Ryan McCarthy
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I'm kinda feeling like the liberal justices may as well just stop showing up to work at this point. What a goddamned farce this court this is.
December 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I'm kinda feeling like the liberal justices may as well just stop showing up to work at this point. What a goddamned farce this court this is.
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The Democrats just won a blowout election, the polling shows that the public blames the Republicans for the shutdown, Trump was freaking out and demanding the GOP abolish the filibuster, and now they quit with nothing to show for it? Absurd. Pathetic.
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The Democrats just won a blowout election, the polling shows that the public blames the Republicans for the shutdown, Trump was freaking out and demanding the GOP abolish the filibuster, and now they quit with nothing to show for it? Absurd. Pathetic.
Trump literally tearing down part of the White House is maybe a bit too on-the-nose as a metaphor.
October 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Trump literally tearing down part of the White House is maybe a bit too on-the-nose as a metaphor.
When they come for you, who you gonna call?
“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”
Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents
‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said
www.independent.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
When they come for you, who you gonna call?
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I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”
October 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”
Absolutely. A 65-year-old with heart disease.
Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu
Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says
Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."
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October 11, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Absolutely. A 65-year-old with heart disease.
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I finally got a chance to write one of my dream assignments, an in depth evaluation of Daniel Day-Lewis, an actor whose achievements and methods cast a long shadow over the field, and whose work is often misunderstood.
slate.com/culture/2025...
slate.com/culture/2025...
Only One Performer Has Won Three Best Actor Oscars. Is It Fair That He’s Also a Joke?
He might be the greatest actor of all time—and the most misunderstood.
slate.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I finally got a chance to write one of my dream assignments, an in depth evaluation of Daniel Day-Lewis, an actor whose achievements and methods cast a long shadow over the field, and whose work is often misunderstood.
slate.com/culture/2025...
slate.com/culture/2025...
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It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...
October 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...
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Just like Cheney last year, Karl Rove and John fucking Yoo stating the obvious out loud just reaffirms how kept and useless Dem leadership is. Americans deserve a better opposition party.
ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.”
@wsj.com
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September 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Just like Cheney last year, Karl Rove and John fucking Yoo stating the obvious out loud just reaffirms how kept and useless Dem leadership is. Americans deserve a better opposition party.
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“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”
September 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”
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Sotomayor's dissent strongly suggests that we've now reached the point where it is fair advice to tell any Latino citizen in Los Angeles to carry a passport or birth certificate (or picture of one on their phone) at all times with them now, in case they're stopped by DHS or their compatriots.
September 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Sotomayor's dissent strongly suggests that we've now reached the point where it is fair advice to tell any Latino citizen in Los Angeles to carry a passport or birth certificate (or picture of one on their phone) at all times with them now, in case they're stopped by DHS or their compatriots.
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what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
September 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
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Malcolm Gladwell is the perfect face of this bullshit, because he is the epitome of a person dumb people think is smart. Because he takes complex issues and reduces them to glib "one neat trick" stories.
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Dingus of the week: Malcolm Gladwell
And the ourodingus
lyz.substack.com
September 6, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Malcolm Gladwell is the perfect face of this bullshit, because he is the epitome of a person dumb people think is smart. Because he takes complex issues and reduces them to glib "one neat trick" stories.
lyz.substack.com/p/help-help-...
lyz.substack.com/p/help-help-...
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Most of what the DOD does is defense. We're only at war a tiny percentage of the time. Defending is not "mission creep."
September 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Most of what the DOD does is defense. We're only at war a tiny percentage of the time. Defending is not "mission creep."
Every time I start to think that the world might not be ending I remember that Oasis has reuinited.
July 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Every time I start to think that the world might not be ending I remember that Oasis has reuinited.
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I think much of the tech right’s turn to eugenics can be explained by their psychic refusal to accept that their massive wealth is the product of historical luck (being in SV at a time when investment money was cheap & abundant) and an insistence that it was instead a product of inherent supremacy.
That Peter Thiel is pretty dumb shouldn't be surprising. No reason to think someone who got rich basically being lucky (right place, right time) during early tech boom and then exploiting IRA tax loopholes should have anything intelligent to say about politics, philosophy, or anything else.
June 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I think much of the tech right’s turn to eugenics can be explained by their psychic refusal to accept that their massive wealth is the product of historical luck (being in SV at a time when investment money was cheap & abundant) and an insistence that it was instead a product of inherent supremacy.
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Good documentary on the Musk/Trump rift.
June 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Good documentary on the Musk/Trump rift.
I'm really starting to understand why the name "Antifa" upset these folks so much.
May 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I'm really starting to understand why the name "Antifa" upset these folks so much.
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We're live! The first episode of Standing Room Only is about the Hallow app, and how the MAGA movement uses "wellness" and celebrity influencers to lure people in.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTSq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTSq...
I tried MAGA’s favorite prayer app — It was weirder than I expected | Standing Room Only | Salon.com
YouTube video by Salon
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May 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
We're live! The first episode of Standing Room Only is about the Hallow app, and how the MAGA movement uses "wellness" and celebrity influencers to lure people in.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTSq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTSq...
Supremely grateful that The Good Pope was able to stick around on this earthly realm long enough to tell Vance just how much he sucks.
April 21, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Supremely grateful that The Good Pope was able to stick around on this earthly realm long enough to tell Vance just how much he sucks.
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Abrego isn’t MS-13. Also, it’s not illegal to be a member of a gang. It’s not right to deport someone to a torture prison for life for something that’s not even a crime.
4) The only “evidence” of his supposed gang membership was a CI’s accusation. He has no criminal record.
April 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Abrego isn’t MS-13. Also, it’s not illegal to be a member of a gang. It’s not right to deport someone to a torture prison for life for something that’s not even a crime.
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pretty crazy watching the american president on live tv in the oval office planning the construction of concentration camps in a foreign country to house americans
April 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
pretty crazy watching the american president on live tv in the oval office planning the construction of concentration camps in a foreign country to house americans
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They’ll pressure a NATO ally to release a sex trafficker and racketeer but they won’t pressure a tiny dictatorship to return a man it’s holding on our behalf, who they admit they sent there by accident
April 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
They’ll pressure a NATO ally to release a sex trafficker and racketeer but they won’t pressure a tiny dictatorship to return a man it’s holding on our behalf, who they admit they sent there by accident
I'm honestly surprised that no one from the deep state has zapped RFK jr with one of their cancer rayguns yet.
April 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I'm honestly surprised that no one from the deep state has zapped RFK jr with one of their cancer rayguns yet.