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This was the moment, just over a month ago, when the ADL could've put an end to Republicans doing Nazi salutes. They didn't. They chose instead to provide cover by calling it "an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm." Now the sieg heil salute has been normalized. The ADL literally had ONE JOB.

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Don't be modest, @nytimes.com, @theatlantic.com, @theguardian.com. Take a bow. What a beautiful atrocity you've built.

submitted 5 hours ago • 9 comments

I triple dog dare you to post this on nextdoor - where the COMMON SENSE solution for homelessness is to put them all in Guantanamo

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I think the older Dems are genuinely good at managing a raucous caucus and moving hill creatures around to where they need to be. Very good, in Pelosi’s case. But that’s just not the game anymore, that’s not what the moment calls for. And what replacements they have groomed aren’t ready either.

submitted 4 hours ago • 7 comments

expecting rashida tlaib, who had family members under bombs joe biden was providing, to provide unambiguous support in 2024 is psychotic behavior

submitted 13 hours ago • 9 comments

by the time of the convention, tlaib and the other dissenters were practically begging harris and the dem leadership to give them anything they could hang their hat on and the dems still refused

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nazi salutes are bad

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I literally reported this Wednesday.

submitted 8 hours ago • 138 comments

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 7 hours ago • 87 comments

I wouldn’t describe it as important people in journalism “saying little” about this. People in journalism – including liberal outlets like the New York Times and Atlantic Magazine – were absolutely at the center of creating this moral panic.

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Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

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fwiw this is basically how the Tea Party started except with imagined instead of real grievances

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“scrub your website of trans people to save your funding” MIGHT seem like the rational choice when it’s put to you, but if you agree the main lesson they learn is that you can be strong armed

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Unfortunately you have to primary everyone, not just because they don't have what it takes to fight, but because they don't have what it takes to rebuild. Last thing you want is them to win by default and then tread water until the next Trump comes to power

submitted 22 hours ago • 41 comments

We used to have Hope, Jobs, Cash, Eggs, Hooters

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This is also true for impoundment.

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Remember when John Roberts gutted the Medicaid expansion because he said the offer of medicaid money was too coercive to the states bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 1 day ago • 149 comments

Correct. They bought nothing with their capitulation except disdain from their users.

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the modern right: "we're crying"

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A heartfelt thank you to former Senators Joe Manchin and Kristen Sinema for repeatedly blocking popular policies to preserve “norms” and protect “the rights of the minority” We couldn’t have gotten here without you

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Rufo called me a groomer and sent his audience after my family because I said I was fine with my daughter going to therapy. CPS got called. It took months to get rid of them. My former colleagues thought it was hilarious and did nothing.

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

Trump take insulin

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If you talk about Rufo working in good faith, you’re either a grifter yourself or a mark.

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Totally agree. Also, a lot of these “savings”…aren’t. Government isn’t a business.

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On crypto and tech authoritarianism.. newrepublic.com/article/1857...

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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Hey @chatterton.bsky.social Rufo, among many other things, made up evidence that Haitians were eating people's pets. Now some 500,000 Haitians who were here legally are likely going to get deported. Glad he criticized you in "good faith" though. Enjoy staying on a platform run by the administration

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chatterton williams makes a common mistake here. I am actually the brilliant man at the center of the universe.

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been struggling with the idea that all of human history, all of the destruction, the suffering, the brutality, the razing, the pillaging, the salting of the beautiful fields of this planet has all led up to this. guys burning down everything built over that ruin just so they can do a coy nazi salute

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

here is the thing about the “argument” that democrats should have run roughshod over the law when they had the chance: it is much easier to break the law to destroy a program than break the law to create one.

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it's a dumb idea for sure but it also grinds my gears that nobody saying it actually thinks through what it would mean. step 1 would be to borrow a shitload of money and buy up the entire stock market. easy money for the citizen-shareholders!

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My brain kind of broke when I watched this and was getting all riled up and then it panned to the congressman and he was so old and frail. Like peasants begging for an elderly king to do something.

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home ownership is a suicide pact… you heard it first here folks…

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They blink a lot. They lose in court too. They are even feeling some pressure from within the party. Things are bad, but not hopeless.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

An entire government built on the premise of owning the libs. Revolting.

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Without doing cringe lib FAFO, I can think of one very specific thing they could have done.

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I have higher standards of accuracy in my Substack of 10K readers than the fucking New York Times.

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I think industry taking advantage of men (sports betting, loot boxes, online dating, body issues like below (manorexia?)) has really come into its own recently, and whereas beauty standards for women have at least gotten feminist pushback, the male equivalent just furthers the grift.

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American Pundits: It was an exuberant and controversial gesture of uncertain significance… Actual Fascists: It’s a Nazi salute.

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The words and actions of America’s leaders show they believe that having dark skin or having a vagina is a reason a person shouldn’t be allowed to pilot a plane, while having a drinking or drug problem is not. That’s their priority, and they’re fine with the flying public suffering the consequences.

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Cuckoo star Hunter Schafer has reportedly been given a new passport with an M for the gender marker, outing her as trans to anyone she shows it to. The model and actress says her previous passport was stolen in Barcelona, leading her to apply for a replacement.

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it has become a real sticking point for centrist pundits who are kinda fed up with musk (but who want to blame the left and libs for his ascendance) to still insist that he is really smart

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