Sam Adler-Bell
@SamAdlerBell
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cohost of @knowyrenemypod with my pal @matthewsitman // writing @nymag @nytimesbooks @bookworld @newrepublic // literary rep @CarolineMEisen
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Joined May 2010
I wrote a lot in 2024. I'm proudest of this essay on Adam Phillips, British psychoanalysis, and "giving up" for @thebafflermag.
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*me slumping over after brief, terrible sex* "that's what it would be like with the other guys".
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Gen z right wingers going to lose their minds when they find out about “rock and roll”.
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I'm drinking my iced coffee with a paper straw while the U.S. military burns through 269,230 barrels of oil a day.
The climate movement must be anti imperialist. Tinkering at the edges of the war machine won't be enough.
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Say what you will about Elon’s management style, but before he took over all you guys posted was “ugh another day on this hell site” and now you’re all like “ah twitter the extraordinary place where I met all my best friends, started my career, had sex for the first time”.
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It's too bad nobody Jewish ever came close to being the Democratic nominee in recent years, otherwise it would be possible to go and check what these same people said about him.
I guess you can’t be on a Democratic Presidential ticket and also a Jew in 2024.
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Pro tip: if you take your girlfriend to see Dune 2 and she hasn’t seen Dune 1, you get to describe the plot of the first movie to her at dinner (including useful details from the books). And she can’t stop you bc actually you’re being considerate. Huge loophole.
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Now this is crazy. You never see this shit. They really fucked it.
College Democrats’ votes are not to be taken for granted by the Democratic Party. We reserve the right to criticize our party when it fails to listen to us.
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Radicalized you into what? Bringing your lunch?.
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More than 50 amazon workers at MSP1 in Shakopee, MN walked off the job just after 12am this morning to protest the elimination of unpaid time off, unsafe conditions, & the appearance of retaliation against workers who speak out. Here's Hafsa Hasan, one of the leaders:
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Breaking from routine with a mini sabbatical or 'adult gap year' can be rejuvenating
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“Thread of things that make me proud to be an American, just riffing here off the top of my head, but yeah first thing that comes to mind: the death penalty”
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i don't like cities that attract a lot of "outdoorsy" types. if the city is good enough, you shouldn't want to go hiking every weekend.
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not an unfair description of what is happening: a bunch of non-white Iowans put Bernie over the top and now Buttigieg and the DNC are questioning how much their votes should matter.
NEWS: Buttigieg campaign had a call w/ IDP this morning + raised concerns about how the party was allocating SDEs from satellite caucuses. Campaign believes the party has not followed rules set out by the delegate selection plan, and Bernie got more SDEs.
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Bernie people getting pissed at AOC — an indispensable surrogate for Sanders — bc she defended Warren’s debate performance in response to a Jennifer Rubin tweet. This is how I die.
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Reminder: Ron and Casey *got married* at Disney World.
BREAKING: During a campaign event in Iowa today, Ron DeSantis looked visibly furious after his wife Casey accidentally admitted that their daughter watches Disney's "Frozen" every single day.
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Extraordinarily hostile, like nothing i've ever seen on a morning show. And he does very well.
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book, “The Message,” is a trio of interconnected essays that examine how the stories people tell — or avoid telling — can shape and even distort reality: “I am most concerned always with those that don’t have a voice.”
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Fake stigma. Not a real stigma at all. People who like movies a lot go to them by themselves all the time.
the stigma against going to the movies alone is so wild to me… you can pick any theater, any film, any showtime, any seat. zero worry about whether the person you brought is enjoying the film. just pure heavenly bliss
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remember when people used to say with a straight face that Hillary was some kind of intersectional champion of black political power.
🚨 BREAKING: George Latimer, endorsed by Hillary Clinton, has defeated Jamal Bowman in New York tonight. Another blow for the far left.
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my mother would like to point out to NYC media, with all due respect, that it is not "ironic" that Corona, Queens had a severe coronavirus outbreak; it is merely coincidental.
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re tweets of the decade, don’t sleep on this latecomer
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#IStandWithIlhan As a Jew, I am sick of politicians using my identity as fodder to smear young leaders of color. I know antisemitism when I see it. I've seen a lot of it lately. None of it from @IlhanMN.
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"Don't ban guns; ban schools!" really is the perfect distillation of conservative moral and intellectual bankruptcy. It's beautiful.
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Donald Trump had dinner with this guy. You're all so full of shit.
If you’re Jewish, the Walz pick is clear evidence that much of the Democrat party hates you. Josh Shapiro would have been the VP pick if he were Christian. Sad reality. Anti-Semites dominate the left in this country now.
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do it, ya fuckin freaks, you absolute ghouls.
The White House is considering whether to lift intellectual property protections on Covid-19 vaccines, sources say, which would allow other countries to replicate existing vaccines. @kaylatausche reports.
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I personally think, and I’m sorry to be controversial, that it’s bad news the de facto GOP party leader and presumptive 2024 presidential nominee met with this guy.
White nationalist antisemite Nick Fuentes warns that if "the Jews" don't stop oppressing people like him, it will soon lead to violence: "When it comes to the Jews, every society where shit has gone down with these people, it always goes from zero to sixty."
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"Don’t be afraid of Covid," says president pumped full of experimental drugs no one else in America can get, much less afford, from his taxpayer-funded hospital suite.
I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!.
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good times on the American right
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“Our well-meaning sanctions” lmao I love this country
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It’d be so sick if the left could hold a few protests with a couple hundred people, and then whatever our demands are would be treated by media as some authentic expression of the will of The People and liberal politicians would bend over backward to signal support for us.
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If Bernie enters the convention with a plurality of delegates and leaves without the nomination, it will destroy the Party, alienate a generation of Democrats, and hand another four years to Trump.
Elizabeth Warrens on @MSNBC on why she isn’t supportive of going with the candidate who gets the most delegates on first ballot: ”We need to pick a nominee who can beat Donald Trump and that means we gotta have someone who is talking to all parts of the party. It’s important.”.
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people always say, "David Lynch movies dare to ask: what if there was a blond woman and also a brunette?" in CHALLENGERS, Luca Guadagnino bravely asks the same question, but for boys.
Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist in ‘CHALLENGERS.’. In theaters this Friday.
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There's a "Jews for Palestine" banner right behind her. If you love Israel and feel it has an unfettered prerogative to kill whomever it wants, you can say so. That's the status quo. You have the power! Enjoy it! This victimhood stance is pathetic and absurd.
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Fascinating centrist consensus forming that if we’re not nice enough to the cops, they’ll let our babies be killed. (And this is a defense of the cops.).
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Here's something: thanks to my squishy "be nice to Warren" takes, I've experienced a lot of the storied online Bernie Bro attacks. And you know what? Not that bad. Pretty normal stuff. Small faction. I mute and move on. Maybe not a national headline that should last 4+ years.
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"I was offering $18-22/hr, i got no applications. I increased it to 23 and I got none. I increased it to 25, and they’re starting to trickle in right now." Problem solved, bitch!.
The construction industry was already short on workers before the events of last year, and now companies are trying to keep up as new home construction and improvement are surging.
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These people are not getting the message “everyone hates white straight males” from left wing media. They’re not watching left wing media!! It’s absurd. They’re getting that message from right wing media *interpreting* left wing media for them.
Here a self-aware person provides a window into the exact scenario I warned about. He (I presume) does not wish to gather by race, but also does not wish to be left vulnerable for failing to do so if that is the only option that protects his dignity and his rights.
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Has anybody considered having more hot people on the left? Like for branding purposes.
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the movie makes abundantly clear, like so clear, a toddler a could understand it, that part of what upsets Seeger et al is that Bob doesn't care enough about lefty politics. (open the schools).
The ’60s folk singers didn’t hate Dylan because he went electric, as ‘A Complete Unknown’ suggests. It was because he didn’t care about their lefty politics. @mcmoynihan in @TheFP:.
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when your answer to the charge of genocide, is "well we wouldn't have to if we could merely ethnically cleanse".
Hi @KamalaHarris 👋. Yesterday you said: “I have studied the maps. There's nowhere for those folks in Rafah to go.”. Which maps have you studied? Here's a map showing that Rafah borders with Egypt 🇪🇬, which can remove its blockade of Gaza and admit refugees 👇
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ironically, no photograph has ever given bigger "HR" vibes than this one.
Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) calls Vice President Kamala Harris a "DEI hire."
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It’s unconscionable. Has this footage ever appeared in an anti-Trump ad?
I will never forgive Dems for leaving the Epstein stuff w/ Trump on the table all so they can keep inviting Bill Clinton to speak at DNCs.
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lol Republicans are about to get so fucking racist man.
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the freak right literally cannot help themselves from being sophomoric social deviants with opinions that bewilder and antagonize average Americans
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i'm not great at history. can someone tell me if fascists ever killed any white people.
"people will see you as white before anything else". white queers: "tell that to the fascists who want me dead". Me: they literally won't know they want you dead because they see you as white first. .
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journalistic malpractice to cut this video off right there.
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I know we're all supposed to be galaxy-brained knowers of how the most crucial voters respond to every single message now, but I'm not. you guys can figure that out. I like this message because it's sincere and true.
Rep. @AOC on Rep. Mace's transgender bathroom measure:. "They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can . fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."
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I promise you Marxists have not taken full advantage of this situation.
Long overdue. Antifa has been engaging in organized and deliberate violence for years. Marxists have taken full advantage of this situation, and they have to be brought to justice. Their behavior this past week has been inexcusable.
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absolutely shocking if you don't know any Jews.
U.S. Jews are more likely than Christians to say Trump favors the Israelis too much:
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Some people disagree, but sending a human being to a holding tank where they might contract a deadly virus and die for the crime of transporting a harmless, barely illegal drug and stealing $2.75 makes you essentially a monster.
Some people may disagree - but transporting ziplock bags of marijuana & a digital scale in your backpack does not make you an essential traveler in the eyes of the Transit police. Hopping a turnstile while doing so didn’t help either. Nice grab by our District 1 team!
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It is your right, as an American, to invent your own accent. Bob Dylan and many other great Americans have done this, and you can too.
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“I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination."
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Honestly, fuck off, Adam. Waleed and Uncommitted asked the Democrats to give them *anything* they could take back to Arab and Muslim community leaders in the Midwest that would enable them to credibly mobilize their constituencies for Harris. The Dems refused. Give it a rest.
As we chart the path forward, one important thing we can do as a party is to respectfully decline the advice of people who spent the past year helping Trump by telling people not to vote for Democrats.
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if you're Tucker, precisely what you want from this segment — which, in its entirety, features Smalls using the platform quite deftly to advocate for labor — is for leftists to take the bait, resent Smalls, or else join (Tucker, more so than Smalls) in vilifying an ally.
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anyone who perpetuates the lie that "antisemitism" had anything to with Walz over Shapiro is a craven propagandist who should never be taken seriously about anything ever again.
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People ask what, concretely, has AOC accomplished and my answer is the terror in Chuck Schumer’s heart.
As a long-standing and strong supporter of grad students’ right to organize on campus:. I stand with the UAW graduate workers of @GWCUAW who are striking to fight for a fair labor contract. This union deserves recognition and a fair contract. TODAY.
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People worry about name recognition for Whitmer or Shapiro or whoever. But think about this: a few weeks ago none of you had heard of "Chappell Roan".
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could be Trump is appointing Waltz, Hook, Stefanik, and Rubio specifically to humiliate his son.
Donald Trump Jr. says he’ll work to keep “warhawks” and “neocons” from infiltrating Trump’s cabinet. Follow: @AFpost
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Notable that the concept of “anti-Palestinian racism” has never entered the American political lexicon. Amid all the concern about Israeli brutality inciting antisemitism, no one stops to wonder about the ideology that makes Palestinian suffering so acceptable.
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I really despise Dalí.
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I love that the savvy, cynical, unsentimental left position is that Ted Cruz actually wanted to work with AOC to reform Wall Street.
Glenn Greenwald using baby voice to mock @AOC for talking about the danger to her life on January 6 and for rejecting an alliance with Ted Cruz. “She ruined that movement. Because all she wants to do is attack Republicans and fortify the Democratic Party”.
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snakes in the replies but Warren endorsed Markey and Bernie didn’t.
You ran a strong campaign that inspired many, @JoeKennedy. I know your righteous fights are far from over.
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Right now there's a conversation in Warren's camp about next steps. What Bernie needs right now is a full-throated endorsement from Warren & subsequent embrace by her dejected supporters. The thing least likely to produce those outcomes is meanness, vitriol, & recrimination.
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it's so sick that centrist Dems are on the exact same side as right-wing ghouls like this loser.
For once, Jamaal Bowman can actually blame the Jews for something real.
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one thing I don't think moderate elites like b*** understand is that if you're a writer on the left, you've spent your entire career figuring out ways to say what you actually mean that major mainstream outlets will be willing to print. that negotiation is constant. it still is.
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Just clarifying that I’m worried about fascism in the cool leftist way not the cringey resistance lib way. 😎✊.
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Before high taxes lmao. I fucking love conservatives.
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one of my pet theories about the lefty contrarian type (Taibbi, red scare, etc) is that they're incapable of not focusing on stuff that annoys them. and the more something annoys them, the more important, representative, & worthy of critique it becomes in their mind.
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unions hate it when politicians bring attention to their strikes on big platforms, few know this.
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Wait it’s actually so insane and hilarious that we’re doing “participation trophy” discourse about a woman who has lived an exclusively and absurdly punishing, ascetic lifestyle in order to win actual trophies at the highest conceivable level for her entire life on earth.
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I've said this many times, but the "denial" era of conservative climate politics is over, no matter what they say. This is the new normal: blame migrants, hoard resources, fortify walls.
Feds say there’s no money left to respond to hurricanes — after FEMA used $640.9M this year on migrants
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apparently it's antisemitic to say Israel represents all Jews AND antisemitic to say it doesn't
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Liberals will never forgive socialists for taking liberalism’s guarantees seriously.
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Even if I thought “teach the Dems a lesson” was a credible strategy (I don’t), it would not be acceptable to throw immigrants, the poor, the climate, and, perhaps especially, Palestinians under the bus (for 4 years) to do so. Netanyahu prefers Trump. Why is that? I can guess.
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Wow Bernie camp really goes nuclear against Warren, encouraging volunteers to say “I like Elizabeth Warren. In fact, she’s my second choice!” Devastating stuff.
Scoop: Bernie stealthily goes negative on Warren w/ a volunteer script to tell Warren-leaning voters that she only appeals to the "affluent"/"highly-educated" & ."She's bringing no new bases into the Dem Party" (I re-typed script below to protect sourcing)
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He literally says “I’ll beat him again in 2020!” during the half second he’s not looking at a teleprompter.
Biden: "They are trying to push me out of the race. Well let me say this as clearly as I can. I'm staying in the race. I'll beat Donald Trump again. I learned long ago. When you get knocked down, you get back up. I'm not letting one 90 minute debate wipe out 3.5 years of work"
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i'm sorry the idea that Biden should preemptively compromise over his cabinet with the same Senate Rs who are right now asserting that the Dems fraudulently stole the election is INSANE.
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This is how you criticize someone for being correct, for standing on the side of justice despite the overwhelming pressure of consensus. When the left was powerless, most Democrats moved to the center, faithfully implementing neoliberalism. @BernieSanders did not.
Toughest Warren on Bernie I've heard: "This crisis demands more than a Senator who has good ideas, but whose 30-year track record shows he consistently calls for things he fails to get done, and consistently opposes things he nevertheless fails to stop.".
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Lightly sourced and denied by Sanders. The liberal media desperately wants these candidates and their campaigns to fight over bullshit. Before you dig in your heels, ask yourself why that might be.
Bernie Sanders told Elizabeth Warren in private 2018 meeting that a woman can't win, sources say.(via @mj_lee).
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Nancy Pelosi really is a terrible leader and a scourge on progressive politics.
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The government can do (and force companies to do) everything we demand of them. Everything you've been told about the limits to living in a good and just world is a lie designed to protect financial interests. This should be the takeaway from the next few weeks.
Breaking: Detroit officials are announcing right now that they are restoring water to thousands of residents and imposing a moratorium on water shutoffs as the coronavirus spreads in the U.S.
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new forms of cowardice are invented every day.
I deleted this because we just don’t know if it’s true or not—and it’s something that shouldn’t be shared without substantial evidence to back it up (like the Canadian mass graves—which turned out to be mere phantoms).
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Amy Klobuchar Ate a Salad With a Comb—So We Tried It. The Absurdity of This Whole Episode Prompted Some Reflection About What it Is We're Meant to Be Doing as a News Site, and We All Quit. Now We're Building a Maoist Cell in the Hudson Valley and Learning Basic Artillery Skills.
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For a podcast with such a provocative title, it's striking how deeply the hosts of @KnowYrEnemyPod not only respect the forebears of the current right as old adversaries, but enjoy them as writers, sympathize with them as people. They should call it "Love Your Enemy".
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@meanunclejack My dog really liked being around me and my HS friends when we were smoking. A real pack mentality sets in in those conditions, and I think he needed to be part of it.
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referring to Israel as a "colonial" project is not new (as others have noted, many early zionists understood it that way explicitly). what's new is that contemporary liberal zionists have internalized the idea that colonialism is brutal, awful, unjustifiable.
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Sinema is an ideological disaster but a pedagogical gift, training everyone to distinguish lifestyle social justice liberalism from actual egalitarian politics.
just learned that Kyrsten Sinema has a PhD in "justice studies".
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Pretty sure Cornel West momentarily said “Plutarch” when he meant “Tupac” on CNN, probably the only person in the world who regularly makes that mistake.
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If you ask me, I think it’s really important that these guys lose.
In the last several weeks, my office has received many inquiries from actual residents of Springfield who've said their neighbors' pets or local wildlife were abducted by Haitian migrants. It's possible, of course, that all of these rumors will turn out to be false. Do you know.
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