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Bolsonaro the younger loses, as does Serbia's pro-Putin authoritarian nationalist president. There have been lots of setbacks for liberal democracy recently, so we should savor the wins. Maybe the tide is turning.

will try to answer these in a piece next week but for now i will say that part of the *point* of court expansion, in my mind, is to create a disequilibrium — a potential race to the bottom — that will force a truce.

ICE is a terrorist organization and needs to be torn apart piece by piece.

MeToo went about 1% as far as it should have gone.

*Jerky Boys voice*: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your fuckin' ears!"

Hear, hear.

The fact that the president could not pass an Economics 101 class is kind of a problem.

Yeah fuck this noise. I've defended some things Jeffries has done as Minority Leader but this is weak shit and we can't afford it with literal fascists trying to cement their takeover of the country. He has to go. He cannot be the Speaker, or have any prominent role as a face of the party.

Is this bad? It seems bad.

This is one of the pumping stations on the Saudi East-West Pipeline that just got hit by Iranian allies and as you can see, it's totally FUBAR. This pipeline is not going to be back up and running anytime soon, which means ~7M barrels of oil a day are now off the market.

I know not everyone on the left is a fan of the Bulwark crew, but as former Republicans I think they have some very important insights into how to short circuit GOP propaganda.

Elon Musk may be a fascist, racist, evil piece of shit, but we should never forget that he's also a huge dork.

I thought Republicans hated people choosing their pronouns.

Very smart thread.

Dolly Parton was a great artist and an equally good citizen and person. There aren't many you can say that about. Rest in peace.

I've been an El-Sayed skeptic but he's killing it right now. Just slicing through the the Fox News culture war bullshit like a plasma torch, in a way I've only seen Buttigieg equal. More of this please.

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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I'll say this for Piker, he has chutzpah if nothing else.

Of all the words that I never heard growing up which have suddenly become popular in recent years, "warfighter" is among my least favorite. Not only is it vaguely fashy, it's redundant and unnecessarily verbose. Just not a good word and a bad job by whoever came up with it.

The whole silicon valley thing of 'You buy most of the company but I still control it.' is pretty batshit insane and contrary to principles of capitalism.

Whiskey Pete is obviously a chest-thumping moron so this is certainly plausible, but the fact it's being reported now smells like somebody readying to throw him under the bus.

Beavers are the best. The music added to this reel makes it even better.

nobody is ever beating Barack Obama in a “broke the worst half of America’s brains” competition but I’m impressed that Anthony Fauci is emerging as the LeBron to his MJ

If you want to know what the hidden time bomb that will blow up the economy and lead to the next 2008-style downturn is, this is a good bet.

Beautiful.

Awful news. "Once" is a great movie and you should watch it now if you haven't seen it yet.

Fernandez is the most unlikable player on a team that Messi aside is full of unlikable guys so if Argentina loses because he gets sent off I'm good with that.

Unpopular opinion: While I personally don't need a World Cup Final halftime show, if they're going to do one that was absolutely fine. It was inclusive, it was multicultural, it was fun - exactly what the World Cup is supposed to be about. All the whining about it is a bit over the top.

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As a former classics major I definitely chuckled.

England and choking in huge games, name a more iconic duo.

Trump:

The GOP is just on a simply astonishing run of demolishing Chesterton's Fences left and right, and we are all paying the price for it.

The weirdest thing about this whole mishigas to me is that Trump's position is that both Balogun's red card and his citizenship should be rescinded.

How can anybody not love Cabo Verde?

Cristiano Ronaldo has an all-time case of Resting Douche Face.

Belgium deserves a lot of credit for coming back but I really don't love deciding an elimination game on a marginal penalty call like that.