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Published: January 22, 2025 19:31

There is a widespread sickness in American punditry where commentators cannot describe basic political realities because it sounds partisan, so they mischaracterize the positions of Democrats and Republicans to avoid appearing like they are taking a stand.…

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Published: January 22, 2025 18:39

As usual, the entire premise here is false. Left-leaning people talk constantly about how to improve government programs. Meanwhile, conservatives are not 'talking seriously' about improving efficiency, they are attempting to gut government services en…

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Published: January 22, 2025 16:59

This is fascinating https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-youtube-podcast-men-for-trump/

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Published: January 22, 2025 14:14

It's always been obvious that the anti-DEI backlash wasn't driven by opposition to silly or ineffective trainings, it was opposition to diversity itself. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 22, 2025 14:09

Important to remember that the real problem here is the overconfidence of random people online, not the world's richest man declaring Nazi-adjacent views for years and making a gesture in line with those views at the inauguration of the president. …

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Published: January 22, 2025 14:06

Can't believe I am being canceled in the comments simply for making an egregious factual error https://www.patreon.com/posts/january-bonus-118906345

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Published: January 21, 2025 19:08

You spend years platforming and agreeing with Nazis and the next thing you know people are not charitably interpreting a hand gesture

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Published: January 21, 2025 19:01

So disappointed about this! It seems like they released a barely glorified demo and thought they could user-feedback their way to an actual video game https://youtu.be/jhIjVy37eAo?si=hVvktdqc25kI5r5l

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Published: January 21, 2025 14:38

lol [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 20, 2025 19:09

Even if he does it is worth resisting! I find all the talk of whether Trump’s power is legitimate baffling, honestly. He’s a straightforward authoritarian! The main reason to push back is all of the stuff he is going to do, not how his vote total stacks up…

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Published: January 20, 2025 18:37

I will never stop being mad about how the media has treated the anti-trans movement as a group of ordinary people with legitimate concerns rather than the obvious frothing bigots they are. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 20, 2025 18:04

History has consistently demonstrated that direct support for authoritarianism is relatively narrow. It thrives through surrender and acquiescence by elite institutions. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 20, 2025 17:45

Nothing puts me at a higher risk of irresponsible skeeting than being bored at the airport

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Published: January 19, 2025 20:22

Trump is wildly unpopular and so are his policies! All of the people currently bending the knee cosplay as savvy politics-knowers but it’s not particularly savvy to throw in your lot with an authoritarian criminal whose own voters weren’t informed about…

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Published: January 19, 2025 17:59

Do I have any followers who are gerontologists? Especially folks who are familiar with the debate between the work of Michel Poulain and Saul Newman?

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Published: January 19, 2025 16:46

There is an emerging conventional wisdom that resistance to Trump went too far and I am going to lose my mind. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/19/opinion/trump-resistance-second-term/

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Published: January 19, 2025 00:36

After 30 days my conclusion is that LA is such fucking garbage and I like it here so much

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Published: January 19, 2025 00:31

Found another Grindr profile with "only into hot guys" in the About Me text

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Published: January 19, 2025 00:29

My New Year's Resolution lasted almost 2/3rds of the way til February, please clap

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Published: January 18, 2025 16:05

A Vox explainer for why the smoke alarm in my Airbnb goes off every time I roast sweet potatoes but never activated when plumes of wildfire smoke overtook the entire neighborhood

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Published: January 17, 2025 14:47

If only there was a shorter way to say "people who are against diversity" https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/01/the-end-of-the-dei-era/681345/

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Published: January 17, 2025 14:27

we are never doing a mailbag episode again

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Published: January 17, 2025 13:40

Fascinating early data from NYC's congestion pricing experiment. Overall traffic is down by 8%. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-nyc-congestion-pricing-week-one-traffic-mix-shifts/?srnd=homepage-americas

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Published: January 16, 2025 23:43

These videos are deranged, what are we doing here [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: January 16, 2025 23:37

lmao [contains quote post or other embedded content]