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Trump says a slur in the state of the union NYT: “Trump’s verbiage marked a dramatic break from the typically staid norms of presidential speech.” Trump kills a man on Fifth Avenue NYT: “Trump once again refused to adhere to the expectations that guided his predecessors, alarming critics.”

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One of many reasons it’s dumb to try and “fix” the trade deficit with tariffs is that trade wars hurt exports in addition to imports—keep in mind we usually have a manufacturing trade surplus with Canada, before Trump began wrecking that trade relationship

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It's the internet! It's literally just the internet! Please just go take five minutes to read what I wrote about it stancilculture.substack.com/p/the-intern...

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The far right so perfectly embodies Sartre’s antisemite.

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People act like Twitter isn't real life but it's breaking the brains of a huge portion of the country.

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The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

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A Trump supporter attempted to murder two Democrats and their families to tip the Minnesota state legislature—and it’s somehow not an enormous scandal for Trump. The both-sidesing of fascist violence is a massive failure of both parties, and the national political media.

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Also, the way that every event, no matter how shocking or horrible or unprecedented, gets fed into the far-right social media hallucination machine, and twisted beyond recognition until it supports the far-right's own nonsensical worldview, is the very core of why we are where we are as a society.

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Great crowd and good energy at the “No Kings” protest in Baltimore! Sen. Van Hollen just arrived to speak. #NoKings #Baltimore

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You can’t see me bc I’m holding a flag but guys I live in a 2k person extremely rural town in one of the reddest counties of WI. So many people showed up there was a line all the way to the highway. I often feel a bit afraid due to my identity in this area but #nokings brought out so many

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I'm floored. This is ONE stretch of ONE side of the street in deep red, small town Knoxville, TN today. This is a city that Trump won in 2024 by 20+ points. The scope of these protests are massive—American from both sides of the aisle are pissed. There will be no kings.

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mood

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at some point it is going to be America getting blown the fuck out by sophisticated, multi-year intel-driven strikes, because we put the dumbest and most venal people in the world in charge of counterintelligence

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New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting.

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Every day, this ages better and better.

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It is truly unbelievable how much this looks like Neil Breen and Tommy Wiseau teamed up to make their own Mission Impossible.

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It’s a pretty good barometer for our politics that Trump’s most high-profile collaborator, Elon Musk, accused Trump publicly of being a pedophile and called for his impeachment like 5 days ago and everyone appears to have simply shrugged and moved on.

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Every day they find a new low to sink to

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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

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yes, I spent years shouting about how twitter was controlling US politics and unfortunately that's been spectacularly demonstrated when a nazi taking over twitter has suddenly resuscitated 20s-style gutter racism, fascism, and far-right antisemitism in a way that dwarfs even Trump's first term

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Remember, every accusation is a confession

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You could run the daily transcript of Newsmax through ChatGPT and get out of it higher quality legal work than Republican state AGs produce in their joint amicus briefs these days. Deeply unserious hacks.

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Ironically, Charlie Kirk is the one who hasn't assimilated to the culture of the United States. He hates the Constitution more than any immigrant I've ever met.

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Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

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I like this Gavin more than podcast Gavin.

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Feels like stating the obvious but apparently some people don’t get that it is racist to ask Mexican Americans to conceal the fact that they are Mexican to appease racists who will never like you anyway

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People on Twitter are snorting race science just with no pushback whatsoever

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really striking how much of this horror is the work of one morally insane skinhead

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Embarrassment

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There is also a little trick that a lot of moderates are playing, where they conflate "setting things on fire" and "flying Mexican flags" as an "optics" issue. It's probably true that we should try to prevent anything that looks like rioting. But "expressing Mexican identity" is not rioting.

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This isn't like what they tried in Newark, trumping up a confused shoving scuffle into some kind of individual assault charge. It is alleging conspiracy to impede. In other words they're saying it was a federal felony to plan the protest he was at. Straight-up criminalization of dissent, mask off.

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Scenes from Los Angeles. Police received aid and support from staff of a local Mexican restaurant after being pepper sprayed. This is America. Despite those who try to divide us on race, class, or role—we help each other. We are better than the demagogues.

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Tariffs & ICE raids are connected insofar as they are attempts to blame economic & social conditions entirely on the actions of foreigners while attempting to paint domestic enemies as a traitorous fifth column working with the foreigners to undermine the country

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always struck by how everyone who screams “we’re full” citing the strain on services is also viciously opposed to the safety net

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the biggest redeeming feature of Gavin Newsom is that he’s an elitist snob who is genuinely disgusted by white trash republicans

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