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Relieved to finally realize that it’s Steak and Shake (where poor college me used to split a brownie a la mode on cheap dates), not Shake Shack (where middle-aged me buys delicious overpriced non-meat burgers), randomly celebrating the current administration with beef fat.

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It’s too bad we have no defenses whatsoever against this. It’s a real mystery why society has no strategies for dealing with—or even words to describe—chronic liars, career con-artists, frauds, grifters, humbugs, mountebanks, flim-flammers, and gombeen men. One of the deepest puzzles of social life.

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The nature of a cult is that it will turn you against your own family. Your loved ones will cheer as you are led off to the camps because hurting even you is what is necessary to bring on the glorious nation. apnews.com/article/trum...

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What your post failed to consider is me, a stranger with bad opinions

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freeing the Jan 6 rioters was a keystone strategy: a clear message that violence in defense of this administration would be consequence-free

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One of the last times I tuned into a few minutes of Rush Limbaugh, he was riffing about how young people had never seen the U.S. “victorious in war.” I think, “How creepy to put so much emotional weight into others’ suffering,” and . . . decades later, they still haven’t.

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1. This is illegal 2. This is a direct attack on students and families across the country 3. It would make all of our lives much much worse in order to free up cash for Musk and Trump to hoover up for themselves and their fellow billionaires

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You know what I call not fighting a war “for 30 or 40 years”? A good start. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Abolition ESPECIALLY includes juvie! www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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I really don’t know why a single Democrat sat through that entire speech last night. Ad a church member, I’ve walked out of less offensive sermons.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders highlighted a new analysis showing that the wealthiest 1% has extracted $79 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans since 1975. In 2023 alone, $3.9 trillion was redirected upward—enough to provide every U.S. worker with a $32,000 raise.

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We appear to have a literal neo-Nazi in leadership of pentagon press office.

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The Krasnov stuff mocks a horrific reality. A traitor to the US Constitution is selling out America and democracy to a monster who runs a fourth-rate dictatorship. And he's doing it with no gain for Americans other than as a fan service for dudes who love fascists that only offer boots on necks.

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this is genuinely shocking. this is a very particular strain of american nazi shit - this isn’t a conspiracy theory that exists outside of that belief system. this is not something you would say if you aren’t well versed in neonazi talking points.

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Won't Forget It If democracy survives, this is the one Trump line that will go down in history, like a phrase from the Gettysburg Address. It's his confession, and now it is our mantra. We can never forget or forgive what these two men have done to our democracy.

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the democrats at this speech are contributing to the normalization of fascism

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The US will no longer worry about civilians getting in the way of their bombs: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

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I think one of the big problems is that everyone in charge has no idea how to do anything but the one idea they did have was to fire everyone who knew how to do anything

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are they literally comic book villains

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I can name one person who doesn’t respect the office of the president. My conservative acquaintances refer to him as “our president.”

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NO KINGS NO SLAVES NO NAZIS gets you the three good American wars, in chronological order no less. sounds insane to argue against any of them and yet it is very clear which side you're on

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Not what you’d want to do if you’re serious about cutting debt. Because they’re not.

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Reminder that the Census determines how federal dollars, and House seats, are allocated. This is, yet another, five alarm fire.

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ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh. This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

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I’ve spent the past five days with a fever, thanks to whatever the preschooler brought home. One thing I miss about our 2020 quarantine was that none of us ever got sick—including the newborn. As soon as he hit preschool he started bringing home a new bug each week.

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We should worry about migrant rape gangs, says the man who just pressured Romania to free the Tate brothers so they could return to the U.S.

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This German tourist has been held by CBP for over a month in inhumane conditions, unable to speak to friends or family, on suspicion she intended to work during her stay in the US.

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Illegally block a major agency in the federal government from helping poor people: get to run a cabinet meeting Block the entrance of a car dealership: get arrested This is an empire controlled by the oligarchy.

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Thanks to TB, my grandfather’s only memory of his mother was her coffin. Thanks to public health, I’ve never known anyone who contracted TB.

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A classic example of how Google's AI is garbage, it doesn't understand that the Underground Railroad wasn't a literal railroad

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Spoiler: kids started dying

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I'm not sure what to call this if not evil. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.

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The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.

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i was a part of the probationary employee firings at the national weather service today. being a part of the environmental modeling center is all i have ever known in my career. it is where i always wanted to be.

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Yes I know a lot of it’s just grift he knows will sell, but how do you parse beliefs at that level?

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‘‘Tis day 2 this week home with a sick kid, except now I’m feverish too. The one thing I miss from 2020 quarantine is my entire family never getting ill—including a newborn. Yet some people still think viruses aren’t real—and a whole lot of Americans are happy to have one of them in charge.

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They just fired hundreds of FAA employees.

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This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.

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Air traffic controllers are required by law to retire at 56. It is a high-stress, high-intensity job that requires intense focus. The retirement rules are there to keep us all safe. This fucking guy has no clue what's he's doing.

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As a vegetarian I was already planning to skip their fries and just enjoying their amazing (albeit pricey) shroomburgers, but now methinks I’ll just skip the whole joint, thx.

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Sure, we could let the uber-rich buy citizenship—and then keep hoarding their money. Or we could invite the world’s most courageous people to build new lives here, building America in the process. That’s worked fantastically for centuries.

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He said he was “deporting criminals” but he’s actually importing them…

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the current head of the FBI has 8 separate appearances on this show

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So the Gestapo raided my local kebab shop yesterday and locked up the owners, who were here legally awaiting an immigration court hearing, just in case anyone anywhere had any doubts regarding what's going on with the US.

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