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go vegan.
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¡Gracias por todo, Tomás!

We wish you the best in your next chapter 💙❤️

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December 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
December 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Please kill me
December 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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One of the nice things about being a broke artist is that Christmas just means you can do really cheap gifts by painting stuff for your homies.
December 20, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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andrew is one of the best human beings i have ever had the pleasure of knowing and deserves one hundred billion dollars
I am so deeply sorry to be in the position to have to pull this lever again, but I just watched my car get towed away and I don't really know what else to do anymore.

More details in the update & description, but if you're able to help out or share, we would be grateful beyond words.
Donate to Help Andrew & Savannah's Family Stay Afloat, organized by Andrew Elmore
Hey there! I'm Andrew, this is my wife Savannah. We have two kids, and we're… Andrew Elmore needs your support for Help Andrew & Savannah's Family Stay Afloat
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December 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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I am so deeply sorry to be in the position to have to pull this lever again, but I just watched my car get towed away and I don't really know what else to do anymore.

More details in the update & description, but if you're able to help out or share, we would be grateful beyond words.
Donate to Help Andrew & Savannah's Family Stay Afloat, organized by Andrew Elmore
Hey there! I'm Andrew, this is my wife Savannah. We have two kids, and we're… Andrew Elmore needs your support for Help Andrew & Savannah's Family Stay Afloat
gofund.me
December 19, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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simultaneously a good news story on McBride's deftness and a real shattering account of how many Democrats still need to get punted into a hole in the ocean

www.advocate.com/politics/sar...
Sarah McBride knew some Democrats would betray trans people, so she lobbied Republicans
Sarah McBride successfully lobbied a handful of Republicans to vote against a ban on gender-affirming care for youth.
www.advocate.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Very weird feeling waiting for the president to announce an illegal war based on total bullshit that they made up right in front of our faces on TV, almost like I've lived through this moment before
December 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Texting my therapist right before the appt "coming in hot"
December 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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“ the jail is at a horrific state right now."... “We hear stories,” Harris, the county mayor, tells me, of “individuals that are standing for 24 hours straight because there’s no room or place for them to sit down. I don’t have the words for what’s happening over there.”
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
www.motherjones.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Gazans face "not just a humanitarian catastrophe but an ecological collapse"
Gazans face "not just a humanitarian catastrophe but an ecological collapse"
Beyond famine and displacement, there's disease, flooding, raw sewage, and environmental devastation.
www.motherjones.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean.

I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.
We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
December 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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we're almost at $400 and I feel like we could get there today, can you help share and boost? xoxo
update from my friend maha in gaza, her baby has been discharged from the hospital. hamoud will eventually need a lung transplant but right now they just need $400 so they have somewhere to sleep away from the cold. please help ❤️ sharing helps too xoxo

gofund.me/c706298cd
Donate to Help Maha (23) Get Medical Treatment for Her Son, organized by Meghan M
UPDATE 11/21 Hamoud's condition is rapidly declining. Maha took him to … Meghan M needs your support for Help Maha (23) Get Medical Treatment for Her Son
gofund.me
December 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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In DC, Trump officials celebrated the decimation of USAID with a sheet cake.

In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak.

Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way.

www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.

All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.

Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Ahmed al Ahmed, a Lebanese Muslim who owns a Sydney fruit shop, risked his life to disarm one of the Bondi Beach shooters.

His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound.

A true hero.
December 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Any dentists in Kenosha, WI wanna help out a young autistic girl,?? This child needs 5 root canals due to her autism medicine.

Imma trade you a pair of tickets to our show in Chicago with GNR and a meeting next July

www.gofundme.com/f/help-with-...
Donate to My 11 year old autistic granddaughter needs 5 root canals, organized by Shirley Tutor-Perez
My granddaughter Rhiannon will be 11 on 12/20. She has been b… Shirley Tutor-Perez needs your support for My 11 year old autistic granddaughter needs 5 root canals
www.gofundme.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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you do not have the unalienable right to the pursuit of happiness if you live in a country that keeps you in a constant state of fear
December 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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"Shut down Alligator Alcatraz and allow these people to return to their communities, where they belong."
Torture & Enforced Disappearances at Florida’s ICE Jails: Amnesty International Report
Lights on 24/7. Overflowing toilets and lack of access to showers. Solitary confinement in a 2×2-foot box. These are some of the torturous conditions documented in a new report from Amnesty Internatio...
www.democracynow.org
December 14, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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update from my friend maha in gaza, her baby has been discharged from the hospital. hamoud will eventually need a lung transplant but right now they just need $400 so they have somewhere to sleep away from the cold. please help ❤️ sharing helps too xoxo

gofund.me/c706298cd
Donate to Help Maha (23) Get Medical Treatment for Her Son, organized by Meghan M
UPDATE 11/21 Hamoud's condition is rapidly declining. Maha took him to … Meghan M needs your support for Help Maha (23) Get Medical Treatment for Her Son
gofund.me
December 14, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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"I asked ChatGPT"

"I asked Grok"

Well I asked Patches and he said "There, that hole. Take a closer look."
August 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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FBI Leader Crumbles During Basic Questions About Threat of “Antifa”

Well, this sure sounds like a confession that antifa’s designation as a domestic terror group was based on nothing.

newrepublic.com/post/204308/...
FBI Leader Crumbles During Basic Questions About Threat of “Antifa”
Well, this sure sounds like a confession that antifa’s designation as a domestic terror group was based on nothing.
newrepublic.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM