Please Consider My Mom, Kathy, for the Next Golden Bachelorette
Kathy is a soon-to-be-retired small animal veterinarian in the greater Des Moines area. She was once reviewed as a top veterinarian for rats on a l...
"My mom will be bringing her dog(s), and you canβt stop her, so itβs not worth asking. She repeatedly brings her dog(s) to my house in New York State despite my asking her not to because my husband is allergic."
10.11.2025 14:05 β π 14 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Right? If it was something good, youβd think they want to shout it all over the media.
Itβs clear they have no plan, other than to lie & cheat & hope they can continue to fool people & loot the country.
10.11.2025 14:16 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08
I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.
Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.
An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleaguesβ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.
Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. βWe could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,β Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.
Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Shoβ¦
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
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09.11.2025 20:49 β π 4652 π 2622 π¬ 50 π 154
REPHRASING THIS THREAD:
The FIRST PART of this is actually a good summary of what happened.
The first paragraph is important: A lot of people do indeed seem to be under the impression that ALL of the ACA tax credits are expiring.. They aren't. They're becoming FAR LESS GENEROUS. 1/
10.11.2025 04:05 β π 160 π 74 π¬ 13 π 9
Live updates: Senate breaks Democratic filibuster in key vote toward reopening the government | CNN Politics
The Senate voted 60-40 on Sunday on a key step toward reopening the government. Follow here for the latest.
Democratic senators voting to end the shutdown do not understand that Democrats want to see bold moves against Trump authoritarianism -- even if those moves come with pain. We want to see Dems grow a spine for the party, not just service to their own states.
www.cnn.com/politics/liv...
10.11.2025 05:35 β π 64 π 17 π¬ 4 π 1
Why is it when Judge Box-o-Wine makes an official statement, she sounds like she is still on Faux Nooz, previewing an upcoming scandalous fake nooz story?
10.11.2025 05:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Are Pandas In Their Ascendance?
There has been a surge in visitors to the land of Panda Satire
My latest over on Substack. Is Panda Satire becoming a THING or am I being swarmed by bots? Who knows?
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10.11.2025 01:08 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The Democrats who caved just taught Republicans that using mass starvation as a weapon works.
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This isnβt very hard, folks.
10.11.2025 00:09 β π 7912 π 2130 π¬ 79 π 75
Call them. Tell them not to surrender.
10.11.2025 00:56 β π 2497 π 1255 π¬ 211 π 64
An evergreen comment. π’π€¬
10.11.2025 00:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
No clear evidence to support any link between maternal acetaminophen (Tylenol) intake and autism or ADHD in offspring, a new umbrella, systematic review
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10.11.2025 00:19 β π 392 π 132 π¬ 7 π 6
Am I the only one who is glad cats canβt talk?
09.11.2025 21:05 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
listen up, Republicans: the correct answer to βhow much Nazi is the right amount of Naziβ is, of course, ZERO NAZI.
Nazism is repugnant, and everything Nazis stood for should be rejected. I canβt believe I even have to explain this to you shitwits. we fought a whole fucking war about this, remember?
WHY THE FUCK ARE REPUBLICAN DUMB-ASSES ARGUING OVER JUST HOW MUCH NAZISM IS AN ACCEPTABLE AMOUNT OF NAZISM WITHIN THEIR OWN PARTY? SPOILER ALERT: IT'S BECAUSE REPUBLICANS FUCKING SUCK, THAT'S WHY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO MY POST. LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/4otbkDN
09.11.2025 18:44 β π 1183 π 291 π¬ 26 π 13
Release The Files And This Will Be Overβ¦.
FOX NEWS: "70% of Americans say groceries cost more than they did a year ago, and 60% blame Trump." He's cooked.
09.11.2025 15:15 β π 48 π 18 π¬ 0 π 0
Back in 2017, I realized the Republican claim of "less spending, fewer taxes, smaller government" was a lie.
They spend the same amount of tax dollars as Democrats: they only choose differently who to collect it from & who gets to be the recipient.
And they LOVE wasting money on war & bailouts. π§΅
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08.11.2025 19:22 β π 413 π 153 π¬ 5 π 14
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
09.11.2025 15:34 β π 7712 π 2206 π¬ 140 π 82
So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and thereβs no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
09.11.2025 13:41 β π 15857 π 3694 π¬ 468 π 217
Trumpβs brilliant plan of 50 year mortgages means that after your first 20 years making huge interest payments to a bank you will have paid down almost none of the principal and they will still own the house you are living in with 30 years to go. A scam from a career con man.
09.11.2025 11:53 β π 6836 π 2198 π¬ 227 π 82
Aw! I wonder if they give him chocolate milk π
09.11.2025 16:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Donβt forget: gutting SNAP is literally written into Project 2025. This isnβt a mistake β itβs the plan. Every. Single. Bit.
09.11.2025 05:27 β π 995 π 415 π¬ 26 π 19
JD's family has spent $35M on vacations. Kash Patel used a $60M FBI jet to go on a date. Trump spent $98M to golf for 24% of the days of this term. All our tax dollars. But you think single moms getting $6 a day for SNAP is the problem?
09.11.2025 05:09 β π 727 π 305 π¬ 16 π 8
That about sums it up...
09.11.2025 02:56 β π 531 π 246 π¬ 20 π 10
wtf
09.11.2025 06:30 β π 28 π 3 π¬ 2 π 1
Senate Dems, do not cave. Ensuring healthcare premiums donβt surge is an 80-20 issue. They want to gut the ACA because their disdain for Obama far outweighs their concern for anyoneβs health.
08.11.2025 19:36 β π 21091 π 5523 π¬ 500 π 277
Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.
07.11.2025 15:59 β π 10238 π 3993 π¬ 436 π 217
Sen. Ron Wyden is calling out the GOP for pushing to slip a nationwide backdoor abortion ban into the government funding bill. This is dangerous for womenβs health care. Weβve already seen the consequences in states like TX, but I guess the GOP is intent on The Handmaidβs Tale.
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