Irate Historian
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Yet another fight is brewing over Missouri's new gerrymander. Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins says the law will go into effect tomorrow, even though opponents submitted 300K sigs this week for a veto referendum.
Organizers say the law was suspended as soon as they turned those sigs in.
Organizers say the law was suspended as soon as they turned those sigs in.
Missouri set to enact gerrymandered map despite 300K signatures for repeal referendum • Missouri Independent
Roughly 300,000 signatures demanding Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map be placed on the 2026 ballot were submitted.
missouriindependent.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Yet another fight is brewing over Missouri's new gerrymander. Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins says the law will go into effect tomorrow, even though opponents submitted 300K sigs this week for a veto referendum.
Organizers say the law was suspended as soon as they turned those sigs in.
Organizers say the law was suspended as soon as they turned those sigs in.
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1) seems like this kind of falls apart if the next president says "nah no more sanctions, go ahead and prosecute these fuckers.
2) oh hes sick sick if they're freaking out about prosecutions already.
2) oh hes sick sick if they're freaking out about prosecutions already.
NEWS: Trump officials are worried the ICC may try to prosecute them for war crimes once Trump's term ends, and are threatening sanctions against the ICC to change its founding document to grant them immunity. (via Reuters / link in reply)
December 11, 2025 at 6:53 AM
1) seems like this kind of falls apart if the next president says "nah no more sanctions, go ahead and prosecute these fuckers.
2) oh hes sick sick if they're freaking out about prosecutions already.
2) oh hes sick sick if they're freaking out about prosecutions already.
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Dem leadership literally griping that members are doing something just because voters are asking for it and the media will cover it.
December 11, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Dem leadership literally griping that members are doing something just because voters are asking for it and the media will cover it.
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Go to any news story on Facebook where a Jewish person is involved and the modal comment falls somewhere between Henry Ford and Tomas de Torquemada levels of antisemitism. It’s *dire* & many of the normal institutions that could push back on it have lost any credibility to do so
December 11, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Go to any news story on Facebook where a Jewish person is involved and the modal comment falls somewhere between Henry Ford and Tomas de Torquemada levels of antisemitism. It’s *dire* & many of the normal institutions that could push back on it have lost any credibility to do so
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And it turns out that everyone saying all their Bad Thoughts out loud doesn’t make us more open and honest but rather reduces the societal sense that those Thoughts are Bad - even spreading them!
Your observation is spot on. In the name of not ‘self censoring’, people are revealing opinions or just momentary notions that previously would go in the mental Bad Thoughts file, never yo see the light of day
December 11, 2025 at 6:29 AM
And it turns out that everyone saying all their Bad Thoughts out loud doesn’t make us more open and honest but rather reduces the societal sense that those Thoughts are Bad - even spreading them!
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In just 10 games, Audi Crooks is scoring at an unprecedented rate.
◽️ Averaging more than a point per minute
◽️ Set Iowa State single-game points record with 43 points
◽️ Has the second-highest field goal percentage in the country
◽️ Averaging more than a point per minute
◽️ Set Iowa State single-game points record with 43 points
◽️ Has the second-highest field goal percentage in the country
December 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
In just 10 games, Audi Crooks is scoring at an unprecedented rate.
◽️ Averaging more than a point per minute
◽️ Set Iowa State single-game points record with 43 points
◽️ Has the second-highest field goal percentage in the country
◽️ Averaging more than a point per minute
◽️ Set Iowa State single-game points record with 43 points
◽️ Has the second-highest field goal percentage in the country
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The list of things we are supposed to quit grows longer every day:
Alcohol
Sugar
Milk
Driving
Napping
Carbs
The only replacements being offered are weed, pharmaceutical and xenophobia/racism.
Alcohol
Sugar
Milk
Driving
Napping
Carbs
The only replacements being offered are weed, pharmaceutical and xenophobia/racism.
December 11, 2025 at 5:18 AM
The list of things we are supposed to quit grows longer every day:
Alcohol
Sugar
Milk
Driving
Napping
Carbs
The only replacements being offered are weed, pharmaceutical and xenophobia/racism.
Alcohol
Sugar
Milk
Driving
Napping
Carbs
The only replacements being offered are weed, pharmaceutical and xenophobia/racism.
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lol when your centrist frontliner running for senate is doing this...
🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
December 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
lol when your centrist frontliner running for senate is doing this...
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Part of the right wing sales pitch was "Liberals are annoying" but they quickly proved they are infinitely more irritating, it's not even close
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Part of the right wing sales pitch was "Liberals are annoying" but they quickly proved they are infinitely more irritating, it's not even close
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enforcement of this one will obviously be interesting but it's an important fight to have
Law barring immigration enforcement in courthouses signed by Pritzker
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Law barring immigration enforcement in courthouses signed by Pritzker
The new state law also allows residents to sue federal agents over alleged constitutional violations, but could face court challenges.
chicago.suntimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
enforcement of this one will obviously be interesting but it's an important fight to have
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YES YES YES DLCC TARGETING ARIZONA HOUSE AND SENATE
December 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
YES YES YES DLCC TARGETING ARIZONA HOUSE AND SENATE
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ultimately the subsidy cliff is an extremely rare example of a policy cliff bomb detonating in the hands of the GOP, they will own this
Amid the health care fight, AOC tells me despite the fact that Democrats didn't get a subsidy extension, they won the messaging war.
"There's no winning this, right, but I think that we've won the discourse with the American people."
@the-independent.com
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
"There's no winning this, right, but I think that we've won the discourse with the American people."
@the-independent.com
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Republicans barrel toward health care cliff as Democrats claim messaging war victory
AOC tells The Independent 'We've won the discourse with the American people and understanding what we were fighting for and why'
www.independent.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 3:23 AM
ultimately the subsidy cliff is an extremely rare example of a policy cliff bomb detonating in the hands of the GOP, they will own this
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Something to take into account: almost a third of the Cassidy-Crapo bill focuses on surgery for transgender people. It’s barely even trying to conceal how much this bill is about trans people than it is about expanding health care.
December 10, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Something to take into account: almost a third of the Cassidy-Crapo bill focuses on surgery for transgender people. It’s barely even trying to conceal how much this bill is about trans people than it is about expanding health care.
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Democrats would be crazy not to make this comment super-famous tomorrow when the Senate debates health care. Republicans don’t want you to be cared for as a patient when you’re sick. They think of you as a “consumer”—and tough luck if you don’t have the money for the care you need.
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Democrats would be crazy not to make this comment super-famous tomorrow when the Senate debates health care. Republicans don’t want you to be cared for as a patient when you’re sick. They think of you as a “consumer”—and tough luck if you don’t have the money for the care you need.
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it's all sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy
if the media keeps telling you the Dems are mired in woke chaos and the GOP is strong, then people believe that and vote accordingly and it keeps the GOP strong
conversely, the best way to get people to jump ship is show them other people jumping ship
if the media keeps telling you the Dems are mired in woke chaos and the GOP is strong, then people believe that and vote accordingly and it keeps the GOP strong
conversely, the best way to get people to jump ship is show them other people jumping ship
December 11, 2025 at 3:02 AM
it's all sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy
if the media keeps telling you the Dems are mired in woke chaos and the GOP is strong, then people believe that and vote accordingly and it keeps the GOP strong
conversely, the best way to get people to jump ship is show them other people jumping ship
if the media keeps telling you the Dems are mired in woke chaos and the GOP is strong, then people believe that and vote accordingly and it keeps the GOP strong
conversely, the best way to get people to jump ship is show them other people jumping ship
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the fact that we are actually getting "Republicans in disarray" headlines from even conservative media outlets feels like something has shifted
House GOP moderates revolt against Johnson on health care with new discharge petition
Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania introduced a discharge petition to try to bring a bill to the floor that would extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies by two years.
www.cbsnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
the fact that we are actually getting "Republicans in disarray" headlines from even conservative media outlets feels like something has shifted
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This man probably lacks the legal capacity to enter into contracts, and asking him to sign things constitutes elder abuse.
POLITICO: You pardoned the former president of Honduras even though he was convicted in a massive intl drug trafficking scheme. How is that 0 tolerance on drug trafficking?
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
December 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This man probably lacks the legal capacity to enter into contracts, and asking him to sign things constitutes elder abuse.
Interesting epiphany I just had. So I grew up going to an evangelical church. Pretty conservative, lots of stuff I don’t like about it…but in terms of the social control that the church itself exerted on the congregation, it was practically liberal.
December 11, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Interesting epiphany I just had. So I grew up going to an evangelical church. Pretty conservative, lots of stuff I don’t like about it…but in terms of the social control that the church itself exerted on the congregation, it was practically liberal.
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TOMORROW BELONGS TO US
February 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
TOMORROW BELONGS TO US
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I’ll never forget hearing Donald Trump’s racist “shithole countries” comment in a 2018 Oval Office meeting about immigration.
Tom Cotton and David Perdue claimed Trump didn’t say it and accused me of lying.
The truth comes out.
Tom Cotton and David Perdue claimed Trump didn’t say it and accused me of lying.
The truth comes out.
TRUMP: “I said why is it we only take people from shithole countries? Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden, Denmark… But we always take people from Somalia— places that are filthy, dirty, disgusting.”
Such a mystery what he means when he says this stuff, isn’t it?
Such a mystery what he means when he says this stuff, isn’t it?
December 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I’ll never forget hearing Donald Trump’s racist “shithole countries” comment in a 2018 Oval Office meeting about immigration.
Tom Cotton and David Perdue claimed Trump didn’t say it and accused me of lying.
The truth comes out.
Tom Cotton and David Perdue claimed Trump didn’t say it and accused me of lying.
The truth comes out.
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Bove is too partisan for the dude who launched a Zillow conspiracy theory to help out his buddy Brett Kavanaugh, what a time to be alive
“I can’t understand how he could possibly think it appropriate to go there,” said Edward Whelan, a former law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia and a prominent conservative legal commentator. “You can argue about whether the rules clearly prohibit what he did, but he showed terrible judgment.”
Judge Emil Bove Faces Ethics Complaint for Attending Trump Rally
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Bove is too partisan for the dude who launched a Zillow conspiracy theory to help out his buddy Brett Kavanaugh, what a time to be alive
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The problem is that the legal establishment that plays for clerkships and federal judicial appointments is clearly one of the most corrupt and/or cowed professional communities in this country and no one, and I mean no one, will do a goddamn thing about this for personal and professional reasons.
When I was a judicial law clerk in Montana, Pres Bush flew into the Billings airport for a rally.
I wanted to see Air Force One and asked the judge I clerked for if I could go. He said no, that it wouldn’t be appropriate.
And I was just a clerk. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
I wanted to see Air Force One and asked the judge I clerked for if I could go. He said no, that it wouldn’t be appropriate.
And I was just a clerk. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
Judge Emil Bove Faces Ethics Complaint for Attending Trump Rally
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The problem is that the legal establishment that plays for clerkships and federal judicial appointments is clearly one of the most corrupt and/or cowed professional communities in this country and no one, and I mean no one, will do a goddamn thing about this for personal and professional reasons.
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In what way is Modern Europe not a product of these things? What are you talking about?
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Europe must “persuade younger Europeans that their heritage, culture and way of life — a fundamentally Christian civilization leavened and improved but not erased by the values of the Enlightenment — are worth defending,” our columnist Bret Stephens writes.
Europe must “persuade younger Europeans that their heritage, culture and way of life — a fundamentally Christian civilization leavened and improved but not erased by the values of the Enlightenment — are worth defending,” our columnist Bret Stephens writes.
Opinion | Europe, Too, Is Worth Fighting For
Provided Europeans want to fight for it.
nyti.ms
December 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
In what way is Modern Europe not a product of these things? What are you talking about?
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Frankly amazing people are still pushing this guy’s exact same politics as the cure-all for Dems nationally.
Pennsylvania - Fetterman Approvals Among:
Overall: 39%
Republicans: 56%
Democrats: 31%
Independents: 30%
Emerson / Nov 23, 2025
Overall: 39%
Republicans: 56%
Democrats: 31%
Independents: 30%
Emerson / Nov 23, 2025
December 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Frankly amazing people are still pushing this guy’s exact same politics as the cure-all for Dems nationally.
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No, this is wrong, stop reposting this absurd and miscalculated meme.
It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.
It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.
December 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
No, this is wrong, stop reposting this absurd and miscalculated meme.
It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.
It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.