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Martin V
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You got to let your soul shine.
Year whatever and I think we’re finally building something here folks
Jeff Capel: "In the past, I thought we maybe would have crumbled in that situation but these guys found something inside of them and we were able to push through hard."
January 28, 2026 at 2:23 AM
After 30 hours of travel nightmares from this storm I can confidently say every time I interacted with a human being I had success while every time I talked to an AI chatbot I got nowhere.
January 27, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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i am in daily despair not because of my personal situation, though that warrants despair. i am in daily despair not because of what Republicans are doing, though that also warrants despair.

I am in daily despair because Senate Democrats are useless & there's little to nothing I can do about it.
Dems coalescing around 5 restrictions on ICE, I'm told:

DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big)
CBP stays at border
warrants for arrests
IDs, bodycams
ICE out of churches, schools

"That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
A Dem Senator’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Hits Home: “Breaking Point”
As Trump scrambles to contain the damage from the latest ICE horrors, Senator Chris Murphy offers a sharp indictment of Trump-ICE lawlessness—and explains how Dems can meet the urgency of the moment.
newrepublic.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
January 27, 2026 at 1:07 AM
That’s my band
January 27, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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When two guys shoveling the same sidewalk from opposite directions meet up
a couple of cartoon dogs eating spaghetti together
Alt: a couple of cartoon dogs eating spaghetti together
media.tenor.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:47 PM
This course should count as CEUs for my job that has absolutely nothing to do with this at all.
The next iteration of my Stanford class will be called COME HEAR UNCLE JOHN’S BAND: The Music and Culture of the Grateful Dead.

Six consecutive Tuesday evenings starting April 28. Registration opens February 23!

Link in first reply.
January 26, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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it is fuckin wild that Sam Darnold is the first USC quarterback to start in the Super Bowl
January 26, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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it’s that time again
January 25, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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The founders wrote the 2nd Amendment for a reason: So you could hold a cool gun while you nod approvingly at what the government is doing.
seeing conservatives admit alex pretti was disarmed and need to change their message to “well you know where you won’t get shot? at home” is just an impressive level of pathetic allegiance to their dictator
January 26, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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Seahawks are a cool team but I feel like they're at the disgusting leading edge of guys wearing jersey numbers they shouldn't be wearing. Wide receiver wearing No. 22, running back wearing No. 9. Just stop it
January 26, 2026 at 12:04 AM
This is bad football. Entire nation is stuck inside and these trash teams are somehow in the AFC title game.
January 25, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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Breaking: Pitt sophomore becomes first to solo summit Cardiac Hill.
January 25, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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At this rate, the administration is providing Bruce Springsteen with an entire album’s worth of content if each track is about a specific person
January 25, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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I will defeat this snowstorm with reason and logic
January 25, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 AM
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My take on what is clearly murder: a bunch of insufficiently-trained ICE agents dog-pile — and subdue — the victim with multiple guns drawn (why were the guns out?!). One of agents accidentally discharges his improperly-drawn gun, spooks the rest, and then they all unload in to the unarmed victim.
January 24, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Unfucking serious franchise. They literally hate me.
January 24, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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January 24, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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For the 587th time: I am a single-issue voter for the next 2 elections. Prison for the people responsible for this shit. Down to the secretary scheduling travel and filling out paperwork. I don't care if it takes 50 years. I don't care if it's expensive. Charges and trials for every last one.
January 24, 2026 at 4:09 PM
I am politically aligned with Bill Kristol and am upset most of my political party can’t reach this level of basic necessity moving forward in America.
To repeat: Abolish ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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Dudes who shit their pants in big situations stick together
January 24, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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Every minute ICE is out there publicly defending kidnapping and using a fucking preschooler as bait is a moment they are losing. I refuse to believe that there is an America that wants this shit.
ICE spokesperson Marcos Charles: "My officers stayed with the child. They cared for him. Took him to get something to eat from a drive-thru restaurant and spent hours ensuring he was taken care of. Again, my officers did that, not his father ... his family refused to open the door and take him back"
January 23, 2026 at 5:08 PM