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Oh wow oh no oh wait OH REALLY?!
Q: How many times has unanimous consent been given since Donald Trump was sworn into office for a second term? A: Over 400 times. The number can be verified by going through the congressional record on Senate.gov, a public service website paid for by American taxpayer dollars. Additionally, we know of at least one researcher, Keira Havens, who has been going through the Congressional Record to find these numbers.
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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This seems like a thing I should very much read. Thank you for putting it together.
The intro to "A Guide to Unanimous Consent," written by @senategabe. Following the title, it reads: The United States Senate is highly unusual for a legislative body. Among the world's wealthy democracies, it is the most powerful by far in terms of the degree of power it gives the minority. Senate rules are extremely difficult to change. Even a law passed by the United States Congress through standard procedure would not be sufficient to change the rules. The Constitution instead gives the power for the Senate to determine its own rules. In order to change a rule in the Senate, this requires the support of two thirds of the Senators (67 out of 100 if all are present). Because of this complexity, rules are almost never changed. Rather than do so, senators regularly ask for every senator to support temporarily bypassing normal procedure so that things can be done in a faster and in a more comfortable manner. This process is called "unanimous consent."
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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And, please: Do not bring his children into this as a way to "prove" Pete isn't racist. One, it's gross. Two, it's unfair to the children. Three, racists are not barred from adopting Black children. Would that they were.
An excerpt from an article at PBS.org titled, "How Buttigieg's Decision on Police Chief Shadows Presidential Run" that reads as follows: It was March 2012, and the 30-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, had just decided to replace the city's first African American police chief over complaints that he illegally wiretapped police officers' phone calls. [Karen] DePaepe, who oversaw the department's phone system, had called the mayor to try to talk him out of replacing the popular chief. She wanted to tell him the situation was not that simple. It was DePaepe who discovered a mistakenly recorded phone line and, she says, heard white police officers making racist comments. She said in an interview with The Associated Press that she reported what she heard to the chieef, and the recording continued. Buttigieg—who's now competing for the Democratic nomination for president—never called her back. When DePaepe's phone finally rang, she says, it was the young mayor's chief of staff, who told her she, too, had to go. Federal prosecutors, he told her, had suggested that she and the chief could be indicted if they weren't removed.
November 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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I think what I hate most is knowing

* that billionaire shits know it's a bubble, but
* when it pops, they'll keep their earnings, while
* explaining to us that everything costs more now, because we didn't AI hard enough

Not enough aneurysms among the parasites these days.
In a scene from the 2018 film "Sorry to Bother You," a billboard hangs on the side of a liquor store. The billboard advertises WorryFree, a sendup of corporations like Amazon, with the "improvement" that WorryFree workers receive free room and board, plus meals, in exchange for working at WorryFree. The billboard displays three bunk beds stacked atop each other, with pajama-class persons in each, while at the right of this image text reads, "WorryFree: If you lived here, you'd be at work already!"
November 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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I respect Lynda's diplomacy, but blondes need to learn that they can't have *everything*.

& young people need to learn that the sooner you start fillers and peels, the sooner you need invasive intervention to keep looking like you were manufactured by Mattel. 🫢

It's a pipeline; don't fall into it.
Lynda Carter writes, atop a picture of Sabrina Carpenter wearing a Wonder Woman Halloween costume, "I see this little argument about Wonder Woman being brunette... Reminder! Wonder Woman is within all of us, and sometimes, she has blonde hair like Sabrina Carpenter!" Note that Sabrina Carpenter doesn't really have blonde hair herself--it's bleached.
November 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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A #visualaid.
A Venn diagram showing two sets that do not intersect (the intersection is the null set). On the left, a blue circle is labeled, "People who make frequent and lavish use of hashtags". On the right, a green circle is labeled, "People who make frequent and lavish use of alt text."
October 23, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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The quality of the grifters has definitely declined since the greatest to ever do it, Tony Robbins.

That terrifyingly be-toothed fella scammed me out of $180 dollars in 1980s money, but I can't even hate. I can't hate him because it taught me not to spend bonkers amounts of money on TV gurus.
A bust-style portrait of Tony Robbins, a self-improvement coach who used to make riveting infomercials in the late 20th century. He is very tan and grinning widely. He has short dark-brown hair and is wearing a black suit jacket with a white pocket square over a white dress shirt and black-and-white checkered tie.
October 20, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Aw, she's shy.
A particularly unwelcome, arrogant, and obnoxious reply by Bluesky user Barb Appleby, in which she replies to a post by thewayoftheid with "Everybody contributes to society just some get paid ridiculously big bucks for doing it...!" To Barb with heartfelt gratitude we say: thanks for clearing that up, you twat française.
October 15, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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From the Working Class History podcast, transcript here:

workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e10-...

The playbook does not change. This is exactly what was done following September 11 and exactly what is being done now. They haven't an original thought in their minds ever.
An excerpt from E10-11: GI resistance in Vietnam, a podcast, in which a Vietnam war veteran named Jerry is asked by one of the hosts, Stephanie, about women's contributions to the antiwar movement. Text reads: STEPHANIE It sounds like the women's contribution is erased from public memory. JERRY Even worse than erased, I think, is villified. The interesection there is with the historical fact that the war was lost and so Americans went looking for reasons why the war was lost which turned inward to look for scapegoats for the loss of the war. Culturally, the scapegoat became the feminization of American culture. We, the Americans, lost the war because we had turned soft. We lost the war because we had become too encumbered by welfare. Our men had become feminized by the women's movement. There was this whole paranoia and vilifying of the 'feminism' within the culture. People like Joan Baez and Jane Fonda became like lightning rods for the anti anti-war movement. The loss got put at the feet of home front betrayal and that we lost the war because of what happened at home. Women were the main targets of that. Part of the general backlash against the women's movement and against the feminist movement was because of that.
October 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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QT this post with someone you wish was still alive.
Joe Strummer, lead singer and songwriter for The Clash, is shown in a black-and-white photograph of late 1970s vintage. He is wearing a white t-shirt on which part of an illustration of a drum kit can be seen. He is holding a guitar and seated before a table, glancing slightly to his left, away from the camera.
October 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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1. NO ONE ON EARTH should be capable of dismissing the loss of "a couple of hundred billion dollars." No one should have so much in the first place.
2. If this doesn't make clear how eagerly they're all salivating at the prospect of worldwide slavery, I don't know what will. They keep telling you!
An excerpt from an article in Reuters dated October 8, 2025 and titled, "Markets face 'sharp correction' if mood sours on AI or Fed freedom, Bank of England says" (paywalled, but accessible via https://archive.ph/trjvZ) is subheaded, "AI VALUATIONS ECHO PEAK OF DOTCOM BOOM." Body text reads: On AI, the Bank of England said that 30% of the U.S. S & P 500's valuation was made up by the five largest companies, the greatest concentration in 50 years. Chipmaker Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Google-parent Alphabet, Amazon, and Facebook-parent Meta have all bet heavily on AI. Share valuations based on past earnings were the most stretched since the dotcom bubble 25 years ago, though looked less so based on investors' expectations for future profits. "This, when combined with increasing concentration within market indices, leaves markets particularly exposed should expectations around the impact of AI become less optimistic," the Bank of England said. Last month Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg said he would rather misspend a couple of hundred billion dollars than risk being late to the AI expansion. In August, almost half of fund managers polled by Bank of America judged that owning the seven largest U.S. tech stocks was the most crowded trade in the industry. Despite these concerns, the S & P 500 hit a record high on Tuesday, up 14% on the year to date.
October 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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I should probably stop bringing up the Wikipedia summary of her professional background, but it's... less than CEO-like.

A lot less.
The Career section of Jay Graber's Wikipedia article, in which it is shown that a chain of low-level positions inexplicably leads, in the span of only 6 years, to her becoming CEO of Bluesky. Text reads: In 2015, Graber began working as a software engineer for SkuChain in Mountain View, California. She then worked in a factory in Moses Lake, Washington, where she soldered bitcoin mining equipment. In 2016, she began workingas a junior developer for the Zcash cryptocurrency. In 2019, she founded the event planning website Happening, Inc. In August 2021, Graber became the first CEO of Bluesky, a microblogging social platform and public benefit company. Bluesky had been conceived as a new initiative by Twitter's original owners in 2019, but evolved to become a competitor to Twitter following the 2022 acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk. Her net worth is estimated at $5 million.
October 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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In a scene from the 1986 movie Ruthless People, two policemen in plainclothes are shown atop a roof. Concerning Earl Mott, one of the characters below at street level, one cop remarks to the other, "This could very well be the stupidest person on Earth."
September 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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🧶 Crochet projects have fallen off while I struggle to knit anything! anything at all! I am merely trying to knit a dishcloth ffs!

But I did complete a scrap yarn placemat. I just like to have something underneath the teapot to catch drips and protect the countertop. It doesn't have to be elegant.
A crocheted mat measuring approximately 18 inches (46 cm) wide x 15 inches (38 cm) long is shown pinned around its edges to a blocking mat. The piece has been crocheted in linen stitch in varying-length stripes of multiple bright colors, including reds, greens, orange, aqua, and blue, and is bordered in black.
September 30, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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I have been unsubscribed from this rag for two years.

I have clicked "unsubscribe" on these nuisance emails I don't how many times. Easily dozens.

And yet. The nerve of them claiming a hallucinating energy-gobbling mess is "built on facts." Next they'll claim Lauren is built on organic tissue.
A deeply pathetic Washington Post spam email inviting users to "Ask the Post AI," which they then claim is "Built on facts. Powered by conversation." (Note that the first sentence is literally false and the second is nonsensical. Conversing with AI does not "power" it.) Smaller type below this explains that "Ask the Post AI is fueled by trusted reporting and your curiosity. Where will your next question take you?" Below all this, lastly, a button is labeled "Start your conversation."
September 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Hey open source advocates, can we please take a day off once in awhile. It's giving Amway.

(Source: replies here blacksky.community/profile/did:...)
Two Bluesky posts, replies to an original post by FD Signifier, read as follows: (author: @bettybitter.bsky.social) LibreOffice is free and open source, highly recommend you switch. Not even MS knows what data Copilot is gathering or how it interacts with your programs, which is why their patches keep being buggy as hell. (author: @dogblud.bsky.social) you're about to get so many libreoffice mentions RIP
September 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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With alt text.
A screencap of three posts made by three distinct users on the social media formerly known as Twitter. Post 1 (author: @lindytrader): As a lifelong Democrat, I didn't know what to make of Charlie Kirk. I've since spent several lunch breaks watching his debates (FULL videos) and have come away with the impression that we got him all wrong. The reaction from those on my side of the aisle have really made me (here, the text is interrupted by a hyperlink labeled, "Show more") Post 2 (author: @unfollowalex): As a lifelong Democrat, I didn't know what to make of Charlie Kirk. I've since spent several lunch breaks watching his debates (FULL videos) and have come away with the impression that we got him all wrong. The reaction from those on my side of the aisle have really made me (here, the text is interrupted by a hyperlink labeled, "Show more") If you guessed that the third post displayed (author: @e_cdalton) contains the exact same text as posts 1 and 2, you guessed correctly. This screencap of three identical posts has been presented as an example of bot activity.
September 22, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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LEOs like to talk shit. What they do >>>>>>>>> what they say they'll do.
A series of Bluesky posts, 4 in all, is shown, beginning with one by @sliverrider: They did this in Portland as well. It was a 2-week pump fake. It's back to normal now. Reply by @mskellymhayes: So they moved operations in Portland for two weeks and then pivoted back to the original location? Reply by @rowan75: They didn't fully evacuate. They may have reduced the number of snipers on the roof for a while but they never "evacuated." Reply by @sliverrider: 100% but they put in a bunch of newspapers that they did [evacuate].
September 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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My favorite reply in the thread so far.
Yellow Teletubby character Laa-Laa is shown standing, waving with her right hand, in an image post by @suddenlygarmo.bsky.social.
September 21, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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With all LA has to offer, imagine coming right out of the gate praising its politics for its "pure ethnic tribalism."

You can def see how Ezra wound up at the NYT, though.

We haven't even got to the part where the woman he turned pandagon over to then wrote a Very (White) Feminist Book.
The racistly illustrated cover of Amanda Marcotte's 2008 book, "It's a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments." The foreground features an improbably pulchritudinous blonde white woman wearing an red animal print, halter style, French-cut leotard accessorized with a shark's tooth necklace. In her right hand, she wields a dagger with a blade that looks to have been carved from stone. She is engaged in a fight with a crocodile or alligator; her left hand is clamping the reptile's jaw shut because sure, that can happen when one is White Feminist enough. Despite this being an ostensibly feminist book, a fully clothed, muscular man wearing a Stetson hat and brandishing a rifle is seen behind the woman, apparently providing backup. It is unclear why he is not also clad in a leotard, to match.
September 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Ezra Klein has always been this way; he was just more low-key about it. His Pandagon days aren't prominent in his Wiki entry--he'd rather you associated him with Vox (and iykyk)--but that doesn't mean some of us weren't there or don't remember.

Because we were, and we do.

laist.com/news/a-conve...
An excerpt from a 2004 interview by the LAist with Ezra Klein, then a political blogger at pandagon.net. LAist: Has your recent move to LA changed your approach to blogging/politics/life? EK: I love Los Angeles' politics. None of this pesky issue content, it's pure ethnic tribalism. Somehow, there's less artifice in that approach. More seriously, I love Los Angeles. My Bay Area buddies couldn't comprehend why I'd leave Santa Cruz's redwoods for LA's pollutants, but that's just it. The Bay Area has a sort of liberal consensus and quality of life that leads to a towering complacency. The battles are fought with an eye towards symbolism because the stakes, insofar as San Francisco governs liberal and doesn't much affect national elections, just aren't that high. LA, conversely, has a vibrancy to it, there's a real struggle going on here. That's partially the product of our ethnic mix, partly our size, and partly our culture. In any case, it keeps me sharper, keeps me aware that the fight isn't for a good sentence or plaudits from your friends, but for real change.
September 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score
The Rotten Tomatoes entry for the film "Dot the I," showing its Tomatometer at 25% and summarizing the plot as, "A flamenco dancer (Natalia Verbeke) has an affair with a Brazilian actor (Gael García Bernal), provoking a drastic reaction from her priggish husband (James D'Arcy)."
September 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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This is the paradox of tolerance.

I don't think it quite goes far enough, but it sets rightwingers frothing at the mouth nonetheless, and in searching for a good source for it I ran into all kinds of indignant garbage from the likes of Less Wrong (lol, you wish) and other cesspits. Be cautious.
An excerpt from the essay "The limits of tolerance: Popper's paradox" by Alexandra Arévalo, sourced from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (freiheit.org). It reads: "However, this paradox implies setting limits on freedom of expression, an apparently illiberal proposal. Who decides the limit of such tolerance of intolerance? Should all 'intolerant' ideas be censored? "For Popper, the limit lies in violence; as long as any intolerant ideas or opinions could be countered through discursive or educational tools--what he called rational arguments--they should not be censored. Coercion and violence are then the limit, since in freedom, dialogue, debate and respet are always in the foreground. Karl Popper summed up his theory in a single sentence: 'We must therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate intolerance'."
September 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Dessert mode ACTIVATE:

Best pie: coconut cream
Best ice cream: german chocolate
Best donut: boston creme
Best bar: nanaimo
Best cake: german chocolate again, not sorry
Best other: chocolate pot de crème
Three white, ridged custard dishes hold chocolate pots de crème: A rich chocolate custard topped with a dollop of whipped cream. Unused spoons lie alongside the dishes at the upper right, while the dish in the lower right has a bite missing from it and the used spoon is shown next to it. Photo credit: Joseph De Leo for Epicurious, here https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/chocolate-pots-de-creme-104100
September 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Was there any reason that couldn't have been just plain text? Does it add clout to make it a pic?

(Alt text for the quoted post: Bold black text on a pale lavender-pink background reads: "The working class is under no obligation to mourn the deaths of those who are actively trying to kill them.")
Bold white text against a hot pink background reads: "The working class IS obligated, however, to provide alt text for images it posts. Because excluding folks based on ability is not solidarity--it's what the parasites do."
September 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM