Bob
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It's all ketchup on the wall
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A great song that is very relevant to the times we find ourselves in.

youtu.be/uIWotODqidE?...
John Prine - Some Humans Ain't Human - Fair & Square
YouTube video by John Prine
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Lando Norris wins the Formula 1 world championship in the final race of 2025

He ends Verstappen's four-year title reign.

He played the long game and kept his cool in Sunday's race to capture that vital podium position, which is all he needed.

🚥🏁🏎️🏆

www.nbcnews.com/sports/formu...
Lando Norris wins Formula 1 world championship in the final race of 2025
The McLaren driver finished third place in the final race Sunday, enough to clinch his first ever F1 title. An emotional Norris celebrated with his team and family, saying it "feels amazing."
www.nbcnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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How and when exactly did a president acquire the authority to rule in all matters great and small by diktat?
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.

They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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congrat's to ya'll
December 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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I was four years old when I came to the US. I cannot fathom what it would have been like to have been ripped apart from my family and detained by strangers. This makes me want to scream.
December 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there.

Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.
December 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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What if:

Immigration is actually really beneficial to a country and helps secure its future prosperity and long term health of its culture and isn’t a really bad thing like all those rich sociopaths who moved to Dubai say it is?
Guys, guys, guys:

what if we provide asylum to lots of refugees so that when the conflict in their homeland ends and economic reconstruction begins we have lots of social links to that country that allow us to forge mutually beneficial economic partnerships with it?
December 2, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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I talk about this in the first episode of Past Lives, but my great-great-great grandfather was born in Schleswig-Holstein in 1838, immigrated to the US around 1858, and joined the Minnesota volunteers in 1861. He fought the Confederacy for four years. Did he maintain American culture?
Rep. Kat Cammarck: "Today, one in six people in the US is foreign born. That quite frankly is not sustainable to maintain a culture that we are known for here in the United States."
December 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Remember—Billionaire philanthropy is PR

$6.25B is a lot of money. It’s also only 4.1% of the $152B Michael Dell has hoarded. If Dell paid the 37% tax rate on the wealthy he'd pay $56.25B—and still have nearly $100B, more than he'd ever need

Taxation of billionaires > philanthropy from billionaires
December 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Gender-affirming care saves lives
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.

It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.

Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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This is just from the past week.

@washingtonpost.com
@cbsnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Uhh... those aren't cartoony black-and-white prisoner stripes. They're concentration camp uniforms, blue vertical stripes. It's muddling the two a bit (of course they're variations on the same idea) but the AI slop is obviously pulling from pictures of the latter, it's a very distinct color palette.
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Schumer: "I've never seen a president who has gone this low. I've never seen a president who has done more to encourage political violence. I've asked the Capitol Police to give special protection to Slotkin and Kelly as well because you gotta worry after the president says these things."
November 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Chat the team behind this are my friends and we’ve been working to produce a cultural outcry about children abducted by russia, written as a traditional Ukrainian mother’s lullaby to a child who is no longer with her
November 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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The Great Khan of the Plains receives the mandate of heaven
November 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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NEW:

In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.

She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.

Then she died.

www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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The way both Ryan Lizza and Olivia Nuzzi are now selling their personal lives like melodramas while also both still supposedly being serious political journalists makes me deeply uncomfortable
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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"Everyone tempted to participate in Trump's schemes and conspiracies should be on notice that bygones won’t be bygones on the other side of this constitutional interregnum."

Good @brianbeutler.bsky.social theorizing deeply on how to dissuade Trump accomplices:
www.offmessage.net/p/maga-corru...
MAGA Corruption And The Psychology Of Deterrence
Criminal accountability may be off the table for some Trump loyalists; but other forms—yes, including impeachment—are not.
www.offmessage.net
November 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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If the NYT told the story of the homeless teenager exploited by Matt Gaetz with even half as much empathy as it tells the story of Olivia Nuzzi, it would be in danger of committing journalism.
November 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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"taking jobs from Americans" really gives away the game. This guy just hates immigrants and thinks they don't belong here, and can be treated as sub-humans.
Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
November 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM