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The thing that gives me hope is that we've more or less fought them to a draw with nothing but heart.

17.11.2025 00:48 β€” πŸ‘ 94    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

the thing is, as I’ve aged, the bar for who looks like a child to me has risen. there are whole tax paying ass adults who scan as literal children to me when I see them.

what the actual fuck is wrong with people.

17.11.2025 01:12 β€” πŸ‘ 487    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 6

If you put out the fire then you're no better than the fire itself. Perhaps instead of fire fighters what we need are fire understanders

17.11.2025 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 919    πŸ” 111    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 4

Listen to the corporate centrists. They do not care about people. Their only priority is protecting the capitalist machine that feeds them.

They’ll sacrifice anyone, normalize fascism, do anything if it means the checks keep coming in.

16.11.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 562    πŸ” 137    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 9

liberals conservatives
🀝
pretending MLK
wasn't a socialist

17.11.2025 01:24 β€” πŸ‘ 140    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Two weeks into a new program that gives New Mexico children free childcare, officials are opening up about the surge that happened day one & how it’s been moving forward. In just a short time, the state said thousands of children are now enrolled in free childcare, & daycares are lining up to join.

16.11.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1641    πŸ” 493    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 0

old enough to remember Paul LePage

16.11.2025 23:05 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, β€œSTFU.”

15.11.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3623    πŸ” 1440    πŸ’¬ 72    πŸ“Œ 70

A knock-on effect of Trump suddenly looking weak is people feel emboldened to push back against his flunkies too. Turns out the media knows exactly how to do this when they want to

16.11.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 5227    πŸ” 903    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 23

Eugenics.

16.11.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 70    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...

Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process

16.11.2025 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1172    πŸ” 210    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 12

In the fight between Jabba and MTG in the Thunderdome, I’m rooting for the Thunderdome.

16.11.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We have Mr. Beast at home.

Mr. Beast at home:

16.11.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No but see it’s an ironic gift because the friend sucks so much and that’s why it’s funny and THIS is what capitalism is for, buying things for literally every occasion for any reason please give us your money that is the only value you have to us.

16.11.2025 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Aside from the enormous Epstein scandal, these extrajudicial murders should bring down this administration, from Trump and Hegseth to the shooters to the aides who photocopied the orders. It’s morally and legally exhausting living through this lawless, lying, corrupt regime. #NoFascistUSA

15.11.2025 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 211    πŸ” 67    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Now, if we had a competitive market for news, the kind capitalists always tell us is so wonderful and is the automatic by-product of deregulation, you'd think all the other papers would be putting this front and center.

16.11.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It has been so frustrating seeing all the seeds that had been planted during the Bush admin bear their logical fruit and everyone is surprise. Did we all forget about the patriot act? It was always a cover for surveillance! The β€œterror levels” at the airport was always propaganda!

16.11.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

anyway ludicrous to think the right question is β€œhow did DHS lose its way??” and not β€œwhy did we build a domestic security super agency in the first place, and who has that power served”

16.11.2025 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 413    πŸ” 121    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3
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if you’re accepting the premise that Homeland Security was created to β€œkeep Americans safe” and the way Trump is using it is somehow an aberration from the original purpose you need to read some more history πŸ˜•

16.11.2025 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 211    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4

Teenagers are old enough to have sex with middle aged men. They are not old enough to be trans.

by Megyn Kelly

16.11.2025 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3852    πŸ” 756    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 28

if we tax them more, how will they pay for all the blood cleansing, cell rejuvenation, and transcranial magnetic stimulation they need? www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...

16.11.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1164    πŸ” 334    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 14

A lot of the (often quite powerful!) guys emailing Epstein were asking him for dating advice, which seems to suggest that they saw his own sex life as aspirational.

15.11.2025 23:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1088    πŸ” 232    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 0
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This memo is almost an admission of legal *vulnerability* for those carrying out bombings.

β€œIt signals fear that what they’re doing is illegal and that they could possibly be subject to criminal action under US law and international law,” Rep Adam Smith tells me. 4/

newrepublic.com/article/2032...

15.11.2025 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1026    πŸ” 272    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 7

Dressed up like you’re in patrol in Fallujah, passing some retired banker from Myers Park out to pick up birdseed.

16.11.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1210    πŸ” 326    πŸ’¬ 143    πŸ“Œ 26
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Dems should say this right now, loudly and clearly: Anyone who is trusting Donald Trump, of all people, when he says what he’s directing you to do is lawful and that you’ll be protected later may be putting themselves in a very precarious position. 6/

newrepublic.com/article/2032...

15.11.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1298    πŸ” 373    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 16
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The Great AI Bubble Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.

NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.

It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

16.11.2025 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1558    πŸ” 710    πŸ’¬ 68    πŸ“Œ 94

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officialsβ€”unambiguously including the presidentβ€”from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.

Unprecedentedly corrupt.

16.11.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 5446    πŸ” 1888    πŸ’¬ 103    πŸ“Œ 52
6d Listen to this article
Congregants of an east Charlotte church scattered into the woods Saturday when masked federal agents arrived and detained one of their members, according to witnesses.
About 15 to 20 church members were doing yard work on the property off Albemarle Road while their children played games and their spouses cooked meals.
Agents parked just outside a closed gate leading to the church parking lot and ran into the yard, said the pastor, who did not want to identify himself or his church.

6d Listen to this article Congregants of an east Charlotte church scattered into the woods Saturday when masked federal agents arrived and detained one of their members, according to witnesses. About 15 to 20 church members were doing yard work on the property off Albemarle Road while their children played games and their spouses cooked meals. Agents parked just outside a closed gate leading to the church parking lot and ran into the yard, said the pastor, who did not want to identify himself or his church.

The agents asked no questions and showed no identification before taking one man away, whose wife and child were inside at the time, the pastor said. They attempted to grab others, too.
"Right now, everybody is scared. Everybody," he said. "One of these guys with immigration, he say he was going to arrest one of the other guys in the church. He pushed him."
Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken. Some yard workers fled into the surrounding woods when officials arrived, including 15-year-old Miguel Vazquez.

The agents asked no questions and showed no identification before taking one man away, whose wife and child were inside at the time, the pastor said. They attempted to grab others, too. "Right now, everybody is scared. Everybody," he said. "One of these guys with immigration, he say he was going to arrest one of the other guys in the church. He pushed him." Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken. Some yard workers fled into the surrounding woods when officials arrived, including 15-year-old Miguel Vazquez.

Here’s a story for every national news outlet:

In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.

β€œInside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”

www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

16.11.2025 04:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2333    πŸ” 1297    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 98

they can come into the tent when they admit they were wrong and change their views

we all joke about Woke Bill Kristol but he is for the most part the perfect example - he has, legitimately, become much more progressive

you can’t bring in people who are mad he’s not delivering on horrible shit

16.11.2025 05:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3175    πŸ” 540    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 26

Literally exactly what the Founders worried about. Exactly.

15.11.2025 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2183    πŸ” 456    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 5

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