Joel Finkelstein
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to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness
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In Memoriam:
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
November 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
September 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
Damn - it’s 2025 and the Onion still doesn’t miss.
Slaughterhouse Cow Frets Over Personal Contributions To Climate Change theonion.com/slaught...
August 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Damn - it’s 2025 and the Onion still doesn’t miss.
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NYC Comptroller Brad Lander: "I don't think the line for the [Democratic] party right now is between progressives and moderates; I think it's between fighters and folders."
June 28, 2025 at 1:08 AM
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander: "I don't think the line for the [Democratic] party right now is between progressives and moderates; I think it's between fighters and folders."
I swear to god if Cris Collinsworth starts calling out Trump I’m going to have to seriously consider going full MAGA.
June 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I swear to god if Cris Collinsworth starts calling out Trump I’m going to have to seriously consider going full MAGA.
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Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.
June 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.
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Unbelievably horrified by this attack in Boulder. We don’t know the full story of the attacker, but no matter what it is, let me be clear: Senseless, antisemitic attacks do not help Palestinians, Jews, or Israelis.
Committing terror attacks against people standing for hostages is disgusting.
Committing terror attacks against people standing for hostages is disgusting.
June 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Unbelievably horrified by this attack in Boulder. We don’t know the full story of the attacker, but no matter what it is, let me be clear: Senseless, antisemitic attacks do not help Palestinians, Jews, or Israelis.
Committing terror attacks against people standing for hostages is disgusting.
Committing terror attacks against people standing for hostages is disgusting.
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Hell yeah:
""Employees are requested to please notify [admin assholes] of any other agency office, sub-unit, personnel position description, contract, or program focusing exclusively on DEI,” the email said
No employees in the agency, then more than 15,000 people strong, responded to that plea"
""Employees are requested to please notify [admin assholes] of any other agency office, sub-unit, personnel position description, contract, or program focusing exclusively on DEI,” the email said
No employees in the agency, then more than 15,000 people strong, responded to that plea"
Solidarity www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Trump Asked EPA Employees to Snitch on Colleagues Working on DEI Initiatives. They Declined.
EPA staff didn’t use a tip line set up by the Trump administration to identify and assist in slashing programs focused on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.
www.propublica.org
May 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Hell yeah:
""Employees are requested to please notify [admin assholes] of any other agency office, sub-unit, personnel position description, contract, or program focusing exclusively on DEI,” the email said
No employees in the agency, then more than 15,000 people strong, responded to that plea"
""Employees are requested to please notify [admin assholes] of any other agency office, sub-unit, personnel position description, contract, or program focusing exclusively on DEI,” the email said
No employees in the agency, then more than 15,000 people strong, responded to that plea"
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City Planner Gets Halfway Through Designing City Before Realizing He’s Just Doing Philadelphia Again
theonion.com/city-pl...
theonion.com/city-pl...
May 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
City Planner Gets Halfway Through Designing City Before Realizing He’s Just Doing Philadelphia Again
theonion.com/city-pl...
theonion.com/city-pl...
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We need a leftist Andrew Tate. We need a leftist Fox News. We need a casino where you don't gamble and they give you free money. I refuse to understand the ecosystem I'm in the center of and I will not leave or modify my behavior. We need leftist McNuggets
May 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
We need a leftist Andrew Tate. We need a leftist Fox News. We need a casino where you don't gamble and they give you free money. I refuse to understand the ecosystem I'm in the center of and I will not leave or modify my behavior. We need leftist McNuggets
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NEW AD:
If you mess with Philadelphia, I will stop you. F around and find out.
If you mess with Philadelphia, I will stop you. F around and find out.
May 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
NEW AD:
If you mess with Philadelphia, I will stop you. F around and find out.
If you mess with Philadelphia, I will stop you. F around and find out.
“No such thing as bad publicity!” said the Senator, before going “beep beep!” and disappearing into a puff of smoke and leaving just a Chuck Schumer-shaped hole in the wall.
As a party, we are prisoners being held hostage by people who simply refuse to accept that their time has passed and won’t accept that others more capable right now. Stay in the Senate, but step down from leadership. It’s time for a new approach, a new face, & a new voice.
May 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
“No such thing as bad publicity!” said the Senator, before going “beep beep!” and disappearing into a puff of smoke and leaving just a Chuck Schumer-shaped hole in the wall.
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IN. MY. VEINS.
April 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
IN. MY. VEINS.
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I remain proud AF to have voted for both of these brilliant supremely qualified women, I’ll never regret it.
April 25, 2025 at 4:42 AM
I remain proud AF to have voted for both of these brilliant supremely qualified women, I’ll never regret it.
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Isaac Chotiner interviews hit everyone’s dopamine centers because they are all structured there exact same way as Steamed Hams.
April 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Isaac Chotiner interviews hit everyone’s dopamine centers because they are all structured there exact same way as Steamed Hams.
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Every day he does something new to prove this is true and any institution in his crosshairs who doesn’t see this yet doesn’t want to see it.
Comply, and he will immediately make another set of punitive demands. Tell him to fuck off and he will eventually slink away.
Comply, and he will immediately make another set of punitive demands. Tell him to fuck off and he will eventually slink away.
Once again: everyone who spent any time around Trump in the 80s and 90s during his “real estate mogul” era said that if you look him straight in the eye and tell him to go fuck himself he disengages and immediately starts looking for an exit.
Trump’s sputtering response to Harvard standing up to him is yet another reason why institutions should refuse to bend the knee. He’s a paper tiger, unable to argue his own case.
April 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Every day he does something new to prove this is true and any institution in his crosshairs who doesn’t see this yet doesn’t want to see it.
Comply, and he will immediately make another set of punitive demands. Tell him to fuck off and he will eventually slink away.
Comply, and he will immediately make another set of punitive demands. Tell him to fuck off and he will eventually slink away.
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trump’s reaction (or lack thereof) to the attempt on the lives of gov. shapiro and his family ON PASSOVER is why it’s journalism malpractice to credulously report ANYTHING he does as being in service of fighting antisemitism.
jews are pawns in his nazi game and don’t ever get it twisted.
jews are pawns in his nazi game and don’t ever get it twisted.
April 14, 2025 at 2:10 AM
trump’s reaction (or lack thereof) to the attempt on the lives of gov. shapiro and his family ON PASSOVER is why it’s journalism malpractice to credulously report ANYTHING he does as being in service of fighting antisemitism.
jews are pawns in his nazi game and don’t ever get it twisted.
jews are pawns in his nazi game and don’t ever get it twisted.
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Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
stop calling things deportation just because they call it deportation.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
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Im sorry but if you believe this, continuing to give UC and going home on Thursdays is inexcusable @chrismurphyct.bsky.social. And I frankly dont care if your colleagues are on board or not. Put up or shut up.
Murphy: "The vast majority of Republicans, their number one priority is Trump seizing power, and the Trump family and the MAGA universe holding power forever ... with the exception of maybe 20 Republicans in the Senate, the GOP inside Congress is done with democracy."
April 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Im sorry but if you believe this, continuing to give UC and going home on Thursdays is inexcusable @chrismurphyct.bsky.social. And I frankly dont care if your colleagues are on board or not. Put up or shut up.
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Why would anyone want to go to a university knowing the school might have a hand in their arrest and rendition to another country?
Columbia snakebit themselves.
Columbia snakebit themselves.
April 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Why would anyone want to go to a university knowing the school might have a hand in their arrest and rendition to another country?
Columbia snakebit themselves.
Columbia snakebit themselves.
This is the first thing that has made me feel optimistic in eight years.
Some anti-doomerism: Trump has never, in his entire life, succeeded at a goal (he didn't even intend to win in 2016). So if his aim is to destroy the world economy, he's going to fuck that up.
so there’s a decent chance— not a certainty, but a decent chance— that this morning was the richest you’ll feel for the rest of your life
April 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This is the first thing that has made me feel optimistic in eight years.