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Professor, Writer, Social worker “There are but two parties in America right now: patriots and traitors.” - Ulysses S Grant Matthewsaks.com

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Did he say “no mail-in ballesh”

14.02.2026 21:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Do you lecture/look down at people like this all the time?

13.02.2026 23:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I think I forgot that “hiking the Appalachian trail” wasn’t just a metaphor or meme but an actual thing he said. Respect to the OG Appalachian trail hiker

13.02.2026 22:37 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You would expect this in Putin’s Russia. Maybe we are now in Putin’s Russia

13.02.2026 22:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

True. The opportunities for corruption among the global elite are even more staggering with a platform like this. Burn it all down

13.02.2026 14:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Specifically, the rise in the gambling addiction - and how these companies are targeting young men.

13.02.2026 14:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Totally feral behavior

12.02.2026 22:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You know you’re dealing with a real zealot like Bondi when she pronounces “Trump” with two syllables

12.02.2026 07:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So he’s saying his policy for tariffs is how much his fee fees get hurt talking to the other country. Totally normal

10.02.2026 23:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lawyers usually can visit detainees. Sometimes mental health workers.

10.02.2026 07:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Question is how to we get eyes inside these places, and also how to get some judicial oversight. This is going to be the political and moral crisis of our time

10.02.2026 06:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Over the past three weeks, the "nightmare scenario" for November's midterms has grown more plausible www.vox.com/politics/478...

09.02.2026 15:52 — 👍 619    🔁 280    💬 151    📌 180

I also like how he conveniently ignores the horrific detention conditions, the denial of process, the lawless violence of the operations

09.02.2026 07:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Assumption that you will be remembered. In a few generations almost none of us will be remembered.

09.02.2026 05:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The absolute best quote from the Epstein files…

07.02.2026 04:02 — 👍 2690    🔁 1115    💬 93    📌 49

Being evil ages you

08.02.2026 00:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is right wing media in a nutshell. Fear sells, especially to ignorant white people. May I live to see the day Fox News goes down in flames.

07.02.2026 15:40 — 👍 3181    🔁 802    💬 110    📌 43

Case study in bigorexia

07.02.2026 22:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Strong black tea with cream

07.02.2026 22:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If you’re a “small landlord” you’re still wealthier than most Americans by orders of magnitude. So now the Post is shilling for them?

06.02.2026 20:52 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh no someone look out for the “small landlords”! How will these mere millionaires ever survive???

06.02.2026 20:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump's big, ugly budget megabill gives ICE more agents than the FBI, more jails than the federal Bureau of Prisons, and a larger budget than most countries' militaries.

Not one more penny for ICE.

04.02.2026 21:01 — 👍 1753    🔁 740    💬 99    📌 35
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Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

04.02.2026 06:43 — 👍 8734    🔁 3822    💬 164    📌 792

the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades

04.02.2026 15:11 — 👍 6031    🔁 1652    💬 90    📌 37

That’s the funny thing. They could do most of this the legal way, going through immigration courts. ALJs are often very dumb and malleable. Or they could appoint a thousand crony ALJs. They’re just high on power and want to feel bound by NO PROCESS, even a corrupt process.

04.02.2026 01:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah at what point do people just start screaming at him “fuck you you lying sack of shit.” That’s the only appropriate response

04.02.2026 01:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.” - Thomas Jefferson

03.02.2026 06:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cowardice never ages well

03.02.2026 05:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How about this? If you’re NOT antifa (that is, anti-fascist) you can fuck off. To be American is to be anti-fascist

03.02.2026 05:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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