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Waiting for extinction.

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It's a product of voter ignorance and apathy. When name recognition is that powerful, it's bad news for voter engagement.

25.10.2025 00:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Commerce's business isn't business. It's data. A meterologist, climatologist, data scientist, or experienced science administrator would be in the correct lane.

20.10.2025 17:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's OK. That's how I regard the right. Reaction is a scam. It makes promises it knows it will never have to deliver, because its prescriptions are impossible.

20.10.2025 17:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Canadian snowbirds fingerprinted and photographed at U.S. border as part of new requirement | CBC News Several Canadian snowbirds reported they were fingerprinted and photographed at the U.S. border this month when registering for their winter stay, which U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) told C...

Canadian snowbirds fingerprint...
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

19.10.2025 22:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 53    ๐Ÿ” 32    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

19.10.2025 23:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26460    ๐Ÿ” 7446    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 891    ๐Ÿ“Œ 927

This is not only absolutely true, but it's reasonable to ask why they used such a contrived plot device without earning it in a script that was otherwise pretty smart. They asked for the criticism.

17.10.2025 01:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ”ฅ SLIWA: โ€œYou think youโ€™re the toughest guy alive โ€” you lost your own primary. You have difficulty understanding what the term โ€œNOโ€ isโ€ฆ youโ€™re not gonna stand up to Trump.โ€ ๐Ÿ‘€

ZOHRAN: โ€œI agree with Curtis.โ€ ๐Ÿ™ƒ

17.10.2025 01:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1117    ๐Ÿ” 204    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 25    ๐Ÿ“Œ 27

A standard frigate and modern diesel sub for the whole bloc would go a long way, reducing unit costs and build times, perhaps a modular approach for different navies, missions. Also a good chance to start from bare metal without any US tech.

16.10.2025 05:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Enough with the beating girlfriends stuff, let's talk about something serious.

15.10.2025 15:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 280    ๐Ÿ” 52    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

These people have been scheming to get here for generations, and when they finally have power, the main thing they've accomplished is to get the deeply ignorant public to pay attention. That's never been great news for them, historically.

15.10.2025 19:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

How many "I told you so" coffee mugs do you think that woman has gotten as gifts this year? I remember thinking, during the debate, that in the old days, he'd be done. We've let billionaires buy the media and agitprop us into this mess. Big Tech business model is radicalization. Needs to change.

15.10.2025 17:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Roberts is saying that the court's own precedent from a couple of years ago, where it ruled that Alabama had to draw racial fair maps, doesn't apply to this (identical) case, essentially because the Alabama case was poorly argued.
It's a terrible argument, but the hill Roberts is gonna die on.

15.10.2025 14:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1429    ๐Ÿ” 186    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26    ๐Ÿ“Œ 41

1) ... back in 1991, while in college and on the libertarian right, I was volunteering and hanging out at local GOP HQ, talking with this retired classics professor. One afternoon, he said that "segregation was for the benefit of black people."

The GOP is a safe space for bigots.

15.10.2025 16:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My letter to the mainstream media:

We will get through this, eventually. But you will not. We will remember each and every sellout.

08.10.2025 23:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 604    ๐Ÿ” 137    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

I'll believe it when I see it.

09.10.2025 08:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Nature Geoscience A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.

A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."

08.10.2025 18:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 246    ๐Ÿ” 117    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13

What Governor Pritzker is doing is right for his state, but it is vital for the Republic.

08.10.2025 23:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12682    ๐Ÿ” 2929    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 145    ๐Ÿ“Œ 69

If we are taking in โ€œtrillionโ€ of dollars in tariffs:

1. Why havenโ€™t we paid down a cent of the debt?

2. Why canโ€™t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies?

3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

09.10.2025 01:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21334    ๐Ÿ” 6454    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1074    ๐Ÿ“Œ 331
The AI business model might destroy itself
YouTube video by Hank Green The AI business model might destroy itself

What happens when 'free' information dries up because its producers aren't getting paid?

09.10.2025 06:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Johnson: Miss Grijalva has not yet had a scheduled date because she was elected after the house was out of session,

Gallego: You don't want her to be on the Epstein discharge.

Johnson: You guys are experts at red herrings.

Gallego: This is an excuse

08.10.2025 17:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12676    ๐Ÿ” 3822    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 865    ๐Ÿ“Œ 272

Netanyahu made the opposite choice and here we are.

08.10.2025 20:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I mean it helped - they were murdering and torturing Kenyans for close to a decade and Malaysians for over a decade after that.

It also helped that there was an active violent resistance to go along with the nonviolent resistance. So the British chose to work with the peaceful guy

08.10.2025 06:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I get what you're saying, but I think UK left India in 1947 because they were broke after World War II, not because of any moral clarity created by protests.

After all, they were murdering Arabs from the air only a decade earlier to try to hold on to colonies and mandates.

07.10.2025 11:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Using the number of employees to describe a business as small is often used to mislead. A 'small' hedge fund can handle tens of billions of dollars in investment capital. Only staff AND sales can make a good measure, plus yes we need more BIPOC wealth, the sooner the better.

06.10.2025 20:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

71.5% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to government data.

Donโ€™t fall for Trumpโ€™s lies about targeting the โ€œworst of the worst.โ€

As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.

06.10.2025 20:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4655    ๐Ÿ” 1931    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 136    ๐Ÿ“Œ 62
The image is an X post by user Joshua Reed Eakle from 20 hours ago, stating: "The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for citizens. Few understand this." The post includes a profile picture and a verified badge.

The image is an X post by user Joshua Reed Eakle from 20 hours ago, stating: "The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for citizens. Few understand this." The post includes a profile picture and a verified badge.

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

05.10.2025 18:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24849    ๐Ÿ” 6913    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 618    ๐Ÿ“Œ 264

โ€œTerrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.โ€

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

04.10.2025 20:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17148    ๐Ÿ” 8043    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 259    ๐Ÿ“Œ 339

On a *completely* unrelated note, I have used Instacart almost exclusively since 2017. ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿผโ€โ™€๏ธ ๐Ÿคช

05.10.2025 02:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

About 125,000 transgender people are assaulted in the restroom every year.

No transgender woman has ever been convicted of assaulting a woman in a public restroom.

05.10.2025 02:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2560    ๐Ÿ” 651    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 58    ๐Ÿ“Œ 18

Thank God the feds have finally shown up to protect us Oregonians from the octogenarian veterans and their wives! Those people have been running roughshod over the community for long enough!!!

05.10.2025 03:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 266    ๐Ÿ” 74    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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