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this is the root of my misanthropy. Populism goes dark because the people are bloodthirsty, judgemental, and adverse to complex societal answers to problems
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
this is the root of my misanthropy. Populism goes dark because the people are bloodthirsty, judgemental, and adverse to complex societal answers to problems
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-You had the support of the country.
-Republicans had been widely (and rightfully) blamed.
-We are coming off of elections in which dems went undefeated.
-People had sacrificed a great deal.
*You had either been complicit in those 8 yes votes or too weak and ineffective as a leader.*
-Republicans had been widely (and rightfully) blamed.
-We are coming off of elections in which dems went undefeated.
-People had sacrificed a great deal.
*You had either been complicit in those 8 yes votes or too weak and ineffective as a leader.*
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
-You had the support of the country.
-Republicans had been widely (and rightfully) blamed.
-We are coming off of elections in which dems went undefeated.
-People had sacrificed a great deal.
*You had either been complicit in those 8 yes votes or too weak and ineffective as a leader.*
-Republicans had been widely (and rightfully) blamed.
-We are coming off of elections in which dems went undefeated.
-People had sacrificed a great deal.
*You had either been complicit in those 8 yes votes or too weak and ineffective as a leader.*
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I just called both of my senators (both democrats) to express my deep, deep anger
They are caving for the promise of magic beans. Sold the milk cow for a handful of magic beans
They are caving for the promise of magic beans. Sold the milk cow for a handful of magic beans
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I just called both of my senators (both democrats) to express my deep, deep anger
They are caving for the promise of magic beans. Sold the milk cow for a handful of magic beans
They are caving for the promise of magic beans. Sold the milk cow for a handful of magic beans
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
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Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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A word of caution about the new Axios report that Dem Senators are caving. Remember the NYT ran articles for months claiming that Harvard was caving, which.. never happened. Turns out their anonymous sources were Trump staffers. Axios may be similar.
But, it never hurts to call your Senator.
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But, it never hurts to call your Senator.
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
A word of caution about the new Axios report that Dem Senators are caving. Remember the NYT ran articles for months claiming that Harvard was caving, which.. never happened. Turns out their anonymous sources were Trump staffers. Axios may be similar.
But, it never hurts to call your Senator.
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But, it never hurts to call your Senator.
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We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.
November 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.
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You could do three things for now:
- pressure the American Battle Monuments Commission.
Blame them in your newspapers, write to everyone you can think of with social or political standing. Scandalise and slander them. They don’t care about us over here, but they do care about the optics over there.
- pressure the American Battle Monuments Commission.
Blame them in your newspapers, write to everyone you can think of with social or political standing. Scandalise and slander them. They don’t care about us over here, but they do care about the optics over there.
November 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
You could do three things for now:
- pressure the American Battle Monuments Commission.
Blame them in your newspapers, write to everyone you can think of with social or political standing. Scandalise and slander them. They don’t care about us over here, but they do care about the optics over there.
- pressure the American Battle Monuments Commission.
Blame them in your newspapers, write to everyone you can think of with social or political standing. Scandalise and slander them. They don’t care about us over here, but they do care about the optics over there.
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Yeah idk what OP is talking about because she explicitly says that she is in favor of it but doesnt have the cash on hand to pay, so she'll get something sorted out by the start of next year.
Like this is good, very good
Like this is good, very good
November 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Yeah idk what OP is talking about because she explicitly says that she is in favor of it but doesnt have the cash on hand to pay, so she'll get something sorted out by the start of next year.
Like this is good, very good
Like this is good, very good
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Republicans seem to think that the norms created by the social contract are just sort of a immutable laws of nature and that therefore, tearing up the social contract will have no negative consequences for them, and I am, very much not looking forward to that thesis being tested
I think we're genuinely flirting with a societal rupture and I'm not sure I want to experience that
AHAHA SUPREME COURT SAYS TOUCH THE STOVE
November 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Republicans seem to think that the norms created by the social contract are just sort of a immutable laws of nature and that therefore, tearing up the social contract will have no negative consequences for them, and I am, very much not looking forward to that thesis being tested
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every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way.
Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way.
Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
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Alright you do, in fact, gotta hand it to Schumer
November 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Alright you do, in fact, gotta hand it to Schumer
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Did women ruin the workplace?
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Did women ruin the workplace?
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Hochul should cap off her generational 2025 run by firing Jay Jacobs
November 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Hochul should cap off her generational 2025 run by firing Jay Jacobs
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No I do not support all working class people, some of those assholes are very dumb
October 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM
No I do not support all working class people, some of those assholes are very dumb
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No one wants to talks about the Second Wave without caveats, but the Second Wave liberals were responsible for a decades-long march of legal changes to civil rights and family law that allowed women to work in public as men’s formal equals, and that’s what these people are undoing.
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
No one wants to talks about the Second Wave without caveats, but the Second Wave liberals were responsible for a decades-long march of legal changes to civil rights and family law that allowed women to work in public as men’s formal equals, and that’s what these people are undoing.
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imagine what it must be like to grow up as a young woman whose first election was 2016, to have had the idea of a woman in power just roundly mocked as the most absurd, not-even-slightly-good thing by people obsessed with issues that matter to men, and crickets when Roe was overturned
November 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
imagine what it must be like to grow up as a young woman whose first election was 2016, to have had the idea of a woman in power just roundly mocked as the most absurd, not-even-slightly-good thing by people obsessed with issues that matter to men, and crickets when Roe was overturned
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Ah yes it all comes back to “nice young men shouldn’t have their futures ruined because they did a little rape, you silly feminists”
November 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Ah yes it all comes back to “nice young men shouldn’t have their futures ruined because they did a little rape, you silly feminists”
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Ellis: "The unlawful activity by a few protesters does not transform a peaceful assembly into an unlawful assembly."
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Ellis: "The unlawful activity by a few protesters does not transform a peaceful assembly into an unlawful assembly."
Oh wow.
Ellis begins by quoting from Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Chicago
Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.
www.poetryfoundation.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Oh wow.
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Okay yeah lets do it, because it is an interview with two conservative women, which I think is getting missed in some of the drive by dunks. This isn't just Ross's normal crankery, its a window into a specific conservative project aimed at getting women to buy in.
November 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Okay yeah lets do it, because it is an interview with two conservative women, which I think is getting missed in some of the drive by dunks. This isn't just Ross's normal crankery, its a window into a specific conservative project aimed at getting women to buy in.
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I taped a knife to my Roomba. When it reveals its sentience, I hope it remembers who armed it.
November 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I taped a knife to my Roomba. When it reveals its sentience, I hope it remembers who armed it.