The radical centrist 'popularist' crowd would have also advocated against integration.
We're ruled by people in all three branches of government and across the tech/corporate landscape who think it's bad that this happened and wish the mob had prevailed, plain and simple. It's clarifying.
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; She was one of the Clinton 12, a group of Black students who faced white mobs when desegregating a Tennessee high school in 1956 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
December 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The radical centrist 'popularist' crowd would have also advocated against integration.
From the ancient play "Difficilis ad interficiendum," the strength of whose connection to Saturnalia was a source of popular contention in the Roman fora.
Die Hard was actually appropriated from pagans
December 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
From the ancient play "Difficilis ad interficiendum," the strength of whose connection to Saturnalia was a source of popular contention in the Roman fora.
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there is one and only one political strategy, and that is: “hang trump like an anchor around the neck of every single elected republican and the party itself.” no ‘friends across the aisle.’ no ‘the fever will break.’ anyone not on board with that has to go. no exceptions
![Gallup poll | 12/1-12/15
President Trump approval crosstabs (%)
🟥Overall (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥Democratic (93/3 disapprove) [-90]
🟩Republican (89/8 approve) [+81]
🟥Independent (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥18-34 (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥35-54 (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥55+ (53/43 disapprove) [-10]
🟥No college (55/37 disapprove) [-18]
🟥College graduate (59/37 disapprove) [-22]
🟥Male (53/42 disapprove) [-11]
🟥Female (64/30 disapprove) [-34]
🟥White (52/46 disapprove) [-6]
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December 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
there is one and only one political strategy, and that is: “hang trump like an anchor around the neck of every single elected republican and the party itself.” no ‘friends across the aisle.’ no ‘the fever will break.’ anyone not on board with that has to go. no exceptions
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I suspect that the political failures of Bidenomics (POLITICAL failures, mind you, not ECONOMIC) is pretty conclusive proof that in the 2020s, American voters regard themselves first and foremost as consumers, not as workers.
December 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I suspect that the political failures of Bidenomics (POLITICAL failures, mind you, not ECONOMIC) is pretty conclusive proof that in the 2020s, American voters regard themselves first and foremost as consumers, not as workers.
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In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."
December 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."
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the vice president is a klansman
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
the vice president is a klansman
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cowboy who stubbed his toe:
December 21, 2025 at 12:07 AM
cowboy who stubbed his toe:
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I've surveyed the political scene and in my expert judgment the voters hunger for candidates who are sniveling little weasels who don't believe in anything
December 20, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I've surveyed the political scene and in my expert judgment the voters hunger for candidates who are sniveling little weasels who don't believe in anything
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Quick question what the fuck was Merrick Garland doing for four years
NYT: “In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
December 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Quick question what the fuck was Merrick Garland doing for four years
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No one should ever work or buy anything from them again
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
No one should ever work or buy anything from them again
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December 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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"Imagine that: a government that sees a horrible thing happen, and reacts by attempting to … prevent it from happening again? As an American, that doesn’t seem possible, but apparently it’s a thing that other nations do." prospect.org/2025/12/17/a...
Australia Proves Gun Control Works - The American Prospect
The Bondi mass shooting would have been a lot worse if not for Aussie gun regulations—which if anything aren’t strict enough.
prospect.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
"Imagine that: a government that sees a horrible thing happen, and reacts by attempting to … prevent it from happening again? As an American, that doesn’t seem possible, but apparently it’s a thing that other nations do." prospect.org/2025/12/17/a...
Looking at the Ahmed al Ahmed video, I was definitely thinking, "pop him in the leg or something," but that's super easy for me to say. And, as noted in the comments, being a middle-eastern guy firing a gun in the middle of a shooting as the police are closing in is certainly an unenviable spot.
yikes. seems like in both this and the other case bystanders would have been wise to use the gun
New dashcam footage shows a couple tackling one of the Bondi Beach shooters before the attack began. CNN's Senior International Correspondent Will Ripley reports. https://cnn.it/3MPmGEd
December 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Looking at the Ahmed al Ahmed video, I was definitely thinking, "pop him in the leg or something," but that's super easy for me to say. And, as noted in the comments, being a middle-eastern guy firing a gun in the middle of a shooting as the police are closing in is certainly an unenviable spot.
“A most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.” It's genuinely quite amazing that this man does not seem to enjoy a single thing in the world except fawning praise.
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
“A most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.” It's genuinely quite amazing that this man does not seem to enjoy a single thing in the world except fawning praise.
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This is Rose. She's paralyzed in both her back legs from being hit by a car as a stray. But when she sees her wheelchair harness come out, she knows it's time to walk and roll. 14/10 (IG: twopawrose)
December 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM
This is Rose. She's paralyzed in both her back legs from being hit by a car as a stray. But when she sees her wheelchair harness come out, she knows it's time to walk and roll. 14/10 (IG: twopawrose)
???
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g
Australia announces strict new gun laws. Here's how it can act so swiftly
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws.
n.pr
December 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
???
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Once again, this year’s number one use of Wikipedia was looking up what other movie that guy was in
No one could have predicted 25 years ago that Wikipedia would grow into the backbone of knowledge on the internet it is today, powering search engines, voice assistants, and generative AI tools. 🧵⬇️ (1/3)
December 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Once again, this year’s number one use of Wikipedia was looking up what other movie that guy was in
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
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This is the exact lighting they use for the pic to accompany a profile of a professor who got suspended because he kept using slurs in class as a supposed intellectual provocation.
I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
December 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This is the exact lighting they use for the pic to accompany a profile of a professor who got suspended because he kept using slurs in class as a supposed intellectual provocation.
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First, you're not going to win arguments on the Internet.
Second, you have to understand how Musk has his thumb on the scale. Please. It's basic tech company ops 101 in 2025.
Third, stop blaming liberals - or a liberal void - for the right's depravity. They have agency. They choose to be awful.
Second, you have to understand how Musk has his thumb on the scale. Please. It's basic tech company ops 101 in 2025.
Third, stop blaming liberals - or a liberal void - for the right's depravity. They have agency. They choose to be awful.
December 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
First, you're not going to win arguments on the Internet.
Second, you have to understand how Musk has his thumb on the scale. Please. It's basic tech company ops 101 in 2025.
Third, stop blaming liberals - or a liberal void - for the right's depravity. They have agency. They choose to be awful.
Second, you have to understand how Musk has his thumb on the scale. Please. It's basic tech company ops 101 in 2025.
Third, stop blaming liberals - or a liberal void - for the right's depravity. They have agency. They choose to be awful.