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US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:

"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text.

Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.

eating lunch on pedophile island with my family but shaking my head so the children know i don't approve of the rape or lunch options

[frantically raising hand] ooh, ooh. I know. Because Americans have a constitutional right to vote but don't have a right to open a bank account or drive a car.

This is the correct energy

MAGA: furious that happiness can be expressed in Spanish but a-okay with child raping.

Next Superbowl halftime should include a recreation of the confederate surrender at Appomattox while Jefferson Davis flees the scene dressed as an old lady.

The fact that Bad Bunny's halftime show made white bigots angry and feel excluded is A GOOD THING. It's one of the best things about it. It's not a problem to solve. It's a solution to pursue. Bigots *should* feel excluded. We should find *more* ways to celebrate the reality of USian diversity.

Hating the Game The cooperation game, the murder game, and acting in good faith with people you know are acting in bad faith.

The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...

imagine the drop in gun crime if we adopted biathlon rules and made everyone run a lap before taking a shot

James Baldwin understood what truth requires.
Writer. Essayist. A voice that confronted power and named the danger plainly.

Black History. Always. 🖤

#SheShed #Voices4Victory

The Newsom stans can take their brilliantined lizard and shove him right up their own fundaments.

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

I wanna personally congratulate Hunter Biden for not only being nowhere near the Epstein files but for having rock-solid reviews from sex workers for respectfulness and tipping

Oh look, exactly what we said was going to happen when Schumer caved on the shutdown

Everybody has it backwards.

Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies.

They’re creating a world they control completely

Riffing off Brendan's method of juxtaposition in this awesome report, I'd like to offer another comparison:

Food assistance cuts versus new funding for DHS in the "Big Beautiful Bill"

Republicans cut food assistance by $187 billion while providing $191 billion in funding for DHS

im building machines that i keep saying will both throw you out of work and allow masked special police forces in service to a lunatic i bought and paid for to recognize your face and check if i agree with your beliefs. im part of a pedophile ring that put this into motion. why are you rude to me

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50

Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

You can tell that its little feet would wobble around when you used it

"Sorry, I didn't know we were doing gifts..."

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Periodic reminder that the judiciary is doing good work when they're given the opportunity. Outside of SCOTUS fuckery, judges all over have been slapping this shit down like whac a mole

It's pretty amazing to me the amount of shit that apparently you can Just Do as an NYC mayor. It makes basically every other American politician look like an incompetent loser.

What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

alarmism quote

From an interview in the paperback version of my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, published in 2020. On alarmism:

I am worried but that doesn't paralyze me. It makes me more determined to fight for free and fair elections.⚖️🗳

If you don't like being in crowded theaters, today is your lucky day.

I would like to read a novel where a wealthy person owns an island, and is kind and good-hearted, and flies people there so that they can work together to make things that will help humanity, and many people write letters to the wealthy person and they write back & have long & fascinating exchanges.

Qanon I presume was trying to cover up abuse the way abusers always do, by accusing others (who may in some cases also be guilty) of that which they know they are guilty. Trump was already pretty clearly a serial rapist by 2016 when Qanon was championing him. They knew what they were doing.

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