michael
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@warcrimeswatch @ProfDBernstein the word genocide does not mean what you think it does
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Elected American representatives urging their voters to use their sacred freedom guns to shoot down a balloon 11 miles up in the sky is perfect Angry America. We are that dumb and we are so loud about being that dumb.
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@wingingitmotown of course, it was his brother with the cheap shot on hughes. do the sportsbooks have a parlay on which tkachuk brother is going to be the douchiest?
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Matthew Tkachuk's favorite part of his new Honda Pilot is the suspension because it reminds him of himself.
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althusser, and critical race theory, impervious to the reality that he is completely wrong.
@Unemployedneg
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pontificating on what he perceives to be his areas of expertise, commenting on culture, politics, and economics using a strange interpretation of the philosopher baruch spinoza, filtered and alchemized through the thought and works of marx, the frankfurt school, deleuze,
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i used to practice aikido with a guy by the name of jason read, a teacher of philosophy at a small local college. he could well be the real life version of the "professor" in this scene:
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I’ve found that what suspects of violent gun crime say is less useful than digging into what they boasted about & obsessed about & got furious about in the months leading up to their crimes. It’s never a surprise. Look at their networks & behaviors. Their statements are their PR
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The US did a very unusual thing when it voted out an aspiring autocrat despite huge obstacles (voter suppression, threats to officials, attempted coup, etc). But if the Dems do not abolish the filibuster and protect voting rights, the next US election will vote autocracy back in.
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@KBAndersen as the man who gave us "short fingered vulgarian", it is nothing less than your responsibility to continue ;)
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I sincerely appreciate that I'm free to continue body-shaming the previous president (in particular the short limbs) without anyone complaining.
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@ThorningMichael @craigmindrum @NickKristof i would argue that there's a pretty sizable bloc that had been conditioned to not like democrats, regardless of what they're offering.
and that is the problem. for many years, the gqp strategy has been to wage a culture war.
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@craigmindrum @NickKristof If your approach is "crush the other side" that's fine. But you're also not going to win anyone over with that. And, as the 2020 election showed, there's a pretty sizable voting bloc that doesn't like what Democrats are offering.
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These reactions to @NickKristof's excellent piece, which is well supported by evidence, are a perfect illustration of how we got into this and why we're not likely soon to get out. nytimes.com/2021/03/09/opi…
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In 3/20, all the Senate Democrats voted for Trump's Covid stimulus/relief bill. In 12/20, nearly every Senate Democrat voted for Trump's second Covid stimulus/relief bill. In 3/21, no Senate Republicans voted for Biden's Covid stimulus/relief package. Asymmetric Polarization.
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@MeetThePress @Sen_JoeManchin @chucktodd never mind. i can see that this was his lone bright spot. #firechucktodd is trending.
these sunday morning news hosts get manipulated week after week
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"It's designed to make sure the minority has input,"@Sen_JoeManchin says of removing the filibuster. "That's basically our founding fathers. ... I'm not willing to take [that] away."
@chucktodd: "Senator, the filibuster was never an idea of the founding fathers."
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how to insult 101
David Simon@AoDespair
I have fun on Twitter. Just because the performance features a certain rough and volatile manner doesn't mean we can't be enjoying ourselves immensely. Your mother taught me that. Remember me to her when you come up from the basement to liberate some of my cash from her purse. twitter.com/Strangelove515…
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@Super70sSports bat day at tiger stadium always fell around my birthday. every year we'd round up a hand and load into the ford country squire wagon. i can remember at some point we'd all begin rhythmically pounding the bats and the stadium would begin swaying.
great times
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Back when our society was still stable enough you could equip 10,000 fans with regulation baseball bats without worrying they’d immediately beat the living fuck out of one another.
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there's this remarkable tool for verifying claims that aren't yet more widely known. it's completely free. you don't even have to sign up with an email subscription. it's called "google".
Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦@cmclymer
Hi, it's me, your neighborhood reasonable adult. I heard Dr. Seuss books were "banned" in a Virginia school district, which surprised me! So, I did what any reasonable adult would do with internet access: I looked it up to get official details. (thread)
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this congressman has been disowned by his qanon believing family.
trump was trash, trump is trash, trump will always be trash.
he lost the election. period
Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦@AdamKinzinger
Trump lost the election FYI. Side note this speech is boring. We can’t win the presidency with this boring, low energy, stream of conscience, weak, has been, choke artist. Just my .02
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‘I was thoroughly disgusted with the reprehensible behavior and the reprehensible language of both of my former students’ — Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley’s Yale law professor went off on his former students
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