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I think this is inevitable, dunno whether this in fact orives it’s happening.
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The dark message behind Tucker Carlson's attempt to drum up drama in Israel A political stunt shows the country has a problem brewing stateside

And speaking of knowing the difference between the two...
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How Jesse Jackson changed his mind about Jews — and what Abe Foxman made of it The late civil rights leader 'was the guy who couldn't pass the synagogue without going in,' the longtime ADL director said in a new interview with the Forward

And maybe some people should learn to do a better job recognizing who's their enemy and who isn't.
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The Jesse Jackson I knew didn't just repent toward Jews — he became a hero for us I knew the late reverend for decades, and saw firsthand his willingness to change, grow and reach across the divide

Jackson.
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YouTube video by Classic Hits Studio The Platters - The Great Pretender (1959) 4K

Some music for a change...
A classic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBj2...

IT'S NOT THAT FUNNY, IS IT??
VIA www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...

Americans bewildered as release of Epstein Files leads to resignations and criminal investigations in democracies around the world.

Just one of the exceptional leaders with which we have been blessed Republican Jesus' beloved agent, the pedo POTUS.
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How a functioning democracy does it - Lawyers, Guns & Money The attempted coup happened barely over a year ago: Yoon Suk Yeol, the impeached president of South Korea, was found guilty of insurrection and sentenced to life in prison on Thursday over his failed ...

And Biden, facing a criminal ex-POTUS proven unfit for office on anti-democratic and national security grounds, dragged his feet and mostly stayed silent.
And here we are.
Keep defending him libs.
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/02/how-...

ICE Scum - Lawyers, Guns & Money This is the kind of bullshit that fascist governments do: It’s been almost a week since the federal government announced that officials planned to “draw down” the number of federal agents in Minnesota...

A battle fought to a draw, seen by libs as a huge victory.
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/02/ice-...

As someone who never wears women's clothes, I've been amazed over the years how it inefficient it is compared to men's. I attribute it to too few women designing and deciding but it may be aspects of sexism at work.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯, but this does not surprise.
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Tesla’s Austin Robotaxis Report 14 Crashes in First Eight Months Tesla Inc.’s robotaxis have been involved in over a dozen crashes in Austin since service began, according to reports the carmaker has made to regulators.

Not too surprising…
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Workers’ resolve drives increase in unionization in 2025 In 2025, 16.5 million workers in the United States were represented by a union—an increase of 463,000 from 2024 and the highest number of unionized workers in the U.S. in 16 years. These 16.5 million ...

Looks like a little good news!
www.epi.org/publication/...

The Myth of the West: Democracy and the State 'Democratic' life began millions of years ago. It died with the first city-states.

Great point.
Agreed.
The big tell in the US is that we almost never had true democracy. It’s mostly been kind of performative without issues resolved democratically. (Generally speaking.)
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Moll and the Indian Slave Trade in Colonial America Be sure to subscribe to the Past Lives Patreon for tons of great bonus content, including Q&As, interviews with amazing scholars, and much more.

History lesson!
See how we’re exceptional!
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Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Sophie Scholl and the White Rose movement, while less known to Americans, is a powerful example of youthful resistance to the Nazi Regime.

Committment to resistance.
www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles...

Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs Ring's CEO told staff the feature is “first for finding dogs,” indicating a plan to expand.

More on the last video doorbell company you should give business to.
www.404media.co/leaked-email...

Juan Nicolás Is Two Months Old. This Is What Happened to Him. A hospitalized infant, a deported family, and the congressional offices that heard from their constituents on February 17 and the ones that didn’t.

In case you missed this…
Calling all the prople behind this scum Is maybe being too kind to them.
www.the50501movement.org/p/juan-nicol...

Maryland, New Mexico Become Latest Blue States to Ban Local Contracts with ICE - Bolts Governors Lujan Grisham and Moore signed laws barring local sheriffs and police from partnering with ICE’s 287(g) program, joining a string of eight states with similar prohibitions.

Can’t wait to see how this all plays out…
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A contrary opinion here, so FWIW.
www.eschatonblog.com/2026/02/his-...
That said, Randy Andy has let’s say been believed to have engaged in misconduct in public office for over forty years now.
So much smoke…

You Got Your Multipolar World. Now What? For years Putin has demanded a new global order. Now he has to live in one.

Interesting, important.
hegemon.substack.com/p/you-got-yo...

America’s True Exceptionalism: A Culture of Impunity What Accountability Looks Like The overnight news brings fresh evidence that America...

One huge way we’re exceptionall: Our refusal to hold the high and mighty accountable under the law.
Instead, we elect them POTUS.
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For sure, it’s very deeply hardwired.
It’s just that likes to expect better from educated thinking animals—and one is wrong to think that.
Obviously.

One of society’s biggest failings is the belief that great success and wealth is proof of such a person being a superior being outside of having atypical ambition and luck and such narrow expertise as they have.
A leadership class ours that’s OK with all Trump and his party is doing is not superior.

On the Epstein Files and Oligarchs with Room Temperature IQs One of my ongoing frustrations of our culture's veneration of capitalistic success is that it causes people to ascribe positive qualities to rich people that they may or may not have--intelligence and...

“That presumption of intellectual capacity and competence protects the über-rich from accountability, and allows policymakers to hold the poor to a higher standard of behavior than they do for any given billionaire.”
@espiers.bsky.social explains: www.elizabethspiers.com/on-the-epste...

It’s not the internet making people stupid, it’s outlet and platform owners making prople stupid by deliberate choices.
But this is accurate enough.
www.ianwelsh.net/pre-internet...

Canadian PM unveils ‘unprecedented’ defense plan to curb reliance on US Tensions have been high between Washington and Ottawa since Carney criticized US policy at the World Economic Forum last month

🤞 with that.
thecradle.co/articles-id/...

Ohio Newspaper Removes Writing From Reporters' Jobs, Hands It To an 'AI Rewrite Specialist' - Slashdot Cleveland.com, the digital arm of Ohio's Plain Dealer newspaper, has removed writing from the workloads of certain reporters and handed that job to what editor Chris Quinn calls an "AI rewrite special...

"Dumb and Dumber; a History of the US in the 21st Century"
The necessary history that isn't coming.
But if it was, maybe this would be referenced.
news.slashdot.org/story/26/02/...

‘Keep Hope Alive’: Remembering Rev. Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Icon Who Twice Ran for President In the 1960s, Jackson worked closely with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Jackson was with King when King was assassinated in Memphis on April 4th, 1968,…

Jackson.
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As Trump Marches US Toward Iran War, Critics Ask: Where’s the ‘Pushback’ From Dems and Media? By Stephen Prager for Common Dreams Amid reports that President Donald Trump is pushing the US toward a “massive” war in Iran, critics have found themselves shocked by the lack of “pushba…

If the comrades still don't know the answer...
Eh, their failure to know is the reason they've failed to get any significant change and has instead been losing for decades.
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