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‪A proper union leader should represent all of their members fairly, or at the absolute least, avoid actively showing support to a political project that seeks to crush, kill, and destroy vast swaths of their own membership. www.welcometohellworld.com/r/384560d5?m... ‬

They are enemies of labor and of the working classwww.welcometohellworld.com Today Kim Kelly returns to write about two contrasting speeches by labor leaders this week: UAW President Shawn Fain at Netroots Nation and Teamsters President Sean O’Brien at the Republican National ...

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something truly magical about how even other Tesla drivers hate the Cybertruck guys

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I don't want to give anything away but I really do not care for this dude. (This is a gift link) defector.com/donald-trump...

Donald Trump Selects His Wingman | Defectordefector.com First things first: Donald Trump’s selection of Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his vice presidential candidate on Monday evening is insignificant. The office itself is insignificant by its nature and doub...

Against the advice of friends, family, and even my expensive legal council, I have agreed in principle to debate a playa straight

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In fairness this is everywhere within 20-30 miles of Boston now. First thing I just saw when I opened Instagram a minute ago.

Medford is a city a few miles north of Boston. Growing up for me it was picture whatever area you're thinking of when you imagine the "Boston" genre of movie is like. Except now the average home price is like $900,000.

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fifteen percent off? i spit on fifteen percent off. you insult me and my family with fifteen percent off

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Jack Black selling out KG is some weak shit man. www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

Jack Black 'blindsided' by Kyle Gass' Trump shooting comment, ends Tenacious D tourwww.usatoday.com Jack Black is speaking out against his Tenacious D bandmate Kyle Gass' controversial comment about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

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Imagine if this weekend had gone differently

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"As someone who knows a little something about getting shot and just generally wearing out my welcome,"

CNN reporting that 50 Cent may make an appearance during the Republican National Convention

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The Founders anticipated all of this, and that is why they buried throughout the constitution various secret hints and rules that would, centuries later, make it illegal to notice or get mad when a powerful and extremely dumb guy repeatedly commits obvious oafish political crimes.

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This is like when an ice cream place names their large size, “Yum Yum Gimme Some,” and you have to say it.

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It's so obvious it's barely worth mentioning, but the right believes political violence and punishing their enemies and violent protest is for them to do to the left, and it is an affront to the natural order if done to them. That's it. The hypocrisy is part of the thrill.

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I’m at the TJ Maxx. I’m at the HomeGoods store. I’m at the combination TJ Maxx and HomeGoods store

I just think it would be nice if our country's hardworking postal workers got an extra day off

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"why isn't there a white history month" the cubs are playing the cardinals. it's white history month right now

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the Archaeological Institute has excavated a salary from ancient history for this job listing

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JERRY: She's a ten! But the mole… ELAINE: That's it? A mole?? JERRY: A ten can't have a mole! GEORGE: A nine…? A nine could have a mole… [Maya Angelou enters, applause] MAYA ANGELOU: See to the slickness of your floor, Jerome. Easily I could slip coming through the door as swiftly as I've just done.

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Oh… Oh no…

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wow that kicks ass

California fast food workers now earn $20 per hour. Franchisees are responding by cutting hours.

California fast food workers now earn $20 per hour. Franchisees are responding by cutting hours.apnews.com When California’s minimum wage increase went into effect in April, fast food workers across the state went from making $16 to $20 overnight.

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This is like mailing people notes about endangered species on parchment made of rhino skin

The Washington Post made an AI chatbot for questions about climate - https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/9/24194486/the-washington-post-climate-answers-ai-chatbot

The Washington Post made an AI chatbot for questions about climatewww.theverge.com Have a chat about climate change.

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idk man i can guess

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i'm old enough to remember when we could criticize the democratic candidate without people assuming that meant that we wanted the republican to win. just kidding that's never actually happened in my lifetime

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If this is carrots it might be the thing that finally breaks me

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You alright man? I keep seeing small damage numbers coming off you

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Fantastic writing by @michelledean.bsky.social right here. www.thecut.com/article/alic...

Alice Munro Was Hiding in Plain Sightwww.thecut.com I know the Nobel laureate’s writing by heart. I know her failures by heart, too.

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easy to chalk the stuff in france up to some vague platitude about ~voting~ but it feels to me like more proof that you have to give people something to vote FOR, and that socialism remains better equipped to beat fascism than liberalism does! just one gal’s opinion

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sorry satirists!! looks like my bad faith readings of your work have exposed a shameful lack of moral clarity!!!

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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest

what are we doing here? he accidentally said million instead of billion and then immediately knew it and corrected himself. he didn’t “flub a line” and then “make an effort to correct himself,” he did the speaking equivalent of a typo that you know you’ve made and instantly correct