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Enjoyer of fine profanity. Did not get more conservative as he got older.
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Disagree all you want with the reason the orphan-crushing machine exists and what it's doing, you have to admire the fact that it is crushing a LOT of orphans at a time

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

The game now is to keep Pete Hegseth in the Defense Secretary role for as long as possible / as long as he survives because him being there effectively means Trump has zero control over the military

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

Young people SHOULD “have it easier” than you did. I’m sorry you got the strap up hill both ways and paid your debts with pounds of flesh, but the reason we work for progress is to make growing up and growing old gentler, easier, kinder, freer. Struggle isn’t necessary in a healthy society.

submitted 7 hours ago • 36 comments

Pop song by a woman = I have folded myself into this intricate paper crane and presented it to you in the hopes that we can have joy together. Pop song by a man = behold me, my dick writ large.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Casar: Some folks in the longtime Democratic establishment said the path to winning the midterms was for Democrats to 'roll over and play dead.' But a corpse is not an inspiring political movement. No one can hear your message through the walls of a coffin.

submitted 8 hours ago • 45 comments

Slotkin's like if you got some Susan Collins in your Amy Klobuchar.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Every now and then I check in on the Gateway Pundit Hoft Brothers to see what they're up to because Oregon Republicans have a special affection for their content. The whole "Catholics are an un-American vector for Satanic Freemasonry" bit is an especially resonant callback to 1920s era Oregon.

submitted 15 hours ago • 6 comments

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are bending the law so they can fire thousands of Social Security workers. They want to get rid of the people who make sure you get your monthly checks and help out if there’s a problem.

submitted 12 hours ago • 105 comments

This country's anthem ought to be Whitey on the Moon. It's more accurate, AND just as difficult for white people to sing.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Among my regular passengers on the 44 are two young boys who ride with their grandma from California and 6th Ave all the way to Silver and Palou. The older brother is possibly a 2nd grader. Last night as they were getting off my bus, he handed me this hand made envelope.

submitted 17 hours ago • 27 comments

The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

submitted 10 hours ago • 19 comments

Susan Collins believes that Susan Collins has learned her lesson.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

So let me get this straight. The same people who screeched about welfare moms having more kids just so they could get more benefits are now 100% in favor of giving people $5K if they have a kid. Make it make sense.

submitted 16 hours ago • 27 comments

My hot take is that touch screens in cars are dangerously, inefficient, and stupid. Buttons and knobs are better, easier, and safer.

submitted 11 hours ago • 18 comments

It’s always the one’s you most suspect.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

It's pretty hilarious to me that Sen. Slotkin is awkwardly trying to kinda-sorta rebrand herself and the Democratic Party in just about the least committal and vague way she can, and meanwhile, there's Buttigieg effortlessly gliding through conservative media spaces with common sense messaging.

submitted 15 hours ago • 47 comments

Any pejorative use of the word ‘woke,’ especially by whitey, is a red flag and a fucking deal breaker. This is how low-key white supremacists talk. And we’ve seen the focus on weakness and strength before. Apparently in order to defeat Trump, we must become him. Hardest of fucking passes.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Soooo Hegseth was using an unsecured internet line set up in his pentagon office. FUCK OFF with the BUT HER EMAILS!?

submitted 15 hours ago • 98 comments

The fact that we are also making lists of Jewish professors proves the harmlessness of our registry of autistic children. by Linda McMahon and RFK Jr.

submitted 11 hours ago • 65 comments

Or, we could just forget the whole fucking thing and start over. Which is functionally was the Constitutional Convention did to the Articles of Confederation.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Elissa Slotkin is a former CIA agent cosplaying as an everywoman. AOC is a former waitress who treats voters as though they are smart enough to know who's screwing them and how we can fix it.

submitted 13 hours ago • 125 comments

This is like if Dan Wilson and Hester Prynne fucked. And were also Nazis.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Niles and Maris got their own spinoff and it is dogshit

submitted 20 hours ago • 21 comments

everyone who said dems needed to be fighting for every single inch and delaying trump’s staffing and govt funding as much as possible was right. everyone who said to lay low and wait for trump to self-impeach was wrong.

submitted 10 hours ago • 30 comments

“The secret to electoral success is talking down to your voters.” Sen. Slotkin, probably.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: 1,600 post docs at Johns Hopkins University are unionizing with @UAW.

submitted 16 hours ago • 16 comments

Dear active duty members of the United States military. You need to think, now, about what orders you’re going to follow and which you won’t. And what you’ll do if they come for you.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1780 comments

Powerful people in powerful positions are still listening to war criminals like Condi Rice. If you don’t hold war criminals accountable, and you are more worried about “moving on” for your own benefit, you, too, are responsible for the spread of fascism

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

its a penis because you pee out of it. as such, we are petitioning to change the butt to "the poonis." thank you for your support

submitted 17 hours ago • 16 comments

food legit the best plot development in the whole story of life

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

There are three kinds of people: People who think suffering is okay as long as it's borne by the right people; People who think suffering is okay because they had to suffer; People who think suffering isn't okay. Be in the last category.

submitted 23 hours ago • 29 comments

Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

submitted 17 hours ago • 703 comments

Is Oprah the only reason we’re where we are? Nope, but she’s a big fucking part of it.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

I want politics to be about a better everyday life. Here's what that can look like:

submitted 18 hours ago • 903 comments

Do Republicans want to kill your grandparents? Well, it’s clear they don’t care if your grandparents die.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison

submitted 17 hours ago • 330 comments

men are hotter when they’re not afraid of anal

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Something so spiritually dark about Ben Gvir touring the US, reminds me of how the guy who murdered Medgar Evers was a beloved regional figure

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

No. Also, fuck you. Also, how in the name of fuck is anyone still taking the New York Times seriously. At the absolute latest, "peas in the guacamole" should have revealed the motherfucking monsters we were dealing with.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Yes writing emails is a pain so instead of hiding behind an AI to do it for you like a coward you need to simply have the courage of your convictions and stand up for what matters and simply not reply to them like the rest of us

submitted 21 hours ago • 8 comments

Too many times you've fucked over me and mine, Target. Now we're fucking done, and I do my best to bring you wrack and ruin.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

TRUMP AND BESSENT: We’re negotiating with China, this trade war will be resolved soon. CHINA: WTF are you talking about. www.ft.com/content/3e07...

submitted 1 day ago • 89 comments

I learned a valuable lesson today. Do not ask Thomas Friedman about his political affiliation.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Time for my periodic reminder that journalists are under no obligation to use cop-talk like "police-involved shooting." You can just say the police shot someone

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

work is giving us a chick fil a breakfast buffet and a ben & jerry's ice cream social today in what i'm calling "the most successful political both-sidesing of all time"

submitted 23 hours ago • 25 comments

Fuck John Lithgow. Right in the neck. Forever.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments