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Normalize apologizing for fuckups. Just in general.

When Fox can't ignore it, you know it's bad.

Yet the NYT does such a good job caving and rolling over to the autocrat and his band of inept, circle-jerking cronies. Stop telling others how to fight and do some of that fighting yourselves, you gutless cowards! You’re the fourth estate, for Christ’s sake!

Trump says he’s designating Antifa as a terrorist organization | CNN Politics President Donald Trump said he is designating the far-left anti-fascism movement Antifa as a terrorist organization, announcing the move on his Truth Social platform in the early hours of Thursday mor...

Trump just designated “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, on par with ISIS and Al Qaeda. As a reminder, “antifa” is short for “antifascist”.

They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left.

This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up.

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Nemik’s Manifesto from Star Wars: Andor — There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try.

#ihavefriendseverywhere #fucktheempire

Meanwhile, "many in Maga-land are working very hard to capitalize on the murder of Charlie Kirk" On Monday, JD Vance, who once called Trump "America's Hitler", , hosted Kirk's podcast from the White House and blamed the left, without evidence. Said Vance: "While our side of the aisle certainly has its crazies, it is a statistical fact that most of the lunatics in American politics today are proud members of the far left." "And by 'statistical fact', ' he means 'complete bullshit'" Kimmel corrected. In fact, the Department of Justice removed from its website a study finding that violence from far-right groups is the greatest source of domestic terror and extremist violence in the US. "Here's a question JD Vance might be able to answer: who wanted to hang the guy who was vice president before you?" Kimmel said. "Was that the liberal left? Or the toothless army who stormed the Capitol on January 6." "The president and his henchmen are doing their best to tan the flames, so they can I guess attack people on the dangerous left," Kimmel added, noting the incongruence with the right's former vision of so-called "snowflake" liberals. "Which is it?" he wondered. "Are they a bunch of sissy pickleball players because they're too scared to get hit by tennis balls? Or are they a well-organized army of commandos? Because they can't be both."

This is all he said?! This is why ABC (in response to threats from Trump's FCC) is taking Kimmel off the air?!

Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way

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I don’t think I trust Boeing with a paper airplane, much less the F-47. And all of the aerospace companies will just have it in system engineer process death that it’ll be a marginal jack of all trades and a master of fuck all like the F-35.

The moon is in near total eclipse in a clear sky, with the bottom half red and becoming more grey as closer to the top, with the sunlight reflecting brightly off of the top edge.

The moon is in total eclipse in a clear sky, with the moon mostly red with a hint of grey closer to the top, with the sunlight reflecting brightly off of the very top edge.

Last night’s celestial show. The moon, sun, and Earth all gave lovely performances that complemented each other, and the results were magnificent

March 12, 2025 Trump’s 25% tariffs on all aluminum and steel imported into the U.S.

March 12, 2025:

Emotional Support Cats. I know you need them.

Overheard: The Tesla Chainsaw Massacre.

Mark Kelly has done more for this country and its people than fElon Fuck could ever achieve. The only traitors in this. country are the red-hatted cultists and the illegal occupants of the government they worship.

Mark Kelly does us proud. Maybe learn from his examples.

Musk calls Sen. Kelly a 'traitor' over trip to Ukraine, Kelly hits back Elon Musk called Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly a "traitor" in a post on X after Kelly posted that he had visited Ukraine over the weekend.

Defending freedom is a basic tenet of what makes America great and keeps us safe. If Elon doesn't understand that, maybe he should leave it to those of us who do.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi An ambitious, daring, nuanced, flawed Star Wars epic about history and nostalgia from writer/director Rian Johnson

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First review from Zoo’z Reviews, and I don’t hold back. Here’s to the start of something special!

At a London bus stop. The Brits are telling it like it is.

A harlequin cat laying and a muddled calico cat sitting in the diffused morning light, both on an orange comforter on the bed, gazing left while being in the right third of the frame

Harlequin cat captured mid-yawn with eyes open, looking like she’s screaming, laying on the bed. Muddled calico cat sitting behind her on the bed, gazing left, both on top of an orange comforter and in the right third of the frame

Which one is the album cover? And what is the title?

I was the exact same way! I didn’t like Tomorrow Never Dies because I didn’t buy the premise at all. The rise of Fox News and the GOP’s crash into hell made me rethink that movie and realize it was ahead of its time — Jonathan Pryce played a great Murdoch analogue

ME is great. ME2 is a masterpiece. ME3 is a near-masterpiece (ending controversy aside, there’s a moment toward the end that was the most moving moment in the entire series and one of the most moving moments I’ve witnessed in all of gaming).

We really need to get to the high ground

This is my new mantra.

I agree with this assessment, but it begs the question — how do you change the salesmanship approach to combat the currently successful one that is rooted in decades of a misinformation machine feeding lies little by little and glamorizing the lie until the public couldn’t recognize the truth?

Quincy Station in the Chicago Loop, facing southbound and under the canopy. A thin layer of snow covers the tracks, and a grey haze fills the background.

Quincy Station in the Chicago Loop, facing southbound and under the canopy. A thin layer of snow covers the tracks, and a grey haze fills the background. B/W photo

Quincy Station in the Chicago Loop, facing southbound and free of the canopy. A thin layer of snow covers the tracks, and a grey haze fills the background.

Quincy Station in the Chicago Loop, facing southbound and free of the canopy. A thin layer of snow covers the tracks, and a grey haze fills the background. B/W photo.

Loop in the Snow, 1/10/2025, Quincy Station

They were perfectionists in the studio to an absolute fault. I still hold Aja as one of the most overrated albums in rock (tied with Synchronicity by The Police), but the playing was always top-notch. And they always had the cream of the crop for studio players

Guitar solo of the day — “Kid Charlemagne” by Steely Dan. Larry Carlton created what is the best moment in the entire Royal Scam album and arguably the entire Steely Dan catalogue. You can hate on the band all you want, but that solo is 🔥🔥🔥

I think it best to start with this important message:

HELLO WORLD!