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Existing somewhere between the high ground and the low ground | Advocate for democracy | Exploring how history shapes today’s politics | Big believer in the power of informed citizens

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Like, January 6 of what year?

12.10.2025 19:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh wow. Congratulations to you … I mean, talk about life changes.

06.10.2025 04:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How does one even begin to answer a question like this?

15.08.2025 10:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is so f’d up.

12.08.2025 21:17 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Uh. Shame on CNN, too.

12.08.2025 13:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Shame on CBN for plat forming that bigot.

12.08.2025 13:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Taco

11.08.2025 19:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Especially since the big ditch predates Chicago’s incorporation by more than a decade.

09.08.2025 20:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

On the census, they twist themselves into pretzels insisting the framers meant something other than what they wrote, and on gun rights they insist what the framers wrote means something else entirely.

08.08.2025 13:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The problem with Indiana is Republicans can talk like that and worse and still get 65%+ of Hoosiers to vote for them. That’s how stupid this population is. Even in places populated with ostensibly “smart” people, the degree of political ignorance is stunning.

08.08.2025 13:11 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

What an absolute fucktard.

07.08.2025 11:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

America doesn’t make drones, so it’s hard to imagine how it will “unleash American drone dominance.”

07.08.2025 11:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How does one "unleash American drone dominance” when America doesn’t make drones? Maybe he meant to say “Unleash Chinese made drones in America.”

06.08.2025 22:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ask any survivor of the Great Depression. My grandmother saved everything she ever acquired.

05.08.2025 19:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Money would have been better spent asking him to go away.

05.08.2025 18:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trump officials violate the Hatch Act daily.

04.08.2025 17:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’d subscribe to the Guardian just to read comments on Simon Jenkins’s inept articles, but I get them here for free.

01.08.2025 11:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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#Indiana, 🌊💪🌽 we're here, we're blue, we're #Hoosiers. Get used to it! If this describes you,you'll want to follow the new(ish) NWI -focused podcast, bluerbythelake.substack.com, which complements the Bloomington-based @hoosleft.us Recent episode on LGBTQ-inclusive religion is aMAZing.

31.07.2025 01:51 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

Imagine if companies started paying ransom money for the king’s blessing. All hell would break loose.

27.07.2025 12:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trump never said he’d chip away at the debt. He said he’d eliminate it in 8 years.

25.07.2025 12:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Daily reminder that’s not the second city, but the very best city.

17.07.2025 13:06 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Same.

17.07.2025 13:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Very exciting!

09.07.2025 23:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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07.07.2025 12:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And it only applies to cash tips. I mean, does anyone declare cash tips?

06.07.2025 01:06 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I thoughts we shed 33,000 jobs. What does the + number released to represent?

03.07.2025 13:55 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Honorable mentions for Timbits and cod tongues and scrunchions.

02.07.2025 14:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"After Kneecap and Palestine Action, Bob Vylan were the villains of this week’s outrage cycle. Their sin was to hold a mirror to a society that weeps over words but winks at slaughter. Here’s to the cowards in suits and newsrooms who’d rather police lyrics than confront their own complicity."

02.07.2025 10:23 — 👍 82    🔁 27    💬 2    📌 0

Has anyone asked Stephen Miller whether he thinks Marco Rubio belongs in this country? I would be very curious how he answers

30.06.2025 16:00 — 👍 3371    🔁 1013    💬 238    📌 39

My grandmother was married at 15, had her first child at 16, and was still having kids after her first grandchildren were born.

30.06.2025 02:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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