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The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...

I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...

That little meltdown last night seems to be continuing today

Jeb!

Jeb!

Yeah you do that

Make America Only Normally Racist And Violent Again

Chuckie tried to dox me once, and mistakenly claimed I lived in a gated community in Atlanta. (Never lived in Atlanta, Georgia, or a gated community.) He tried to dox me again, and again got the wrong address.

Royally fucking up while trying to be an anti-social dick is kinda' his bag.

Where are all those "but academic freedom!" folks? Harper's Letter signatories? What's up?

F*ck this c*nt.

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The Lawyer Who Killed Roe Is About to Get a Promotion Erin Hawley has devoted her career to rolling back the civil rights of vulnerable Americans. Now she is poised to become a circuit court judge.

Not a sure thing, but it sure looks like there is a campaign to land Erin Hawley a circuit court appointment newrepublic.com/article/2034...

The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys “If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."

"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."

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You will be left trying to pickup the pieces of wreckage entirely on your own & w/o an income.

Again, do not ever reach out for help if you are experiencing a mental health crisis. They will destroy whatever life you had and abandon you. Nothing good will come of it, I promise you.

One of the reasons servicemembers, from admirals and generals to the greenest private, should know “don’t follow illegal orders” is that this administration is a goulash of dishonorable character flaws like cowardice and dishonesty. There is no bus under which these pissants will not throw you.

Normally the creators of beloved children’s cartoon characters would not need to disavow the U.S. Secretary of Defense, but ours is a drunken miscreant, a loutish boor with the dignity and nobility of a counterfeit butt-plug

rarely an indicator that things are going good for him

I know they're throwing the admiral under the bus but really, shouldn't he have refused to follow the clearly illegal order?

New Megacities Lie in the Path of Devastating Floods Humanity’s future lies in some of the most vulnerable spots on the planet.

Grim stuff. Urban adaptation is more achievable than one might think but in the fastest growing megacities it's a pipe dream.

Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk Faced with an incredibly lopsided ethical dilemma, Grok prioritizes saving Elon Musk at the expensive of millions of Jews.

“I’m a grok guy” — Vance futurism.com/future-socie...

JBLU: demand is fine, we're cutting capacity anyways

*JETBLUE: DEMAND DURING 4Q HAS REMAINED HEALTHY
*JETBLUE: 4Q BOOKINGS HAVE BEEN TRENDING IN-LINE WITH VIEWS

*JETBLUE AIRWAYS SEES ONE POINT REDUCTION TO 4Q ASM GROWTH
*JBLU CITES HURRICANE MELISSA, SHUTDOWN-RELATED CANCELLATIONS

Everyone who voted to confirm Hegseth did so with full public knowledge that he's a man of violent accusations allergic to taking responsibility for them. Now he reportedly orders double-tap kills on boatloads of civilians in the Caribbean

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This works tho

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DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.

You may have heard that DOGE is dead.

Well @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social are here to show you that's just not true, with many of the same young engineers—including Big Balls—still working at the heart of the US government

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the world will burn your fingers while it frostbites your toes

Santa lists are just how we get kids used to the Grind mindset. Have you been good enough? No?! No presents for you kiddo.

Still paywalled.

Spouse has a pork allergy and people think it’s funny to try to sneak it into her food because they don’t believe her. Cross contamination whenever we dine out is always a big risk too.

Really, you want a folding smartphone? You're gonna close your phone? Sure.

Two brothers killed in Israeli drone strike on Gaza Fadi Abu Assi, 11, and Goma Abu Assi, eight, were gathering firewood at the time, their uncle said.

You’ll never guess how the IDF decided to talk about killing these two kids, 8 and 11 years old, in its official statement