Elle Ess

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Minneapolitan. Occasionally lawyerly. Union supporter. LGBTQIA+ supporter. She/her.

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Oh, and because it will never sit right in my heart the way I occasionally see folks go to bat for their "cool guy" parasocial crush Jack Black: If you're neurodivergent, you should know Jack Black has been a decades-long, issue-denying, critic-blasting, funding supporter of Autism Speaks. Yeah.

Jack Black just cancelled his international tour because a bandmate made the crass joke "Don't miss next time" as he blew out his birthday candle on stage. This provoked shock and outrage. If White liberals spent 10% the energy they do avoiding looking bad to stop bad folks, we wouldn't be here.

I just hesitate to believe any real medical professional dressed that wound that way

this is the lamest shit i've ever seen SHOW US THE EAR

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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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spirits of dead relatives watching you masturbate: creepy! disturbing shameful feeling spirit of dr ruth watching you masturbate: thrilling! want to do a good job to make her proud

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if you are in Milwaukee and you are gay and on grindr you have the opportunity to change this country forever

i know grindr has to be going CRAZY in Milwaukee right now

Put the teleprompters in size 5billion font already

Jfc

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Fascinating. "...the government affirms that climate change is real, that it’s destroying God’s work and that those in the world who reject the truth of climate change need to get on board. The Taliban has asked imams...to emphasize during Friday prayers the need for environmental protection.

Taliban tries reconciling science and religion in facing climate changewww.washingtonpost.com Afghanistan’s rulers, cut off from foreign assistance, are tackling climate change on their own while debating whether it is God’s doing or a foreign plot.

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According to fivethirtyeight Trump's approval rating has actually gone down slightly since he got shot, Trump's shooting has had more of an impact on Tenacious D than on America

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I’ve finally captured it. My meathead of a dog purposefully pops basketballs immediately and then puts them on his head and runs around like a basketball head.

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this is kind of bleak, but it's interesting to be in Kenya and see people discuss police brutality without ever blaming the victims. there isn't a contingent of loud white people saying Black people deserve it. and it's a relief and allows folks to be focused on the true enemy

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if you’re trying to engage with politically disconnected people about project 2025, identify a specific part that you think will resonate with them. i just told my friend who’s a public school teacher about the plan to abolish the department of education and that got her hooked.

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This is magic

I’ve finally captured it. My meathead of a dog purposefully pops basketballs immediately and then puts them on his head and runs around like a basketball head.

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People just becoming indistinguishable from centrist weiners about court reform because they don’t like Biden, you sound like people going “ummm how are you going to pay for that” about universal healthcare

Timeline cleanse

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Eagerly awaiting the NYT doing wall-to-wall coverage of this word salad. Oh wait.

I can’t believe this is a real quote from Trump sitting down with Bloomberg. I saw it on Twitter and figured it was a joke. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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Profile these people, New York fucking Times

Pleasantly surprised that my mom, a life-long republican in a red state, now refers to the GOP as insurrectionists. My parents no longer watch Fox. They care how expensive their prescription drugs have become. They think the candidate is a lying criminal. This seems positive.

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when you love a certain kind of tree and won't use any furniture made with it, call that ethical non-mahogany

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My first reaction to this was “wait, that must have been some other labor leader named Sean O’Brien?” My second reaction is “fucking hell.”

Dumbass. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-patsy

You Patsywww.hamiltonnolan.com We don't have time for this bullshit.

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The available evidence doesn't suggest conspiracy or saturation with anti-Trump rhetoric as causes of the assassination attempt. But those specifics aren't politically useful to Trump, so the prime mover instead becomes "they." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | ‘They’ didn’t shoot Donald Trumpwww.washingtonpost.com Despite the lack of any clear motive, the actions of Thomas Crooks have been attributed to the Democratic Party at large.

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The party looking to seriously punish unhoused people, whose project 2025 would push more people into homelessness, well just outside their convention a cop working it killed an unhoused man.

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel confirms that a Columbus, Ohio, police officer detailed to the RNC shot and killed a homeless Black man (earlier reported to be in his early 20s) more than half a mile from the RNC arena. The man was known by the nickname Jehovah and took care of a pit bull named Isis.

Ohio police officer shoots, kills person in Milwaukee outside of RNC perimeter, sources saywww.jsonline.com The man killed by Ohio officers near the RNC on Tuesday was well-known in the neighborhood, several witnesses told the Journal Sentinel.

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Yeah, it's not very close to the RNC, and it's a few blocks outside of the perimeter

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NEW: Columbus, Ohio, police detailed to the RNC in Milwaukee have shot a Black man in his early 20s a few blocks outside of the security perimeter. Details TK. (via Columbus Dispatch, CBS 58 Milwaukee)

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It’s the first election after a coup attempt and the coup plotters are using democratic means to try to retake power. We probably don’t talk about that with enough clarity.

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This will never be not funny to me

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Existing Trump supporters—including political reporters privately in sympathy with him—obviously experienced a powerful galvanizing emotion from the failed assassination attempt. They assumed that emotional experience would be widespread, but so far the polling doesn’t bear that out.

"In the national Morning Consult poll of 2,045 registered voters, taken Monday, Trump leads President Joe Biden 46 percent to 45 percent. The poll has a margin of error of two percentage points." 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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A thousand times yes.

I wish "no sugar added" meant "not sweet" instead of "we added a bunch of headache inducing bullshit".

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Said it before, I’ll say it again, tell people Republicans want to take away their tax refunds.

Project 2025 raises taxes on a family of four with two parents earning a combined $100,000 by $2,600, in order to fund a tax cut of over three times their combined income for someone earning $5m. x.com/SteveRattner...

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I think this is eventually where it ends up - they "relaunch" Project 2025 with poll-tested stuff and angrily insist that the Democrats are lying about the document and bully the press into playing along. Already work being done to win the SEO war over the term to make it favorable to conservatives.

They are going to scrub the Project 2025 PDF from the website by October. They'll say it was just a draft and the real Project 2025 is all about fighting for Middle Class Families