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If you're interested in how right-wing tech money perverted once reliable critics of corporate and state power into defenders of wealth and reactionaries, you can check out Owned by Eoin Higgins www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eoin-...

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my new short film Homemade Gatorade is out now youtu.be/SFJOHlnoQNM

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🚨Oh my god. Someone at DHS believed this was a real letter—and not the obvious fake that it reportedly is. The person who’s accused of sending it is apparently in jail awaiting trial for ROBBING Mr. Reyes. He was trying to get his VICTIM deported before the trial. And DHS may be doing it for him!

submitted 9 hours ago • 36 comments

Starting a PAC called Fourth Way that just does the opposite of these people.

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From The Archives: I Don’t Vaccinate My Child Because It’s My Right To Decide What Eliminated Diseases Come Roaring Back theonion.com/i-don-t...

submitted 14 hours ago • 121 comments

Putting the merits aside, it’s wild how the media treats GOP hatred of the majority of the country as normal. If democratic leaders said “We can all agree Mississippi is a shithole” we would never hear the end of it.

submitted 11 hours ago • 48 comments

New York City votes for mayors like they believe Batman is real and want him to have someone to fight

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Nathan Fielder is on CNN prefacing all his comments with “as a pilot…”

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Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search nationwide for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

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This AI thing hints at something existentially interesting: people need religion, and without that force or that energy, they replace it with what they see as God in their day to day. In this case, a supercomputer that they thing has all the answers. People should worship Space Ghost instead.

submitted 17 hours ago • 23 comments

This dude's breath must smell like a dying horse who lives at a Taco Bell.

submitted 18 hours ago • 213 comments

Somebody Should Do Something About All The Problems

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“Concepts of ‘kayfabe’, ‘smart fandom’ and ‘marking out’ help address a key question for political scholars studying Trump: how to explain engagement with and emotional investment in the campaign of an obvious political fraudster by a cynical American electorate? journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Speech crisis is at "you can't make 'liberal-sounding' movies anymore."

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I don’t know about this AP headline. Musk’s tweet isn’t that definitive.

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Thinking about Jordan Peterson reacting to No Scrubs for the first time.

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BREAKING - A 3-judge panel of the US Court of International Trade has just INVALIDATED Trump's tariffs. Says Trump CANNOT use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 to unilaterally impose tariffs; that power belongs to Congress. MORE TK storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Jesus christ these people have the worst takes imaginable

submitted 1 day ago • 214 comments

Been trying to pop onto Threads more to see what's up and I've just encountered a strong contender for Wrongest Paragraph Ever Written.

submitted 1 day ago • 154 comments

been saying this for like 3 years now, the core constituency of the "manosphere" is not Gen Z or teenage boys, it is 35-55 year old dudes who wish they were still teenage boys

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I have been sick for a week and I just read about "something going around" in a subreddit, which I guess is how I get my information now that the CDC is officially spending the next four years determining when and how microscopes became gay.

submitted 1 day ago • 461 comments

new jake tapper book when

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“TACO,” which is code for “Trump Always Chickens Out,” refers to the president’s tendency to announce massive tariffs, causing the markets to plunge, only to back off days later, causing them to rise again.

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The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.

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really funny and relevant standup clip from Django Gold www.instagram.com/reel/DJq_il_...

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“'I smell money, crypto, crypto, blockchain + all the good things,” Adams said in his opening remarks at the NYC Crypto Summit.'... [At the Las Vegas crypto conference], the mayor was scheduled to speak on Wednesday... in a seminar called 'The Trust Layer & the Divine Algorithm.'" 🙄

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