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To jump on this point, here are places that have implemented some of these radical ideas: City-owned groceries: Erie, Kansas Free buses: Akron, Ohio Ban on noncompete agreements: North Dakota

submitted 12 hours ago • 65 comments

It's been very heartening to see Brad Lander emerge in the last month as your basic mensch. He's a knowledgeable career politician who knows how things get done, and we need good people in that category working hand in hand with good people like Mamdani if things are going to change for the better.

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

This is a real Los Angeles Police Department press release: "LAPD Responds to Kidnapping Call, Discovers Federal Operation"

submitted 15 hours ago • 51 comments

Today’s “spins” from the @rollingstone.com 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2023): Eagles (207) Hotel California (118) Damn the Torpedoes (231) 1970s country rock’s gentler side.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Here are the names of every person who supports MAGA immigration policy while ALSO following the actual teachings of Jesus: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. That's it, really.

submitted 12 hours ago • 28 comments

A heartbreaking work of staggering genius. imgur.com/gallery/emin...

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Oh no, the last thing we would want is to become more like [checks notes] China, who has replaced us as the #1 superpower wait what

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

tmw you realize the US is a level 4 country - according to the US State Department.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Just saw someone online say "the people telling you socialism is bad are the same people telling you segregation is good" and I am kicking myself for not having thought of that first. 10/10,no notes.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

White House Deputy Press Secretary now claims that this representation—made by a Justice Department attorney in federal court just a few hours ago—is “fake news.”

submitted 16 hours ago • 89 comments

A "truth bomb" in the sense that Pabst Heineken is trying to destroy the truth, but still.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

So literally a Confederacy of Dunces?

submitted 14 hours ago • 12 comments

As if the Nazis didn't cheerfully murder LGBTQ+ people, the mentally challenged, and Roma and Sinti in literal carload lots. As fucking if! To say nothing of how many Slavic and Greek Untermenschen in occupied Eastern Europe starved from unbenign neglect. 1-800-BUY-CLUE.

submitted 17 hours ago • 15 comments

I spent years among people who recommended reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and who now would support throwing him into a death camp for speaking out against their chosen dictator.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Were I James Ryan, my reply would show the breadth of my linguistic knowledge. In that it would include both "bofa" and "deez."

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Pat Benatar, Promises in the Dark. Aspirational because it's a terrific song, delusional because there's no way I have the range for it.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

FACT: Slashing Medicaid is DEEPLY unpopular. #मेडिकैड्सवेसर्लीव्स

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.

submitted 17 hours ago • 938 comments

My heart goes out to Morgan. But when it does, my heart says, "You absolutely caused this, you traitorous moron - your actions led to your husband's kidnapping by government-sponsored terrorists! Look in the mirror and think about what YOU did!"

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I have a joke about Ethelred ... actually, I will have a joke, it's not ready.

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Breaking: Lying RealDoll Lies Some More.

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this is an embarrassing thing for this guy to say in public but also touches on something that constantly rankles me, which is the vague idea of "feeling unsafe" as a problem that someone else needs to solve for you regardless of whether you are actually unsafe or not

submitted 19 hours ago • 119 comments

Also worth noting that all the "reasons" given here are based directly on attacks made by Democrats against him in support of a disgraced sex offender. They directly played into this

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

Megyn just got reminded that Wu ain't nuthin ta f*** wit.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

David Hogg is cooking lately

submitted 21 hours ago • 212 comments

Canadian citizen dies at Florida ICE detention facility

submitted 17 hours ago • 17 comments

This is THE tweet of all time

submitted 7 days ago • 35 comments

I didn't see it at the time of the endorsement, but apparently Clinton said Mamdani didn't have enough experience for the job. He's 33. Clinton was 32 when he was elected governor.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

I've got a joke about Rocky Marciano but it lacks punch.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

I testified against this bill to committees of the Oregon Legislature. Warrantless surveillance has a long and negative history in America, with a LOT of examples of excess and abuse. In Portland, law enforcement already has the ability to use drones; this bill is both harmful & unnecessary. 1/2

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

In a country where people can be kidnapped off the street by masked, anonymous thugs, the greatest threat to society is that a poor person might enjoy a root beer.

submitted 17 hours ago • 51 comments

TL;DR: because she is a heinous loser. All bigots are.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

“My billionaire buddies and I are going to team up to try and buy the mayoralty for our chosen puppet” is perhaps not the surefire pitch to undecided voters that Bill Ackman thinks it is.

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

i think i would take the hysteria over mamdani’s ability to govern more seriously if half these people hasn’t endorsed eric adams

submitted 20 hours ago • 148 comments

It's very very funny when American news outlets panic over stuff like baby boxes which are very normal in other western countries (Like Scotland) as if its a brand new communist terror threat unheard of throughout the globe. 'FREE STUFF FOR BABIES???? LIKE STALIN????'

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

This is telling: I remember not too long ago that Kirsten Gillibrand was rated the MOST liberal member of the US Senate. And she's basically a center-right bimbo.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

i went to high school next to an air force base and for people who hate government-run stuff, every future coal-rolling ding-dong i knew who wasn't in the service wheedled a trip to the commissary or the bx from someone who was every time they needed a lotta meat for the barbecue or got a new tv

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

You know, Europe has lots of Democratic Socialists in their parliaments. Oh and free national healthcare.

submitted 19 hours ago • 500 comments

So a 33yo Middle Eastern man is wanting to help the poor and disadvantaged, but he's opposed by the ruling elite and the conservative Jewish establishment ... ... where have I heard this story before?

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Food deserts exist because private actors don't see opportunities for profit in them; one of the literal purposes of government in a mixed economy is to correct for the failures of the market to do things like provide accessible, affordable food.

submitted 23 hours ago • 22 comments

I live in Albuquerque and often say that I don't worry about getting in trouble with APD, because unless you're homeless, an underage girl or a liquor store, they don't even notice you.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Ewwwww.

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NSGOP priorities: More of our children must be murdered to make sure no ally of the gays gets any money.

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