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Recreational census table reader. You cannot misgender me in a way that matters.

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No better way to celebrate the 4th of July than by watching British conservatives eat unprecedented quantities of shit.

Yes, I’m a serious leftist. No, I’ve never heard of manufacturing consent. Yes, I trust the NYT’s sources and motivations.

One of the things that frustrates me most about people who advocate revolution instead of voting on moral grounds is that Winning A Revolution requires cutting deals with people far more unsavory than Joe Biden.

At a certain point, the panic becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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In my limited experience: digging sucks and is bad and you don't want to do it.

This is the 17th nationwide poll since October that has pitted both Biden and Harris against Trump, per 538. It's also the 17th poll in which Harris doesn't outperform Biden. (It's the first in which she doesn't underperform him.)

Interesting. www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2024/6/...

The thing about overturning Roe is that it’s awful, but it’s awful in ways that are immediate, direct, concentrated, and easy to explain. The awfulness of overturning Chevron is none of those things.

My entire job is to work with federally funded programs, so uh Wish me luck I guess?

All other things aside, seeing “a bunch of leftists [handshake meme] a bunch of NYT columnists” is really fucking wild.

I have been obsessively tracking polls since March because I am a complete fucking nerd who makes spreadsheets for fun. There aren’t a ton of hypothetical polls pitting a specific Not Biden candidate against Trump, but the ones that do exist all look pretty bad for Not Biden.

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I've volunteered for political campaigns for literally 40 years. And one thing that's always helped when things look bleak is the knowledge that there is ALWAYS something practical you can do to help make things better -- whether through electoral politics or other kinds of service. For example...

Something Biden did tonight that I wish more people would do, more aggressively: Every time Trump talks about how much the US sucks, ask him to name a country that is better.

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[Thread] Some bad map projections I’ve drawn: #45: Exterior Kansas xkcd.com/2951

this is fine I’m okay with the events that are unfolding currently

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I admit my perceptions may be skewed from having spent way more time in poorer countries than in Europe, but ... Americans, even fairly poor ones, have just insanely huge houses and cars, and just so much shit. I don't think most people appreciate just how much shit we own.

A really easy thing to confirm by travelling to literally any other country is that The United States and people in it are extremely wealthy by world standards. We use our wealth very badly in terms of translating to quality of life, but in terms of absolute "do people here have lots of money" we do

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At some point Democratic elected officials will notice that when Donald Trump has a personal setback the majority of the population literally celebrates in the street, I hope.

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Whatever happens in the fall, one of the clearest stories of Biden's first term was that he was a broadly popular president who bit a huge bullet in ending the biggest of the Forever Wars, got destroyed for it in the press and popular imagination, and never recovered.

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Instead of watching trauma videos, write to your congressman and donate to a charity an amount that feels uncomfortably large for you

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I have come to the conclusion that Suleimo

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longest I’ve gone without getting a cold in my life, checks out

People who were repeatedly vaccinated for COVID-19 — initially receiving shots aimed at the original variant, followed by boosters and updated vaccines targeting variants — generated antibodies capable of neutralizing a wide range of SARS-CoV-2 variants and even some distantly related coronaviruses.

Repeat COVID-19 vaccinations elicit antibodies that neutralize variants, other viruses | Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louismedicine.wustl.edu Response to updated vaccine is shaped by earlier vaccines yet generates broadly neutralizing antibodies

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If you're sharing a clickbait post about how much fast food prices have risen based on cherry-picking a few of the largest increases off the menu, you should be aware it's part of an effort to generate public support for crushing the labor market by increasing resentment of inflation.

I am never leaving tumblr

"your anime ship will never compare to this" okay sweatie

I can feel my brain melting I am compelled to spread this curse

can i take a moment to share a modern classic best tweet contender that i was just reminded of that i still laugh about? this is the kind of great art that i aspire to make every time i post.

RFK Jr’s brain worms:

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It is the law to tell your cat “BIG STRETCH” when they take a big stretch.

The overarching plot arc of the X-Files serves one purpose and one purpose only: creating a setting in which monster of the week episodes can happen.

"Filler" episodes are usually the best episodes, you fucking idiot. Just Look at TOS. "A Piece of the Action," "The Trouble With Tribbles," "This Side of Paradise," "Tomorrow Is Yesterday," "Shore Leave," etc. These episodes are some of the most memorable ones and had no real point.

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Real and implied species. Support my Patreon for extra content: www.patreon.com/birdandmoon

I think this is an accurate assessment of Biden, with the caveat that he’s actually been pretty good on Ukraine, drone strikes, and plenty of lower-salience foreign policy issues. It’s just that the highest-salience foreign policy issue is the one where he’s most disastrously wrong.

The man is in full LBJ mode. Congrats on the domestic achievements but your foreign policy is so atrocious you will never get credit for the good you’ve done, sorry thems the breaks