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To dismiss the protests of the sick & the poor as you & your friends line your pockets is to deny Jesus more fully than any atheist

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WHY are we not seeing ads about Joni Ernst on YouTube and Hulu RIGHT NOW? Why aren’t Democratic leaders — that is @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and Schumer, who control the House and Senate leadership PACs — spending money to attack?

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Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse

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One fear w/ combining OSINT like Palantir, AI decision making, w/ this administration has been combining everyone's public and private data to determine a tyrant's version of a social credit score: a grade based on how loyal you are to the admin and consequences for people below a certain grade.

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This is why in heat waves you should only do copious amounts of heroin.

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fwiw I think this is part of what’s driving FDA hostility/skepticism. these guys are using stuff FDA isn’t bought in on, because FDA is appropriately conservative in its approvals, and to the techlord set that looks like FDA sclerosis

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when i tweeted this eight years ago IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE

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Ross Douthat: Chickening out is brave actually

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They’re grabbing people at immigration court and at their restaurant jobs because as we know, hardened criminals and human traffickers always show up for their paperwork appointments and dishwashing gigs.

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The (apparently unsourced) Vonnegut quote was wrong. We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself even though it would have been cost-effective.

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To be clear, this shields any research coming out of the NIH from independent peer review, which gives him total control to spread propaganda and makes any NIH study completely untrustworthy.

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Next time someone in Congress glibly dismisses your need for healthcare, remember that they have some of the best healthcare in the country. And it was paid for by YOU.

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The UK Royal Society of Biology has 18,000 professional members. Odd that the BBC can’t find a single one or even a first year text book. If they did, they would learn that sex is not binary*. I don’t have a TV, but it worries me how much BBC output is pseudoscience & far right eugenics nonsense.

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Great article, but one sentence stood out to me… “If your worldview only works when tragedy fits your prejudice, you’re not building a movement. You’re running a grievance factory” Superb 👏👏

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We tend to focus on Trump—which is understandable because the extent of his corruption and the severity of his character pathology are unique—but Palantir, Thiel, Musk and others will have surveillance databases with of all our personal information even after Trump somehow eventually leaves office.

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Make the call

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This is patently not true as I am quite far to the left and yet I have zero empathy for either Elon or Donald.

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Do people not realize he’s successfully and racistly linking two concepts in people’s heads and we’re helping him do that?

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Joni Ernst is a Veteran. She knows 1 in 10 Veterans rely on Medicaid. And yet she sat at a town hall and defended cutting it. So what does that mean—that those Veterans don’t deserve care? That it’s fine if they die quietly? Because that’s the message she sent.

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it’s extremely funny to show up somewhere with a black eye and then say that you were punched by a baby

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Goodreads the best place for thoughtful reviews like "I hate scifi but I read this scifi book anyway and didnt like it. 2 stars."

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The best antidote to writer insecurity is looking up your all-time favorite books on Goodreads and reading the 1-star reviews.

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Couple years ago, Missouri was advertising a "specialist" who was giving talks to local police departments on how to spot, and run, gypsies out of towns. Do you know who was screaming alongside me that this was modern day Nazi shit? My Jewish familija. We remember.

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seriously, how hard is it to write "trump claims to fire [X]"

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MASK UP!!

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Does nobody remember that having foreign students improves national security? You're not importing the students. You're exporting your way of life. The more other countries understand your way of life (having lived among you) the less likely it is that they'll hate you. (there are exceptions)

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Rolling Stone is one of the few news outlets that know how to write headlines.

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I know I should take this seriously but this ICE tweet genuinely made me laugh.

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Target's bold "Pride" collection this year features a colorless hoodie with the words "Out Loud & Proud" written teeny tiny only the string.

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"Trump lieutenants have walked out of meetings and earnestly asked one another if they thought Musk was high..." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Sure, Jan.

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RIP Loretta Swit, known in her time in homes across America as Major Houlihan on MAS*H, a character she transformed over the course of more than a decade on the show from from a hardass villain to a sympathetic protagonist. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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I swear, competence porn is my favorite trope, bar none.

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Republican officials have now asked us to disregard material things, sacrifice for the nation, and contemplate that death is inevitable. We have been taken over by a secret cadre of militant Buddhists.

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Strongly recommend this and the recently released follow-up - for Chris Rea and Bruce Rusk’s excellent translation, but also for the major takeaway: Cynicism makes you an easy mark.

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I did indeed order a box of these. Arrived today and it is delicious!

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Tapper isn’t pro-Trump but he’s definitely becoming anti-anti-Trump.

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If you’ve ever heard JD Vance talk about his own kids, you can only imagine how much he hates other people’s kids. Well, imagine no more.

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Breaking news: Contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC continues to recommend the coronavirus vaccines for healthy children, according to new documentation posted to the agency's website.

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And this completes our lesson in why government should not be run like a business.

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Meg Elison and Merc Fenn Wolfmoor have uncanny power for tapping into the human experience through the speculative. They make the impossible into something intimate. They constantly inspire me. @megelison.bsky.social and @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social

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Also I am just delighted by how GOOD the Murderbot adaptation has been? The writing is funny and sweet and pacey and all of the things the original Murderbot is.

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