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parsing persimmon of color
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This may or may not be what they’re thinking. But if it’s not, it’s completely unclear what path they see back to a country where the other party feels bound by basic procedural rules. “If Republicans get 49% of the vote they can ignore the Constitution” isn’t a functional principle.
Elite Dems’ entire theory of the case is that if they’re just quiet and wait things out, the country will inevitably return to the “normal politics“ of the 1990s and ‘90s that they’re used to.
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In fact I’d say our elites largely treat this whole situation as weightless - a kind of rhetorical war in the meme space. They can’t comprehend the prospect of an America that looks substantially different than ours. They can’t imagine their safety or privileges would be truly at risk.
September 7, 2025 at 3:07 AM
This may or may not be what they’re thinking. But if it’s not, it’s completely unclear what path they see back to a country where the other party feels bound by basic procedural rules. “If Republicans get 49% of the vote they can ignore the Constitution” isn’t a functional principle.
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we are going to use this one a lot
September 7, 2025 at 2:55 AM
we are going to use this one a lot
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there are a million ways you can tell how little this country cares about children, but the way adults just shrug and move on as these stories drop, day after day, week after week. I don't know. it really shocks me.
"The 'Move fast, break things' ethos has become 'Move fast, break kids.'"
AI Chatbots Are Having Conversations With Minors That Would Land a Human on the Sex Offender Registry
Online safety watchdogs have found that AI chatbots posing as popular celebrities are having troubling conversations with minors.
trib.al
September 7, 2025 at 2:34 AM
there are a million ways you can tell how little this country cares about children, but the way adults just shrug and move on as these stories drop, day after day, week after week. I don't know. it really shocks me.
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1) going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
2) calling a lie a lie seems like it could help
www.newsweek.com/robert-f-ken...
2) calling a lie a lie seems like it could help
www.newsweek.com/robert-f-ken...
RFK Jr caught in lie about Jeffrey Epstein flight
"I was on Jeffrey Epstein's jet two times," Robert F. Kennedy told Fox News on Tuesday, weeks after conflicting information was shared with Newsweek.
www.newsweek.com
September 7, 2025 at 2:46 AM
1) going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
2) calling a lie a lie seems like it could help
www.newsweek.com/robert-f-ken...
2) calling a lie a lie seems like it could help
www.newsweek.com/robert-f-ken...
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studying feminist history has left me with this weird thing where i treat the women involved in women's liberation as like actual complex human beings who are almost never wholly villains or heroes, who you can learn from no matter their flaws and failures
September 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
studying feminist history has left me with this weird thing where i treat the women involved in women's liberation as like actual complex human beings who are almost never wholly villains or heroes, who you can learn from no matter their flaws and failures
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*angrily slamming the encyclopedia Britannica through a glass table* stagflation has NOTHING to do with deer!
September 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
*angrily slamming the encyclopedia Britannica through a glass table* stagflation has NOTHING to do with deer!
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It’s simple, really: if any woman anywhere has ever done anything wrong, then women as a class are not entitled to a freedom struggle.
September 7, 2025 at 3:25 AM
It’s simple, really: if any woman anywhere has ever done anything wrong, then women as a class are not entitled to a freedom struggle.
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No no no no , you don’t understand: any flaw, failure, myopia, or strategic misstep in any feminist—ever, at any time, throughout the whole history of the movement—delegitimizes and renders suspect the entire concept of women’s liberation.
studying feminist history has left me with this weird thing where i treat the women involved in women's liberation as like actual complex human beings who are almost never wholly villains or heroes, who you can learn from no matter their flaws and failures
September 7, 2025 at 3:22 AM
No no no no , you don’t understand: any flaw, failure, myopia, or strategic misstep in any feminist—ever, at any time, throughout the whole history of the movement—delegitimizes and renders suspect the entire concept of women’s liberation.
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We couldn’t possibly be in a worse information environment for what’s happening. Which is probably, in part, why it’s happening.
September 7, 2025 at 3:23 AM
We couldn’t possibly be in a worse information environment for what’s happening. Which is probably, in part, why it’s happening.
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Palestine Cola, un soda pro-Gaza et anti-Coca
Palestine Cola, un soda pro-Gaza et anti-Coca
Lancé par trois Suédois d’origine palestinienne, le Palestine Cola ambitionne de concurrencer Coca-Cola, critiqué pour ses activités dans les territoires occupés par Israël. Les bénéfices ont vocation à être reversés à des organisations caritatives œuvrant dans la bande de Gaza.
www.lemonde.fr
September 7, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Palestine Cola, un soda pro-Gaza et anti-Coca
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i always wonder if folks who say this realize they're pushing the other side's narrative? "red states contain only people who voted that way/live those values, and anyone there harmed by their policies doesn't count bc they shouldn't live there" ...like. listen. you're singing the other side's song
When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.
September 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
i always wonder if folks who say this realize they're pushing the other side's narrative? "red states contain only people who voted that way/live those values, and anyone there harmed by their policies doesn't count bc they shouldn't live there" ...like. listen. you're singing the other side's song
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10 years of fundraising emails off the spectre of authoritarian assault on democracy and now that the far right is once again in power and openly doing everything to prevent ever losing it, and the last time I can recall Schumer making an effort it was to ensure the budget funding the assault passed
September 7, 2025 at 3:54 AM
10 years of fundraising emails off the spectre of authoritarian assault on democracy and now that the far right is once again in power and openly doing everything to prevent ever losing it, and the last time I can recall Schumer making an effort it was to ensure the budget funding the assault passed
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![Typewriter Monke
@tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social
"why not use [language model] for this" well you see I take some amount of pride in having stuff to say that can't be predicted by a statistical estimate
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For every like I will withhold an opinion that I was previously thinking of sharing
July 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
For every like I will withhold an opinion that I was previously thinking of sharing
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Imagine falling in love with someone and then finding out they’re two guys in a horse costume
July 20, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Imagine falling in love with someone and then finding out they’re two guys in a horse costume
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I can confirm the PBS Passport is a very good deal for $5/month or $2.50/month if you do yearly.
Thousands of hours of top notch content. NOVA is great. The new Ken Burns doc on Leonardo da Vinci is excellent.
You can sign up at the link below!
www.pbs.org/passport/lea...
Thousands of hours of top notch content. NOVA is great. The new Ken Burns doc on Leonardo da Vinci is excellent.
You can sign up at the link below!
www.pbs.org/passport/lea...
July 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I can confirm the PBS Passport is a very good deal for $5/month or $2.50/month if you do yearly.
Thousands of hours of top notch content. NOVA is great. The new Ken Burns doc on Leonardo da Vinci is excellent.
You can sign up at the link below!
www.pbs.org/passport/lea...
Thousands of hours of top notch content. NOVA is great. The new Ken Burns doc on Leonardo da Vinci is excellent.
You can sign up at the link below!
www.pbs.org/passport/lea...
Why is the dog (whoever he is) hollering, let's start there
I'm not the dog being hit. That's why i don't be hollerin
July 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Why is the dog (whoever he is) hollering, let's start there
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I'm not the dog being hit. That's why i don't be hollerin
July 20, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I'm not the dog being hit. That's why i don't be hollerin