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These are times that can’t be weathered and we have never been back there since then

Washington, DC
Joined July 2015
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@bradjchester
brad
4 months
One thing I hadn’t thought about, in terms of the mechanics of film photography, is you have no idea until you develop these that you had just dunked from the foul line. How crazy did a newsroom go when one of their boys got one of these developed
@iloveminigolf
doctor boneman
4 months
tf were they feeding 1960s photographers you do not see shit like this anymore
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8 months
Wonderful website
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4 months
The University of Maryland lets you minor in what
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7 months
I don’t know what the 3 Body Problem is but the trailer for it showed this fat white guy with a terrible beard wearing a kimono in it and I finally understand what everyone means when they say that seeing yourself represented in film is so important.
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@bradjchester
brad
3 years
They beating your ass on grandma Twitter
@PKhakpour
porochista khakpour she/her پوروچیستا خاکپور
3 years
do you guys remember this trash candy? was there a single person who liked these? show yourselves
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4 months
Marc Riboud coming back from the darkroom with the anti-war protest flower photo
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@bradjchester
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2 years
Brother what is this fit. What is our quarterback wearing. He looks like Bing Crosby going hunting. I hate you so much man.
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2 years
28 episodes of the O’Reilly Factor included a Kansas doctor who performed abortions named George Tiller. In 1993 he was shot five times by an anti-abortion extremist. In 2009 he was assassinated. Fox News killed that man, they know they did, and they’re trying to do it again.
@Acyn
Acyn
2 years
Indiana AG now says they are looking into the doctor
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@bradjchester
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12 days
I think we can aim a little higher than “signing Trump’s border policy into law”
@Acyn
Acyn
12 days
VP: So here is my pledge to you. As president, I will bring back the border security bill that Donald Trump killed, and I will sign it into law. And show Donald Trump what real leadership looks like.
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@bradjchester
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11 months
@LVozzella Congrats on laundering Republican oppo for them. If they want to make it a story make them announce it and stand behind it. Getting used isn’t journalism.
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7 months
@testpatterns_ Motion picture studios are required by law to only make films with that stupid pale blue tint on everything. Because of woke. This was predicted by Eiffel 65 in the 1998 song “Blue (Da Ba Dee) but we didn’t listen.
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1 year
Spinning the big wheel of recent news topics and just picking two at random
@steinkobbe
Wild Geerters
1 year
Why not let's just get extremely silly with it
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@bradjchester
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4 months
@i_zzzzzz lol reminds me of the Tristan Thompson interview about what LeBron eats
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7 months
Harbaugh is such a fascinating case. Objectively psychotic with such a complex web of loyalties and values that he more often than not comes away with the correct and just position after a convoluted journey through the Harbaugh Mind Palace. A Voynich Manuscript of a man.
@MorePerfectUS
More Perfect Union
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Immediately after winning the college football national championship Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh called for NCAA athletes to unionize and for players to receive a bigger share of the billions that college sports brings in.
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1 year
@OnlineJosh_ Really sells the parody honestly
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8 months
Do not let this man get any ideas, he’s gonna be a 4,000 yard passer now, look what you’ve done
@shoheisaveus
shobae 大谷翔平 ¹⁷ Ohtani Shohei ¹⁷ 🦋
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Ohtani looks so fascinated with the football 😂 🏈
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2 years
@uncledoomer Been in and out of this general type of environment in politics and I think you basically nailed it here. The good life is dangled just above your head to keep you compliant, striving, and willing to fuck everyone else over to get there.
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4 months
@gothic_marx It’s way less stupid than it sounds it’s like an anthropological study of anti-black racist extremism I just thought the name was silly
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@bradjchester
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4 months
@averpee The virgin Condoleezza Rice vs the Chad Angourie Rice
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4 months
I love this guy but I don’t think I could own up to a professional failure like this. I would be back in the newsroom with JFK’s brain matter on my shirt telling my editor like “no this was from like, a different guy. He was sitting next to me on the bus.”
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@bradjchester @Falcon87456 one of my favorite quotes surrounding the jfk assassination is from a news photographer expressing regret that he didn't capture the second the bullet struck his head
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@bradjchester
brad
5 months
Literally the most likely accident that could happen in a harbor
@Chesschick01
Natalie F Danelishen
5 months
What are the odds of a container ship losing power suddenly and hitting a major bridge making it collapse and cutting off a port? Does anyone have the math on that?
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@bradjchester
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2 years
@lysenko_weed Real quick Google what owning and operating a tractor or semi gets you vs what you make as a Starbucks barista
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@bradjchester
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24 days
lol the people who claim to know “real america” hate it so fuckin much
@Alyssafarah
Alyssa Farah Griffin
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Hulk Hogan wasn’t there to win over folks with graduate degrees who live on the coasts.
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@bradjchester
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9 months
Congrats to Division III women’s college swimming on all the new fans tonight
@shomaristone
Shomari Stone
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Transgender swimmer breaks New Jersey college record after switching from men's team to women's.
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4 months
@jomeezy617 I imagine it’s something like digital music where there’s more crap just by virtue of the lowered barrier to entry and overall production increasing that much, but that the greatness is still there and recognizable
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8 months
@ArmsteadVan What we were promised: a global public square What we got: robots trying to get rawed by the octogenarian president
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8 months
@keviv71 Well, he won, for one thing
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4 months
@SocDoneLeft Only thing I can think of is this is in behavioral and social sciences not like arts and humanities so I think it’s like an anthropological study of anti-black racists themselves not of the practice of anti-racism.
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@bradjchester
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2 years
@brent858 Non-narcotic pain relief is such a boon for rural America it’s genuinely insane that politics is all that has stopped it’s expansion for so long.
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2 years
@Quirknky Our steering has two guaranteed seats for Armenians, one for Assyrians, one for Jews, and one for Zoroastrians
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1 year
@Srirachachau @daveweigel I can’t place the episode but there’s one where Marge says a layover in Japan is welcome because Homer loved Rashoman and Homer says “I don’t remember it that way”
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2 years
@ByYourLogic *barack Hussein Obama voice* Stephen TYRONE Colbert
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14 days
🎶Ooh, the wheel in the sky keeps on turnin' I don't know where I'll be tomorrow Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'🎶
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4 months
The replies telling Senator Lucas this is a bad look or whatever are always so funny. In 2020 the Portsmouth Police charged her with two felonies for protesting a confederate monument. The chief of police and monument are gone; Senator Lucas is still here. Teflon, baby
@SenLouiseLucas
L. Louise Lucas
4 months
Buckle Up Glenn- I am coming back to Richmond on Wednesday to deal with your nonsense.
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@bradjchester
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7 months
@bread157 I never said he doesn’t. In fact my self-esteem is fairly heavily reliant on people thinking this is a nice looking person.
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@bradjchester
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1 year
Beating someone’s ass with 30 seconds left in a charity game is so funny
@NikosRaves
fat taurus bitch
1 year
fdny vs nypd hockey ACAB lmfao
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9 months
@DanelBenNamer Real quick can that dude get married?
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1 year
@homunculusdick @Jessifris Also because of how isolated it’s been they have an extremely specific accent only spoken there where they sound as close to the original English settlers as anyone alive today.
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1 year
@trevorcumbo He’s campaigning for Dalai Lama
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@bradjchester
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2 years
The kicker is where Tiller was killed. He was shot in the head outside of the Lutheran church in Wichita where he was serving as an usher and handing out programs for the service. He was a religious guy, murdered because someone else had a fucked up idea of what that means.
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2 years
This is literally how things become mainstreamed. Obviously the US isn’t going to leave NATO because of a DSA statement the government isn’t the target of the statement it’s people who never even considered the end of NATO
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4 months
@IHateNYT Brings to mind the mysterious disappearances of Jerry “Lens Cap” Robinson following the March on Washington and Reed “Sneezes at Really Unfortunate Times” Howard at Woodstock
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1 year
@sashavond No shit this guy was my district’s school board member when I was in high school
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2 years
@TAMUCommandant Y’all know y’all aren’t the real army right?
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@bradjchester
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7 months
@lol088055091638 Oh damn I only knew him as the kind and sweet wiener in GoT. Didn’t see Moonfall but could’ve got suckered in because I like Patrick Wilson and Michael Peña, good to know it’s a skip.
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1 year
@charlesmurray Thanks for your endorsement, Professor Race Science
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4 months
@bfeldman89 @MayaLMiller lol just totally blowing off the most iconic and perfect image in millennia of anti-war activism is so good. Like if it were literally raining cats and dogs and a meteorologist’s editor was like “nope, you got nothing kid”
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2 months
@RaceplayShawty Cried laughing when they sent me a scam job for door-to-door canvassing called “Sales Athlete”
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7 months
@xdarkxsteel @poppy_haze Yeah from the premise alone this looks like an easy skip
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2 years
I don’t know the name of this Indiana doctor and wouldn’t repeat it if I did but it is my sincere hope that she is somewhere in Europe now.
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4 months
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@robbysoave
Robby Soave
4 months
No big deal, the offices of @reason magazine are on fire. This is fine.
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@noahpasaran Yes, and not localized to Chicago
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10 months
@adamjohnsonCHI The refrain is just “well, release the hostages.” The old lady in the hospital doesn’t have any hostages! The toddlers and kids they’re massacring don’t have hostages! What are they supposed to do!
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1 year
@rhodyDSA My grandpa got melanoma and my dad got basal cell carcinoma twice and both required surgery to handle it. I think it’s cool that keeping people from dying from preventable cancer is cool.
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2 years
It rules that whenever anyone gets dissatisfied with DSA their answer to the problem is “DSA, but everyone does what I say.” As long as everyone wants to be Lenin and no one wants to be Petrograd Soviet worker #5 that’s just gonna happen.
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1 year
@JordanUhl Its literally exactly what we did to start the last Mexican War
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2 years
@The_Law_Boy @lib_crusher When I was in high school a dude sent a video of his girlfriend flickin the bean to everyone in his phone (who obviously forwarded it on) and was treated like a God so honestly it’s really refreshing to read that’s not what the response is anymore.
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@va_labor
NoVALabor
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Northern Virginia AFL-CIO ("NoVA Labor") released a statement on the final demise of the Potomac Yard arena proposal.
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1 year
@rickperlstein Sorry man I’ll get to this in a minute, still busy with the last link
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7 months
@malecatkins “This is either a dumpier version of an attractive man or a more attractive version of a dumpy man” is an inspired insult, well done
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@BudrykZack Her fuckin name is ZIBBY???
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@EmissaryOfNight When it happened there was an all staff call that evening and everyone was convinced he died and they just wanted staff to know first to be prepared to answer questions/break everything down but actually it was just Jeff going “yeah he’s actually insanely healthy and fine.”
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@falseReflex @i_zzzzzz Getting a cookie at the 7 Eleven on my way to work, much like 20 time NBA All-Star LeBron James would
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1 year
@bonerhitler Mostly unrelated but on my 13th birthday I was asked by the Chinese buffet to stop eating so many crab legs
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1 year
@JordanUhl Only president to ever be indicted for the same things as DMX
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brad
2 years
Candidate services staffers the world over flying to swing districts in search of the Biggest Boys they can find. It’s clear which way the pendulum is swinging for the ideal Democratic candidate, and that direction is up and out.
@Redistrict
Dave Wasserman
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I've seen enough: Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) defeats Rep. Conor Lamb (D) in the #PASEN Dem primary.
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2 months
One of the last things you should do when asked about your quotes using the word “ethnic” is to just say “ethnic” several more times
@metzgov
bryan metzger
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Asked about his “Dearborn” and “ethnic benefit” comments, George Latimer accused Jamaal Bowman of trying to “play the ethnic game.” From his interview with Good Day New York yesterday:
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@bradjchester
brad
1 year
I say this every time one of these types of videos is posted but it really can be like this every time. There’s no reason politics and government has to be a joyless slog, we just have to decide to truly help people.
@JohnCroman
John Croman
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Senator @OmarFatehMN gets the hero’s welcome after his Transportation Drivers, aka Uber/Lyft bill, passes Senate
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1 year
@C_hoffmanni Tell us more about Biden’s Irish identity… Brendan O’Neil?
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@AllezLesBoulez “Ya babe duh fuckin bridge done fell in duh River can yew pick me up down Sparrow’s Point get some Boh’s and chicken from duh RoFo?”
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brad
4 months
Dog you’re from Baltimore
@DanPatrick
Dan Patrick
4 months
And a note to protestors for future reference: We don’t call each other comrades in Texas. We call each other Texans.
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2 years
@poppy_haze Broken bottle scammers is the perfect comparison for them wow
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@mindyisser Mindy why did you make me see this phrase
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1 year
@ByYourLogic You, Robin Williams, and Kurt Warner have to take down the big Templar boss, Norman Schwarzkopf.
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1 year
@ettingermentum @bethanygabagool Literally Bernie 2016 support was such an unreliable metric for 2020 support when I was in Iowa because of this fact
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Every GOP consultant embodies the Blazing Saddles line “You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.”
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@bradjchester
brad
7 months
BREAKING: @DemSocialists have completed an interview with @UMichFootball head coach @CoachJim4UM for the upcoming National Director vacancy.
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1 year
@kathbarbadoro The “Meadow has a black boyfriend” arc sucks so bad lol
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2 years
Baby Executives
@AustinKellerman
Austin Kellerman
2 years
Biden to meet with baby executives to address formula shortage
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1 year
@neal_katyal @johnlegend Who will you have on to talk about defending child slavery?
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1 year
@stanleyrogouski @Boringstein Because presumably they’ve read the book and actually know what it says? And I haven’t seen anyone who is Osage being upset about it and in fact the Principal Chief consulted on the film and has repeatedly praised it? You can pick either explanation.
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@styloshka I liked when he told the guy “that’s what we do in America” because cop brain is so hard-wired towards racism that anyone different is automatically considered foreign. Like, the orthodox dude he’s yelling is probably from like Bensonhurst lol
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brad
1 year
@TPAction_ Everyone who didn’t carry a briefcase to high school hates this
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brad
2 years
The idea that a constitutional convention at the present moment would result in a *better* document should be laughed out of the room.
@jacobin
Jacobin
2 years
In recent years, Chileans have struggled to overturn their undemocratic political system and write a new constitution. Americans should take Chile’s lead and fight for a new Constitution too.
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brad
2 years
Paid parking in a country that makes driving basically a requirement for most people is a head tax that disproportionately impacts poor people, making free parking a progressive policy.
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2 years
Honestly impressive to make a decision so insane no one even discussed it as a possibility going into this.
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brad
2 years
Everyone seeking to run a bit account should be sent to a training camp where they are taught to never drop the bit. Lamest move online
@PritzkerForPrez
Socialists For Pritzker
2 years
All jokes aside, I don't have any interest in treating JB like Bernie and papering over areas I really don't agree with him on. My metric here is that he would be a far better president than Biden 2024, during a cycle where I think it's clear the movement-left will have no horse.
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brad
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Sleep on the what, Chuck? Sleep on the what?
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Acyn
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Vance: I would call my wife up here to speak but then I think I’d have to sleep on the couch
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2 years
Maybe I’m just cynical but it’s hard to read this as anything but a pretense for the authors to form a new NGO with almost no meaningful departure from existing ones, except that it has themselves at the helm.
@jacobin
Jacobin
2 years
Since Bernie Sanders’s defeat in 2020 and the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the US left has been largely disorganized. The time is ripe for Bernie and the Squad to create a new mass organization to confront today’s crises.
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brad
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I have walked out of every movie I’ve watched in a theater. If you don’t they start playing another movie and get mad if you try to stay.
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do you guys actually walk out of movies? cause i physically can't do it, and tbh i never even got the urge to 💀
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@younited2016 @jkass99 I mean like… you’re gonna use that right? Like you will at some point wipe your ass?
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brad
7 months
The DC Police Union Twitter, at this point, is an account thoroughly committed to advertising how bad MPD is at their jobs.
@DCPoliceUnion
DC Police Union
7 months
Remember when @charlesallen tried to eliminate carjacking as a charge and said that “it’s not really kidnapping” when carjackers take a baby that’s in the car?
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brad
1 year
@PFTCommenter A formative memory of mine is golfing with my dad in North Carolina and him finally finding his ball in the rough, trying to play it where it lies, cracking his club in half on a tree, and screaming “fucking club when farther than the ball did.” Sucking at golf rules.
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brad
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It’s not even an uncharitable reading, this was a last ditch effort in divided government at the end of a term that basically adopted the policy of a right-wing House. I do not want the same border policy they want! If I did I would vote for them!
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brad
2 years
Clarence Thomas is a brilliant jurist because he boldly asks, “what if shit was completely different? Wouldn’t that change things? Bet you didn’t think of that, huh?”
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brad
8 months
Everyone who yells about places in the neighborhood closing due to crime must also account for major retailers opening there
@PoPville
PoPville
8 months
Speaking of DCUSA, Burlington Opening in Columbia Heights December 15th
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