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Director of Engineering @ SurveyMonkey Front End Architecture • Functional Design Systems • Engineering Leadership • React • Woodworking • Arsenal

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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "I don't have any evidence that I have seen that suggests that the weapon was brandished."

25.01.2026 19:04 👍 339 🔁 58 💬 10 📌 3

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

25.01.2026 01:15 👍 6976 🔁 1775 💬 110 📌 34

Starting to wonder if Kristi Noem has ever had a problem that she couldn't shoot in a pit before

25.01.2026 16:25 👍 441 🔁 54 💬 12 📌 0

Local man who says “I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart” also makes national recommendations on appropriate Tylenol usage and child vaccination schedule.

01.01.2026 17:09 👍 1109 🔁 149 💬 39 📌 7
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Musk is just straight up white nationalist now.
(And helpfully decoding that Western Civilization=Whites)

11.12.2025 19:48 👍 713 🔁 168 💬 83 📌 79

overall the feeling you get from planet earth in 2025 is like watching a tv show six seasons after it got bad. nothing's funny and everyone's got weird plastic surgery faces

11.12.2025 22:06 👍 155 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 1
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GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing

BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?

GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now

THOMPSON: What does that mean?

11.12.2025 15:51 👍 24248 🔁 7400 💬 3304 📌 2416

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

01.11.2025 17:22 👍 5971 🔁 1905 💬 171 📌 92
18.10.2025 22:55 👍 12737 🔁 2686 💬 152 📌 24

Happy John Brown’s Raid day to all who celebrate

16.10.2025 19:58 👍 2644 🔁 652 💬 25 📌 35

Not being even vaguely sarcastic:

At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”

18.10.2025 01:45 👍 11987 🔁 3307 💬 377 📌 159

I have very explicitly avoided that rabbit hole for at least a year for that exact reason.

16.10.2025 06:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

12.10.2025 12:34 👍 11284 🔁 4247 💬 446 📌 194

I want to take this opportunity to connect some dots. This is not a mistake. This is on purpose. The right wing ethos hates government oversight. They try to take over government precisely so they can make it less effectual. We see this everywhere that has Republicans in charge.

12.10.2025 18:08 👍 247 🔁 79 💬 4 📌 4

if we'd treated their obvious baldfaced lies and deflections more like this over the past eight years maybe we wouldn't be in this situation

shocking how easy it is when you actually see it done

12.10.2025 16:34 👍 4851 🔁 975 💬 34 📌 34

I think: knowing how to code with AI assistance: absolutely an essential skill for developers to have.

enshittifying everything by putting AI into everything consumer-facing? no, thanks.

11.10.2025 20:39 👍 29 🔁 3 💬 5 📌 2

My first impression of Remix 3 is that it’s a bunch of new APIs to do what we already do. It doesn’t seem to unlock new capabilities.

HTML fragments are cool, but you can already do that by returning RSC from server functions in React. Astro supports it too.

11.10.2025 20:20 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

idk man, if you’re getting to the point where you’re accusing prosecutors, judges, and metro police of being the enemy, i am skeptical you have achieved the kind of consolidation you need for this kind of a project

04.10.2025 22:53 👍 2333 🔁 472 💬 62 📌 20

I feel like by the end of this we're going to have to come up with new legal claims to describe what they have been doing

05.10.2025 02:07 👍 60 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0

That’s an EXTREMELY common pattern.

03.10.2025 13:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"If there's anybody that can solve this unforced error that President Trump single-handedly caused, it's President Trump."

03.10.2025 12:47 👍 1051 🔁 206 💬 66 📌 4
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Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume.

Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume.

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

Version of original on left, updated on right:

02.10.2025 13:46 👍 5838 🔁 2705 💬 185 📌 301

we need evidence of two things: first, that trump can distinguish fantasy from reality and second, that trump is actually president

29.09.2025 12:25 👍 5365 🔁 1407 💬 174 📌 38

The scariest scenario for me is an incapacitated Trump with Miller fully running things.

Because Miller ABSOLUTELY has the stomach for it, Miller is salivating at the idea of full totalitarianism.

And he's too cocky even to think of it as a gamble, he thinks they win for sure.

29.09.2025 01:30 👍 94 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0
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When Stephen Miller talks about prosecuting domestic terrorists who malign Charlie Kirk, keep in mind that Miller has described the Democrats as a "domestic extremist organization"

He wants to terrorize and silence half of this country

15.09.2025 13:38 👍 287 🔁 62 💬 15 📌 10

This is just the most basic scaffolding of what creates orderly and transparent equities and capital markets. Making America Like the 1920s again

15.09.2025 12:54 👍 2102 🔁 476 💬 156 📌 24

Are you telling me these people are malicious *and* incompetent? Well, I never

12.09.2025 21:55 👍 1829 🔁 407 💬 60 📌 7

It is pretty amazing to see people go from “the left is the enemy of democracy and must be purged” to “who can really know why good kids do bad things?”

12.09.2025 20:39 👍 12477 🔁 2701 💬 176 📌 94

It’s also worth noting that as soon as it became clear the Trump shooter had no real legible politics and certainly not from “the left” he completely vanished into anonymity. No one knows his name.

12.09.2025 15:12 👍 6130 🔁 1120 💬 161 📌 45

I'm not trying to say anything about the shooter's ideology yet, we don't know enough.

But internet nihilism almost always boils down to fundamentally dehumanizing assumptions that hinge on fascist conceptions of personhood and worthiness.

12.09.2025 15:26 👍 115 🔁 12 💬 5 📌 0