Doom Turtle
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All of this is confirming my belief that Republicans never learn from a loss and Democrats never learn from a win
“People are blaming republicans for food prices and flight cancellations and health insurance costs and are furious about gilded ballrooms and Gatsby parties and the president is falling asleep on tv and is the most deeply unpopular president in history, time to cave” is a hell of an argument
November 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
All of this is confirming my belief that Republicans never learn from a loss and Democrats never learn from a win
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Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”
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If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.
September 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.
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A reporter just asked the U.S. president a perfectly legitimate question about his attorney general's vow to prosecute people for constitutionally protected speech.
He responded by threatening to prosecute the reporter.
The threat itself is an abuse of power. It ought to be an impeachable offense.
He responded by threatening to prosecute the reporter.
The threat itself is an abuse of power. It ought to be an impeachable offense.
JON KARL: What do you make of Pam Bondi saying she's gonna go after hate speech? A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech
TRUMP: We'll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. You have a lot of hate in your hate. Maybe they'll have to go after you.
TRUMP: We'll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. You have a lot of hate in your hate. Maybe they'll have to go after you.
September 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
A reporter just asked the U.S. president a perfectly legitimate question about his attorney general's vow to prosecute people for constitutionally protected speech.
He responded by threatening to prosecute the reporter.
The threat itself is an abuse of power. It ought to be an impeachable offense.
He responded by threatening to prosecute the reporter.
The threat itself is an abuse of power. It ought to be an impeachable offense.
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FOX news host suggests we euthanize the homeless, someone goes into two encampments and starts shooting.
13 people shot and Jacob Frey and the media are just talking about it as the new best reason to clear the encampments
13 people shot and Jacob Frey and the media are just talking about it as the new best reason to clear the encampments
'We're shutting this thing down': 8 shot at Minneapolis homeless encampment hosted by landlord, Frey pledges action
That shooting came less than 12 hours after another shooting just two miles away that left five others injured.
kstp.com
September 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
FOX news host suggests we euthanize the homeless, someone goes into two encampments and starts shooting.
13 people shot and Jacob Frey and the media are just talking about it as the new best reason to clear the encampments
13 people shot and Jacob Frey and the media are just talking about it as the new best reason to clear the encampments
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If a working journalist cannot say that something true happened solely because it reflects badly on the subject, their publication has no interest in truth.
September 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
If a working journalist cannot say that something true happened solely because it reflects badly on the subject, their publication has no interest in truth.
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i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson
By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.
www.thecrimson.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
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Managers spent DAYS factchecking and diluting our scripts, accusing them of being unfair or, in the case of saying millions were killed in Belgian Congo, "unsubstantiated."
Same managers told jr editors not to factcheck MAGA columns, or else they'd never publish + they needed "viewpoint diversity."
Same managers told jr editors not to factcheck MAGA columns, or else they'd never publish + they needed "viewpoint diversity."
September 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Managers spent DAYS factchecking and diluting our scripts, accusing them of being unfair or, in the case of saying millions were killed in Belgian Congo, "unsubstantiated."
Same managers told jr editors not to factcheck MAGA columns, or else they'd never publish + they needed "viewpoint diversity."
Same managers told jr editors not to factcheck MAGA columns, or else they'd never publish + they needed "viewpoint diversity."
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It may be distasteful but it is not illegal to mock someone's death and it should not warrant arrest, ever. The 1st Amendment exists specifically to protect disfavored speech and what is happening now is one of the greatest threats to free speech in the United States.
September 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It may be distasteful but it is not illegal to mock someone's death and it should not warrant arrest, ever. The 1st Amendment exists specifically to protect disfavored speech and what is happening now is one of the greatest threats to free speech in the United States.
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Do you know what the NYTimes said after Malcolm was assassinated...
"The world he saw through those horn-rimmed glasses of his was distorted and dark. But he made it darker still with his exaltation of fanaticism. Yesterday someone came out of that darkness that he spawned, and killed him."
"The world he saw through those horn-rimmed glasses of his was distorted and dark. But he made it darker still with his exaltation of fanaticism. Yesterday someone came out of that darkness that he spawned, and killed him."
September 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Do you know what the NYTimes said after Malcolm was assassinated...
"The world he saw through those horn-rimmed glasses of his was distorted and dark. But he made it darker still with his exaltation of fanaticism. Yesterday someone came out of that darkness that he spawned, and killed him."
"The world he saw through those horn-rimmed glasses of his was distorted and dark. But he made it darker still with his exaltation of fanaticism. Yesterday someone came out of that darkness that he spawned, and killed him."
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I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.
September 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.
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It is also very funny to me that he was literally a paid activist, an accusation conservatives love to throw at young people they see taking to the streets to protest police brutality.
September 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
It is also very funny to me that he was literally a paid activist, an accusation conservatives love to throw at young people they see taking to the streets to protest police brutality.
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I wonder how long this page will last nij.ojp.gov/topics/artic...
September 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I wonder how long this page will last nij.ojp.gov/topics/artic...
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Why is the media afraid to say it out loud?
September 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Why is the media afraid to say it out loud?
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Why? Well, for starters, 300 ICE agents have been moved to Chicago, leaving only about 300 in LA County which is about what we had before Trump took office. Why are they leaving? Because LA made their jobs TOO FUCKING HARD. LA Organized. LA sat on corners outside Home Depots with radios. 5/
September 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Why? Well, for starters, 300 ICE agents have been moved to Chicago, leaving only about 300 in LA County which is about what we had before Trump took office. Why are they leaving? Because LA made their jobs TOO FUCKING HARD. LA Organized. LA sat on corners outside Home Depots with radios. 5/
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Everyone say hello to Tupi, a lil’ capybara baby at the San Antonio Zoo. 🥹
September 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Everyone say hello to Tupi, a lil’ capybara baby at the San Antonio Zoo. 🥹
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It just boggles my mind that when we puzzle over how we got in this mess everyone doesn’t just point at Rupert Murdoch. It used to be to get this level of alternate reality someone would hand you a copy of a copy of a copy of an incoherent manifesto.
September 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
It just boggles my mind that when we puzzle over how we got in this mess everyone doesn’t just point at Rupert Murdoch. It used to be to get this level of alternate reality someone would hand you a copy of a copy of a copy of an incoherent manifesto.
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Kavanaugh's statements make the problem worse, not better. If the reason SCOTUS is using cryptic shadow docket orders is because "five" of them can't "reach a consensus or a compromise on a particular issue that might be difficult," then that order should not be precedential —there's no majority.
Brett Kavanaugh says there’s a good reason Supreme Court rulings can sometimes be so cryptic
In remarks to a judicial conference, Kavanaugh also defended Chief Justice John Roberts.
www.politico.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Kavanaugh's statements make the problem worse, not better. If the reason SCOTUS is using cryptic shadow docket orders is because "five" of them can't "reach a consensus or a compromise on a particular issue that might be difficult," then that order should not be precedential —there's no majority.
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RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check.
In 1965:
-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.
-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.
-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
In 1965:
-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.
-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.
-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
September 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check.
In 1965:
-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.
-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.
-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
In 1965:
-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.
-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.
-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
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Literally who is this for??
September 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Literally who is this for??
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A Vox exclusive reports that RFK Jr. and the White House buried a study linking alcohol with cancer.
As @smencimer.bsky.social reported in 2018, the research linking alcohol to breast cancer is deadly solid: Alcohol, regardless of whether it’s in Everclear or a vintage Bordeaux, is carcinogenic.
As @smencimer.bsky.social reported in 2018, the research linking alcohol to breast cancer is deadly solid: Alcohol, regardless of whether it’s in Everclear or a vintage Bordeaux, is carcinogenic.
Drinking may have given me cancer. The alcohol industry has worked hard to downplay it.
The science is clear that alcohol raises the risk of breast cancer, but boozemakers have downplayed the link.
www.motherjones.com
September 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A Vox exclusive reports that RFK Jr. and the White House buried a study linking alcohol with cancer.
As @smencimer.bsky.social reported in 2018, the research linking alcohol to breast cancer is deadly solid: Alcohol, regardless of whether it’s in Everclear or a vintage Bordeaux, is carcinogenic.
As @smencimer.bsky.social reported in 2018, the research linking alcohol to breast cancer is deadly solid: Alcohol, regardless of whether it’s in Everclear or a vintage Bordeaux, is carcinogenic.
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This tactic - pressuring corporations financially until they put a regime friendly voice in charge - is exactly how Orbán took over the free press in Hungary
Lord save us:
"Paramount is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told."
"Paramount is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told."
The Bari Market
With Paramount securely in his pocket, David Ellison is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told.
puck.news
September 3, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This tactic - pressuring corporations financially until they put a regime friendly voice in charge - is exactly how Orbán took over the free press in Hungary
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You may have noticed: American politicians are really old.
You may not know that American politicians are exceptionally old compared to other democracies.
Congratulations, USA: we are the world's most advanced gerontocracy. American exceptionalism, indeed.
open.substack.com/pub/leedrutm...
You may not know that American politicians are exceptionally old compared to other democracies.
Congratulations, USA: we are the world's most advanced gerontocracy. American exceptionalism, indeed.
open.substack.com/pub/leedrutm...
September 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
You may have noticed: American politicians are really old.
You may not know that American politicians are exceptionally old compared to other democracies.
Congratulations, USA: we are the world's most advanced gerontocracy. American exceptionalism, indeed.
open.substack.com/pub/leedrutm...
You may not know that American politicians are exceptionally old compared to other democracies.
Congratulations, USA: we are the world's most advanced gerontocracy. American exceptionalism, indeed.
open.substack.com/pub/leedrutm...