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I'm Muslim with an M.A. in the history of SWANA and East Africa. But I mostly post about lefty things and dungeons and dragons, these days.

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A new Super PAC, "Chicago Progressive Partnership," just jumped into #IL09, opposing Kat Abughazaleh. Filings show they’re using the same vendors as AIPAC.

28.02.2026 18:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2250    πŸ” 615    πŸ’¬ 84    πŸ“Œ 100
Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote:

"The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.

And our governments are very much the same."

Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote: "The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."

Once again.

28.02.2026 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4687    πŸ” 1641    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 29
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This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting.

NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...

28.02.2026 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 922    πŸ” 601    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 167

I haven't been able to eat normally all week after a dental implant and it is bumming me TF out at this point.

28.02.2026 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Autism and ADHD May Share a Hidden Brain-Gene Signature Researchers have found that the severity of autism symptoms, rather than the diagnosis itself, is linked to patterns of brain connectivity associated with genes connected to autism and ADHD.

This tracks.

scitechdaily.com?p=510940

24.02.2026 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No problem. You sent me down the rabbit hole. The least I could do was share the conclusion.

20.02.2026 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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CNN: The Supreme Court rules that President Trump’s emergency tariffs are illegal.

20.02.2026 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2942    πŸ” 667    πŸ’¬ 244    πŸ“Œ 148
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Cock - Etymology, Origin & Meaning "male of the domestic fowl," from Old English cocc "male bird," Old French coc (12c.,… See origin and meaning of cock.

Basically, onomatopoeia from the sound roosters make.

www.etymonline.com/word/cock

20.02.2026 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I remember once watching a cozy chat with Nick Fuentes and Fresh & Fit (a black manosphere podcast) where they all agreed women shouldn't vote, then Fuentes added "a lot of people shouldn't be able to vote!" And they all chuckled along. I just thought... Who do you guys think he's talking about?

20.02.2026 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 744    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.

SO GOOD! "the idea that my political ideology is synonymous with hating technology is confusing. Every leftist I know has a hard-on for high speed rail or mRNA vaccines. But the β€œleft is missing out” blog positions generative AI as the only technology that matters." -- @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social

19.02.2026 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1006    πŸ” 319    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 18

"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls

18.02.2026 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 8458    πŸ” 1823    πŸ’¬ 157    πŸ“Œ 102

Anyone picking the centrist path is a Republican. Jig is up, baby. Clinton Wing of the Dem party is done. Go that way and die. If you want to win a seat, get on the side of the good guys. Or run as a Republican.

17.02.2026 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 893    πŸ” 202    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 4

hahaha seriously though we should charge these people as child sex traffickers

20.02.2026 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 4974    πŸ” 948    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 10

A billionaire eugenicist that hangs out with Woody Allen, Bill Gates, & Noam Chomsky probably wouldn't invite a CBP officer to a fundraising dinner at his NYC property so you gotta wonder why he made friends with him at all? Seems like the kind of thing you could easily convince a jury was odd.

20.02.2026 00:16 β€” πŸ‘ 211    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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🀭🀭🀭

19.02.2026 10:59 β€” πŸ‘ 406    πŸ” 91    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 8

They talk and act exactly like Nazis in pursuit of the exact same objectives as Nazis using the exact same tactics and rationales as Nazis but it would be wrong to call them Nazis until they grow the little mustache.

15.02.2026 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2653    πŸ” 732    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 8

I think Torpor Games could make the best version of the "what if I was Alexander or a Roman emperor" game, if they added competent RTS battles to what they've already done with Suzerain.

Suzerain is by far the best example I've seen of putting someone in the position of a political decision maker.

13.02.2026 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Student loans, among other things.

13.02.2026 01:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's always so interesting to me when people partner with someone who looks just like them.

12.02.2026 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No sympathy for a team whose owners let ICE use the team jet to deport people to concentration camps.

10.02.2026 08:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1591    πŸ” 283    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 5

It's so cool how a bunch of kids realized there was a genocide in the middle east in 2023 and now suddenly every major company and government is tripping over their own dicks to turn the world into an Orwllian surveillance state so that never happens again.

09.02.2026 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 6198    πŸ” 2408    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 16

I wonder what would happen if they tried to ban alcohol in Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, etc now. You can't separate those people from their beer. It simply cannot be done.

09.02.2026 03:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I could swear I remember a muppet that looked sort of like a maroon Elmo, but his character was more grown up, and his neck was saggier. But I can't remember his name and I can't find him anywhere.

It's weird. I remember him being a main character.

06.02.2026 03:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Abolish ICE.

There’s no reforming it.

There’s no compromise.

There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

02.02.2026 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 40859    πŸ” 9144    πŸ’¬ 805    πŸ“Œ 319

If my last name was Schmidt, and I had a son, I would definitely name them John Jacob Jingleheimer.

31.01.2026 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Arresting Black journalists is also vice signaling. Their base is racist and hates journalists and they want to get them excited again. The mainstream media industry has never protected Black journalists or journalists of color the way it should.

30.01.2026 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4603    πŸ” 1391    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 28

For all the discussion of doxxing federal agents, there’s essentially no discussion of how those agents are taking steps that attach severe punitive measures that stretch across wide swaths of the federal bureaucracy against people acting lawfully.

30.01.2026 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1620    πŸ” 655    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 9

Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight β€” local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.

30.01.2026 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4961    πŸ” 2143    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 113

Charging a Black journalist under the KKK Act for reporting on a protest is a whole new level of fucked up.

30.01.2026 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2083    πŸ” 451    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 12