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JD Vance supports murdering American citizens. He's made that perfectly clear today. If he's willing to defend the murder of Renee Good, he would defend your murder, too.

Abolishing ICE is the bare minimum.

We need to dismantle DHS. We need restitution. And we need trials.

ICE came to terrorize us. Minneapolis is not having it.

Our first ad of 2026! Because politics stuck in 2006 won't meet the moment.

It's time to stand up to ICE, white supremacists, and the billionaire oligarchy.

If you wouldn’t say the N-word, even just to berate someone for using it, why are you comfortable saying the R-word 50 times in your opening monologue?

This is a sub-thread about Brian Tyler Cohen.

Yes please

I saw Cady Heron wearing army pants and flip flops, so I bought army pants and flip flops.

Addled grandpa charmed by spunky youngster

It’ll be hilarious when the next administration repurposes this to the The Barack Obama Museum of Immigration Excellence 🌚

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Best Big City: Chicago Wins Award 9th Year in a Row Learn why Chicago was voted the Best Big City for the 9th consecutive year by exploring our vibrant culture, welcoming inclusion, and so much more.

BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW.

While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.

“Mounting concerns”. Can we abandon the journalist rhetoric for one second and use real names for the things that are happening in this country? He took your funding ffs!

It was honestly hard to tell how serious any of this was, but if more than 20% was serious, I can’t overstate how important therapy is for straight men ❤️

“Let that sink in”. Bro, it’s sunk. It’s been sunk.

“You can’t make this up.” CAN’T YOU THOUGH?! Most of all information we see online is made up now.

Stop using dumb cliches to make your posts about our current reality seem deeper and more poignant than they actually are.

I get that objectively it’s not the work being judged but ultimately without feedback (and I understand that too many people are querying for everyone to get a personal response) it’s hard to avoid resentment. You did what you thought was your best and you don’t even get to know where you messed up

-> being either a form rejection or ghosting, and with most agents understandably not hyped to get requeried over and over with the same unaltered book, it’s functionally the same thing because either way you’re getting no actionable feedback to change the book OR the pitch and you can’t retry it.

Just now catching up and despite my virulent disillusionment with trade publishing and querying, I was on board for the majority of the episode until we got to the part about “it’s not your book getting rejected, it’s your pitch”. Which on one level - sure, fine. But with so much of responses ->

It’s truly inspiring that the current trade publishing format seems to be “find a successful indie book, throw money at the author, then kill all momentum it has by making it unavailable for half a year until you get around to publishing it”.

Fantastic Four: First Steps is at least as good as the new Superman and requires even less prior knowledge to enjoy. Don’t sleep on it, this week 2 box office drop is a travesty for a movie this excellent!

Late to the party, but wow Andrew Sullivan is trash!

Yesterday was my 40th birthday and today is my birthday party. The sun is shining and I’m happy. I’m making a bubble out of those facts and choosing to live in that bubble for the moment.

Apparently no queer masc author wrote a book in the past couple of years.

Posting a list of all the “queer” titles you’re publishing in 2025, and 100% are sapphic stories by women and non-binary femmes, is borderline gaslighting.

Tiny dick energy

happy zohran day to all who celebrate

BREAKING: A judge has ordered the RELEASE of Mahmoud Khalil

BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional.

We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.

I don’t care why she’s like this. I only care that she is. When someone can purchase a small country they can no longer play the victim and I don’t owe them empathy or understanding.