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Literally all you need to know about crypto in a single image

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New Orleanian Mardi Gras aficionados today

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Orwell , George ⬇️

submitted 12 hours ago • 23 comments

Truly staggering to consider the people and institutions that had to fail to bring us to this point.

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Cmon guys

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This is bad, and it’s going to get worse before it gets better.

submitted 14 hours ago • 24 comments

With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.

submitted 14 hours ago • 167 comments

Oh, you're doomscrolling current events? That's baby shit. I'm doomscrolling the events of 536. A volcano just erupted in Iceland. Snow just fell during the summer in China. Crops are failing. All of the crops are failing.

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Politics aside* this is exactly how Ranked Choice Voting is supposed to work. Candidates have an incentive to stay on good terms with their opponents and compete to be a voter’s second choice. * - Cuomo must be destroyed

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It's a truly jarring split screen that Kristi Noem's goons attacking Sen Padilla happened at almost the exact same time as 16 Dem senators crossed lines to vote with the GOP to invoke cloture on the crypto bill, forfeiting any leverage. Dems need to act like an opposition.

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Ross Douthat when someone says something factually wrong or openly fascist on his podcast

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Explosive moment during tonight's NYC mayoral debate: Cuomo: "He’s never dealt with the city council, he’s never dealt with the Congress..." Mamdani: "I’ve never had to resign in disgrace...I have never hounded the thirteen women who credibly accused me of sexual harassment."

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NEW FROM CBO: brutal distributional analysis of House GOP "Big Beautiful Bill" On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

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Calvin & Hobbes is widely regarded as one of the greatest comic strips of all time and I feel like we STILL underrate it.

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The “tech right”

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They know exactly what they're doing

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NEW: Here's a striking new amicus brief in support of California from 8 "former US Army and Navy secretaries and retired four-star admirals and generals" (inc. Michael Hayden, Thad Allen, Sean O'Keefe). storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Old Soviet joke: A man goes to the newspaper stand every day, unfolds one, scans the front page, doesn't buy it, and leaves. Vendor: Why do you do this every day? Man: I’m looking for an obituary. Vendor: Obituaries aren’t on the front page. Man: The one I’m waiting for will be.

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Reminds me of this guy I met at Occupy Wall Street

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this is good

submitted 5 days ago • 447 comments

Relatedly, I think it’s time to reopen the conversation about why “The Last Jedi” is a terrible movie for reasons having nothing to do with racism or sexism

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New this week: I did a deep dive into what I think is primarily driving the national murder plunge. Spoiler: I think enormous community investment and spending in the wake of COVID is the primary driver (though there are undoubtedly other factors as well!). jasher.substack.com/p/why-i-thin...

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Who talks about their fellow Americans like this? More than 1 in 40 of us live in Los Angeles County

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As an elder millennial who saw the rise of video games and gaming culture firsthand: (1) Video games are good (2) People who build their identity around them should be viewed with suspicion

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Economically punishing blue states and terrorizing their citizens isn’t a sustainable way to run the country. At a certain point people will fight back.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

This kind of caving to bullying by media corporations is common in electoral autocracies like Turkey or Hungary, where the media ultimately becomes owned by loyalists. Caving early seems easy, but in the long run makes these media companies state mouth pieces, no matter what execs tell themselves.

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Extremely bad timing to have this come out the very day the President started using the armed forces to terrorize his political enemies

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Seconding this. (Albeit for a decade and not 35 years). There is an overwhelming focus on inputs — whether that's throwing more money at a problem, or critiquing political structures that limit how much money you throw at a problem. And nearly zero focus on outputs.

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No law enforcement agency is a monolith; even one predisposed by culture, mission, and lack of oversight to attract violent bullies is going to show cracks when given an amoral mission. But also: