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Some things that I’m totally committed to and also totally understand how people find them incredibly off-putting: Christianity, Liberalism, Jazz Fusion, the EU, the state’s claim to monopoly on legitimate violence as such. Missionary kid.
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The things she knew, let her forget again—
The voices in the sky, the fear, the cold,
The gaping shepherds, and the queer old men
Piling their clumsy gifts of foreign gold.
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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All of you: How do the Bears keep winning these miraculous comebacks during this amazing season?

Us Southsiders, knowing it but not wanting to say it out loud:
December 21, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Waking up to Eurobonds
a man with a beard and mustache is smiling for the camera
ALT: a man with a beard and mustache is smiling for the camera
media.tenor.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Emily King
MARO
Gabrielle (den norska)
Lizzy McAlpine
Joni Mitchell

(Ella Rae Feingold, men bara på insta. Men där är hon så sjuuukt bra!)
Män! Nämn fem kvinnliga artister du lyssnar på:

Tracy Chapman
Joan Baez
Adele
Nina Simone
Dusty Springfield
Har märkt att män som grupp generellt sällan anger kvinnor som favoritartister. Tänkte därför försöka dra igång en lista på ”nämn fem kvinnliga artister du lyssnar på!” Endast män får svara!
December 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Vance literally blaming antisemitism on rootless cosmopolitans
Folks, would you believe me if I told you JD Vance was over there railing against the immigrants as the reason for the antisemitism
December 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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No one’s rich like Gaston
That’s the pitch for “Gaston”
No one’s complex and tragic yet kitsch like Gaston
He’s a circle that begs to be squared
It’s a tentpole, a four-quadrant hit
Yes his backstory’s moving and layered
And it’s starring a CGI de-aged Brad Pitt
December 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Happy birthday to Jane Austen, and to this very on-brand Economist chart
www.economist.com/christmas-sp...
December 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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On Monday the FIFA Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel will be awarded to Larry Summers
December 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com is intellectually serious, philosophically pluralistic, and politically responsible. Above all it is a voice for liberal principles, at a time when that is urgently needed but frustratingly difficult to find.

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Donate to The Liberal Currents Startup Fund, organized by Adam Gurri
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. Liberal Currents is that. Help… Adam Gurri needs your support for The Liberal Currents Startup Fund
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December 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Broke: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie, it’s an action film
Woke: Die Hard is set at Christmas. Christmas film
Bespoke: Die Hard is about death, judgement, and deliverance from evil (and people anticipating the celebration of Christmas with an office party) and is therefore clearly an Advent movie
December 2, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Famously migration from the Middle East to Europe dried up after the US and allies invaded Iraq
Cracks me up how you could just replace Venezuela and Venezuelans with Iraq and Iraqis and it’d be indistinguishable from something written in 2002
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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This is a great way to organize feedback - I am going to try to do this! #linkoftheday
conventionalcomments.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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"Fewer people" housing policy vs. "more people" housing policy:
November 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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I have serious doubts whether a national coalition agreement is the right way to try to influence the voting behaviour of MEPs.

But if a party signs something like this, it should actually mean something.
Watch Manfred Weber and other CDU/CSU MEPs flush the German coalition agreement down the toilet tomorrow - with no reaction from the SPD at national level.

All of this just to free some companies from reporting human rights abuses.
November 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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My book, Lamb of the Free: Recovering the Varied Sacrificial Understandings of Jesus’s Death, is 50% off throughout Nov with code CONFSHIP from the publisher’s site. Tell your friends!

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November 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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If ICE agents come onto my campus, or the campus of K-12 schools, I want the school to use active shooter protocols: lock them out, hide the kids and staff, and call the police to inform them of armed gunmen on campus.
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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And we have now progressed from data analysis to policy recommendations.

I told her that we'd calculate the cash value of her candy haul, that I'd ask her to raid her piggy bank and donate 1/3 the candy cash value to a local food bank, and that I'd add on a 5X match.
November 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Alice Teodorescu Måwe (KD) lyfter på sin blogg fram som ett "skrämmande faktum" att "år 2063 kommer vita britter att vara en minoritet i sitt eget land".

Det väcker frågan om rasideologi numera är rumsrent i Kristdemokraterna.
October 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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"The Americans" not only holds up, but also continues to be the greatest television series produced in the last 25 years.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6lh...
The Americans 6x10 - Train scene
YouTube video by the jenningses
www.youtube.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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With respect to the Louvre robbery, Egypt now has the chance to do the funniest thing.
October 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Do not under any circumstances cross the King of Yacht Rock.

"This is an unauthorized use of my performance of ‘Danger Zone.’ Nobody asked me for my permission, which I would have denied, and I request that my recording on this video is removed immediately"

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Kenny Loggins Slams Donald Trump for Using ‘Danger Zone’ in AI Video Bombing No Kings Protesters With Poop: ‘I Request That My Recording Is Removed Immediately’
Kenny Loggins has spoken out against Trump using his song "Danger Zone" in a bizarre AI video of him bombing No Kings protesters with fecal matter.
variety.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Two amazing signs
October 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM