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So who is our William and Mary?

It’s a worse look that they’re invading my fucking city.

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Say what you will about Joseph Smith & Brigham Young but their theology is much more straightforward

“cousins get another beef on, we have incoming”

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I’m not body shaming but I’m also honest this Texas boy is gonna roll through Portillo’s once and switch allegiances

#chicagostrong

used a metaphor involving Ulysses S. Grant in a work meeting and someone said "is this because you turned 40" and I have been defeated like the confederates at vicksburg

Dear CNN,

When you next report on the “chaos” in Chicago in 2025, please be sure to use this painting of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 for the article.

Why most polls overstate support for political violence Misperceptions about the popularity of violence increase public support for it — but you can help change that.

Why most polls overstate support for political violence
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...

I’m not the step dad I’m the dad that stepped up and it’s Clippy

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Letting troops on the ground makes it a victory for him. Just as in CA. Might. It might not be a legal victory but it absolutely is a policy and strategic victory.

i think an interesting cultural experiment would be if we started enforcing traffic law

Every crisis is an opportunity. This is the moment for Dems on Capitol Hill to call a news conference and make clear: Not one dime to fund the federal government until Trump withdraws his unlawful orders and agrees not to send troops to occupy Democratic-run cities

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.

But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

Milestone on the path to middle age: I have decided to get into the Napoleonic Wars

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petitioning congress to have him draw a clock

The irony is HRC was absolutely right. Just look at the GOP’s complete endorsement of all this administration’s deplorable actions.

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

It’s just a mega-forum, the Platonian ideal of the internet. Humans need to be in charge of these sites to be enjoyable and there’s a certain scale when that is no longer possible.

The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

Feels like above-the-fold national news, but what do I know...

If any other president said something like this in a speech to a military academy, it would be a massive scandal. Instead, it isn’t among the ten most dangerous things he’s done this week.

🧵 Fascism is an ideology. The government is fascist. But it's an unconsolidated competitive authoritarian regime, not a totalitarian one.

@justinscasey.bsky.social and I discuss this, and the heterogeneity of interwar fascism, here 👇

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“Bluesky isn’t fun” problem and “Bluesky is the only social media platform where you will actually see the news” problem are the same problem

The creepiest part of Ezra' Kleins present spiel is that his mind can't separate fascist LEADERS (Kirk, Ben Shapiro), whom one should shun, from ordinary citizens seduced by them, to be engaged as neighbors, even if deplorable. A genuine elite derangement.