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Whoever on Severance cast Dichen Lachmann did a fantastic job for many reasons, but especially because this last episode was in the exact same register as Dollhouse.

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Can't wait for the Party of Reagan to explain how Lech Walesa is a woke commie simp.

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i think it's great that the nazi zoomers are systematically — and again, illegally — destroying our ability to do anything useful

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You are what you do and this man absolutely doesn’t do shit

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This is not leadership. It is abasement to norms that no longer exist.

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bathroom bills were considered a hugely bigoted overreach a decade ago and the backsliding on trans rights is the result of a sustained propaganda campaign by elites the pendulum can swing back the other way if you try, and anyone who is not willing to do so is showcasing their own bigotry

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the thing about “democrats should take popular cultural positions” is that what constitutes popular is a function of an interaction between the public and elites. if a faction of elites start screaming about a vulnerable minority and another faction says they have a point, this shapes the public.

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old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

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just enjoyed a tremendous night of music at the Clemente in NYC -- Matthew Shipp, Andrew Cyrille, Fred Moton reading poems that truly brought the music alive, the HS Ice Band led by Karen Barca...there's still four days left of this festival. The legacy of free jazz in this town...it is immense. 1/2

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remember when this guy covered up a brutal police killing? i do!

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...

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I Will Take An Annoying World Over A Sterile One - defector.com/i-will-take-...

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There Are Other People In The World - defector.com/there-are-ot...

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Supremely BUMMED about the passing of David Johanson aka Buster Poindexter of The LEGENDARY New York Dolls, & the singer of the hit cover of The Mighty Arrow’s (cousin on my Mother’s fam side) Hot! Hot! Hot! One of Shaolin’s Finest, & a Major Dude. He ROCKED. He Rolled. ❤️‍🩹 🌹

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I fancy I know a bit about language, and I can tell you specifically that JD Vance’s choice to voice a false criticism of Ukraine’s diplomatic efforts to date—one probably derived from the Putin-humping Nazi forums he frequents—caused the meeting to boil over in such a dramatic way.

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Hi, former White House intern, DNC communications staffer, and re-election team partner here: One does not ‘slip’ into the Oval Office. Does not. Period, ever. That’s not a thing.

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I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.

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Don’t have to repeal the civil rights act if you just illegally fire everyone who enforces civil rights law bsky.app/profile/adam...

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Supporters Praise Trump For Upholding Traditional American Value Of Supporting Murderous Dictators For Political Gain

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The obvious point here is that when Dems hold positions of power they don't actually force people to say things like "pregnant people." Some people were asked to used their pro-nouns once on a zoom call and mistook it for oppression.

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You don't have to "craft" anything, you let trans people use the bathroom they want and you ban creep behavior. That's already the policy in most public bathrooms in the US and has been for decades. Cis men pretending to be trans so they can assault women in bathrooms is vanishingly rare.

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There are a couple of possible explanations: (1) she’s this gullible about the IVF promises, or (2) she’s lying and voted Trump because she hates the people Trump hates. Which seems more plausible?

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Friendly reminder that Joann Fabrics isn’t closing because it’s a bad business. It’s closing bc it was bought by a private equity firm. This is also what is happening to Hooters and what happened to US Toys R Us and Red Lobster. These companies are being dismantled intentionally.

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interesting to me that no one condemns republicans for “racial essentialism” when their most prominent voices — say, the literal president and vice president of the united states — believe that citizenship has an ethnic and racial basis. www.thebulwark.com/p/vance-immi...

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the thing about musk is that he has a very consistent pattern of behavior throughout both his career and his public life, and he will keep pushing until he's forcibly removed from a situation. peter thiel is the only person who has ever done business with him who knew how to handle him.

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Just got fired from being a freshman football coach, if you want to know what MAGA does to communities. They don’t care about what helps people, because the school is certainly not going to find an ex-NFL player willing to coach there at that level, they only care about trying to hurt people.

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This is really funny because after congestion pricing launched and the haters were instantly proved wrong — traffic really did go down, transit use really did go up — they clung to "well let's see the business receipts!" as a last resort. And now we know business receipts are through the roof!

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The point of excluding categories of people from the military like this is to send the message that they are unworthy of citizenship, it is pure bigotry and the assumptions behind it are disproven by the honorable service of the people being targeted in the first place bsky.app/profile/bran...

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Fuck the American Nazis.

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said this before and i wasn't exaggerating: RFK has the exact personality type of the kind of person that, in a different sort of regime, oversees mass starvation.

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"It’s craven. He’s basically fearful of Trump." Marty Baron, former executive editor of the Washington Post, interprets what Jeff Bazos announced this morning. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

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Again, folks seem not to grasp how much this is a total collapse of the Constitutional order. A random private citizen is running the "Cabinet" meeting of POTUS & the Principal Officers of the Executive Departments, & going around unplugging large portions of the government. And we're all just 🤷‍♂️

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I have decided to cancel my show at The Kennedy Center on May 11, 2025 and move it to The Anthem.

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This goes beyond sports. This is terrifying.

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Jeffries: "Let me be clear -- House Democrats will not provide a single vote to this reckless Republican budget. Not one. Not one."

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(1/X) I've done some posts about the narcissistic sociopath I work with and how dealing with him has influenced how I see Trump. Now I'd like to do something about how it has influenced how i see the people who enable Trump. It's what I call the "shitty people problem"....

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In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

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i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class

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"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

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In the era that I studied when I was still part of the academic world one recurrent topic was that of "over-mighty subjects". This referred to subjects of the Crown who were themselves so powerful that they threatened the sovereign power of the Crown itself. In the US we have no sovereign, or ...

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To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

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The real reason people say Musk is stupid is that every time he talks about any area that a particular person knows about, he reveals that he doesn’t understand the most basic things about it. Apparently this has never come up for Noah Smith.

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Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota. But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies

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This isn’t drugs. This is him assuming other people don’t work because he doesn’t do that much work. Very common bad boss behavior. bsky.app/profile/rcma...

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you can tell the people trying to gut the government have never had a real job because they landed on "one micromanaging email" as the thing that would break regular people

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