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“Real reactionary centrism hasn’t been tried” seems to be the retort.

capital is power, and those people have way too much of it. it fucked up the balance that keeps the system running. no more billionaires.

The leopards will feast until Dear Leader is removed.

To the people saying Gabi shouldn’t have played, the game was at the Emirates. In no universe is Gabi not playing that game.

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

Josh Barro not beating the allegations of being an entitled ass.

Learning disabilities are a real thing, and accommodations for kids who have them make sure they are able to learn. Which is the purpose of education.

A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)

“Weaponizing the DOJ” takes on a whole new level when you order investigations in order to reopen it so it’s no longer closed and you can claim you can’t release information because it’s an “ongoing investigation”

While I'm sure they exist, i am not particularly interested in the details underlying Dershowtiz' personal investigations about precisely how far you can drop below the age of consent before statutory rape morphs into pedophilia.

Yeah man lean in on this position it makes you look fucking great

It would be pretty funny if a D-tilted environment coupled with trying to dilute D votes by gerrymandering them into heavily red districts resulted in a much bigger blowout than if they hadn’t gerrymandered

Republicans have been “scrambling for a health care plan” for longer than my son has been alive. He’s 11.

Two hours a night: Japan PM’s sleep schedule prompts concerns about work-life balance Takaichi caused a stir last week after she summoned aides to her office for a 3am meeting to prepare for a budget committee hearing

I think my concern would be over her cognitive functioning, more than work-life balance.

public health, despite its mistakes, saved hundreds of thousands of lives during the pandemic — and we’re getting burned to the ground for it. ha ha life is great

I've endorsed Michael's point before. Herewith, I do so again!

I'd just like to point out that we spent an entire shipment of air defense interceptors' worth of money on new signs for a name change that isn't even legally the name of the DoD.

Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.

Imagine seeing today’s Epstein emails and deciding, “on second thought, we don’t need to release those files.”

Mike Johnson pretty clearly put out a call to the caucus to get someone to change their position on this so he could swear in Grijalva. It's the most transparent coverup in living memory.

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Undeniably so and it has spread far and wide beyond media.

it is almost as if someone was promoted beyond their ability

Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The new Republican plan same as the old Republican plan: Fucking die already.

Fox has some ideas for improving the henhouse.

Some silver linings here but his take on D senators’ view of the filibuster is depressing. We’ll need much more vigorous leadership in the Senate and White House to nuke it.

Dan knows more about how Congress works than anyone I know, so this is an interesting thread.

Whatever’s happening in the Senate, I want everyone to read this & remember that this is our lives. In Chicago. The suburbs. Everywhere. We fight it every day. With organizing. With cantankerousness. With courage. With humor & kindness & generosity & solidarity & patriotism & love

And we will win

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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