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Every midterm since 1980 where Republicans lost control of one or both houses was a direct reaction to actual Republican policy. Every wave election where Democrats lost control was a reaction to a media narrative that blamed extrinsic global macroeconomic conditions on Democrats. Fight me.

In 1969 WMAR-TV reporter Susan White interviewed DON RICKLES on location in Yugoslavia whilst he was shooting “Kelly’s Heroes” (working title at the time “The Warriors”). RICKLES had a reputation for not letting reporters get a word in edgeways, so Susan decided to hilariously turn the tables…

The United States of America is bathing in shame.

BRING BACK MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri for Tax Purposes

John Roberts and four other Supreme Court justices have betrayed the U.S. Constitution. The checks are gone. Imbalance prevails. The American experiment in self-governance is imploding in real time.

This is about Ilhan Omar. But it's also about control, intimidation, & authoritarianism. The message is: we can do this to a member of Congress; no foreign-born American is safe. The administration is using fear as a tactic to discourage people from voicing opposition.

And, once again, I have a moment when the fatalistic stoicism I resigned myself to as everything we warned them would happen happened drains away and I'm left screaming "just what the fuck else did you imbeciles who could have stopped this think was going to happen if you let him win?"

The fact that Republicans are accusing Ukraine of interfering with US elections by attacking a MOSCOW, RUSSIA data center kinda says it all, doesn't it? Republicans are traitors. Zelenksyy just pulled a W we can't even fathom yet. #OperationQuietPiggy #SlavaUkraini ✊🇺🇦

Russia lost data centers - MAGA lost its best and brightest.

Spirit Halloween finally found something scarier than the prices.

Watching the Senate hearings like

She did not change, she will not change. Shared one day ago.

It continues to be interesting to me just how many men, when presented with a clear and obvious answer to a test of morality and empathy, will nevertheless choose to "devil's advocate" themselves into a position of complete assholery

RepubliKKKans Are Bad For America, Vote Accordingly.......💙

IMHO, it was a data grab along with Musk removing those that were involved in investigating Tesla/SpaceX government contracts. The whole thing was a scam from start to finish.

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Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

“Do you think HUMAN CREATIVITY matters? Most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about poetry until their father dies, you go to a funeral, you lose a child, somebody breaks your heart & that's when Art’s not a luxury it's sustenance.” — ETHAN HAWKE

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When you're really good at your job: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...

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I wish the media had the same urgency about the state of Mitch McConnell as they did for Kamala's W-2 from McDonald's in the 80s.

We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.

In today’s Vatnik Soup, we introduce Hasan Piker, a Turkish-American streamer and millionaire. He’s best known for his champagne socialism, rabid criticism of the US and Israel, support for the Soviet Union and for Chinese and Russian invasions, and for mistreating his dog. 1/20

This geode that resembles the Cookie Monster was discovered by gemologist *Lucas Fassari* in November 2020 in the Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. #AGoodPlace

The failure to seriously engage with the text and ask questions proves this. Believers should be able to engage skeptics and hold their own, and skeptics should be invited to bring their questions. If Jesus is “the Truth,” then questions should be seen as an opportunity to engage

When the RNC is posting you, that means you are playing right into their hands and giving them gifts they desperately need right now.

Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org

Today’s Civics Lesson Dr. Fauci honoring a congressional subpoena and then taking the Fifth Amendment: an example of someone respecting both Congress and the Constitution. Jim Jordan ignoring a congressional subpoena: an example of someone showing contempt for Congress. Lesson over.

You know, the one person in this country and in the whole foul orgy of quisling treachery, destruction, depravity, and looting who never gets the sustained and microscopic scrutiny she needs is Suzie Wiles. She's the penultimate boss character you've been trained to treat like a random one-line NPC.

We are watching, in real time, the biggest fuck-up by any president in the history of the United States of America.

Secret Service agents are trained to take bullets for a president but not this shit

I honestly do not understand what else everyone who couldn't bring themselves to vote for Harris thought was going to happen.

None of us are supposed to remember the 2016 primaries when Berners harassed superdelegates, caused a near riot at the Nevada Democratic convention, compiled lists of Bernie's biggest online critics so they could target them for dogpiling/bullying/harassment and so on. And 2020 wasn't much better.

We are working on it Y’all act like taking down the world’s most powerful person, who was given near total immunity by SCOTUS, who is teamed up with the richest people in the world, that control the media and is being enabled by the “world’s greatest deliberative body”, is easy to do

The Platner story shows how political consultants should not parachute into a state and pick a candidate. There were a bunch of solid Democratic candidates in the state. Maybe the elites don’t know better than the people who actually live in the state?

I give it about a year before Platner ends up on Joe Rogan announcing he’s a Republican and saying how he didn’t leave the Democratic Party, but the Democratic Party left him.