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Imagine having to get Steven Pinker's approval during your PhD thesis defense. Just like, "please like my research and conclusions, weird racist guy." So many people have had to do that

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If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

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Counterpoint: Jail. We are going to pursue Elon Musk if it’s the last thing America does, prosecute him for crimes and violations of the Constitution, and throw him in jail. If we do not do this, our country will not survive. Accountability is essential.

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The moneybagses could keep brainstorming about how to grow a liberal Joe Rogan in a vat or they could just make Shari Redstone a better offer, buy CBS, and run a network news operation that covers the myriad fuckups and abuses of the Trump administration without watering it down for fake balance

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"this is why you fuckers lose elections," Jake Tapper says as his gamer son shrieks racial slurs at other CoD players in the room nextdoor

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i bet scurrying to-and-fro feels so good for the creature

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Some leftists were mean to me on the internet and that's basically at the root of why everything sucks is a very specific brand of douchebag bullshit. The level of self-absorption this entails is intellectually disqualifying.

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FUN FACT: the Salvation Army has always sucked

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Indiana-Oklahoma City will be the first NBA Finals where you can't legally bring a James Baldwin book to any of the games.

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Am I crazy or did we just have a convo about how we can't fund cancer research?

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I've seen some liberals earnestly argue that rhetorical concessions on youth healthcare or youth sports would get Republicans to back off on other trans civil rights issues. This is a complete misreading of Republicans. They want trans people to suffer and force them out of public life.

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With all these Dyson airblades getting installed kids won’t know that there used to be a machine that would distribute bacon at the push of a button in public restrooms. Shame.

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Every single rule that the Republicans make has the caveat that if you're rich enough, you can dodge that rule. The freaks who demand these rules know this. Those dudes are out of their reach. They accept it because they can then impose their will on the majority of the public.

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if dems want messaging help, stop telling people you're "fighting back." it sounds like you're being mugged. call off the podcaster search, take your ridiculous money pile and try opening some food banks and free clinics. hurricanes are coming and the feds have no plan. looks like an opening to me.

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So that now makes Lena McDonald, KC Crowne and Rania Faris leaving ChatGPT prompts in their ‘books’. I’m so fucking tired, guys. If you don’t write, you’re not a writer. It’s that simple. Stop doing this to your readers, who PAY. Readers and authors deserve better than this. 📚💙

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I have said for years that polite, ostensibly supportive liberals quietly think in private that transition is a lifestyle choice, not medicine - a nice to have, ultimately boutique luxury that must be shelved during hard times. and they're going to shrug sadly and tell us that these are hard times.

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UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money. This is murder. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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These ads telling you to slather deodorant all over yourself are trying to psyop you into using up their product sooner and then purchase more product.

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Crypto isn't currency. It isn't even an asset. It is a financial virus designed to privatize money, let corporations run chit-based company stores, and cut nations & central banks off from their own money supply. Regulated stablecoins are a way for the parasite to get easier control of the host.

submitted 3 days ago • 52 comments

Make it 994-1. Pacers win 138-135

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I see we've reached the stage where Trump is claiming endorsing his opponents is illegal. But, still, lots of people say that this is better than the censorial Dems who tried to silence people by [checks notes] asking people to be respectful of one another.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

one time i posted a comic about vampires and someone commented "this doesn't happen" and i was like.. i mean yeah i have to agree

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Oh, I see why she didn't want to name names. Because those names are actually good.

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The pipeline from comics about animals smoking and doing drugs to having neocon reactionary politics was already cemented by Dave Sim’s Cerberus

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not now bro i'm romanticizing the monstrous, eroticizing the grotesque, and glorifying the perverse

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Fantagraphics once again proving their special talent of finding the most obnoxious people to ever draw a comic and giving them a book deal just big enough to inflate their egos into blindingly idiotic behavior.

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Pretty, pretty sure that a whole documentary centered on how the Holocaust was both real and a bad thing will also offend Trump supporters, PBS.

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Terrible. documentary.org/online-featu...

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I dunno if I’d be shitting on someone for being Cal Arts adjacent when my own comics look like someone prompted AI to make a Fantagraphics comic, but that’s me

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the alex graham thing is just one of those facebook cartoons you'd see all the time years ago of a sad girl with a painting getting no likes while the bimbo influencer next to her is getting thousands of likes, only its stretched across too many panels, bizarrely racist and has no potential for yuri

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Just to be clear, it's not a joke when I say the Trump admin WANTS you to get Covid: "Dr. Vinay Prasad described the new approach as a 'reasonable compromise' that will allow vaccinations in high-risk groups to continue while generating new data about whether they still benefit healthier people."

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Someday, I'd like to see a defense of witholding criticism of Democrats on the grounds that Republicans are fascists address the fact that most Democrats do not themselves believe most Republicans are fascists, would like to continue making policy in a bipartisan fashion, and say this regularly.

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This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

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the DOJ is literally arresting Democratic members of Congress and Senate Democrats are voting to pass Republican legislation

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Rashomon, twice

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what a century we’ve managed to waste in the past ten years

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"Waste" is when people get Medicaid. "Efficiency" is when you let 60,000 tons of food that's already been paid for rot instead of feeding someone with it.

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