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Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

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true story: I once saw a prominent AI executive get asked what his favorite book was, and he could only name a podcast he liked

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If an air traffic control fuck up in Trump’s America leads to my death please politicize it immediately and loudly, thank u!

submitted 16 hours ago • 17 comments

This'll sound like a cop-out lazy media-critic-from-the-couch answer, but the media could be covering this like its hair's on fire and calling this the most corrupt administration in living memory, but it's not. Right now the sense of emergency isn't even even a full Benghazi. It's tarmac handshake.

submitted 23 hours ago • 45 comments

Right. A Schumer strategy. If they wait long enough, something so unambiguously egregious will happen that public opinion can simply inform journalism, and critique can happen without seeming as if it was produced by an act of independent judgment.

submitted 23 hours ago • 11 comments

"Car dealership that disappears political dissidents" really does feel like the form America has been building to this whole time.

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

Even if you aren't in the "Ro Khanna and Gavin Newsom have always sucked" club it doesn't mean you can't still be an ally

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No. Christians feel persecuted because there is a vast media apparatus telling them that they are persecuted. There is no evidence whatsoever of large-scale discrimination against Christians in this country.

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my latest: whether or not this is a constitutional crisis, there ought to be no question that our constitutional order is rotting from the inside out

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this is the second time one of these nebulous conflicts have come up and none of the people who say the accused's opinions or actions are deplorable and antisemitic have once explained what of those opinions or actions were deplorable or antisemitic. nobody ever answers that question.

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the prophecy is fulfilled

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turns out when you legitimate a taste for bigotry people gravitate to the parties that serve it as an entree rather than as a garnish

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If a Democratic president said this we would be buried in an avalanche of takes about how out of touch they are. People got mad at Pelosi for having too much ice cream!!!!

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NYT running “Christians are persecuted in America” features as a christofascist regime runs roughshod over the country is truly sickening shit

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JIMINY GLICK: Now you, you, you, you—your cars, they tend to run over pedestrians. Or else BURST into flames. ha HA isn't that wonderful! ELON MUSK: the least convincing laugh of all time GLICK: tucking his legs under himself You bought a website where no one likes you. Why?

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boy bribery is easy these days. North Korea might as well show up with a sack full of gold doubloons, they’d get results

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This, precisely, is what I think Dem voters want from their representatives: direct confrontation with people who are used to bullying others both as a matter of substance and style. You don't have to back down to these fucking clowns.

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Weather's nice, streets are right there www.indignity.net/protest-time/

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The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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The Democrats already know those policies are popular. The reason they don't embrace them isn't some misguided mistake, it's because they're a center-right austerity party who are ideologically opposed to those policies. They keep veering right because that's what they actually support!

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Deporting someone for protesting and speaking out feels very unamerican. Traditionally they're murdered by the FBI.

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Once again, the arguments they make are that we should outright ignore the text of the Constitution in favor of a different interpretation that was largely thought of as crackpot until about two months ago. It's so patently obvious they are engaged in motivated reasoning, not scholarly pursuit.

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absolutely disgusting

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This was a joke post not even 2 days ago www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

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Not an embarrassment but living down to expectations. Shirley Chisolm famously said that she was unbought and unbossed. Hakeem Jeffries is bought and bossed.

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In retrospect we should have reacted much more strongly to people being like “you’re just virtue signaling, you’re just saying you have virtue, you’re just treating virtue like it’s a good thing for an adult human being to have, you just want to run around everywhere having morality and being good”

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very interesting. Is he still wearing his bulletproof vest?

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this program funded local farms by giving food banks and schools money to purchase from them. it props up small local farms and businesses. this is so fucking stupid

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genuinely baffling how many Dems continue to behave as if anyone in this administration will follow the law in any capacity look at fucking Rubio, you’re all going to be making public mea culpas on this vote within a week save yourselves the trouble and vote no on every single thing

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Democrats nominating Slotkin to speak on behalf of the party and then she turns around and votes for Trump's union-busting Labor Secretary nominee. I don't know how we tear the whole thing down and start over in like six months but we're gonna have to

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website's good now

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Slowly jogging in from the bullpen and working through my warm-up before a save opportunity while the stadium p.a. blares one of those songs from Instagram animal videos where a minion-style voice goes "a doo be doo be doo."

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has anyone checked the NYT office for carbon monoxide leaks lately

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One by one all the firewalls that preserved the rest of the economy when FTX and other crypto firms collapsed in 2022 are coming down.

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"I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind." - Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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“The TSA workers who just had their collective bargaining agreement voided should strike.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/strike-or-...

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Normalizing racism was a major goal of the “free speech absolutist” movement and they’ve been wildly successful at their work.

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again, I think a major problem with America is that a critical mass of voters and elites have convinced themselves they can't die even if they stab themselves—that it is impossible to elect a government that actually makes their lives worse so its all just a game

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Apologies for my political instincts, I thought the first nationwide measles outbreak would happen after Trump’s first 100 days

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Boy that voluntarily showing up after a bad-faith summons and blubbering about nonsense and pleading like a craven turncoats to a bunch of House GOP idiots who excuse (and promote) right-wing antisemitism constantly a year or two really worked out well, didn't it

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It makes headline writing harder but publications need to quit saying the administration has "canceled" funds or "banned" things or "fired" people. It is...claiming to do those things? Asserting the power to? Trying to? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

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and you’re gonna like the rent a cops they replace them with even less

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The actual trajectory of Democratic opposition to Trump since 2016 is that Democrats first engaged in #resistance and cultural progressivism, won the House in 2018, defeated Trump and won a trifecta the year of the George Floyd protests, tacked right under Biden, and lost in 2024.

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