Banjo the Riot Elephant

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Trump said “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it.” But Project 2025 is run by Trump's closest aides, raising concerns about cognitive fitness for a candidate who seems unable to recall those around him. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/troubling-...

Troubling Signs of Cognitive Decline as Trump Struggles to Recognize Closest Aidesdonmoynihan.substack.com "I know nothing about Project 2025" statement triggers new concerns about his fitness to serve

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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

I don’t recall the NYT calling for Trump to step down after being convicted of 34 counts of fraud and being called by a judge at his civil trial a rapist in the common person sense

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Can't believe Little Bobby Tables is all grown up and has had their first kid, Ignore All Previous Instructions

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Four years ago today: Buffalo Police knocked over a 75-year old man at a George Floyd demonstration, giving him a head injury that would put him in the hospital for a month. Trump went on Twitter to promote a conspiracy theory about it and say the man had it coming.

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Josh Hawley: i'm going to punch 100 kittens in the throat AOC: what the hell, we shouldn't be punching *any* kittens (Manchin and Romney co-sponsor the Punch 50 Kittens in the Throat Act of 2024) op-ed columnist: finally, reasonable compromise

Right, this is a good illustrator of the way Beltway narratives tend to conflate “the middle” with “moderation”

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Garbage dumped. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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There is no justifying felons being disenfranchised if it’s also okay for felons to run for president.

Anyone have a live feed of Sam Alito's flagpole right now?

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The future producer of “Himbo Heist”

The people who yell the loudest about anti-capitalism are the ones who are most likely to treat voting as a capitalist endeavor, where votes are an exercise in personal branding, & boycotts work on political parties like they do on corporations.

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Attendant: Sir, you can’t bring that animal on the plane. Me: He’s registered I have the paperwork Attendant: No, I mean he won’t fit. My Anxiety Elephant: *senses my anxiety*

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getting sentenced to 7.5 years in prison and immediately logging on to argue with @tittyrespecter about your charges is peak poster there's no topping this

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Reposting because this story is so wild: A scientist for the company that created Scotch Tape & Post-its discovered its toxic chemicals in human blood in the ‘90s. Despite findings showing widespread contamination, her research was stopped by executives who kept the information secret

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safewww.propublica.org Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...

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With ‘Unified Reich,’ the Trump Campaign Takes It Up a Notchwww.nytimes.com A generation of young Republican staff members appear to be developing terminal white nationalist brain. And they will staff the next Republican administration.

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Low level government employee: fuck, they’re gonna figure out I accepted this free chicken wing Alito: today I put strobe lights on my confederate flag

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incredibly depressed that the absolute, obvious takeaway from the political fallout of biden’s economic management is “chronic mass unemployment is better than inflation”

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Every article about Red Lobster filing for bankruptcy is "ha ha endless shrimp, what did they think would happen" and then buried ten paragraphs down is the usual:

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Hi. Hello. A question/request! Does anyone here know a person who could, theoretically digitize some old video footage (not sure exactly what kind of tapes yet) and isolate the audio. It is not for a story, but for a v good cause and I am happy to explain more if you are somebody who could help!

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Close, actually they laid off all of the writers of the simulation because the PE firm that runs it saddled the simulation with debt. So they replaced the writers with a large language model but it doesn’t understand human idioms

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I'm sick and tired of career politicians shooting dogs in a cynical bid to steal police valor

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ah there’s that mister free speech we all know and love!

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This is maybe the most beautiful accidental explanation of a power of a work of art I've ever read in my life.

This just cannot be real.

Is this because scheduled pain is a mandatory part of A's employment?

A’s announcer Jenny Cavnar: ‘I have to pinch myself’ coming to the ballpark every daydlvr.it Oakland Athletics play-by-play announcer Jenny Cavnar made history in 2024, becoming the first woman to be a primary play-by-play announcer for a Major League Baseball team in league history. Canvar has received support from all over since then. Cavnar’s…

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I can’t believe Taylor Swift put this song on her new album. Disgusting.

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i'm fuckin dying

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This has been the fundamental problem the political press has had with Trump. They’ve been conditioned to believe it’s only a scandal if it’s a secret that’s been exposed, so all the crimes that Trump does brazenly out in the open — bragging about them on camera even — somehow don’t count.

They are continuously digging to find the sort of dirt on Biden that Trump just does out in the open.

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Careful please, that’s a load-bearing delusion

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blockchain companies have exactly two types of post

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[with absolutely nothing going on] I just have a lot going on right now

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It’s cool how all of YouTube is funded by lying about the security of public WiFi. But it pays for videos about battleships and trains so keep it up suckers.