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There are bombshells and there's this www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

AES' response to Tommy is a solid text for illustrating how the warrant functions in a rhetorical argument.

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Elon Musk is despicable. Because he is a crazy white supremacist, he killed hundreds of thousands of people in Africa by having his DOGE teens cut aid for food and medicine. And because he is a crazy authoritarian, he has now killed Ukrainians by hindering their ability to anticipate air strikes.

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

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“It’s fall, fuckfaces. You’re either ready to reap this freaky-assed harvest or you’re not.” buff.ly/pykYN6f

THE PART THAT'S SO INSANE HERE ISN'T JUST THAT OBVIOUSLY, YOU INSURE AGAINST RISKS YOU HOPE NEVER MATERIALIZE, IT'S THAT THE HEALTHY PEOPLE WHO DON'T FILE CLAIMS ARE THE REASON PREMIUMS ARE CHEAPER FOR THE SICK PEOPLE HOLY SHIT

I can understand why people say “I attack my friends rather than my enemies because my enemies won’t listen” but this is also a direct path to having no friends

Yep. A narrow-minded bigot who loses faith just becomes a slightly different kind of narrow-minded bigot.

What do you MEAN they smuggled the president out of Turkey in a catering cart

It’s so telling and pathetic that center right pundits can’t just admit that Biden was a normal president and Trump is profoundly abnormal. Your political party sucks dude! If you were serious about democracy you’d be telling people to vote for Dems, not drawing false equivalencies.

If Democrats retake the majority in the Senate and I become chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, one of my first acts will be to subpoena the bankers that helped Epstein carry out his crimes and help deliver real accountability.

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

Good guy paddle boarders rescue a raccoon from flood waters in Austin, Texas: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...

You can feel whatever kind of way you want to feel about Biden but he passed the biggest climate bill in world history with the narrowest legislative majority in U.S. history where the deciding vote was a literal coal baron, this framing sort of necessarily arises from either ignorance or mendacity

The news cycle has moved on since the Louisiana v. Callais decision on April 29, but we cannot. My thoughts on our continued fight for voting rights:

Not true. In their list of grievances, the Founding Fathers complained that King George III was blocking colonial laws that would promote immigration and make it easier for foreign settlers to become citizens.

people talk use "democrats" as though that word has a coherent referent. whatever that word refers to would be much stranger and harder to pin down than the Ship of Theseus. in almost all contexts, it would be more useful to choose a more specific term.

Republicans voted down an amendment to block Trump's $1.8 BILLION slush fund for violent insurrectionists. They're choosing to bend the knee to this corrupt President who wants to pay off cop beaters—all while Trump & Republicans won't spend a cent to lower health care costs.

Pathetic

disregard | verb | to pay no attention to : treat as unworthy of regard or notice

It's Wrong Jacket Week in Chicago, we are celebrating the changing seasons by making sure that you are 100% always wearing the wrong jacket no matter what you do

People forgot what the economy was like after Covid.

I’ve never really been an Our Tax Dollars guy but all the blatant corruption, ballroom, slush fund for rioting pedophiles etc is really throwing me into a permanent state of rage and bloodlust. Something’s gotta give

The lesson here on how to cow the political media is straightforward: be a tyrant, and do it openly. Suddenly your awful ratings are transformed into strength and not weakness. Instead of merely being an unpopular politician, you are boldly defying gravity, muscling past critics with sheer will.

Pope:”Reading nourishes the mind, helps cultivate a conscious and well-formed critical sense, guards against fundamentalisms and ideological shortcuts.” Reading is “an antidote to closed-mindedness which manifests in rigid attitudes and reductive views of reality.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

It’s one of the thing that pisses me off the most about this administration is their open contempt of every institution and tradition we supposedly hold dear. I’ve been to the Arizona, it’s supposed to be hallowed ground, not some freaking tourist attraction

yeah, so two things. first, i have been saying for some time that *this* is the message. and that it is a broad one that can fit a large number of concerns. and second, this dude has the juice.

It'd really be nice if ALL outlets talking abt shooting conspiracies emphasized that Donald Trump repeats conspiracy theories in most statements he makes >5 minutes long (and did, in the 60 Minutes interview last night). If the President lives in conspiracy world, it's unsurprising others do.

We did! We passed a bill to fund the Secret Service and TSA and FEMA 100-0. If Speaker Johnson would just call it for a vote, it would pass. That’s the problem.

<stares in January 6th>

This is a good statement, especially since it points out that Republicans are the ONLY ones who can actually "do something". They control the house. They control the senate. They control the courts. And it's time voters stop enabling them by pretending they're immune to pressure. They aren't.

I am not one of those who believes that history repeats, but consider the following from Herodotus: the Oracle at Delphi told the fabulously wealthy King Croesus that if he invaded Persia he would "destroy a great empire." Croesus invaded and lost--the empire he destroyed was his own.

It’s a real problem that our elite institutions are just much stupider now than they used to be

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House procedure is normally a snoozefest that only insiders care about. But this one is just such a perfect distillation of the incompetence in the GOP, failure of Trump as a leader and weakness of Mike Johnson. Let's roll the video tape:

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

I think a lot of people get very broad ideas in their head that they're sure would make sense if they could just write them down. They don't realize that in the process of trying to write actual sentences and paragraphs, they end up discovering lots of inconsistencies and unjustified assumptions.