nonplussed
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Living in SC. Previously lived in the Midwest, Southwest, North central and West. I build websites and have a dog.
Couldn’t he just, you know, stop shaking hands until his hand got better? Switch to his other hand?
Q: Can you explain what's going on with the bandages on Trump's hand?
LEAVITT: We've given you an explanation. The president is literally constantly shaking hands.
LEAVITT: We've given you an explanation. The president is literally constantly shaking hands.
December 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Couldn’t he just, you know, stop shaking hands until his hand got better? Switch to his other hand?
The Article of the Day is so patently dumb it’s not worth wasting any additional time on it.
December 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The Article of the Day is so patently dumb it’s not worth wasting any additional time on it.
This is definitely the warmest sounding post-rock record I’ve heard. Not something the genre is usually noted for.
caroline 2
open.spotify.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This is definitely the warmest sounding post-rock record I’ve heard. Not something the genre is usually noted for.
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Shahed interception filmed by the second drone which was also chasing the target
December 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Shahed interception filmed by the second drone which was also chasing the target
Last I checked, pregnancies aren’t contagious or life threatening to others.
In the last year, I’ve had several conversations with friends and acquaintances where vaccines are framed as “my body, my choice.”
December 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Last I checked, pregnancies aren’t contagious or life threatening to others.
Who in their right minds would agree to this?
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
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The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
December 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Who in their right minds would agree to this?
She does like to go to pound town.
I’ll see myself out…
I’ll see myself out…
I will note that pretentiously naming the thing "American Canto" like you're fucking Ezra Pound is perfectly in line with the florid bad-high-school-poetry style of the excerpts I've seen.
Yikes!
"Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week"
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs for @forbes.com
"Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week"
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs for @forbes.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
She does like to go to pound town.
I’ll see myself out…
I’ll see myself out…
The willingness of republicans to lie is truly breathtaking. Just incessant confabulation.
Lutnick: "I think under President Trump you're gonna see the economy grow 6%"
December 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The willingness of republicans to lie is truly breathtaking. Just incessant confabulation.
I can’t wait until we can wipe the shit eating grin off this thief’s face.
December 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I can’t wait until we can wipe the shit eating grin off this thief’s face.
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It’s a beautiful new day in the South. Unless you are Lindsey Graham. ☀️
This is a 6-pt race, and we are just getting started. 🌊
This is a 6-pt race, and we are just getting started. 🌊
December 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
It’s a beautiful new day in the South. Unless you are Lindsey Graham. ☀️
This is a 6-pt race, and we are just getting started. 🌊
This is a 6-pt race, and we are just getting started. 🌊
When is that dumb old motherfucker gonna die? So sick of him.
December 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
When is that dumb old motherfucker gonna die? So sick of him.
An alternate solution would be to put away your dishes because you love your wife and want to make her happy.
Did red states ban dishwashers? This reads like a martial strife column from 1969.
December 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
An alternate solution would be to put away your dishes because you love your wife and want to make her happy.
Absolutely. This is the principle behind the five whys concept in root cause analysis.
part of that is listening in a deep way — in a way that you won’t capture with issue polling. you have to ask yourself what is the underlying concern? is it that voters have a firm view of, say, the deficit? or does the deficit represent a set of larger worries. if the latter, you speak to *that*.
December 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Absolutely. This is the principle behind the five whys concept in root cause analysis.
One thing I’d add is that the public doesn’t respect politicians who appear to be tacking to every change in public opinion. People like someone with a backbone!
i will again note the slight of hand here. “respecting” public opinion is defined as being subservient to public opinion. but you can respect where the public lies without making yourself a slave to its whims.
This exchange drives me nuts. Neither the interviewer nor Bazelon acknowledges that 1) abortion rights are really popular! and 2) what ICE is doing is hugely unpopular!
December 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
One thing I’d add is that the public doesn’t respect politicians who appear to be tacking to every change in public opinion. People like someone with a backbone!
Abolish ICE, arrest the perpetrators of these lawless crimes.
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Abolish ICE, arrest the perpetrators of these lawless crimes.
I’d go farther and say it was unethical and immoral.
Important: Maryland senate leader refuses to redistrict to counter Trump/GOP, but Rep Jamie Raskin says if Indiana GOPers move, MD must act:
"There’s nothing ethical or moral about unilaterally disarming before authoritarians in a game they’ve created."
On the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
"There’s nothing ethical or moral about unilaterally disarming before authoritarians in a game they’ve created."
On the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
December 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I’d go farther and say it was unethical and immoral.
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While it is tempting to look for patterns, I think the capriciousness and arbitrariness are the point. That's what signals the absolute power of the monarch: he's not beholden to anything, hence anyone is entirely at his mercy.
Dice come up 7, 11, or doubles: congratulations, here's your pardon
All other rolls: blow 'em up, finish off any survivors
All other rolls: blow 'em up, finish off any survivors
Trump grants clemency to Baltimore drug trafficker who ran multimillion-dollar ring
A Baltimore drug kingpin who built a multimillion-dollar narcotics empire and lived a lavish lifestyle before his arrest was granted clemency by President Donald Trump.
www.baltimoresun.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
While it is tempting to look for patterns, I think the capriciousness and arbitrariness are the point. That's what signals the absolute power of the monarch: he's not beholden to anything, hence anyone is entirely at his mercy.
It’s interesting how the most vocal racists tend to look like products of a first-cousin marriage.
July 5, 1925: Jean Raspail, a French author who became a hero of the far right with his novel "The Camp of the Saints," about an "invasion" of the West by dark-skinned immigrants, is born. Trump administration figures who praised his work include Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon.
December 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
It’s interesting how the most vocal racists tend to look like products of a first-cousin marriage.
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
December 6, 2025 at 3:09 AM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
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𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘍𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘢𝘤𝘬, by Marian Kamensky
December 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘍𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘢𝘤𝘬, by Marian Kamensky
A really lovely, positive story about what people can do to restore our world.
"The problems are immense, but the solutions are immense too."
I loved this short documentary about botanist Hugh Wilson, who spent thirty years protecting and growing a forest in New Zealand.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VZS...
I loved this short documentary about botanist Hugh Wilson, who spent thirty years protecting and growing a forest in New Zealand.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VZS...
Man Spends 30 Years Turning Degraded Land into Massive Forest – Fools & Dreamers (Full Documentary)
YouTube video by Happen Films
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A really lovely, positive story about what people can do to restore our world.
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All corporate CEOs should understand: If you agree to attend an event at the White House, you are very likely to be filmed nodding appreciatively at a delusional racist rant. If you're ok with that, go. If not, you probably should stay away.
December 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
All corporate CEOs should understand: If you agree to attend an event at the White House, you are very likely to be filmed nodding appreciatively at a delusional racist rant. If you're ok with that, go. If not, you probably should stay away.
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Even accounting for the new congressional maps, a swing like Aftyn Behn's (Trump+22 to D-8.6) would net Dems 259 seats in the midterms.
Even if the swing is *half* of tonight's, Dems win the House with 229 seats
Data: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Even if the swing is *half* of tonight's, Dems win the House with 229 seats
Data: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
December 3, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Even accounting for the new congressional maps, a swing like Aftyn Behn's (Trump+22 to D-8.6) would net Dems 259 seats in the midterms.
Even if the swing is *half* of tonight's, Dems win the House with 229 seats
Data: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Even if the swing is *half* of tonight's, Dems win the House with 229 seats
Data: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
This guy’s face just screams “punch me. You just know he couldn’t take it.
December 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This guy’s face just screams “punch me. You just know he couldn’t take it.
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What lies at the root of both the grifters and ideologues, is a realization that attempting to recreate the United States' old racial hierarchies or burn a new white ethnostate out of it, is simply catastrophically unpopular to the point that an authoritarian regime would be required to enforce it.
November 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
What lies at the root of both the grifters and ideologues, is a realization that attempting to recreate the United States' old racial hierarchies or burn a new white ethnostate out of it, is simply catastrophically unpopular to the point that an authoritarian regime would be required to enforce it.