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Prosecute everyone involved in this criminal enterprise.

15.02.2026 04:23 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Are you familiar with the shadow run dragon fall dog achievement?

There’s an achievement if you’re mean to the dog in your HQ and the number of people who get the achievement is staggeringly low. Like they put the achievement in to track who doesn’t pet the nice dog.

15.02.2026 04:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Fuck.

15.02.2026 03:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s normal mardi grad float attire.

15.02.2026 03:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

lol I figured. That is a gutting one for Carolina.

15.02.2026 03:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

USL Analytics has 1300 followers and all of us are deeply troubled people.

Or is that not what you meant?

15.02.2026 02:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Also we need to expand the House of Representatives

14.02.2026 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

The constitution was written by people who almost certainly assumed that if you were eligible to vote you could get to know your representative personally.

The US population in 1800 would only get 7 representatives today.

14.02.2026 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Generally speaking I think the framers can fuck off but I do think they’d be shocked by the idea of 700k people in a house district.

A number of elections to the first Congress were by list, at-large so don’t compare well but the biggest vote total a single candidate got was 5819.

14.02.2026 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said β€œwe went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

14.02.2026 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 6531    πŸ” 2249    πŸ’¬ 54    πŸ“Œ 68
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Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

14.02.2026 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 22291    πŸ” 7804    πŸ’¬ 556    πŸ“Œ 1298

My account is primarily brass bands now.

14.02.2026 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I combined the u and the g lmao.

14.02.2026 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWe got a relatively light deal with the administration and all it cost us was eternal burning hatred from 85% of our alumni forever.”

14.02.2026 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Another fat fucking L for the northwestern administration.

14.02.2026 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

70 mph on city streets. There is absolutely no mistake here.

14.02.2026 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 83    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I am like 95% certain the people saying it’s a Britishism for β€œI don’t believe you,” are right, making it rude, not insane.

14.02.2026 03:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

She suggested coffee and breakfast on NYE, recognizing that I’d want to catch the bama playoff game at noon. We got back together in the afternoon, got dinner, canceled our evening plans and watched jeopardy together.

14.02.2026 03:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m just being silly I cannot complain about the rate the books are coming out.

14.02.2026 02:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I mean this is just the "should we hug the flag or not?" argument again. "Restore the international rules-based order but without the hypocrisy" is the same thing as a new order, just framed differently.

13.02.2026 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 264    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 2

It’s rude I agree

14.02.2026 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Mine’s worse

13.02.2026 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is some of my worst work yet

13.02.2026 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No, but I can make it look very stupid if you’d find that funny

13.02.2026 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I just finished reading the Chernow Grant biography and was interested to learn that a lot of Grant’s strategy in 1865 both militarily and in terms of amnesty, was aimed at avoiding a 50k-man guerrilla force disappearing into the Appalachians.

13.02.2026 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I assume he picked up the key lesson which is β€œthe only thing Robespierre did wrong was turning on Danton”?

13.02.2026 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t even know what you do about the set piece they scored. Sometimes shit falls where your guy isn’t.

12.02.2026 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t have to tilt at them if they never get built

12.02.2026 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's crazy how so many people have forgotten the politics of immigration reform during the Obama administration. He did ramp up deportations. It was part of an overall policy aimed at major, immigrant-friendly reforms. It *almost* worked, too.

12.02.2026 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 138    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Update? It’s been 15.

12.02.2026 00:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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