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Trump’s attacks on Iran were based on vibes, not new intel, two administration officials tell Rolling Stone. “There is no intel,” one of the sources says. “The intelligence assessments have not really changed”

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THIS JUST HAPPENED: Brad Lander walked through the fire, got burned, and came back with a fucking gasoline can. ICE arrested him — now he’s escorting migrants right past them, again. Most politicians wouldn’t show up. He showed out.

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They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

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Five things to remember about war:

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Heaven help us

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the takeaway from this is that, for all practical purposes, stephen miller is the acting president of the united states. trump is just play-acting as the boss, as he did on the Apprentice. (gift link) www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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One fascinating thing lately is that some of the biggest conspiracy humpers have been put in positions where they have access to all the info to prove they were right all along and they discover, oh, shit, there is no conspiracy. Bongino and Gabbard have said as much.

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what are you supposed to do when the "good" political party doesn't treat a dozen credible sexual harassment claims as disqualifying for a political candidate. how are you supposed to ignore that

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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DEMS, YOU WIN THE ATTENTION GAME WITH CONFLICT AND CRISIS AND WE ARE SUBMERGED IN BOTH YOU JUST REFUSE TO TALK ABOUT IT

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Every year that passes, I come to better appreciate just how traumatic members of the US elite find it to be yelled at by progressive young people. It is vastly more upsetting to them than being yelled at by reactionaries. They warp their entire identities & ideologies around it!

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This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

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BREAKING: U.S. regulators have approved the world's only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV.

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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

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FINALLY Democrats are putting out HARD-HITTING ads. WATCH AND SHARE: #MAGAKidnappers

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We should be able to buy adderall, testosterone & estrogen OTC at Walmart while buying a gun should require 6-12 months of intensive therapy beforehand and monthly reapproval from your psychiatrist

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I keep thinking about the fact that Brad Langer is the sitting New York City Comptroller, a position with demands most of us can't even really imagine, AND running a mayoral campaign, itself a demanding full time job—and he found time to quietly walk people past danger.

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Here it is: my urbanist NYC voter guide. While Zellnor Myrie and Brad Lander are (by far) the best candidates, you’re going to have to rank either Zohran or Cuomo if you want your vote to count. I dove deep into this decision and came to the conclusion that Zohran is the superior choice.

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RPA STUDY: Congestion pricing "has reduced traffic not only in Manhattan’s congestion relief zone (CRZ) but on roadways across the region. These time savings seem to be stable — remaining consistent and undiminished" -- rpa.org/news/lab/con...

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This is the softest of softball opposition possible, and it still leaves this chinless freak completely flabbergasted. We live in the stupidest fucking country possible. You don't have to hand it to Tucker, but it's embarrassing that all it would take is this level of pushback from dem opposition

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I am watching Sen. Alex Padilla talk on the Senate floor about being assaulted last week, as I watch New York City controller Brad Lander get assaulted at immigration court. In between reports on the two MN Democrats shot, one murdered, last weekend. But both sides, people, both sides.

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Yeah you’ve got hochul uploading an official nygov social video calling lander’s arrest, and I’m quoting here, “bullshit.” They think the feds have overreached and are vulnerable.

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Whether visible or invisible, permanent or temporary, almost all of us will have or know someone with a disability. As Mayor, I’ll fight like hell for truly accessible public transit.

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Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

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You can't arrest people without warrants, you can't arrest people for asking to see a warrant and you can't bar reporters you don't like from City Hall press conferences This concludes today's lesson in Civics in The City

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“You do not have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens,” Lander repeated, as the officers tightened handcuffs to his wrists.

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This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

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"There's no machine known that is more efficient than a human on a bicycle. Bowl of oatmeal, thirty miles. You can't come close to that." —Not surprising that Bill Nye, the Science Guy, has known about the efficiency of the bicycle for a long time. 🚲🧵

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It constantly blows my mind that we have elected someone so gobsmackingly uncomprehending of the gravity and responsibility of his office that he does not grasp how insanely dangerous it is to fire off comments like this on a whim.

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PUTIN WAS KICKED OUT OF G8 in 2014 WHEN HE ANNEXED CRIMEA. TRUDEAU WAS ELECTED IN 2015. THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

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About today's public transit discourse: I believe that riding public transit is a spiritual good for increasing your empathy and practicing minding your own business. It also helps you internalize that most people mind their own business, e.g. no one is looking at you.

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there are a lot of reasons to not rank cuomo. he's a serial sexual harasser, he covered up nursing home covid deaths, and he would be awful for the mta. but i have to admit i'm not ranking cuomo largely because it would make him so mad if he loses

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the NY editorial board moves in circles in which 'known harasser of women' is socially acceptable but 'younger left-winger' is somebody who might embarrass you.

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I don't think I've ever felt more like burning it all down than I have while witnessing the elite project to turn Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander into scary, incompetent monsters while turning an actual incompetent monster, Andrew Cuomo, into a merely complicated fellow who just made an oopsie.

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The Times saying last year they'd no longer endorse candidates in local elections, then immediately being like "oh but not THAT guy" 10 months later because the candidate wants free buses gives away the whole game. "Objectivity" means you break your own rules to punch left as much as you want.

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It’s interesting that de Blasio gets so much blame for generalized angst about NYC, while Cuomo – who was in office for longer – gets none for not just the city but the broader state. Is the city not in the state? What was he such a great manager of? Just, uh, checks notes, the Port Authority?

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Where in god’s name are we as a society when “being young and ambitious on policy” is an unforgivable sin, while “being corrupt and resigning in disgrace after then sexual predation of dozens of women” is not?

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And again, they were about 15-20 times as large as the April 2009 Tea Party protests, so I'll sit back and wait for 15-20 times as many stories from political pundits explaining that this was a decisive rebuke to the sitting president that Changes Everything.

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“Subway trips can have a chaotic or even menacing quality.” You are a coward.

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Yes. Similarly, Elizabeth Warren staffers in 2021 getting a few jobs that would have normally went to ex-Obama/Clinton aides and Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates getting more acclaim than their white counterparts for a few years caused elite panics and endless "wokeness" pieces.

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This isn't all of the story, but a surprisingly big part of the "fear" of Mamdani isn't actually that he'll institute full communism, it's that people's friends-and-influence groups will be demoted from their positions of authority

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I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal." That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.

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It's pretty telling that the second part of the "Mamdani is a danger to Jewish new yorkers" pitch is always "so vote for sexual harasser shitbag Italian Catholic Andrew Cuomo" and not "so vote for Jewish Progressive Brad Lander"

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dismal read: NYT comes out aggressively for Cuomo, not because they believe in the ghoul they called on to resign as governor, but because they really loathe Mamdani and lack the courage of what they purport to be their convictions, which would be to endorse Lander www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o...

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I had the same reaction. Mamdani is such a threat in their view that they had to essentially reverse their non-endorsement policy. If Cuomo was cruising to victory, I doubt this piece would be written.

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"Don't Wanna Go Far For Stuff" The 15 Minute City rebrand t-shirt.

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The gunman no doubt thought of himself as a good person, as someone who was pro-life, but his ideology brought him to a place where he shot 17 bullets into a couple who got into politics to help get health insurance for his daughter, who has spina bifida.

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it is funny how tech overlords, whose sole work experience is pretending to have something to sell while getting and burning through tons of outside capital with an end game that is solely enriching themselves, just assumed government jobs were as inefficient, corrupt, and pointless as their own

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