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Jesse Berney
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Writer. 20+ years in politics, advocacy, and labor. Masters candidate in counseling and clinical intern therapist. He/him. DC.
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guys this is the same dog
A very shaggy junebug the Aussiedoodle A hilariously de-shagged junebug the Aussiedoodle, wearing a sweatshirt for warmth
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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God I forgot about this. It is AMAZING the things we learned about this man in 2015-6 that did not immediately bring his campaign to a close.
Text from a PEOPLE story: "Piggy" has reportedly been a favored insult of the president's in the past. During his 2016 presidential campaign, former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, who won the title at age 19 while Trump was a co-owner of the organization, claimed that Trump threatened to take away her title after she gained weight. “He was overwhelming, I was so scared of him,” Machado said in Spanish at the time. “He’d yell at me all the time. He’d tell me, ‘You look ugly,’ or ‘You look fat.’ Sometimes he’d ‘play’ with me and say: ‘Hello, Miss Piggy,’ ‘Hello, Miss Housekeeping.’ ”
November 18, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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So these were incredible
A single pumpkin brownie bar with a dollop of whipped cream on top
November 15, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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sorry, I made pumpkin brownie bars
November 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Which psychologists consider this? Because maybe someone should take their licenses away and also lock them in a dungeon since they are literally a danger to society.
NYT news alert: Chatbots Will See You Now Psychologists consider them the future of therapy. The FDA is exploring whether to regulate them. Are they safe?
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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PICTURED: what the other wing is doing to the "hitler sucks" wing of the GOP
the destroyed east wing of the white house
November 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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at least I still have this idiot
Junebug the Aussiedoodle looking goofy as hell with a leaf stuck to her mouth
November 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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but jesse what did you make for the block party

omg thank you for asking, I made apple fritters and they're amazing
A bowl of apple fritters
November 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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My friends were Log Lady and Dead Laura Palmer
A woman dressed as dead Laura Palmer and a man dressed as the Log Lady
November 1, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Junebug the Aussiedoodle sitting on my lap while Jack Skellington the pitbull sits on Mrs. Berney's.
November 1, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Here are the dog and the pumpkin lasagna, but it's up to you to decide which is which.
A super cute pitbull dog. A gorgeous pumpkin lasagna.
October 31, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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sitcom-generated gen-x nostalgia bomb
A shot of the screen in my car playing at this moment by billy vera
October 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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boy this quote is really hitting this morning
Murray Bowen, MD January 31, 1913 – October 9, 1990 “If my hypothesis about societal anxiety is reasonably accurate, the crises of society will recur and recur, with increasing intensity for decades to come. Man created the environmental crisis by being the kind of creature he is. The environment is part of man, change will require a change in the basic nature of man, and man’s track record for that kind of thing has not been good. . . . I believe man is moving into crises of unparalleled proportions, that the crises will be different than those he has faced before, that they will come with increasing frequency for several decades. . . . The type of man who survives that will be one who can live in better harmony with nature.”
October 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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hey can someone remind me why republicans were so mad at hunter biden
Pentagon awards major drone contract to company linked to Trump Jr. In November 2024, a few weeks after Trump won the presidential election, an obscure drone company, Unusual Machines, brought on Trump Jr. as an advisor. Trump Jr., who has no notable experience with drones or military contracting, was granted 200,000 shares in the company, a stake worth millions.
October 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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guys the paper is going great
a mostly blank document with only the title "something" centered and in bold and a cursor marker
October 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Currently unemployed, but family is financially secure enough that I could give a little!
A screenshot of a page from the Capital Area Food bank that says "thank you for your donation"
October 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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when your brother is playing with a the single scariest object in the world (a balloon)
Junebug the Aussiedoodle sitting in my lap looking absolutely terrified
October 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Kirk kissing Uhura
October 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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There Will Be Soup
A butternut squash cut into disks and roasted along with some carrots and onions
October 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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lol, synchronicity
three skeets: 1. bunnicula: trying not to be extremely annoyed w my dad but “I think this place needs a dehumidifier” doesn’t mean “get one that costs $400, will last a year or two tops, plop it into the middle of the family room, and run a plastic pipe 200 feet to the sink” 2. me, replying: this is the most dad a dad has ever dadded 3. at the same moment as #2, molly taft quote-skeeting a post about grant platner's coverup tattoo: this is the most new england guy coverup to have ever covered up
October 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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I have a tattoo with a diagram from a book by a turn-of-the-century* German embryologist, and I had a panic given the news today that he turned out to be a Nazi but, whew! From his Wikipedia page:

*sorry but this will always mean the turn of the 19th to 20th century to me, I am old
Highlighted passage from Wikipedia: In 1933 he was removed from his Leipzig chair and prematurely placed in emeritus status by the Nazi administration, the first non-Jewish academic to be thus expelled, because of his pacifism and open hostility to Nazism.
October 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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For me it was this one
The cover of BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS, A NOVEL by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
October 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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no kings, one queen
The sweet furry face of Junebug the Aussiedoodle laid on a gray blanket.
October 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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I'm just so happy to spend time in a joyous crowd of people with decency in their hearts and love for what our country can be.
October 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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A lady in a keystone cop outfit leading people with giant masks representing Steven Miller kristi noem Donald Trump and JD Vance in prison garb Protesters marching toward the capitol Mrs Berney with a sign that says some people didn't pay enough attention to Mr Rogers and it shows A woman in a yellow hat carrying a sign that says Steven Miller is a terrible president
October 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM