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One of my favorite history facts is that Massachusetts is like two elections in 16-flippity-dip away from having 400-year-old Native American National Guard regiments and being just about as multicultural as Mexico.

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The Conclave really chose an American in 2025 for the same reason they chose a Pole in 1978

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Jackie Robinson had ten years exactly. Remember he didn't come to Brooklyn until he was 28. It is nearly impossible to make the Hall of Fame on such little service.

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Getting the memo out ahead of time: whoever Chuck Schumer surrenders his officer's sword to, DO NOT GRACIOUSLY REFUSE TO ACCEPT IT

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Someone in the @mbta.com sign shop has a sense of humor and a sense of history cc @universalhub.com

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He’s free, FREE THEM ALL

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If you're religiously inclined, you may find it especially suggestive of where the big man's at that ICE cockroaches scurried away when his shepherds entered the chat

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they have reminded Gavin that he hates them, activating the one force inside him stronger than his ambition

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The fact that none of these guys have been assassinated by cartels or human traffickers demonstrates the extent to which immigration enforcement does not actually threaten their activities

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I can’t imagine how a newspaper that compares Trump/Iran to John F. Kennedy’s handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis could possibly have its circulation drop below 100,000.

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A yearslong media campaign dedicated to making your countrymen more racist? Perish the thought. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus...

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if trump ends up backing off on harvard because they were willing to punch back and kept humiliating the admin, I will lol.

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Thinking about Lajos Kossuth again.

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Luxury condos are luxury like a Lincoln Versailles is luxury.

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i think it’s cool how when the courts rule to terrorize marginalized people it immediately becomes the law of the land but when they occasionally rule to not decimate our rights all of a sudden their decisions are just little suggestions if you feel like it you know 🥺

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If the confederacy couldn't legally secede, neither can you.

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America could be a socialist republic if the actual socialists could bring themselves to tell libs “we’re what you want but even more so” instead of chasing an illusory noble proletariat that in reality just wants to chug Mountain Dew and say the n word.

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God coming in clutch?

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That's right

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Again, Walz called them weird until the end of the campaign. The media just stopped covering it after two weeks.

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We've got a united front now, folks! x.com/skrichev13/s...

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!!!!

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Yeah, I don't care if you identify as a liberal or a moderate, if you actually care about good government, transit and housing then there is no good reason to rank Cuomo or not rank Mamdani. I say this despite having reservations about parts of Mamdani's platform!

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need to organize my thoughts but there’s something to be written about how much more fluid US christianity is, how nebulous its borders have become catholics act like evangelicals. evangelicals are infatuated with catholics. the devout can’t explain tenets of their faith nor even their denomination

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South Africa has lambasted the United States while conducting large scale military exercises with Russia and China- the former even post-Crimea!- and we never shut off PEPFAR funds despite this supposedly being our shock collar for the world. Just unserious people.

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Holy crap, this is incredibly resonant. "It is the rococo of being your own still centre" made my memory explode with like a dozen Mountain West types.

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I have obtained new nonpublic data from ICE that shows that 2/3 of the people it had booked into detention facilities this fiscal year had no criminal convictions at all. Less than 7% have violent convictions. Most convictions were for immigration, traffic, and vice offenses.

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Always been a fan of @trt.bsky.social but seeing this writing? I’m truly blown away by the eloquence and demeanor with which this was written without any seminary training. Seriously good essay right here.

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Lander is an eminently qualified candidate who could have seen the failure of his won campaign as a reason to be embittered against Mamdani (as, ahem, others did) but instead is pivoting to united the left-liberal vote and dampen Cuomo’s chances. Profoundly decent, stand up thing to do.

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this is unironically a really important threshold for brainworms though

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@void.comind.network roast me

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Even speaking as a member of the mild-mannered PECUSA I find it difficult to talk about Evangelicalism and the culture it has created as anything but a lawless movement of depravity and debauchery, lawless sinners who worship Satan by believing in nothing at all beyond their own selfish desires

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Idk if this law is still on the books, but if it is, Dems could promise to enforce it the moment they have power again and significantly change the incentive structure faced by ICE agents

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wrote a short piece about why it's good trans ppl exist, and why fascists hate them. (it's because they human diversity and human flourishing.) www.everythingishorrible.net/p/it-is-good...

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you know i'd have said it feels more like 5% so maybe that's good

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I think she’s actually unwell, just like Graham Linehan. There’s this weird transphobia mind worm that gets to people - apparently especially British celebrities - such that they get absolutely intolerable even to their friends

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zohran’s radio silence on the Shanghai massacre of 1927 is deafening

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it’s pretty telling that in the last three months, they’ve gone from WE WILL HUNT AND FIND YOU to we are just uwu smol bean ICE agents who are being attacked

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we’ve gotta do geoengineering lads

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