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This was LITERALLY last month. I feel like I'm losing my mind seeing rightwing posts over on Twitter tonight.
nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...
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September 11, 2025 at 5:47 AM
This was LITERALLY last month. I feel like I'm losing my mind seeing rightwing posts over on Twitter tonight.
nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...
nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...
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When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.
September 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.
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My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.
September 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.
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law professors have been unable to understand why people are actually concerned about this case. it’s not about nationwide injunctions per se, it’s about a court that waited until the issue hurt the GOP, and then intervened on behalf of one of the most egregious constitutional violations we’ve seen
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called yesterday's decision about nationwide injunctions "an existential threat to the rule of law."
She's mistaken.
My latest in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
She's mistaken.
My latest in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Supreme Court Put Nationwide Injunctions to the Torch
That isn’t the disaster for birthright citizenship that some fear.
www.theatlantic.com
June 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
law professors have been unable to understand why people are actually concerned about this case. it’s not about nationwide injunctions per se, it’s about a court that waited until the issue hurt the GOP, and then intervened on behalf of one of the most egregious constitutional violations we’ve seen
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Gélineau advanced the term "narcolepsy" in 1880 while de la Tourette described his eponymous syndrome in 1885. "Autism" was coined by Bleuler in 1911, with full diagnoses soon after.
But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.
But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.
RFK JR: ADD, ADHD, Tourette syndrome, Narcolepsy, Autism.. All of these are injuries that I never heard of when I was a kid.
April 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Gélineau advanced the term "narcolepsy" in 1880 while de la Tourette described his eponymous syndrome in 1885. "Autism" was coined by Bleuler in 1911, with full diagnoses soon after.
But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.
But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.
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Eugenicists are so stupid.
The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.”
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Experts Push Back on RFK Jr’s Infection Comments
The new Secretary of Health and Human Services has made claims about measles and other communicable diseases that could lead to sickness, and even death, his critics claim.
www.medscape.com
April 13, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Eugenicists are so stupid.
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Booker: "This isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about every American understanding that this president is making an assault on the due process rights that are afforded to people in our country ... you cannot disappear people off American streets."
April 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Booker: "This isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about every American understanding that this president is making an assault on the due process rights that are afforded to people in our country ... you cannot disappear people off American streets."
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This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
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Elections have consequences
April 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Elections have consequences
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The President of the United States seems oddly focused on me.
Shouldn't he be focused on the economy he's crashing?
Shouldn't he be focused on the economy he's crashing?
April 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The President of the United States seems oddly focused on me.
Shouldn't he be focused on the economy he's crashing?
Shouldn't he be focused on the economy he's crashing?
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Warriors on a 7-0 run to start the 2nd half and the Suns are down by 33. Everyone involved with this team knows what it is at this point
April 9, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Warriors on a 7-0 run to start the 2nd half and the Suns are down by 33. Everyone involved with this team knows what it is at this point
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you, a rube: “i want my kid to grow up to be a doctor or an engineer or a teacher”
lutnick, a genius: “to make america great again your child will make iphones that they will not be able to afford”
lutnick, a genius: “to make america great again your child will make iphones that they will not be able to afford”
Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America."
April 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
you, a rube: “i want my kid to grow up to be a doctor or an engineer or a teacher”
lutnick, a genius: “to make america great again your child will make iphones that they will not be able to afford”
lutnick, a genius: “to make america great again your child will make iphones that they will not be able to afford”
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I can only imagine the bailout package they are drawing up for themselves.
As the saying goes, privatize the profits, and socialize the losses.
As the saying goes, privatize the profits, and socialize the losses.
April 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I can only imagine the bailout package they are drawing up for themselves.
As the saying goes, privatize the profits, and socialize the losses.
As the saying goes, privatize the profits, and socialize the losses.
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David Brooks, who holds no advance degrees but has nevertheless served as a visiting professor at both Duke and Yale -- solely on the basis of his conservative ideas -- thinks that universities are deeply unfair to conservative thinkers.
April 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
David Brooks, who holds no advance degrees but has nevertheless served as a visiting professor at both Duke and Yale -- solely on the basis of his conservative ideas -- thinks that universities are deeply unfair to conservative thinkers.
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Make this make sense
April 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Make this make sense
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Suns players not named Kevin Durant are 7-for-31 from 3 tonight, but again, it's hard to focus too much on the offensive problems when their defense has given up 122 points and 20-of-46 shooting from 3...with 6 and a half minutes left in the game
March 27, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Suns players not named Kevin Durant are 7-for-31 from 3 tonight, but again, it's hard to focus too much on the offensive problems when their defense has given up 122 points and 20-of-46 shooting from 3...with 6 and a half minutes left in the game
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i was also a Republican when I was 18
it turns out when you grow up in rural, conservative areas you don't really understand politics until you leave
it turns out when you grow up in rural, conservative areas you don't really understand politics until you leave
Is this the person whose word is being trusted and defend here?
March 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
i was also a Republican when I was 18
it turns out when you grow up in rural, conservative areas you don't really understand politics until you leave
it turns out when you grow up in rural, conservative areas you don't really understand politics until you leave
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Nightmarish stuff in here.
In an interview, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, outlined a strategy for containing the measles outbreak in West Texas that strayed far from mainstream science, relying heavily on fringe theories about prevention and treatments.
Without Offering Proof, Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health
In a recent interview, the health secretary also suggested that the measles vaccine had harmed children in West Texas, center of an outbreak.
www.nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Nightmarish stuff in here.
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The Cardinals are signing Eagles edge Josh Sweat on a 4-year deal worth $76.4M, including $41M guaranteed. Deal negotiated by Drew Rosenhaus.
March 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The Cardinals are signing Eagles edge Josh Sweat on a 4-year deal worth $76.4M, including $41M guaranteed. Deal negotiated by Drew Rosenhaus.