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Even if you believe that this is inevitable, wouldn't you want to be out front, making a big stink now, so that you can pretend you caused the downturn in favorability when it happens?

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Free Dr. Maria

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If anyone is free on Monday night, I hear folks are going to be gathering at the Pratt Central Library.

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Normally I don't believe this kind of "voting for cover" stuff, but I actually believe this one. This is the exactly the kind of thing you change leadership over if you're mad about.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Happy Pi Day to everyone except Chuck Schumer.

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Midwestern governor with a one-seat legislative majority: The coward RethugliKKKans may dash themselves on our rocks if they wish, the tide and the seabirds will leave no trace of their remains New York/California Democrat: I’d like to vote against things I oppose but that’s not realistic

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

Retire.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Once again the most antisemitic presidency in generations, an administration with actual Nazis on staff, is determining which Jews are Jewish and which are degenerates (hint: the latter = the vast majority of American Jews)—with the added bonus of using "Palestinian" as a slur.

submitted 6 days ago • 28 comments

Again, non-Jews have given themselves the right to define who is a Jew. This is still antisemitism. The dominant form of pro-Israel politics in the US today is Christian Zionism, and it is antisemitic to the core. And to be Palestinian here is to be the untermensch. We are seen as subhuman.

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One thing I know to be true from two decades in education is that it is completely impossible to look cool while carrying a pad of chart paper.

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One thing I find terrifying about this political moment is that Jewish existence in multicultural democracy depends upon solidarity with other marginalized people. If institutional Jewry is cozying up to the state machinery putting minorities in camps—what room is there for solidarity?

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Does anyone know a way i could, say, send pizza to folks who are protesting to show support?

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

"Why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?"

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Elon going to sue himself. www.forbes.com/sites/mollyb...

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Maybe men should learn to code.

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The people they're purging from military leadership are the people they're going to ask the military to attack in the future.

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trans ppl aren't doing anything beyond simply existing. the hatred we receive from the press and politicians is bigotry. it's not 'concerns'. there is no conflict with women's rights or safety. it is just bigotry. they've just found a minority they can gleefully stomp on without public pushback.

submitted 22 days ago • 6 comments

They are betting they can grab all levers of power before enough people wake up.

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IF TRANS ISSUES ARE SO INCONSEQUENTIAL DOES SOMEONE ON THE NYT MASTHEAD WANT TO EXPLAIN WHY THEY SPENT THREE YEARS RUNNING A1 “INVESTIGATIONS” INTO SAFE AND EFFECTIVE MEDICAL CARE AND THE LANGUAGE CHOICES OF NON-PROFITS AND HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS????

submitted 17 days ago • 30 comments

Conservatives love that stupid "hard times create strong men" meme but they don't realize that THEY are the soft men created by good times.

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Dems have these candidates, but they're all progressive women, so a powerful faction of the party doesn't support them.

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Jolene is Dolly Parton's outie

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Thousands of federal employees work(ed) to keep us safe and we have taken it for granted. The problems we're seeing so obviously with planes will soon show up in food, medicine, highways, parks, consumer products, cybersecurity, banks, and a thousand other things we take for granted right now.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

"Fair or Not, Nicole Brown is Angering OJ Simpson"

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

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submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

I'm not sure Democrats can win this game, but right now they haven't even put on their uniforms to take the field.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

The thing is, all of this is just the logical endpoint of capitalism. This is the trajectory we've BEEN on. You allow people to hoard that much wealth, you allow them to purchase that much power, this is where you end up. This was always where it was going to end up. There is no other outcome.

submitted 28 days ago • 8 comments

This is what happens when you think you have to follow what polls say people want so you can win elections instead of thinking you can shape public opinion based on your words and actions.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Even taking this claim at its most general, they saved every American $300 and all we had to give up was cancer research, hurricane warnings, safe planes, school lunches, flu vaccines, foreign aid, the rule of law, food inspectors, and the people who keep nuclear bombs from detonating....

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It really sucks, but there is no path forward that doesn't lead to violence committed by the state against the people. It's going to happen.

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It's repetitive to say this, but we all know that if this were a vaccine for prostate cancer instead of cervical cancer, RFK Jr and the GOP would have no problem with it.

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Retirrrrrrrrrre

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

submitted 31 days ago • 5642 comments

Ok but to be fair, I would sometimes also be willing to pay an obscene amount of money to not have to drive I-95 from DC to Richmond.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, but right up until...

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