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starting a fistfight at the family 4th of july bbq by reminding the divorced uncles that trump is a convicted felon
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google maps broke and created some kind of unholy chicago singularity
the great khan pritzker rallying his vassals as he prepares to wage war against the tyrants in washington
south korea experienced a coup attempt because their president went insane watching ultra-nationalist conspiracy theorists on youtube
now imagine the reactionary bigots on the white house staff feeding AI video slop to a president who is infamously credulous at believing whatever he sees on tv
now imagine the reactionary bigots on the white house staff feeding AI video slop to a president who is infamously credulous at believing whatever he sees on tv
At this point, I wonder if he isn't lying when he says he has "my highest Poll Numbers, ever" since it's entirely possible that's what his aides are telling him. It's quite likely that there's an entire Potemkin village built around Trump right now.
Trump responds to a detailed report about his waning energy and propensity to sleep through on-camera events by calling the New York Times's Katie Rogers ugly
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
south korea experienced a coup attempt because their president went insane watching ultra-nationalist conspiracy theorists on youtube
now imagine the reactionary bigots on the white house staff feeding AI video slop to a president who is infamously credulous at believing whatever he sees on tv
now imagine the reactionary bigots on the white house staff feeding AI video slop to a president who is infamously credulous at believing whatever he sees on tv
to the people out there who believe there's no such thing as a food desert in a city i invite you to take a look at the actual data. here's a helpful map from the USDA showing all the places that lack ready access to supermarkets
spoiler: there are a lot of places!
spoiler: there are a lot of places!
Food Access Research Atlas - Go to the Atlas | Economic Research Service
The Food Access Research Atlas (formerly the Food Desert Locator) is a mapping tool that provides a spatial overview of food access indicators by census tract, allowing users to investigate multiple i...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
to the people out there who believe there's no such thing as a food desert in a city i invite you to take a look at the actual data. here's a helpful map from the USDA showing all the places that lack ready access to supermarkets
spoiler: there are a lot of places!
spoiler: there are a lot of places!
just my own anecdote but i worked at walmart while i was in school and a few years later i got a check from a class action lawsuit walmart had settled because they had been stealing wages
The types of businesses that engage in wage theft and other overall shadiness towards employees are far more likely to be mom and pop small businesses than large multinational conglomerates.
Not to say those big companies dont treat employees like shit, but they have actual policies and shit
Not to say those big companies dont treat employees like shit, but they have actual policies and shit
November 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
just my own anecdote but i worked at walmart while i was in school and a few years later i got a check from a class action lawsuit walmart had settled because they had been stealing wages
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This is what happens when you have a congress driven entirely by news cycles and money. Even when the president is calling for their executions, they are incapable of breaking out of their routines. Especially when it involves doing real work.
November 26, 2025 at 5:08 AM
This is what happens when you have a congress driven entirely by news cycles and money. Even when the president is calling for their executions, they are incapable of breaking out of their routines. Especially when it involves doing real work.
"the president threatened to execute me but instead of impeaching him i'm going to go do a tv show with a comedian"
What a week and it’s only Tuesday. See me on Jimmy Kimmel tonight to talk all about it.
November 26, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"the president threatened to execute me but instead of impeaching him i'm going to go do a tv show with a comedian"
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This is . . . off-putting. There's nothing here that projects the gravity of the situation or what's at stake. Quite the contrary. This conveys the message that it's all an exciting reality show with no real consequences for anyone. The imagery is just all wrong.
What a week and it’s only Tuesday. See me on Jimmy Kimmel tonight to talk all about it.
November 26, 2025 at 4:52 AM
This is . . . off-putting. There's nothing here that projects the gravity of the situation or what's at stake. Quite the contrary. This conveys the message that it's all an exciting reality show with no real consequences for anyone. The imagery is just all wrong.
this is a very funny thing for barro to tweet because anyone who paid attention to politics circa 2008-2016 would remember that barack obama is the most enthusiastic poker player of any politician to run for president since nixon
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 AM
this is a very funny thing for barro to tweet because anyone who paid attention to politics circa 2008-2016 would remember that barack obama is the most enthusiastic poker player of any politician to run for president since nixon
it's way down on the agenda but when we throw these crooks out of power we need to get the library of congress to start archiving the menswear guy's posts
November 26, 2025 at 5:28 AM
it's way down on the agenda but when we throw these crooks out of power we need to get the library of congress to start archiving the menswear guy's posts
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No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
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The Aubrey-Maturin Saga (18 movies)
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The Aubrey-Maturin Saga (18 movies)
hey remember when one of the most visible trump officials took a $50,000 bribe in the form of stacks of cash in a paper bag? and then he kept the money while facing no consequences whatsoever? good times
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
hey remember when one of the most visible trump officials took a $50,000 bribe in the form of stacks of cash in a paper bag? and then he kept the money while facing no consequences whatsoever? good times
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The "fight club" thing needs to be treated as phony until proven otherwise.
I too can make a club with the word fight in it and not actually fight.
I too can make a club with the word fight in it and not actually fight.
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The "fight club" thing needs to be treated as phony until proven otherwise.
I too can make a club with the word fight in it and not actually fight.
I too can make a club with the word fight in it and not actually fight.
speaking of hegseth installing apparatchiks in the JAG corps it hasn't gotten nearly enough attention that the guy he installed as head of the army JAG corps is the same guy that trump appointed after the 2020 election as US Attorney in GA to try to help him overturn the outcome of the election
have to wonder if hegseth is going after retired naval captain mark kelly because the navy is where he installed his commissar timothy parlatore as a JAG officer
The real test of the rules relating to whether the military can refuse illegal order is going to be the JAG officer that refuses to participate in this political prosecution.
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
speaking of hegseth installing apparatchiks in the JAG corps it hasn't gotten nearly enough attention that the guy he installed as head of the army JAG corps is the same guy that trump appointed after the 2020 election as US Attorney in GA to try to help him overturn the outcome of the election
have to wonder if hegseth is going after retired naval captain mark kelly because the navy is where he installed his commissar timothy parlatore as a JAG officer
The real test of the rules relating to whether the military can refuse illegal order is going to be the JAG officer that refuses to participate in this political prosecution.
latest sham investigation just dropped
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
have to wonder if hegseth is going after retired naval captain mark kelly because the navy is where he installed his commissar timothy parlatore as a JAG officer
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Which begs question about newly announced fight club in senate:why not immediately call for house colleagues to introduce articles of impeachment? And why haven’t any members ever publicly, vociferously used unanimous consent to stall any & all votes? Why did Rubio pass 99-0 @senategabe.bsky.social
The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Which begs question about newly announced fight club in senate:why not immediately call for house colleagues to introduce articles of impeachment? And why haven’t any members ever publicly, vociferously used unanimous consent to stall any & all votes? Why did Rubio pass 99-0 @senategabe.bsky.social
an important lesson that the next democratic president needs to draw from trump is that if you make one controversial executive action the press will hound you over it for weeks & months but if you launch a dozen consecutive controversial actions the press are incapable of staying focused
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
an important lesson that the next democratic president needs to draw from trump is that if you make one controversial executive action the press will hound you over it for weeks & months but if you launch a dozen consecutive controversial actions the press are incapable of staying focused
one of my pet beliefs is that it's much healthier for society when the guy who starts out as a janitor has a realistic path to reaching the highest ranks in a company's leadership
one of the things i objected to most at at GOOG over the years, from the labor perspective, is the slow decay of the blue-collar routes up into corp. you used to encounter guys who started out swapping drives in 120 degree heat in the hot aisles and who were now SREs, and that's gone.
Yes. I probably could have put it better in the original post and tried to clarify in the next one
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
one of my pet beliefs is that it's much healthier for society when the guy who starts out as a janitor has a realistic path to reaching the highest ranks in a company's leadership
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Jeff Goldberg, the editor of the Atlantic, is a villain who has helped create American fascism.
Kudos to Kennedy's handlers for getting him a cover shoot -- praying with a rosary! -- at the same time he's at the center of a 🤢 cyber infidelity scandal. No notes.
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Jeff Goldberg, the editor of the Atlantic, is a villain who has helped create American fascism.
it drives me insane when i see punditry proclaiming that life is more affordable than ever by pointing to amazon deliveries and cheap televisions but completely glossing over the cost of housing, healthcare, and education
November 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
it drives me insane when i see punditry proclaiming that life is more affordable than ever by pointing to amazon deliveries and cheap televisions but completely glossing over the cost of housing, healthcare, and education
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Everybody involved will need to go to prison and if democrats in congress don’t have the stomach for punishing these people they should just resign now.
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
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It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Everybody involved will need to go to prison and if democrats in congress don’t have the stomach for punishing these people they should just resign now.
Hear the rime of the ancient mariner
See his eye as he stops one of three
Mesmerises one of the wedding guests
Stay here and listen to the nightmares of the sea
And the music plays on, as the bride passes by
Caught by his spell and the mariner tells his tale
See his eye as he stops one of three
Mesmerises one of the wedding guests
Stay here and listen to the nightmares of the sea
And the music plays on, as the bride passes by
Caught by his spell and the mariner tells his tale
November 23, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Hear the rime of the ancient mariner
See his eye as he stops one of three
Mesmerises one of the wedding guests
Stay here and listen to the nightmares of the sea
And the music plays on, as the bride passes by
Caught by his spell and the mariner tells his tale
See his eye as he stops one of three
Mesmerises one of the wedding guests
Stay here and listen to the nightmares of the sea
And the music plays on, as the bride passes by
Caught by his spell and the mariner tells his tale
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"Criminals have to rot in jail. If jail is a bad place, just don't do stupid stuff that puts you there. Let's end this story of being sorry for prisoners. Whoever is there did something to deserve it."
November 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"Criminals have to rot in jail. If jail is a bad place, just don't do stupid stuff that puts you there. Let's end this story of being sorry for prisoners. Whoever is there did something to deserve it."
the way to stop someone from breaking the rules is to make them face consequences for their actions
democrats will point to the myriad crimes trump & his cronies have perpetrated but the dems never show any evidence they intend to actually take any action to hold this administration accountable
democrats will point to the myriad crimes trump & his cronies have perpetrated but the dems never show any evidence they intend to actually take any action to hold this administration accountable
November 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
the way to stop someone from breaking the rules is to make them face consequences for their actions
democrats will point to the myriad crimes trump & his cronies have perpetrated but the dems never show any evidence they intend to actually take any action to hold this administration accountable
democrats will point to the myriad crimes trump & his cronies have perpetrated but the dems never show any evidence they intend to actually take any action to hold this administration accountable