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2020 Free Speech Absolutist: perhaps you don’t approve of everything bigots say but if they aren’t invited to teach kindergarteners to say slurs then freedom is dead. 2025 Free Speech Absolutist: it’s a hate crime whenever someone meets a cybertruck owners and fails to tell them they are cool

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this is where Qui-Gon Jinn had a child slave do a death race for a space cartel to win some car parts

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Not the first person to make this observation, but it's so striking how the media covered the crack epidemic as a problem caused by black/urban drug users and the fentanyl epidemic as a problem imposed externally on white/rural drug users.

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How's 2025 going? "Oh, you know, it's going"

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oh so now the biden economy was "firing on all cylinders" huh? i kinda don't recall that being the tenor of economic news coverage before the election

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My view is that the American South never fully took to liberal democracy. And I think we have to reckon with that to face the moment we’re now in. I wrote about it for @thebulwark.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/liberal-de...

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Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

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Holy shit are we fucked, pack it in.

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This is about Musk not wanting to pay child support, isn’t it

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If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 100%.

submitted 6 days ago • 490 comments

the only way to conclude both parties are the same is to live in a bubble where no one you know is materially impacted by politics

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Nicht schon wieder, horizontal rotierendes BLT

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Reagan was such a good president that you can see his impact on nearly every measure of America's economy and livelihood ♥️ in that he destroyed everything for everyone and is in hell being tortured by demons right now

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"Healthcare has become wealthcare" is a really solid line tbqh

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Yeah this is great optics, shocking that every Dem isn't jockeying and fighting to earn their own version of this picture with increasingly bold disruptive actions

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NEW: How Elon Musk Muscled His Way Into the FAA FAA employees are on edge. They were told that anyone who impeded progress of the new FAA-SpaceX partnership would be reported to Musk and risked losing their jobs. A ton of scoopy news in this new report. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

submitted 6 days ago • 86 comments

wednesday

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one thing I've become very convinced of is the need for the civil service to do waaayyyy more propaganda. like you should know about how NOAA makes the weather app on your phone work. you should know that Uncle Sam runs GPS. you should know how impressive the US census data collection effort is, etc

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As another Trump-induced market crisis unfolds from tariffs, it's time we ask "What's the Matter with Billionaires?" I've run the numbers. Billionaires do better under Dems. So why do billionaires keep supporting GOP policies against their economic interests? See my latest piece on why. (TLDR 🧵⬇️)

submitted 7 days ago • 103 comments

trump was literally president for four years during which he wildly escalated drone warfare, tried to provoke a war with Iran and got into dangerous saber-rattling with north korea. now, he is threatening to take greenland and the panama canal by force. what is this horseshit?

submitted 7 days ago • 255 comments

oh, hey, look, the website that hoodwinked so many people with third way horseshit over the weekend seems like it might have a republican bias, who knew?

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the media lied and told everyone that this was an astounding economic failure, that the US economy was mired in a recession etc (because they wanted Trump to win)

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stonks seeing this:

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a super annoying thing about this is that politico and axios and even the big politics reporters at the NYT do this on purpose; you never hear about some moderate centrist republican interest group trying to get the party to moderate, it's always one-sided reporting, and that is by design

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Russian Lawmaker Predicted the Trump-Vance Ambush of Zelensky State Duma member Oleg Morozov said the meeting would be a lesson in humiliation, designed to condition Zelensky to capitulate to the US—and later to Russia. Me for @thedailybeast.bsky.social: www.thedailybeast.com/russian-lawm...

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It's a real catastrophe for the Western left that so many people let themselves be convinced the Maidan was a CIA ruse. people were melting police tanks to the street with Molotov catapults built into their Ice Fortress. you call yourself an anarchist and don't find that hot as fuck?

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"He has not thanked you"

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obviously it's completely reasonable to call for the utter destruction of a country which reelected an authoritarian russian puppet after a brief interregnum by liberal leaders who could not entirely throw off his yoke. how do u remove attachment

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Enough with this “opponents say.” proponents say it exposes trans people to discrimination, that’s precisely why they want to do it also, it overtly specifically and exclusively discriminates against trans people whatever anyone says; it’s a discriminatory law goddamn it

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when i visited the front in 2015 i met a Ukrainian sniper in his late 50s or so who had fought in Afghanistan. hated it. never ever wanted to go to war again. but he has two sons so he picked up his rifle again so they wouldn't have to. I'm sure they've joined by now. Hope they're alive.

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Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there. The show must go on.

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Thinking today of Benjamin Franklin, who wore an old suit (and no wig) before the king and court of France, to represent his nation—while it was fighting for its existence

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“We’ve almost fully switched sides here” — Mark Kelly

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i don't know how you can look at all of the agreements this administration has already reneged on, just in the last three weeks and think that, but for zelenskyy sitting there and taking insults from jd vance, they would have honored this agreement. wallet inspector shit.

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EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions. On @therecordmedia.bsky.social therecord.media/hegseth-orde...

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they already have blood on their hands. the question is how many Holocausts worth of blood they will have on their hands.

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wow guys it's almost like 'Ukraine should be mercilessly punished for daring to reject Colonial rule' has been the single driving force of reactionary politics on multiple continents for the last decade. Might want to look into who with money had a vested interest in making that happen.

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I actually think it will be very doable to recover quickly to America's former leading role in the world post-Trump, it will just require doing a lot of things that centrists and billionaires who'd prefer to return to the dysfunctional Obama-era status quo will find unpleasant or objectionable.

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My four posca and gouache handmade pieces from this round of creating. Have a favorite of the set?

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i want you to read the last few paragraphs and see if you're reading the same thing between these lines that i am

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Tesla lost enough value today that it could have fully funded USAID for a year.

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"Nowhere in the country have rents declined as much as they have in Austin — now 22% off the peak reached in August 2023, according to Redfin. The median asking rent is $1,399 per month, down $400 in less than three years" #YIMBYworks

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Halfing Warlock - Anna

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