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JD Vance talking about housing as a supply issue while part of the Tariffs and Construction Worker Deportations admin is basically the whole NatCon shtick writ large: you accurately diagnose the problem, talk eloquently about it’s impacts, then enthusiastically commit yourself to being part of it.

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"Abortion was made legal underwater nearly 50 years ago in Salmon Roe v. Wave, yet there is still a stigma attached to what is no more serious a procedure than allowing a goby fish to clean the parasites from my gills." theonion.com/if-fema...

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I'm not going to bug AOC with my answer but I think for State Of The Union the Dems should all dress up like Vampires to confuse Trump, make him distracted the whole time trying to understand it. Also imagine how jealous all the Republicans would be

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spotted this at the gay bar in NOLA over the weekend and i’ll never stop thinking about it as long as i live

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Elon Musk's DOGE team of misfits have fired everybody at the Federal Aviation Administration ✈️ who is a probationary employee Thinking they have got rid of all the new hires It turns out many of these were experienced technicians, recently promoted and were on probation for their new senior role

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Americans will go on vacation to a place that isn’t a car sewer, walk and take public transit for 8-12 hrs. a day, notice a change in their health, and attribute it to “they must not have the Illuminati chemicals here”

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🧵

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the thing about the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause in the constitution is that just because you can imagine a world where there might have been a debate over its scope doesn't mean there was actually a debate over its scope

submitted 50 days ago • 265 comments

The argument here--that it's morally wrong to judge somebody by the ideas and beliefs they profess and advocate--has somehow become the dominant elite ideology of our era and it's still the stupidest fucking thing I've ever encountered.

submitted 50 days ago • 49 comments

if i were an electric car maker, i would simply build a sedan with a 300 mile range and normal door handles

submitted 50 days ago • 19 comments

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakisto...

submitted 52 days ago • 38 comments

Fewer cars in cities is good, and municipal governments should do everything it can to limit them.

submitted 60 days ago • 9 comments

sometimes i see weird news from Australia and wonder if i'm reading The Bloomin' Onion

submitted 60 days ago • 8 comments

Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

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This song is the very definition of “Did not have to go this hard.” youtu.be/00gXEn1ehDg?...

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Every song should be like Piano Man and start by telling you what time it is and the day of the week.

submitted 90 days ago • 18 comments

wrote up some research showing how the death of local news and the Dem habit of doing messaging exclusively through broadcast ads and mailers during elections is killing them prospect.org/politics/202...

submitted 93 days ago • 15 comments

closest I come to classical conspiracy theory is suspecting that the AI push is specifically intended to make people dumber and less able to discern good info/content from bad

submitted 92 days ago • 29 comments

JD Vance Forced To Dress As Elf At Mar-A-Lago Christmas Party theonion.com/jd-vance-for...

submitted 91 days ago • 108 comments

I think if ghosts were real there would be at least one attention-seeking ghost doing interviews and such or perhaps being an influencer

submitted 91 days ago • 46 comments

yes

submitted 92 days ago • 59 comments

Orders are orders.

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Not my work, but I lol'd:

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Is YOUR child texting about P.G. Wodehouse? Get to know the signs: BRB = Bertie’s Rum Bother LMAO = Lest Maiden Aunts Occur JFC = Jeeves Favours Caution BTW = Bold Tie Warnings WTAF = Well Then, Augustus Fink-Nottle STFU = Sir, That Fedora’s...Unfortunate

submitted 100 days ago • 31 comments

wrong. canada should be the 51st thru 59th states (new brunswick and PEI combined into one state, yukon combined w/BC, NW territories combine w/alberta, quebec its own country, nunavut temporarily becomes a crown possession a la the isle of man as part of a transition to confederation w/greenland)

submitted 102 days ago • 11 comments

SNOW GAME

submitted 103 days ago • 9 comments

Not sure about immediately following a day of gratitude with a day of beatin' the shit outta strangers for the last waffle iron and whatnot.

submitted 105 days ago • 22 comments

Dune has the same plot as the Westminster Dog Show: After generations of careful breeding, we have produced this perfect little freak of nature and now it has behavioral issues

submitted 105 days ago • 86 comments

A rap battle is two men writing poems about each other

submitted 108 days ago • 631 comments

For those going home to visit family this weekend: • Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus • LG calls it TruMotion • Sony calls it Motionflow • Roku calls it Action Smoothing • Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement • Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

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In 2018 Dems elected the largest class to Congress since Watergate, ~60 seats. A lot of it was, yes, Trump backlash. But the winners also had another thing in common, despite a wide range of differences: most rejected corporate PAC money. It’s a hugely compelling factor to voters & underdiscussed

submitted 108 days ago • 393 comments

What a great Anal score for the Clippers

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It didn’t used to be that you went online to get mad. You went on the computer because that’s where Strong Bad lives

submitted 112 days ago • 52 comments

this is what linear B was for mycenean greece

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I’m a bitch, I’m a lover of the films of Danny Glover Operation Dumbo Drop Lethal Weapon, he’s a cop

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BYU's double snap fake FG was excellent but it needed the throw

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Twitter is extremely creepy these days because 90% of the responses are bots and it’s not exactly clear why. Usually it’s not even political, it’s not selling anything, it’s just bots pretending to be people. The vibe is like boarding a city bus and realizing none of the passengers have faces

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US Navy Ship cap with Taylor Swift sweatshirt is the most Dating A Woman Half Your Age outfit I can think of.

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I know “Al is washed” is a universal take now but I really do enjoy him shitting on the new kickoff being a dud

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Jimmie “Rico Suave” Ward. Best self-imposed nickname I’ve ever heard and I couldn’t be more on board.

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Imagine going to a Phish concert and thinking "this is not a safe space for white people."

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