Billy Shakes
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That’s a New Jersey fist.
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2016 Daily Mail: We want foreigners out! We don’t care if it makes us poorer. Brexit means Brexit!
2025 Daily Mail: Foreigners are leaving Starmer’s Britain because this country is poor and shit!
This country would be so much better off without this hypocritical, incendiary, irresponsible rag.
2025 Daily Mail: Foreigners are leaving Starmer’s Britain because this country is poor and shit!
This country would be so much better off without this hypocritical, incendiary, irresponsible rag.
December 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
2016 Daily Mail: We want foreigners out! We don’t care if it makes us poorer. Brexit means Brexit!
2025 Daily Mail: Foreigners are leaving Starmer’s Britain because this country is poor and shit!
This country would be so much better off without this hypocritical, incendiary, irresponsible rag.
2025 Daily Mail: Foreigners are leaving Starmer’s Britain because this country is poor and shit!
This country would be so much better off without this hypocritical, incendiary, irresponsible rag.
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imagine being such a bad driver that NJ Transit just posts a photo of your fuckup with no additional commentary
December 13, 2025 at 4:32 AM
imagine being such a bad driver that NJ Transit just posts a photo of your fuckup with no additional commentary
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My politics are becoming increasingly "we live in a society"
December 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
My politics are becoming increasingly "we live in a society"
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'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed
December 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed
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Until someone meme formats this image, “Stop blaming trade for things that are mostly the fault of huge problems America’s nontradeable sectors.”
December 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Until someone meme formats this image, “Stop blaming trade for things that are mostly the fault of huge problems America’s nontradeable sectors.”
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The fact that Candace Owens could just make the most unhinged conspiracy theory claims and backstab every major figure of the American Right and still retain a substantial following is bad for the Right and probably not that good for the country.
December 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The fact that Candace Owens could just make the most unhinged conspiracy theory claims and backstab every major figure of the American Right and still retain a substantial following is bad for the Right and probably not that good for the country.
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Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
I think about this, also in terms of vaccines, and really struggle with how you have a free society that doesn’t fall into this trap in one way or another. solved problems become invisible and the solutions become the source of conspiracy theories.
This seems logical but Dems solved* the whole problem of old-age health care costs in the mid-1960s and then they lost five of the next six presidential elections because by 1968 it was a solved problem and no one cared about it.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
December 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
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His mother was an immigrant.
His wife is an immigrant.
His grandfather and grandmother were immigrants.
Four of his five offspring are the children of immigrants.
His wife is an immigrant.
His grandfather and grandmother were immigrants.
Four of his five offspring are the children of immigrants.
December 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
His mother was an immigrant.
His wife is an immigrant.
His grandfather and grandmother were immigrants.
Four of his five offspring are the children of immigrants.
His wife is an immigrant.
His grandfather and grandmother were immigrants.
Four of his five offspring are the children of immigrants.
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I think a lot of it just comes down to this tbh:
The Problem with My City Is That It’s a City
I’ve lived in this city for decades, but I’m noticing more and more problems. There’s crowding, congestion, changing people, tall buildings, and th...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I think a lot of it just comes down to this tbh:
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The thing about a pissed off federal judge is that unless you have a majority in an appellate court to override him or 2/3 of the US Senate to remove him - the judge will tell you to fuck off and do as you are told and there is nothing anyone can do about it.
JUST IN: Judge Boasberg won’t back off his planned contempt hearings next week and says the crime-fraud exception would overcome potential privileges. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The thing about a pissed off federal judge is that unless you have a majority in an appellate court to override him or 2/3 of the US Senate to remove him - the judge will tell you to fuck off and do as you are told and there is nothing anyone can do about it.
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the 6-7 phenomenon is in no way different from any other catchphrase that kids have yelled out at any point in the last hundred years, there's no daylight between that and when i was in high school, the year straight where every guy kept yelling "i'm rick james bitch"
December 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
the 6-7 phenomenon is in no way different from any other catchphrase that kids have yelled out at any point in the last hundred years, there's no daylight between that and when i was in high school, the year straight where every guy kept yelling "i'm rick james bitch"
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NIMBYs you can have one White House, as a treat.
December 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
NIMBYs you can have one White House, as a treat.
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not incidentally, this is the same rhetorical sleight of hand that the effective altruists do.
the thing that makes me angriest about arguments from Yglesias and Bazelon is the bland, placid insistence that it is not just imperative to vote for politicians with no principles, but that if you as a private citizen have principles then you may as well be turning on the gas chambers yourself.
December 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
not incidentally, this is the same rhetorical sleight of hand that the effective altruists do.
Immigrant to the UK who worked in US women’s rights space—all of this is 100% true, including 40 Days to Life
Meet the American anti-abortion activists turning their sights on Britain
The new crusaders
Meet the religious conservatives, bankrolled by the US, attacking British rights and access to abortion
newhumanist.org.uk
December 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Immigrant to the UK who worked in US women’s rights space—all of this is 100% true, including 40 Days to Life
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AI companies: We can't have 50 state AI laws. There has to be just one rulebook for AI
EU: Here you go
AI companies: not like that
EU: Here you go
AI companies: not like that
December 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
AI companies: We can't have 50 state AI laws. There has to be just one rulebook for AI
EU: Here you go
AI companies: not like that
EU: Here you go
AI companies: not like that
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This fits into my theory that reality television was the beginning of the end of Western Civilisation
i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job
December 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This fits into my theory that reality television was the beginning of the end of Western Civilisation
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Anti-vaxxism is an ideology with maybe the dumbest combination of pointless and evil that has ever existed bsky.app/profile/nyti...
More than 250 people who were exposed to measles, including dozens of unvaccinated school-aged children, are quarantining in South Carolina as the state wrestles to contain an outbreak that has sickened more than 110 people.
Hundreds Quarantined in South Carolina as Measles Outbreak Shows No Sign of Slowing
The outbreak shows no signs of slowing, likely because of the affected area’s “lower-than-hoped-for vaccination coverage,” a state health official said.
nyti.ms
December 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Anti-vaxxism is an ideology with maybe the dumbest combination of pointless and evil that has ever existed bsky.app/profile/nyti...
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"Hello. My name is Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor. You killed my mother. Prepare to die."
December 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"Hello. My name is Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor. You killed my mother. Prepare to die."
Don’t get me fucking started on this asshole (who I unfortunately know and loathe)
that is the most republican looking man i have ever seen
NEW: The RNC Chair is calling the 2026 midterms a “pending, looming disaster” for Republicans.
December 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Don’t get me fucking started on this asshole (who I unfortunately know and loathe)
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ultimately, no one even grieved Charlie Kirk. he was just another thing for the worst people on earth to get outraged over. and when the outrage of real events wasn't enough, they invented new ones.
not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
my read is they were trying to whip up the usual frenzy, but then the effort got blown up by Candace Owens saying The Jews did it
It’s kind of incredible how little has been published about this guy and how little conservatives seem to care. Did people just forget these people were screeching for civil war when they thought he was a liberal?
December 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
ultimately, no one even grieved Charlie Kirk. he was just another thing for the worst people on earth to get outraged over. and when the outrage of real events wasn't enough, they invented new ones.
not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
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i loathe the term 'warfighter'
December 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
i loathe the term 'warfighter'
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Almost half of the non-European population of New Zealand is Maori. There's no way to pretend that this kind of racial thinking in that context is anything but exterminationist.
what do we bet there's been more naziness since this?
. . . & yep, there it is
. . . & yep, there it is
December 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Almost half of the non-European population of New Zealand is Maori. There's no way to pretend that this kind of racial thinking in that context is anything but exterminationist.
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It’s tempting to call this a 🤡 show, but only in the sense of scary clowns. This is not how any system of laws is supposed to work, and it’s frankly an embarrassment to every government lawyer involved and to the legal profession to which they belong.
After being released from custody yesterday, Abrego Garcia has been ordered to report to ICE at 8am today, his lawyers say in an emergency overnight court filing trying to prevent him re-detained.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
December 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
It’s tempting to call this a 🤡 show, but only in the sense of scary clowns. This is not how any system of laws is supposed to work, and it’s frankly an embarrassment to every government lawyer involved and to the legal profession to which they belong.
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"Trumpian populism may be the story of our age but I'm increasingly convinced that we're underplaying the tech-authoritarian elephant in the room." My Swamp Notes newsletter. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/199e371f-8...
Big tech’s ‘elite victim complex’
[FREE TO READ] Acolytes of the broligarchs have a grip on key nodes of Washington’s power ministries
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December 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"Trumpian populism may be the story of our age but I'm increasingly convinced that we're underplaying the tech-authoritarian elephant in the room." My Swamp Notes newsletter. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/199e371f-8...