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There are lots of gestures and mannerisms you can choose. When you select this one, you're communicating something very specific.

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To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

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Dear manager: 1. I ate the plums that were in ice box. 2. I denied you your breakfast. 3. I asked for forgiveness 4. They met federal standards for tastiness. 5. They met USDA standards for temperature.

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George Zimmerman and Kyle Rittenhouse are walking free! They're doing fucking speaking tours!

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FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 1965: After five years and seventy million dollars we have invented a new type of plastic that prevents communists from being able to climb ladders too fast FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 2025: My cure for cancer was shelved because it might benefit Hispanics

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Everything out of CPAC sounded grotesque, but at least they all were in the worst place in the country, National Harbor. Not even having a Nando's can save that place.

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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The President of the United States speaking at a conference where people were throwing up nazi salutes from the stage? Can't say I care for that.

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Also, being a politician is the only thing that has a chance to chance the legislative situation until next November.

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Everyone in Congress is used to an executive branch that voluntarily follows the constitutional limits and norms. They are not helpless, but the constitutional structure for interbranch conflict is fight or wither, and they're all scared to fight.

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Egging anything in this economy? The anger is palpable.

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I am so sad about the Khris Middleton trade. I honestly don't want to watch tonight's game because I'm not sure I can handle seeing him play for a different team.

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This is Trump's answer to the Kendrick Lamar halftime show.

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I wonder if it will show up in Supreme Court election ads here in Wisconsin.

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I think a bunch of people owe Sam Kuffel an apology.

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If only we had a word for a shape with three sides.

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I didn't submit to #ICA25, so I hadn't seen this yet. I am going to be in my feelings about this for a bit.

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Professional organizations have to advocate for the social value of the vocation. That authority is not a given and it's not fixed.

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There's one simple trick for Congresspeople not to have to beg for funds.

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Messing with Section 230 won't mean government censorship of social media. It will mean censorship via tort law. Platforms will not operate in a world where they can be sued for hosting libelous content because there simply is no way they can moderate at scale.

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I mean, this would also stop people from complaining about them online.

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The catch will probably be that it is only payable if you request via a bank account you have registered with X, the everything app.

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The WIAA updated its policy today to bar any student-athlete assigned male at birth from competing in girls sports. The NCAA recently adopted this policy as well following executive orders from President Donald Trump earlier this month. For @civicmedia.us: civicmedia.us/news/2025/02...

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Just say you're a top Markwayne, this is taking forever.

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This is concerning. I am deeply concerned.

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Chancellor Crystal Hines Martin of Hinds County, Mississippi has issued a prior restraint order so ludicrously unconstitutional it’s only consistent with deliberate misconduct or abject ignorance of the relevant law. Disgraceful and lawless. /1

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the “make america healthy again” agenda appears to be an elaborate op conjured up by sentient strains of listeria and salmonella www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

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Move fast and break things, like the bird flu tracking.

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This is perhaps not an ideal time for NASA to have redefined its primary mission as "track down and destroy all copies of the movie Hidden Figures".

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Why do this?

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This is what governmental AI capabilities look like, and I do not care for it.

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Ready to work a 13-hour election shift for a one-race primary ballot. This is what we train for.

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In terms of attracting media attention, letting the Adams story drag on is probably better for Democrats than having Hochul remove him, at least for now. But if I were a New Yorker, I'd be super pissed about this.

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I stopped using Twitter to avoid giving Elon my data and credit card info. Now he's decided to just go ahead and take it.

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In the 1960s Columbia had a dean of admissions who only used standardized test scores for decisions. It fired him very quickly because this method let in too many Jews for the liking of the university leadership.

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Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"

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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

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I still call the baseball stadium here in Milwaukee "Miller Park." Authority does not flow one way.

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Every victim's rights law named after a person passed using this type of campaign.

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My first newspaper job was in Lea County, NM. People came over from now-measles-ridden Gaines County, Texas to buy liquor because their county was dry. I see those Texans are bringing more than their dollars now.

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This is the Stay Puffed Marshmallow Man theory of superpowers. At a certain point, we choose our own destroyer.

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This headline is too on the nose.

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Move fast and break things. And by things, I mean the people who see to our nukes.

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