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AMG Himself
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· Jun 19
PSA: When there’s a difference between what you feel and what you’re supposed to feel, and you make an effort to correct that, that is called emotion work. When your job is getting paid to do emotion work – the smiling face at MickyD's, flight attendant, even sex work – that’s emotional labor.
ADHD isn't a kid being unwell. ADHD is a genetic variation, not a mental illness. The comorbidities it results in are in many cases society failing neurodivergent kids because the way they think is different and a nuisance. I hate this framing.
December 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
ADHD isn't a kid being unwell. ADHD is a genetic variation, not a mental illness. The comorbidities it results in are in many cases society failing neurodivergent kids because the way they think is different and a nuisance. I hate this framing.
This is so gross
December 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This is so gross
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Vila i frid, Egtved Girl. Det är ledsamt att du levde 3600 år för tidigt för att uppleva Britney Spears, du hade älskat henne.
December 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Vila i frid, Egtved Girl. Det är ledsamt att du levde 3600 år för tidigt för att uppleva Britney Spears, du hade älskat henne.
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NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse.
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
1/
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
1/
December 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse.
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
1/
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
1/
The reason I don't like saxophone in metal is that when it inevitably gets heavy, someone's like "yeah, can you do that annoying squeaky thing at random? I feel like fingernails on a chalkboard and a crying baby aren't enough tension for this section."
December 6, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The reason I don't like saxophone in metal is that when it inevitably gets heavy, someone's like "yeah, can you do that annoying squeaky thing at random? I feel like fingernails on a chalkboard and a crying baby aren't enough tension for this section."
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Bäst de skyndar sig. Snart har vi röstat bort dem etidning.dn.se/shared/artic...
Sverige fasar ut bistånd – ambassader stängs
Regeringen fasar ut biståndet till Bolivia, Liberia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania och Moçambique.
etidning.dn.se
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Bäst de skyndar sig. Snart har vi röstat bort dem etidning.dn.se/shared/artic...
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Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.
December 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.
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I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
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A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
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The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
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TIL Maine didn't let Native Americans vote until 1954. This Silver Star recipient was told he couldn't vote after he showed up in uniform.
December 5, 2025 at 4:53 AM
TIL Maine didn't let Native Americans vote until 1954. This Silver Star recipient was told he couldn't vote after he showed up in uniform.
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"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race" . . . unless the plaintiffs refuse to draw a map showing the state how it can politically disempower people of color. Unserious requirement. Unserious people. Taney 2.0.
December 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race" . . . unless the plaintiffs refuse to draw a map showing the state how it can politically disempower people of color. Unserious requirement. Unserious people. Taney 2.0.
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Sounds like they have legalized racial gerrymandering so long as non-whites won’t vote for republicans.
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Sounds like they have legalized racial gerrymandering so long as non-whites won’t vote for republicans.
Cannot wait to see how they justify overturning the California map given this same set of facts.
December 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Cannot wait to see how they justify overturning the California map given this same set of facts.
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What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?
December 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?
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Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![Texas is not on “the eve of an election,” as was true in the
case the majority cites. Republican National Committee v.
Democratic National Committee, 589 U. S. 423, 424 (2020)
(per curiam); see ante, at 2. The election there was five days
after the injunction. Similarly, the election in Purcell was
“just weeks” away. 549 U. S., at 4. Here, Election Day is
eleven months from now. Even the primary election (which
Texas could change) is in March. The District Court care-
fully listed the various “election preparations” underway to
switch to the 2025 map. App. 144. On the other hand, the
court noted how the 2021 map—which the injunction rein-
stated—was, in a real sense, the status quo. See id., at 145.
Officials, candidates, and voters are all familiar with it from
the last two election cycles. Until late last summer, every-
one expected that map to govern 2026 too. And indeed, it
will be used in a special runoff election in the State’s largest
county on January 31, 2026. So, the District Court properly
concluded, “[a]n injunction in this case would not cause sig-
nificant disruption.” Id., at 144. Except to the extent all of
us live in election season all the time, the 2026 congres-
sional election is not well underway.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpna2qi2e44fafbhhtqjak3x/bafkreifzzrhpyftoam4b4eqcpdcegf2hksn4ula6rwbtv6fqwviqfgikte@jpeg)
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
We need robust new laws and we need people held to account for real. It's the only way.
What if Trumpism wanes, Dems sweep, the public recommits to liberal democracy, and . . . it doesn't matter because the institutions have been compromised beyond repair? www.thebulwark.com/p/what-if-it...
What If It’s Already Too Late?
Institutional rot or ideological infection—either way, a real “Deep State” is already taking shape.
www.thebulwark.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
We need robust new laws and we need people held to account for real. It's the only way.
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Again, the fact that they are being allowed to even suggest that "keep trafficking" is the equivalent of "remain in the fight" under the laws of war is already a concession to the unhinged criminality of these strikes.
NEWS --> Tons of fresh detail on what video of the strike shows: Rep Adam Smith says two men are sitting on capsized boat, drugs aren't visible. Rationale officials gave for killing is they *may* have been able to keep trafficking.
"It's bad," Smith says.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
"It's bad," Smith says.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
Hegseth Defense Collapses as Dems Reveal Horrific Video Strike Details
The ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services committee tells TNR after watching the video: “This is a big, big problem.”
newrepublic.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Again, the fact that they are being allowed to even suggest that "keep trafficking" is the equivalent of "remain in the fight" under the laws of war is already a concession to the unhinged criminality of these strikes.
"It's not X, it's Y" is ChatGPT's favorite rhetorical move. It's a good move in some cases. But every time I'm scrolling on Instagram and I see a post with that phrasing, I think: "That's not a valuable addition to knowledge or The Discourse, that's slop."
December 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
"It's not X, it's Y" is ChatGPT's favorite rhetorical move. It's a good move in some cases. But every time I'm scrolling on Instagram and I see a post with that phrasing, I think: "That's not a valuable addition to knowledge or The Discourse, that's slop."
David Sirota made a very clear and convincing argument about this on #WITHpod with @chrislhayes.bsky.social yesterday. Not just that it's the project, but it's also the root of the problem. I think he's right and it's also so insane how nakedly cynicalb and in the open it all is.
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
David Sirota made a very clear and convincing argument about this on #WITHpod with @chrislhayes.bsky.social yesterday. Not just that it's the project, but it's also the root of the problem. I think he's right and it's also so insane how nakedly cynicalb and in the open it all is.
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Rhapsody vs Rhapsody of Fire vs Rhapsody of Fire (post Luca split) vs Rhapsody of Fire (post Fabio split) vs Luca Turilli's Rhapsody of Fire vs Turilli / Leone Rhapsody
*deep breath*
vs Fabio Leone's Dawn of Victory vs Rhapsody w/ Choir and Orchestra Vs Luca Turilli vs Luca Turilli's Dreamquest
*deep breath*
vs Fabio Leone's Dawn of Victory vs Rhapsody w/ Choir and Orchestra Vs Luca Turilli vs Luca Turilli's Dreamquest
Gonna make bands I mix up with each other fight to the death. My brain will only allow one. First up: Autrest and Austere.
December 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Rhapsody vs Rhapsody of Fire vs Rhapsody of Fire (post Luca split) vs Rhapsody of Fire (post Fabio split) vs Luca Turilli's Rhapsody of Fire vs Turilli / Leone Rhapsody
*deep breath*
vs Fabio Leone's Dawn of Victory vs Rhapsody w/ Choir and Orchestra Vs Luca Turilli vs Luca Turilli's Dreamquest
*deep breath*
vs Fabio Leone's Dawn of Victory vs Rhapsody w/ Choir and Orchestra Vs Luca Turilli vs Luca Turilli's Dreamquest
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I'm glad the "double tap" order is drawing justified outrage over this administration's murderous policy, but here's the thing: One dinky, easily intercepted boat that *might* have drugs on it poses exactly as much threat to U.S. security as a couple of survivors clinging to driftwood... Zero.
December 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I'm glad the "double tap" order is drawing justified outrage over this administration's murderous policy, but here's the thing: One dinky, easily intercepted boat that *might* have drugs on it poses exactly as much threat to U.S. security as a couple of survivors clinging to driftwood... Zero.
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Yes, I'm laughing. But you have to figure that over time this becomes a bit demoralizing for federal public corruption prosecutors.
It's like even though he's a Dem Trump can't help but feel a profound sympathy for a money launderer wapo.st/4as1ygY
Trump says he will pardon Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar
Cuellar was charged last year with bribery, money laundering and conspiracy. His wife, Imelda, also will receive a pardon, according to Trump.
wapo.st
December 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Yes, I'm laughing. But you have to figure that over time this becomes a bit demoralizing for federal public corruption prosecutors.