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Liberal cop (yes there is such a thing, but I’m near extinct), insufferable Mets fan. I refuse not to wear shorts in the winter.
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X engineers clocking in this morning

I’m going to be angry for a very long time about how this time in history made it feel like being a good person was somehow political

Facts! 🎯🎯🎯

Eric Swalwell just referred to trumps incoming administration as a ‘Broligarchy’ and I nearly fell out of my chair. 😂

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer had a very shiny nose. Other signs of his alcoholism included dizziness and chronic reckless behavior.

Every time I read about banning books, I think of this: Reading a book with a gay character will not make you gay any more than reading a book about Einstein will make you a genius. If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books — you're afraid of thinking.

This map helps explain why Trump had so much success framing US-Mexico border immigration as a national issue even though most Americans aren't affected by it, our economy depends on undocumented immigrants, and it is Trump who has fought border reform the last four years. It's the racism, stupid.

Theres an uncomfortable subject that exit polls, election post mortems & even the most progressive pundits NEVER talk about. All the political hot takes on why Trump won are based on 1 unspoken premise: It’s time to talk about the mono-racial coalition thegrio.com/2024/11/22/w...

Wash your smelly best friend day. I have to do it all in front of him.

Your purpose on earth is not to argue with people who intentionally want to misunderstand you

It’s all in the telling.

Post-1960s liberalism has a “Morning Joe” problem, an ideological commitment to bipartisanship rooted in the belief that politics is better when it balances Republican and Democratic ideas and values. So you have a Gingrich Republican hosting MSNBC’s flagship morning show, for instance.

I made a thing. Use it well.

This time he’s changed. He promised he won’t beat me.