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Stuff like this was an open secret (“secret”) in southern society (Mary Boykin Chestnut talks about it) but since the south was a shame rather than guilt society no one cared
The reason Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner half to death while he was pinned in his desk was because Sumner gave a speech which criticized Brooks’s cousin Andrew Butler for his support of slavery and heavily (and correctly!) implied Butler was fucking his slaves
February 15, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Stuff like this was an open secret (“secret”) in southern society (Mary Boykin Chestnut talks about it) but since the south was a shame rather than guilt society no one cared
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this is dumb hot take shit from me, and it’s worth me actually not being stupid about it: “the left” here, as defined by online hypeaddicts, is fucking worthless. but there’s a real movement left for regular progressives that i think is working, and useful.
the american left is a lost cause, left leaning dems are the path forward, and - note to every online leftist who sees this and gets mad online - they’re toothless
February 16, 2026 at 3:15 AM
this is dumb hot take shit from me, and it’s worth me actually not being stupid about it: “the left” here, as defined by online hypeaddicts, is fucking worthless. but there’s a real movement left for regular progressives that i think is working, and useful.
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thats an attack ad
February 15, 2026 at 10:20 PM
thats an attack ad
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Man he ruled.
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
February 16, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Man he ruled.
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/2 Anyway, this is what the Smoking Gun was reporting TWENTY YEARS AGO in 2006. It was horrifying then and it’s still horrifying and it unequivocally shows child abuse.
www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/se...
www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/se...
Billionaire In Palm Beach Sex Scandal
JULY 26--Prepare to take a shower after reading this remarkably sleazy probable cause affidavit filed in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier who was arrested Sunday for soliciting s
www.thesmokinggun.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:53 AM
/2 Anyway, this is what the Smoking Gun was reporting TWENTY YEARS AGO in 2006. It was horrifying then and it’s still horrifying and it unequivocally shows child abuse.
www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/se...
www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/se...
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Republicans: "I was just foolin'."
Democrats: "I wasn't."
Democrats: "I wasn't."
February 16, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Republicans: "I was just foolin'."
Democrats: "I wasn't."
Democrats: "I wasn't."
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I'll take Frederick Douglass over Elon Musk
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
February 16, 2026 at 12:36 AM
I'll take Frederick Douglass over Elon Musk
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Someone could still file! There's over a month! I would argue people stanning for Platner and trying to ignore **his Nazi tattoo scandal** are actually making it less likely there could be another alternative. This is not about Collins or Mills! It's about Platner on his own merits.
There's other choices between the Nazi tattoo guy! We could just... choose someone else! Mills isn't my first choice, but there's things in the world worse than being 79, and being a Nazi is one of them!
February 16, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Someone could still file! There's over a month! I would argue people stanning for Platner and trying to ignore **his Nazi tattoo scandal** are actually making it less likely there could be another alternative. This is not about Collins or Mills! It's about Platner on his own merits.
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The Dow is a price-weighted average of 30 stocks. It also is adjusted to account for stock splits over the years. The Dow is much higher than a simple average of those 30 stocks would be and it does not represent a dollar amount.
They keep saying dollars instead of points.
Peter Navarro: "It's the perfect Trump economy in 2026 ... we're seeing stock market over $50,000"
February 16, 2026 at 12:42 AM
The Dow is a price-weighted average of 30 stocks. It also is adjusted to account for stock splits over the years. The Dow is much higher than a simple average of those 30 stocks would be and it does not represent a dollar amount.
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Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways
February 16, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways
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I'm a reporter! I am not a Mainer! I don't have a candidate!
I am simply making the point Nazi tattoos are bad, disqualifying, and his explanations for this are implausible.
I am simply making the point Nazi tattoos are bad, disqualifying, and his explanations for this are implausible.
Serious q: who's your candidate?
February 16, 2026 at 12:30 AM
I'm a reporter! I am not a Mainer! I don't have a candidate!
I am simply making the point Nazi tattoos are bad, disqualifying, and his explanations for this are implausible.
I am simply making the point Nazi tattoos are bad, disqualifying, and his explanations for this are implausible.
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😭😭😭 a community member just handed this off to a patroller in our neighborhood
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
😭😭😭 a community member just handed this off to a patroller in our neighborhood
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A former Democratic colleague of hers once told me that Susan Collins is “usually there when you don’t need her and never there when you actually do.” The moderate brand she projects is entirely performative. It’s always surprised me that Maine voters don’t seem to care.
February 16, 2026 at 12:16 AM
A former Democratic colleague of hers once told me that Susan Collins is “usually there when you don’t need her and never there when you actually do.” The moderate brand she projects is entirely performative. It’s always surprised me that Maine voters don’t seem to care.
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Here’s the thing I don’t think American leftists’ votes cost us the election, there just aren’t that many of them—I think the problem with them is that they have more conservative politics than regular libs and contribute to an overall project to paint the democrats as worse than republican
I think that we should unite behind a popular front to defeat fascism rather than treating a coalition as a hostage negotiation
(also the reality is that most swing voters are incoherent weirdos who are persuaded by random, often heterodox policies and vibes)
(also the reality is that most swing voters are incoherent weirdos who are persuaded by random, often heterodox policies and vibes)
February 15, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Here’s the thing I don’t think American leftists’ votes cost us the election, there just aren’t that many of them—I think the problem with them is that they have more conservative politics than regular libs and contribute to an overall project to paint the democrats as worse than republican
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Again, I hope everyone likes Lost Decades, because the lesson Democrats have learned is to never try for full employment & ambitious policy in response to massive economic crises, bc you’ll get destroyed for single digit inflation you didn’t even cause & told you didn’t care about the working class
Again, I hope everyone likes Lost Decades. Because we are going to have a lot more of them in the next several decades, especially if we ever have a Democratic president again.
Again, along with the democracy concerns, I hope everyone loves Lost Decades, like we had under Obama. Because <every> Democrat, for the rest of our lives, is now going to learn the lesson that grinding 10-year long recessions are better than single-digit inflation that's a bit high for 1.5 years.
February 15, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Again, I hope everyone likes Lost Decades, because the lesson Democrats have learned is to never try for full employment & ambitious policy in response to massive economic crises, bc you’ll get destroyed for single digit inflation you didn’t even cause & told you didn’t care about the working class
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the more you learn about the antebellum south the more you transform into this
every plantation owner should have been put to death
every plantation owner should have been put to death
February 15, 2026 at 12:01 AM
the more you learn about the antebellum south the more you transform into this
every plantation owner should have been put to death
every plantation owner should have been put to death
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Biden was the most economically progressive president since LBJ at least, he pursued a full-employment economy at huge political risk, it worked spectacularly.
And what happened is that the entire progressive universe decided that he must not have done any of it, or else he would have been popular
And what happened is that the entire progressive universe decided that he must not have done any of it, or else he would have been popular
Are the progressive economic policies in the room with us right now?
February 15, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Biden was the most economically progressive president since LBJ at least, he pursued a full-employment economy at huge political risk, it worked spectacularly.
And what happened is that the entire progressive universe decided that he must not have done any of it, or else he would have been popular
And what happened is that the entire progressive universe decided that he must not have done any of it, or else he would have been popular
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A female ICE thug posing as a distressed motorist in neighborhoods of Brooklyn Park (63% non-white), MN, to entrap good samaritans. This is the same MO Ted Bundy used to lure his victims to their demise.
February 15, 2026 at 10:35 PM
A female ICE thug posing as a distressed motorist in neighborhoods of Brooklyn Park (63% non-white), MN, to entrap good samaritans. This is the same MO Ted Bundy used to lure his victims to their demise.
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douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.
February 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
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Look I don't wanna boost that Elon post about English / Scots / Irish stuff more than it needs to be boosted but anyone claiming that English / Scots / Irish culture are the same inherent base culture is inherently disqualified from any further commentary on English / Scots / Irish culture.
February 15, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Look I don't wanna boost that Elon post about English / Scots / Irish stuff more than it needs to be boosted but anyone claiming that English / Scots / Irish culture are the same inherent base culture is inherently disqualified from any further commentary on English / Scots / Irish culture.
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My English-Scots-Irish ancestors didn't die for multiculturalism; they killed for it. Killed Confederates who said shit exactly like this.
February 15, 2026 at 9:21 PM
My English-Scots-Irish ancestors didn't die for multiculturalism; they killed for it. Killed Confederates who said shit exactly like this.
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I don't think I've ever seen gears shift this fast before.
February 15, 2026 at 9:50 PM
I don't think I've ever seen gears shift this fast before.
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"New files show that Starr went as far as hosting Epstein on Baylor's campus in the summer of 2012. When Starr later resigned from Baylor over the sexual assault scandal that roiled the university, Epstein checked in..."
Then Starr went from dean of Pepperdine U to president of Baylor U with Epstein-now a registered sex offender-assisting. "I am forever in your corner"
"Starr was a key part of the team that secured a controversial agreement that allowed Epstein to avoid federal sex trafficking charges. Instead, Epstein pleaded guilty to two FL state felony prostitution charges, had to serve 18 months in prison, and was required to register as a sex offender."
February 15, 2026 at 10:26 PM
"New files show that Starr went as far as hosting Epstein on Baylor's campus in the summer of 2012. When Starr later resigned from Baylor over the sexual assault scandal that roiled the university, Epstein checked in..."
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Well well well
February 13, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Well well well