Stressed_Scientist
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Biochemist. Just tired right now. No pic due to work reasons but might eventually change.
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An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say
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Steve Bannon: “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.”

Media: "We cannot with certainty identify this mysterious brown substance."
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seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over
RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.
Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
I am a touch curious to know how many of these types would argue that's ok because she has a reelection coming up and instantly pivot when Trump actually tried to run for a 3rd term.
There is definitely a "how dare you make us occasionally cover what he says/does" to these pieces to go along with the boring aspect.
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All of this is true, and on top of it:

Since when is it unusual for an opposition party to run against a sitting executive with a net approval rating of -13?

It's the most obvious and logical strategy! The burden of persuasion is on anyone suggesting they don't do that.
There's just no way to exaggerate how cooked your brain has to be to think like this. Trump is an unprecedented, law-breaking, norm-breaking, increasingly demented maniac who is destroying this country's basic institutions. Like, right now! As we speak!

But media elites find that boring.
It’s 2025, and Democrats Are Still Running Against Trump
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This is bad for a variety of reasons, including one that self-absorbed rich people refuse to understand: an economy that depends upon discretionary spending by a small number of people is far less resilient. A couple bad weeks for financial markets will threaten the whole economy.
Wealthy Americans Are Spending. People With Less Are Struggling.
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It is not so long ago that disability policy was bipartisan. I taught at the Bush School, and George H.W. Bush would talk about his pride in signing the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Every once in a while during the 2024 campaign, I'd meet parents of disabled kids who were part of Moms for Liberty or people who taught autistic kids. @slooterman.bsky.social writes how they are afraid right now as Trump targets special education staff.
19thnews.org/2025/10/spec...
Trump’s attempt to gut special education office has some conservative parents on edge
The president called the layoffs a part of cuts to “Democrat programs,” but children across the nation would be impacted.
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Trump supporters: I will show my loyalty to God-Emperor Trump by buying his hats, t-shirts, vests, shot glasses, bitcoins, fragrances, bathrobes, and lawn furniture.

Obama supporters: I still have a chipped "Hope" coffee mug.

Sam Haselby: Trump and Obama have equivalent cults of personality.
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If you hear this and think, "wait, hang on, I need to know what political party these people were in before I know how to respond," please go fuck yourself.
Epstein Survivor Lisa Phillips: Everyone makes it about Trump and Epstein, but it’s about this whole ring of men. That’s what makes me upset, because we know they were there. We saw them. We know there were royalty, princes, very powerful people in academia and tech, and we saw them at parties.
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Sharing this for one reason: I caught it without sound and it really hits home how all of this is a performance for right wing bigots.

Watch it w/o sound. What would you think he’s talking about? Something serious? Something important? He looks like a used-car salesman trying to sell a mattress
Christian nationalist podcaster Joshua Haymes says Christians must be willing to defend the institution of slavery because the Bible makes it clear that "it is not inherently evil to own another human being." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
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everyone: we don’t want kings

rightwing media: this is a confusing protest line, no one is claiming trump is a king

the entire trump administration:
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So much this.

This photo is what The Atlantic chose to illustrate resistance cringe, and I couldn’t be happier to be a part of it.
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one of the worst fucking things in the world is the move to call sincerity and care "cringe"

fuck that shit. let's build a political community based on care for one another.
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This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
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This lady deserves the presidential medal of freedom once the place is back under adult control and im not kidding
Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.
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As a reminder to everyone, a key part of the Bari Weiss origin story is her livetweeting editorial meetings.
In the institutions she critiques she treats leakers (including herself) as principled dissenters. In the institutions she controls, she expects loyal silence.
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the media has made a huge deal about Neutrality and Not Editorializing and it all falls apart when you realize they are too afraid to publish a factual description of the video Trump posted
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"Person impeached for insurrection sends billions to Argentina during US gov't shutdown" and "Felon convicted of fraud pardons felon convicted of fraud" and "Long-time Epstein associate posts video depicting himself as a king dumping diarrhea on Americans from a fighter jet" are factual statements
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This is a complete abdication of journalistic responsibility. A president posting something this insane and disgusting should be front and center in the news.
Not a single mention of this across the Sunday shows as far as I could tell
Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America
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At this point, if you're interviewing a Republican about the president's latest transgression and you *don't* have the video or post or whatever cued up and ready to show them when they pretend they haven't seen it yet -- I'm just going to assume you're in on the con yourself.
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If you took part in a No Kings protest but didn't receive your paycheck, please contact Ted Cruz's office because he has it on good authority that there's an evil rich Jew who is funding all of this.
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lol HER COMMENTS ABOUT IDENTIFYING THE LEAKS GOT LEAKED
exhibit a of “has never been a reporter” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
He doesn't follow the tenants of Christ, but he is definitely the face of all too many Christians. (Lying for the greater good isn't lying, if I think X is right that's not my inner bigot voice but the voice of the holy Spirit, etc.) Example of what needs to be fixed, but he is a type of Christian