Disney Prime is saddened at the passing of Walter Koenig, the beloved sci-fi star credited for inwenting the "Chekov's Gun" trope in Star Trek: The Woyage Home (1986) when he was shot by a whale with his own rewolwer.
Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Actonβs mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband.
Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.
Trump: "We have 5 states where your child goes off to school as Tim and comes back as Tammy 3 or 4 days later. It's true. And teachers make a decision. 'Goodbye Timmy I love you so much, I'll see you later.' And you say, 'Where's my son? My son is in the hospital.' Can you imagine?"
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Ossoff: "They've unleashed federal agents to kill Americans on the streets of our cities with impunity. That's Mike Collins's immigration policy. And that's what you'd expect from the bigot congressman who called for executed immigrants by throwing to their deaths out of helicopters."
A couple corrections:
1. Socialism is actually quite easy to define for knowledgeable people, and
2. This is the worst attempt at a definition that I have ever heard.
Q: How do you define socialism personally?
JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports
Tucker: βI never understood why π¬π§ fought World War 2?β π
Rees-Mogg: βIt was good vs. evilβ¦We did the right thingβ¦β
Tucker: βHas π¬π§ benefitted?β
RM: βWe defeated Hitlerβ¦ Weβd all be speaking Germanβ¦β
Tucker: βWho cares?β π€
"We understand that it is our responsibility to teach Cornell collegiates what a good Rape Essay looks like. Rape Essays 101 is the best manifestation of this commitment that our most tenured minds could come up with."
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I appreciate all of @doctorow.pluralistic.net 's essays, but this one is my favorite.
Even if you're optimistic about the blue wave this year, you're pessimistic that it will do anything good when it arrives. Here's why... AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt accused Democrats of being βincredibly disingenuous,β saying they do β360s on every single policy position they have.β
We were mid-handshake and he pulled me in and grabbed tighter and got upset and raised his voice and said: "What are you talking about man?! Those aren't real people. They're illegal aliens!"
"While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss it entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violently with a disquieting crunch, we do not believe that now is the time for a dramatic change in kicking strategy."
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Republican Minnesota state auditor candidate Scott Jensen: "I think we have ignored in western medicine the potential benefits of discoveries made centuries ago. The notion of electromagnetic powers, of minerals, and rocks, and things like that, that could have curative capabilities we've ignored."
Saw @ginafortexas.bsky.social at an event in NYC tonight. The latest Siena poll has her 4 points ahead of Abbott - which I think is the best polling any Texas Democrat has had in a governor's race in a generation.
Emmer says Republicans need to talk more about grocery prices that aren't expensive: "Eggs are at pre-pandemic prices. Ah, beef is at, ah, less than $2 a pound for ground beef ... I think we have a lot to run on."