Nobody Important Ever

As long as 38 is still mid-30s.

Indoctrination Nation

Opinion | What my captivity taught me about Hamas and its hateful ideology — The Washington Post My captors’ cruelty revealed an obsession with death. Lasting peace will demand more than diplomacy.

It’s about HAMAS but applies to MAGA.

“Real change will require the wholesale rejection of a culture that fetishizes death, and a reawakening of the desire to embrace and celebrate life.”

HAMAS is not Palestine.

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You voted for all of it.

All of it.

Christian therapist seeks right to counsel gay teens to change attraction — The Washington Post The Supreme Court will consider whether therapists’ free speech rights outweigh a law that bans therapy that seeks to change sexual identity. Almost 30 states have such bans.

The U.N labeled conversion therapy as torture.

Our Conservative Supreme Court may grant this woman and others like her the right to torture young kids.

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The UN calls conversion therapy 'torture.' Could the Supreme Court greenlight it anyway? — The 19th News Five years ago, the United Nations concluded that conversion therapy could amount to torture and recommended it be banned. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will consider a case that could greenlight it f...

Religious belief shouldn’t dictate scientific or legal doctrine.

“It has historically involved acts of physical, psychological and sexual abuse against minors — electric shock, masturbation reconditioning, starvation, chemically induced nausea and hypnosis, among others.”
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Trump on the shutdown: "There could be a great deal of pain."

Conservative Challenge

#debate #proovemewrong

Shakespeare in Silence

Supreme court rejects appeal from Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell – US politics live — Guardian US Justices declines to take up case that would have renewed attention on case after Trump administration faced criticism for refusing to release Epstein files

“The supreme court has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s challenge of her criminal conviction for recruiting and grooming minors, who were sexually abused by her former boyfriend and companion Jeffrey Epstein – the disgraced financier who died in a New York prison in 2019.”

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What Drives MAGA Christians' Un-Christian Actions? Experts Say It Comes Down To This. — HuffPost This framework reveals why some MAGA-aligned Christians act in ways that contradict Jesus’ teachings.

Conservatism is about Control. That’s why these ideas of Christianity fit so well within it. This has been going on since Reagan.

“Whatever the circumstances, the idea is that behaviors are only right or wrong based on what the figure in power says.”

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Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

Those could totally be names of Heavy Metal bands.

Yankees have been embarrassed by Blue Jays in ALDS. Is there any hope left? — The Athletic TORONTO — Hanging in each Yankee’s locker was a black-and-gray varsity jacket that had the player’s number on one sleeve and a Bronx Bombers patch on the other

With everything going wrong, a sweep of the Yankees by a Canadian team feels right.

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Idiocracy was unrealistic only because we got dumber quicker than the movie anticipated

The image is an X post by Mike Nellis (@MikeNellis ) from 19 hours ago, stating: "So let me get this straight: a Blackhawk helicopter and dozens of masked, armed federal agents roll up on a Chicago apartment building, cuff everyone—including kids—and then run checks for warrants and immigration status? What the hell is going on in this country? How is that not fascism?" The post includes a verified badge.

Narrator: This is fascism.

This clap-back is 🔥

“You think my self-worth is determined by your opinion of me when in reality I know for a fact that I was better than you the day I was born.”

"Your grandparents were born on third base, mine were born in the parking lot but still managed to score before you.” Holy shit!

Engineers Found Evidence of Hydraulics in an Ancient Pyramid, Solving a 4,500-Year-Old Mystery — Popular Mechanics See how Egyptian engineers might have used water to shape history’s greatest monuments.

Aliens schmaliens. Ole Occam at it again.

“Hydraulic mechanics may have indeed been the driving force behind the construction of ancient Egyptian pyramids.”

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Opinion | Why Trump’s speech to US military top brass was such a disaster — Guardian US The president of the United States seemingly does not understand what the military is for

“Trump’s syllogism perfectly encapsulated his psychology of victimhood and politics of retribution. If you do not bend the knee to him, he is personally wounded. Your failure to worship him must be punished. Your slight of his majesty condemns you to ruin.”

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Shutdown Lays Bare America’s Latest Crisis: A Total Breakdown in Trust — The Wall Street Journal Past shutdowns have been about one thing. This one feels like it is about everything.

Who will actually make this White House stick to the congressionally approved budget anyway?

“The White House has for months routinely ignored congressional appropriations, keeping government funds from flowing as directed by Congress.”

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Of course. I apologize if I came off as a smart ass.

Federal judge blocks Trump from deploying Oregon National Guard to Portland — Oregon Capital Chronicle A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from federalizing and deploying Oregon National Guard troops to Portland following a challenge from the state and the city of Portland.

“In her 30-page opinion, Immergut issued a powerful rebuke of Trump’s perception of his executive power and found he violated the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees police power within the states resides with the states.”

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Democracy Docket has a reporter in the courtroom covering the Texas redistricting hearing every single day. Meanwhile, the big legacy media is nowhere to be found.

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Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

No notes.

I think so far this is my favorite from the week 😊

From the makers that brought you Pervitin!

Federal agents hurled tear gas at people on a busy Logan Square street, outside a grocery store and near an elementary school.

Reckless, undertrained ICE hires are a danger to everyone. This is terrorism against US citizens.

America the Prisonful

Raise your hand if you knew in your bones that when the SCOTUS ruled that racial profiling is OK now,

they meant to take away basic Constitutional due process rights from Black people. 🙋🏾‍♀️