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retired mechanical engineer and computer scientist. avid swimmer. amateur classical guitar player. atheist. liberal. feminist. anti-fascist. never trump.

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CARTOON OF THE DAY ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

06.08.2025 02:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3354    ๐Ÿ” 1257    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 36    ๐Ÿ“Œ 41
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RFK Jr. cuts $500 million in mRNA vaccine contracts, dealing major blow to promising area of research The cuts add to mounting evidence that Kennedy is pursuing an aggressive anti-vaccine agenda.

Iโ€™m in Maine. I contracted COVID on the plane trip here. Iโ€™m 77, fully vaxed & I was fortunate to get Paxlovid in time. Iโ€™m still very sick. If not for the jabs and the Paxlovid I would be on a ventilator in a Portland hospital. Thank you Science. FU RFK Jr. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

06.08.2025 15:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Big Balls should have got his ass beat the day he first tried to enter a federal building.

06.08.2025 02:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1233    ๐Ÿ” 163    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 63    ๐Ÿ“Œ 16

stay safe.

07.08.2025 01:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Itโ€™s great to be back in New York City. I spent a good deal of my childhood and teenage years in and around NYC. Iโ€™ve been back to promote my new book, โ€œComing Up Short.โ€

Iโ€™m promising myself this is my last book tour. (Of course, I made the same promise with the last book.)

07.08.2025 01:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4310    ๐Ÿ” 507    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 114    ๐Ÿ“Œ 23

another christian who claimed to know better.

his penalties should be doubled or tripled.

07.08.2025 00:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Where is Teddy Roosevelt to make it stick?

Where is Justice Brandeis?

07.08.2025 00:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

sheโ€™s terrific but uhm

06.08.2025 02:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1033    ๐Ÿ” 55    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 29    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

07.08.2025 00:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5057    ๐Ÿ” 1349    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 110    ๐Ÿ“Œ 58

The WSJ Editorial Board has just published an absolutely *brutal* takedown of RFK Jr.โ€™s desire to end the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

โ€œโ€ฆabout to dismantle a rare oasis of legal sanity.โ€

โ€œTherein lies the real goal of Mr. Kennedyโ€™s โ€œfixesโ€: Enriching the personal-injury bar.โ€

06.08.2025 23:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 428    ๐Ÿ” 107    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Trump says Epstein is a hoax. Meanwhile, JD Vance just had the Army Corps raise the water level of a damn riverโ€ฆ for a birthday kayak trip. These guys arenโ€™t just corrupt theyโ€™re cartoon villains.

06.08.2025 22:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 927    ๐Ÿ” 374    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 51    ๐Ÿ“Œ 22
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Christian Nationalism: The Rising Tide Once a fringe ideology, Christian nationalism is now embedded in U.S. political power. Figures like Sean Feucht, Doug Wilson, and David Barton are using celebrity activism, politically connected churc...

Christian nationalism has surged from the fringes into U.S. power, led by figures like Sean Feucht, Doug Wilson & David Barton. Through celebrity activism,politically connected churches, and coordinated legislation, theyโ€™re pushing a theocratic visionโ€”one where democracy yields to divine rule.

05.08.2025 23:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Yes and I stand by it.

Trump is just an old fat man wondering around on the roof of the White House.

06.08.2025 22:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3685    ๐Ÿ” 720    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 167    ๐Ÿ“Œ 35

what else did that fat f-ck have to do?

06.08.2025 23:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

what f-cking nonsense.

06.08.2025 23:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Because itโ€™s harmful toxic brainwashing.

Virgins donโ€™t give birth. Telling that to children is sexual grooming.

Threatening children with the eternal torture of hell for disbelief or even questioning.
If that isnโ€™t brainwashingโ€ฆ

I donโ€™t know what the fuck is.

06.08.2025 16:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

An estimated 38% of the total corporate cash savings created by Trump and Republicansโ€™ budget bill will flow to just four Big Tech companies: Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Alphabet.

Just so happens that each donated $1M to Trumpโ€™s inauguration.

Talk about a return on investment.

06.08.2025 21:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1698    ๐Ÿ” 668    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 50    ๐Ÿ“Œ 30

it wasn't the previous administration that destroyed government employment and laid off thousands.

all DOGE, all MAGA.

own it, punk ass bitches.

06.08.2025 22:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

one thing that we know is true: the South won.

lost the war and surrendered in 1865, but won Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and ushered in fascism.

all b/c we cared more about "reconciliation" than stopping fascism.

06.08.2025 22:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You know at some point the Administration is going to require history books to rename the Civil War as the War of Northern Aggression, right?
Itโ€™s coming.

06.08.2025 18:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 47    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

what a waste of a life.

transfiguration? never happened. medieval nonsense, made up by men who were happy to exploit the ignorant.

06.08.2025 22:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

he is a child sex trafficker.

he's gotten special treatment through his gutting of the judiciary and manipulation of the system.

06.08.2025 22:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

it's founding ideals were always state surveillance. what other mission did they think this software could have?

grandstanding morons.

06.08.2025 22:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Palantir: The all-seeing tech giant The company's data-mining tools are used by spies and the military. Are they now being turned on Americans?

In May, 13 ex-Palantir engineers signed a letter saying the firm's leadership had "abandoned its founding ideals" and become complicit in "normalizing authoritarianism." They cited the crystal-ball-like "seeing stones" that gave Palantir its name.

06.08.2025 20:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

shameful.

06.08.2025 22:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

komrade krasnov claimed credit for "accelerating" approval of mRNA vaccines during his first term.

perfectly safe then. life saving.

perfectly safe now.

there's no science here. just a drug addled serial adulterer acting out his anti-vaccine fever dream.

06.08.2025 22:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump Weighs Getting Involved in New York City Mayorโ€™s Race

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/n...
He needs to stay the fuck away from our election and our city.

06.08.2025 20:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I was 20 when I voted for Jimmy Carter in 1980โ€”full-time job at $4 an hour, with health insurance, and $170 rent for an apartment with a downtown Seattle view.

Reagan broke it. The middle class shrank and never bounced back. Trickle-down failed then, and itโ€™s still failing now.

06.08.2025 19:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 54    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

I don't believe him.

he's never let a dollar pass him by.

just another lie from a habitual liar.

06.08.2025 20:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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