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Dr. Matthew Pate

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“Avenging Sword of Taste & Decency” Criminologist, Author, Unapologetic Supporter of Democracy. Animal lover. If you reflexively hate the police, keep scrolling. I plant zinnias as an act of rebellion. #Resistance

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Seems like Epstein alumni all over the world are turning up dead except for the US. Why is that? Privilege too protected or just zero shame?

04.03.2026 05:33 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Hallie Shoffner wins Arkansas Democratic Primary for US Senate Sixth-generation farmer Hallie Shoffner has won the 2026 Arkansas Democratic Primary for US Senate.

Yes! Hallie Shoffner won the Arkansas Democratic primary for the US Senate!

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I have hope that old MAGAt Tom Cotton will be kicking rocks soon, never to be seen nor heard from again.

#ProudBlue #ArkansasBlueDot #HallieShoffner #TomCotton

www.4029tv.com/article/hall...

04.03.2026 02:57 — 👍 420    🔁 139    💬 9    📌 5

Imagine the food we could grow if we weren’t putting high fructose corn syrup or seed oils in everything. Imagine the environmental benefits of eating only half as much meat. The modern appetite was thrust upon you in ways you can’t imagine.

04.03.2026 05:28 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Having spent half my life in law enforcement, I endorse this sentiment. In fact, I’ve said something similar in the past.

04.03.2026 04:44 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dan is a very learned fellow who has the gift of clear explanations. This one is worth your time.

04.03.2026 01:15 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Elect more Republicans and it won’t take that long.

03.03.2026 05:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The funding for these ad hoc wars should be counted against any future military budgets. Buy now, pay later.

03.03.2026 02:47 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Imagine being able to thumb our collective nose at the Middle East and their fossil fuels. By extension, imagine a domestic economy not shackled to the whims of a few oil executives. That’s the real climate crisis - a poisonous economic one.

02.03.2026 04:05 — 👍 17    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

I wish Graham would just go back to Mercer House and host exclusive-invites parties.

(Yes, I know Savannah is in GA)

02.03.2026 02:14 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

The children of the wealthy don’t go to war. They go to Wharton.

02.03.2026 02:08 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Never think for a second that he cares about anyone other than himself. As a psychopath, that part of his brain doesn’t work right. He is incapable of care beyond his own desires. That’s why raping children would have the same gravity as ordering lunch.

02.03.2026 02:06 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

I think I have a defensible bright line for political violence. If the midterms are canceled or effectively nullified, then we live in a failed state. A failed state has no moral authority to govern. The actors causing the failure are by definition extrajudicial and can claim no protection.

02.03.2026 01:24 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Whither Luigi?

02.03.2026 01:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

May Trump enjoy the same success as befell Il Duce.

02.03.2026 00:51 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

If you go, sit on the main floor. The acoustics anywhere else are poor.

01.03.2026 23:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It was an exceptionally good performance. Multiple encores.

01.03.2026 23:06 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

O Fortuna… how right you are.

01.03.2026 23:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well, Orff was unconventional.

01.03.2026 20:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A black and white interior photograph of the Robinson Center auditorium in Little Rock, Arkansas.

A black and white interior photograph of the Robinson Center auditorium in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Anxiously awaiting the Arkansans Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Orff’s Carmina Burana at Robinson Center in Little Rock.

01.03.2026 20:24 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 1
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Mysterious ‘Leaving MAGA’ support group billboards pop up cities in battleground Pennsylvania “Leaving MAGA” billboards that have popped up around central Pennsylvania are urging people to ditch the movement and treating it like a disease – but it’s not clear who is paying for the PR …

Seems like a noble cause that should be replicated all over deep red states. Sow dissension Create doubt. Challenge their brainwashing.

01.03.2026 18:25 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0

Check out Frantz Fanon’s work on decolonization. The Wretched of the Earth.

01.03.2026 06:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

By every established metric, the US is becoming a fragile state. We are governed by a cabal of amateurs, cowards, and the greedy. The core goods of state are slipping away.

01.03.2026 01:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m often asked when I think violence against corruption is permissible. As a general principle, the rational part of me says never. We are not, however, in a rational public moment.
I would normally draw a line at journalists being jailed, but monopolies are doing that work.
The hour approaches.

01.03.2026 01:39 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0

Having spent a minute or two around “information” this galls me. These unserious amateurs have just thrown out every basic operational security directive, let alone ICD 705. This is an effing clown car with nuclear weapons.

01.03.2026 00:35 — 👍 61    🔁 29    💬 5    📌 1
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Richard Eyre: ‘My biggest disappointment? At university in the 60s, I thought social justice was going to improve’ The director on his wife’s illness, the worst thing anyone’s said about him and the age he imagines himself to be

Richard Eyre: ‘My biggest disappointment? At university in the 60s, I thought social justice was going to improve’

28.02.2026 14:43 — 👍 124    🔁 10    💬 6    📌 2

Marc Cuban recently suggested that the US doesn’t need health insurance companies by asserting that absent them, “people could just pay cash because that would be cheaper.” Even when they get it, they don’t. #LetThemEatCake

28.02.2026 19:30 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I hadn’t considered that, but point taken. Notify the ASPCA.

28.02.2026 02:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

There’s nothing wrong with Oz that couldn’t be resolved by a pit filled with cobras.

28.02.2026 01:37 — 👍 17    🔁 5    💬 7    📌 1
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Exclusive: Read the draft executive emergency order for Trump to take control of elections Lawyers and legal experts explicitly said that such an order is blatantly unconstitutional.

🚨BREAKING: Democracy Docket has obtained a draft of the executive order being circulated with the White House that would allow Trump to take unprecedented control over voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

27.02.2026 19:53 — 👍 3018    🔁 1646    💬 260    📌 190

We won’t teach you to read, feed you, or give you healthcare but we’ll get you a great job making stuff to kill people.

28.02.2026 01:20 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0