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Don’t tase me, bro.
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feel old yet? the stranger things kids are 47
November 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
feel old yet? the stranger things kids are 47
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producer: what’s the new christmas song about?
guy who wrote jingle bell rock: ok, so you know when you are riding your jingle horse to the jingle hop?
producer: what the fuck
guy who wrote jingle bell rock: ok, so you know when you are riding your jingle horse to the jingle hop?
producer: what the fuck
December 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
producer: what’s the new christmas song about?
guy who wrote jingle bell rock: ok, so you know when you are riding your jingle horse to the jingle hop?
producer: what the fuck
guy who wrote jingle bell rock: ok, so you know when you are riding your jingle horse to the jingle hop?
producer: what the fuck
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This was excellent. Lots of insights from political science, political theory, and history. And incorporates events at home and abroad.
Why does liberalism feel stuck managing decline instead of building a future?
www.waleed-shahid.com/p/why-is-lib...
www.waleed-shahid.com/p/why-is-lib...
Why Is Liberalism Adrift?
From social democracy to the Democratic Party liberalism: how parties learn to speak the language of constraint -- and what it costs them.
www.waleed-shahid.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This was excellent. Lots of insights from political science, political theory, and history. And incorporates events at home and abroad.
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'Tis the season.
December 19, 2024 at 10:06 PM
'Tis the season.
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thank you, this means nothing to me. oh you used 45 pounds of internet. you unraveled 2 kilometers of web tubes. you traveled .8 light years online. ok!
December 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
thank you, this means nothing to me. oh you used 45 pounds of internet. you unraveled 2 kilometers of web tubes. you traveled .8 light years online. ok!
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not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.
December 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.
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2/ The Danish head of its CDC is like: are you fucking crazy? We are a small country with universal healthcare. You shouldn't do what we do. We should do what you used to do.
December 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
2/ The Danish head of its CDC is like: are you fucking crazy? We are a small country with universal healthcare. You shouldn't do what we do. We should do what you used to do.
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people simply do not remember the recession of the early 1990s (which formed the backdrop of films like FALLING DOWN). and the idea that the 80s were a decade of economic stagnation for most americans just isn't in the popular mind at all.
December 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
people simply do not remember the recession of the early 1990s (which formed the backdrop of films like FALLING DOWN). and the idea that the 80s were a decade of economic stagnation for most americans just isn't in the popular mind at all.
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Nobody puts Michael Stipe in a corner
Wait....
Wait....
December 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Nobody puts Michael Stipe in a corner
Wait....
Wait....
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Yeah, you can't do that
December 20, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Yeah, you can't do that
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You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
December 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
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Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
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The wildest part is when it leaks whatever fallout they were trying to avoid will be ten times worse. In its own way that explains quite a bit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
The D.N.C. Is Scrapping Its Report on What Went Wrong in 2024
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The wildest part is when it leaks whatever fallout they were trying to avoid will be ten times worse. In its own way that explains quite a bit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
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MIT professor, Nuno Loureiro was shot and killed in his Brookline home. He was the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and a professor of nuclear science and engineering and physics.
boston.com/news/crime/2...
boston.com/news/crime/2...
MIT professor shot and killed in his Brookline home
An MIT professor was shot and killed in his Brookline home on Monday night.
boston.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
MIT professor, Nuno Loureiro was shot and killed in his Brookline home. He was the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and a professor of nuclear science and engineering and physics.
boston.com/news/crime/2...
boston.com/news/crime/2...
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The only NBA Cups I recognize
December 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
The only NBA Cups I recognize
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: you can put mac and cheese on your hot dog and there is no legal authority that can stop you
December 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: you can put mac and cheese on your hot dog and there is no legal authority that can stop you
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congratulations to sean o’brien www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘A very hostile climate for workers’: US labor movement struggles under Trump
National Labor Relations Board, the federal watchdog for workers’ rights, has been rendered toothless as employees grapple with corporations
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
congratulations to sean o’brien www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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One of the prevailing worries for years was that with misinformation or deepfakes or AI videos people wouldn’t be able to tell what was real and what was altered.
But what got missed was the larger problem: that people wanted and needed to believe the lies being fed to them.
But what got missed was the larger problem: that people wanted and needed to believe the lies being fed to them.
December 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
One of the prevailing worries for years was that with misinformation or deepfakes or AI videos people wouldn’t be able to tell what was real and what was altered.
But what got missed was the larger problem: that people wanted and needed to believe the lies being fed to them.
But what got missed was the larger problem: that people wanted and needed to believe the lies being fed to them.
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we're so back
my sister (future teacher) is currently working with pre-schoolers and she's telling me some of the names she's got in class
HUGE news: she's got a Jerry
HUGE news: she's got a Jerry
December 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
we're so back
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Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer is my favorite song about how people will only love you if you're useful.
December 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer is my favorite song about how people will only love you if you're useful.
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last christmas i gave you my heart and you gave me your liver it was a whole weird gift of the magi thing
December 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
last christmas i gave you my heart and you gave me your liver it was a whole weird gift of the magi thing
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The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
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A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.
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Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
December 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...