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Yeah, replacers, it would look really cool to undecideds if the dude drops out from a thing that we’ve been gaslit into thinking is NBD while the other dude fist pumped after getting shot in the head.

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I should not be shocked the Democrats are so fucking bad at this shit, but they keep finding new and even more ridiculous ways to crack my armor of jadedness.

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if trump didn't die in the shooting and biden doesn't die from covid both within a week of each other that's proof that god exists and also that he is a huge fucking dick who is just messing with you

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It’s scandalous to me that academic journals charge enormous fees to read but don’t pay the authors. And now they’re exploiting them further. What a racket.

This is an enormous scandal and reason for all academics to withhold labor from Taylor and Francis/Routledge

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The problem with "where have you been" responses to people's rising political concerns is that we should be encouraging people to become politically active rather than scolding them upon their arrival.

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Reposting the image Karl Bode posted in Rori's quoted post, with alt text. "You don't unite a diverse working class by scoffing at its diversity."

Hey if you're a teamster that's against dividing the ranks with anti-queer, racist rhetoric, time to make some noise. A strong union is not one that makes members suppress & surrender their non-union struggles at the door. Sean O'Brien should be ashamed of himself and rode out on a rail.

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I really don't mean to be a Negative Nellie, but this is DC's third(?) try at their own Ultimate universe (after "All-Star" and "Earth One") and, well. Frankly, they should put more money behind Waid's "not quite the current DCU" books, those are selling.

Diogenes-ass 12-year-old here

Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

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Extremely disappointed that @omnibus.bsky.social couldn't make it work financially. Amazon truly did just ruin digital comics for everyone, tanking an entire burgeoning industry and torching any potential customer base. omnibus.app

Omnibus 2022–2024 — Omnibus Digital Comic Store & Readeromnibus.app

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i know "journalist" has come to mean "person who writes for a newspaper" on here but it does seem like it would do everyone some good to remember the words "pundit" and "columnist"

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*Just to be clear though, the misinformation that DDT was saving lives when it was banned is prevalent enough that you hear leftists saying it as well; I got this info from my lefty dad and probably repeated it a few times before I did some research on it for a paper on mosquito control

I was just saying how the only reason to even make a sequel to “Twister” would be to talk about how climate change has altered tornado patterns. What a waste.

"I just don’t feel like films are meant to be message-oriented," the director said... right on the heels of a Rare analysis showing how including climate in TV and movies "increased support for governmental action on climate change and boosted several hard-to-move attitudes on climate justice."

‘Twisters’ chose not to mention climate change. Here’s why | CNNamp.cnn.com The summer blockbuster puts nature’s ever-more destructive power in the spotlight. But like the titular twisters, there’s a hole at the center.

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I cannot emphasize enough that straight reporting in the NYT should be verified elsewhere if you want to be sure about it. The standards are appalling.

I’m going to start with the absolutely jaw-dropping news that The New York Times deceptively edited a quote to make it appear that JD Vance opposes a national abortion ban. — @jessicavalenti.bsky.social

GOP Platform Author Admits There's a National Banjessica.substack.com 7.16.24

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Nolan Void

Chaya Raichik is fucking fine and a comedic musician making a dark joke loses a career and is essentially betrayed by his long time partner.

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Kyle Gass getting consequences for saying what a not insignificant number of regular people were thinking while actual stochastic terrorists like…well the person he was talking about…seem to get off consequence free? A sickness is in our society when decorum trumps material reality.

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I’m almost, in one particular sense, grateful for “Project 2025”: The radical reactionaries who are behind these plans and are in charge on the Right could not possibly be clearer about the extreme vision they want to impose - explicitly against majority will! - on the country.

I got to talk to Molly Jong-Fast about “Project 2025”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUJS... The radical Right wasn’t ready for Trump’s first presidency. In 2025, they will be. What should people know about these plans for an authoritarian takeover of government? 🧵1/

What Makes “Project 2025” So Dangerousthomaszimmer.substack.com Will the Right be able to implement these radical plans? Is Trump on board? What happened to traditional conservatism? Let’s tackle some of the key questions surrounding “Project 2025”

Moments like this make you wonder what kind of world we might have if centrist liberals adopted preventative progressive policy proposals right away instead of being dragged toward them after the problems they were intended to prevent had become full-blown catastrophes.

Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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Maybe VP Harris told a crowd that Trump said he would terminate the Constitution because Trump said he would terminate the Constitution.

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"And yet we are two days into Trump’s nomination party, and no one has asked — much less answered — whether Donald Trump is a business partner, paid foreign agent, or merely an employee of Saudi Arabia."

Boiled Frog Journalism: Is Trump an Agent of Saudi Arabia, and Other Pressing Questions Buried under Biden's Age www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/17/b...

Boiled Frog Journalism: Is Trump an Agent of Saudi Arabia, and Other Pressing Questions Buried under Biden's Age - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net Trump might literally sell out the next journalist who opposes him to be chopped up by some foreign dictator. Yet the journalists covering his campaign don't seem to care.

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people get mad if you point this out but Jon Stewart was always like this: it's just that his brand of "can't we just use common sense instead of being liars and hypocrites" moderate populism was the most left thing that was allowed in mass media post 9/11

apparently Jon Stewart figures Bill O'Reilly is what passes for a Reasonable People Can Disagree* republican and is happy to help him sell books *as long as we don't talk about grotesque sexual harassment and toxic workplace abuse

'Find a respectable conservative': Jon Stewart slammed over Bill O’Reilly interviewwww.rawstory.com "The Daily Show" host and comedian Jon Stewart was under fire Tuesday night for having former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on the popular show to talk about political fanaticism and extreme rhetoric. ...

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I don’t look back on my teenage Morrissey fandom with much joy but I do remember being 15 and buying a record with a song calling for the Prime Minister to be guillotined and thinking “yeah fair enough”, it didn’t feel like some unwritten rule of rock star civility had been broken

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This classic SF author is about to become a mute words casualty so just taking a moment to remember the good times

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Jack Black has replaced Kyle Gass with Tim Tebow and they are now called Respectful D and sing songs about doing normal push-ups instead of ones with their dick

At the 2004 Republican National Convention, 16 months after Bush declared Mission Accomplished in a war that would last 7 more years, delegates wore Band-Aids with Purple Hearts on them to mock the medals awarded to John Kerry for being wounded in Vietnam. Just thinking about that for some reason.

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This episode aired in 1994 and no other joke about American politics has held up that consistently for so long.

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Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz to every woman, LGBTQ+ person and immigrant who works in tech: you’re disposable if doing this makes us even more money

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I think if you want a polling bump after an assassination attempt, you do have to live your life in such a way that most of the country hasn’t spent the last 10 years hoping for your death.

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i've been saying since the night of the shooting that he's gonna talk his way out of any sympathy from independents and that all reports of our country's cookedness as of Jul 13 - not Oct 13!!! - are greatly exacerbated

"Following the failed assassination attempt on Saturday, former President Donald Trump did not see a polling boost, in the first presidential survey taken since the event....In fact, Trump's lead has narrowed slightly since an earlier poll taken July 12-14" lol. lmao www.rawstory.com/trump-pollin...

Surprise: Trump did not get polling boost after shootingwww.rawstory.com Following the failed assassination attempt on Saturday, former President Donald Trump did not see a polling boost, in the first presidential survey taken since the event.In the national Morning Consul...

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