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Douthat is a credulous rube who was doing yeoman's work to pretend Thiel isn't an unserious sociopath people humor because he's a billionaire. If you ask a normal person "Should the human race survive" and their answer starts "Yes, but...," their family for sure doesn't invite them to Thanksgiving.

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To state the obvious, if AOC referred to Tuberville’s constituents as “trailer rats,” it would be treated as an epochal scandal for the Democratic Party, which would promptly disavow her.

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In Tommy Tuberville's home state of Alabama, 23% of all personal income comes from transfer payments from the federal government. Alabama is the tenth most dependent on federal funding, getting $1.80 in spending back for every $1 its citizens pay in taxes. www.al.com/politics/202...

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Well I don't like this one bit.

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Writing about indie rock academically leads to your endnotes looking like the telephone game because of indie world citation practices. I just had to figure out how to cite a book that cites an archive of dead Geocities pagess that itself cites a no-longer-up newspaper article.

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Turning online archives into resources for training data not only exploits and devalues the archived works, but also renders these archives literally unusable. Like all extractivist business models, #genAI ultimately threatens to destroy its own foundations. It's not generative, but destructive

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Look, I get the importance of affect. We all have irrational beliefs, across the political spectrum. Blah blah blah. It's all true. But I do kind of think a not TOTALLY insignificant amount of problems in politics could be solved if schools did a better job explaining what marginal tax rates are.

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“More diverse and more first-generation” means “fewer spots for legacy admits” and that is just unfair if you don’t think about it at all

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friends, I’m really trying my best to return to a 2015 level of quality social content and I know I’ve got a long way to go but may I humbly present….BIRMINGHAM AIRPORT’S BARBECUE VENDING MACHINE

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Just saw somebody on Twitter say that they want Adams to win because that would be a more efficient way to "expose the evils of capitalism" than what we'd get with Zohran, and man, is this what accelerationism does to people?

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Any excuse to repost an all-time Bluesky banger

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Sure their endorsements are useless, but that's not going to stop those scrappy upstarts at the New York Times from getting their consent manufacturing operation up and running!

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Can we get an "Exile Bill Clinton from politics forever" going in the chat?

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They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

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they said this about AOC and what happened is they just drew more attention to a camera-ready, generational communicator, so please do threaten this more

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Tonight I'm texting Nancy Pelosi and asking HER for $5

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the reaction to Mamdani's campaign is clear proof that centrism is a reactionary ideology, and has nothing to do with a pragmatic desire to win.

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They didn't offer an explanation because they don't have one. The majority of the Supreme Court has no guiding jurisprudence but raw partisan preference, and we should stop pretending otherwise. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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on the Chicago-NYC comparisons, none of the takes I've seen point out the simple fact that how good Brandon Johnson is at his job is way less important than having prevented Paul Vallas—an anti-abortion, Trump-supporting, public-school-destroying candidate who ran as a "Dem"—from taking it.

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Bezos basically did to the Washington Post exactly what Elon Musk did to Twitter

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CARTOON OF THE DAY… 🇺🇸

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Plenty studies showing that your postcode is a better predictor of your health outcomes than your genome.

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I was thinking that maybe, more than 20 years after the start of the Iraq war, media coverage would be more skeptical and less sycophantic No such luck

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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

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1. If you want hope in this dark moment, listen to chant of "no more war" that broke out in the very large crowd that came out to hear Bernie Sanders in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There is only one off-ramp from Trump's mad rush to war: the quick mobilization of an anti-war opposition. The people are ready.

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Hegseth is violating the flag code with that pocket square, right?

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This is the cruelest thing I have ever seen A woman crying 'don't send me back to Honduras I'm going to die' Another woman they push into back of a van screams abt her 'panic attack'& a man is crying for his 6 young daughters These folks attended their Asylum Ct appts youtube.com/shorts/seoNT....

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Jokes on you, HST, Millennials ALSO have a lower standard of living than their parents. But otherwise, uh, yeah, pretty much spot on. I can't believe we're doing this again. Or rather I can absolutely believe we're doing this again, it's just infuriating and sad.

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Okay, Lisa Bonet is obviously untouchable in this movie and I’m not saying it would have been better this way, but WHAT? As if High Fidelity wasn't 1990s Wicker Park enough . . . www.avclub.com/liz-phair-ne...

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Love it when I reread my own draft and discover I was once bold enough to make a claim.

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Never change, New York Times.

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Just remembered Winamp skins. The early 2000s were weird.

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They made a show about the Mitford and none of you told me?! I’m hurt, guys. www.avclub.com/outrageous-r...

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Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

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To be really clear: The reason members of Congress can't just walk right in is because of the guns. Armed DHS personnel won't allow entry. In other words, DHS is using armed force to break laws. Democrats need to wrap their minds around that. Accept that the frog is boiled.

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I just read someone on Twitter say that if you're not cheating at school you've internalized the logic of the oppressor, and appropriately that sounds like what someone who didn't actually read The Wretched of the Earth and instead relied on a ChatGPT summary of it woud say.

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the invasion of Iraq was my introduction to adult political life. can’t say “this is not who we are” has ever made sense to me

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I like how James Blunt’s music is so insufferable that in the Google commercial I just saw whose narrative is centered on his music, the outro isn’t anything by him, but rather “She’s So High” by Tal Bachman. Couldn’t even commit to an extra five seconds of “You’re Beautiful.”

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Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.

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Ted Cruz’s entire public life is specifically about being humiliated. This is what he’s in the game for. He’s watching this clip on a loop right now

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I would literally rather you tell me that your source was the cryptic symbolism in your dreams than that you used chatGPT. I’d respect you so much more.

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