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Let’s talk for a moment about some of the more subtle ways that the press acts as a mouthpiece for law enforcement. Actor Jonathan Joss was shot to death on Sunday. I don’t know what happened; I wasn’t there. But his husband said a homophobic neighbor shot him as part of an explicit hate crime. /1

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Sean Feucht’s political function is to recruit apolitical Christians into the MAGA movement where he molds them into a fighting force for anti-LGBTQ and anti-liberal hate, so it’s not that surprising that he’s remunerated himself quite handsomely for that work. open.substack.com/pub/friendly...

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Thread recapping this very illuminating Yarvin piece, by Ava Kofman in @newyorker.com (Previous posts removed for tech reasons.) —If you've lived in a small town, you know the character of the "barroom savant." Knows the inside story on everything. Knows what "they" are covering up.... 1/n

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Just in: Texas' former solicitor general has left the AG's office amid sex misconduct allegations and a lawsuit outlining his apparent, months of detailed disclosures to colleagues about his sexual obsession with watching an asteroid anally rape the agency's No. 2 attorney in front of his kids.

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"Literacy tests" weren't about determining if an applicant could read at X grade level. They enabled local registrars -- some illiterate themselves -- to turn away any applicant they wanted by pronouncing them ignorant. So ask yourself: Who would a MAGA registrar see as "informed about issues"?

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NEW: Trump's court pick Josh Divine once called for bringing back literacy tests in elections Literacy tests were banned in the 1960s for being racially discriminatory, but such tests “are not a bad thing,” Divine argued in a 2010 college op/ed. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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This guy was convicted of stealing more than $10 million in taxpayer dollars, ordered to pay $4.4 million of it back as restitution, but now the taxpayers will get nothing because Trump gave him a full pardon after accepting $1 million from his mother. I need you to spread this story everywhere!

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

it is a truth of this website that no matter what position you hold on any topic, one of the most terminally online people on earth whose full time job appears to be getting angry on the internet will appear to declare that you are a centrist

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