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New England bioscience guy. Sports, history (esp US), science of all kinds, even politics now. We live in historically stupid times, but our potential is still great with common sense. No DMs

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15.10.2025 11:49 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Follow ICE around with cowbells.

15.10.2025 12:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No, when we want to shut something down, we’re going to shut the whole country down. The next logical step after No Kings if Trump continues to act like one is a general strike.

15.10.2025 12:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Let’s be clear: Republican Speaker Mike Johnson is DENYING duly elected CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATION to people in Arizona for the sole purpose of protecting wealthy and powerful pedophiles (mainly Trump) who participated in the worst child rape and trafficking operation in US history.

15.10.2025 12:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I spell it “G-O-P” and pronounce it “shit-show”.

15.10.2025 11:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

By refusing to swear in Rep Grijalva, Mike Johnson is personally denying people in Arizona their right to representation. It is unacceptable.

15.10.2025 10:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

15.10.2025 00:46 — 👍 27370    🔁 8423    💬 747    📌 404
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ARIZONA AG: “.. Arizona’s right to a full delegation, and the right of the residents of CD 7 to representation from the person they recently voted for, are not up for debate ..”

@politico.com #AZ07
www.politico.com/live-updates...

14.10.2025 19:06 — 👍 13970    🔁 4617    💬 581    📌 307
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Well, he and his dear old daddy used to attend KKK "rituals" together, so yeah, def tracks.

14.10.2025 07:08 — 👍 6089    🔁 2349    💬 176    📌 61
satire: a spirit halloween costume that’s a “violent antifa terrorist” and includes:
- inflatable frog suit
- cape
- pepper spray filter
- a thirst for the blood of the innocent
- air pump

batteries and Molotov cocktails not included

satire: a spirit halloween costume that’s a “violent antifa terrorist” and includes: - inflatable frog suit - cape - pepper spray filter - a thirst for the blood of the innocent - air pump batteries and Molotov cocktails not included

whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow

14.10.2025 17:48 — 👍 11440    🔁 2364    💬 130    📌 103

From the video and photos I’ve seen, it might be that Bibi just ran out of stuff to bomb.

14.10.2025 16:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

13.10.2025 18:29 — 👍 12778    🔁 6339    💬 703    📌 359

ACA was a good first step. It’s time to finish the vision. Wait til they see how popular that becomes.

13.10.2025 23:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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OBAMA: “Better’s good… we’re not gonna get to perfect. Do I think single-payer with no profit motive would’ve been smarter? Absolutely.”

President Obama tells Maron the ACA was a compromise because he didn’t have the votes for what he really wanted. #MedicareForAll

13.10.2025 21:47 — 👍 6877    🔁 1878    💬 253    📌 115
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#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

10.10.2025 18:01 — 👍 3496    🔁 1166    💬 136    📌 90
Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
2? Questions
I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

13.10.2025 17:58 — 👍 23745    🔁 4874    💬 1542    📌 1823
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😂😂

12.10.2025 13:23 — 👍 637    🔁 113    💬 15    📌 7

Time for another cognitive test.

12.10.2025 23:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The “Biden FBI” infiltrated the January 6 crowd, eh? I assume they were busy inciting the crowd and inducing criminal behavior. Right?

So that would be January 6, 2021 - 2 weeks BEFORE BIDEN TOOK OFFICE. The whole point of the Jan 6 INSURRECTION was to prevent Biden from taking office, dumbass.

12.10.2025 23:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Swear-in Rep. Adelita Grijalva! Release the Epstein files!

11.10.2025 19:07 — 👍 3835    🔁 1234    💬 52    📌 44
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11.10.2025 19:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes. 650% is a significant discount. Let’s say your drug costs $100. For every $100, the cost of the is reduced $650. So you buy the drug at this discount,putting the cost of the drug at -$550 (ie, they pay you $550 to take the drug). This is a drug prescription plan I can get behind.

11.10.2025 04:33 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Smacks of an antifa operation. Stealth, coordination, silence, impeccable logistical planning. The only thing missing now is an incriminating frog suit.

10.10.2025 19:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s because people calling in want answers, not just to keep their corporate jobs.

10.10.2025 19:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Robert’s has done so much damage to the 1787 Constitution that he may go down in history as the father of the new US Constitution.

10.10.2025 19:25 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Fascists don’t do free speech.

10.10.2025 19:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I guess we should be happy he didn’t just give them the state. Can’t imagine there’s a whole lot in Idaho that Trump cares for. Like Idahoans.

10.10.2025 19:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What.....The.....Fuck? Looks like that "free" plane wasn't actually free after all. 🤔

10.10.2025 18:13 — 👍 49    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

Qatar didn’t offer to gift Trump a tricked out plane in 2017. Now we know the cost of that “gift”.

10.10.2025 19:10 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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