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The Trumps are using the Oval Office as their own personal ATM machine, and anyone who says otherwise is lying to you.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
December 1, 2025 at 3:37 AM
The Trumps are using the Oval Office as their own personal ATM machine, and anyone who says otherwise is lying to you.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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It's called ChatGLP. Drea said the Kardashians used it to lose weight and pass a bar. We should get a piece of that T.
December 1, 2025 at 3:51 AM
It's called ChatGLP. Drea said the Kardashians used it to lose weight and pass a bar. We should get a piece of that T.
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It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
SOURCES: Michigan State is firing head coach Jonathan Smith, @theathletic.com has learned.
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
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Has this been posted yet
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Has this been posted yet
How else could Missouri possible use 3.6% of its annual budget to help Missourians? Invest in teachers/public schools? Invest in digital modernization and better government? Healthcare? Public safety?
Why are we giving that $ to give rich people tax breaks for their kids’ private, religious schools?
Why are we giving that $ to give rich people tax breaks for their kids’ private, religious schools?
December 1, 2025 at 4:50 AM
How else could Missouri possible use 3.6% of its annual budget to help Missourians? Invest in teachers/public schools? Invest in digital modernization and better government? Healthcare? Public safety?
Why are we giving that $ to give rich people tax breaks for their kids’ private, religious schools?
Why are we giving that $ to give rich people tax breaks for their kids’ private, religious schools?
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That assignment isn't a religious freedom issue. You have to do the assignment. They didn't do the assignment. The feedback was incredibly generous and thorough, much more thorough than the assignment. This is about bending over backwards to the far right, not about religious freedom or anything.
December 1, 2025 at 4:17 AM
That assignment isn't a religious freedom issue. You have to do the assignment. They didn't do the assignment. The feedback was incredibly generous and thorough, much more thorough than the assignment. This is about bending over backwards to the far right, not about religious freedom or anything.
Grand Old Pedophiles
Community notes don’t get much more brutal than this
December 1, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Grand Old Pedophiles
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and this is why the Death of the Humanities Degrees is devastating; we're just giving up on teaching students how to synthesize information in a way that's not somehow tied to capitalism
One hard part of the literacy problem in the United States is there are a lot of people -- some of them with college degrees and beyond -- who don't realize that they are bad at reading
I don't know how to reach those people
I don't know how to reach those people
November 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
and this is why the Death of the Humanities Degrees is devastating; we're just giving up on teaching students how to synthesize information in a way that's not somehow tied to capitalism
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Weirdly, this is all part of a 50-year-long plan to get their parents back together
The identical twin brother of MAGA Texas Rep. Troy Nehls is hoping to replace his brother in Congress after Nehls announced his retirement on Saturday.
MAGA Rep. Tries to Hand Seat to Literally Identical Successor
Trever Nehls is hoping to replace his brother, Texas Rep. Troy Nehls, in Congress.
trib.al
November 30, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Weirdly, this is all part of a 50-year-long plan to get their parents back together
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
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Quick reminder of what could really happen with $33M.
November 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Quick reminder of what could really happen with $33M.
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I get why people are reluctant to draw parallels between MeToo and the blacklist. MeToo is good; the blacklist was bad! good things and bad things aren't the same. consequences for sexual abusers is not the same as smearing people for fighting for justice. 1
November 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I get why people are reluctant to draw parallels between MeToo and the blacklist. MeToo is good; the blacklist was bad! good things and bad things aren't the same. consequences for sexual abusers is not the same as smearing people for fighting for justice. 1
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being ruled by tiny men bereft of both curiosity and the ability to feel wonder is a terrible fate
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
being ruled by tiny men bereft of both curiosity and the ability to feel wonder is a terrible fate
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Just a friendly reminder that the Polar Vortex is not an Arctic storm, polar hurricane, blizzard or things that comes to visit us. Lobes of its wave system can dip south into the U.S. bringing colder air. I have already seen a car commercial improperly refer to it and a major newspaper headline.
November 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Just a friendly reminder that the Polar Vortex is not an Arctic storm, polar hurricane, blizzard or things that comes to visit us. Lobes of its wave system can dip south into the U.S. bringing colder air. I have already seen a car commercial improperly refer to it and a major newspaper headline.
No, of course we can’t have universal health care or end homelessness, we have to kick the brown people out of America instead.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
wrd.cm
November 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
No, of course we can’t have universal health care or end homelessness, we have to kick the brown people out of America instead.
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WELKER: “Trump & the DHS feed posted about ‘remigration’, a far right term meaning to mass deport non-white immigrants. What does he mean?”
NOEM: *avoids answering*
White supremacist ideology coming from their own DHS feed, and they don’t care. Any questions?
NOEM: *avoids answering*
White supremacist ideology coming from their own DHS feed, and they don’t care. Any questions?
November 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
WELKER: “Trump & the DHS feed posted about ‘remigration’, a far right term meaning to mass deport non-white immigrants. What does he mean?”
NOEM: *avoids answering*
White supremacist ideology coming from their own DHS feed, and they don’t care. Any questions?
NOEM: *avoids answering*
White supremacist ideology coming from their own DHS feed, and they don’t care. Any questions?
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An actual journalist might ask her to define what she thinks a Third World country is and why
WELKER: Is the administration ending all legal immigration into the United States?
KRISTI NOEM: The president is absolutely determined to stop all processes at this point in time from third world countries
KRISTI NOEM: The president is absolutely determined to stop all processes at this point in time from third world countries
November 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
An actual journalist might ask her to define what she thinks a Third World country is and why
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Mark Kelly: "My concern is with the service members -- we're gonna put these individuals in a really tough place. They may find our down the road that they did something that's illegal. It's not fair to them. That's why need presidents and secretaries of defense who understand the Constitution"
November 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Mark Kelly: "My concern is with the service members -- we're gonna put these individuals in a really tough place. They may find our down the road that they did something that's illegal. It's not fair to them. That's why need presidents and secretaries of defense who understand the Constitution"
The didn’t have antibiotics or bacon either. Progress is a good thing, actually.
In early Christian times they fed Christians to lions what are we doing here
November 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The didn’t have antibiotics or bacon either. Progress is a good thing, actually.
How close to my “Please leave by nine” rule can I start to ask people to go away?
November 28, 2025 at 2:45 AM
How close to my “Please leave by nine” rule can I start to ask people to go away?
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Personally, I think it's a bad thing when people in the government post AI images without disclosing that they're AI.
Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Personally, I think it's a bad thing when people in the government post AI images without disclosing that they're AI.
Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
Cowboy Mouth
Trombone Shorty
The Meters
Sting
Dr. John
Trombone Shorty
The Meters
Sting
Dr. John
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times
R.E.M.
OutKast
Radiohead
Beastie Boys
The Roots
R.E.M.
OutKast
Radiohead
Beastie Boys
The Roots
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
November 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Cowboy Mouth
Trombone Shorty
The Meters
Sting
Dr. John
Trombone Shorty
The Meters
Sting
Dr. John