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Jeopardy winner, emdash appreciator, Oxford comma evangelist. Not great at Being Online.
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remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards
robert f. kennedy jr. submits his application to harvard university. his application is, in its entirety, a single page with his name "Robert F. Kennedy Jr."
he is accepted immediately.
he is accepted immediately.
January 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards
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This is the difference between Trump 1 and Trump 2. First time around, all his cronies were named stuff like Joey Macaroni and wanted to commit tax fraud and go on Dancing With The Stars. This time, they have names like John Hitlerfuhrer and have spent the last 15 years blogging about phrenology.
The federal government's new top HR attorney has said "Consent is probably modern society’s most pernicious fetish" and "Slaves owe us reparations," according to a new report from @pogo.org. www.pogo.org/investigatio...
“Raging Misogynist” Now Federal Government H.R.’s Top Lawyer
The Office of Personnel Management’s new general counsel has a history of racist and sexist social media posts.
www.pogo.org
January 29, 2025 at 3:14 AM
This is the difference between Trump 1 and Trump 2. First time around, all his cronies were named stuff like Joey Macaroni and wanted to commit tax fraud and go on Dancing With The Stars. This time, they have names like John Hitlerfuhrer and have spent the last 15 years blogging about phrenology.
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To be fair she does look like a chicken.
November 23, 2024 at 2:08 PM
To be fair she does look like a chicken.
This is going to cause so much unnecessary misery.
From @axios.com: “Driving the news: Perhaps the most likely Medicaid change would be imposing work requirements for recipients, according to GOP sources.” What you need to know ⬇️
Medicaid work requirements are expected to be back on the agenda - our new brief recaps the landscape of work requirement approvals and pending requests at the end of President Trump’s first term and examines recent state activity. www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...
November 23, 2024 at 5:54 PM
This is going to cause so much unnecessary misery.
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with a side order of
November 22, 2024 at 6:41 AM
with a side order of
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Amidst cutbacks at the New York Times, it appears the Oxford comma has been laid off.
November 21, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Amidst cutbacks at the New York Times, it appears the Oxford comma has been laid off.
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I feel no need to protect any Democratic sexual predators. This seems like a good deal
Some House Freedom Caucus members are screaming payback if Dems successfully force a vote on the House floor to release the Gaetz ethics report, saying it could lead to them getting other reports involving current or former Dem members, per Politico
November 21, 2024 at 5:07 PM
I feel no need to protect any Democratic sexual predators. This seems like a good deal
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AOC comes out swinging against a Nancy Mace for targeting Sarah McBride.
"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."
"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."
November 21, 2024 at 2:48 AM
AOC comes out swinging against a Nancy Mace for targeting Sarah McBride.
"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."
"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."
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"By 2030, Paris will have removed 60,000 parking spaces and replaced them with trees."
Paris to Replace Parking Spaces With Trees
The city’s new climate plan promises to drop speed limits, repurpose traffic lanes, remove 60,000 parking spots and create urban “oases” to combat extreme heat.
www.bloomberg.com
November 19, 2024 at 4:56 PM
"By 2030, Paris will have removed 60,000 parking spaces and replaced them with trees."
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would be great if reporters did not simply regurgitate transphobic phrases like "biological men" that right-wing republicans pass along to them
November 19, 2024 at 4:57 PM
would be great if reporters did not simply regurgitate transphobic phrases like "biological men" that right-wing republicans pass along to them
Highly recommended. (I was worried it would be too overwhelming to read, but the audiobook was great for me. Read extremely effectively by the multitalented author!)
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-the envy of your friends
-the bane of your enemies
-the News Understander
-sexually irresistible
-magnificent in your splendor
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America a book by Talia Lavin
The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that lays out the grim vision evangelicals are enforcing on our democracy. All across ...
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November 19, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Highly recommended. (I was worried it would be too overwhelming to read, but the audiobook was great for me. Read extremely effectively by the multitalented author!)
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If Trump's first administration was stocked with Bond Villains, it seems like the second one is going with more of a Legion of Doom vibe.
A brief thread...
A brief thread...
November 18, 2024 at 12:57 AM
If Trump's first administration was stocked with Bond Villains, it seems like the second one is going with more of a Legion of Doom vibe.
A brief thread...
A brief thread...
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One of the challenges of doing civil rights work is that it's like if, once a week, you met Bigfoot for coffee. You can plainly state the facts under which qualified immunity was granted and people simply won't believe you, it can't be true. But it is.
November 16, 2024 at 5:20 PM
One of the challenges of doing civil rights work is that it's like if, once a week, you met Bigfoot for coffee. You can plainly state the facts under which qualified immunity was granted and people simply won't believe you, it can't be true. But it is.
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if busta rhymes was british he’d be called borcester rhymes
November 15, 2024 at 5:18 PM
if busta rhymes was british he’d be called borcester rhymes
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"this is fine"
British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
November 16, 2024 at 11:36 AM
"this is fine"
British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
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the big bad wolf, writing for the Atlantic: building brick houses might be popular with insular academics afraid of intellectual debate, but in practice they are a stifling barrier to free speech
November 16, 2024 at 1:19 PM
the big bad wolf, writing for the Atlantic: building brick houses might be popular with insular academics afraid of intellectual debate, but in practice they are a stifling barrier to free speech
Hey, ever notice how Republicans don’t wring their hands about how they need to move towards the middle blah blah blah when they lose elections?
First quote in this new @politico.com story is from RI's Dem committeeman Joe Paolino: "The progressive wing of the party has to recognize — we all have to recognize — the country’s not progressive, and not to the far left or the far right. They’re in the middle” www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
Centrist Dems seize opening at the DNC: ‘I don’t want to be the freak show party’
Recriminations over Kamala Harris’ defeat are shaping the early stages of the race for DNC chair.
www.politico.com
November 15, 2024 at 11:50 PM
Hey, ever notice how Republicans don’t wring their hands about how they need to move towards the middle blah blah blah when they lose elections?
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Be fucking serious with the American people. Tell them that the Speaker of the House wants to hide the fact that Trump’s nominee for Attorney General engaged in sexual misconduct. Tell them that Republicans want to force another sexual predator on the country. Fight for a better country. My God.
As Mike Johnson works to bury the Gaetz report Hakeem Jeffries is talking about - checks notes - bipartisanship.
Not joking www.axios.com/newsletters/...
Not joking www.axios.com/newsletters/...
November 15, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Be fucking serious with the American people. Tell them that the Speaker of the House wants to hide the fact that Trump’s nominee for Attorney General engaged in sexual misconduct. Tell them that Republicans want to force another sexual predator on the country. Fight for a better country. My God.
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