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I'm not trying to be mean, but racists who believe Trump betrayed them by being a child molester are not going to embrace the Democratic Party without forcing that party to embrace racism. And the people gained would in no way make up for those lost.
November 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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"but I, a person who this doesn't affect at all and therefore has no real reason to be on the lookout for it, haven't noticed it personally, or if I did it didn't seem important so I just waved it away, so if it's not a problem for me, the human baseline, then clearly it's not a problem for anyone"
November 16, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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This is such a common dynamic and it absolutely does immense harm to women’s careers. We do not need to tolerate this shit anymore.
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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When the US liberated Nazi concentration camps, many queer people stayed in prison because they were seen as having broken the law. Indeed, Paragraph 175, which criminalized gay intercourse in Weimar Germany & had been expanded to include intent by the Nazis, was not abolished by the US after WWII.
November 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
November 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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“The law will accomplish nothing except making the internet less safe and less private for users.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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“there is a point on the graph where things get Worse, and there you will find Ronald Reagan” stays undefeated
it's fascinating that you can see when exactly the Reagan revolution happened
November 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
the illusion of control is a hell of a drug
some people are like:

*got cheated on while doing polyamory*

"i will never do polyamory again"

*got cheated on while doing monogamy*

"i'm gonna do monogamy even harder"
November 16, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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No notes 🎯….internet is undefeated!
November 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
i'm certain that Pluribus is a masterpiece, but as soon as I saw the first lab scene, i had to bounce for now

i have to imagine so many other folks had a similar reaction
November 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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62 wolves have been killed in Montana since hunting season opened. Killing wolves is neither supported by science nor ethics, yet it becomes a reality when wolves lose federal ESA protections.

As the numbers climb, how many more wolves will be lost without reason?
November 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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my wife worked for a catholic hospital and gave birth to our last child there and _their own obstetrician_ told her to get her tubes tied because it was _medically necessary_ and the hospital wouldn't allow it to be done with her c-section because it was against their beliefs, even though we're jews
Many people dismissed the announcement Catholic hospitals will ban gender-affirming care nationwide under the assumption that there will be other options. In reality, Catholic hospitals make up as much 46% of options in some states. This map is 2020, prior to Trump’s assault on safety net hospitals.
November 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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You want to know why young people don’t give a fuck about our system? It’s because this pedophile piece of shit has never been held accountable despite being the antithesis of everything this country was founded on.

We have to give people a reason to vote and care, and the current system ain’t it.
November 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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November 15, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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years ago an emmy-winning comedy writer posted this in a DM group and I’ve thought about it literally every day since (anonymized and shared with permission)
November 15, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!

Silicon Valley, 2025:
November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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genuinely can't tell which part might be funnier, MTG slowly putting together the dots on this, now, at the end of all things, or the possibility that she thinks that nobody else has already
Marjorie Taylor Greene on Trump: “It’s astonishing really how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein files from coming out that he actually goes to this level.”
November 15, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Some stains are difficult if not impossible to clean, but that doesn't mean that we always need to avoid making the mess - maybe just do it outside to be safe, and avoid wearing clothing that can't be washed away

Thanks again to @tr0uble-mkr.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Disney has hiked prices and laid off hundreds of workers this year.

Yet Disney paid its CEO $41B in 2024. It just reported a 36% increase in net profits for parks and streaming. And it plans to double stock buybacks next year.

Remember this as Disney turns to AI.
Bob Iger says Disney+ will soon have AI-generated short form content from users

(via THR)
November 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM