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Trump is a liar. Tear gassing kids in peaceful neighborhoods makes no one safer.
He cannot steal credit from our violence prevention and law enforcement efforts that have reduced crime for four years straight — long before his masked agents showed up. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
He cannot steal credit from our violence prevention and law enforcement efforts that have reduced crime for four years straight — long before his masked agents showed up. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
DHS takes credit for crime being down in Chicago. Data shows that was happening before they arrived.
Immigration officials on Tuesday said a drop in crime numbers was thanks to their work. Police data show the decrease was taking place before federal agents arrived in the city.
www.nbcnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Trump is a liar. Tear gassing kids in peaceful neighborhoods makes no one safer.
He cannot steal credit from our violence prevention and law enforcement efforts that have reduced crime for four years straight — long before his masked agents showed up. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
He cannot steal credit from our violence prevention and law enforcement efforts that have reduced crime for four years straight — long before his masked agents showed up. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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High end wealth inequality allows for shit like this
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
High end wealth inequality allows for shit like this
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The fact that this, and every other Trump pardonee who has subsequently broken the law, has not ended Trump's political career, that it barely even registers on the national discourse, underlines just how far we are from a functioning democracy that values accountability.
A man pardoned by Donald Trump for his role in January 6th - he assaulted Capitol Police officers with bear spray & a metal whip - has avoided prison for child sex crimes because of the president’s sweeping pardon, despite pleading guilty to soliciting what he believed was a 15-year-old girl for sex
Trump Pardon Lets Convicted Child Sex Predator Walk Free
Andrew Taake walked free because of Trump’s pardons, despite being convicted of a child sex crime.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The fact that this, and every other Trump pardonee who has subsequently broken the law, has not ended Trump's political career, that it barely even registers on the national discourse, underlines just how far we are from a functioning democracy that values accountability.
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The first and last lines of Joni Ernst’s legacy as a human on earth will be that she was instrumental in the confirmation of the Sec of Defense most hostile to women serving in military, and she knew that when she voted for him.
November 12, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The first and last lines of Joni Ernst’s legacy as a human on earth will be that she was instrumental in the confirmation of the Sec of Defense most hostile to women serving in military, and she knew that when she voted for him.
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We used to have the Bureau of Labor Statistics collect inflation data but under Trump we’ve outsourced it to DoorDash
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
We used to have the Bureau of Labor Statistics collect inflation data but under Trump we’ve outsourced it to DoorDash
Part of my issue is that Douthat and his kind (read, professional opinion havers) don't speak/write intelligible English. Nothing in that series of tweets reads coherent because not a phrase is upkeeped and the prose is useless.
"Events have their own mysterious logic" yes, wow, who could have imagined that "we must purge our beloved volk of the communist profiteers and race traitors who use cosmopolitanism to degrade the Fatherland" would just end up being antisemetic, truly just the world-spirit moving as it will.
checking on ross "i would do anything for love but i won't" douthat
November 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Part of my issue is that Douthat and his kind (read, professional opinion havers) don't speak/write intelligible English. Nothing in that series of tweets reads coherent because not a phrase is upkeeped and the prose is useless.
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Deeply sick stuff from Trump here. HE did this to our country. Donald Trump did it to us. HE created this fiasco!
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Deeply sick stuff from Trump here. HE did this to our country. Donald Trump did it to us. HE created this fiasco!
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Working the ref when you appointed the ref
November 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Working the ref when you appointed the ref
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Van Hollen
Curious: Who do people think has the skillset (including fundraising) to replace Schumer who'd win the 37 Dems willing to fight?
Schatz?
Murphy?
Warren?
Schatz?
Murphy?
Warren?
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Van Hollen
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We call the 2008 TARP program a bailout and Wall Street made back a profit.
MSNBC: How does a $20b bailout of Argentina help Americans?
BESSENT: Do you know what a swap line is? Why would you call it a bailout? The US government made money
BESSENT: Do you know what a swap line is? Why would you call it a bailout? The US government made money
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We call the 2008 TARP program a bailout and Wall Street made back a profit.
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Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year
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![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
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These guys...
Andreesen said in an interview I heard that there's been "no new information in the Classics since the 1850s" and the amount of stupidity in that is wild. Just wild.
Andreesen said in an interview I heard that there's been "no new information in the Classics since the 1850s" and the amount of stupidity in that is wild. Just wild.
November 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
These guys...
Andreesen said in an interview I heard that there's been "no new information in the Classics since the 1850s" and the amount of stupidity in that is wild. Just wild.
Andreesen said in an interview I heard that there's been "no new information in the Classics since the 1850s" and the amount of stupidity in that is wild. Just wild.
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he's going to ask Vought to nuke SNAP even after the government reopens, isn't he
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
he's going to ask Vought to nuke SNAP even after the government reopens, isn't he
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A tech billionaire mocked Pope Leo XIV’s call for ethical AI.
The post was deleted — but not before exposing Silicon Valley’s deeper discomfort: a pope they can’t buy or bully.
It also revealed something older: the Valley’s original sin — the desire to be God.
The post was deleted — but not before exposing Silicon Valley’s deeper discomfort: a pope they can’t buy or bully.
It also revealed something older: the Valley’s original sin — the desire to be God.
Tech Billionaire Mocks Pope Leo’s AI Warning — and Reveals Silicon Valley’s Original Sin
A billionaire tech guru openly mocked Leo's call for moral AI — and quickly backtracked after backlash. It’s a telling collision of Silicon Valley hubris with a pope they cannot buy, bully, or ignore.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
A tech billionaire mocked Pope Leo XIV’s call for ethical AI.
The post was deleted — but not before exposing Silicon Valley’s deeper discomfort: a pope they can’t buy or bully.
It also revealed something older: the Valley’s original sin — the desire to be God.
The post was deleted — but not before exposing Silicon Valley’s deeper discomfort: a pope they can’t buy or bully.
It also revealed something older: the Valley’s original sin — the desire to be God.
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I haven’t seen a Biblical Stud have a night this bad since Delilah cut Samson’s hair off
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I haven’t seen a Biblical Stud have a night this bad since Delilah cut Samson’s hair off
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Breaking: The Senate votes 60-40 to reopen the government despite after the longest government shutdown in history. The legislation now goes to the House.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Senate votes to reopen the government as health care future remains uncertain
Republicans are split about whether to vote to extend enhanced tax credits for the health care marketplace while Democrats do not trust Republicans to follow through
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Breaking: The Senate votes 60-40 to reopen the government despite after the longest government shutdown in history. The legislation now goes to the House.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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So every part of this is dumb but the idea that the Iliad is about 'fighting for princesses' is such a vapid take on a work that tells you exactly what it is about in the first (and last) lines.
You can tell the poem isn't really about Bryseis because her return does not resolve the conflict.
You can tell the poem isn't really about Bryseis because her return does not resolve the conflict.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
So every part of this is dumb but the idea that the Iliad is about 'fighting for princesses' is such a vapid take on a work that tells you exactly what it is about in the first (and last) lines.
You can tell the poem isn't really about Bryseis because her return does not resolve the conflict.
You can tell the poem isn't really about Bryseis because her return does not resolve the conflict.
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I've thought about this so often. In the US, hormonal birth control is a $7 billion industry, ADHD medication is $11B. Vaccines are $29.5B!! All at various positions in the crosshairs of the current health regime.
WHATTTT is all the $ spent on pharma lobbying fucking BUYING THEM????
WHATTTT is all the $ spent on pharma lobbying fucking BUYING THEM????
ok Big Pharma spends so, so much more money on lobbyists for both parties than Israel does
Big Pharma clearly does not control the government
why do people attribute things like the shutdown to AIPAC when clearly lobbying money cannot even protect Tylenol from being slandered
Big Pharma clearly does not control the government
why do people attribute things like the shutdown to AIPAC when clearly lobbying money cannot even protect Tylenol from being slandered
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I've thought about this so often. In the US, hormonal birth control is a $7 billion industry, ADHD medication is $11B. Vaccines are $29.5B!! All at various positions in the crosshairs of the current health regime.
WHATTTT is all the $ spent on pharma lobbying fucking BUYING THEM????
WHATTTT is all the $ spent on pharma lobbying fucking BUYING THEM????
The smallest man who ever lived
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The smallest man who ever lived
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lol I did wonder what other shoe was going to drop besides the hemp thing in terms of GOPers sneaking stuff into a bill no one was going to read
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
lol I did wonder what other shoe was going to drop besides the hemp thing in terms of GOPers sneaking stuff into a bill no one was going to read
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Well, these images have done the viral circuit, and are now at the spot where people are accusing them of being AI.
Bummer to those folks: they are not AI. These are real photographs, made with my mirrorless cameras.
Media literacy sure is lost on so many people, it's quite sad.
Bummer to those folks: they are not AI. These are real photographs, made with my mirrorless cameras.
Media literacy sure is lost on so many people, it's quite sad.
Border Patrol agents posed at "The Bean" for an apparent photo op after a weekend of clashes in Little Village. blockclubchi.co/4oUHKae
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Well, these images have done the viral circuit, and are now at the spot where people are accusing them of being AI.
Bummer to those folks: they are not AI. These are real photographs, made with my mirrorless cameras.
Media literacy sure is lost on so many people, it's quite sad.
Bummer to those folks: they are not AI. These are real photographs, made with my mirrorless cameras.
Media literacy sure is lost on so many people, it's quite sad.
I do not think this is over. These moderates are soft soft. Internal pressure and a black list that puts them in the wild is basically what the caucus should do and it would work.
the caucus gets how this is *worse* right? if you're just going around Schumer, what's the point of leadership
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I do not think this is over. These moderates are soft soft. Internal pressure and a black list that puts them in the wild is basically what the caucus should do and it would work.
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New Argentina just dropped.
Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán says the U.S. will provide a “financial shield” as he struggles to win reelection
Meanwhile Trump President said last week “I don’t want to hear about affordability” as health care premiums explode & food/energy prices rise.
Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán says the U.S. will provide a “financial shield” as he struggles to win reelection
Meanwhile Trump President said last week “I don’t want to hear about affordability” as health care premiums explode & food/energy prices rise.
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
New Argentina just dropped.
Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán says the U.S. will provide a “financial shield” as he struggles to win reelection
Meanwhile Trump President said last week “I don’t want to hear about affordability” as health care premiums explode & food/energy prices rise.
Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán says the U.S. will provide a “financial shield” as he struggles to win reelection
Meanwhile Trump President said last week “I don’t want to hear about affordability” as health care premiums explode & food/energy prices rise.