy America forever.
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we have to make supreme court expansion a 2028 nominee litmus test, we have to get every candidate on the record about what their plan is to rein in this rogue court of unaccountable ideologues
December 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
we have to make supreme court expansion a 2028 nominee litmus test, we have to get every candidate on the record about what their plan is to rein in this rogue court of unaccountable ideologues
RWW from the top rope
It's a major award. I won it.
December 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
RWW from the top rope
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some days you just have to laugh at how unbelievably stupid everything is
December 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
some days you just have to laugh at how unbelievably stupid everything is