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usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

10.08.2025 03:36 👍 30183 🔁 5960 💬 432 📌 236
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Hollow Opposition On Iran, top Democrats only have procedural concerns

I wrote about how Democratic leadership has abandoned the moral high ground on Iran, and how it has left them toothless when opposing Trump.

03.03.2026 22:55 👍 1999 🔁 280 💬 53 📌 25

Thank god it's whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil (TGIWFWTD)

14.02.2026 00:18 👍 831 🔁 49 💬 17 📌 1
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Best gas masks “How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.

when they tell you to go back to writing about gadgets www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

29.01.2026 15:29 👍 1188 🔁 303 💬 25 📌 30

BOYD CROWDER TO RAYLAN GIVENS IN A UNIVERSE WHERE THEY’RE BOTH DOGS: We dug hole together

29.01.2026 03:47 👍 311 🔁 44 💬 15 📌 3
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Dan McQuade, 1983–2026 | Defector Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is survived by his wife and young son. At the end of 2024, Dan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. The news of his…

Dan McQuade, 1983–2026: defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

29.01.2026 00:57 👍 2081 🔁 416 💬 135 📌 244

Minnesota, you can end this with about $50,000 in a bag from a lunch slop restaurant

26.01.2026 13:52 👍 687 🔁 85 💬 15 📌 3

This piece is not just incredible and moving stories from Minneapolis health care workers, it offers a blueprint on how to start organizing and strengthening policies in hospitals nationwide. Share it with the health care workers in your life.

25.01.2026 17:37 👍 15 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
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Federal Agents Kill Again; Gunmen Still At Large | Defector On Saturday in Minneapolis, federal agents surrounded 37-year-old Veterans Affairs intensive care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, who’d been filming them in the street with his phone camera as they conduct...

Federal agents kill again; gunmen still at large: defector.com/federal-agen...

25.01.2026 13:23 👍 549 🔁 169 💬 6 📌 14

Happy Birthday!

21.01.2026 15:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

We’ve decided to make this story free for all readers, forever. We hope you’ll support this reporting by sharing it.

20.01.2026 14:56 👍 1320 🔁 814 💬 13 📌 9

TONY: Welcome to Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dokoupil. Here with me to discuss cancel culture on college campuses is Leon Chang. How are you Leon?

ME (taking a sip of whiskey): yuck. do you have any apple juice mr dookie pill

TONY: Not how it's pronounced

16.01.2026 20:37 👍 1051 🔁 89 💬 8 📌 6
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Smoking Behind The Supermarket With You Is A Cozy Rom-Com Manga Now that’s what I call a good slow burn romance

speaking of romance: new romance manga rec from @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social aftermath.site/smoking-behi...

12.01.2026 19:55 👍 61 🔁 9 💬 7 📌 0

Congratulations to John Roberts

12.01.2026 01:10 👍 5842 🔁 709 💬 130 📌 37

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

09.01.2026 17:04 👍 1680 🔁 587 💬 86 📌 31

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

08.01.2026 18:35 👍 14737 🔁 10262 💬 102 📌 101

~news~: this week I started at The Guardian US @us.theguardian.com as Movement Building reporter, continuing my coverage of protest, repression and resistance against war, LGBTQ rights, policing, labor, and more under Trump.

organizers, advocates—send me your stories! I’m on Signal lex.mcmenamin.68

07.01.2026 14:08 👍 1309 🔁 214 💬 82 📌 15

they are recruiting for the worst, bottom-of-the-barrel chuds imaginable and those chuds are behaving exactly as you'd expect

07.01.2026 17:02 👍 9249 🔁 2089 💬 126 📌 58
07.01.2026 00:17 👍 598 🔁 147 💬 6 📌 1

they're doing it for gender, imo

06.01.2026 01:57 👍 9489 🔁 1146 💬 160 📌 54

and i've been hoping to eat a chili pepper that will do this to me ever since

06.01.2026 01:15 👍 1189 🔁 101 💬 25 📌 1

finally, we're living through precedented times

04.01.2026 06:56 👍 18358 🔁 2378 💬 201 📌 93
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Hey Jon Stewart, jokes about wearing masks aren't funny Critics of the Daily Show host say he's a hypocrite.

Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

29.12.2025 18:54 👍 3828 🔁 954 💬 49 📌 182
28.12.2025 22:35 👍 901 🔁 193 💬 4 📌 2

Hi! if you’ve enjoyed any of my writing, performances or dj sets this year, i would greatly appreciate your support! it will be used feed myself and my son (cat with expensive dietary needs)

ko-fi.com/janusrose

28.12.2025 17:34 👍 51 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 1

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

22.12.2025 22:53 👍 8845 🔁 2568 💬 100 📌 43

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

22.12.2025 14:19 👍 15295 🔁 3204 💬 298 📌 123

yes but also the more interesting points are that (1) dem posturing on immigration mostly hasn’t changed much in the months since, and (2) dems are walking straight into the same thermostatic buzzsaw on trans rights having learned absolutely nothing from this

16.12.2025 14:35 👍 124 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 0