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Birds, politics shouting, jewsky, snacks, music and other flights of fancy. Reporting live from Queens, NY. My profile pic is a one-eyed screech owl named Otis who lives at a sanctuary in NJ. He is very smol in real life.
David Mayer stan.
David Mayer stan.
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One thing that’s pretty consistent in American history is elites getting away with it
imagine US political culture if Ford hadn't pardoned Nixon, and instead he went to jail
December 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
One thing that’s pretty consistent in American history is elites getting away with it
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How come we don’t hear about the profit-loss performance of the FBI?
What is the CIA’s quarterly revenue target?
Does the Treasury get defunded if it doesn’t make a profit?
Once you start to #QuestionThePremise, the idea of the government as a business sounds utterly ridiculous.
What is the CIA’s quarterly revenue target?
Does the Treasury get defunded if it doesn’t make a profit?
Once you start to #QuestionThePremise, the idea of the government as a business sounds utterly ridiculous.
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
How come we don’t hear about the profit-loss performance of the FBI?
What is the CIA’s quarterly revenue target?
Does the Treasury get defunded if it doesn’t make a profit?
Once you start to #QuestionThePremise, the idea of the government as a business sounds utterly ridiculous.
What is the CIA’s quarterly revenue target?
Does the Treasury get defunded if it doesn’t make a profit?
Once you start to #QuestionThePremise, the idea of the government as a business sounds utterly ridiculous.
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When is Cuomo moving to Florida?
Why isn’t someone running a “when is Gristedes closing?” countdown?
Why will there be zero penalties or shaming for these liars and the “news” outlets that knowingly broadcast their lies?
Why isn’t someone running a “when is Gristedes closing?” countdown?
Why will there be zero penalties or shaming for these liars and the “news” outlets that knowingly broadcast their lies?
December 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
When is Cuomo moving to Florida?
Why isn’t someone running a “when is Gristedes closing?” countdown?
Why will there be zero penalties or shaming for these liars and the “news” outlets that knowingly broadcast their lies?
Why isn’t someone running a “when is Gristedes closing?” countdown?
Why will there be zero penalties or shaming for these liars and the “news” outlets that knowingly broadcast their lies?
I'm fucking 40, Jewish and sick of stupid goy democrats telling me their stupid opinions. I support Palestinians against the Israeli government BECAUSE I studied history and my mom made me go through 12 freaking years of Jewish education. Corp dems hate tiktok because they cannot control it.
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I'm fucking 40, Jewish and sick of stupid goy democrats telling me their stupid opinions. I support Palestinians against the Israeli government BECAUSE I studied history and my mom made me go through 12 freaking years of Jewish education. Corp dems hate tiktok because they cannot control it.
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this really isn’t an exaggeration
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
this really isn’t an exaggeration
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Don't know how many different ways I can say these are actual Nazis, minus the bureaucratic skill and esthetics
Trump goes on another racist rant about Somalis: "Ilhan Omar should be thrown the hell out of our country, and most of those people -- they have destroyed Minnesota. It's a hellhole right now. Those Somalians should be out of here. They have destroyed out country ... go back to your own country."
December 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Don't know how many different ways I can say these are actual Nazis, minus the bureaucratic skill and esthetics
Can history please stop repeating itself for like 5 minutes
you mean to tell me the ceo of the ford motor company is comfortable with open white nationalism in the white house
December 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Can history please stop repeating itself for like 5 minutes
1000%. Corporation as periodic blood sacrifice is what this nation needs to heal. Run it into the ground like a confederate statue in 2020.
I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
December 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
1000%. Corporation as periodic blood sacrifice is what this nation needs to heal. Run it into the ground like a confederate statue in 2020.
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Don’t forget LBJ and the war on poverty. If the Dems could just divorce themselves from wall street and dirty money, grow a spine and a set of cajones, and walk the walk, that’d be super.
November 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Don’t forget LBJ and the war on poverty. If the Dems could just divorce themselves from wall street and dirty money, grow a spine and a set of cajones, and walk the walk, that’d be super.
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Unvaccinated infants are the second most likely group to get hospitalized for Covid after older adults. Any effort to minimize the effectiveness for kids is evil.
November 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Unvaccinated infants are the second most likely group to get hospitalized for Covid after older adults. Any effort to minimize the effectiveness for kids is evil.
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The Citizens United decision has corrupted our government and is destroying our democracy. Here's a way to get rid of it. robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get...
How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.
robertreich.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The Citizens United decision has corrupted our government and is destroying our democracy. Here's a way to get rid of it. robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get...
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one insidious thing about gen AI is it's not just causing us to mistrust dodgy images, it's also making us mistrust images that look perfectly normal. this is gaslighting in a very literal sense bc the technology is undermining the trust we have in our own ability to perceive reality!
November 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
one insidious thing about gen AI is it's not just causing us to mistrust dodgy images, it's also making us mistrust images that look perfectly normal. this is gaslighting in a very literal sense bc the technology is undermining the trust we have in our own ability to perceive reality!
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There was a long long time when many many powerful people refused to stand up to Joe McCarthy. And then McCarthy got weak, and people found their spines.
People finding their spines is always good news, not least because it's a sign of Trump's weakness.
People finding their spines is always good news, not least because it's a sign of Trump's weakness.
A top Republican in Indiana, whose daughter has Down Syndrome, just announced he will be voting to block Trump’s gerrymandering after Trump used the R-word to insult people yesterday.
November 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
There was a long long time when many many powerful people refused to stand up to Joe McCarthy. And then McCarthy got weak, and people found their spines.
People finding their spines is always good news, not least because it's a sign of Trump's weakness.
People finding their spines is always good news, not least because it's a sign of Trump's weakness.
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Why Elon Musk purchased Twitter :
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Why Elon Musk purchased Twitter :
Ordered grocery delivery to make my life easier and paid extra for rainbow carrots. And got one single purple carrot. Boooo!
November 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Ordered grocery delivery to make my life easier and paid extra for rainbow carrots. And got one single purple carrot. Boooo!
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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every year someone does a study that’s like “we gave 100 homeless ppl money and their lives improved” and every year the government kills that guy
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
every year someone does a study that’s like “we gave 100 homeless ppl money and their lives improved” and every year the government kills that guy
TFW you were gonna sleep in but your smoke detector decides now is the time to let you know it is dying....at 5:45 AM.
November 22, 2025 at 11:21 AM
TFW you were gonna sleep in but your smoke detector decides now is the time to let you know it is dying....at 5:45 AM.
Really hope Mamdani touched every metro pole in DC before he met with Trump.
November 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Really hope Mamdani touched every metro pole in DC before he met with Trump.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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When "I won't vote for somebody who doesn't support trans people" is considered a hostage taking purity test
but "I won't vote for somebody who DOES support trans people" is NOT considered a hostage-taking purity test
then we aren't against hostage taking, we're just choosing our preferred hostage
but "I won't vote for somebody who DOES support trans people" is NOT considered a hostage-taking purity test
then we aren't against hostage taking, we're just choosing our preferred hostage
November 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
When "I won't vote for somebody who doesn't support trans people" is considered a hostage taking purity test
but "I won't vote for somebody who DOES support trans people" is NOT considered a hostage-taking purity test
then we aren't against hostage taking, we're just choosing our preferred hostage
but "I won't vote for somebody who DOES support trans people" is NOT considered a hostage-taking purity test
then we aren't against hostage taking, we're just choosing our preferred hostage
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A lot of the white voters in deep red states really are horrible shit heads, not poor little lost lambs, and it does no one any favors to fail to reckon with this
November 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
A lot of the white voters in deep red states really are horrible shit heads, not poor little lost lambs, and it does no one any favors to fail to reckon with this
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“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence
November 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence