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Cody Vidmar
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THESE ARE NOT SERIOUS PEOPLE.

I’ve been saying it for a minute now.

Also, if you’re going to post sauced material, post a link to the sauce!

www.city-journal.org/article/manh...
Text from the article Psychologically, this group was marked by desensitization, shaped less by fear than by boredom. They were not especially anxious about their own futures. They worried more about what Al and autom ion might do to other people than to themselves. Politics is entertainment: a stage for mockery, transgression, and performance, not moral seriousness or policy discipline. Text from the article That helps explain their detachment. Their views on family, illegal immigration, and social order largely align with those of mainstream Republicans. But they are not demanding doctrinal or programmatic rigor. They want a politics that feels less uptight and more charismatic-one that can make them laugh as well as make them better off. For some, that may not come from the Right. One participant named Michelle Obama as his ideal next president. Another-the same one who had praised Nick Fuentes—cited Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as preferable to Ben Shapiro. What matters most for them all is not ideological consistency but vibe: humor, transgression, and the sense of being led by someone who can command attention. That preference, more than any specific belief expressed in the room, may prove the most consequential feature of right-leaning Gen Z's political development.
December 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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On my morning scroll of the home page at work, this newsweek article popped up. Is this a self-own by Republicans or did newsweek just mess up 🤣 link in the next post!
Text from the article quote posted below: What People Are Saying California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, responded to Trump's post on X: "This is a sick man." Conservative commentator Erick Erickson wrote on X: "This statement is wrong. Regardless of one's political views, no one should be subjected to violence, let alone at the hands of their own son. It's a horrible tragedy that should engender sympathy and compassion from everyone in our country, period." Representative Mike Lawler, a New York Republican, wrote on X: "This statement is wrong. Regardless of one's political views, no one should be subjected to violence, let alone at the hands of their own son. It's a horrible tragedy that should engender sympathy and compassion from everyone in our country, period."
December 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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I liked this part.
Text from the study in the quote post below: The profession's entire case for academic freedom and its attendant standards is predicated upon the basic right to employ one's professional skills in practice, a right, in the case of the teaching profession, which is exercised not in private practice but through institutions. To deny a faculty member this opportunity without adequate cause, regardless of monetary compensation, is to deny him his basic professional rights. Moreover, to a good teacher, to be involuntarily idle is a serious harm in itself. One has only to think of the famous teachers of the past, beginning with Socrates, to realize what a serious injury it would have been to these men to have been denied the right to teach. In the case of the teachers at St. John's, denial of their classrooms was, in itself, serious injury. To inflict such injury without due process and, therefore, without demonstrated reason, destroys the academic character of the University.
December 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Ohio has the most rejected projects. Ohio also has one of the most fucked state congresses in the country, with this barely becoming a blip on the national radar. www.commoncause.org/ohio/resourc...
A map of all states, rated by how many renewable energy projects each state rejected. This one points out Ohio, with the highest number of projects rejected, at 221.
December 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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What the fuck, Ohio.
A map of all states, rated by how many renewable energy projects each state rejected. This one points out Ohio, with the highest number of projects rejected, at 221.
December 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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All eyes need to be on trump at all times. Don't look behind the curtain
Text from the article in the quote post below Providing American sign language interpretation in press conferences "would severely intrude on the President's prerogative to control the image he presents to the public," Justice Department attorneys argued in a lawsuit filed by the National Association for the Deaf.
December 12, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Just some more bits to highlight from this article - Dude posed as an investigator to try and get video footage of a bar fight where he punched this woman.

He also drunkenly waved a gun at a woman that wouldn't go out with him a few years back.

A real winner the Chicago pd hid on staff.
Text from the article linked in the quoted post. Baker hasn't been charged in the fatal shooting of his partner or the bar fight. He has been stripped of his policing powers but only after he allegedly called a nearby business posing as an investigator and tried to obtain video footage of what happened in the bar. His lawyer didn't respond to a request for comment. Yolanda Rivera's attorneys pointed to Baker's lengthy record of disciplinary complaints, seizing on another incident in which he was accused of accosting a woman at a bar in December 2022 and flashing a gun at her after she refused to date him. The woman stopped cooperating with investigators, and the case was closed.
December 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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I think this may be what you're referring to!
Text from the law cited in the op Case interpreting this rule have therefore held that "great caution" should be used when evaluating implied admissions adopted by silence; nevertheless, "if the statement is made in a person's presence by a person having first-hand knowledge under such circumstances that a denial would be naturally expected if the statement were untrue and it is shown that he was in a position to hear and understand what was said and had the opportunity to speak, then his silence or failure to deny renders the statement admissible against him as an implied admission." State v. Sibley, 140 N.C. App. 584 (2000), quoting State v. Spaulding, 288 N.C. 397 (1975).
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Does the chat also think Steve misspelled descendent(s) in his tweet for trump? Or did Donald do that 😂
A picture of a quote tweet from Stephen Miller Stephen Miller & 9 ... @StephenM This is the great lie of mass migration. You are not just importing individuals. You are importing societies. No magic transformation occurs when failed states cross borders. At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands. Dave Brown @dave_brown24•9h WSJ Editorial: Afghan refugees "shouldn't be blamed for the violent act of one man. Collective punishment of all Afghans in the U.S. won't make America safer and it might embitter more again... 8:29 PM • Nov 27, 2025 • 168.8K Views
November 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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The spatch has been cocked
A spatchcocked turkey in a pan
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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We recently learned this skunk that had been living under our shed was hit by a car. This skunk got our dog three times, once at the beginning of each year. But after that? They were cool. Even got nose to nose once. We're gonna miss him :(
A skunk in some grass A skunk crossing a walkway from our garage to our house
November 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Tenessee 🤛🏻 election fraud
Text from the article This is not the first time this year Trump has pardon a convicted Tennessee Republican lawmaker. In March, former state Sen. Brian Kelsey received a pardon from Trump, just two weeks after he reported to federal prison to serve a 21-month sentence for an illegal campaign finance scheme he pleaded guilty to in 2022.
November 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Keep kids out of jail cells.
The image is text from the article: The screenings seem to be identifying the right candidates, Pubentz said. All nine participants did appear for their arraignments the morning after their arrest, she noted, and 75% of them are considered to have successfully completed the program, meaning they were not charged with new crimes or sent to the detention center. "I think it shows community members that kids can be maintained safely in the community and don't need to be placed in detention," she said - even kids accused of some of the most serious charges. Pubentz pointed to research that shows incarceration is often not necessary to protect public safety, and even one night in detention can have a negative impact on youth and sometimes push them further into the system. But a graduated response model with incentives for good behavior and sanctions for misbehavior can work to hold youth accountable for their actions and prevent future criminal behavior, she said.
October 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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He died fighting for the Russians. What does a mental health issue have to do with him fighting for the Russians..? How do we have the son of a ranking CIA member join the Russian military and we don't say that out loud..??
Text from the article. It reads: "Juliane Gallina and her family suffered an unimaginable personal tragedy in the spring of 2024 when her son Michael Gloss, who struggled with mental health issues, died while fighting in the conflict in Ukraine. CIA considers Michael's passing to be a private family matter for the Gloss family - not a national security issue," the spokesperson said.
August 21, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Text from an article. Text reads: Superman was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, both children of Jewish immigrants, and debuted in 1938 as "the champion of the oppressed" who "had sworn to devote his existence to helping those in need."
August 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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This bit has got to be AI.

"Because officials are using so many of their resources on shooting victims and to try to neutralize the shooter or shooters, the fire cannot be put out, Norris said."
A highlighted passage of the article reads, "Because officials are using so many of their resources on shooting victims and to try to neutralize the shooter or shooters, the fire cannot be put out, Norris said."
June 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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That's the thing though, if you're wrong because you're racist and you're reading things through a racist lense, that just means you're wrong and racist.
Text from the article Students took their complaints to Ms. McAlister, the interim dean. She addressed the granting of the award to Mr. Damsky in at least two town-hall-style meetings, according to an email she wrote to students and an article in The Independent Florida Alligator, the student newspaper. In the February email, the dean wrote that the law school, as a public institution, was bound by the First and 14th Amendments, meaning that no faculty member may "grade down a paper that is otherwise successful simply because he or she disagrees with the ideas the paper advances." Institutional neutrality, she wrote in her email, "is not agreement or complicity with the ideas that any community member advances." "It's just that — neutrality," she added. "The government — in this case, our public university - stays out of picking sides, so that, through the marketplace of ideas, you can debate and arrive at truth for yourself and for the community." Some at the law school agree with her stance. In an interview, John F. Stinneford, a professor at the university, said that it would be "academic misconduct" for a law professor who opposed abortion to give a lower grade to a well-argued paper advocating abortion rights.
June 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Nic wearing cookies number is making me tear up all over again
MLB Jersey Number bkuesky account @numbersmlb.bsky.s... RHP Nic Enright will wear number 59. Last worn by RHP Carlos Carrasco in 2024
May 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Here's a fox article from Feb '23 saying this is actually a *good* thing.

The only good part is that it says that men can have babies! www.foxnews.com/media/brain-...
Smajdor also suggested that brain dead men "would also have the potential to gestate" which would increase the pool of potential donors and mitigate feminist concerns. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP "The prospect of the male gestator could thus appease some feminists who might otherwise feel that brain-dead gestation is a step too far in the objectification of women's reproductive functions," the report stated. "The prospect of male pregnancy is not, as many would imagine, fanciful, or a piece of science fiction," Smajdor claimed.
May 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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This is from a different article, but let's hope Pam keeps her word here.
Lol
In a statement on Tuesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi said she welcomed the guilty plea. "This calculated attempt on the life of a sitting U.S. Supreme Court justice was a heinous attack on the court itself," she said. "Anyone who thinks they can use violence or intimidation to influence our courts will be met with the full force of the law and face up to life in prison."
May 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Country (or dependency) Population (2025) 1 India 1,463,865,525 2 China 1,416,096,094 3 United States 347,275,807 4 Indonesia 285,721,236 5 Pakistan 255,219,554 6 Nigeria 237,527,782 7 Brazil 212,812,405 8 Bangladesh 175,686,899
April 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Everyone needs to go enjoy a night out at the secret supper club in Cleveland. First night was tonight and we might be going back. The fucking peas, man.
The first course, a salad. The last course, a pea flavored dessert. My girlfriend and I having a perfect night at dinner ❤️
April 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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The reasoning made me actually chuckle out loud
Text from the last paragraph of the article "When asked why Rogen's potentially embarrassing comments were excised, a spokesperson for the Breakthrough Prize Foundation said, "This year's ceremony lasted longer than the prior few years, and several edits were made in order to meet the originally planned run time." Rogen could not be reached for comment. (The Hollywood Reporter is the media sponsor of the Breakthrough Prize Ceremony.)"
April 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Feels like the government is using chatgpt to write their documents too
Text from an article reading: The U.S. government claims on Reyes Mota's I-213 form, a document the Department of Homeland Security uses to support that someone is deportable, that he "may be a Tren de Aragua associate." But in those same documents, the government says he has no criminal records or immigration history in the United States. The government also uses someone else's last name in several parts of the document, identifies him with female pronouns, and uses two different unique identification numbers that immigration authorities use to keep track of individuals, raising questions about the reliability of Trump officials' accusations against him.
March 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Gotta love the Minnesota DFL.

This has very Cleveland Browns Letter energy and if you don't get that reference:
A letter from the Cleveland Browns, the letter reads in full as follows: CLEVELAND STADIUM, CORP. CLEVELAND STADIUM CLEVELAND, OHIO 44114 Phone: 781-5600 renbe 21, 1974 Dale O. Cox, Esquire Roetzel and Andress 20th Floor One Cascade Plaza Akron, Ohio 44308 Dear Mr. Cox: Attached is a letter that we received on November 19, I feel that you should be aware that some asshole 1974. is signing your name to stupid letters. Very truly yours, CLEVELAND STADIUM CORP. James N. Bailey, General Counsel JNB:bjn cc: Arthur B. Modell
March 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM