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Published: May 24, 2025 17:15

Flagrant disrespect to our country and the military but the media ignores it because they like him and want to help him. Obama "saluting with the coffee cup" was replayed multiple times a day for years on Fox News as if it was a huge scandal. This will be…

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Published: May 23, 2025 19:34

The ultimate backstops to Trump's power are not Trump himself - he's far too incompetent and blundering to consolidate power, but the Gang of Six on the Supreme Court and the Media, who helpfully clean up all his fuckups no matter how bad they are. …

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Published: May 23, 2025 19:31

once again remarkable how the fake out of touch elitist shit that conservatives imagined Michelle Obama said about eating healthy is now the actual GOP party line. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 23, 2025 19:26

Mad king shit. Just making up new tariffs to replace the tariffs his advisors already had to dupe him into cancelling. Hilarious that the media that is pushing "why did we ignore Biden's cognitive decline" insists on sanewashing and covering this up. …

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Published: May 23, 2025 18:40

Every day Trump says something so stupid and out of touch that, if a Democratic politician ever said the same thing, would become a tall tale about Dem economic literacy repeated for years. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 23, 2025 18:06

This one took me a long time to think about and write. A lot to say about this movie, good and bad. My ★★★★ review of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) on Letterboxd: boxd.it/9MiMtP https://boxd.it/9MiMtP

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Published: May 23, 2025 15:38

something that I find kinda understandable but nevertheless annoying is that people are much willing to engage when I post about contemporary movies that just came out than when i post about obscure film noirs from the 1950s. [contains quote post or other…

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Published: May 23, 2025 15:28

The media wants Trump and Republicans to win and so deliberately did not inform the public about what was in this bill full of overwhelmingly popular ideas. Usually when it was mentioned, it was only to complain that it the fall in inflation that occurred…

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Published: May 23, 2025 15:26

Explicitly opposed to universal public education - it an educated workforce just makes citizens hard to rule. Their goal instead is to monopolize secular education for the wealthy, middle class gets religious education or narrow vocational training and …

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Published: May 23, 2025 04:08

the conservative Plot To Enslave Humanity is about devaluing human labor *in order to* have human slaves. Eliminate all the jobs and opportunity and people will have no choice but to become freedomless servants and concubines for the wealthy few. …

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Published: May 22, 2025 21:19

The gang of six wants to let the mad king oppress workers but doesn't trust him to go near the controls of the world economy (because they know he will crash it) [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 22, 2025 21:17

Sometimes when there's police misconduct they say "there's just a few bad apples" but the situation is the exact opposite. The few honest cops who try to follow the law are aggressively and actively drummed out of the force. [contains quote post or other…

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Published: May 22, 2025 21:07

Something tells me they'll keep kinda circling this through the courts for Trump's whole term then see which party wins the 2028 election to see whether to actually give Presidents this power or not [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 22, 2025 19:58

Hail to the thief. In addition to a platform for bribery, Trump and his cronies understand crypto as an unparalleled platform for money laundering. The media that refuses to cover it as if its corrupt or scandalous pretends instead like they see nothing. …

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Published: May 22, 2025 19:55

the journalists and news organizations who don't just use false balance, but portray Ilhan Omar as promoting hate and Republicans as fighting anti-semitism are openly lying to their audience, presenting the literal opposite of the truth. ignorance is…

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Published: May 22, 2025 19:53

The global demand for oil will collapse as EVs become strictly cheaper than ICE cars in the next few years. The American oil industry is cooked (the industry knows it and has all but halted new exploration and investment). This is a giveaway to Trump's…

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Published: May 22, 2025 16:30

more validation to the theory that retailers locking up all their items was a product of conservative brainworms infecting boardrooms instead of some rational response to actual conditions [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 22, 2025 15:41

"only nixon can go to china" common sense budget move. obama made hints at doing this to please commentariat demanding austerity and the result was 10000 stories in conservative media saying obummer was destroying a beloved american institution and had…

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Published: May 22, 2025 15:30

its asking a lot of voters to keep track of not just two, but in some cases 5 or 6 levels of overlapping federalism, on top of directly electing judges, sheriffs etc. in practice voters just can't do it and it allows corruption to entrench itself all up…

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Published: May 22, 2025 15:11

It wasn't a failure, it was a psy-op, a conspiracy. The Powers That Be and their lackies in the press wanted Trump to win and engineered the coverage to help him whenever they could. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 22, 2025 15:04

Destroying public schools ability to stop cheating would just be a fun bonus for Republicans. The plot to enslave America requires them to eliminate public education. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 22, 2025 15:02

Looting the country. Republican electeds aren't citizens, they see themselves as viceroys ruling a conquered people, only looking to steal as much as they can for themselves. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 22, 2025 14:52

Food stamps survived previous GOP administrations because it's a huge giveaway to agriculture in addition to being a welfare program. One of MAGA's genuine political innovations was discovering conservative farmers actually like "harvesting the mailbox" of…

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Published: May 22, 2025 08:14

"Don't print lies in the newspaper" isn't just for the news. Opinion columnists like Douthat are allowed to dispense with objectivity but should have if anything a higher expectation for accuracy and good faith. [contains quote post or other embedded…

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Published: May 22, 2025 04:53

Attention Retention Persuasion You can't measure the persuasiveness of a message on hearing it the first time and a large measure of whether it's effective is if it can cross those first two requirements of being heard (attention) and remembered…

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Published: May 22, 2025 04:36

Ask yourself whether the imminent passage of the biggest deficit-increasing tax cut in history, or a violent attack that resulted in the death of two foreign diplomats has greater inherent news value. Then ask which story leading the news tomorrow will…

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Published: May 22, 2025 04:12

Incredible that the side of the debate that was repeatedly wrong to the tune of hundreds of thousands of deaths has the audacity to demand apologies and genuflection from the people who were right and worked to save lives. Sick shit! [contains quote post…

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Published: May 22, 2025 04:04

The narrative of "backlash against reform prosecutors" rests almost entirely on a billionaire funded recall of Chesa Boudin and Eric Adams win against a divided field in NYC (turns out he was less 'tough on crime' than 'participant in crime'). But…

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Published: May 22, 2025 03:57

The transcripts of Grandpa's incoherent rambling are too embarrassing for even the white noise to print. Only the media still insists, against all evidence, that Trump is sane and lucid. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 22, 2025 02:10

Very much like Boebert in Colorado, Barrett is a true right wing freak in a swing district who is very likely to get wiped out in anything like a Dem wave year [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 21, 2025 19:30

Something no one chooses to remember was that in 2020, Biden was a much better bet to live out the next four years in good health than Bernie Sanders (older, had just suffered a heart attack) was. I still supported Bernie but I had major doubts about his…

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Published: May 21, 2025 04:35

This is the ultra-Orthodox district in Midwood which is totally idiosyncratic and shouldn't be used to draw any inferences about the national environment, fwiw [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 21, 2025 01:05

Remember what I said about how the press's "inevitability" narrative for Cuomo involves dishonestly painting it as a two-man race between Cuomo and Adams? (Adams has raised almost no money, has no campaign infrastructure and is polling in hopelessly low…

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Published: May 21, 2025 00:10

the only question that's left is whether the decision to stay on Vichy Twitter is just a filter for people who already had terrible opinions, or if being on their is actively cooking people's brains by exposing them to a non-stop stream of right wing…

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Published: May 20, 2025 23:56

he's one of the biggest, most-frequent liars in the world. among other things, he said the same thing last summer, before becoming the largest-ever campaign donor in American history. Yet this post by Baker and the headline treats his statement as true. …

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Published: May 20, 2025 22:21

it's not insane, its a deliberate effort by The Powers That Be to steer attention away from Trump's unpopular policies (his first term nadir of popularity was when they were pushing through their tax bill and Obamacare repeal) and to make sure a…

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Published: May 20, 2025 18:54

Making kids birthday plans sucks ass and I think a computer that could handle the work of doing it for me would actually be cool but I don't think either the existing tech or the tech as Thompson imagines it one day existing would be able to do this thing?…

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Published: May 20, 2025 16:56

among other things, a sign of how much the world is reorienting around catering to global VIPs - the tens of thousands of normal people who will attend these events and get stuck in monstrous traffic is an afterthought as long as the VIPs can still get…

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Published: May 20, 2025 16:05

I hope this goes without saying but even more important than Don't Print Lies in the Newspaper is Don't Let the Lie-Creation-Machine Write the Newspaper For You [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 20, 2025 15:51

they repeat his lies where he sounds more moderate because they want to help him. they don't report on his fascist actual policies because they want to help him. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 20, 2025 15:32

a great crime committed against America's children - many of whom will die of this - by conservatives, including many who should know better, in service of the greater Plot To Enslave Us. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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