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Books, cats, obsessing about politics

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Every time some right wing fucker talks about migrants who commit crimes, I go ask them why they're not commenting on the crimes that Jan6ers have gone onto commit (two have been arrested this week). This guy features prominently.

05.03.2026 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 540    πŸ” 242    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 4

This war isn’t an emergency that requires us to give the president more latitude. It’s a monstrosity that requires that judges, lawmakers and above all citizens work to preserve the integrity of elections and the republic.

05.03.2026 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2513    πŸ” 805    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 18

β€œJust another faceless three-digit number of Muslim children extinguished from existence and relegated to A11 in the US and Israel’s seemingly endless Middle East β€˜wars.’”

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05.03.2026 11:18 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A lot of Ottolenghi or Sami Tamimi recipes have those together. It’s good!

04.03.2026 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThe Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...

The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:

03.03.2026 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6311    πŸ” 2715    πŸ’¬ 245    πŸ“Œ 146
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Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.

When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

03.03.2026 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2302    πŸ” 1003    πŸ’¬ 113    πŸ“Œ 128

unmute

03.03.2026 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 181    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
03.03.2026 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2407    πŸ” 782    πŸ’¬ 83    πŸ“Œ 29
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Warner: "There was no imminent threat to the United States by the Iranians. There was a threat to Israel. If we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to the US, then we are in uncharted territory."

02.03.2026 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 8255    πŸ” 2338    πŸ’¬ 263    πŸ“Œ 178

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

02.03.2026 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 8039    πŸ” 2214    πŸ’¬ 122    πŸ“Œ 71
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Cartoon by Tommy Siegel

03.03.2026 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 6700    πŸ” 1692    πŸ’¬ 89    πŸ“Œ 52
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Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? The human subconscious is such an interesting thing. No matter how much you think you’ve got it figured out, it’ll always spit out the most random stuff. Take me, for example. After coming home from a...

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

02.03.2026 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 7649    πŸ” 1420    πŸ’¬ 89    πŸ“Œ 62

β€œBut what if we gave the One Ring better training?”

02.03.2026 05:28 β€” πŸ‘ 764    πŸ” 153    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 4
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911 calls capture kids burning with fever, struggling to breathe at ICE detention center β€” NBC News EMS crews were called to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas at least 11 times since September for children in medical distress, records show.

Jesus Christ

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02.03.2026 06:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1262    πŸ” 754    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 59
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You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.

And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

02.03.2026 07:54 β€” πŸ‘ 23861    πŸ” 5948    πŸ’¬ 1728    πŸ“Œ 633

this one fucked me up so much. guy turns his life around after a drug conviction, becomes a happy, beloved, pet rescuing houseboat dad who undersells his mechanic services so poor folks can afford them. ICE grabs him one day out of the hospital for heart problems which then kill him. horrifying

02.03.2026 08:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2196    πŸ” 863    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Seems like a thing more people should be mad about

02.03.2026 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1873    πŸ” 516    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 6
roadhouseendgame
i was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of what must it be like to be a cardassian civilian. like abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as 'the evil ones' and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons and is a military empire, and it's a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just like run a restaurant so it's not a big part of your daily life, so you just like, go about your day and make soup and don't think about it' and then halfway through my sentence i actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes

roadhouseendgame i was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of what must it be like to be a cardassian civilian. like abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as 'the evil ones' and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons and is a military empire, and it's a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just like run a restaurant so it's not a big part of your daily life, so you just like, go about your day and make soup and don't think about it' and then halfway through my sentence i actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes

whoops

24.02.2026 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3466    πŸ” 1143    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 39
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Just resharing this.

01.03.2026 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2459    πŸ” 902    πŸ’¬ 90    πŸ“Œ 35
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It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État During the campaign, it was kind of hard to picture the specifics of how Trump might pull such a thing off. Alas, it’s getting less hypothetical by the week.

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01.03.2026 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 248    πŸ” 125    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 4

Ilhan from the top rope

01.03.2026 10:42 β€” πŸ‘ 674    πŸ” 100    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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North Carolina Democrats latest to chart future of the party in congressional primary In a safe Democratic seat in North Carolina, a match-up between a two-term Congresswoman and a progressive local official show how Democrats are charting the future of their party in the age of Trump.

Keep an eye on the race. Hakeem Jeffries has funneled money from AIPAC to help Foushee who said she won't take AIPAC money.

Primary season is now. This is a one shot moment to really move Democrats to positions that are aligned with the majority and justice.

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01.03.2026 04:40 β€” πŸ‘ 217    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 5

this isn't the worst of the Democrats' statements, but statements like this are a stark reminder that to many people, the real issue with the Iraq War was that Americans died. everything else is a footnote.

01.03.2026 05:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1860    πŸ” 236    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 4

I mean it's a SCIF with a perimeter barrier consisting of curtains so I think we're a little past ICD 705 already, even by TSWA standards

01.03.2026 01:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2085    πŸ” 364    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 15
A highly complex website showing two betting accounts earning nearly $500,000 and $120,000 on a minimal number of positions.

A highly complex website showing two betting accounts earning nearly $500,000 and $120,000 on a minimal number of positions.

In case you were wondering, Polymarket had yet another spate of likely inside traders betting that the US would strike Iran by February 28.

Per the due diligence investigation service Bubblemaps, the wallets used were created 24 hours earlier.

The Pentagon Pizza Index has been replaced.

01.03.2026 01:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2627    πŸ” 971    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 83
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'Sinners' Gets an Tiny Desk Concert That's So Damn Good Buddy Guy and Miles Caton don't summon any spirits, but listening to them together will make your day better.

β€˜Sinners’ Gets an NPR Tiny Desk Concert That’s So Damn Good

28.02.2026 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 174    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this:

I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil

28.02.2026 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3715    πŸ” 791    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 36
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Susie Wiles is wearing an Apple Watch during a highly classified meeting on Iran.

Unreal.

28.02.2026 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 18843    πŸ” 6108    πŸ’¬ 2147    πŸ“Œ 597

oh thank god they took out a bunch of extremely dangerous [checks notes] little girls

28.02.2026 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 685    πŸ” 139    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 3

This sort of thing disgraces all of humanity.

28.02.2026 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 893    πŸ” 345    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5