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It's one of those weird things when a group of people somehow, for all the wrong reasons, manage to get it right, just for a moment. I don't think we're in one of those moments, at the moment.

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Darth Donnie. Okay, it was JD, but I don't care.

This is how it looks when a Sea Anemone runs away from a Starfish.

UBI and wealth taxes are both correct answers, not easy answers. Doing difficult correct things is what politics should be all about. If you're not putting effort into a correct thing because it's not easy, I don't think you're doing your duty as a citizen correctly.

"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes. The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere. The site is a textbook concentration camp.

How many people don't know the difference between Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

This voice keeps coming to me in my dreams, saying this:

This should be illegal

Lots of people imagine abstaining from the vote to be taking their foot off the gas, when they're really just taking their hands off the wheel

4/ The modern, time-tested way to destroy a democracy is NOT a coup or burning down the Parliament or a public confrontation with the judiciary. It's a slow methodical campaign to weaken the structures of accountability necessary for the political opposition to win elections.

Popes are chosen by God, making them the ultimate Dei hire

Connect what dots? They know. They're not as stupid as you want them to be. He's establishing an authoritative dictatorship which is obvious to anyone with a pulse. And these people are like- "Yes. That."

Called it 4 days ago.

This is high art

Why Americans?

Has anyone thought of this scenario: Announce sweeping tariffs Watch stocks tumble Buy lots of stocks Postpone/delay/cancel/be ambiguous about tariffs Watch stock market recover Cash in I don't know that it's that simple, but they might think it is.

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." —FDR, 1937

Please provide links in posts like this. I'm all about spreading the good news, but without data to backup the veracity, social media can be weaponized against us all too easily.

I think Trump genuinely believes that Putin had nothing to do with his election victories. He thinks he did it all by himself.

The Nest Image: Pamela Hart By one of the waterholes to which the Rankin River devolved between one wet season and the next, I came across a home most mighty. The waterhole was known imaginatively as either the Twenty-Mile or the Boundary Hole, it being about twenty miles south of the Soudan…

I am enjoying the bit where everything the right is doing right now to destroy our constitutional government is the fault of the left because they opposed him wrong.

J.D. Vance's lecture in Europe basically convinced every country to quietly create a new secret group chat without the US.

As if any of this were about cost savings. It’s about the fact that these assholes didn’t get loved enough as children and are now taking it out on all of us. And they’re *still* big mad that a black guy was President.

The millions in USAID food is STILL sitting at the Port of Houston. Trump fired the watchdogs reporting on this story, he doesn’t want Americans to see this debacle. Wasting millions on food already purchased is the epitome of wealthy entitlement #Voices4Victory www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/usa...

For getting like 80% of the screen time on CNBC, CEOs and bankers seem to be consistently pretty awful at assessing political risk to markets and the economy .

Dems need to learn the benefits of being loud and annoying. Perhaps also the benefits of divide and conquer. Each one can choose an issue like this to scream about endlessly and specifically

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Interesting interview, to say the least (Sharing does not imply agreement with anyone's worldview, just to be clear.): www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EDK...

My friend, you have stumbled upon what is referred to in the science world as, Schrodinger's Immigrant, when one is both stealing jobs (that white American citizens don't want to do) AND living on welfare (despite only paying into those programs and not being allowed to draw from them).

oh. my. god.

"States must act on these ICJ rulings and the ICC arrest warrants now; failing to do so will undermine the international legal system" Francesca Albanese with advice that should be heeded by Attorney General Mark Dreyfus, before his visit to war criminal Netanyahu. johnmenadue.com/francesca-al...

Consequentialism, a form of utilitarianism, is a clear and simple ethical principle, that can provide a clear and simple guide to action and policy. Reduce suffering. That's it. No metaphysics or spirits required, only good will and practical solutions.

Nearly everyone completely misses the real, deep, cutting irony of this speech, which is itself proof of the underlying point, and the reason we can never get away from war.

Bad sign.

Had a yarn with Yanik. www.youtube.com/watch?v=moGf...

Dunning: "The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don't know you're a member of the Dunning-Kruger club."