Caroline Casey

Really struggling to understand why both the mainstream media and Democratic leadership are finding it so hard right now to express what I think is a fairly basic point. Political violence is bad and a second Trump presidency means more of it. www.garbageday.email/p/yet-anothe...

so who else feels insane

thinking about how great it must have been to vote for hillary in the primary and then just die of old age.

"america! we finally figured some things out!" and curtains

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Caroline Casey

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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Josh Gondelman

feel better, bud.

also watch Siege it's great literally everyone is in it.

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Caroline Casey

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Asawin Suebsaeng

If you wanna “bring down the temperature” that is never accomplished by unilaterally disarming

stop. using. uline!

For anyone curious about Uline, we reported in 2022 on how the boom in online shopping had enriched the company's owners, who have used their wealth to fund far-right causes: www.propublica.org/article/ulin...

That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denialwww.propublica.org A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.

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Adrienne Celt

I only watched the trailer and am not going to sleep tonight

consolidation is not "business-friendly" it is oligarch-friendly.

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO Endorsed Donald Trump Without Endorsing Donald Trumpwww.readtpa.com Let's get real about what the head of CNN's parent company meant in his Sun Valley Conference remarks.

ask a small business owner how they like being limited to one or two suppliers / shippers /etc

Reply to

Jon Chaiim McConnell

all these dudes are so high on their own supply

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Patrick Nathan

as if the fascists won't come for them too (even, first!)

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Sarah Weinman

I just can't get over the moral calculus of ego outweighing another person's entire life.

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Sarah Weinman

this was sickening

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Caroline Casey

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Nominations for the 2024 Ann Snitow Prize are Now Open - The Ann Snitow Prizeannsnitowprize.com Nominations for the 2024 Ann Snitow Prize—a $12,500 award for an outstanding feminist intellectual/artist and activist working in the United States—are now open. To learn how you can nominate someone ...

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Porter Square Books

really proud of this one!

conservatism is a grift

A pregnancy center can bill the state $14 for distributing a pack of diapers that only cost the center about 25 cents. But before parents can get those diapers, they must take a class for which the center can bill the state $30 per hour of class a client attends. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Texas Sends Millions to Crisis Pregnancy Centers. It’s Meant to Help Needy Families, But No One Knows if It Works.www.propublica.org Two years after Roe v. Wade was overturned, Texas leads the nation in funding for crisis pregnancy centers. The system is meant to help growing families, but it’s riddled with waste and lacks oversigh...

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Keith Harris

some good lines but otherwise woof

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Caroline Casey

like... take this representative spread of articles, which is refreshingly free of stupid thinkpieces and middlebrow lifestyle garbage, and is a far clearer window into "the issues" than the NYT has provided in some time

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