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Mr. Miso Paste
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За вашу і нашу свободу
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Ongoing problem of political consultants thinking they’re strategic geniuses because they hitched their wagon to a once-in-a-generation charismatic talent.

Carville and Clinton, Axelrod and Obama, and now Katz and Mamdani.
Morris Katz rapidly developing the problem where anybody outside of politics knows who the fuck he is.
November 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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imagine walking down the beach and seeing jesus carrying some guy
November 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Folks, Zohran Mamdani—smart guy, reminds me of a young me—you know what he said, I told him, “Zohran, I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna say the shahada,” and he said to me “Mr. President, you should say a third line confirming your belief in the wilayat of Ali,” should we do it folks? Should we say it?
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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okay um, a long time ago I was going to do a sequel zine to this but I got really busy with a job and other things, so I'm just going to post the best of what I managed, free. These are all based off of actual outfits of hers!

I do have a kofi in my bio though if you do feel inclined 😗💋✨
#artpost
November 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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they're saying there's a spectre haunting europe and it's very nice, we're looking into it strongly, it's beautiful, we love it and we think it means well
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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“We can’t do congressional restricting because it could give our primary challengers more time to campaign against us” … is exactly why these Maryland Dems deserve to be primaried.

If they can’t be persuaded to put fighting back against Republican power grabs ahead of self interest, they need to go
also from this article: anti-redistricting Sen. Ben Kramer (D-Montgomery County) said that he and other state senators are backing Ferguson's opposition to redistricting because they're afraid of giving their primary challengers more time to campaign against them
November 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Andy Harris's safe district exists as it does primarily because former no. 2 ranked House Democrat Steny Hoyer doesn't want a majority-minority district he could lose in a primary
“We can’t do congressional restricting because it could give our primary challengers more time to campaign against us” … is exactly why these Maryland Dems deserve to be primaried.

If they can’t be persuaded to put fighting back against Republican power grabs ahead of self interest, they need to go
also from this article: anti-redistricting Sen. Ben Kramer (D-Montgomery County) said that he and other state senators are backing Ferguson's opposition to redistricting because they're afraid of giving their primary challengers more time to campaign against them
November 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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The New York Times' story about Trump calling for the execution of members of Congress ran on Page 16 today, with an itty-bitty promo on the front about halfway down the page.
No wonder Trump thinks he can get away with anything.
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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El problema de una presidencia libertaria es que inevitablemente se te acaba el dinero de Estados Unidos
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Why yes, I did study English literature.
November 21, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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November 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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"I can't believe anyone would sincerely care about dark-skinned foreigners, so if you say you do, you must be lying" is the ultimate underlying view.
The people who say "why this obsession with Palestine? why don't you post about Sudan?" never post about Sudan themselves.
What they mean is "it's fine you don't care about Sudan. You should be similarly indifferent to Palestine"

(of course, many people do post about both and other crises)
November 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.’

George Orwell, Animal Farm
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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I genuinely don't know how to explain to liberals they're meant to consider the people under the bomber not the ones driving it in this image
I hate this sort of meme.

“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”

Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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We need more words like breadbasket.

"Colombia is the coffeebasket of South America."

"Switzerland is the watchbasket of Europe."

"Vietnam is the cashewbasket of southeast Asia."

"Brazoria County is the breakfast-taco-basket of Texas."

"South Korea is the electronicsbasket ..."
November 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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I'll do another thread on it as it's worth a stand-alone, but some examples from CNU's Housing + Transportation Affordability Index.

As you can see, Springfield, MO is shockingly affordable!!! And dying.

Meanwhile, due to the cost of driving mandates, the Denver suburbs *cost more than Denver*
November 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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DAD: Babe, I think the kid has Ovid

MOM: What? Covid?

CHILD:
Rose darke and full of foggye mist. And now they were within
A kenning of the upper earth, when Orphye did begin

DAD:
To dowt him lest shee followed not, and through an eager love
Desyrous for to see her, he his eyes did backward move.
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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primary them all
These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.

Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.

They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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happy int'l men's day
November 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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There has never been a better time to switch to Linux
"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"

bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
After the last decade of "surely THIS will stop Donald Trump", the doomers have a roughly 10000:2 score on predicting how things will go (the 2020 election and foiling the 2021 coup attempt are the two points in favor of something actually stopping Trump)
November 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Saudi Arabia is in a tough neighbourhood surrounded by hostile enemies such as Qatar, Iran, Israel, Iraq, Syria, Turkey etc. It only has a tiny population. Why dont you go there before criticising
November 18, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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right, and the thing about selling out on abortion is that, really, is ezra klein selling anything out himself? no, he's selling someone else out.
but I also think that Klein et al regard "selling out on abortion" as respectable and "selling out on antivax" as tinfoil-hat-humiliating, and that's why the "dems may have to make hard choices . . . like running pro-life candidates" is such a refrain even though it's from another era altogether
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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you make that sound like its an invalid approach but to me "trying, sometimes hopelessly, to figure out after the fact why it is i like or dislike a movie" is the point of criticism! bsky.app/profile/algi...
You know how when someone writes a review of a movie, it's either all good or all bad? That's because people instinctively like or dislike a movie, then after the fact look for reasons why they felt like that. This essay is that kind of after the fact justification on steroids.
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM