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The chapter of RFK’s most recent book - that he wrote to defend his belief that COVID was actually a weapon designed to target white people and spare certain groups like Jewish people - in which he talks about how he does not believe germs actually cause disease is called “The White Man’s Burden.”

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Endemic to management.

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Thinking about this, is I think there is specifically an impulse we see everywhere, where people "earn" a position of social trust and influence and then lose their minds at the thought of actually having any responsibility besides doing what they want with it or to do anything with it at all

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Blue #4, by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1916, 📸 by Mitchell Leff

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just got railed by five wolves simultaneously so this Saturday is starting off fantastic

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Mike Johnson advocating for kidnapping children. Any Dem worth a shit will make it clear that anyone can buy a gaiter and a fake ICE vest. And he's saying go willingly with them. There is no reason a federal employee shouldn't have to show their face. And this should be an easy one to win.

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honestly this was very predictable if you could a) accurately recall the political consequences of the 2020 protests and b) take public opinion as it actually existed in 2025. impossible difficulty for a non-trivial portion of the professional political commentary class

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everything that has happened since 2016 is suggestive that even curricula like this did not go far enough

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This is why any criticism that something is a political stunt right now is a billion ton pile of bullshit. Fuck! Get on the news. Get in print. Get on a fucking billboard. Do ANYTHING to get in front of people and say that this administration is a bunch of evil, stupid, lying criminals.

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The Nat Sec Blob's propensity to excoriate someone for their stupid fucking takes is unrelated to the validity of such takes but directly related to the impact/perceived impact of a letter of recommendation from that person and the likelihood a Blob Member might receive said letter. See: Petraeus

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In national elections, liberals like me ask leftists to be coalition partners — hold their noses and vote for a candidate they don't love to beat someone truly terrible. In New York, the shoe is on the other foot. And we should be clear that we're willing to do what we ask of our partners.

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people are often surprised by how low-tech the global sin monitoring system looks, but that’s because like a critical infrastructure system it prioritizes reliability with durable proven technologies above all else.

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got reminded of this

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omg necron congratulations on your transition!

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Another the thing that makes today so much different than 2008 or 2020 is that there isn't a pressure relief valve in sight, so it's just gonna keep building and building

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from the NYT using Chris Rufo as their front-page editor to CEOs' insane crusade for RTO, to the readmission of almost every rapist unearthed by MeToo, to Democratic elites vicious turn against BLM, the cause of 2025 was the desperation of liberal elites to put their own throats under Trump's boot.

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They are the very worst among us.

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The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.

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Our goal for the 2028 Primaries is to march the senior leadership of the Party out of their offices while a fife and drum corps plays "The World Turned Upside Down"

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It's actually really easy to forget but Biden up until February 2020 or so was not considered the most viable alternative to Bernie and there was a widespread scramble by centrist mayors and members of the House to find their guy— and a lot of them landed on Michael Bloomberg!

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Eventually, someone - an ICE agent, a person about to be snatched and disappeared, a protestor, a local cop - is going to do something that can’t be taken back. It’s a fucking miracle that didn’t happen in 2020, and we’re running out of luck.

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The conservative movement is lying about basically every empirical "debate" of our time, from climate change to voter fraud to vaccines. Why is it so impossible for reactionary centrists to contemplate the possibility they're lying about trans healthcare too?

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Yes but they’re not just lying about vaccines though, they are LYING ABOUT COVID. If you are not masking everywhere you can right now during an active and ongoing pandemic you have bought into those lies, just as others have bought into climate denialism lies etc.

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Instead of punching left, maybe listen to progressives instead of THE GUYS WHO CAUSED THE IRAQ WAR AND GOT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS KILLED

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call your Senators and yell at them to throw this out in the Byrd bath, that this is even a question is unconscionable they're movable on this, I think we'll get them there, but they need to hear from us no ban on gender affirming care in the nightmare bill

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Sharks are amazing.

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I mean you wanna know what would show China the limits of its power? Defeating Russia, for example.

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We did it, Joe

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America could be a socialist republic if the actual socialists could bring themselves to tell libs “we’re what you want but even more so” instead of chasing an illusory noble proletariat that in reality just wants to chug Mountain Dew and say the n word.

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I disagree with a lot of Stancil's hot takes, but this one is absolutely true. How can someone be a human being and watch these things? Remember Romans watched animals eat slaves for sport. Humanism MATTERS because it takes so very little emotional distance to insulate our emotions from atrocity.

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You’re scared… right?

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"Pre-spelling reform AND rapid cursive, oof." #Orthography

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People were actually angry about Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers being released in 2002 because they thought it was an insensitive reference to the World Trade Center. (The novel was published in 1954, and the WTC was nicknamed The TWIN Towers, not The Two Towers)

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Apparently, the “be nicer to Trump in the hope illiterates will buy our newspaper” strategy is not working very well.

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Fuck this and fuck the NYT for suggesting it.

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We have now discovered that moving weapons towards a warzone might be preparations for war. When we did it 3.5 years ago the editorial position was that it was imperialist warmongering to help Raytheon stock.

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