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I use this to scream into the void. Apologies.
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When the definitive history of our time is written, the last words in the book will be, “White Americans determined that they would rather end democracy and endure tyranny than risk being governed by another black man.”
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👀 that lean dem number
Marquette Crosstabs of Interest
Independent: 🟦D 44%, 🟥R 25%, Neither/No Vote 31%
Lean Republican: 🟦D 8%, 🟥R 67%, Neither/No vote 25%
Lean Dem: 🟦D 91%, 🟥R 1%, Neither/NV 9%
Hispanic: 🟦D 51%, 🟥R 29%, Neither/NV 20%
Registered to vote: 🟦D 48%, 🟥R 44%
Not registered: 🟦D 39%, 🟥R 31%, Neither/NV 29%
Independent: 🟦D 44%, 🟥R 25%, Neither/No Vote 31%
Lean Republican: 🟦D 8%, 🟥R 67%, Neither/No vote 25%
Lean Dem: 🟦D 91%, 🟥R 1%, Neither/NV 9%
Hispanic: 🟦D 51%, 🟥R 29%, Neither/NV 20%
Registered to vote: 🟦D 48%, 🟥R 44%
Not registered: 🟦D 39%, 🟥R 31%, Neither/NV 29%
November 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
👀 that lean dem number
I saw the woke in the window and the woke looked at me and the woke called me stupid.
Trump on AI: "You can't go through 50 states. You have to get one approval. 50 is a disaster. Because you'll have one woke state and you'll have to do all woke. You'll be back in the woke business. We don't have woke anymore in this country. It's virtually illegal. You'll have a couple of wokesters"
November 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I saw the woke in the window and the woke looked at me and the woke called me stupid.
I confess to being slightly worried about how all the criminals, losers, groypers and ghouls that surround this man will react as his power and health continue to slip away. Do they turn on each other? Try a coup with a senile Trump as a figurehead? Loot the treasury and run?
"My poll numbers just went down" -- as even he just acknowledged, Trump's hardcore xenophobic base is going to be mad about this speech
November 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I confess to being slightly worried about how all the criminals, losers, groypers and ghouls that surround this man will react as his power and health continue to slip away. Do they turn on each other? Try a coup with a senile Trump as a figurehead? Loot the treasury and run?
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If nothing damaging comes out ... no one will belive it and the demand for the real files being released will be damaging too.
November 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
If nothing damaging comes out ... no one will belive it and the demand for the real files being released will be damaging too.
I think we are still looking for the One Thing that will End Trump, all at once.
We don’t need that. We need him to bleed more than the day before. He just lost, humiliatingly, a vote he’d been trying to stop for months. And when they release a thousand redacted pages, his base will lose it.
We don’t need that. We need him to bleed more than the day before. He just lost, humiliatingly, a vote he’d been trying to stop for months. And when they release a thousand redacted pages, his base will lose it.
It's like Barr tanking the mueller report 2.0. Deliberately release some crumbs that don't incriminate him. Eventually when the whole thing gets out, the media will have already told everyone the president is innocent, and will allow him to spin it as a witch hunt
November 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I think we are still looking for the One Thing that will End Trump, all at once.
We don’t need that. We need him to bleed more than the day before. He just lost, humiliatingly, a vote he’d been trying to stop for months. And when they release a thousand redacted pages, his base will lose it.
We don’t need that. We need him to bleed more than the day before. He just lost, humiliatingly, a vote he’d been trying to stop for months. And when they release a thousand redacted pages, his base will lose it.
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I do think you can understand the present state of world affairs better if you believe that the worst person alive has, since 2017, been the most powerful person alive the majority of the time.
there is not a single Republican legislator who is a worse person than Trump is and whatever remains of each of their consciences has been sublimated to his whims for a decade now
November 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I do think you can understand the present state of world affairs better if you believe that the worst person alive has, since 2017, been the most powerful person alive the majority of the time.
It will be stayed indefinitely without comment from the majority. Oral arguments will be scheduled in spring 2031.
NEWS: This is a 2-1 decision of a three-judge district court blocking the mid-decade Texas redistricting map as a racial gerrymander. It will (undoubtedly) be appealed, and it goes directly to the Supreme Court.
November 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
It will be stayed indefinitely without comment from the majority. Oral arguments will be scheduled in spring 2031.
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Quote post with a song you can’t hear without thinking of a movie it was in
"Magic Carpet Ride" by Steppenwolf
"Magic Carpet Ride" by Steppenwolf
November 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Quote post with a song you can’t hear without thinking of a movie it was in
"Magic Carpet Ride" by Steppenwolf
"Magic Carpet Ride" by Steppenwolf
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we have spent the last 12,000 years constantly working on repudiating our evolutionary environment and you don’t get to revert only one of those topics at a time. you wanna play at being anprim, take off your glasses and go live in a fruit bearing forest
Revenge/physical combat was how people settled things for literally millions of years, it's normal human behavior, we're wolves not sheep, the government project trying to social engineer us and domesticate us into sheep has been unsuccessful
November 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
we have spent the last 12,000 years constantly working on repudiating our evolutionary environment and you don’t get to revert only one of those topics at a time. you wanna play at being anprim, take off your glasses and go live in a fruit bearing forest
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I long for a world where I am not *constantly* reminded, entirely and utterly against my will, of the icky sex proclivities of random mediocrities with money.
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I long for a world where I am not *constantly* reminded, entirely and utterly against my will, of the icky sex proclivities of random mediocrities with money.
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I do not care what any consenting adult of any gender configuration does sexually with other consenting adults, and also my God, could you sweaty freaks who tragically currently run the world be a little a more goddamned discreet about it?
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I do not care what any consenting adult of any gender configuration does sexually with other consenting adults, and also my God, could you sweaty freaks who tragically currently run the world be a little a more goddamned discreet about it?
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He never saw himself as elected to a public office. In his mind he acquired America.
November 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
He never saw himself as elected to a public office. In his mind he acquired America.
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What if, as a special favor to me, we just never talked about Olivia Nuzzi agai? At least not where I have to be exposed to it. Ever. Deal? Deal.
November 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
What if, as a special favor to me, we just never talked about Olivia Nuzzi agai? At least not where I have to be exposed to it. Ever. Deal? Deal.
This is why we need rabid, feral, independent prosecutors that will crush them all. It’s not because I want to see these ghouls in DC in chains - I do - but so that future ghouls and civil servants know there is a precedent to nuke them from orbit when pro-democracy forces regain power.
the career people are helping the administration because they believe the administration will punish them if they don't and the democrats will be lenient
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
This is why we need rabid, feral, independent prosecutors that will crush them all. It’s not because I want to see these ghouls in DC in chains - I do - but so that future ghouls and civil servants know there is a precedent to nuke them from orbit when pro-democracy forces regain power.
I wish I had a job like a conservative newspaper columnist. “Some say the war will be bloody. I say poppycock. Others say you need an electoral mandate for war. I declare the divine right of kings to still be in force. Some say to wash your crevices when showering. I say that is woke nonsense.”
The Iraq war at least had spirited months-long debate in Congress, the press and the public. Is he really advocating for a massive military campaign to take another country’s capital and occupy half the nation with a sort of “surprise! We are in a major war!” blindside to the American public?
November 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I wish I had a job like a conservative newspaper columnist. “Some say the war will be bloody. I say poppycock. Others say you need an electoral mandate for war. I declare the divine right of kings to still be in force. Some say to wash your crevices when showering. I say that is woke nonsense.”
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Washington declined to kneel for prayer and appealed to “Providence” or “Heaven,” not god. He also stopped attending a church when the pastor insisted he adopt a more orthodox view.
November 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Washington declined to kneel for prayer and appealed to “Providence” or “Heaven,” not god. He also stopped attending a church when the pastor insisted he adopt a more orthodox view.
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Love reading articles like this so I can marvel at how smart scientists are while I struggle to even remotely understand the words I’m reading. Keeps me humble
November 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Love reading articles like this so I can marvel at how smart scientists are while I struggle to even remotely understand the words I’m reading. Keeps me humble
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British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
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Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
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November 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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The long shadow of Thatcher-Reaganism is a pox on both our houses.
it is wild that Labour is doing exactly what the reactionary centrists recommend and is absolutely destroying its base of support as a result, and yet reactionary centrists in the US are just utterly silent about the complete failure of their program.
November 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The long shadow of Thatcher-Reaganism is a pox on both our houses.
“I only criticized their space lasers that were burning down California. I didn’t criticize them, per se.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "You should have Nick Fuentes on your show…I myself am not antisemitic. I have never criticized the Jewish people or said anything about them in particular. I am critical of their, the government of Israel."
November 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
“I only criticized their space lasers that were burning down California. I didn’t criticize them, per se.”
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Before anyone gets too carried away here.
Anthony Fauci says Marjorie Taylor Greene drove death threats against him
Ex-leader of US Covid response said congresswoman and Fox News sparked ‘credible death threats’ against him and his family
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Before anyone gets too carried away here.
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Bill Bryson: ‘Ever since I was a little boy, I have pretended to be able to vaporise people I don’t like’
Bill Bryson: ‘Ever since I was a little boy, I have pretended to be able to vaporise people I don’t like’
The American British author on pet peeves, the perils of fantasy dinner parties, and revisiting The Short History of Everything two decades later
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Bill Bryson: ‘Ever since I was a little boy, I have pretended to be able to vaporise people I don’t like’
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THIS. A thousand times this. He reminds me of my mission president who gave a sermon to all his missionaries saying that being gay is a result of daddy issues. He was aptly called "Dick".
Anyone who grew up in a fundamentalist household and made the painful journey out knows exactly what kind of sanctimonious asshole Mike Johnson is
November 15, 2025 at 2:40 AM
THIS. A thousand times this. He reminds me of my mission president who gave a sermon to all his missionaries saying that being gay is a result of daddy issues. He was aptly called "Dick".
“I didn’t think the exemption of Christian morality to own the libs would extend to MY sacred cows!!”
Lol all of these people can eat shit. But it is good that they are fighting.
November 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
“I didn’t think the exemption of Christian morality to own the libs would extend to MY sacred cows!!”