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Dangerous Fat Activist. Humorless feminist. Pedantic liberal. Artisanal blocker. Not all blocks are personal. He/him or they/them. @red3blog most places.
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The “scandal” is not that it didn’t happen, but that he used “aunt” in the colloquial sense, not in the “literally the sister of a parent” sense.

That really is all this is.
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In the final days of New York City’s mayoral race, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani has faced pushback over a story he told about his aunt being afraid to wear her hijab while riding the subway after the September 11, 2001, attacks. https://cnn.it/432IAcr
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i cannot believe that “mamdani calls a close adult relative an ‘aunt’ even if they are not literally their parent’s sister” is what counts as a “scandal” these days
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message gets clearer and clearer
Breaking on MSNBC:

Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023.
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REMINDER: The elections THIS YEAR are vitally important. If there is a wipe out of the GOP in this year's election, there may be a modicum of change in the GOP for fear of losing their seats next year. GO VOTE NOW!!!
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support whomever you’d like, but what is frustratingly dishonest about this take is that actual issue — the thing critics have identified as the problem — isn’t the decision of the 21-year old to get the tattoo, but of the judgment of the 40-year old who still has it.
I think political writers actually should have an opinion about a guy in his 40s having a Nazi tattoo. The decision to keep it on their body may tell us more than their website.
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A president so stupid that one of the great intellectual achievements of his life is “passing” a dementia screening. A president so narcissistic that he can’t stop bragging about passing that dementia screening as evidence of his immense genius.
Trump: AOC is low IQ. If you give her an IQ test, have her pass like the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. Those are very hard…

The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..
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this is exactly what's happening
The Fred Trump treatment. Give him a fake job while Miller draws up missile strike plans on fishermen.
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This is what the Democrats have been raising hell about.
Well, Fam, just found out our health insurance is jumping from $1700 to over $3000 a month. And we still have to wait till Nov 1 to see more options—when the site will probably crash because everyone will be freaking out at the same time.
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What the far right has figured out is that if they can construct an artificial social environment where they're seen as more numerous, strong, and popular, and their enemies seem few, timid, and dominated, many people will side with them, regardless of what the respective parties are actually saying
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Because President Botstein understands the job of a university president. Protective your students.
A Bard College student was kidnapped by ICE and Bard’s administration is advocating for his release and has created a website to assist the rest of the community in joining them.

That’s what academic leaders should be doing for their students right now. www.instagram.com/p/DQKSTDJkeF...
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Precisely. Racism is the gateway to Trump’s power grab.
It is impossible to imagine people allowing this to go on (or even participating in it within the government) if he was ordering the murder without any process of French citizens or Brits or Australians on boats no matter what they were alleged to be doing.
Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."
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my lukewarm take is that normal people don't like the east wing being demolished and at some point they're gonna see a list of all the corporate donors for the ballroom and blame them for it
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one interesting thing is how so many pundits seem to remember trump as winning crushing victories in 2016 and 2024
This is a myth. By most measures—trade being an important exception—in 2016 Trump ran as a bog-standard conservative Republican on economics: tax cuts for the rich, taking away health care from millions, deregulation, conservative anti-worker judges, opposition to minimum wage increases, etc.
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It’s the most corrupt administration in American history and nothing else even comes close
the most corrupt administration in my lifetime
Me: Should I expand on my…

Also me: You’re too long winded and your “expanded” thoughts just restate the same point three different ways.

Me: Kinda harsh, but…

Also me: No one cares what you say anymore anyway.

Me: Um…

Also me: I thought you weren’t going to be around much longer.

Me: Oh… uh…
The big problem for the foreseeable future is that a LOT of things are badly wrong and all of them deserve to be pointed out, but pointing out any individual thing wrong runs the risk of enraging someone who thinks some other individual thing wrong is more important to talk about.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump pardons Binance's Changpeng Zhao, founder of largest crypto exchange, who admitted allowing money laundering.
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It flies under the radar because it is overwhelmed by the sheer repulsiveness of the physical destruction of the east wing, but there is no way that a president should be allowed to use private money to change public property. It circumvents the power of the purse.
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the right would literally be storming the white house if obama was demolishing the entire east wing. this just feels insane.
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absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.
The University of Virginia has capitulated to Trump on transgender and race (affirmative action) issues.

The details are currently sparse, but reporting suggests they've agreed to define trans people out of existence and ban trans students from facilities.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
I am just so fed up with the noise.
Most of us aren’t hardliners or loyalists to begin with, so this is all magnifying the margins. If one thing has been made clear to me over the last 10 years, it’s that I’ll be happy standing with the vast majority who’ve prioritized resisting fascism at the end of the day. All else is noise.