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Tired and emotional. (Opinions solely mine. Reposts/faves aren't endorsements, sillypants.) He/him.

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Alicia K

That was exactly our family's move!

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Republicans also just killed a program that provided a $30 discount on broadband bills for poor people because they're good faith populists who care about rural Americans or whatever

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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Sometimes I see posts like this and don't understand the context and for one millisecond I think maybe I don't follow enough people and then I remind myself I follow exactly the right amount of people and not knowing about the barf bowl discourse is totally fine.

I'm going to be honest, barf bowl discourse is a real step up from where we've been, great work everybody

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Such strange framing. “Biden’s doing worse in the polls than any president since 1980! (ᵉˣᶜᵉᵖᵗ ᶠᵒʳ ʰⁱˢ ᶜᵘʳʳᵉⁿᵗ ᵒᵖᵖᵒⁿᵉⁿᵗ, ʷʰᵒ ᵈⁱᵈ ᵉᵛᵉⁿ ʷᵒʳˢᵉ ʲᵘˢᵗ ᶠᵒᵘʳ ʸᵉᵃʳˢ ᵃᵍᵒ)”

www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

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“Our best idea continues to be treason.”

It doesn’t seem like they’re very confident Trump is going to win in November. Maybe they should have chosen a better candidate?

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Charles Johnson

like this for example

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Drew Magary

I have never heard of the "family barf bowl" until today. WTH?

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The far right cope machine is already trying to manufacture a narrative about the massive loss the French fascists faced today. They are scared they can sense what’s coming to America and it’s not fascism. Popular fronts win and scare fascists. Keep them on the back foot they are weak and scared.

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"The preliminary results upended widespread predictions of a clear victory for the National Rally," says the NYT just now. Wait, who made these predictions of a massive victory for the National Rally again? Oh yeah, these guys did:

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France dropkicked a baldly fascist political coalition out of office, imo if we can’t manage to do the same we should give back the Statue of Liberty

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Faster, Pussycat! Eat! Pray! Love!

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BREAKING: Upside side down French flag spotted outside the Alitos' summer residence

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This delicious little bit of schadenfreude can be ours too if we work our asses off between now and November to bury Donald Trump and his fascist political party

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David Noll

SCOTUS votes 6-3 that Le Pen gets to be President of France

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madamjujujive

Hell, even Iran voted for incrementally less crazy this week. Optimism is free! Come and get some!

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Just a real hoot seeing this at the gay beach today

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One of my favorite B movies. You can watch it here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tCb...

Poster for ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS (1957), directed by Roger Corman and starring Richard Garland, BOTD in 1927

Attack Of The Crab Monsters (1957) | Full Moviewww.youtube.com #crabs #monsters #alien #island #tenaatvA group of scientists travel to a remote island to study the effects of nuclear weapons tests, only to get stranded w...

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Frank Lynch

Yeah, I didn't figure out the connection for the purples - actually figured out the other three first but held off on entering so I could enter the remaining group first.

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Here's some fashy tears for your Sunday.

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Imagine being the richest person in the country, with the ability to change the world for the better in infinite ways, and this is the shit you spend your time on

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book

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I’ve told this story here before, but when my mom was a fledgling reporter she had to interview David Duke. Her name, at the time, didn’t betray her Korean heritage. When she showed up to the interview, Duke said, “if I’d known you were a g**k I’d have refused to meet with you.”

I like Wikipedia description of David Duke. The last bit feels at home with the rest. "White supremacist, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, member of the Republican Party."

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What news from France?

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VERTIGO (1958) Jimmy Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock An older bachelor goes sightseeing in San Francisco and the countryside. After a bad breakup, he seeks love again in an unexpected way. Will bells ring this time? 2h 8m | Romance

PSYCHO (1960) Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock 3:45p ET (12:45p PT) A woman on the run stops at a roadside motel where she enjoys sandwiches and a relaxing shower. 1h 49m | Horror

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Jackson, 77, started selling watermelon by driving around the streets of Brooklyn, hawking them from a truck and sing-screaming, “Watermelon!” to drum up attention. “I buy top grade watermelon,” he said. “I don’t buy no number two, number four.”

Hawking Melons in Bed-Stuy With the Summertime Salesman ‘Everybody Knows’www.thecity.nyc Watermelon vendor James Jacskon sells as many as 200 of them a week from his corner at Throop Avenue and Macon Street. He’s been at it for decades.

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watching this as an american like

I bring good tidings from the other site: French Lefties win, Le Pen eats shit, Macron eats more shit

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The French left

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What if normies don’t like nazis

Breaking: A left-wing coalition is on course to win the most seats in France’s legislative election in a surprise blow to far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s hopes of forming the next government Read more: bloom.bg/frenchelection

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Coffeemancer Vanvidum

Is George Stephanopoulos available for a sit down with the NYT?

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UK - rejects far right France - rejects far right Iran - elects a moderate President There is a global pushback against the far right building.