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A real human being. I promise you know me. Loquacious, a bit of a maximalist. Radical democrat (in principle, not party), which means I'd call myself a Trotskyist I guess. Also on the left because it's way funnier over here. Lifelong TN res. Cat person.
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Feeling crushed by all the horror coming at us so fast? Please read the history of a revolution. Any revolution, although some are more righteous than others. The perspective, clarity, and resolve gained by reading the exploits of humanity's greatest badasses is healing and sustaining.

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we're not doing woke david brooks. that's bouie stealing his login and messing with all of us after kristol

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A lot of people want to separate the art from the artist, but I would settle for separating the artist from her money.

submitted 17 hours ago • 55 comments

Separate the art from the artist unless the artist is hellbent on removing the human rights of others in which case stop making excuses for why you still give them money when there are millions of much kinder and hungrier artists out there

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So is it okay that I've always thought Harry Potter is garbage?

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BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.

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I will once again be dragged for this, but I am once again begging you to stop advocating for illegal actions on social media www.wired.com/story/massiv...

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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

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“No time can be easy if one is living through it,” said the great writer James Baldwin. This is a reminder that the present looks different from inside of it. It's important from time to time to try to look at the current moment from outside of it, to try for a little distance from the daily slog.

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they do not.

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🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.

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Major media orgs losing access to the White House is likely to be good for political journalism.

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A colossal squid has been captured on camera for the first time in the deep sea by an international team of researchers steering a remotely operated submersible.

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Use your turning signal, godammit. You're a grownup.

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It feels weird to remind myelf that it's weird to feel weird about enjoying a perfect spring day. Moral dissociation isn't my favorite symptom of living under fascism.

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the country is descending into a nightmare but at least IN/CASINO/OUT still slaps

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immigration +4 is what happens when the entire Dem establishment goes “well republicans are completely right about immigration being an existential menace and we’re actually the tough ones” people start thinking “deport people to foreign prisons” is a good idea

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The very best of America’s shitposters are now outgunned by their Chinese peers. Balance of power has shifted.

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Harvard University statement: “The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government.”

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One of these people is my friend and comrade Sheila. She is one of the most principled, relentless and decent humans around. The best of what it means to be a movement lawyer. More here about how to support Sheila and her clinic: www.nwdefendourrights.com

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4Chan was hacked, its source code was leaked, admin emails were leaked, AND a lot of registered users used their real names and .edu email addresses. Lotta CHUDs getting exposed to sunlight today.

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bsky.app/profile/bode... Now that's some kind of good dude there.

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Obviously things have got dramatically worse in the US recently, and I don't want to diminish that, but I've been at *so many* conferences in the UK on topics like empire, humanitarianism and development where multiple speakers from the Global South have been denied visas or held at the border

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It's wild how many journalists get so bent out of shape when they figure out that they're deeply disprespected. It's like dude, you're either a cartoonishly credulous rube, an authoritarian lib commissar, or a narcissistic vampire that drinks suffering. These are the possible options YOU supplied.

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"Accelerationist liberals," "the hot stove caucus," or whatever twee monicker they claim, are really something. They sound and argue like, and actually largely agree with, a bunch of Yarvinite chuds. Suffering and death as a tool. Your liberal party seems like it might have a little fascism problem.

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They will, and I cannot emphasize this enough, not surprise you.

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Cat: "walking" Findings: expected

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bsky.app/profile/drhi... I generally oppose the death penalty for all kinds of reasons, not least of which is the moral self-destruction of the polity using it. But whatever happens to this piece of shit when we give him to the grieving loved ones will just be good, clean fun.

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bsky.app/profile/tire... Yes, your political party sounds very compassionate, hard-working, and relatable. I'm sure its candidates will find great success attracting voters.

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A lot of center-left intellectuals and pundits actively prefer the company of fascists, who flatter them and pose delightfully naughty questions and are cool and exotic to their "woke" colleagues who are often younger and more annoying and who try to make you feel guilty about stuff.

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the entire milieu of SSC/lesswrong distilled into less than 200 characters. the endgame of the entire mode of "rationality" that has been cultivated by special birthday boys who have never known the fear of being beaten within an inch of their life. very epic. very clever. such a funny troll.

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Mashups are back. Recession indicator

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Fuck 12 fuck ICE fuck the pharoah happy passover

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The absolute reddest areas of the country are 10-20% Dem voters, tons of non voters, adults who can’t vote, and literal children. Similar calculus for blue areas. Electoral college state level maps are not moral compasses.

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