Yeah, I used to live on 15th downtown, and the bakery on 17th was consistently great. And then they murdered a journalist and stuff... *sigh*

It's definitely a thing gay men have to think carefully about, too. Appearing to come on to a straight man or to be checking him out can get you jumped.

Big high, little guy!

Funny. I - a regular human man - was just thinking he'd look funny atop an MLP, riding its head like a unicorn horn.

Booker: My 'hostage video' was a mistake <p>Booker acknowledges he's been off the air since his gaffe heard round the world.</p>

I will never forget Cory Booker's 2012 "hostage video" when his financial backers forced him into a fight he couldn't win against the Obama reelect's messaging on predatory capitalism.
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Blockchain for liberation.

"We must stop the Censorious Left from using inclusive non-judgmental language!"

Info Won.

Didn't they have lead sunglasses? I think I read that's why they died off from brain damage.

I wish this were more relevant... but it's great.
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Not to mention broad public support for measures to mitigate COVID transmission. His administration was such a bitter sellout of its supporters.

That's why you gotta open with the flaming sexbot. Hook 'em in the first panel, then lead them up to it with backstory.

The Apple Dunk Cookout

Anyways, the reason why "centrists" want you to believe the left vote is ungettable whatever one does, and that squishy fascists are winnable if courted, is they need to maintain some sham pretense for the democratic legitimacy of a soft-fashy centrist political program that nobody wants.

It is plain that what the Democratic party has done is fund a massive expansion of policing and jailing that will be used by Trump to continue and expand the mechanisms for imprisoning, torturing, and deporting more people. Trump’s promised mass deportation will rely upon the network of immigrant detention facilities that Biden built in order to house the growing number of people Biden detained before Trump’s victory. And Trump has been very clear about what he intends to do with the law enforcement officers and the jails Democrats paid for — at an FOP conference, Trump said, “[W]e will give the heroes in blue the power to legally protect us and the respect that you deserve more than any other group of people.”

One of the greatest failure of the "opposition" has been a constant drumbeat that police are a good solution when they themselves are telling us they support fascism.
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Sounds like vaperware to me.

Like listening to a third grader tell a story: "No, wait wait! Backup! I missed an important part!"

So funny thing about his junk-bond financed casino bankruptcy in the 80s. Allegedly he went bankrupt on cost overruns from construction contractors. But the creditors in the bankruptcy were largely contractors who had never been paid. Money has a funny way of disappearing around that guy.

"Oh, yes please give me 100,000 new cops at home and a genocide abroad while outflanking the GOP on cruelty to asylum seekers." Like if you chase the bad side's voters, you lose your base kids. Cuz your base rejects the bad side policies.

They act like there's some annual "Far Leftist Hostage-Taking Convention" that organizes a plaform of talking points behind Democratic rejectionism and not organic repulsion by a voter base who are consistently scorned by their rhetoric and betrayed by their policies.

The True Cost of Biden’s Unconditional Support for Israel I resigned my State Department position over the administration’s position on Gaza. Biden’s unflagging support for Israel now risks a wider regional war, and could cost him the presidency.

Biden was also hemorrhaging staffers who were telling voters that his posturing on a ceasefire was as insincere as it seemed to anyone who caught the "ice cream address."

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Joyce Carol Oates seems like she belongs to this category.

LAPD Deployed Drones to Spy on No Kings Protest Flight records show that Los Angeles police dispatched drones 32 times over last month’s No Kings rally.

NEW: Flight data reveals that the LAPD's "Drone as First Responder" program—sold to the public as a public safety measure—is in fact being used to spy on anti-ICE/anti-Trump protests in Los Angeles.

theintercept.com/2026/04/20/l...

I got trapped overnight in Chicago once due to a delayed fight causing a missed layover. The airline wouldn't comp a hotel, I couldn't get a paper ticket for the new flight so I couldn't leave the security perimeter to smoke and still return. Was a hellish experience. Would not repeat.

It's really something to wacth the USCCB be deployed against MAGA. They have been firmly on the side of the culture war for a long time.

I've had several conversations that started with me trying to explain how the top Court has fundamentally changed and ended with me trying to explain "Calvinball." There are layers of groundwork that need to be laid for those without legal training.

I think it's helpful to see it as code. Wind the clock back 80 years and "elite" = "intellectual", "cosmopolitan" or "globalist" = "Jew", woke = "race traitor", etc., etc. It's just 1:1 word substitution.

alice and queen of hearts paint a tree with red paint Alt: Scene of Alice in Wonderland and playing cards painting roses red.

Life imitates art.

Can't even draw a circle with digital math and we're going to let these formulas run the world?

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"Silicon samples" are becoming more and more common in research and polling.

One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.

The updated version of this preprint is now online!

THREAD🧵

arxiv.org/abs/2509.13397