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Used to be on the other site. Still stuck in Texas. Communist. MA in History. Antizionist Jew. Former journalist. Current type 1 diabetic.

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no sheโ€˜s not. we are.

09.03.2026 21:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 54 ๐Ÿ” 9 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Ahead of 2028, Sen. Cory Booker to unveil bill to make $75,000 in income tax-free The bill is a marker for the next time Democrats get a chance to rewrite the tax code. The New Jersey senator told NBC News he's keeping the door open to a 2028 presidential bid.

What are we even doing here? The bulk of this is like four trillion dollar regressive tax cut that doesnโ€™t help the poorest families at all and helps the richest the most.

To make it less regressive, he adds like another two trillion in progressive tax cuts that targets families with kids.

09.03.2026 12:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 1471 ๐Ÿ” 321 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 58 ๐Ÿ“Œ 105
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It's stiff competition, but Nellie Bowles may actually be the most evil, vapid person to work at her wife's stupid website:

08.03.2026 17:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 2717 ๐Ÿ” 398 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 175 ๐Ÿ“Œ 172
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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท The Iran War is currently the largest oil shock in terms of million barrels produced per day in history.

Over 5 times the OPEC embargo after the Yom Kippur War and Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, both of which caused major global recessions.

09.03.2026 03:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 40 ๐Ÿ” 11 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
09.03.2026 00:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 2622 ๐Ÿ” 1422 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10 ๐Ÿ“Œ 14

for me โ€œdoom scrollingโ€ is actually just the pathological hunt for the first piece of news that indicates this whole unbearable moment is about to unravel

08.03.2026 17:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 1584 ๐Ÿ” 329 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30 ๐Ÿ“Œ 25

We're at a point where there are no cheap options to retreat to and no price points that guarantee quality. Every run-down studio is $1400, every fast food meal is $17, every luxury condo has peel-n-stick tiles, every $300 pair of boots falls apart. Endless expensive mediocrity.

06.03.2026 17:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 1797 ๐Ÿ” 544 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30 ๐Ÿ“Œ 24
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DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.

โ€œA DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credibleโ€”and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.โ€

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

07.03.2026 00:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 3990 ๐Ÿ” 1667 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 59 ๐Ÿ“Œ 74

Fuck no. Epstein Class is PHENOMENAL branding for ALL billionaires.

EPSTEIN CLASS = WEALTHY ELITE & CORRUPT POLITICIANS.

NOTHING ELSE.

Any tries using it as a dog whistle, beat their ass.

06.03.2026 03:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nothing has made me reconsider my relationship to Judaism more than the actions of the Israeli state.

04.03.2026 23:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
04.03.2026 23:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 274 ๐Ÿ” 96 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Some of this stuff could be lifted word for word from a British colonial office briefing in the 20s

04.03.2026 18:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 112 ๐Ÿ” 42 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

my hot take of the day: medicare for all should include pet care.

signed: someone who just watched a man break down in tears at the vet because he was struggling to decided whether he should take on the vet costs of the dying stray he brought in.

04.03.2026 16:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 299 ๐Ÿ” 58 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13 ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

They write about their bots "creating" and "generating" things when their bots open the jar of baby food and spoon it into their mouths. Also occasionally the baby food contains broken glass and novichok.

04.03.2026 10:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 539 ๐Ÿ” 30 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Over the past year, every single time one of the apps or services I use suddenly became less reliable and more buggy, I never have to look far for the "Claude is amazing and now writes most of my code" post for the devs involved.

04.03.2026 10:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 1953 ๐Ÿ” 704 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19 ๐Ÿ“Œ 17

Itโ€™s so weird that not so long ago, like, less than 20 years, the progressive feminist position was gender de-segregation in sport and other male dominated spaces. Then the terfs came along and convinced the mainstream that the most progressive feminist position is that women are weak and feeble.

04.03.2026 10:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 1260 ๐Ÿ” 464 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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04.03.2026 05:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war...But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people."

04.03.2026 05:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 52 ๐Ÿ” 10 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is who will replace Crockett in the House

04.03.2026 03:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 2010 ๐Ÿ” 304 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 37 ๐Ÿ“Œ 12

With 30% of vote reporting in Arkansas, John Adams (the more liberal candidate in the state supreme court race) is ... LEADING 50.8% to 49.2% against the conservative Nick Bronni, who was appointed to the court by Governor Huckabee Sanders.

A long way to goโ€”but fascinating so far.

Context:

04.03.2026 02:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 548 ๐Ÿ” 87 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

It is making me insane. She's black and says mean things about Trump on Bill Maher so she progressive. Talarico says Jesus stuff so he moderate.

02.03.2026 15:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 207 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Polymarket has created a market that would monetize a nuclear attack amid increasing concerns that bets are happening among government insiders who can make military decisions.

What stage of the apocalypse is this?

polymarket.com/event/nuclea...

04.03.2026 00:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 1432 ๐Ÿ” 529 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 73 ๐Ÿ“Œ 277

getting our asses kicked is our best possible outcome as a country

03.03.2026 23:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 65 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I don't care if Congress authorizes War on Iran. NO WAR ON IRAN. I want people to fucking reclaim their morality.

02.03.2026 17:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 2755 ๐Ÿ” 693 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In a democracy, the war on Iran would not be possible.

01.03.2026 23:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 5008 ๐Ÿ” 1417 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 200 ๐Ÿ“Œ 62

Every major disaster in this country over my lifetime has been self inflicted by right wing ideologues with just enough complicit or inert Democrats to enable or ratify them. That's why we've been on this doom trajectory for the last ~50 years and it'll keep getting worse if that doesn't change

28.02.2026 17:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 5518 ๐Ÿ” 1255 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 33 ๐Ÿ“Œ 26

Just following orders is not an accepted defense for crimes against humanity. Thinking about that for no reason today

01.03.2026 03:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 156 ๐Ÿ” 33 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'd rather live in a world where Iranian children are alive and Khameni is tweeting stupid shit than a world where those children are dead and Khameni is dead.

01.03.2026 01:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 55 ๐Ÿ” 10 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

if they were courageous they would quit. there's nothing brave about killing kids at the whim of an irrational old pedophile

01.03.2026 03:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 7954 ๐Ÿ” 1598 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 54 ๐Ÿ“Œ 15

The GOP became cartoonishly overt fascists who are polling a thousand points underwater on everything and the Democratic Party have responded by becoming 2003-era Neocons whose only disagreements with the GOP are procedural quibbles.

01.03.2026 02:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 321 ๐Ÿ” 59 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3