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Extremely cranky individual with more books than the structure of my dwelling can support.
Why the hell are you following me?
(At BalloonJuice sometimes)
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I’m seeing a lot of references to The Nazi Bar. Here are the OG tweets from the dead bird site, with alt-text. Share them with others, teach them to the young & naive, so that they may thrive! It’s Popper’s Paradox in a crustpunk bar…
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No one leaving New York City because of Mamdani, say two top real estate CEOs
No one leaving New York City because of Mamdani, say two top real estate CEOs
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's democratic socialist views spark fears companies and capital will flee, but top real estate CEOs say it's not true.
cnb.cx
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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The “Epstein Files” saga shows that Republicans were only ever interested in using sexual assault as a pretext to smear political rivals and deprive LGBT people of their constitutional rights www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The President Who Cried ‘Hoax’
Republicans went after Epstein only when it was politically useful.
www.theatlantic.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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During Jim Crow, everything from restaraunts to stores to hotels to pharmacies to gas stations required making safe choices. They shaped every trip a Black person made. We document that history, and you can add your story to it here #CommunityMap: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #EconSky
November 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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There's a quiet bigotry that a lot of people don't even know they hold, that assumes the neutral position of white men is still above everybody else. It's how we're getting to "forgiving Platner for his past" takes the form of ELECTING HIM TO FUCKING OFFICE.
November 14, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Jeff Bezos paid $50 million for a wedding. He just got a $16 billion tax break. He just laid off 60,000 people.

And you're furious about a kid getting a free school lunch?
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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This is gonna sound so obvious but after a close friend had a baby and I saw how hard it is to be pregnant (and it was a healthy pregnancy, everything went super well!), i feel like I'm even more pro-choice than before because damn being pregnant is NOT easy even at the best of times
November 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"

guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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a crossing guard being killed by a driver the day before we yank speed cameras out of school zones is super on the nose
November 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Or decide if they can try to prevent or carry to term and parent the pregnancy forced upon them by the old men.
The victims are old enough to apparently consent to old men in positions of power, but not old enough to select a book from an uncensored school library or to speak up about their own gender expression or sexuality.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Bingo
Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them
November 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Let me help:

Matt Gaetz fucked a vulnerable kid who needed braces, and paid her.

I am so glad my subscription expires next week
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Went looking for resolution.
Apparently in September, the DC Circuit of the Federal Court of Appeals punted over to the Court of Federal Claims, by claiming the preliminary injunction (to force the government to keep paying) was improper.

Lotta cowards in black robes.
November 14, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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We need alternatives to this model of retirement funding.
And those distortions have real material base. If you're 60 years old and 75% of your wealth in your home's value, you don't want housing prices to fall! If you're 29 and looking to buy your first home you do!
November 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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This is getting worse every day.

10 targeted by AI-generated nude images at Louisiana school, officials say The school’s handling of the matter has prompted threats and harassment against public officials. www.wwltv.com/mobile/artic...
10 targeted by AI-generated nude images at Louisiana school, officials say
The school’s handling of the matter has prompted threats and harassment against public officials.
www.wwltv.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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I want universal healthcare and housing and food security, and a side benefit would be making a lot of young girls less vulnerable to sex trafficking if their basic needs are being met.
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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My dad ran a prison ministry before his death. Their big outreach was buying soap & shaving cream for inmates
b/c TX provides about a credit card of soap per month. The ministry was supplying the basic necessities the state should (as the state fought to not air condition the prisons).
She’s certainly getting unusual amenities, but I have to say the choice to lead this piece with “unlimited toilet paper” is fuckin bizarre.
Apparently, Ghislaine Maxwell is living it up in prison with unlimited toilet paper. Here’s what we know about her alleged special privileges at her new federal prison camp in Texas.
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Meanwhile, private equity with a million fishes starts a “TOO MANY DAMN IMMIGRANTS AT THE FISHIN’ HOLE!” movement which gets blue collar three fish haver voting and acting against their own interests.
November 14, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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People are roasting this lede, but NYM is actually correct to print it. Toilet paper is so scarce in prisons that it is sometimes used as a currency.

It shouldn't be restricted, for any person, but the fact that it isn't for her (and her alone) is a sign of extremely special treatment.
Apparently, Ghislaine Maxwell is living it up in prison with unlimited toilet paper. Here’s what we know about her alleged special privileges at her new federal prison camp in Texas.
Ghislaine Maxwell Is Living It Up With Unlimited Toilet Paper
What we know about the special privileges Epstein’s accomplice is reportedly receiving at her new federal prison camp in Texas.
nymag.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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There's a rare inherited genetic disorder (that runs through a family in Italy) where they gradually lose the ability to sleep. Once they stop sleeping they die in short order.

Sleep isn't "doing nothing". It hastens healing (and even if you're not sick being alive and awake is mildly damaging)
November 14, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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[to the tune of Sugarfoot] Puffyface
NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends.

It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Chicago's food pantries are facing an unprecedented demand this holiday season. One local pantry says it expects to spend double its annual budget with so many hungry families in need of help.
Chicago food pantries facing 'unprecedented' need ahead of holiday season
chicago.suntimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Also … we do get that Epstein was basically running a cult

The Love bombing
The making people feel special
Collection of high status people

The collection of KOMPROMAT
The demonstration of what happens to disobedience

Thats a cult
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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when you understand that patriarchy views children as sexual property it all makes sense. there's no hypocrisy. exposure to queerness & transness threatens to "corrupt" the father's property, to "lead them astray" into self-determination, to taint their future sexual value. CSA is permissible as >
Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 AM