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A spoof of The Onion headline:
De Blasio: β€˜Well, Well, Well, You Found A Mayor That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’

A spoof of The Onion headline: De Blasio: β€˜Well, Well, Well, You Found A Mayor That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’

05.11.2025 04:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah but those assessments don’t necessarily imply a loss of intelligence

15.10.2025 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Definitely going to listen to the "travel hacker" over the Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council when it comes to what the government can or can't do with regard to visa policy

19.09.2025 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

215 at 21g each

07.09.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Scotch-Irish (aka Ulster Scots) aren’t ethnically Irish, they’re mostly Presbyterian and originally came from the Scottish border regions but lived for a few generations in the British colony of Ireland

Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, Andrew Johnson, etc. were descended from β€œScotch Irish”

03.09.2025 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I would also say that the state of Israel’s decades-long insistence that they both represent all jews and any criticism, including clearly legitimate criticism, of their actions equals antisemitism has only served to endanger jews around the world.

30.07.2025 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 413    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

New York hasn’t elected a Republican Senator since 1992, it’s the primary she’d need to worry about, not the general

20.07.2025 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is it that much harder to win statewide as someone who can be accused of being soft on defense spending compared with someone who won half the state’s population while essentially be painted as a terrorist?

20.07.2025 00:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I see what you’re saying but I don’t think that’s a particularly astute takeaway just weeks after Zohran’s win in NYC (with half the population of the entire state)

20.07.2025 00:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

trump admin cutting costs so they kill people in texas floods so they can pay ICE to murder farm workers.

12.07.2025 02:26 β€” πŸ‘ 99    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

Also consistent with the zero-based budgeting Elon implemented at Twitter and with DOGE

12.07.2025 02:15 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Account for things like overtime pay and post call wrap up and other admin duties, it could easily hit $30-40 per call

12.07.2025 02:12 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Probably not billed per call but based on staffing, and you can imagine if they’re paying $20-25 an hour for US-based staffing, the contractor’s probably charging $60-70 per hour. 4-5 calls per hour would be about $15-20 per call

12.07.2025 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

(I’d just never seen this happen with the option to tip on a card, usually it would just be cash)

03.07.2025 02:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Restaurants/bars generally encourage (or at least allow) this to some extent

03.07.2025 02:32 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

What's going on here? They comped your meal but charged you a penny?

03.07.2025 01:53 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Was the ACA repeal (McCain, Murkowski, Collins) the only real example?

01.07.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Or he’s a nepo baby because his father’s a professor (same as Anna)

25.06.2025 10:11 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think the fact that it's NYC is significant. NYC, and specifically the history of the Jewish people in NYC, directly disproves the central lies of Zionism. And as I thought about when I saw Zohran speak about NYC as a city of immigrants, it's the city my immigrant ancestors chose (not Israel)

25.06.2025 03:55 β€” πŸ‘ 336    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I don’t think it was really that big a whiff, final tallies are going to be close and some polls in the last few days had him ahead. I think he just surged in the last couple of weeks and the inherent lag of polls didn’t start capturing it until the last few days.

25.06.2025 02:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I didn’t even realize this existed. I’ve never been to a synagogue in the US that didn’t have American and Israeli flags side by side

14.06.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

20.05.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 44499    πŸ” 12935    πŸ’¬ 4932    πŸ“Œ 5441

NEW β€” Trump’s ICE has just arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka.

Alongside residents and other officials, Baraka has been protesting outside a detention facility that’s set to help Trump’s mass deportation regime.

09.05.2025 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2761    πŸ” 1000    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 199

Federal agents' seemingly universal adoption of neck gaiters worn just below the eyes like they're robbing the railroad is emblematic of this time in the US

09.05.2025 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 13144    πŸ” 3377    πŸ’¬ 556    πŸ“Œ 278

Love the simultaneous messaging from the Trump admin that $6 to $9 for congestion pricing to drive into NYC is onerous and needs to be overturned, but children just need to sacrifice with fewer toys because of tariffs

30.04.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've never spoken to a doctor or health care provider that doesn't hate the current insurance system.

I know a retired surgeon whose main news sources are OANN and NewsMax but supports single payer.

28.04.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

14.04.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 54608    πŸ” 13876    πŸ’¬ 1277    πŸ“Œ 597

How is this the first time I realized Stephen Miller has valley girl accent??

04.04.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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SEIU Launches $100,000 Ad Campaign & Holds 18 Rallies to Release Immigrant Activist This week, SEIU launched a major six-figure ad campaign to demand the release of a Turkish national, Tufts University Ph.D. student Rumeysa Ozturk, a member of SEIU 509, who had been involved in Pales...

SEIU has launched a $100,000 ad buy to demand the release of Tuft graduate employees & held rallies in 18 cities.

In an unprecedented fashion, unions are responding to defend their members.

paydayreport.com/seiu-launche...

04.04.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 683    πŸ” 184    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 20

I don’t disagree that it would be better to have younger reps, but cancer, heart attacks, and other causes of death can strike down people in their 40s and 50s too.

Having this takeaway in response to Greg Abbott’s dereliction of duty feels like letting him off the hook.

04.04.2025 11:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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