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Thought about going without my emotional support coffee and comfort croissant this morning. Nope. Not today.

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Less honkin’ and more tonkin’, please. Some pro-labor, two-steppin music for a Saturday afternoon.

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“This Hernia!” To the tune of Rihanna’s “Disturbia.” It’s been running through my head nonstop for months since the diagnosis.

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I’m pretty much an atheist at this point but culturally Catholic. The pope dying is such a weird place to be.

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It’s hilarious to me how many people seem to think older Rage Against the Machine songs were libertarian anthems instead of anti-fascist, anti-capitalist music, which is very explicit in their lyrics. Those people probably also think Tom Morello is white.

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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Cowboy Bebop with live jazz band after finding a new Honduran dinner spot in town. This is tough to beat on a Thursday.

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Real king

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Why does Pineapple Jarritos taste better than any mocktail I’ve ever had?

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Do I have any lawyer friends on this here app already challenging the DOGE firings? I have a friend with 15 years in fed gov employment in West Virginia who just got fired and should probably be talking to a lawyer about potential options.

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For posterity

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NEW: The USDA acknowledged that over the weekend, it accidentally fired "several" agency employees who are working on the federal government's response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak. The agency adds it is trying to quickly reverse the firings.

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liberalism has a solution for the problem of kings and it is relatively simple

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Our insurance company just wrote to us that the life saving medication our 9-year-old daughter needs to live is rejected because they decided—CONTRARY TO HER DOCTOR—that it is "Not Medically Necessary." Her meds costs ~$200K/year. Insurance industry raked in $88 BILLION in profits last year. 1/2

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“His zeal in the cause of my race was far greater than mine - it was as the burning sun to my taper light - mine was bounded by time, his stretched away to the boundless shores of eternity. I could live for the slave, but he could die for him.” - Frederick Douglass on John Brown

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Ronnie Coleman voice: Everybody wanna be Nina Simone, but ain’t nobody wanna sing Mississippi Goddam”

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As soon as I read that Kelce said he was honored to have Trump at the game, I knew KC was cooked. Honestly hope they get shut out at this point.

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Fuck yes.

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It feels like a championship wrestling belt made of acid has been wrapped around my waist. Hernia repair is dumb.

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SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

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I think when im around my conservative parents and in-laws, I’m going to start referring to my inguinal hernia repair as “bottom surgery”

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Had abdominal surgery, and no one told me they were going to pump me full of CO2. This is awful. So ridiculously painful.

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Dems 2021-2024: We can’t get rid of the filibuster and pass all the stuff we want. They’ll use that against us if they get back in power. Dems 2025: What filibuster?

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Today is a good day for Rage’s “Pistol Grip Pump” to be on repeat

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I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and- Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...

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Amazing that migrant camps are being ordered to be built in Guantanamo Bay on Fred Korematsu Day. JFC

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The Originalist case for whatever Daddy wants

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UnitedHealthcare just appointed a new CEO after the murder of its previous one by alleged gunman Luigi Mangione. The new CEO fought government regulators' attempts to rein in health insurer use of algorithms to deny care

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memo to self: acting as an information filtration system, taking in the constant raw stream of garbage and trying to put out something useful that makes sense, will require periodic maintenance downtime to clean the filters

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Lawyering is so hard in this environment. So much has been exposed as being meaningless in a profession where we thought we were doing something meaningful. The next four years (and beyond) are going to be grueling for many and will lead to questioning a lot of our motivations and desires.

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It’s crazy that the Supreme Court has ruled that if Joe Biden shivs Trump before the inauguration because he is a perceived national security threat, Joe Biden would be immune from criminal prosecution. Crazy.

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Fucking Monsters

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BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain’s constitution so they “can never be undone.”

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The Delaware Court of Chancery issued its latest opinion the Musk pay saga. Specifically, the Court rejected Musk’s argument that the stockholder vote “ratifying” his pay package was sufficient to overturn the Court’s earlier opinion ordering rescission. 1/ courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Dow...

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