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I am sorry 'The Last Supper' fans, 22 hours from now, I will take 'The Last Supper' down. I cannot take this anymore.
October 24, 1510 at 8:23 PM
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the most important thing in 2028 is electing someone who is a true believer in the project of dismantling right-wing power. if you don't get that, then nothing else will matter very much.
January 12, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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The thing these losers have figured out is that absolutely nobody with a megaphone is willing to just say they’re lying. So if they keep saying the “right” things even when it’s visibly false, they’ll get away with it.
oh my god Leavitt is posting it like it's exonerating this people genuinely inhabit a different universe
January 9, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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January 9, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it
January 6, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.
Right.

If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
a lot of problems wouldn't exist if we had a congress with even an ounce of self interest
January 4, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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Every person in this photo can be executed by the next administration. We just need the will to power
January 3, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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This is the wild part about the whole Trump experience, even when he says politically disastrous things, reporters rush in to fill in the blanks and steelman his arguments. As soon as they cut away from him saying “we’ll run it,” they cut to someone saying “obviously he didn't mean that.”
January 3, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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You can be a Tasmanian Devil of vile and easily disproven bullshit, but if you also hate trans people you will be called a "challenging thinker" by American media institutions
December 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Youth being the sub-40 base of schizoeffective republicans who are convinced seed oils and the Jews are responsible for the transsexual mexicans preventing their son from having a full ride to a state school their state party just defunded
December 29, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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It was an unforgivable dereliction of duty that the majority of elected congressional Republican office holders were not in prison for open insurrection by March 2021.
I think it’s a reflection of their own attitudes. Both Biden and they were trying to live in a fantasy where those 4 years were a return to normalcy as opposed to the most urgent moment in American history to preserve what was left of democracy.
December 24, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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not speaking politics is not a virtue and it makes me so uncomfortable when people imply it is
December 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:

"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
December 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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It’s really strange the vice president of the United States is a white supremacist, who says white supremacist slogans, who publicly praises and follows the work of white supremacists, and it’s simply not mentioned or discussed in political media
December 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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You *can* change your sex.

I *did* change mine.

If this makes you uncomfortable, stop being part of the problem.
December 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Transphobia is an elite project. This is never more clear than when you observe the alliance of billionaires, media bosses and front-bench politicians, who collude to preach it ever more desperately to a public that still, mostly, just doesn’t care.
Our media's reporting of trans issues is poisonous, unhinged, a betrayal by those who pretend to report impartially, and shamefully reminiscent of other hate propagandising throughout the last century. I'm surprised to see it in the UK but I need to learn that it is, since Brexit, just who we are.
December 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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epstein in dozens of pieces of written documentation: the presidential candidate my best friend loves coming over to my house for the young girls i rent

reporters: we are getting closer to busting this thing wide open
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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It's almost as if letting the ultra-rich own the entire mainstream press and also all the big social platforms had a downside.
November 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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to the press, online spaces are somehow both the medium through which political actors and citizens form their views about the world, useful for gauging the temperature, and also, simultaneously, not “real” in the sense that certain trends or things that happen there are newsworthy
November 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles
October 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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a tyrant is ignoring the constitution, firing live artillery at americans, invading our cities, and tearing down the white house to build himself a palace

our institutions won't react because they're lost in a digital dreamstate, unable to decide what is true because of social media poisoning
October 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.
October 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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If nothing else I find it obscene to turn governmental agencies that are meant to function as institutions in service of the entire American political community into overtly partisan propaganda mouthpieces.

It’s just such a visceral degeneration of civic life it drives me insane.
October 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM