@tomgara

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You can find me on the other place, although I may lose my willpower and come back here. Crazy to think I’ve been posting furiously here for 15 years! Changed my life! Shaped my whole career! I love so many of you and will miss it!
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Always thought I'd be a Twitter lifer, never bought into the various Elon-era waves of people leaving. But I think I'm done here. The ambient level of vile, repulsive stuff has reached a point where I think it's probably bad for me, even if I try to deny it.
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More and more people are saying this maxread.substack.com/p/it-su…
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First person shown in this video: “they’re a bunch of worthless fucking sand monkeys”. Fourth person shown in this video: “people want to turn this into a race issue. It’s not a race issue…”
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson11 Sep 2024
ABC News: ‘There is no evidence of migrants eating pets’ YouTuber: ‘Here’s 30 minutes of firsthand accounts of residents in Springfield Ohio where many who live there say the pets are disappearing’ ABC News: ‘Let’s talk about climate change…’
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I did just see a video of Charlie Kirk debating 25 college liberals at once, like one of those chess masters who plays simultaneous games against a whole room of challengers. So I'm he's clearly got his eyes on the prize
Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON*
@EsotericCD11 Sep 2024
Seems like early September is the right time to just throw an open question out there: Given the nature of this race and Trump's need to get low propensity voters to the polls, how confident are YOU in the fact that he's outsourced huge chunks of his GOTV to Charlie Kirk?
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It does raise the really intriguing possibility that an enterprising Florida man of South Asian origin has figured out how to get free meals at Mar-a-Lago for months by pretending to be the head of the Taliban
Juliette Kayyem
@juliettekayyem11 Sep 2024
It's such a minor point but I cannot stop thinking that Trump casually calling the head of Taliban "Abdul" is a perfect mix of his ignorance, racism and senility in just a single word.
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It is a small thing compared to having your body ripped apart, but somehow this detail, of the 13 yo Jenin boy who had his Playstation stolen by IDF troops, is such a gut punch. In the @DropSiteNews dispatch by @MariamBarghouti
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The good news is, there’s a perfect playbook for doing this, pioneered by one of the great campaign talents of our generation
Sam Adler-Bell
@SamAdlerBell11 Sep 2024
Kamala is gonna have to show us her guns. Sorry, it's not important, but there is no single story from this debate our media will track down harder. Hope they're cool.
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imagine explaining this to abraham lincoln
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Succession literally called it
Kate Gardiner@KateGardiner11 Sep 2024
The number of transgender illegal aliens is probably low and is probably… mostly people who could eventually get asylum…
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This is who accompanied Trump on his flight to the debate.
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Leader of the anti-Haitian protests in Ohio identifies himself here as “Nate Higgers”, if you’re wondering what level of scum we’re dealing with here
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It’s so obscene that this is all because a totally routine killing of a civilian happened to accidentally involve a civilian we categorize as a full human
Archive: Lloyd J. Austin III
@SecDefAustin10 Sep 2024
I spoke with Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant today and expressed my grave concern over the IDF’s responsibility for the unprovoked and unjustified death of American citizen Aysenur Eygi in the West Bank. I urged the Minister to reexamine the IDF’s rules of engagement while operating in the West Bank. I reiterated that the United States remains committed to the protection of civilians and to securing a ceasefire and hostage deal.
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I do kinda worry that this feels like 2016 with us going “do you have no decency? this is disgusting!” but on the other hand…it is disgusting! it is something people with any decency would not do! idk.
in the pocket of Big Tenant@AllezLesBoulez10 Sep 2024
the Haitian thing is such an old school blood libel that it feels like a noticeable escalation. like Sartre described in his essay on antisemitism they know they’re lying and they’re enjoying it.
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All time great quote, he's operating at a level we can barely comprehend right now
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You know there was a guy a few years back who wrote a famous book that noted how lots of poor rural whites had serious drug problems and couldn't hold a job down, but just lashed out at immigrants who could instead of trying to fix their own issues. Wonder what happened to him.
Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski10 Sep 2024
New story about the Haitians in Springfield, OH, where the cat hoax originated. CEO of McGregor Metal: “I wish I had 30 more. Our Haitians come to work every day. They don’t have a drug problem. They’ll stay at their machine. That’s a stark difference from what we’re used to.”
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Just got an email from Rover dot com that it's Responsible Dog Ownership Month, which raises the intriguing possibility of an irresponsible dog ownership month at some point in the Spring
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Rafah, before and after.
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High income people in high tax blue states should get a federal tax deduction for all the state and local taxes they pay
Populism Updates@PopulismUpdates7 Sep 2024
Tell me your most radical position that cannot be placed on the left-right political spectrum
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