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Published: June 22, 2025 23:10

Idk maybe sit this one out [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 22, 2025 15:38

Dems getting outflanked by MTG on anti-war messaging I fear

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Published: June 22, 2025 14:09

I wrote about something six justices of the Supreme Court never did—the real lives of actual trans kids and what we all owe them now https://autonomy.substack.com/p/we-name-ourselves

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Published: June 22, 2025 12:05

The thing about going to war with this crew is they are universally inveterate liars. They will lie about the losses, the successes, and the costs. Believe nothing they tell you.

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Published: June 22, 2025 11:49

The best example here is the Biden rules on transgender athletes, which gave schools latitude to set their own rules but with specific privacy rules and a need to justify any exclusion of a given trans person. It was sued and blocked not by trans people…

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Published: June 22, 2025 02:56

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Published: June 22, 2025 02:17

I'm sorry but just look at these four assholes [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 22, 2025 01:23

Really can't be overstated that Trump is only president because no small part of the electorate thought he would bring back dollar menus

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Published: June 22, 2025 01:07

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Published: June 22, 2025 01:03

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Published: June 22, 2025 00:54

Omggg I'm going to have to hear JD Vance explain this in his whiny arguing-with-the-professor voice I hate my life

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Published: June 22, 2025 00:48

Special thanks to our sponsor Coinbase

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Published: June 22, 2025 00:22

This is why right now is dumber than thr Iraq runup. There was a year of endless propaganda on top of the war mindset of post-9/11 and Bush at +60% approval. Right now its a historically unpopular president following an unpopular ally into a war nobody…

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Published: June 22, 2025 00:17

I'm honestly impressed by the sheer lack of any attempt to persuade here. "Iran must agree to end this war" that we just started? [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 22, 2025 00:07

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Published: June 21, 2025 23:10

Its definitely not an issue in the electorate but the gap between, say, Ric Grenell and Pete Hegseth or JD "Normal Gay" Vance and Mike Johnson is pretty interesting IMO! Its a big ideological divide [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 21, 2025 20:31

I actually don't think it's hard to imagine Trump pinkwashing himself the way Israel does. That photo was taken after the Pulse nightclub shooting in 2016 which Trump exploited during the campaign to justify his anti-Muslim travel ban, for example …

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Published: June 21, 2025 20:14

"After being shoved unwilling into boxes for all their young lives, Roberts crammed Tennessee’s trans youth into yet another: a legal box crafted solely as a pregnancy-exception to the Equal Protection Clause" [contains quote post or other embedded…

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Published: June 21, 2025 19:26

Yes and the "they" who found it funny is most living people over 35 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 21, 2025 19:17

Ultimately what the right realized is many powerful people and institutions have always hated trans people but, over the 2010s, they lost the ability to be explicit about it and thus were in need of a permission structure (women's sports! Bone density!) to…

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Published: June 21, 2025 18:42

Yes and I challenge the notion trans people have "increased" visibility compared to the 2000s or before. We've been a focus of fascination and mockery across the entire history of mass media and lots of people are plainly nostalgic for the pleasure they…

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Published: June 21, 2025 14:41

"I am excited to do this for the rest of my life and be terrified"

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Published: June 21, 2025 01:03

Scolding my calculator for giving me the correct answer [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 21, 2025 00:12

Confirming this is true [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 20, 2025 23:00

I love little free libraries

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Published: June 20, 2025 21:45

This rule has been finalized and you're going to see a lot of scary-sounding posts about it but it does NOT prohibit insurance plans from covering gender-affirming care or override state-level nondiscrimination laws. It's wonkier than that; explained below…

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Published: June 20, 2025 20:41

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Published: June 20, 2025 18:29

So proud of my colleagues for keeping up this fight [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 20, 2025 13:45

The Democratic Party is in open warfare against its own relevance and yet every day we're fed a stream of columns and podcasts about how it's really the fault of trans people and immigrants

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Published: June 20, 2025 12:47

Character! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 20, 2025 10:08

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Published: June 19, 2025 23:38

Sure but can you even put a price on plagiarizing the world's libraries for the explicit purpose of making everyone dumber [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 19, 2025 21:27

It's two weeks because that's now the amount of time it takes for something to become ancient history. Musk implying Trump is a pedophile was two weeks ago. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 19, 2025 19:41

I think a lot of people's fears of urban life are fed by the luxury belief that violence is about stranger danger and dark alleyways when it's more often about family and poverty. Any woman could get on the rankest subway car at 1 a.m. and statistically be…

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Published: June 19, 2025 19:15

This from @samames.bsky.social is beautiful

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Published: June 19, 2025 18:30

The law in its infinite wisdom bans trans and cis people alike from being trans

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Published: June 19, 2025 14:53

Acting like a renter with an off-lease cat [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 19, 2025 13:04

Seemingly lost in all of the NYT coverage is that what the Supreme Court did was effectively lower the evidentiary bar that state's have to meet to justify their bans. The lower courts that applied heightened scrutiny universally blocked the bans. …

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Published: June 19, 2025 12:49

Taking advice from the DNC on this one [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 18, 2025 23:10

You know its bad when the work meetings begin with breathing exercises

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Published: June 18, 2025 21:53

"a blank sheet of paper" [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 18, 2025 19:17

https://southernequality.app.neoncrm.com/forms/37

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Published: June 18, 2025 12:08

SCOTUS decisions at 10 a.m. Eastern

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Published: June 17, 2025 23:41

SCOTUS opinions at 10 a.m. Eastern tomorrow

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Published: June 16, 2025 15:26

You guys they're just really concerned about women's sports [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 16, 2025 15:15

I dare to ask if we have simply not been Stupid and Evil enough [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 16, 2025 14:28

Pretend it's a city [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 16, 2025 14:17

guy with an "Orwell Was Right" sticker on one of these [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 16, 2025 13:42

"A society still conducting this kind of manmade technological violence after many decades of knowing exactly the suffering it causes to innocent people must believe in these weapons much more than in life itself"…

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Published: June 16, 2025 12:32

If Mamdani wins there's going to a relentless effort to sabotage him before he even steps foot into the office. There are a lot of liberal elites whose own legitimacy will depend on him failing [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 15, 2025 19:15

The core failing here is presuming you know exactly what it is you don't know when my favorite writers end up teaching me entirely new questions to ask in the first place [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 15, 2025 19:06

This is insane [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 15, 2025 14:53

FAA nominee less qualified than Nathan Fielder

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Published: June 15, 2025 13:53

Some of you

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Published: June 15, 2025 01:06

Look at my superpower

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Published: June 14, 2025 22:58

Snoopy would never [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 14, 2025 22:51

The parade is neither a roaring call to patriotism or tyrannical show of might. It's something much worse--boring

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Published: June 14, 2025 22:49

Watching the Fox News broadcast and theyre doing their best to talk it up but like its so clearly just a bunch of people walking forward [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 14, 2025 21:03

"A law enforcement official briefed on the matter told CNN law enforcement found a hit list in the Minnesota suspect’s car...The names included abortion providers, pro-abortion advocates, and lawmakers in Minnesota and in other states"…

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Published: June 14, 2025 20:55

I see [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 14, 2025 19:17

Thats at least half the problem [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 14, 2025 19:14

That's just a cake

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Published: June 14, 2025 18:35

Every time [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 14, 2025 18:31

Catching up on Sabrina Carpenter discourse

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Published: June 14, 2025 18:08

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Published: June 14, 2025 16:30

Love and mercy love and mercy

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Published: June 14, 2025 01:09

Thought this was the immortality guy [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 13, 2025 23:15

James Carville's PR firm every 18 months [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 13, 2025 22:18

Of course

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Published: June 13, 2025 21:54

The libslop is breaking containment

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Published: June 13, 2025 21:30

So glad mom's back in therapy https://youtu.be/bree1Q-WEnA?si=cL_L9d6DUzf7NzBF

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Published: June 13, 2025 16:47

This is how my summer should be going https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhm6oF0c-Hk&list=RDQhm6oF0c-Hk&start_radio=1

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Published: June 13, 2025 13:34

Or arrested for false personation if you, say, have an ID that doesn't match the gender that officer has assigned you [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 13, 2025 13:05

I understand that some vulnerable people are being caught by these things but if you get talked into ruining your life by the magic Speak-N-Spell then I dont know what to tell you

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Published: June 12, 2025 20:43

So what happens when NYC elects an actual socialist [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 12, 2025 20:16

Longest June of my entire life

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Published: June 12, 2025 19:28

"We need a bipartisan select subcommittee to explain the video I just watched" [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 12, 2025 18:18

"friend" [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 12, 2025 17:56

Congrats to your Gen X boyfriend [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 12, 2025 17:41

Mount Rushmore [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 12, 2025 15:46

"more often than not, trans guys are literally just some guy" https://www.them.us/story/gio-tiktok-trans-addison-rae-times-like-these-video-new-york-city-line-cook

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Published: June 12, 2025 15:36

Quitting my lucrative job as an international fentanyl smuggler to pursue my true passion, vacuuming the hallways of a Holiday Inn Express [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 12, 2025 14:57

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Published: June 12, 2025 13:21

SCOTUS opinions at 10 a.m.

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Published: June 12, 2025 12:58

I'm just naturally going to gravitate towards the places where I receive the fewest rape threats and I really haven't thought about it much beyond that [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 11, 2025 22:40

SCOTUS opinions tomorrow at 10 a.m. Eastern https://youtu.be/l9Jo14I81Dg?si=UrFleqQWFDbOhcw6

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Published: June 11, 2025 21:50

DC recently did something like this with Swann Street, originally named for Thomas Swann (19th century governor of Maryland) and now named for William Dorsey Swann (19th century drag queen) [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 11, 2025 20:45

Cop City goes national [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 11, 2025 18:05

I think what astonishes me most here is that Dems right now aren't like Trump during January 6, who told the mob to go home so they went home. The people setting Waymos on fire aren't going to turn to each other and say "you guys Chris Murphy said we're…

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Published: June 11, 2025 17:17

I am going to weep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v75f5W6LgLM [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 11, 2025 15:06

I just think anyone upset at the sight of a Mexican flag is clearly upset at the sight of Mexican people and are thus not rational political actors who should get to draw the lines of our discourse…

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Published: June 10, 2025 22:56

I think he hates immigrants and love state violence and probably hasn't thought very much about it beyond that [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 10, 2025 21:20

Something I've been thinking a lot about recently is how powerful abusers don't really need to convince you of any one lie but rather just flood the zone with bullshit to render it "complex" enough that nobody feels confident enough to intervene on behalf…

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Published: June 10, 2025 20:20

They're just really concerned about women's sports you guys [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 10, 2025 19:01

You can hear the laughter from France now [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 10, 2025 14:03

Even if the people thinking this way were right then why are they asking themselves how to become more fascist instead of asking what factors might lead the median voter to endorse fascism and working on those. Their response is all supply without…

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Published: June 10, 2025 12:35

This is why we don't have universal paid leave