TheBoxer
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In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade
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This highlights the way in which “moderate pragmatic centrism” is a performance, a signaling exercise.
These people signal to their peers how smart they are by refusing to support good things and failing to oppose awful things.
“Look at me! Self-consciously not fighting! A good little moderate.”
These people signal to their peers how smart they are by refusing to support good things and failing to oppose awful things.
“Look at me! Self-consciously not fighting! A good little moderate.”
This exchange drives me nuts. Neither the interviewer nor Bazelon acknowledges that 1) abortion rights are really popular! and 2) what ICE is doing is hugely unpopular!
December 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This highlights the way in which “moderate pragmatic centrism” is a performance, a signaling exercise.
These people signal to their peers how smart they are by refusing to support good things and failing to oppose awful things.
“Look at me! Self-consciously not fighting! A good little moderate.”
These people signal to their peers how smart they are by refusing to support good things and failing to oppose awful things.
“Look at me! Self-consciously not fighting! A good little moderate.”
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
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For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do.
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes
"Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor," he said.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do.
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
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the harris campaign said the “they/them” ad didn’t sway the election.
one of the trump campaign’s top strategists this week said trans rights isn’t in the top five issues for swing voters.
when will the press stop talking about us like we’re a liability and start looking itself in the mirror
one of the trump campaign’s top strategists this week said trans rights isn’t in the top five issues for swing voters.
when will the press stop talking about us like we’re a liability and start looking itself in the mirror
November 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
the harris campaign said the “they/them” ad didn’t sway the election.
one of the trump campaign’s top strategists this week said trans rights isn’t in the top five issues for swing voters.
when will the press stop talking about us like we’re a liability and start looking itself in the mirror
one of the trump campaign’s top strategists this week said trans rights isn’t in the top five issues for swing voters.
when will the press stop talking about us like we’re a liability and start looking itself in the mirror
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Abolish Border Patrol.
Trump deportation agent: "I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.”
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Abolish Border Patrol.
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Apparently the thing it takes for Matt Yglesias to defend a DSA-style candidate who talks about oligarchy and M4A was for that candidate to reveal a secret connection with National Socialism, which, uh, maybe it's time to do some really deep reflection on how in-group posturing has baked your gourd
October 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Apparently the thing it takes for Matt Yglesias to defend a DSA-style candidate who talks about oligarchy and M4A was for that candidate to reveal a secret connection with National Socialism, which, uh, maybe it's time to do some really deep reflection on how in-group posturing has baked your gourd
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This is like when the raptors learned to open doors in Jurassic Park
Scoop: In digging into the AI slopification of the White House, I’ve learned that the president of the United States is capable, from time to time, of posting generative AI videos on his own, per a senior WH official.
More in this week’s Inner Loop @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/donald...
More in this week’s Inner Loop @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/donald...
Donald Trump Is the First AI Slop President
How do AI videos end up on Donald Trump’s social media accounts? WIRED investigates.
www.wired.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This is like when the raptors learned to open doors in Jurassic Park
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"If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them." -Paul Wellstone
This weekend marked the anniversary of his passing. He will forever remain one of my political heroes. Thinking of him always.
This weekend marked the anniversary of his passing. He will forever remain one of my political heroes. Thinking of him always.
October 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
"If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them." -Paul Wellstone
This weekend marked the anniversary of his passing. He will forever remain one of my political heroes. Thinking of him always.
This weekend marked the anniversary of his passing. He will forever remain one of my political heroes. Thinking of him always.
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Today, I'm thinking of Paul, Sheila, Marcia, Mary, Tom and Will. They were taken from us much too soon. We honor their memories by continuing to organize every day.
Paul believed that when we all do better, we all do better.
So today, stand up and keep fighting. 💚
Paul believed that when we all do better, we all do better.
So today, stand up and keep fighting. 💚
October 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Today, I'm thinking of Paul, Sheila, Marcia, Mary, Tom and Will. They were taken from us much too soon. We honor their memories by continuing to organize every day.
Paul believed that when we all do better, we all do better.
So today, stand up and keep fighting. 💚
Paul believed that when we all do better, we all do better.
So today, stand up and keep fighting. 💚
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You know what day should be a national holiday in 2029?
THE DAY OF THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL BULLDOZING OF THE PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP BALLROOM.
THE DAY OF THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL BULLDOZING OF THE PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP BALLROOM.
October 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
You know what day should be a national holiday in 2029?
THE DAY OF THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL BULLDOZING OF THE PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP BALLROOM.
THE DAY OF THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL BULLDOZING OF THE PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP BALLROOM.
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Here’s what is going to happen:
1. Trump will start working out of the ballroom area, like in Mar-a-Lago (he doesn’t do real work anyway)
2. He claims the West Wing is lopsided and needs to be replaced
3. He knocks down the West Wing too
4. Goes after White House itself
5. Presidential palace
1. Trump will start working out of the ballroom area, like in Mar-a-Lago (he doesn’t do real work anyway)
2. He claims the West Wing is lopsided and needs to be replaced
3. He knocks down the West Wing too
4. Goes after White House itself
5. Presidential palace
October 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Here’s what is going to happen:
1. Trump will start working out of the ballroom area, like in Mar-a-Lago (he doesn’t do real work anyway)
2. He claims the West Wing is lopsided and needs to be replaced
3. He knocks down the West Wing too
4. Goes after White House itself
5. Presidential palace
1. Trump will start working out of the ballroom area, like in Mar-a-Lago (he doesn’t do real work anyway)
2. He claims the West Wing is lopsided and needs to be replaced
3. He knocks down the West Wing too
4. Goes after White House itself
5. Presidential palace
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Donald Trump is renovating the White House the right way.
--Ezra Klein
--Ezra Klein
October 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Donald Trump is renovating the White House the right way.
--Ezra Klein
--Ezra Klein
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The metaphors are getting pretty on the nose lately
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The metaphors are getting pretty on the nose lately
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I’m happy that the big kooky liberated Portland frogs have emerged as an aesthetic backlash to the dank Pepes
October 13, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I’m happy that the big kooky liberated Portland frogs have emerged as an aesthetic backlash to the dank Pepes
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The way we save this country is to abolish from the minds of leaders the diseased idea that every political or legal act must be rationalized for an imagined Real American audience of yokels, slobs, racists, and nativists that are presumed to be watching from some indeterminate Midwestern locality.
October 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The way we save this country is to abolish from the minds of leaders the diseased idea that every political or legal act must be rationalized for an imagined Real American audience of yokels, slobs, racists, and nativists that are presumed to be watching from some indeterminate Midwestern locality.
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i can't believe they really rebranding Kum & Go into Maverik, goddamn mormons
this is a war on america
this is a war on america
September 28, 2025 at 3:58 AM
i can't believe they really rebranding Kum & Go into Maverik, goddamn mormons
this is a war on america
this is a war on america
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i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.
September 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.
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I think Democrats win by being the best version of the Democratic Party: a forceful, assertive, dynamic liberal coalition that stands up for the rights of the vulnerable, unrelentingly opposes the endless corruption and bigotry of MAGA and Trump, and wants a fair prosperous America
September 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I think Democrats win by being the best version of the Democratic Party: a forceful, assertive, dynamic liberal coalition that stands up for the rights of the vulnerable, unrelentingly opposes the endless corruption and bigotry of MAGA and Trump, and wants a fair prosperous America
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this would theoretically provide power long enough to play the monorail episode of The Simpsons, which is all we really need electricity to do these days anyway
September 17, 2025 at 2:05 AM
this would theoretically provide power long enough to play the monorail episode of The Simpsons, which is all we really need electricity to do these days anyway
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you're telling me this is the expression of a man who accidentally poisoned dozens of cats and dogs by stuffing huge quantities of meth into an incinerator?? this guy??
September 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
you're telling me this is the expression of a man who accidentally poisoned dozens of cats and dogs by stuffing huge quantities of meth into an incinerator?? this guy??
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It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
September 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
September 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
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‘New York Times’ Announces New Columnist Will Contribute Nothing To Society 3 Times A Week
September 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
‘New York Times’ Announces New Columnist Will Contribute Nothing To Society 3 Times A Week
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Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.
September 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.
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This is also the exact vibe of Charlie Kirk obituaries. Nary a mention of how he said he’d hypothetically force his daughter to deliver her rapist’s baby at age 10
September 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This is also the exact vibe of Charlie Kirk obituaries. Nary a mention of how he said he’d hypothetically force his daughter to deliver her rapist’s baby at age 10