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"What is your job?" is a question that shows you should have no authority over it.

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I'd suspect they replaced him with a hologram run by an AI, but it would be more coherent.

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It never stops being sickly funny and fascinating how the party of "family values" lives with a level of degeneracy that my pervert ass could never come up with. www.independent.co.uk/life-style/k...

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Hegseth's tattoos got a lot of attention, but of course he denied they were racist. What probably should have gotten more attention: He belongs to a church that teaches slavery was the pinnacle of race relations. dougwilsonbelieves.com/beliefs/sout...

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Of interest @moiradonegan.bsky.social www.usermag.co/p/link-fixed...

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Every time I see pictures from Musk at CPAC, I think about how, a decade ago, the fear was it was young women who would get addicted to social media attention and destroy themselves. And that has happened, but nothing competes with what happened to middle-aged men.

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Hegseth is going to fire every woman or Black person in military leadership.

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New Standing Room Only! Today's excerpt: Why RFK's "labor camps instead of SSRIs" idea is dangerous, even if it doesn't happen. Subscribe today! salon.com/newsletter Music by Amaarae.

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It occurs to me that one helpful talking point that needs repetition until we're sick of it: Mass firing of federal employees will raise unemployment — and mean more qualified people are competing with *you* for good jobs.

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These stories showing up nonstop on local TV news youtu.be/N23KVyaSoLw?...

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New Standing Room Only! Today's excerpt: Why RFK's "labor camps instead of SSRIs" idea is dangerous, even if it doesn't happen. Subscribe today! salon.com/newsletter Music by Amaarae.

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Republicans seem surprised that Trump victim-blames Ukraine for the war. Feminists aren't surprised. This is how Trump has always talked about sexual violence. Rape and fascism are related phenomena. Both are how weak, pathetic men feel powerful. www.salon.com/2025/02/21/s...

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Republicans seem surprised that Trump victim-blames Ukraine for the war. Feminists aren't surprised. This is how Trump has always talked about sexual violence. Rape and fascism are related phenomena. Both are how weak, pathetic men feel powerful. www.salon.com/2025/02/21/s...

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Another reminder that the right doesn't see women as people, just as Roombas you can have sex with. And your wife has no more right to leave you than your vacuum. www.salon.com/2025/02/20/i...

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Women tell jokes and have beers with friends. It’s not “masculine.” Fake victimhood to justify darker behavior like rape.

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“As the serious material implications of Trump's far-right agenda hit his voters in their pocketbooks and doctors' offices, it offers a daily reminder that Republicans didn't get the one thing they wanted, which was to strip us of our joy and our pride.”

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One month in, and things are bleak. But it does seem personal resistance matters. MAGA voters didn't want tariffs and DOGE. They wanted "cat ladies" to give up and marry some MAGA douche. Not giving them the satisfaction isn't just fun. It's strategic. www.salon.com/2025/02/20/s...

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One month in, and things are bleak. But it does seem personal resistance matters. MAGA voters didn't want tariffs and DOGE. They wanted "cat ladies" to give up and marry some MAGA douche. Not giving them the satisfaction isn't just fun. It's strategic. www.salon.com/2025/02/20/s...

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It's an annoying truism on the left that more government support would raise fertility rates, because all supporting evidence shows that isn't true. What actually works: Men who do more of their fair share at home. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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One interesting objection to this is basically, "Big Pharma won't let this happen." I do doubt RFK will get his massive labor camps. But stigmatizing even mild disability is serious. As I note in passing, disabled people are being targeted the federal worker purge. www.salon.com/2025/02/19/r...

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