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Zac
@myownresearch.net
· Jan 6
Approximately 1/3rd of Americans unapologetically suck ass is something you will see in virtually every poll
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Y'all remember when every knuckle dragger in your orbit tried to explain inflation to you? I sure do.
The Trump economy: $40tn debt, 6.7% mortgages and $5 diesel ft.trib.al/yjvQxNr
The Trump economy: $40tn debt, 6.7% mortgages and $5 diesel
The president’s agenda is under strain as the Iran war pushes up prices and America’s finances worsen
ft.trib.al
August 22, 2026 at 5:18 AM
Y'all remember when every knuckle dragger in your orbit tried to explain inflation to you? I sure do.
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Welcome to Hater Week, a week of stories examining what it means to be a hater (and a lover), where we'll vent about some of our biggest pet peeves in games and life, and give others space to do the same.
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July 28, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Welcome to Hater Week, a week of stories examining what it means to be a hater (and a lover), where we'll vent about some of our biggest pet peeves in games and life, and give others space to do the same.
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"It’s possible to create new symbology in an age of totalitarian vulgarity. It just requires looking beyond the murky surface of a pool enscummed by failure. It requires new kinds of heroes, those on bread and those that wield them."
Brilliant!
Brilliant!
In an age of fascism, Theodor Adorno wrote, "culture has also relinquished the salt of truth." But, I propose in this latest piece, "sometimes the salt of truth are nitrates in processed turkey, compressed in a hero, and hurled at a jackbooted agent of the state." buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Notable Sandwiches #1: American Hero
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I slip messily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week,...
buttondown.com
July 17, 2026 at 8:39 PM
"It’s possible to create new symbology in an age of totalitarian vulgarity. It just requires looking beyond the murky surface of a pool enscummed by failure. It requires new kinds of heroes, those on bread and those that wield them."
Brilliant!
Brilliant!
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Are you sick of winning yet?
July 9, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Are you sick of winning yet?
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It remains hilarious that his cult will still insist, to this day, that Donald Trump is an "expert deal maker."
CNN montage of Trump claiming for months that Iran wants to make a deal
July 9, 2026 at 8:13 PM
It remains hilarious that his cult will still insist, to this day, that Donald Trump is an "expert deal maker."
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They sent Martha Stewart to jail for 5 months for having a chat with her broker and selling some stock to avoid about $45,000 in losses.
Investment accounts owned by President Trump engaged in more than 300 previously undisclosed stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day before his surprise announcement that he would pause a number of his “Liberation Day” tariffs, his financial disclosure report says.
Trump discloses 327 unreported stock trades made a day before his first tariff pause
Their disclosure, more than 14 months after they occurred, is the latest revelation to fuel calls for greater scrutiny of the president’s financial assets.
nbcnews.to
July 6, 2026 at 10:28 AM
They sent Martha Stewart to jail for 5 months for having a chat with her broker and selling some stock to avoid about $45,000 in losses.
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If people read Black abolitionists and Black feminists more carefully and with the rigor that afford to white male theorists, then lots more things be might be clearer to them.
July 3, 2026 at 10:25 PM
If people read Black abolitionists and Black feminists more carefully and with the rigor that afford to white male theorists, then lots more things be might be clearer to them.
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two thirds of the trump fair attendees have been hospitalized w/ heat stroke and nobody is talking about it
NEW: CNN just talked about heat related ailments wt Trump’s state fair: 44 patients, 11 transported - 7 of those on advanced life support
July 3, 2026 at 11:46 PM
two thirds of the trump fair attendees have been hospitalized w/ heat stroke and nobody is talking about it
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the founders did not foresee every problem the nation would face, because they lived hundreds of years ago and also because many of them were awful slaveholders
but they knew men like Donald Trump and they were extremely clear that such men should never be President
but they knew men like Donald Trump and they were extremely clear that such men should never be President
"Speaking as an early American historian who spent decades immersed in what the founding generation thought about political power — specifically about executive power — this presidency is entirely out of bounds and beyond anything the founding folk could have conceived of." — @jbf1755.bsky.social
Joanne Freeman on why Trump is an affront to the Founders
"This presidency is beyond anything the founding folk could have conceived of."
www.publicnotice.co
June 27, 2026 at 7:13 PM
the founders did not foresee every problem the nation would face, because they lived hundreds of years ago and also because many of them were awful slaveholders
but they knew men like Donald Trump and they were extremely clear that such men should never be President
but they knew men like Donald Trump and they were extremely clear that such men should never be President
Capital above country.
NEW: Palantir has gone on a Democratic lobbyist hiring spree, picking up Hakeem Jeffries' former chief of staff, a top DCCC fundraiser, and a former Democratic senator to push its interests in Washington DC. readsludge.com/2026/06/22/p...
Palantir Goes on a Democratic Lobbyist Hiring Spree
The ICE contractor has hired Hakeem Jeffries' former chief of staff and a former Democratic senator as it builds out a Democratic lobbying operation on Capitol Hill.
readsludge.com
June 28, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Capital above country.
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No one should ever think their hobbies are silly again
June 25, 2026 at 3:33 PM
No one should ever think their hobbies are silly again
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The 26.2 sticker on the back of my car is for how many chicken wings I can eat in a minute
January 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The 26.2 sticker on the back of my car is for how many chicken wings I can eat in a minute
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South Africa’s unemployment crisis continues to fuel calls for a permanent Basic Income Grant (BIG). Article suggests expanding income support is no longer only a welfare issue, but an economic necessity due to high unemployment, poverty, and inequality. zurl.co/QcdPp
May 14, 2026 at 7:00 AM
South Africa’s unemployment crisis continues to fuel calls for a permanent Basic Income Grant (BIG). Article suggests expanding income support is no longer only a welfare issue, but an economic necessity due to high unemployment, poverty, and inequality. zurl.co/QcdPp
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In a world where you can be anything, be kind ...
... of a cunt
... of a cunt
May 10, 2026 at 8:29 PM
In a world where you can be anything, be kind ...
... of a cunt
... of a cunt
The climate.
You're Gen X. You can bring back one thing from the 80s. What is it?
May 10, 2026 at 10:09 PM
The climate.
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Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr
After USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school
Move comes after Roger Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs
scim.ag
May 9, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr
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Lord I’ve seen what you’ve done for others and I want that for me
May 4, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Lord I’ve seen what you’ve done for others and I want that for me
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Join our friends at Citizens Action Illinois and the IL Revenue Alliance to call fellow Illinoisans to educate them on progressive revenue proposals that would rebuild IL’s current tax system and create more dollars for our neighborhood public schools.
Tax the Rich Phonebank - Illinois Revenue Alliance · Citizen Action/Illinois
While working families see their budgets stretched thin and communities see important programs and services cut, billionaires and big corporations continue to hoard massive amounts of money and refuse...
www.mobilize.us
May 2, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Join our friends at Citizens Action Illinois and the IL Revenue Alliance to call fellow Illinoisans to educate them on progressive revenue proposals that would rebuild IL’s current tax system and create more dollars for our neighborhood public schools.
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they like him and want to help him rule us. events like last night excite them to spring into action because they think its an opportunity to help trump rule us better.
The media lives for opportunities to say “Democrats should be nicer to Trump.”
They want to exist in the permanent state of “both sides” and are uncomfortable with straight reporting on Trump being a dementia-addled, incoherent, narcissistic fascist.
They want to exist in the permanent state of “both sides” and are uncomfortable with straight reporting on Trump being a dementia-addled, incoherent, narcissistic fascist.
April 26, 2026 at 3:59 PM
they like him and want to help him rule us. events like last night excite them to spring into action because they think its an opportunity to help trump rule us better.
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Some long time friends have recently embraced some very backwards & unsubstantiated ideas. I don’t know what happened. I no longer try to change anyone’s mind. Decades of trying and not making progress has brought me to simply recommending “the demon haunted world” and saying:
April 6, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Some long time friends have recently embraced some very backwards & unsubstantiated ideas. I don’t know what happened. I no longer try to change anyone’s mind. Decades of trying and not making progress has brought me to simply recommending “the demon haunted world” and saying: