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You know, I wasn't always happy with @mcbath.house.gov when she was my representative, but now I long for those days because my current congressional rep is Rich "Elementary School Kids Should Get Jobs If They Want Food" McCormick. I'm so embarrassed and angry that my neighbors voted for him.

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Boy, I sure hope all these federal workers being fired weren’t doing, you know, jobs.

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I don’t want to know when my food is “best by.” I want to know at which point eating it will kill me

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Celebrity fashion news comes in exactly two flavors: 1: Female star X wore a sexy outfit and it was amazing! 2: Female star X worse a sexy outfit and she's a filthy whore! I wonder if they all have coins they flip to decide which flavor they choose.

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Wow, the NFL is so deeply in the bag for the Chiefs that they [checks notes] made them lose by so much that no one is watching the second half of the Super Bowl

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Look, woodpecker who is currently pecking at the side of my house, this is not the time for a Poe metaphor.

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I've seen some folks say that we shouldn't be talking so loudly about how our Democratic representatives are failing us. They say that weakens us in our fight against fascism. Nonsense. Representative government only works if we push our representatives to do their jobs, not just issue statements.

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If your news outlet of choice is reporting on the tarriffs using the passive voice (i.e., "a trade war is breaking out" or "a dispute is evolving"), they're part of the problem. I'm looking at you, @npr.org

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Civility is going to get us all killed.

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Way to bravely push back on Mark Kelly’s answers on Laken Riley, @chrislhayes.bsky.social. The cowardly silence at the end of that interview really inspired me as a progressive. 🙄

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It's good to see @chrislhayes.bsky.social pointing out the hypocrisy of Trump on TikTok, but it's painful to watch him act like there's a real national security issue here. "I'm torn on the policy" is such utter nonsense. No one can explain how TikTok could ever be a national security threat.

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I'm not a big fan of the concept of logical fallacies. Many examples of fallacies aren't actually fallacious. And logic? Come on, man. But boy oh boy is the ad populum fallacy having its moment in the sun. Yes, my dude, I can indeed imagine that 40% of the public are idiots. Why is this a question?

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Somehow I think this "white powder" song by Elton John on the "50 Songs for Snow" playlist I found on Spotify is not about, um, actual snow.

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Hey, now, at Trump’s funeral well get to hear from The Proud Boys.

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"You want to talk about the dead body in my living room? The real problem, my good sir, is that you're asking me about it in the first place." -John Roberts #scotus #johnroberts

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Ah, later December -- a time when we are all united as a people. A time when we face the universal need to tell all the companies we bought Christmas presents from to stop sending us emails. My friends, we appreciate your work, but we're just not that into you.

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How obsessed is the mainstream media with Luigi, you ask? He is now apparently the American national bird.

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I'm a communication professor and a long-time debate coach. I believe in public argument. But if your big solution for the Democratic party is "let's have lots of public deliberation," you have mixed up your measurements and are now macro-dosing instead of micro-dosing.

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Perhaps I too am a Grinch — cause I definitely have garlic in my soul. 🧄

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Say what you want about the UHC shoot, but it was not "senseless." It's also just ridiculous to simultaneously say dude was a terrorist AND that there was no sense to the shooting. If it didn't have a point, then it's definitionally not terrorism. Pick a lane.

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Glass Onion has now joined Idiocracy and Wag the Dog on the list of the most prescient movies ever. What else should be on that list?

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No, @googlenews.bsky.social, the fact that Joe Rogan is worried about drones is NOT the top story today. Oh don't worry, I know I clicked some arcane series of links that convinced your algorithm this is what I wanted, but if that's its logic, then y'all did a very bad job creating it.

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I don't know about y'all, but all these ads that say "I turn your pets into wearable art" really worry me every time I see them. My dogs want to remain dogs. They were not meant to be worn.

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@el-p.bsky.social, looks like it's time for "Drones Over Jersey." Bring it baaaaaaaaack.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

New rule: No news organization is allowed to use the phrase "claps back" unless there is actual video evidence of the person in question clapping. The line must be drawn here.

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Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

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The Times owner should take a college media class. I will even provide him with the media bias lecture in my online course free of charge. Maybe then he'll see how colossally stupid and practically impossible this is. Or not. This is next level dumb. www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/m...

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The Pete Hegseth story makes me sad for a lot of reasons, but one of them is personal. I grew up with an alcoholic parent, and I am heartbroken for Mr. Hegseth's son. At least my mother was never in the public eye, and her many problems didn't subject me to public ridicule.

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I've been reading a bunch of social media research for work, and one study noticed that people's social media habits are often habitual rather than carefully chosen. Shocking, I know. And it concluded that people don't have reasons for social media habits at all. As if habits are completely random.

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Just remember that when the camps go up and start getting filled indiscriminately with brown folks, this is what the people who voted for Trump wanted. The Democrats can’t win over voters by pointing out that their custom-ordered racial cleansing is being delivered.

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This has been the Democratic party's primary strategy my whole life: lean center and lose, Republicans trash the place so badly voters have no choice, Democrats take power again, pass modest reforms while praising bipartisanship, lean center and lose again, Republicans trash the place so badly...

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A modest proposal: The Macy’s parade can only have floats or balloons if there is no advertising content associated with them except for the name of the sponsor. Everything else is high school bands, choirs, etc.

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