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I'm imagining ICE doing to NYC what it's doing to LA — and the people of NYC responding the way people are in LA — and it all happening under Mayor Cuomo. He'll side with ICE, DHS and, of course, the NYPD. This man, who hates the city and doesn't live here, can not become mayor. Don't rank him.

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At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

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I am once again canvassing for Zohran.

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"And what do you call this act?" "The Ethicist!"

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"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

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this is sickening and I wish I could it say it’s surprising. her gofundme is linked in the post below this one, and if you can spare anything, I highly encourage you to help out

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Cuomo destroyed CUNY and SUNY so Trump didn't have to.

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Glad I haven't filled out my vote-by-mail ballot yet, I was planning to rank her fourth or fifth!

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FINALLY

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"Brutalizing immigrants isn't popular." "Well, it is to me."

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Republicans are against libraries, universities, scientific research, and modern medicine. They're just against knowledge, full stop.

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*pushing the party toward the positions of the ultra-rich donor class, which are neither effective nor broadly popular

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What Nathan Fielder does is the emotional equivalent of jumping off the Burj Khalifa.

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If you live in NYC and are not registered to vote, you still have 11 days to register as a Democrat, allowing you to vote for Zohran Mamdani in the June 24 Democratic primary and keep Andrew Cuomo out of power.

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Jonathan Joss was the victim of a violent, homophobic hate crime. This is why we have Pride Month and why we’ll only get louder and prouder. RIP Jonathan Joss

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I used to be friendly acquaintances with someone who later had a child with C*rtis Y*rvin, and today I learned I am still LinkedIn friends with her due to a post promoting her Substack.

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If I'm reading this correctly, then Yarvin wants the role of führer to be awarded via a Wings of Voice-style competition www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Hell Bent by Brian Recker is available for preorder! It's about how hell isn't real and you don't need to be scared of it, perfect for progressive Christians, exvangelicals, and anyone on a deconstruction journey. I edited it, and it's very good! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/771172...

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Me (reading about giant ancient otters and sloths that weighed hundreds or thousands of pounds): How come our ancestors were just little ape guys and not gigantic 5,000-pound gorillas? My husband: That's a great question, and one no scientist is brave enough to answer.

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My husband's parents got a new cat a few weeks after we started dating. She died a few days ago at age 18. RIP Bella, we will miss you lying on the floor in weird cute poses.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead

submitted 8 days ago • 140 comments

There are no words for how evil it is to gleefully kill 300,000 children.

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Ah, basketball...Naismith's folly...

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Even if the courts make the administration back off it feels, much like tariffs, like the damage is already done here. It’s much harder to agree to a very expensive, multi-year investment in your education if you also have to worry that it could get interrupted at any moment by the government.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

☎️ PLEASE KEEP CALLING.

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Uh huh

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lol www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/b...

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My current acne strategy is using a bunch of hydrocolloid patches. It's expensive, creates a lot of plastic waste, and also doesn't work.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

the plan to make america great again is to make us an impoverished garrison state dominated by trump and his oligarch buddies

submitted 11 days ago • 140 comments

The ultimate distillation of conservative "debate" culture: inviting someone to a Christian vs. atheist debate, saying, "I never said I was a Christian, you just assumed," and then ending the debate. What dazzling intellect.

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