Ria
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related, when the president is invading our own country, waging war on our own people, i don't wanna see dems give the GOP shit they ask for, don't wanna hear shit bout 'we hope our friends across the aisle will work with us on bipartisan solutions to the problems they cause' i don't want none of it
Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.
Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?
October 6, 2025 at 3:53 AM
related, when the president is invading our own country, waging war on our own people, i don't wanna see dems give the GOP shit they ask for, don't wanna hear shit bout 'we hope our friends across the aisle will work with us on bipartisan solutions to the problems they cause' i don't want none of it
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if anyone in the country needs a town hall right now, it's TX18 (houston). their congressional seat has been vacant for 5 months, it's on the ballot in november, it could be completely redistricted by then and residents might not even know what district they're in when it's time to vote.
Our district is at a crossroads. From partisan redistricting that silences communities to the everyday challenges folks are facing,
Bring your questions, your concerns, and your vision for the future of TX-18. Let’s make sure every voice is heard.
➡️ ChristianMenefee.com/August15
Bring your questions, your concerns, and your vision for the future of TX-18. Let’s make sure every voice is heard.
➡️ ChristianMenefee.com/August15
August 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
if anyone in the country needs a town hall right now, it's TX18 (houston). their congressional seat has been vacant for 5 months, it's on the ballot in november, it could be completely redistricted by then and residents might not even know what district they're in when it's time to vote.
What a little bitch
and here's David Mamet revealing that getting snubbed by Terry Gross is what radicalized him into conservatism
August 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
What a little bitch
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We generally assume that feedback processes work in democracy: politicians do things that benefit supporters, they get rewarded; if they hurt people they get punished. But what do you do when people are unwilling to accurately assign responsibility, when bias clouds self-interest.
Voters vulnerable to Medicaid cuts in President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” law are reluctant to blame the president or congressional Republicans who approved it, instead directing their frustration at their hospital system.
A clinic blames its closing on Trump’s Medicaid cuts. Patients don’t buy it.
A clinic in rural Nebraska has become a political flash point after tying its looming closure to Trump’s law cutting Medicaid.
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July 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We generally assume that feedback processes work in democracy: politicians do things that benefit supporters, they get rewarded; if they hurt people they get punished. But what do you do when people are unwilling to accurately assign responsibility, when bias clouds self-interest.
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If today’s New York Times editors had been working in London in 1888, they would’ve said Jack the Ripper was “testing societal norms“ and “straining the bounds of propriety.”
July 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
If today’s New York Times editors had been working in London in 1888, they would’ve said Jack the Ripper was “testing societal norms“ and “straining the bounds of propriety.”
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Texas can't adequately warn people about deadly floods, but it can immediately let me know that a cop got hurt 250 miles away from me.
July 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Texas can't adequately warn people about deadly floods, but it can immediately let me know that a cop got hurt 250 miles away from me.
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One of the major reasons the Bush Administration and neocons were able to lead US into the disastrous War on Terror and lie to the public was due to journalists and commentators who parroted the propaganda and beat the war drums.
June 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
One of the major reasons the Bush Administration and neocons were able to lead US into the disastrous War on Terror and lie to the public was due to journalists and commentators who parroted the propaganda and beat the war drums.
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Tomorrow I’m going to watch Jon Stewart and then Stephen Colbert talk about America starting a war in the middle east because time is a flat circle
June 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Tomorrow I’m going to watch Jon Stewart and then Stephen Colbert talk about America starting a war in the middle east because time is a flat circle
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This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.
June 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.
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The takeaway from the Tucker Carlson Ted Cruz interview is that the American public has been so badly cheated for so long by the people pretending to be the political media that when anyone asks a basic follow up that an 8th grade schoolpaper reporter would it feels like cutting edge journalism
June 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The takeaway from the Tucker Carlson Ted Cruz interview is that the American public has been so badly cheated for so long by the people pretending to be the political media that when anyone asks a basic follow up that an 8th grade schoolpaper reporter would it feels like cutting edge journalism
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The Times saying last year they'd no longer endorse candidates in local elections, then immediately being like "oh but not THAT guy" 10 months later because the candidate wants free buses gives away the whole game. "Objectivity" means you break your own rules to punch left as much as you want.
NYT Editorial board effectively endorses Andrew Cuomo today in the most weaselly possible way. “Don’t rank Mamdani, and it will probably be either him or Cuomo, sooo…”
June 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The Times saying last year they'd no longer endorse candidates in local elections, then immediately being like "oh but not THAT guy" 10 months later because the candidate wants free buses gives away the whole game. "Objectivity" means you break your own rules to punch left as much as you want.
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tomorrow's Fathers Day and a reminder to dads out there that no kid who had a happy childhood ever needed a military parade later in life
June 15, 2025 at 2:08 AM
tomorrow's Fathers Day and a reminder to dads out there that no kid who had a happy childhood ever needed a military parade later in life
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We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again
June 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again
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thinkin of this tweet for no particular reason
June 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
thinkin of this tweet for no particular reason
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I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
June 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.
They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
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this is literally the same thing southern segregationists said about the civil rights movement.
June 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
this is literally the same thing southern segregationists said about the civil rights movement.
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guys will be like "these people are ruining america" and it'll be a picture of the coolest guys ever
June 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
guys will be like "these people are ruining america" and it'll be a picture of the coolest guys ever
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People love to look down on like baristas because they have a “real job” in like, advertising.
Dog If one barista disappeared it would mess up 100 people’s mornings. If all of advertising disappeared the entire world would immediately feel blissful, calming relief
Dog If one barista disappeared it would mess up 100 people’s mornings. If all of advertising disappeared the entire world would immediately feel blissful, calming relief
June 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
People love to look down on like baristas because they have a “real job” in like, advertising.
Dog If one barista disappeared it would mess up 100 people’s mornings. If all of advertising disappeared the entire world would immediately feel blissful, calming relief
Dog If one barista disappeared it would mess up 100 people’s mornings. If all of advertising disappeared the entire world would immediately feel blissful, calming relief
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I’m the guy who invents new bathroom faucet designs for every hotel. You might know me from Knob That Goes The Other Way and Joystick That’s Hard To Turn Off. Lately I’ve been lacking inspiration, even thinking about hanging it up. I’ve had a good run, but — wait, never mind: Ball You Turn Diagonal
May 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I’m the guy who invents new bathroom faucet designs for every hotel. You might know me from Knob That Goes The Other Way and Joystick That’s Hard To Turn Off. Lately I’ve been lacking inspiration, even thinking about hanging it up. I’ve had a good run, but — wait, never mind: Ball You Turn Diagonal
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More than 700K Americans died from COVID after he wrote this. We still have not achieved herd immunity.
May 22, 2025 at 4:06 AM
More than 700K Americans died from COVID after he wrote this. We still have not achieved herd immunity.
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[Karoline Leavitt saying the Librarian of Congress was fired for having books in the library] Wow that's the worst thing I've ever seen
*refreshes feed*
[The mayor of Newark is being held at an unspecified facility] Wow that's the worst thing I've ever seen
*refreshes feed*
[The mayor of Newark is being held at an unspecified facility] Wow that's the worst thing I've ever seen
May 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
[Karoline Leavitt saying the Librarian of Congress was fired for having books in the library] Wow that's the worst thing I've ever seen
*refreshes feed*
[The mayor of Newark is being held at an unspecified facility] Wow that's the worst thing I've ever seen
*refreshes feed*
[The mayor of Newark is being held at an unspecified facility] Wow that's the worst thing I've ever seen
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Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
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these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism
April 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism
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It’s trans women are women and fuck JK Rowling in this household. She needs to wingardium leviofuckoff
April 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
It’s trans women are women and fuck JK Rowling in this household. She needs to wingardium leviofuckoff