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NEW: I wrote about the secret history of Santacon, which began its life as a weird little art prank attended by a bunch of my friends. Now, a new documentary explores its absurd, anarchic, hysterical early years: www.motherjones.com/media/2025/1...
The secret history of Santacon, America’s most hated Christmas Party
A new documentary explores the booze-soaked and vomit-slicked gathering's radical roots.
www.motherjones.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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i mean this sounds cool but our masculinity depends entirely on how much petroleum we consume so you can see how our hands are tied

bsky.app/profile/davi...
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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i
could
smell
the
onions
and
the
mustard
!!!!!!!!!
November 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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November 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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The deep irony is that the people who complain the most about how liberals are "in a bubble" are the the most embubbled of all. And they never say it about self-described conservatives, even though their whole deal is about living in a bubble: watching only Fox News in their all-white neighborhoods.
This Ross Douthat piece is a parody of pundit's disease. Voters think about politics exactly as I do, making fine-grained ideological assessments! If you lost it was because you weren't centrist!

Only one who has never encountered an actual voter can believe that.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...
Opinion | It’s Obvious Why Harris Lost in 2024. But Can Democrats Accept It?
www.nytimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Rebranding all solar panels as "sun extractors."
November 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”
Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)
November 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Answer this dumbass question every time LIKE THIS
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
3° is half a Bacon
Trump’s Pentagon told Congress that all they need to strike boats is evidence that they are three degrees away from a known member of a designated drug cartel & that the survivors of strikes were released because they didn’t have evidence necessary to charge and put them on trial.
October 31, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Because their imaginations are fucking tiny and they only understand petty grievances.
October 31, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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This colossal Times of London/de Blasio screwup gets more amazing at every turn.

Scoop via @maxtani.bsky.social

www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
October 30, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Will I'm incensed... Ok, more annoyed. But, this is soo soo dumb. Like the reference makes no sense, kaneda is the good guy in the scene. And the pronunciation is well off
They’re really pushing into more and more niche pop culture, too
October 29, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Didn’t even have to look at the Voting Pamphlet to know I’m voting for Katie Wilson.
Mayor Harrell Sweeps Wheedle Off the Needle: tinyurl.com/4z63dc85
October 28, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude
October 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Hmm, two Tracey's Ullman
October 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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it will never not be odd that 80 percent of america lives in cities but the only real americans are the rural ones
NYT puts farmer pain on Page One:

@nytimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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In this piece: The New York Times did not think the No Kings protests were all that significant – which is indicative of how much mainstream institutions have bought into the idea that only Trump and his supporters represent “real America” and have a right to have their message amplified.
October 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
DK
October 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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ICE: “We don’t racially profile.”

Also ICE: Stops a Hispanic looking woman on her way into Walmart and immediately demands to know where’s she from.

She says “here” and they say “where’s here? Were you born here?”

Papers please.

That’s what we’ve become.
October 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Mad Magazine, over 50 years ago
October 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.
October 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Cities not the hellholes they're claimed to be? Send in the clowns!
October 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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October 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM