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We Who Were Never Trump Long Before Trump As you know, twenty years ago, before the Frankenstein's monster they'd built kicked the doors off the lab and came for them, most of ...

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It’s 2025 and America’s Clocks Are Striking Thirteen "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." -- 1984 - Part 1, Chapter 1. The New Republic, August 5th, 202...

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Professional Left Podcast Episode 924: The Con Man And GOP Civil War "You say I acted atrociously. Yes. I did. I do it for a living." -- Mike, House of Games The...

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Give them no peace!

Too late now, but I believe I've worked out a plot for a Resident Alien series finale which would have tied up every loose end.

Hint: The mayor is they key.

#ResidentAlien #AlanTudyk

Ah, an intellectual battle between a stochastic parrot incapable of true thought, designed in a laboratory to satisfy the whims of the far-right, and Grok.

Exhaustion.

Out Here in the Real World There Are Hundreds of Savvy, Sharp, Eloquent Liberal Voices Who Have Been Right All Along But instead of any of them, ever, (because they might track in big, muddy, inconvenient footprints from the Before Time) the flags...

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Out Here in the Real World There Are Hundreds of Savvy, Sharp, Eloquent Liberal Voices Who Have Been Right All Along But instead of any of them, ever, (because they might track in big, muddy, inconvenient footprints from the Before Time) the flags...

Did you all lose a bet?

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Out Here in the Real World There Are Hundreds of Savvy, Sharp, Eloquent Liberal Voices Who Have Been Right All Along But instead of any of them, ever, (because they might track in big, muddy, inconvenient footprints from the Before Time) the flags...

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Out Here in the Real World There Are Hundreds of Savvy, Sharp, Eloquent Liberal Voices Who Have Been Right All Along But instead of any of them, ever, (because they might track in big, muddy, inconvenient footprints from the Before Time) the flags...

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Out Here in the Real World There Are Hundreds of Savvy, Sharp, Eloquent Liberal Voices Who Have Been Right All Along But instead of any of them, ever, (because they might track in big, muddy, inconvenient footprints from the Before Time) the flags...

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Matthew Dowd is a Fundamentally Ridiculous Person the number of pundits/analysts/news anchors who have been consistently wrong for 20 years and yet are constantly given airtime is abso...

This fucking guy.

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Democracy Dies in Data Bias: ChatGPT and Me, Part II. Where did we leave off in Part I ? Oh yeah, I remember.   Longtime readers will be familiar with this sort of comment, which...

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Congratulations!

See over Springfield, Illinois today: plane flying a "Mess With Texas" banner.

No notes.

Professional Left Podcast Episode 923: Fantastic 4, Dems Fight Back, AI Convos. "This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death." -- C...

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Thank you, Andy.

Democracy Dies in Data Bias: ChatGPT and Me, Part I. Like "The Turk" in Edgar Allan Poe's 1836 essay , "Maelzel's Chess Player" , I have discovered a little man hiding inside ChatGPT. ...

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Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

Why is it so easy for many of us to see this extortion while the @nytimes.com treats this as The Art of the Deal? It is so repulsive and craven of these reporters and their editors.

Everything's on the table.

Republicans are using every method they can, whether it's cheating or breaking the law.

We've got to do everything we can to stand up and fight back — we're not sitting around and complaining from the sidelines when we have the ability to stop them.

They're Not Apologizing So Quit Asking It is neither shocking nor even mildly surprising that the cranky "Me?  Apologize?  Fuck you.  What about  Abbie Hoffman?...

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Governor Pritzker speaking eloquently about facts; and, drawing a line in the sand. ✊🏼

New York has entered the chat 💬

Former Prez Joe Biden spoke at the National Bar Association annual gala in Chicago last night. His #CupOfJoe was brimming with the urgency of action. He implored Americans to be “unapologetic in fighting for the future.”

You ready? Be relentless in defense of truth and democracy.

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen LIVE: Governor Pritzker issues ANNOUNCEMENT amid Texas walkout

"America we have a problem. The largest democracy in the world and yet a Texas governor would bend a knee to Donald Trump because he's afraid to lose an election fair and square."

It is a grim beat.