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Give him a second Nobel for this

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

And then this shit just came out. When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car. When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.

submitted 7 hours ago • 161 comments

The maddening thing is that this would have been PAINFULLY OBVIOUS if they had ANY EXPERIENCE AT ALL working with the government! In any way! Or if they had asked a single question!! 😖

submitted 7 hours ago • 63 comments

As we head to Election Day, for folks who voted early, thank you. I know some folks have not yet made up their minds. I am making an appeal to you. Please do not rank Cuomo. I have worked with every single one of the candidates for mayor. I will tell you he does not like us.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

The Left is to blame because they explained what people like her on the Right had made happen.

submitted 3 days ago • 102 comments

Thanks to “institutional neutrality” an African American law prof couldn’t offer a course with “inequality” in the title, but a self-described white nationalist could win a prize for writing a paper that reads like a Klan manifesto.

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

The Ayatollah’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.

submitted 3 days ago • 62 comments

I assume that Harvey Weinstein will be the next to announce his support of Cuomo?

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

submitted 4 days ago • 82 comments

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

submitted 4 days ago • 817 comments

We’re in another Middle East war. I’m reflecting on the fact that it’s easy to start a war, difficult to end it. There’s often war optimism, so it’s unlikely to end with bomb strikes today. Lastly, I’m troubled that Trump’s national security team is who we have running this war.

submitted 4 days ago • 244 comments

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

not great that I can now adapt a classic Jewish joke, set variously in Tsarist Russia, Nazi Germany, etc ... two Jews, one without papers, are talking on the street when they see the police approaching. the paperless one says to his friend "Quick, run so they chase you!" ...

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

Do the right thing: rank me #1, Zohran #2, and DON'T RANK ANDREW CUOMO.

submitted 4 days ago • 130 comments

Damning. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

In Florida, “free speech” and “institutional neutrality” mean that a Nazi arguing that nonwhites have no rights wins a prize while a course with “race” in the title is censored for violated the law. Congratulations to all the credulous centrists who helped this along.

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

We are facing a serious threat to democracy, law, and liberty. The abuse of prosecutorial power to intimidate, investigate, and detain political opponents is upon us. It is a constitutional crisis. I will keep speaking out until public outrage overflows. I just hope it’s not too little, too late.

submitted 5 days ago • 673 comments

Any corporate executive who signs off on a bribe to Trump should be prepared to explain their crimes in front of Congress and to the public when Democrats retake power

submitted 5 days ago • 276 comments

🔥 SIERRA WINE GUY: “To the head of ICE: you cuffed Moises Sotelo like a dog. You got the guy who tithes at church and pays his taxes. Do you sleep better at night? — Let him fucking go… and maybe ask yourself who the real criminals are.” Full: www.facebook.com/share/1Bv5QQ...

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

Trump's ICE raids mean Washington farmers cannot harvest this year's cherry crop, and that many will now go out of business. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

submitted 6 days ago • 126 comments

I’d bet my entire net worth he posts something supportive on Columbus Day.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Happy Juneteenth

submitted 6 days ago • 1302 comments

TRUMP HATES CHRISTMAS!!

submitted 6 days ago • 462 comments

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

submitted 8 days ago • 766 comments

🧵IR scholars, let's start a thread of what we know that's relevant for a US attack on Iran. Won't change any minds, but might help us teach this crisis and learn new angles. Please add (incl. your own work!), forgive/correct omissions. Nobody can cover everything and it's great to find new work. 1/?

submitted 7 days ago • 56 comments

Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

submitted 9 days ago • 450 comments

Statement from the two children of Melissa and Mark Hortman. “Hope and resilience are the enemy of fear. Our parents lived their lives with immense dedication to their fellow humans. This tragedy must become a moment for us to come together.”

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

submitted 9 days ago • 762 comments

Having President live tweeting this war probably isn’t the best idea

submitted 9 days ago • 428 comments

This is one of the most irresponsible things a president has ever said.

submitted 9 days ago • 222 comments

Huge loss. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/b...

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

holy shit -- acting US attorney Thompson details that Boelter went to the homes of two other elected officials after shooting Hoffman but before going to Hortman's house. One cop encountered him at the third house but thought he was a police officer.

submitted 9 days ago • 880 comments

Mike Lee is fecal. For his written thoughts on the horror in Minnesota alone, any healthy republic would immediately expel him from its national legislature. That's all. That's the tweet.

submitted 10 days ago • 167 comments

🧵I think it’s important to understand what disinformation like Sen. Mike Lee’s tweets are trying to do, psychologically/cognitively. In my disinfo class/Substack, I talk about how disinfo often uses “moral disengagement strategies” to manipulate people into accepting harmful conduct 1/

submitted 10 days ago • 301 comments

Next Democratic president should just ignore the immunity decision and prosecute Trump. If John Roberts doesn't like it he can bust Trump out himself like Assata Shakur.

submitted 10 days ago • 31 comments

this isn't an original thought or anything but Lord I am just so sick of this transparently racist violent antidemocratic shit

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

I'm trying to imagine a Democratic president saying openly and proudly that he would be sending federal agents to target the 'Republican Power Center' in Texas, Florida, and Tennessee. We would be in the midst of a civil war before he'd finished saying those words.

submitted 10 days ago • 437 comments