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Matt
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Political news junkie. Blocks doomers, bigots, & engagement farmers following > 10k on sight. No patience for non-voters or far left who blame Dems instead of GOP for our problems.
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That sound you heard was every GOP elected official with a lick of sense absolutely SHITTING themselves thinking about the visual of Mark Kelly back in uniform before a military court as Whiskey Pete's handpicked chucklefucks try to railroad him on bogus charges.
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Like idk imagine being told that you’re just gonna play a strict soup chef on Seinfeld for just one episode
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Lmaooo
November 25, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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It is wild to me that the largest company on the stock market, one with such incredible prestige and a huge PR team got dog-walked here. Why would you EVER give this ANY oxygen? Now everybody is asking whether NVIDIA is like Enron! This didn't help at all!
Nvidia refuted accounting questions in a memo to analysts, saying "Unlike Enron, NVIDIA does not use Special Purpose Entities to hide debt and inflate revenue" (Tae Kim/Barron's Online)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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I continue to appreciate Tina Smith's embracing her no fucks era since she announced her retirement.
November 25, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Yes. Also voters like it when you stand for something. "I don't care if Republicans think we're wrong or if it's not popular, I'm standing up for my neighbors and friends" has benefits beyond the issue itself.
I think Democrats should double down on trans rights now. It's obvious that most voters don't care about it so you might as well stick with your principles and goad Republicans into focusing on it at the expense of everything else so they're the ones who look like freaks.
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Never forget how ass out Ben was to defend Nuzzi as news of her scandals broke.
Never forget who dove head first into defending this. Remember them every time we hear about a kid who dies of whooping cough.
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Larger media outlets have wavered since the first Trump term, but we've remained steadfast in our categorical rejection of MAGA in all its aspects and our affirmation of liberal democracy and the principles that it rests on.

In the second Trump term, we are growing: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Gone, but not forgotten
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Mark Kelly: "My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head. Six people killed around her, a horrific thing. She spent six months in the hospital. We know what political violence is and we know what causes it too, The statements that Donald Trump made incites others."
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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it's happening dot gif
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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"This has all been especially painful for X users who are, as a baseline, extremely racist. And they are now suffering through the psychic torment of learning that users, predominately from the Global South, are behind some of the bigger right-wing accounts on the site."
Republicans astroturfed themselves
Read to the end for a good Thanksgiving reminder
www.garbageday.email
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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This post I think correctly points out that the huge network of off-shore engagement accounts points less toward a concerted foreign effort to destabilize the US and more toward the observable fact that MAGA is a group of the dumbest idiots on the planet
"This has all been especially painful for X users who are, as a baseline, extremely racist. And they are now suffering through the psychic torment of learning that users, predominately from the Global South, are behind some of the bigger right-wing accounts on the site."
Republicans astroturfed themselves
Read to the end for a good Thanksgiving reminder
www.garbageday.email
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Comey: "I'm grateful the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence & incompetence... I was inspired by the career people who refused to be part of this travesty. It cost some of them their jobs, but it preserved their integrity, which is beyond price"
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.

If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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this is an electorate practically crying out for Ayanna Pressley lol
UNH poll | 11/13-11/17 LV

Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary

Ed Markey 34% (incumbent)
Seth Moulton 25%
Alex Rikleen 2%
Write in someone else 3%
Don’t know/undecided 35%

scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcont...
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Someone pointed out Hegseth probably chose to use his personal account there for a reason. I don't think "the President might personally fuck with you 15 years after you retire" is a great recruitment ad.
November 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I nominate this weird ass billionaire elf from Texas

www.mysanantonio.com/business/art...
November 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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The thing about Carville's piece is that it's a perfect example of the way centrists can't write literally anything without getting in a few jabs at the left/minorities. It's entirely possible to run on "economic rage," sure. There's no need to go, "And remember what some people on Tumblr said??"
November 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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The trump DOJ
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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little confused. is Jeffrey Goldberg also sexting RFK
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?

Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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the worst star wars movie is easily "air force one." I'm supposed to believe han solo is the president of the united states? on earth? fuck out of here with that bullshit.
November 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM