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Data analyst, Dad, lover of all things boat related. Big fan of civilization. Whatever is to the left of Bernie Sanders.

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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

13.12.2025 14:16 👍 7610 🔁 2398 💬 122 📌 196

I spent the last year writing a book about the ridiculous demands of what it means to be masculine. But a guy who takes care of people who served our country, asks a woman “are you ok?” When she is in distress and looks out for his vulnerable neighbors seems like a pretty good role model for a man.

25.01.2026 04:23 👍 3963 🔁 652 💬 30 📌 13

This is a white supremacist paramilitary operation. Their goal—their stated goal!—is to force America to submit to the President's racist domineering vision for the country.

The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.

24.01.2026 18:22 👍 4265 🔁 1208 💬 42 📌 26

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

24.01.2026 23:01 👍 38723 🔁 9574 💬 1114 📌 893

I don’t know. A Europe boycott gives the USMNT an actual shot at winning, which he’d take 100% credit for. I doubt he’d care.

24.01.2026 01:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

10.01.2026 23:24 👍 27952 🔁 7031 💬 753 📌 355

He's the richest, therefore the smartest is how their brains work.

14.12.2025 19:33 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Falling asleep on TV is an approach, I guess.

03.12.2025 02:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.

07.11.2025 01:57 👍 5733 🔁 1234 💬 216 📌 113

I'd imagine if they can get a stay and keep it bouncing around the courts until early April, they won't even need to rule on the merits. Win-win.

05.11.2025 22:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

27.10.2025 18:29 👍 15242 🔁 2673 💬 501 📌 272

It's also too slow. By the time the poll is out the issue in question has been overwhelmed by a dozen other things.

25.10.2025 19:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It will certainly eliminate the "no mandate" calls from the press.

16.10.2025 22:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My neighbors' lack of imagination.

16.10.2025 03:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The bias in this #NYTimes headline is just astonishing.

@mondoweiss.net #Israel #Gaza #Palestine

14.10.2025 23:48 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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I’ve seen this movie before — and I didn’t like the ending. NC Republicans gerrymandered me out of my seat and cost Democrats control of Congress.

Now they’re coming for Don Davis. They couldn’t beat him at the ballot box, so they’re going to cheat. That’s not democracy — it’s rigging the system.

13.10.2025 21:02 👍 140 🔁 67 💬 9 📌 8

Keeper went on a walkabout.

12.10.2025 23:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

10.10.2025 04:00 👍 4599 🔁 2319 💬 124 📌 92

Jay, you're not this stupid. Nobody is this stupid.

10.10.2025 00:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

08.10.2025 19:42 👍 4930 🔁 1728 💬 833 📌 1053

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

08.10.2025 19:45 👍 3919 🔁 1286 💬 72 📌 17
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The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

08.10.2025 12:37 👍 1206 🔁 451 💬 28 📌 19

I don't want any "Trump bucks" and honestly, how dumb do you think we are? $2K now versus tariffs in perpetuity. No thanks.

06.10.2025 21:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

time.com/7323442/sout...

06.10.2025 09:53 👍 2025 🔁 1224 💬 73 📌 136

Anyone who has experience in an abusive household, or who has worked with people in them, or has read a lot about them, will be familiar with a particular dynamic:

Dad is full of loud passions & intense moods, sweeping through like a thunderstorm, unpredictable, volatile, often violent. He is ...

15.08.2025 20:04 👍 1878 🔁 448 💬 65 📌 146
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Unbelievable!

This is a US Border Agent chasing a Canadian couple heading towards the border back to Canada.

He yells at them:

“Never come to the US again”

🚨 DO NOT GO TO THE US
IT IS NOT SAFE.

#Canada
#FascistUSA
#BoycottUSA

27.09.2025 12:57 👍 396 🔁 233 💬 60 📌 78
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Only an Idiot Would Think We Need Anti-Abortion Democrats It's beyond time to stop listening to Ezra Klein.

My professional assessment is that Ezra Klein is a moron @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social

22.09.2025 23:30 👍 2245 🔁 387 💬 76 📌 47

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

22.09.2025 21:03 👍 19759 🔁 4589 💬 410 📌 140

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

18.09.2025 13:58 👍 45639 🔁 12443 💬 1736 📌 418

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

18.09.2025 03:04 👍 32057 🔁 8613 💬 661 📌 467