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Politics - Science - Religion Raised in a world that told me character and goodness mattered, then changed its mind. Denver

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Just a reminder that when Trump was asked by a parent about the high price of childcare, he claimed that the US would take in enough money from tariffs that it wouldnโ€™t be a concern anymore.

$2000.

09.11.2025 23:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Browns know the assignment.

Last 5 plays:

Jets kickoff return TD
Gabriel pass short incomplete (x3)
Jet punt return TD

09.11.2025 18:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Indeed, he was allowed to to kill all those children because he is so rich

07.11.2025 02:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3503    ๐Ÿ” 810    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
INTERESTING TIMES
WITH ROSS DOUTHAT
Mamdani's Victory Is Less Significant Than
You Think

INTERESTING TIMES WITH ROSS DOUTHAT Mamdani's Victory Is Less Significant Than You Think

we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say itโ€™s a total mandate

05.11.2025 14:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8019    ๐Ÿ” 1111    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 138    ๐Ÿ“Œ 62

This is funny because they could have just as easily written it the other way: โ€œA million people posed to move into NYC if Mandan becomes mayorโ€

Gotta be tough choosing between fake scare lines, but I think they might have made the wrong choice here.

03.11.2025 14:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œI just got back from fleeing Comrade Di Blasio, and now this?โ€ said Lying Fakeman, a bricklayer from the upper west side. He plans to move to North Dakota and kill himself.

03.11.2025 14:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 159    ๐Ÿ” 25    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Colorado wins perhaps its biggest game of the year on the road against the Vegas Golden Knights 4-2! They spoil the Halloween and Nevada Day celebrations and stop one of the best teams in the league for the second game running. Onto San Jose tomorrow afternoon! #GoAvsGo

31.10.2025 22:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i cannot believe that โ€œmamdani calls a close adult relative an โ€˜auntโ€™ even if they are not literally their parentโ€™s sisterโ€ is what counts as a โ€œscandalโ€ these days

28.10.2025 21:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22473    ๐Ÿ” 2151    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1270    ๐Ÿ“Œ 560
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I address the first scandal of my political lifeโ€”Momgate.

28.10.2025 16:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 633    ๐Ÿ” 146    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 65
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I'm trying to use Bluesky to sell tickets to my comedy special taping. Don't make me promote on Twitter. I'd rather have an empty house. But it'd be so much nicer if it were full.

28.10.2025 02:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 432    ๐Ÿ” 116    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
Glass storefront door in Brighton Park, with sign in English and Spanish, reading: ATTENTION ICE/CBP
AGENTS
STOP
YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED ENTRANCE INTO THIS BUSINESS WITHOUT A VALID JUDICIAL WARRANT
ATENCION AGENTES DE
ICE/CBP
STOP
NO SE LE PERMITE LA ENTRADA A ESTE NEGOCIO SIN UNA ORDEN
JUDICIAL VALIDA

Glass storefront door in Brighton Park, with sign in English and Spanish, reading: ATTENTION ICE/CBP AGENTS STOP YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED ENTRANCE INTO THIS BUSINESS WITHOUT A VALID JUDICIAL WARRANT ATENCION AGENTES DE ICE/CBP STOP NO SE LE PERMITE LA ENTRADA A ESTE NEGOCIO SIN UNA ORDEN JUDICIAL VALIDA

Glass storefront door with sign reading:

PRIVATE PROPERTY
NO ICE

YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ENTER NON-PUBLIC AREAS OF THIS SPACE
WITHOUT A VALID JUDICIAL WARRANT SIGNED BY A FEDERAL JUDGE

and a second sign:
PLEASE USE DOOR
ON 47TH ST.
BACK OF THE YARDS

Glass storefront door with sign reading: PRIVATE PROPERTY NO ICE YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ENTER NON-PUBLIC AREAS OF THIS SPACE WITHOUT A VALID JUDICIAL WARRANT SIGNED BY A FEDERAL JUDGE and a second sign: PLEASE USE DOOR ON 47TH ST. BACK OF THE YARDS

signs like these are up all over Chicago cafes and storefronts (here, cafes in Brighton Park and Back of the Yards) warning ICE not to enter without a judicial warrant

25.10.2025 23:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4909    ๐Ÿ” 1271    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 63    ๐Ÿ“Œ 82

Just a straight loser.

25.10.2025 19:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I really think when American voters say they hate communism they mean they hate things like a govt that kills and imprisons people without the burden of publicly establishing their crimes.

I donโ€™t think they mean that they hate the corporate tax rates we had in the 80s.

23.10.2025 02:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Trump administration doesnโ€™t know if the people in this boat committed a crime

Didnโ€™t arrest them

Never indicted them, conducted a trial, proved their guilt or-if they were actually convicted-argued over their sentence

No-they simply killed them

Then broadcast the murder on social media

23.10.2025 01:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 495    ๐Ÿ” 229    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 42    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

Did some first college visits with my son (HS junior) this weekend. He wants to aim high. But there is no way we would entertain applying to a school that commits to upholding racial disparity like this.

I get that weโ€™re just one family so they wonโ€™t care. But how many until they do?

23.10.2025 02:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A young brown boy in a football shirt and his family wail as a family member is led away by ICE.

A young brown boy in a football shirt and his family wail as a family member is led away by ICE.

A brown man weeps as he looks down the hallway heading into immigration court.

A brown man weeps as he looks down the hallway heading into immigration court.

A young brown woman in a red sweatshirt with her face contorted with tears as her arms are restrained by ICE officers.

A young brown woman in a red sweatshirt with her face contorted with tears as her arms are restrained by ICE officers.

A brown woman weeps over her baby in a strolled as others comfort her in the hallway of immigration court.

A brown woman weeps over her baby in a strolled as others comfort her in the hallway of immigration court.

Look at what is happening. Look at it.

A RECKONING WILL COME.

21.10.2025 12:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 92    ๐Ÿ” 35    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

No, we canโ€™t just agree to disagree on our opinions and live peacefully together when one personโ€™s opinion is that the other canโ€™t live in peace. Everyone already knows this, yet people pretend otherwise when it inconveniences them

20.10.2025 17:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2146    ๐Ÿ” 473    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 31    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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Itโ€™s time to get rid of tickers during college football games Listen, it is not a novel concept to banish the on-screen ticker from live sporting events once and for all. Weโ€™ve written about it in the past here at Awful Announcing. But the year is now 2025, and fans are still bombarded with irrelevant, often distracting information at the bottom of their screens as they Read more... The post Itโ€™s time to get rid of tickers during college football games appeared first on Awful Announcing.
20.10.2025 17:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

About as anti-American a statement as could ever come from a Speaker of the US House of Representatives

"protests must come to an end"

MAGATS destroying democracy & the bedrock principles upon which the USA was founded must come to an end

10.10.2025 16:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 77    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

The Supreme Courtโ€™s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the โ€œI love Hitlerโ€ guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

15.10.2025 21:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4827    ๐Ÿ” 1836    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 69    ๐Ÿ“Œ 51

What is even the theory here? Is he just going to leave troops on every corner? Is that what he envisions as safety? And they canโ€™t leave? Just the dumbest understanding of crime.

16.10.2025 10:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Q: โ€œMost hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?โ€

@aoc.bsky.social : โ€œThatโ€™s the difference between us & Trump. I donโ€™t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.โ€

16.10.2025 02:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9387    ๐Ÿ” 2131    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 123    ๐Ÿ“Œ 118
Harvard Must Take a Stand Against Trumpโ€™s Compact | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson Harvard, rather than quietly pursuing its own appeasement strategy, should lead the way to preserve academic freedom and democracy.

In which Harvardโ€™s Enos & Levitsky call on Harvard to lead the way, coordinating with other universities in fight for academic freedom. Our civil institutions will need to learn that power is harnessed through coordination. Protecting oneself will never be enough.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

09.10.2025 11:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 81    ๐Ÿ” 18    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this yearโ€˜s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

08.10.2025 23:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4740    ๐Ÿ” 1838    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 142    ๐Ÿ“Œ 83

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

08.10.2025 14:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5257    ๐Ÿ” 2484    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 82    ๐Ÿ“Œ 111
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I think there are still shared norms we can appeal to when we talk to the marginal MAGA voter. But there really are no shared norms left with the core of the movement.

08.10.2025 14:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 754    ๐Ÿ” 163    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 33    ๐Ÿ“Œ 49
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Thanks, New Yorker

07.10.2025 17:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21800    ๐Ÿ” 6757    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 217    ๐Ÿ“Œ 216

it is useful not to lose sight of how, underneath everything else, hollow all of this noise is. portland and chicago are warzones, so i am dispatching a couple hundred best buy assistant managers there to quell the insurrections. potemkin stuff, paper thin

06.10.2025 16:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3318    ๐Ÿ” 460    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15

This is a corrupt decision.

I donโ€™t mean that I am speculating about the motives behind the decision. Thatโ€™s alway slippery.

The decision itself, taken without explanation, is a corrupt action.

It overturns the plain statutory text, contrary to Federal courts rulings, without explanation.

03.10.2025 21:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The legitimacy of the power of courts depends on their giving of legal reasons for their decisions. Lacking any democratic authorization, the absence of reasons means it's naked power being asserted, which relieves us of any obligation to obey. We may comply for prudence's sake, but we don't have to

03.10.2025 21:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 150    ๐Ÿ” 48    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

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