I am a strong person but I have no idea how anyone can stand to listen to his voice for more than 3 seconds.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

And they stand still & watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; & in the eyes of the people there is the failure; & in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath.

And coroners must fill in the certificate - die of malnutrition - because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed.

A million people hungry, needing the fruit - and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country.
And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange.

How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit.

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be.

Trump Spoils Food Worth $500 Million Instead of Giving it to the Poor Food that was supposed to be distributed to millions of hungry people, worth half a billion dollars, is currently being spoiled after Donald Trump stopped all American aid around the world – and th…

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This is just so insane.

Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database

Have you looked at the "woke" grants our brilliant government has stopped? Includes is "Commutative algebra in algebraic geometry and algebraic combinatorics" and "Stability patterns in the homology of moduli spaces."

Full list here: www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

POLITICO Pro: Banking and Financial Services chairs lead the charge to roll back CFPB overdraft rule House Financial Services Chair French Hill called former CFPB Director Rohit Chopra the “worst offender” of midnight rulemaking.

Maybe I should go back to practicing bankruptcy law. I just don't understand how any substantial portion of the population could support this:

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YouTube video by Blonde Politics | The Silly Serious DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America

This seems like something from a food borne illness fever dream in 2018 OR incredibly relavent and realistic in today's reality:

youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no

Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Sandman’ to End With Season 2 at Netflix (EXCLUSIVE) Netflix's "The Sandman" from Neil Gaiman will end with Season 2. The news comes on the heels of sexual misconduct allegations against Gaiman.

This is sad for the actors, the crew, and those of us who love the work.

variety.com/2025/tv/news...

They're not fooling anyone.

Thanks for coming over! From what I've gathered so far, the platform is ever evolving so hopefully the limit won't be too confining.

I think many people heard that and said " that number seems off," but none of us would be permitted to work in DJT's admin.

🔥 Heating up.

Schiff: I want you to look at Capitol police & tell them you're proud that you raised money off people that assaulted their colleagues

Patek: That's an abject lie. I've never accepted violence against law enforcement.

Schiff: You didn't accept it, you glorified it! 🎯

Trump Executive Order Overview Trump Executive Order (EO) Overview organized into a concise, easy-to-scan chart, continuously updated as new actions are published. It includes summaries of each order and tagged topics for streamlin...

A summary of every executive order issued by Trump thus far:

www.akingump.com/en/insights/...

I'm waiting for the Executive Order to stop radical shootings of school children.

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...

Unfortunately, it feels like all of TTPD was written to help us through the next (hopefully only) 4 years.

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After hearing so many unsupported conspiracy theories, I'm cautious of being delusional or paranoid. But I saw what happened with my other social media. I've read about social media PR. How do you discern what's a conspiracy theory and what isn't? Is this worth oxygen?
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and when darkness comes / and you cannot find the light / you must / become it

#poetry

I just found you via Instagram. I'm working on packing my bags to leave and live here on Bluesky. My thought is that many are following suit.

YouTube video by Democracy Docket BREAKING: North Carolina Supreme Court Rejects Petition to Toss 60k Ballots, Waits for Lower Courts

BREAKING: North Carolina Supreme Court Rejects Petition to Toss 60k Ballots, Waits for Lower Courts.

Paige and I explain this big development.
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When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as a native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God. Leviticus 19:33-34

More Radical Leftist ideology. A page taken from Reverend Mariann Budde's playbook.

DJT cited MLK in his basis for repealing DEI, but refused to sign the Martin Luther King Proclamation.

I expect no less from a bunch of men who know nothing about science.

Trump says he can end the Russia-Ukraine war in one day. Russia's UN ambassador says he can't The comments by Vassily Nebenzia, Russia’s United Nations ambassador, come as Donald Trump has repeatedly said he can settle the war between Russia and Ukraine in one day if he’s elected president aga...

It's been 24 hours...has Trump resolved the war between Russia and Ukraine?

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