Talia Lavin

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journalist, author of Culture Warlords, sword collector, schmoe. newsletter:
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UK politics can be grim, but election night there with constituencies being largely ungerrymandered, losers standing next to winners of podiums, and the "election season is 6 weeks, not 2 years" default is incredibly wholesome

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So hey, here's a thing I don't think a lot of folks know: That whole "Patient Zero" thing? The French-Canadian airhost who supposedly spread HIV all over America? That's not real. That's not what happened or how it happened.

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i am enjoying watching the television show big little lies

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oh my god it's literally this

the latest Snowden leak: his brain from his ears

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how much do you have to donate to get a phone call from the president on your birthday, do you think. like are we talking more or less than a cameo

Step down for the birthday boys

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This is the classic rock radio station I would sometimes listen to when I was a kid

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new haters and losers just dropped

i want what they have

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's federal police indict ex-President Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association, source confirms.

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Holy moly. What is going on over there is grim.

Lmao they just changed the title of the piece from “Why I don’t vote” to “Why I won’t vote” rather than tell readers that the guy actually does vote

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the latest Snowden leak: his brain from his ears

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"Independence from Britain" is the world's most celebrated holiday.

"you're not American why do you care about the 4th of July" mate I'm Indian, any day someone got the Brits to fuck off back to their country is a national holiday for me

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Anyone else nervous?

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This is the explicit goal of an astonishing amount of paid (and paid for!) propaganda out there. If you're feeling voting doesn't matter, maybe consider why it is so many people are spending so much money, time, effort and ad space trying to convince you not to.

“If a [political] party knows you’re not going to vote for them, the best thing they can do is convince you not to vote at all." — Stage_Door_Johnny (on instagram)

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Suprise: unwashed fascist ghoul Matthew Walther - who wrote a column that the New York Times just published advising Americans not to vote - did in fact vote in 2020 and 2022. It’s time for us to stop tolerating these ratfucking liars.

he voted in 2020 and 2022 voteref.com/voters/MI/vi...

Voter Referencevoteref.com VoteRef.com is dedicated to ensuring transparent, accurate and fair elections in the United States of America.

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An under-noticed aspect of Project 2025: criminalizing porn. www.tiktok.com/t/ZPREC29gH/

TikTok - Make Your Daywww.tiktok.com

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Fucking unbelievable that the big publications are running with this as the lead story after the Supreme Court just promised to install a convicted felon rapist insurrectionist as Emperor for Life.

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis

For the record: voting matters. So does turning up to school board meetings. Community board meetings. Planning and zoning board meetings. Making public comments on pending rules. Contacting public officials. Protesting. Running for office yourself.

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This man did not vote in 2020 because he was killed in the Blitz

Hopefully someone will check the Michigan voter file to see if it is true that this lad does not vote

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Sorry, folks, this year "no vote" is a vote for fascism, don't be that person, voting is a necessary if not entirely sufficient act

Here it is, the dumbest thing you will read today www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

im going to coney island to see the hot dog eating contest

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On this 4th of July, ask yourself "What is a Hot Dog? And is it a sandwich?" @swordsjew.bsky.social asked 30 professors of semiotics, linguistics, ontology, psycholinguistics, information science and other pertinent disciplines to find out. buttondown.email/theswordandt...

Notable Sandwiches #89: Hot Dogbuttondown.email Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, alongside my charming and long-suffering editor David Swanson, trip merrily through the befuddling...

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It really is making *me* feel crazy to see a bunch of other Democrat voters running around screaming about how Biden is now unelectable, on the basis of one bad debate and an incredibly obvious ratfucking campaign by America’s most craven newspaper.

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭

Eventually you have to come to grips with the basic truth that people are just people and not purely good or evil and thus much more interesting, and that the world of narrative opens up quite a bit once you stop trying to make some hypothetical supremely good person the protagonist of every story

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50/100 sold and $5000 raised for Fair Fight & Vote Riders, OMFG I now officially have to do this at least twice!

I’m not saying that I want to force @clairewillett.bsky.social to do more work, but if two more people sign up for her grantwriting masterclass, she’s going to have to hold two sessions. www.32auctions.com/organization...

Grantwriting Master Classwww.32auctions.com Auction item 'Grantwriting Master Class' hosted online at 32auctions.

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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"

i still wouldn't vote for him

Huh?!

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If you think that we actually just need a civil war to settle this once and for all: 1. No, you don’t. 2. No, you don’t. 3. You are an idiot.

Trump’s re-election will mean four hideous years of the GOP playing constant Civil War Chicken at best - as this Heritage Foundation ghoul made clear - and actual civil war at worst. Avoiding that bloody nightmare is a pretty damn good reason to suck it up and vote for Biden.

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It's quite simple. We just need to find a very powerful wizard