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  RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/117479563273718804 What kind of accountability is available for such blatantly anti-Constitutional government gangsterism? Surely any action would lose in court (assuming the broadcasters didn’t choose to settle/bribe). But it feels like there should be a mechanism for holding federal officials liable for illegal coercion at some point—if there’s not, let’s add that to the list of legal reforms we need.

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  RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/117485067849951030 Why did they take the globe to Antarctica in the first place?!? But seriously, what a great metaphor for how these f%^king buffoons are running the military.

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  RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/117491742501933339 Cool. You know who else could remove the tariffs? Susan Collins and congressional Republicans if they could be bothered to do their constitutional duty as a check on the president.

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  I think Susan Collins is likely to win. The Dems botched their whole candidate selection process—plus, Collins’s decades of disingenuousness have calcified around her into a seemingly impervious armor. But if the wave is big enough, who knows?

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  This is Trump/Trumpism in a nutshell: ‘Don’t tell me what’s actually happening—I’m telling you what I’m imagining the situation to be. And you must agree that what I just made up in my head is a *very* compelling rationale for my stated position.’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycfTHScLQO8

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  I’m going to see “You Can See Everything”. I hope I can follow the story even though I didn’t see “You Can See Almost Everything”.

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  RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/117524031203667935 If Kamala hadn’t cut him off, we would’ve heard his full statement: ‘They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats… but only if you elect me — Donald J. Trump!’

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  The Dan Sullivan ballot-stacking idea was so stupid I have to believe whatever dumbfuck consultant pitched it assumed they’d never actually get someone on the ballot. As far as I’ve seen, there’s nothing really illegal, but it’s an absolute unforced gift to Republicans’ election-delegitimization efforts.

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  Have you all voted yet? I did. Make sure you do by Tuesday, unless you’re not an American or you like fascism.

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  Someone in Boston standing next to Maura Healy waiting for the subway: “Spot a T, Governor?”

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  RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116511869955555085 I guess people are upset that he’s not talking about the ballroom enough.

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  Clapping when a plane lands is so lame, and anyone who does it betrays their absolute podunkery—but when you’re riding a bus, it’s OK to clap at every single stop like I do.

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  Most non-U.S. countries use a different date format, so they actually make their “May the fourth” jokes on April 5.

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  The real Jeeves were the questions we asked along the way.

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  ‘I know you are, but what am I??’

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  This shit makes me so goddamn furious. We need to hold RFK and his minion fuckwits civilly liable, at the least, for the untold death and suffering they’re responsible for. History will remember them as not only crackpots but also criminals against humanity. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/us/politics/fda-covid-vaccine-studies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gFA.7Y-j.IS6KAZwdZ-jx&smid=url-share

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  I don’t want to tell car alarm designers how to do their jobs, but I would argue if a car alarm is going off for an hour straight without being disabled, there’s probably very little utility for it to continue going off. So, I’m thinking, maybe build in an auto-off timer. Or a self-destruct mechanism. I don’t actually care how, I just want it to shut the f%^k up.

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  RE: https://flipboard.social/@NewsDesk/116539482409632673 This is a bummer—but also, if it really ran afoul of the law, that’s life. The biggest takeaway from all this gerrymandering madness is this: In a post-shame political environment, we need to agitate for a national redistricting standard that puts all states on an even playing field. I don’t know if that requires a constitutional amendment or what, but fuck all this cynical race-to-the-bottom shit.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@conlan/116539567028045072 I’ve gotten more pissed off about this over the course of the day. About gerrymandering, I mean, not the court ruling. The Trumpian acceptance—nay, *enthusiasm*—for blatant, predatory exploitation of the system is now the standard political posture: “We are going to cheat to stay in power, because we can.” The explicit replacement of “It’s the right thing to do” with “I’m allowed to do it” is a societal death knell. If we’re to survive, we...

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  RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116544401204162496 This is why we can be absolutely certain the government has no information about extraterrestrial life visiting Earth.

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  RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116552230876565703 You’ve heard of the “madman theory” of foreign policy, right? Well, check out the “dumbass theory”.

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  The serious injury is obviously that America would have to hear Trump whine and snivel about not getting whatever he wants RIGHT NOW. And I, for one, do not know how much more of that I can take.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116563149543761929 I think the AI bros and their political arm will soon seem very similar to the gun lobby in the face of tragedy. Except, instead of “Dead kids are a small price to pay for the FREEDOM TO SHOOT THINGS!”, it will be “Dead kids are a small price to pay for TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS!” Expect them to start promoting every “solution” (mental health, age verification, bulletproof smartphones, etc.) other than regulation of AI, even a little bi...

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  I was perusing Bluesky for the first time in months and noticed something: Maybe I just follow particularly decent people (who only boost particularly decent people) on Mastodon, but it seems to me that over here there’s far less outrage directed at those who don’t share 100% of one’s opinions.* We’ve got our complaints, obviously—I don’t know how to exist in 2026 without them—but I haven’t seen as much “I hate this fucking idiot because his idea of how to defeat Trump is different than mine.”

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  It’s disgusting that the Iranian government is threatening to shut down any media company that doesn’t report on the war the way the ayatollah wants. Oh, wait… https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/world/middleeast/fcc-broadcasters-iran-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TlA.Z8qk.S_tFhSsya1DN&smid=url-share

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  I had this googled on the screen of my phone, all set to make a “Board of Peace” joke, when I saw a commentator make the same comparison. So instead I’ll go with “Bored of Peace.” I haven’t seen that yet. But of course it’s been done somewhere. Post-satire reality. The jokes are all the same and they’re real life, not jokes.