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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.

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“The Post identified at least 1,800 state and local law enforcement officers who were charged with crimes involving child sexual abuse from 2005 through 2022.” www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Abused by the badgewww.washingtonpost.com Hundreds of police officers in the United States have sexually abused children, a Post investigation found. In many cases, the officers have avoided prison time.

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Happy 80th anniversary of when Americans, Canadians, and Britons charged the beaches at Normandy to have dialogue with the Nazis

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great, i guess crime is illegal now

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Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:

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The San Diego corpse flower bloomed for the first time since 2018. I thought they were called corpse flowers because they stink but it's apparently because they eat ballerinas.

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New Florida Law Requires All Women To Produce 3 Healthy White Sons By 22nd Birthdaywww.theonion.com TALLAHASSEE, FL—Touting the legislation as a common-sense victory for family values, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a new law Thursday requiring all Florida women to produce three healthy, white sons by...

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Is this what he meant

Exclusive: A group of billionaires and business titans working to shape U.S. public opinion of the war in Gaza privately pressed New York City’s mayor last month to send police to disperse pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, according to communications obtained by The Washington Post.

Business titans privately urged NYC mayor to use police on Columbia protesters, chats showwww.washingtonpost.com A WhatsApp chat started by some wealthy Americans after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack reveals their focus on New York Mayor Eric Adams and their work with Israeli officials to shape U.S. opinion of the Gaza...

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One recurring theme in studying the history of the French Revolution is that everyone's brains were completely cooked on pamphlet conspiracism from the highest to lowest levels of French political life

people think our current information environment is uniquely poisonous because of social media but idk I'm old enough to remember when the highest rated daytime talk show was telling people there were networks of satanists sacrificing thousands of children a year.

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Working on some new ad copy for contraception

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If you support the activists but think them learning from activists in experienced orgs trying to achieve the same goals is “outsider manipulation” I have a bridge to sell you. Basically you think the masses must work spontaneously and separately to be legitimate aka you want nothing achieved ever

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the same court who ruled that forgiving student loans is a massive executive overreach now solemnly considers whether it is ok for the president to Kill A Guy

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The King Drinks, by Jacob Jordaens, 1640

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[werner herzog voice]

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attn national political reporters, it doesn’t matter what they *say*, this is what they *do*.

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A society ought to earn the right to an April Fools’ Day by generally being able to sort fact from fiction given a bit of time, and American society has not been meeting the requirements since 2015 or so.

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When a centrist dies, the correct response is sorry, we don’t have the money to care.

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Layleen Polanco died in solitary confinement on Rikers Island because she couldn't afford $500 bail

Breaking News: Donald Trump was handed a lifeline as a New York court lowered his bond to $175 million, while he appeals the $454 million judgment against him in his civil fraud case. Trump has 10 days to obtain the bond.

Trump Can Post Smaller Bond in Civil Fraud Case, Court Ruleswww.nytimes.com The former president must post a bond of $175 million within 10 days as he appeals the $454 million judgment against him.

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Happy Ides of March.

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I wish I was as tired when I am going to bed as I am when I wake up

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In light of the photoshop debacle, I’m required to post this classic by Patrick Freyne of The Irish Times:

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Cool how if you want to install an ADA-mandated elevator inside a subway station you have to do years of community input and environmental reviews justifying it, but if you want to fill the same subway station with guys holding M16s doing constitutionally-dubious searches its just "i've got a hunch"

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exciting news folks, my new cybertruck just got delivered