The speculation I've seen is that everyone is happy to let the two of them take the heat from the base. That way each Dem can only stick their necks out on one or two issues that they think help the next campaign.
I think of this as the Roger Goodell Thesis
11.03.2026 02:03
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"Inquiry as to your vertical status"
10.03.2026 19:50
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Australia's man did the flowerbeds. New Zealand had sent a chappie to labor in the gardens too. Their American accents were vaguely southern, and they tended to avoid officials from below the Mason-Dixon line.
Aussie Jack was a lady-killer, though, and was sleeping his way through every Republican wife who still had a beating heart under her twinset and pearls, and skimming quite a bit of information on the side. He called himself a
"martyr to his duty." He and New Zealand Craig were drowning their sorrows by working steadily through all of Florida's craft beers, one microbrewery at a time. Their relationship was significantly more harmonious than that of the clandestine representatives of Argentina and the Mossad, who had inadvertently dated for several weeks before mutually discovering one another's identities, and now existed (as bartender and assistant golf green superintendent respectively) in mutually icy disdain, lending further stress to cocktail hour.
She'd heard Brazil's guy in an unwisely loud Portuguese phone call describing the fiasco as
"Eichmann, on the rocks."
buttondown.com
in which i imagine the life of a spy at mar a lago, in a short story
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
10.03.2026 16:39
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HOLY SHIT I've been waiting for this for months.
Watch the trailer to get a feel for how wild this is gonna be:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBAk...
10.03.2026 15:25
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Tweet from TN Rep. Andy Ogles saying that "Muslims don't belong in American society"
The absolute most disgusting, eliminationist Islamophobia from multiple members of the House Republican caucus continues to spew forth without acknowledgment or censure
09.03.2026 16:23
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Plus:
- who builds munitions to restock everyone
- who sells tech for intel and satellite tracking
- who contracts security for increasing global reprisal threats
09.03.2026 03:11
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Republican Senators calling for Miller to be fired. We are going to win.
09.03.2026 03:09
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The self-immolation of Donald Trump
YouTube video by Takesβ’ by Jamelle Bouie
me, poking at the second trump presidency: "want to see a (soon to be) dead body?" youtu.be/ozvWGx_Re9A
09.03.2026 02:46
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Just checked and Ming 250 was 1618, literally the year Nurhaci published the grievances.
09.03.2026 02:58
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oh damn, i knew I recognized the username
09.03.2026 01:41
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Even if we had all the money and bombs in the world, congressional approval, helpful allies, and a better exit strategyβ¦
It is still morally evil to bomb schools, desalination plants, and oil refineries. And to do so in a war we started of our own choice, with no specific reason.
08.03.2026 23:04
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Is it bad economics? Sure
Is it bad geostrategy? Yes
Is it a dumb way to expend limited targeted munitions? Of course
Is it illegal without Congressional approval? Uh-huh
Those are all true and may play better as political arguments.
But we need to be able to make moral judgements.
08.03.2026 23:02
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The problem with the United Statesβ war on Iran is that it is _evil_ and Iβd love to hear more people saying that.
08.03.2026 23:00
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Went to step out and somehow, I had New Balances were on and the Home Depot theme song started playing???
08.03.2026 16:36
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Hey Atlanta politicians, all you have to say is:
"Due to rising gas prices, MARTA trains and buses will now run on the proposed World Cup schedule, every day."
08.03.2026 16:22
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Many companies are most constrained on people willing to yell at execs that their goals are incoherent and the project ideas won't achieve the goals.
A Claude Ombudsmen that anonymizes and synthesizes feedback and doesn't fear for its job could be fun. Though it would be immediately muzzled.
08.03.2026 16:18
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This is it. And itβs a cheat code.
If the whisper network knows you as an investor or manager who can just be normal around women, amazing deals and hires will just show up in your messaging app of choice.
08.03.2026 15:13
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The Straits are not okay
07.03.2026 16:52
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Photo of a corner of a room made into a woodworking space. Boards and tools sit on a work surface supported by two tall sawhorses.
As a Tall Dad, I have obtained my heartβs deepest desires: adjustable-height saw horses.
07.03.2026 19:03
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They should invent a way out that isn't through
07.03.2026 14:34
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That's a no, though the methods have certainly evolved.
07.03.2026 02:07
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I'll take the compliment that he thinks this is my less asshole form.
06.03.2026 21:34
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14yo to my partner: "did you un-asshole dad?"
06.03.2026 21:16
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I think the idea is "'Americans' refers to everyone on the continent and we need a way to distinguish." And also some element of "this pisses them off, and they hate anyone explicitly identifying that there are Americans other than the US".
06.03.2026 16:33
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Iβm such a dumbass.
After 39.5 years in this body, I am just now learning about caffeine.
Apparently I can get a lot of shit done in the morning after three cups of tea.
06.03.2026 14:24
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So we can update the sentence to: "Donald Trump is the reason every single Black or Native American Republican congressperson is gone or on the way out"
05.03.2026 18:53
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The Anti-Bazel, a system which deliberately inserts randomness and state change into every step of the build.
05.03.2026 13:29
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Hmm, canβt reproduce on my hardware.
So so glad you are doing better and back!
05.03.2026 13:19
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Business card with the text:
Know your rights! Interacting with Isaac Chotiner?
- "Am I being profiled?"
- "I exercise my right to be silent"
- Refuse to sign any statements.
- Do not offer express invitation to investigate further.
Every American should have this in their wallet:
25.11.2025 17:01
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