Skloom
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In my old town the GOP had run basically without serious challenge for decades. A bunch of us "millennials" joined the local Dem party and basically asked to help.
We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
“Rather than taking over the Democratic Party the same way the right took over the Republican Party, we should take the easier route and just start up a new party ourselves!”
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
I’m about to fill my pockets with stones and walk into the sea.
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
In my old town the GOP had run basically without serious challenge for decades. A bunch of us "millennials" joined the local Dem party and basically asked to help.
We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party
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Someone should go there and show them the clips of Trump's Great Gatsby party. I bet they'd be so happy to know he's having fun.
This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.
November 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Someone should go there and show them the clips of Trump's Great Gatsby party. I bet they'd be so happy to know he's having fun.
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Rachel Maddow: “Donald Trump has never been more unpopular than he is right now. His disapproval rating is higher than it was in the immediate aftermath of January 6th. 63% disapprove, only 37% approve of Trump. He is 26 points underwater. That’s astonishing”
November 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Rachel Maddow: “Donald Trump has never been more unpopular than he is right now. His disapproval rating is higher than it was in the immediate aftermath of January 6th. 63% disapprove, only 37% approve of Trump. He is 26 points underwater. That’s astonishing”
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but I was promised the city was burning
Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question
October 6, 2025 at 2:42 AM
but I was promised the city was burning
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That’s not exactly a denial…
Ingraham: “They said that you took $50,000 in cash in a bag from an undercover FBI agent to help them win government contracts in Trump's second term…I imagine you want to respond to that.”
Homan: “I did nothing criminal. I did nothing illegal.”
Homan: “I did nothing criminal. I did nothing illegal.”
September 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
That’s not exactly a denial…
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I mean look, he said we should just accept this sort of thing and move on. I disagree, but he won the political argument and I figure I owe it to the dead to respect his wishes anyway.
September 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I mean look, he said we should just accept this sort of thing and move on. I disagree, but he won the political argument and I figure I owe it to the dead to respect his wishes anyway.
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I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.
September 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.
Angels Rest in the Columbia Gorge.
September 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Angels Rest in the Columbia Gorge.
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Hey @nytimes.com
How about some follow-up here.
You've said for weeks and weeks that Harvard was "about" to capitulate for $500 million. They haven't.
Who is right?
How about some follow-up here.
You've said for weeks and weeks that Harvard was "about" to capitulate for $500 million. They haven't.
Who is right?
It's now been six weeks since the @nytimes.com started reporting in big stories in that Harvard's $500 million capitulation to Trump was imminent.
-Each of their three stories was trumpeted.
-Zero of them have yet been true.
High stakes here.
-Each of their three stories was trumpeted.
-Zero of them have yet been true.
High stakes here.
August 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Hey @nytimes.com
How about some follow-up here.
You've said for weeks and weeks that Harvard was "about" to capitulate for $500 million. They haven't.
Who is right?
How about some follow-up here.
You've said for weeks and weeks that Harvard was "about" to capitulate for $500 million. They haven't.
Who is right?
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Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.
Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"
June 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.
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Difficult to overstate how much blood RFK and Trump will have on their hands in the coming years.
Difficult to overstate how many innocent kids will die as a result of the people who cast votes for Trump last November.
Difficult to overstate how many innocent kids will die as a result of the people who cast votes for Trump last November.
A chilling reminder that American science denial does not just affect people in the US, it kills people globally.
June 26, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Difficult to overstate how much blood RFK and Trump will have on their hands in the coming years.
Difficult to overstate how many innocent kids will die as a result of the people who cast votes for Trump last November.
Difficult to overstate how many innocent kids will die as a result of the people who cast votes for Trump last November.
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War is peace, apparently.
Trump says the U.S. military has just attacked three Iranian nuclear sites:
June 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
War is peace, apparently.
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Nobody is rioting. Nobody is breaking any laws. These are cops in my city of Las Vegas just assaulting and arresting anyone on Fremont Street who looks at them. This is fascism.
June 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Nobody is rioting. Nobody is breaking any laws. These are cops in my city of Las Vegas just assaulting and arresting anyone on Fremont Street who looks at them. This is fascism.
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Bully: Hey Columbia, gimme your lunch money.
Columbia: Here you go. (He'll leave us alone now, right?)
Bully: Gimme a year's lunch money, Columbia.
Columbia: OK, here you go.
Bully: Hey Harvard, gimme two year's lunch money.
Harvard: No.
Bully: Uh... that lunch money request was an accident.
Columbia: Here you go. (He'll leave us alone now, right?)
Bully: Gimme a year's lunch money, Columbia.
Columbia: OK, here you go.
Bully: Hey Harvard, gimme two year's lunch money.
Harvard: No.
Bully: Uh... that lunch money request was an accident.
April 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Bully: Hey Columbia, gimme your lunch money.
Columbia: Here you go. (He'll leave us alone now, right?)
Bully: Gimme a year's lunch money, Columbia.
Columbia: OK, here you go.
Bully: Hey Harvard, gimme two year's lunch money.
Harvard: No.
Bully: Uh... that lunch money request was an accident.
Columbia: Here you go. (He'll leave us alone now, right?)
Bully: Gimme a year's lunch money, Columbia.
Columbia: OK, here you go.
Bully: Hey Harvard, gimme two year's lunch money.
Harvard: No.
Bully: Uh... that lunch money request was an accident.
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Yes--Germany invented the modern university. In the 1930s its universities were the best in the world until the Nazis destroyed them. German universities have never recovered their preeminence. We risk repeating this history here in the US.
Germany still hasn’t fully recovered from expelling and killing so many of its top researchers back in 1933. A lot of brilliant minds were forced to leave—people who went on to do groundbreaking work in other countries, especially the U.S.
March 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Yes--Germany invented the modern university. In the 1930s its universities were the best in the world until the Nazis destroyed them. German universities have never recovered their preeminence. We risk repeating this history here in the US.
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Four years ago right now. This was our evacuation team that got us out of the Capitol. When they knocked on our hiding place door, they had a code word & we had a response word so we knew they were actual USCP. You can see them holding back rioters. The “Join Us!” chant to cops was stomach turning.
January 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Four years ago right now. This was our evacuation team that got us out of the Capitol. When they knocked on our hiding place door, they had a code word & we had a response word so we knew they were actual USCP. You can see them holding back rioters. The “Join Us!” chant to cops was stomach turning.