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WGA screenwriter, martial artist. 8th Dan Black Belt in Hawaiian Kenpo, 3rd Dan Black Belt in Tae Kwan Do. D&D and TTRPG. No longer on strike… for now

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Somebody actually sat down and wrote these two sentences, one after another. www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

02.10.2025 16:03 — 👍 820    🔁 278    💬 38    📌 26
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Walz: This is North Korea style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening.

It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president

19.09.2025 00:39 — 👍 37619    🔁 10296    💬 828    📌 426

Pay attention y’all. Sinclair is really trouble.

18.09.2025 02:22 — 👍 1467    🔁 528    💬 53    📌 8
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www.wired.com/story/brenda...

19.09.2025 02:38 — 👍 3751    🔁 1278    💬 222    📌 58
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Extremist Groups Hated Charlie Kirk. They’re Using His Death to Radicalize Others The Oath Keepers are apparently restarting, and extremist groups like the Proud Boys are calling for “state violence” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death.

www.wired.com/story/extrem...

13.09.2025 04:52 — 👍 694    🔁 280    💬 30    📌 12

The number of people fired or suspended for speaking the truth about Charlie Kirk must serve as a reminder none of the far right are free speech advocates, they just want no limits on what they say.

12.09.2025 22:25 — 👍 3994    🔁 1029    💬 74    📌 46

Far right influencers, the US government and national media all colluded with malice to cook a story that would target all trans people with violence before any facts were available that could contradict.

You can’t call this tin foil hat thinking either b/c we all watched it happen in real time.

13.09.2025 05:52 — 👍 741    🔁 237    💬 6    📌 1
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Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."

25.08.2025 16:24 — 👍 48022    🔁 12004    💬 1303    📌 1069
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Asked if he'd vote for Chuck Schumer to remain Democratic Leader, Graham Palmer replies: "No."

"We need leaders that have vision and, frankly, the ability to fight. The things that I've seen recently don't show me a Democratic leadership that has that."

25.08.2025 22:41 — 👍 1816    🔁 220    💬 46    📌 27

The #1 domestic terror threat in America is right-wing terrorism and white supremacist violence. They echo the conspiracies that have been mainstreamed by Trump, MAGA and right-wing media.

No accountability. No scrutiny.

They just keep doing it because it fuels their agenda and brings in $$$.

09.08.2025 05:07 — 👍 1282    🔁 428    💬 42    📌 11

Next week, Trump meets Putin in Alaska to talk about Ukraine—without Zelenskyy.

He’s always worked against Ukraine—this is no exception.

Meanwhile, an anti-vax gunman terrorized Emory University and the CDC before killing a cop.

This is the cost of letting the far-right run America.

09.08.2025 03:52 — 👍 737    🔁 201    💬 23    📌 7
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#ICE Agents Tear Down Cameras And Break Doors And Windows At Restaurant in Burbank

Only criminals would need to do this. They know they're breaking the law, and they're destroying anything that can give evidence.

#Nuremburg style trials can't come fast enough.

08.08.2025 20:18 — 👍 8519    🔁 3780    💬 557    📌 277
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People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it!
8/8/25

09.08.2025 00:33 — 👍 21693    🔁 10570    💬 748    📌 654
Forms of Resistance and Reasons to Believe It’s Working | Explainer
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson Forms of Resistance and Reasons to Believe It’s Working | Explainer

WHEN HEATHER COX RICHARDSON SPEAKS, LISTEN

Out of the gate, why is ICE offering enormous signing bonuses and paying-off student loans to get people to work for them? Because no one (but the worst of humanity) wants to work for them.

A quick pick-me-up (10 mins):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=263F...

09.08.2025 05:18 — 👍 14    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA

 

WASHINGTON, DC—AUGUST 5, 2025—The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), including the cancellation and de-scoping of various contracts and solicitations. The decision follows a comprehensive review of mRNA-related investments initiated during the COVID-19 public health emergency.

 

“We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted,” said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “BARDA is terminating 22 mRNA vaccine development investments because the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu. We’re shifting that funding toward safer, broader vaccine platforms that remain effective even as viruses mutate.”

HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA WASHINGTON, DC—AUGUST 5, 2025—The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), including the cancellation and de-scoping of various contracts and solicitations. The decision follows a comprehensive review of mRNA-related investments initiated during the COVID-19 public health emergency. “We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted,” said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “BARDA is terminating 22 mRNA vaccine development investments because the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu. We’re shifting that funding toward safer, broader vaccine platforms that remain effective even as viruses mutate.”

Release from HHS: HHS will wind down its development of the mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).

05.08.2025 22:04 — 👍 735    🔁 269    💬 113    📌 229

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

05.08.2025 22:54 — 👍 18191    🔁 6789    💬 553    📌 285
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Senate Democrats’ Abandonment of Adeel Mangi Made Emil Bove’s Confirmation Possible Senate Democrats could have confirmed Biden nominee Adeel Mangi to the Third Circuit last year. They caved to a disgraceful right-wing smear campaign instead.

ballsandstrikes.org/nominations/...

30.07.2025 05:12 — 👍 224    🔁 50    💬 16    📌 9
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Skydance-Paramount Merger Clears FCC At Last, With Deal Set To Close And Changes Coming The FCC finally signed off on the merger of Skydance Media and Paramount Global, a transaction that will reshape the media landscape.

The bribes worked!
deadline.com/2025/07/skyd...

24.07.2025 23:25 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Governor Gavin Newsom’s Press Office just called Trump “Swollen Ankles” and hit him hard on the flights he took with Jeffrey Epstein

23.07.2025 02:37 — 👍 94    🔁 16    💬 3    📌 0

Idiot

24.07.2025 22:02 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Hakeem Jeffries: “Let’s be clear about the situation. Jeffrey Epstein was a friend of Trump. Why do we think President Joe Biden or President Barack Obama's names are being invoked? Because Donald Trump is running scared. What are they hiding from the American people? Release the files.”

21.07.2025 18:37 — 👍 157    🔁 27    💬 4    📌 0
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This has to be the weakest attempt to distract the American public from the Epstein files —

20.07.2025 19:56 — 👍 202    🔁 20    💬 24    📌 7
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Just another random coincidence, surely...

The man who introduced Trump to Melania

Paolo Zampolli, served on the board of TerraMar Project, “nonprofit” founded by Ghislaine Maxwell…

Zampolli now holds a U.S. diplomatic role under Trump.
“U.S. Special Representative for Global Partnerships”

24.07.2025 18:50 — 👍 12    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0
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Independents Drive Trump's Approval to 37% Second-Term Low President Donald Trump's job approval rating has fallen to 37%, the lowest of his second term as a result of a decrease among independents.

Trump's cratering in polls continues. Crushing new Gallup numbers:

Overall approval: 37%
On immigration: 38%
On economy: 37%
On trade: 36:
Federal budget: 29%

Overall approval among independents: 29%

news.gallup.com/poll/692879/...

24.07.2025 18:09 — 👍 3951    🔁 1384    💬 317    📌 247

If you’re feeling uneasy, it’s probably because we now know we live in a country built on the blackmail of a dead pedophile who is Too Big to Fail, so Congress has to go home for a couple of months to figure out how talk about it without defenestrating the president and collapsing the economy.

24.07.2025 14:59 — 👍 7626    🔁 1799    💬 130    📌 66

Whatever money Putin has stashed around the world needs to be hunted down and given directly to Ukraine.

23.07.2025 05:29 — 👍 223    🔁 34    💬 11    📌 0

this is what i’m saying

unless you’re rich enough to pay for everything out of pocket forever, you’re working class

a lot of the “wealthy” professions have more in common with a bus driver or a cashier or a schoolteacher than not

23.07.2025 03:30 — 👍 678    🔁 172    💬 9    📌 5
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He’s going to try to brainwash his way out of this, deflecting from Epstein to Obama.

Not this time. Nobody but the drunkest on the kool-aid are buying this one.

23.07.2025 00:38 — 👍 16625    🔁 4430    💬 1773    📌 462

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