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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

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Pretty much…

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“The group estimated that reducing the operating budget by $900 million, as the Trump administration wants to do, would require closing 350 of the 433 parks, monuments, historic sites and other locations overseen by the Park Service… we would be witnessing the dismantling of a century-old system”

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Fiction. Art. More fiction. A dash of poetry.

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Not trying to dunk. But I was at the RNC and they were waving signs that said "mass deportations now." Trump then later categorically accused Haitian immigrants of eating pets. He claimed immigrants poison our blood. He campaigned on ethnic cleansing. People can lie to themselves, but he did.

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whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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What have you done for pollinators lately?

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one of my overriding beliefs is that sports betting should in fact be restricted to seedy bars where you have to place bets with a guy named something like Vito Four Fingers rather than being easily accessible with a couple clicks on your phone know what you're getting into

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Silicon Valley is a factory generating a million guys a year braying "the problem with every public good is that I'm not making money off it, and this app fixes that" and people still wonder why capitalism must be destroyed

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He should never know peace for the rest of his life. He should live in terror and shame until the day he dies

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I’m very unhappy with Musk being sad. That is not near enough. I want him in prison. Prosecute, jail, claw back our money. That’s the only way to teach the next billionaire not to do crimes against the Republic.

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Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Strengthening unions and fighting for higher wages. Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare... This is the progressive populist agenda we need in America.

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Journalists, you don't have to say MAHA or any of the other dumb stuff you see on the internet. You can use your own words, the ones you learned in writing school.

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Hey, fellas, try not to put the ick in dick today. (inspirational)

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what’s better than being a cat owner? being a two cats owner!

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Minor spoiler for Murderbot S1E4 After seeing it in the episode i figured they _had_ to release the full version, and they did!! The complete, undistorted Rise of Sanctuary Moon intro! Or rather, not artificially distorted? =) @marthawells.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW29...

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the new hit children's pool game for summer is called "marco rubio" one kid yells "Marco" and then everyone else gets deported

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Truth👇

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Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles

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Fight Fiercely, Harvard While Americans were busy doing the Vatican rag, Donald was poisoning pigeons in the park in Cambridge. Be prepared: this old dope peddler wants to go back to Dixie. by Maureen Dowd

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It's often presented as a kind of conformity or groupthink to "trust the experts," but you do in fact need to do this to have a functioning society! What is the alternative? Every person researches every single issue of public concern themselves?

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The real tragedy of young men today is not that they're being held back from success by a bunch of woke scolds. The real tragedy is that they're being told that success & happiness come through escaping all constraints, dominating & controlling others, & suppressing all vulnerability or weakness.

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Isopod facts

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I have never seen any example of the left "hating" young men that doesn't distill to "refusal to coddle them/insistence on treating them like adults with agency."

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I am always saying this, phpBB forums and IRC were the peak of the internet

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[wedding toast] may the shells always slide off your hard boiled eggs in a smooth and satisfying manner

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trump will be the next reagan in the sense that in 30 years every time you notice some horrible defect in society you'll do some quick research and trace it back to trump

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The GOP's tax cuts for billionaires and corporations ballooned the deficit. So now they're blaming the problem on vital social programs and demanding devastating cuts that will harm millions of people. It's socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for everyone else.

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There is no right person for you, only Zool.

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Wowsers! SCOTUS decided against St. Isidore Catholic Charter School, which was vying to be the first religious charter school in the United States. The separation of Church & State lives on!! And I’m celebrating this as a Catholic. Yes, it’s just that important! 👏👏👏

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😈 How to Take Down an Autocracy 😈 TAKE NOTE: 1. Mockery and Humor 2. Calling out corruption 3. Telling individual stories Fortunately, we’ve got the brain power and material to do all of this en masse. LFG! #standupforscience #summerfightforscience www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...

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Roses are red The country’s on fire For the love of god Please can old Dems just retire?

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Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

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I need fewer enemies to lovers fantasy stories and more lovers to enemies fantasy stories. Forget "we were on different sides but found a secret love," gimme "I pledged my life to a man who I slowly realized never really existed and I knew if I didn't stop him nobody would."

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at a very basic level the bargain of working for the government was “we will not pay you as much as the private sector but you will have job security and a stable career with good retirement benefits” that is clearly no longer something we can promise so the price just went up

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TIL that after the shooting death of CEO Brian Thompson UnitedHealthcare approved many life-saving medical procedures it has been holding out on because of sudden internal panic and public scrutiny. So, Luigi (innocent until proven guilty) probably saved more lives than he took.

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My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books

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Facts

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🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨 🌪️23 LIVES WERE LOST OVERNIGHT AS TORNADOS HIT KY. KY has one of several regions in the US without 24/7 National Weather Service coverage, due to DOGE cuts. W/out overnight monitoring, ppl don't receive weather warnings. THIS is how science cuts cost lives. shorturl.at/JgTjU

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