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💖s lead, baby; it’s your deal.🖤Detroiter & Daytonian. Reposts ain’t always endorsements. Rooting for everybody Black who loves all Black people.
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MTG is not your bigoted aunt or co-worker. She's an EXTREMELY wealthy fascist demagogue. You don't have to listen to random elite pundits and politicians lecturing you about "big tent" politics with respect to her.
December 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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You're not the audience for the MTG glow up happening because you (as an individual) would never be in an actual position to make common cause with her or to reject her in some nebulous "coalitional" political way. This is the elite speaking to other elites to shape elite opinion.
December 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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dems talked about project 2025 but so much of the effort was around "google project 2025" when they should have been saying

- what project 2025 was
- investing in seo so the dem narrative on project 2025 was the #1 result
When you consider how many didn’t know that Project 2025 was the plan, and that the whole premise behind it was to tax everyone who wasn’t rich, then you have a communications issue (which I blame the democrats consultants for, all of whom should never be let near a candidate again).👇
i think democrats should spend almost all their time cultivating and maintaining the majority of the voting populace who are not fox news junkies. this is not a difficult ask but people love to pretend like its the most impossible thing in the world.
December 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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I am just a boy, begging my fellow liberals to understand that propaganda is not inherently evil and they should use it at all costs.
December 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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I am always going to be the person who says you don’t go along with the pricks and fascism and you need to speak up. I said so about Colin Powell, I said so about Anthony Fauci and I say that about CBS (and the rest) now. This “quiet resistance from the inside” shit is liberal fantasy crap.
December 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Thread. Also, I don't disagree with this generally; LLMs and/or generative "AI" is here to stay and being integrated into pre-existing programs/software in ways that are now inextricable. I do think there's a difference between it being a tool for, rather than an abdication of, personal creation.
Pandora opened the LLM box years ago, fam. It is not going back in the box. All you can do is put guardrails on it.
December 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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The AI bubble will pop. However, just as with the dot-com bubble, the underlying technology will stick around and eventually succeed. That said, it took the Nasdaq 15 years to recover from that, and it won't surprise me if it takes that long for our current market to recover.
December 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Wow, the horror. Completely shut out of an industry that … promoted him to senior reporter by 40
December 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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The ONLY way this entire “exposè” works is to be absolutely silent and unquestioning about why white men disproportionately held these positio s for generations, why they STILL disproportionately hold these positions despite some minor changes in a single age-cohort. That silence is required.
I read that whole “it sucks to be a millennial white man thanks to DEI” piece and have some thoughts.

Overall: how sad to put that much work into making a case to be resentful, and a bad case at that. (Thread)
The Lost Generation
For fifteen years I’ve scalped tickets to pay the bills. But in January 2016 I almost managed a real career.
www.compactmag.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.

Holy. Shit.

www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Sincerely: Is the claim actually that white men are facing systemic discrimination from white men? What are we doing here? It’s frustrating that really “smart” people succumb again and again to these racial propaganda campaigns. Anti-1619, anti-CRT, anti-woke, now rampant anti-white racism hysteria.
December 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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GALLEGO: “We need to stop the bleeding, but the ACA isn’t a long term solution. We need universal coverage with some mix of single payer.”

@gallego.senate.gov tells @jessicatarlov.bsky.social & @profgalloway.com we need to do more than make a broken health care system less bad. #MedicareForAllNOW
December 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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The Directors Guild of America plans to meet with Netflix to discuss their significant concerns about the streamer’s acquisition of Warner Bros.
December 5, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Nothing says “freedom” like putting international students through an authoritarian tribunal for the crime of wanting to learn.

What an embarrassment and betrayal of higher education’s central ideals.
“Northwestern will assume that international students come from illiberal hellholes and question them about their reasons for being here. Wait”
November 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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SHE RIDES SHOTGUN (2025)
Streaming Now
MGM+
#SheRidesShotgun
November 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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also confusing:

thyroid eye disease is linked to both COVID *and* the vaccine. apparently it triggers an autoimmune response.

how do i know this? bc a family remember is currently suffering from it and their doctor emphatically said its bc of COVID.
NEW: A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other neurodevelopmental diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.
Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy
A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.
www.propublica.org
November 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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RFK Jr. revealed that he personally ordered the CDC to change its website to push the widely debunked claim that vaccines and autism are linked
CDC’s Autism Website ‘Update’ Came Directly From Kennedy, He Says
Ex-CDC vaccines chief Dr. Demetre Daskalakis called the update a “national embarrassment.”
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Does benching your starters for a series ever work as punishment? Idk but last night reminded me of one of the funniest moments in NFL history….

🎧: apple.co/48n8lqU

📺: youtu.be/SFo5J3qnkqI?...
November 19, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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What's amazing here is that MBS looks more uncomfortable about the direction the conversation took than Trump does.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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🚨 🚨 🚨
November 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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A #Skydiver Appears to Fall from the #Sun in a Stunning Image

#photography #Icarus Credit: Andrew McCarthy

Link for more: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/andr...
November 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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RFK Jr.: ‘The President Having Sex With Children Is Fine From A Purely Nutritional Standpoint’
November 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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NEW: Brad Lander says he wants a trial, not a deal to drop his charge stemming from an arrest by ICE.
After Arrest by ICE, City Comptroller Rejects Deal and Seeks Trial
Other officials arrested while protesting at 26 Federal Plaza in September will have their federal charges dropped if they avoid arrest inside a federal building for six months.
www.thecity.nyc
November 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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The shifting views among girls have ushered in a new dynamic: Boys are now more likely than girls to say they want to get married someday, compared to 1993, when girls were more likely to want to get married. https://bit.ly/3X79Xia
November 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM