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32/M/VA, but lived a bunch of other places. Montana Grizzly geoscientist. Disaffected social democrat. Sportsball enjoyer, road trip enthusiast. Visited 49 states. Being alone in the mountains is a religious experience. Pfp by Zakamuro. ¡No pasarán!
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November 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
Matt Stoller: “..Trump & Mamdani defeated establishment in their own way, representing hunger of voters on the right & left who want something different. If those sides cd come together.. that would be a sea change in how we organize our political economy”.

www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Monopoly Round-Up: Why the Establishment Freaked Out Over a Mamdani-Trump Press Conference
Meta wins its antitrust case, there are now two fire truck antitrust claims, the stock market got wobbly, and Larry Summers was exiled from the establishment, at least for now.
www.thebignewsletter.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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it just strikes me as a bad idea to pick fights with an astronaut.
you fire right back at them and you FIRE RIGHT AWAY.
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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oh you GOD DAMN THINK?
November 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Remember when the Russians called in bomb threats to polling locations in Georgia on election day and a bunch of people (all of whom we now know aren't based out of the US) cried "Russiagate" and then they did it again in Moldova?
It isn't always the Russians but it's really weird how often it's the Russians
Before Germany’s last elections, hundreds of combustion-engine cars had been vandalised, combined with pro-Green flyers left on site. State investigators now assume a Russian influence operation:
#fossilwarfare
www.n-tv.de/politik/Ermi...
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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It isn't always the Russians but it's really weird how often it's the Russians
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Count your blessings.
@theonion.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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This is *expressly* not the law
BLITZER: I want to be precise. Should members of the US military obey clearly illegal orders?

McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took

(Not a no!)
November 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Russiamaxxing
The Israeli police raided today the Palestinian National Theatre in East Jerusalem, and prevented a children play from going ahead.
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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I think one of the things that makes me the most Unhinged is that the government is dragging people from their homes in the middle of the night, ramming people with their cars and shooting them for fun, and everyone is just doing the same discourses we always have

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
November 23, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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If I did a big thread and notably named the WRONG ARTIST in the first post, such that my entire thread makes no sense, I would delete the thread because it makes me look like a big dipshit. but perhaps I am built different
November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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loudly insisting that wife guys get a float in the gay pride parade
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Elon: so at a party and you want to be very popular, go uhhhh, so that is to say, your web browser, and so you type into Bing “naughty jokes for happy men”, and then ahaha you can, really quite epic, read results of what that is displayed

Rogan: that’s what’s so amazing about jokes is, you say them
November 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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I think @proptermalone.bsky.social can declare victory on his prediction that the GOP was eager to find a way to extend ACA subsidies (even if they've gone about it in a VERY dumb way). Two year extension + following details in the White House plan.

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Because the Liberal Currents writers have actual values, they are, almost uniquely among media, able to react our fascist moment not by asking “What if all our beliefs are wrong? What if we went too far with all the democracy and fairness stuff?” but by asking “How do we beat the fascists again?”
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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anyway noah smith knows what he's doing
noah smith used to regularly DM me about the fact that his silicon valley venture capitalist buddies were going off the right-wing deep end because they were afraid they would get MeTooed for the fact that promotions for young employees at the startups they were funding were gated by sex
he once DM’d me and a couple of other people to tell us that we were wrong for calling him dumb about lab leak conspiracies and that some people he knew were working on a story that would make it crystal clear and it that was getting ready to drop soon, this was like, 2021, maybe earlier
November 24, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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interesting fact: noah smith is part of an ongoing experiment designed to see how much you could smooth a person’s brain out before they can no longer function
Enlightened centrist
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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You know they would love to make the big issues of their next candidates literally anything other than "prosecute every member of this administration, tax the living shit out of the billionaires who funded it, and start the 40 year process of fixing shit"
August 4, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Happy 13th anniversary to perhaps the funniest NFL play of all time: The Buttfumble
November 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Fun fact: November 28, 2001:

"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
November 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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So Bezos is in them too then?
The Washington Post editorial board decided the Epstein files have “no public interest” before even seeing them. That’s a stunning position for any newsroom to take. Praising Clay Higgins as the lone ‘no’ vote, too? No wonder no one trusts legacy media. Absolutely disgusting.
November 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM