Zac Oldenburg

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Rated PG for Traditional Godzilla Violence

"Here, put these bandit hats on."

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Every leftists I know: It should be Kamala today fuck it I don't like her but fuck it she can win against this old fascist bitch. Every democrat with power: 16 round tournament, 3 wild card play-ins, cumulative points against total, winner determined on November 10th.

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JD Vance’s personal story of overcoming hardship gives him cover to embrace policies that benefit elites while hurting working folks. This is why Republicans view him as an especially effective communicator.

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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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I tend to think the effect of the presidency on the homicide rate is probably pretty negligible, but if Trump wants to run on the opposite premise, this should be mentioned constantly.

Just a reminder: Trump inherited the lowest homicide rate of any president in 50 years. He was the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher homicide rate than when he entered. And the rate has dropped every year since he left. www.foxnews.com/video/635815...

RNC day 2 to focus on crime and safety as victims' families speak out | Fox News Videowww.foxnews.com Erin Rachwal, who lost her son to fentanyl poisoning and Sheri and Aaron Sparks, who lost their son in the Waukesha parade attack, on the need to hold criminals accountable and stop the influx of illi...

I read this guy from minute one...

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This and Vance's other horrific positions are much more important to highlight than "Oooh, he said a bunch of bad things about Trump." Yes, he's two-faced and has always sold his interior to the highest bidder; that's a Trump entrance requirement. He's also a dangerous extremist. Stay on that.

The Republican Party has nominated a man for Vice President who says he would have ended American democracy if he’d had that role in 2021. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jd-...

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Here’s the thing about the Vance pick: it’s probably unhelpful in electoral terms. But, in terms of governance, it’s further evidence that they’re Going For It. Trump 1 was hobbled in his authoritarian attempt by the admin and GOP. Trump 2 will be aided by both. They’re gonna go for it.

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There is no VP pick on earth who could serve as a better motivation for Democrats to unite and to vote than J.D. Vance. He is Trump's Republican Party incarnate--hypocritical, dishonest, incapable of shame, composed of nothing but ambition, greed, and unearned grievance. (And I'm being nice.)

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one of my favorite little moments in Furiosa: Praetorian Jack sending up this flare for Furiosa, giving her permission to leave him behind. fucks me up a little bit more every time I watch it

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Also, this would be a good time for everybody to learn what The Seven Mountain Mandate is, because it's pretty mainstream in conservative Christian circles now.

Maybe when you name your secret Christian nationalist group something that a Bond villain would have rejected, you should realize you’re the baddies and you can’t force people to like you. www.propublica.org/article/insi...

Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Countrywww.propublica.org The little-known charity is backed by famous conservative donors, including the families behind Hobby Lobby and Uline. It’s spending millions to make a big political push for this election — but it ma...

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This is insane.

I learned at an engineering conference recently that one crypto mine in TX, 100s of MW, makes more money off ERCOT demand response markets than it does off crypto repeat: TX ratepayers pay them more to sometimes stop mining than they make by actual mining just bananas misuse of power markets 🔌💡

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Declaring people to be vermin, enemies of the state, or un-human is the sort of language people adopt before they pursue a genocide.

“We will hold investigations to identify the neo-cultural Marxists in seats of power all across Washington,” Posobiec said. “We don’t negotiate with un-humans. Because that’s the stakes of this battle: humanity versus un-humanity.” inthesetimes.com/article/nati...

Onward, Christian Soldiers—To War!inthesetimes.com At this year’s National Conservatism Conference, a right-wing army prepares to rise.

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Emily Brontë's one-of-a-kind masterpiece has survived a lot of bad adaptations (not to mention bad biopics like the regrettable 2022 Emily) & it will survive this one too. But also ... whyyyy is the worst screenwriter ever to win an Oscar adapting one of the English language's greatest novels, ugh.

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Convicted felon Donald Trump was supposed to be sentenced today, before the Gang of Six on the stolen supreme court re-wrote the rules for him. There's no rule of law in the United States while the courts remain captured.

Seems fine...

Breaking News: Donald Trump is expected to meet with Hungary’s right-wing leader, Viktor Orban, in Florida on Thursday, days after Orban met Vladimir Putin in Russia.

Trump Is Expected to Meet With Orban, Hungary’s Prime Minister, in Floridawww.nytimes.com The meeting would come after Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has long been aligned with the former president, made unexpected trips to China, Russia and Ukraine.

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New from me: Furiosa is a.) a good movie b.) an attempt to process the dark, weird experience of living in the 2020s c.) an epic in the Beowulf or Gilgamesh mode, d.) all of the above. The answer, of course, is D. This movie captures RIGHT NOW perfectly. episodes.ghost.io/furiosa-revi...

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Lol Trump’s biggest vulnerability of the entire campaign is literally peaking and Democrats are wasting the moment fighting their own president. Sincerely, what are you guys doing

Weird case in point I put 'biden age' and 'project 2025' into Google Trends which isn't a perfect comparison but the result I got was completely unexpected

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63% of registered voters oppose Project 2025 when they hear about what policies are actually being proposed navigatorresearch.org/a-guide-for-...

🚨 NEW POLL: Opposition to Project 2025 grows as people learn more about the plan. After reading 19 proposed policies for Project 2025, opposition grows from 49% to 63% (net +14) while support for the plan declines from 31% to 24% (net -7%).

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Trump: "Mothers will never again be forced to watch their children overdosing & hosp--lee. We will never allow mothers to watch their child hopelessly dying in their arms, screaming, 'What can I do? Help me God, what can I do?' We are a nation whose once revered airports are a dirty, crowded mess."

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threadswww.threads.net Trump in Doral: "Mothers will never again be forced to watch their children overdosing and hosp--lee. And we will never allow mothers to watch their child hopelessly dying in their arms, screaming,...

My friend, who was sitting on the other side of the theater at the same screening, loves to bring up how I was cackling so loud they could hear me across the room on opening night.

Midsommar has gained a reputation as one of the scariest movies ever among my horror squeamish friends (most of whom haven’t seen it), but I wouldn’t say that’s true. Most horror fans I know regard it as fairly tame. I wonder where this disparity comes from!

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Can someone start a dashboard counting number of NYT stories on Biden's age and NYT reporters assigned to the topic?

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New Popular Front's program to simultaneously support Ukraine in its war for national defense and Palestine in its fight against apartheid is, and should be, the standard for the Left.

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In a normal campaign, this would have dominated the weekend’s news. I wrote about @gregsargent.bsky.social’s scoop about the Christian nationalist GOP nominee for NC Gov calling for murder of his political enemies: ‘Some folks need killing’: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | ‘Some folks need killing’: North Carolina Lt. Gov takes Christian nationalism to dangerous lowwww.msnbc.com Mark Robinson’s newly explicit calls for killing perceived enemies show how seamlessly Christian nationalists can glide into promoting real violence.

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The thing that's obvious to everyone and that nobody can actually write in the press is that the American (and yes, I'm sure elsewhere too) right wing is led by bad people and the object is to make more people extremely bad in basically every respect. It's anti-society

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“Now that we know felons can be white, we’re massive fans of crime.”

I don’t even know where to begin with this.

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Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes

"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!

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Rolling into the oval office at 11, zoning out for the intelligence briefing, whining until they let him wander away and watch fox. That was Trump every damn day

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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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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"