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Nemo
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Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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However bad you think Schumer is, he is worse

prospect.org/2025/11/08/w...
November 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Democrats fucking love to just cave. What cowardly, asinine fools we have as representatives.
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/u...

One member, Professor Nelson wrote, warned against “legalizing the full exertion of a tyrannical disposition.”
Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials
www.nytimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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‘[Trump] is the whiniest, thin-skinned little snowflake we’ve ever had in our public life.’

On the new Two Outspoken, @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @owenjones.bsky.social discuss Trump’s clampdown on free speech in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Full episode: zeteo.com/p/are-britis...
September 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Don't buy the canard that this is about Charlie Kirk. Abusing state power to lean on corporate leaders and get Jimmy Kimmel off the air because he told jokes about the president and made him feel bad was always the plan.
September 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
September 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
“Periods of political violence do end. But often not without shocking retrenchments of people’s freedoms or catastrophic events coming first.”
September 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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the "tax the billionaires" political refrain is Good Actually in part because it is a call for the people at the top to actually be constrained by rules informed by the public interest, a virtue that fingerwagging correctives about how much revenue such taxes would *really* generate doesn't address
September 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job
August 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet
August 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
August 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"The cream of my testimony is this, do nothing against your brothers even though they may deserve it."

- Babur, Mughal Emperor
August 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Well, I guess reenacting infantry presence patrols is better than reenacting SOF night raids like some other US government security forces are doing
>presence patrols at the Washington Monument
GWOT will simply never end
August 13, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Someone please remind me again why universities insist on paying so much money for external expertise that is usually inferior to that of the experts they already employ?
August 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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We Need To Take Trump’s Rhetoric Seriously, But Not Literally vs. Have That Guy Killed theonion.com/we-need-to-t...
August 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"The new year, the spring, the wine and the beloved are joyful. Babur make merry, for the world will not be there for you a second time."
August 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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>presence patrols at the Washington Monument
GWOT will simply never end
August 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Opinion | You Are Contaminated
www.nytimes.com
August 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM