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Former: reporter, university PR, massage therapist, unschooling parent, suburban homesteader, CFS sufferer. Current: enjoying early retirement and unraveling layers of conditioning, & being stunned by this ever unfolding Now.

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Nick Anderson, Tribune Content Agency

22.10.2025 13:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Still people holding onto these very mid books. Ya your childhood & some shit but there's a million great books to read now and replace anything tied to supporting a nasty transphobic asshat like rowling with better characters and story, get the fuck over it and stop crying about its from childhood

22.10.2025 13:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Stop saying โ€œrenovation.โ€

Better words:
Desecration
Violation
Demolition
Destruction
Retribution
Vanity-wrecking-ball

22.10.2025 13:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 248    ๐Ÿ” 65    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party Why Iโ€™m leaving the GOP and why Iโ€™m urging my former colleagues to do the same.

#USDemocracy #Pinks

Ex-GOP Miles Bruner details how he
โ€ข worked for the GOP,
โ€ข found Trump too extreme,
โ€ข feared leaving,
โ€ข quit, and now
โ€ข urges others to quit.

Milesโ€™ message might resonate with those who consider leaving the GOP:

22.10.2025 04:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 585    ๐Ÿ” 226    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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NHS warning to 'ring 111' if Covid symptom lasts longer than five days

The NHS has updated its advice on when to seek medical help if you have Covid symptoms. It's important to be aware of the signs that you might need to see a professional

By Fiona Callingham Lifestyle writer
13:14, 21 Oct 2025

NHS warning to 'ring 111' if Covid symptom lasts longer than five days The NHS has updated its advice on when to seek medical help if you have Covid symptoms. It's important to be aware of the signs that you might need to see a professional By Fiona Callingham Lifestyle writer 13:14, 21 Oct 2025

UK: NHS warning to 'ring 111' if Covid symptom lasts longer than 5 days.

"The NHS has updated its advice on when to seek medical help if you have Covid symptoms. It's important to be aware of the signs that you might need to see a professional"

Source: archive.li/HuV8A

22.10.2025 05:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 63    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Three photos of Patriot Front member Nathaniel Ellis

Three photos of Patriot Front member Nathaniel Ellis

NEW: CU Boulder sophomore Nathaniel Ellis has been identified as a member of the white supremacist groups Patriot Front and Active Club.

Nathan is on the Executive Board for CU Boulder's Turning Point USA Chapter.

Read the full report: frontrangeantifa.noblogs.org/nathan-ellis/

22.10.2025 00:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1127    ๐Ÿ” 438    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 37    ๐Ÿ“Œ 111

Hoo boy.

21.10.2025 20:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 186    ๐Ÿ” 61    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

This is an important detail in the story about Platner. Great admiration for Genevieve McDonald for standing up for whatโ€™s right.

22.10.2025 01:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 34    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Hereโ€™s How We Did It. Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.

Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans.

(Published July)
By @andreasuozzo.com, Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser

22.10.2025 01:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 977    ๐Ÿ” 496    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 25    ๐Ÿ“Œ 22
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Ingrassia withdraws nomination after racist texts The 30-year-old lawyer nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel was slated to appear before senators on Thursday. His move comes after POLITICO reported comments he made in a text chat.

BREAKING: Paul Ingrassia withdraws nomination after racist texts surface. But he's still a White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security on a taxpayer-funded salary. He should be removed from all govt service immediately as unfit & unhinged.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

22.10.2025 00:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 44    ๐Ÿ” 18    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
D.A.A.G. Kambli: 	So, Your Honor, as one example: The privacy interest. That affects, um, how -- 
Judge Christen:	Has it been a problem? 
D.A.A.G. Kambli: 	I canโ€™t say thereโ€™s anything in the record with these individual plaintiffs. 
Judge Christen:	Me either; I canโ€™t find it. I have a related question. At oral argument in front of the district court, the government responded โ€ฆ there was no evidence associating transgender people with a lack of honesty or humility. โ€ฆ Is there any evidence associating transgender service members with a lack of integrity?
D.A.A.G. Kambli: 	So, Your Honor, thereโ€™s no evidence in the record of that.
Judge Christen:	Okay. Iโ€™m going to ask the other four traits. Iโ€™m not trying to be pedantic, but I want to make sure Iโ€™m not missing anything because there are a lot of different studies. โ€ฆ Lack of selflessness?
D.A.A.G. Kambli: 	So, Your Honor, thereโ€™s no evidence in the record on that.
Judge Christen:	Honor?
D.A.A.G. Kambli: 	Thereโ€™s no evidence in the record on that
Judge Christen:	Truth?
D.A.A.G. Kambli: 	The same answer. 
Judge Christen:	And the same answer for lack of discipline? 	
D.A.A.G. Kambli:	The same answer for that.

D.A.A.G. Kambli: So, Your Honor, as one example: The privacy interest. That affects, um, how -- Judge Christen: Has it been a problem? D.A.A.G. Kambli: I canโ€™t say thereโ€™s anything in the record with these individual plaintiffs. Judge Christen: Me either; I canโ€™t find it. I have a related question. At oral argument in front of the district court, the government responded โ€ฆ there was no evidence associating transgender people with a lack of honesty or humility. โ€ฆ Is there any evidence associating transgender service members with a lack of integrity? D.A.A.G. Kambli: So, Your Honor, thereโ€™s no evidence in the record of that. Judge Christen: Okay. Iโ€™m going to ask the other four traits. Iโ€™m not trying to be pedantic, but I want to make sure Iโ€™m not missing anything because there are a lot of different studies. โ€ฆ Lack of selflessness? D.A.A.G. Kambli: So, Your Honor, thereโ€™s no evidence in the record on that. Judge Christen: Honor? D.A.A.G. Kambli: Thereโ€™s no evidence in the record on that Judge Christen: Truth? D.A.A.G. Kambli: The same answer. Judge Christen: And the same answer for lack of discipline? D.A.A.G. Kambli: The same answer for that.

Yesterday in Shilling v. Trump (the 9th Circuit case about the military transgender ban), the government admitted that it has found no evidence to support any of the "traits" that the Secretary of Defense attributed to transgender servicemembers.

21.10.2025 20:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 276    ๐Ÿ” 114    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

what the fuck, I was just in Syracuse, how do you spend that much? I was even going to steakhouses and seafood places.

21.10.2025 13:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 61    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

21.10.2025 15:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13970    ๐Ÿ” 4826    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 270    ๐Ÿ“Œ 424

"Because itโ€™s well within my control to limit harm to others simply by masking in public, Iโ€™d be ashamed not to."

21.10.2025 01:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Lindsey Halligan has a broadcast journalism degree from Regis University in Denver. I am confident they covered how "off the record" works.

21.10.2025 02:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1381    ๐Ÿ” 268    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 53    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14

2nd time they did this.

21.10.2025 04:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 538    ๐Ÿ” 90    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 22    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

If ANYONE ELSE ON THE PLANET did to our White House what Donald Trump just did to our White House, Republicans would be losing their motherfucking minds.

21.10.2025 02:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4002    ๐Ÿ” 740    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 203    ๐Ÿ“Œ 39

No. 19: Days of Rage by Bryan Burrough. Iโ€™m not yet a dad, but I want to propose a new type of dad to add to the pantheon of Civil War and World War II dads: the mid-century politics dad. The more histories of the 50s-70s Iโ€™ve read, the more convinced I am that understanding what went right and what

21.10.2025 03:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
1/3

21.10.2025 00:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1915    ๐Ÿ” 1477    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 126    ๐Ÿ“Œ 265

8/ If Halligan wasn't validly appointed, then everything she's done has been ultra vires and void ab initio. That means the stuff she's done gets unwound.

Halligan was the only lawyer willing to sign the James Comey and Letitia James indictments. As far as we can tell, she & only she secured them.

20.10.2025 20:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 482    ๐Ÿ” 77    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
ORDER NO 6402-2025 AUTHORIZING LINDSEY HALLIGAN TO BE THE INTERIM UNITED STATES ATTORNEY FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA DURING THE VACANCY IN THAT OFFICE

pursuant to 28 USC Section 546

ORDER NO 6402-2025 AUTHORIZING LINDSEY HALLIGAN TO BE THE INTERIM UNITED STATES ATTORNEY FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA DURING THE VACANCY IN THAT OFFICE pursuant to 28 USC Section 546

1/ Thanks to Comey's lawyers, we have the appointment order for Lindsey Halligan in EDVa that the gov't has been trying to hide for weeks.

I think it means Halligan is not long for this job & the Comey and Tish James indictments not long for this world.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

20.10.2025 20:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2579    ๐Ÿ” 744    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 49    ๐Ÿ“Œ 46
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This is what Trump is currently doing to the White House East Wing. Look at the broken and unusable windows destroyed and just hanging off their hinges. no attempt to save anything for re-use or history. Such respect for the People's house, eh?

20.10.2025 20:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 215    ๐Ÿ” 88    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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Californians have until midnight to register to vote in Nov. 4 special electionย  Californians have until midnight tonight to register to vote in the statewide special election on Nov. 4. Gov. Gavin Newsom in August signed a bill calling for a Nov. 4 special election that will lโ€ฆ

Californians have until midnight to register to vote in Nov. 4 special election

20.10.2025 23:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 37    ๐Ÿ” 32    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

"sir a second Nazi groupchat infodump has hit Politico"

20.10.2025 21:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2180    ๐Ÿ” 589    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 35    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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America As No-Longer-Democracy and Not-Yet-Dictatorship Where does the country stand after the largest day of protest in U.S. history? Putting โ€œNo Kingsโ€ in perspective

One thing I try to unpack in the piece: The Trumpists launched an unhinged demonization campaign against โ€œNo Kingsโ€ โ€“ and then did nothing.

So, they didnโ€™t believe their own propaganda? Not the specifics, no. But they do believe that all protest is fundamentally illegitimate.

20.10.2025 17:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 208    ๐Ÿ” 66    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

19.10.2025 23:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26385    ๐Ÿ” 7436    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 882    ๐Ÿ“Œ 927

polls, special election victories, massive protests, I think have slowly forced elites to realize that MAGA's eternal ascendancy is very much not assured. 1

20.10.2025 04:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 69    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You really canโ€™t make this shit up.

Live ammunition detonates over I-5 and damages CHP vehicle being used for Vance security at Pendleton. This, after the VP mocked Newsomโ€™s safety concerns about live rounds being shot across the nationโ€™s busiest highway.

Havenโ€™t seen a WH reply since.

19.10.2025 22:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 535    ๐Ÿ” 167    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 22    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Yes. We were relieved for the hostages, prisoners and children of Gazaโ€ฆ

โ€ฆbut knew the genocide would continue.

19.10.2025 23:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 164    ๐Ÿ” 44    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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