Wes
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it's 100% ketchup steaks to-the-wall at the white house tonight
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
it's 100% ketchup steaks to-the-wall at the white house tonight
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One thing Dems largely miss & many in the GOP understand is that most Americans hate politics & politicians. They just want a better life. For Dems to win, they need to focus not on white papers & political consultants, but rather on the lives of their neighbors. Emphasize the local & personal...
February 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
One thing Dems largely miss & many in the GOP understand is that most Americans hate politics & politicians. They just want a better life. For Dems to win, they need to focus not on white papers & political consultants, but rather on the lives of their neighbors. Emphasize the local & personal...
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this is the output of a profession that believes that adhesion to raw technicality is the height of reasoned analysis
End-stage legal academia is the Minnesota Law professor who was doing the “just asking questions about birthright citizenship” bit treating *Bill Ackman* as a source of serious authority on the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment
February 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
this is the output of a profession that believes that adhesion to raw technicality is the height of reasoned analysis
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FAFOing the FAFOest
The National Association of Home Builders explains what happens if we make inputs for home construction, such as Canadian lumber, more expensive.
February 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
FAFOing the FAFOest
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we’re about to spend a day or two arguing about whether the thing he did that perfectly mimicked a Nazi salute was in fact a Nazi salute, but I can’t get past what a complete fucking dork freak he looks like when doing it
January 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
we’re about to spend a day or two arguing about whether the thing he did that perfectly mimicked a Nazi salute was in fact a Nazi salute, but I can’t get past what a complete fucking dork freak he looks like when doing it
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mark zuckerberg’s entire adult life has been a revenge tour against women
January 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
mark zuckerberg’s entire adult life has been a revenge tour against women
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i don’t understand how, psychologically, a person gets to a place where they interpret sign language as some kind of attack or imposition on their life. like, what the fuck is wrong with you?
January 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
i don’t understand how, psychologically, a person gets to a place where they interpret sign language as some kind of attack or imposition on their life. like, what the fuck is wrong with you?
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Six decades later, Star Trek may still be the only franchise based on the ideas that diversity is strength, justice is the measure of civilization, bounty is to be shared, peace is worth the price, and all these things can be achieved.
We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.
We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.
November 29, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Six decades later, Star Trek may still be the only franchise based on the ideas that diversity is strength, justice is the measure of civilization, bounty is to be shared, peace is worth the price, and all these things can be achieved.
We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.
We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.
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the ninja turtles have elected a new mayor
So there is literal green slime bubbling up from the ground next to the World Trade Center in NYC right now
November 3, 2023 at 3:18 PM
the ninja turtles have elected a new mayor
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/in the most dispirited voice imaginable "Hell yeah, we're so back."
This is what was served to people that paid to have thanksgiving dinner with Trump and Elon last night at Mar-a-Lago 🤣
November 29, 2024 at 11:20 PM
/in the most dispirited voice imaginable "Hell yeah, we're so back."
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The Twitter trolls have taken to posting screenshots of my BlueSky & Threads posts to Twitter.
The non-engagement on that platform is KILLING THEM.
The non-engagement on that platform is KILLING THEM.
November 29, 2024 at 5:03 PM
The Twitter trolls have taken to posting screenshots of my BlueSky & Threads posts to Twitter.
The non-engagement on that platform is KILLING THEM.
The non-engagement on that platform is KILLING THEM.
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it’s friday y’all
November 29, 2024 at 12:12 PM
it’s friday y’all
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The amount of whipped cream on a slice of pie should render it invisible do not judge me
November 27, 2024 at 1:16 PM
The amount of whipped cream on a slice of pie should render it invisible do not judge me
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Happy National Defrosting Day.
November 26, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Happy National Defrosting Day.
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Elon will never get to Mars.
But thanks to what he did to Twitter, tens of millions of us will know a tiny bit of what it's like to flee a dying planet.
But thanks to what he did to Twitter, tens of millions of us will know a tiny bit of what it's like to flee a dying planet.
November 23, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Elon will never get to Mars.
But thanks to what he did to Twitter, tens of millions of us will know a tiny bit of what it's like to flee a dying planet.
But thanks to what he did to Twitter, tens of millions of us will know a tiny bit of what it's like to flee a dying planet.
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“Barkley is by any measure the only athlete, person, mammal or living thing that Philadelphians will agree that they cannot loathe, and his only shortcoming is that his signature moment may have come three months early.” defector.com/saquon-barkl...
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Because Philadelphia sports fans are the irradiated mutants they are, a win by the local team is not necessarily the central point of the exercise. If you’re wondering why the Eagles fan in your life ...
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November 15, 2024 at 3:59 PM
“Barkley is by any measure the only athlete, person, mammal or living thing that Philadelphians will agree that they cannot loathe, and his only shortcoming is that his signature moment may have come three months early.” defector.com/saquon-barkl...
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The red helmets are cool the rest of the look has issues
November 11, 2024 at 1:26 AM
The red helmets are cool the rest of the look has issues
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imagine getting a vp nom for writing hillbilly elegy and instantly, immediately getting out hillbilly elegied
August 7, 2024 at 12:30 AM
imagine getting a vp nom for writing hillbilly elegy and instantly, immediately getting out hillbilly elegied
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It’s pretty easy to feel smug and sassy about human ingenuity until you remember that it was only about 10 yrs ago that we figured out you could make a heart shape with your index fingers and thumbs
July 26, 2024 at 2:10 AM
It’s pretty easy to feel smug and sassy about human ingenuity until you remember that it was only about 10 yrs ago that we figured out you could make a heart shape with your index fingers and thumbs
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I’m a 50s housewife in that I would KILL to be invited over to my friend’s house, bring a cheeseball, and look at pictures from their vacation
December 3, 2023 at 4:28 AM
I’m a 50s housewife in that I would KILL to be invited over to my friend’s house, bring a cheeseball, and look at pictures from their vacation
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I studied polling theory in college. Gallup's polls were so much more accurate than the infamous 1936 Literary Digest poll (which predicted a Landon Landslide) because he obtained a random sample of the population to eliminate response bias.
Caller ID & cellphones reintroduced response bias.
Caller ID & cellphones reintroduced response bias.
November 8, 2023 at 4:02 AM
I studied polling theory in college. Gallup's polls were so much more accurate than the infamous 1936 Literary Digest poll (which predicted a Landon Landslide) because he obtained a random sample of the population to eliminate response bias.
Caller ID & cellphones reintroduced response bias.
Caller ID & cellphones reintroduced response bias.
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A good example of how we are continually stomped by the boot of society is the yearly exchange of one hour of sleep, once, for four months of darkness
November 5, 2023 at 1:36 PM
A good example of how we are continually stomped by the boot of society is the yearly exchange of one hour of sleep, once, for four months of darkness