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Pet-icare for All The government should cover the cost of pet healthcare. You know it makes sense. Jack Mirkinson Feb 03, 2023
New York City Deserves a Hot Mayor Please.....we need this. And we've never had a better chance to get one. Samantha Schuyler May 15, 2025
Call It a Genocide, Bernie
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Great Blue Heron 50/American Kestrel 50...omg
No More Chuck and Nancy The Democrats might escape with a presidential win, but one thing is clear: congressional leadership needs to go. Paul Blest Nov 04, 2020
Why Are You Voting for a Single One of These Monsters You Useless Shits Democrats who complain about having no leverage are overlooking a chance to at least play-act like they're opposing Trump.
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Much of that rot comes from one thing: Tens of millions of people think the Democrats are talking at them, not to them. The 2024 campaign centered around issue after issue that the party simply refused to grapple with. Waving away inflation, high energy bills, and astronomical housing costs with charts and graphs did not work. Not forcefully articulating what they actually believe about civil rights, as Trump blanketed the airwaves with “Kamala is for they/them” ads, did not work. Complete non-engagement with anger over the genocide in Gaza, and even broader resistance to funding and participating in foreign wars that many justifiably feared would eventually involve American troops on the ground, did not work. The default posture of the Biden-era Democrats and the nonprofit and consultant apparatus surrounding them was dismissiveness. It did not work.
Whether this works or not—whether Harris wins or not—doesn’t change the demoralizing awfulness of the kind of politics she is offering the world. It is a campaign for no one, that stands for nothing; it’s a uniquely depressing value proposition as our country provides the weapons that are burning people alive.
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If you care about this kind of thing, you’re probably already aware that he also stabbed his own party in the back too many times to count. He ran (and won) as an independent after losing the Democratic Senate primary in 2006. He actively campaigned against Obama after endorsing his friend (maybe they’re reunited now! <3) John McCain for the presidency and founded the hilarious group No Labels, which was pitched as working for “bipartisanship” and “centrism” and held events like a “Common Sense town hall” before supergluing its own coffin shut by dubbing Donald Trump a shining “problem solver” in 2016. (Here’s a label for you, Joe: dead!)
You could sell me on continuously variable time zones before you sold me on this
It's Cute How They Keep Acting Like Trump Might Not Be the Nominee There's always money in taking a bananas stand.
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In unrelated news, 100-year-old war criminal Henry Kissinger is, like, RIGHT THERE. Wait a minute. No he’s not. That fucker is dead!!!!!!!!!! For the last time, this has been “Henry Kissinger Is Right There.”
This Is What You Should Absolutely Not Be Doing Right Now Dishing out heartless condescension to people because they're not being 100% loyal to Joe Biden at this moment? Bad idea!
The Geneva Conventions, like most good tenets of governance that are often ignored, are largely a reiteration of basic moral truths that almost all people know. We should not harm the innocent, we should kill only when we must, and we should always allow for the alleviation of the wounds we cause, through aid and medical care and treatment of fighters and civilians alike. It is clear now that all of those laws are being broken and will continue to be broken. There is nothing that can stop it now; any action the United States or even the people of Israel take will only affect the final toll at this disaster’s end. My hope, then, in the face of one of the defining acts of evil of our time, is that the “rules of war” offer us something else. The Geneva Conventions were born out of a reaction to the aftermath of a horrific battle, and though they have usually failed to thwart further death, they have given some structure for people to dissent from inhuman acts.
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