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Happy first new ContraPoints in over a year to all who celebrate

Between a dedicated poster and a US attorney I’m taking the poster

If Trump succeeds in shutting down USAID, millions of people across the globe will die, and our diplomatic relations with dozens of countries will be irrevocably damaged.

@corybooker.com hello I used to run the Wendy’s Twitter account and I am begging you to let me help you with the dems social media strategy, I will literally do it for free at this point

Once again United States politics are leaving me in a position where I have to find a wealthy Australian supermodel to marry and all I have to offer her is knowledge of seasons 1-9 of the Simpsons

stabbiness

Crypto executives fear investor backlash over Trump memecoins Industry trying to rebuild its reputation frets over potential conflicts of interest and investor losses

The idea that Donald Trump could tarnish the image of cryptocurrency is a hilarious commentary on both.

www.ft.com/content/e6a7...

TikTok was never going anywhere. The TikTok creator gave millions to Trump and they orchestrated this whole PR stunt just so Trump will be seen as a 'hero' to young people.
It was literally the Kidz Bop version of the Reichstag Fire

Can't imagine the youth will be too bummed about tik tok being banned when they can still read the blue sky posts of late nineties alternative rock band eve6

Season was fun while it lasted

We’re less than one day into 2025 and the perfect metaphor has already dropped.

That thing I write, I wrote it again

Kristen Vaganos is the new Milana Vayntrub

Blue Baby: Blitz over Britain, by Edward Burra, 1941, 📸 by @JordanHerald5

You know a New Year's resolution is genuine when you start two weeks before the end of the year.

Few things in life are as unfair as a two-lane McDonalds drive-thru.

Feeling despair? So did this guy in 1875, who couldn't believe there were STILL anti-vaxxers:

"One might suppose that the popular prejudice against vaccination had died out by this time, considering that it has been practiced for nearly a century"

Writing in a newspaper that will never Iive down its own.

Me, after upgrading to Apple Intelligence: "Siri, what is Apple Intelligence good at?"

Siri, after allegedly being upgraded: "OK, I found this on the web for 'what is Apple Intelligence good at.' Check it out."

Me: 😐

SEC schools ranked by walking distance from the stadium to the nearest waffle house.

There's been a lot of discussion about how to separate SEC teams with similar records, and we have an idea.

I still think the best way for electeds & the media to counter right wing messaging is to just call them fucking morons, weirdos & crackpots. Explaining facts & details is boring. "Senator whatshisface wants to abolish the FDA? That's because he's a fucking nutjob." And leave it at that.

Tariffs and deportations, here we go America. You asked for it

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Grover Cleveland shares going through the roof tonight

We elected a felon

I need more Excedrin

I always roll my eyes at social media announcements about canceling subscriptions over editorial decisions but I just canceled my Washington Post subscription and here I am now telling you about it

With less than four weeks to the election, I’m choosing to preserve my mental health and that means ignoring all polls whose results I don’t like.