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Madison, WI. (Previously: Fargo, California, NYC.) Copy editor, mystic, successful businessman. I can't stand the beats, I'm asking for the check. normalnewsletter.net
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"Rectangular prisms," are you kidding me with this shit

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

all these dramatic homos with tradecraft skills a few years after being purged from U.S. intelligence

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

the best thing about getting older is being injured by sleep

submitted 18 hours ago • 25 comments

He's been on this kick ever since he found out 24 wasn't the highest number.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

The U.S. press should feel very ashamed.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Once again: "being gay for pussy" is a higher form of masculinity

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Wow those nonconfrontational savvy behind-the-scenes negotiations to address the White House blackballing the AP really paid off huh

submitted 13 hours ago • 44 comments

just boycott these motherfuckers, you’re not doing anything useful showing up there every day

submitted 13 hours ago • 55 comments

Something to understand about the nazi salute nonsense is that back during Reconstruction there was a cottage industry of Klan denial, where Democratic papers would pretend the KKK didn't exist or point to their stupid rituals as evidence they were a Republican delusion or otherwise harmless

submitted 17 hours ago • 49 comments

we’re watching elon musk trying to run the government like a business by being that shitty boss everyones had at one point in their life and i hope this is an evergreen example of why “running the government like a business” might be the dumbest ideological statement out there

submitted 14 hours ago • 65 comments

This is the fundamental thing about a deal to avert shutdown. Whatever substantive spending concessions democrats get, if DOGE and/or impoundment stay in place, it all gets zeroed out anyway. This isn’t an absolutist labeling a high bar the floor, it’s just the thing that makes any of the rest work.

submitted 14 hours ago • 8 comments

Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes and streams and oceans which continue to make life possible on this planet? Can we afford life itself?

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

This is spot-on.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

I’ve been using the 5 Calls app on iOS to make my morning IRATE calls to representatives. Highly recommend.

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

issue with “hire more conservative professors” is that they don’t mean “hire a smart guy who happens to think taxes should be lower”, they mean “hire a movement conservative”, and these days there are multiple litmus tests for being that type of person that are “insist this false thing is true”

submitted 1 day ago • 72 comments

fwiw I would guess without looking it up that the majority of those women are teachers

submitted 16 hours ago • 12 comments

🤞

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

The point of the Guantanamo camp was never that some immigrants were too dangerous to remain stateside. It was to *give the impression* that such dangerous immigrants existed and had been detained — which is exactly how Guantanamo was used after 2001.

submitted 18 hours ago • 23 comments

As you can see, the women initially respond by distancing themselves, but by the 2030s, their pack bond and hunting instinct is strong, enabling them to swiftly overtake the men and eat them

submitted 16 hours ago • 5 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) — 21 civil service employees are resigning from Elon Musk’s DOGE, refusing to “dismantle critical public services.”

submitted 16 hours ago • 58 comments

This needs more work, my dude

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Folks tend to think of romantic partnership as a source of comfort, and it is, but couples therapist David Schnarch said it is primarily a "people-sharpening" tool now. When you commit to being with someone, you necessarily push each other to grow—which is *not* comfortable.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Good 🧵. So, when McLuhan talks about how electric technology forces us to "live mythically" and take on roles instead of jobs, one thing he means is that you need an instantly recognizable image to stand out against the nonstop information we're bombarded with each day.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

it is the moral duty of every person to protect as many as we possibly can from this fucking monster. anything less than the most we can do is unacceptable. whatever power you have, use it

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

"The government should run like a business" bitch I'm in a union, I don't even think businesses should run like a business

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Just missed the window to do a third U2 one in conjunction with the How to Dismantle re-release, dammit.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment