Vax-o-licious
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Doomscrolling till dawn
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Yes. What Kirk did is a simulacrum of discussion & debate, constructed without any of the good faith that might give it meaning or impact. It was a show -- humiliating liberals &, by invoking liberal values like "civil discourse" -- fooling them into playing along with it.
The fact that people who should know better can’t tell the difference between what Kirk did on one hand and “civil discourse” on the other is a sign of what a bad state our “civil discourse” is in these days.
September 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Yes. What Kirk did is a simulacrum of discussion & debate, constructed without any of the good faith that might give it meaning or impact. It was a show -- humiliating liberals &, by invoking liberal values like "civil discourse" -- fooling them into playing along with it.
Important thread
There are violent extremists on the left but they are not in charge of the party. You can find them on social media, not in the halls of power.
The violent extremists on the right are in congress, on courts, and sitting in the Oval Office.
The violent extremists on the right are in congress, on courts, and sitting in the Oval Office.
September 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Important thread
Important principles to keep in mind at this time:
1. Charlie Kirk was a very malignant force in American life. A disgusting influence.
2. He didn't deserve to die, regardless of whatever he's said or done.
3. If you can't feel sympathy for the man, feel sympathy for his family. And the country.
1. Charlie Kirk was a very malignant force in American life. A disgusting influence.
2. He didn't deserve to die, regardless of whatever he's said or done.
3. If you can't feel sympathy for the man, feel sympathy for his family. And the country.
September 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Important principles to keep in mind at this time:
1. Charlie Kirk was a very malignant force in American life. A disgusting influence.
2. He didn't deserve to die, regardless of whatever he's said or done.
3. If you can't feel sympathy for the man, feel sympathy for his family. And the country.
1. Charlie Kirk was a very malignant force in American life. A disgusting influence.
2. He didn't deserve to die, regardless of whatever he's said or done.
3. If you can't feel sympathy for the man, feel sympathy for his family. And the country.
Why is it so hard for the New York Times to say something Trump said is racist? Not "carrying uncomfortable racial overtones." Racist.
What's with the weasel words?
What's with the weasel words?
August 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Why is it so hard for the New York Times to say something Trump said is racist? Not "carrying uncomfortable racial overtones." Racist.
What's with the weasel words?
What's with the weasel words?
Absolutely brilliant.
Joe Rogan might call this a brutal KO, if it wasn't him getting knocked the F out.
A supremely delightful takedown by @climatetown.bsky.social of Rogan's confident, ignorant, and dangerous climate denial.
A supremely delightful takedown by @climatetown.bsky.social of Rogan's confident, ignorant, and dangerous climate denial.
Joe Rogan Doesn't Understand Graphs
YouTube video by Climate Town
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August 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Absolutely brilliant.
I’d buy anything from Samuel L. Jackson.
August 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I’d buy anything from Samuel L. Jackson.
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Apparently, it’s totally cool to tell Jews what we really think and decide that you know more than your Jewish friends on Israel, Palestine, and Zionism because you’ve “listened to people online”. I will say this as many times as I need to, but other people don’t get to redefine Zionism for Jews. 1/
June 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Apparently, it’s totally cool to tell Jews what we really think and decide that you know more than your Jewish friends on Israel, Palestine, and Zionism because you’ve “listened to people online”. I will say this as many times as I need to, but other people don’t get to redefine Zionism for Jews. 1/
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June 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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This question has been bugging me for a while.
Why Do They Have It In For Biomedical Research? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-d...
Why Do They Have It In For Biomedical Research? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-d...
Why Do They Have It In For Biomedical Research?
Here is a brief follow-up on the question TPM Reader MA addresses...
talkingpointsmemo.com
May 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This question has been bugging me for a while.
Why Do They Have It In For Biomedical Research? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-d...
Why Do They Have It In For Biomedical Research? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-d...
This is the Trump MO, which people fall for every time: make some provocative announcement about something that everyone's heard of, like Alcatraz or the Gulf of Mexico. Get people yapping about it for days as part of the endless culture war so they're not talking about Trump tanking the economy.
Markwayne Mullin: "Let's have Riker & Alcatraz both open. So we got east coast & west coast both covered, & put our most notorious criminals in them so people understand we're a nation of laws again, unlike under Biden... I don't believe in keeping them comfortable. I want them to regret the crime"
May 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This is the Trump MO, which people fall for every time: make some provocative announcement about something that everyone's heard of, like Alcatraz or the Gulf of Mexico. Get people yapping about it for days as part of the endless culture war so they're not talking about Trump tanking the economy.
What far-right positions do we think are being supported here? It is not "far-right" to say the atmosphere at Harvard and elsewhere is ripe for reform.
Reactionary centrism uses liberal democratic language to support far-right positions. They are not true allies and certainly not heroes.
Harvard’s President Alan Garber Talks About His Legal Fight With Trump
Alan Garber became a hero to liberals after Harvard resisted the federal government. At the same time, he is trying to remake campus culture in ways the Trump administration might appreciate.
www.nytimes.com
May 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
What far-right positions do we think are being supported here? It is not "far-right" to say the atmosphere at Harvard and elsewhere is ripe for reform.
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Is it just me, or do others have a perverse admiration for the sheer boldness, the stubborn bloody-mindedness of Donald Trump.
Don't get me wrong - he's still world-historical awful. He's caused more damage to this country than just about anything in our history outside the Civil War.
Don't get me wrong - he's still world-historical awful. He's caused more damage to this country than just about anything in our history outside the Civil War.
April 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Is it just me, or do others have a perverse admiration for the sheer boldness, the stubborn bloody-mindedness of Donald Trump.
Don't get me wrong - he's still world-historical awful. He's caused more damage to this country than just about anything in our history outside the Civil War.
Don't get me wrong - he's still world-historical awful. He's caused more damage to this country than just about anything in our history outside the Civil War.
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Trump is deporting people with legal status and no criminal convictions to foreign hellhole’s without due process.
His idiot team is sharing classified attack plans on insecure channels and accidentally including a reporter.
He’s pushing us toward a recession.
He’s threatening to invade allies.
His idiot team is sharing classified attack plans on insecure channels and accidentally including a reporter.
He’s pushing us toward a recession.
He’s threatening to invade allies.
April 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Trump is deporting people with legal status and no criminal convictions to foreign hellhole’s without due process.
His idiot team is sharing classified attack plans on insecure channels and accidentally including a reporter.
He’s pushing us toward a recession.
He’s threatening to invade allies.
His idiot team is sharing classified attack plans on insecure channels and accidentally including a reporter.
He’s pushing us toward a recession.
He’s threatening to invade allies.
The issue here is that the left doesn't see things like deplatforming people for wrongthink as a "threat to free speech."
March 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The issue here is that the left doesn't see things like deplatforming people for wrongthink as a "threat to free speech."
As someone who spent part of my childhood in Canada and retains much affection for it, this is painful to see. I've seen it recently in my professional life - Canadian clients are now wary about hiring Americans.
And for what? What have we gained from this? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-hos...
And for what? What have we gained from this? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-hos...
March 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
As someone who spent part of my childhood in Canada and retains much affection for it, this is painful to see. I've seen it recently in my professional life - Canadian clients are now wary about hiring Americans.
And for what? What have we gained from this? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-hos...
And for what? What have we gained from this? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-hos...
Unbelievable.
Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick says if Social Security skipped a check, his mother-in-law wouldn’t complain—and if you would, it indicates you are probably a fraudster. Insane.
March 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Unbelievable.
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If you'd shown up for Harris:
-401Ks would be growing, not shrinking
-Inflation would be shrinking, not growing
-Rates would be falling
-Veterans would still have their jobs
-Gaza would have supplies and power
-Allies wouldn't be canceling arms deals
-Trump would be in prison
-401Ks would be growing, not shrinking
-Inflation would be shrinking, not growing
-Rates would be falling
-Veterans would still have their jobs
-Gaza would have supplies and power
-Allies wouldn't be canceling arms deals
-Trump would be in prison
March 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
If you'd shown up for Harris:
-401Ks would be growing, not shrinking
-Inflation would be shrinking, not growing
-Rates would be falling
-Veterans would still have their jobs
-Gaza would have supplies and power
-Allies wouldn't be canceling arms deals
-Trump would be in prison
-401Ks would be growing, not shrinking
-Inflation would be shrinking, not growing
-Rates would be falling
-Veterans would still have their jobs
-Gaza would have supplies and power
-Allies wouldn't be canceling arms deals
-Trump would be in prison
Unbelievable
This is a bigger scandal than people realize.
It really makes it look as though this entire meeting was a setup by Trump that was planned in advance.
If you watch the video it is clear that they are deliberately and almost derangedly blindsiding Zelenskyy. Now we know who the audience was.
Putin.
It really makes it look as though this entire meeting was a setup by Trump that was planned in advance.
If you watch the video it is clear that they are deliberately and almost derangedly blindsiding Zelenskyy. Now we know who the audience was.
Putin.
February 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Unbelievable
This is designed for one purpose only: to drive liberals and Democrats crazy.
There is no way any of this is happening. It's simply absurd to take it at all seriously.
There is no way any of this is happening. It's simply absurd to take it at all seriously.
Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.
February 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This is designed for one purpose only: to drive liberals and Democrats crazy.
There is no way any of this is happening. It's simply absurd to take it at all seriously.
There is no way any of this is happening. It's simply absurd to take it at all seriously.
I'm really interested in what the Trump supporters in my feed - there are a few - think about what's happening now.
1. Do you think the brewing trade war with Canada and Mexico is a good idea? Do you expect not to be affected by it?
2. Do you approve of the power Elon Musk has been given?
1. Do you think the brewing trade war with Canada and Mexico is a good idea? Do you expect not to be affected by it?
2. Do you approve of the power Elon Musk has been given?
February 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I'm really interested in what the Trump supporters in my feed - there are a few - think about what's happening now.
1. Do you think the brewing trade war with Canada and Mexico is a good idea? Do you expect not to be affected by it?
2. Do you approve of the power Elon Musk has been given?
1. Do you think the brewing trade war with Canada and Mexico is a good idea? Do you expect not to be affected by it?
2. Do you approve of the power Elon Musk has been given?
If you look at what's going on in the country now, would you say that pharma prices are where you should focus your attention?
Democrats have been working hard to lower drug and health care prices for Americans across the country.
But Trump has been trying to undo this work so he can get his rich Pharma buddies even richer.
Proud to be joining my colleagues to demand answers. thehill.com/policy/healt...
But Trump has been trying to undo this work so he can get his rich Pharma buddies even richer.
Proud to be joining my colleagues to demand answers. thehill.com/policy/healt...
thehill.com
February 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
If you look at what's going on in the country now, would you say that pharma prices are where you should focus your attention?
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Even when Republicans in good MAGA standing can bring themselves to scold Trump, their criticism is limited to discrete acts. Trump can say or do something bad, but he cannot be something bad. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
There Is No Resistance
The response to the January 6 pardons shows that the president faces no effective constraints from within his party.
www.theatlantic.com
January 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Even when Republicans in good MAGA standing can bring themselves to scold Trump, their criticism is limited to discrete acts. Trump can say or do something bad, but he cannot be something bad. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
I want to make a modest political suggestion:
Every time we see something like this, Democratic leaders should be shouting from the rooftops: "TRUMP VOTERS: IS STOPPING CANCER RESEARCH WHAT YOU WANTED?"
Every time we see something like this, Democratic leaders should be shouting from the rooftops: "TRUMP VOTERS: IS STOPPING CANCER RESEARCH WHAT YOU WANTED?"
The Trump administration, moving quickly to clamp down on health and science agencies, has canceled a string of scientific meetings and instructed federal health officials to refrain from all public communications.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/h...
Trump Administration Temporarily Mutes Federal Health Officials (Gift Article)
Scientific meetings were canceled, and research data on the bird flu outbreak was delayed, amid confusion over the directive.
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I want to make a modest political suggestion:
Every time we see something like this, Democratic leaders should be shouting from the rooftops: "TRUMP VOTERS: IS STOPPING CANCER RESEARCH WHAT YOU WANTED?"
Every time we see something like this, Democratic leaders should be shouting from the rooftops: "TRUMP VOTERS: IS STOPPING CANCER RESEARCH WHAT YOU WANTED?"
I have as much contempt for Elon as the next guy, but seeing this from this angle, I don't think he meant to do the full Sieg Heil. It looks more like a "from my heart to all of you" gesture.
Maybe I'm being naive - but I do think he's that oblivious to what it would look like.
Maybe I'm being naive - but I do think he's that oblivious to what it would look like.
January 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I have as much contempt for Elon as the next guy, but seeing this from this angle, I don't think he meant to do the full Sieg Heil. It looks more like a "from my heart to all of you" gesture.
Maybe I'm being naive - but I do think he's that oblivious to what it would look like.
Maybe I'm being naive - but I do think he's that oblivious to what it would look like.