Duncan Dwyer

Stephen Miller didn’t lose audio AND he didn’t freeze. He had someone absolutely screaming in his earbud after he said the words “plenary authority.” Someone was pulling his greasy piano wire strings.

Well, 2020 was a good year to borrow balls from.

Someone somewhere along the line turned “ACA premium tax credits” into “enhanced Obamacare subsidies,” Republicans realized that sounded worse, they kept feeding the line to the media, and VOILÀ thats now what CNN calls it. 😡

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It’s kind of like how like Trump initially didn’t understand what political “asylum” was, but then once someone explained it to him he continued to claim countries send immigrants here from mental health facilities.
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The GOP knows calling it “Obamacare” makes it poll 20 points lower. So why “enhanced?” It probably started as some comms person or a lazy journalist (or f-ing AI) using a thesaurus and replacing the NOUN “premium” (the amount someone pays for an insurance policy) with the ADJECTIVE “enhanced.”
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I see the media just gleefully gobbled up the hooked worm the GOP dangled in front of them.
No, we aren’t fighting over “enhanced Obamacare subsidies.” The term you’re looking for is “ACA premium tax credits.” Do you see the difference here? So how did this happen?
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Ezra Klein doesn’t just give the bully his lunch money, he explains to the other nerds how maybe the bullies have some interesting points about how much we deserve swirlies.

Hegseth speaking at his all generals meeting. Joke caption reads: “We have always been at war with Antifa.”

Hegseth laid out the military’s new strategy, which definitely isn’t new because we all know that Oceania has always been at war with Woke-anda.

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150,000% this. Yup, she’s human. She had experiences. Cool. It’s perfectly fine to try to best understand how someone became who they are, but the same origin story that can make someone a villain could also make them a hero.

This is the Trump administration’s logic: “ICE agents were shot at” can be a tragedy. “Immigrants were shot and killed” cannot.

The public still (falsely) believes ICE agents were shot in Dallas because it’s hard to dehumanize immigrants while also admitting the victims (all detainees) were people.
You can’t go from saying immigrants deserve to be eaten alive by alligators to then letting us care that they were shot.

I don’t know how everyone else is doing, but I’ve got about six lanes of holiday traffic anxiety trying to push its way through a state highway detour of nerves right now.

Oh, I see it’s “We all get to be loudly wrong about one thing” day!

“One of our victims.”

Oops!! That was the quiet part, Kristi! You aren’t supposed to say that aloud!

And a culture dripping-soaked with guns where attention is the only capital that matters is going to produce more and more untethered young men who are socially glitching out. These are chaotic and dangerous times, and these young guys are itching to be the spark that sets the dry tinder ablaze.
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This brand of overtly online nihilism comes as absolutely no surprise to anyone who has spent any time even glancing at American culture over the past couple decades.
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The ICE Shooter’s Motive Joshua Jahn's friends speak

When Trump declares these acts were perpetrated by, I don’t know, wind power activists and overly aggressive lesbians or something, he not only creates the pretext for cracking down on “leftist extremists,” he completely ignores a very real and rapidly growing problem in our country.
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If you are starting to feel paranoid, that’s a natural reaction to your government regularly and shamelessly lying to you.

The solution is not to convince people to just blindly trust a government that they watch intentionally lie to them on the regular, it is for government to demonstrate its trustworthiness.

People are reasonably suspicious when the government immediately and gleefully blames any group, especially when so little is known about the event that the response feels orchestrated.

The problem is not that people don’t trust the government. The problem is that the government is not trustworthy.

Perhaps after the whole Charlie Kirk debacle we should all be careful to not jump to… oh, nope… we’re just going to go ahead and… yup. ok.

Beyond the question of how and why governments would want to pretend climate change is real, why would individual scientists? I’m honestly confused how people believe this.

Trump to World: Green Energy Is a Scam and Climate Science Is From ‘Stupid People’

I’m legitimately asking this of people who believe this: You think that every one of the thousands and thousands of individual scientists studying climate change are all lying to you? Every one? To what end? What is in it for them to make up fake data and spend their ENTIRE careers pretending?

Two social media comments reading: As someone rife with the tisms and raising two autistic young adults, I would argue that what we need is more accessible and neurodivergent-aware systems. Our need for specialized and costly therapies and "treatments" is often significantly reduced in a setting where accommodations are just the norm. It's a both/ and. But the intense focus on services and interventions, instead of just making life easier to navigate for everyone, pathologizes and others people. Why not just make things easier to navigate AND provide specific supports? It's like trauma-informed and trauma-specific care - the first should be the universal default, with the second added as needed.

I want to include some critical nuance here from a friend on another social media platform. “Treatment” alone is not the only option, nor is it the most effective or humanistic approach. It is absolutely imperative that we look at how we do—and more often do not—accommodate folks with autism.

There is no more politic way to put this: If you find yourself veering into the latter when talking about autism and autistic people, goddamn stop it.

That people don’t understand that there is a line between “we should find therapies and remedies to alleviate the negative symptoms of autism” and “we need to eradicate autism so no child is born autistic”—and that that line is eugenics—is maddening and infuriating.

Beyond the obvious “every accusation a confession” of it all, I just don’t understand what “politicized research” he’s supposedly even talking about here.

Can we talk about RFK Jr’s claims that the CDC and NIH weren’t looking at the “real” cause of autism because they were only doing “politicized research?”
Is there some secret Dan Brown-esque cabal I don’t know of whose goal is to protect… Tylenol?!
What politics were hiding the truth here, Robbie?!

Nobody wants to believe their realtor is a white nationalist. We have a hard time accepting that our uncle or cousin or coworker thinks authoritarianism is a pretty good idea. We refuse to accept that our kid’s teacher might be a xenophobic, racist, misogynist. But here we are.
#TheyARECharlie