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A black and white cat in a surgical collar stands on its hind legs. An electrical cord runs behind them, ending in an outlet on the wall.

That lamp looks PISSED.

Ah, someone who doesn't realize that right wing authoritarian organizations lie, usually with their name.

You probably also think the People's Republic of China is actually a Republic, if you're so ignorant about how the Nazis weren't socialist, just claiming they were to get votes.

Quote that sounds like wealthy person Marie Antoinette: "Let them eat cake."

Trump: You can't even have cake. In fact, if you just used full SNAP benefits to buy cake, return the cake and pay back 35% of your SNAP benefits.

E. Scrooge literally accepted that his taxes would feed the poor.

What's the website? 🤪

DON'T use the word "antifa". That's their word. It obfuscates the meaning.
Spell it out.

Anti-fascist.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...

It took 80 years between the time Black Men were given the vote, and the time Women were allowed to vote.

President Obama, the first Black Man President, was elected in 2008. Going by the voting rights history, we won't get a Woman President elected until 2088.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

not many people know this but "my goose is cooked" and "my goat is washed" are both ancient mesopotamian agricultural parables. each has had largely the same meaning since the cradle of civilization. pretty neat!

Do the math. It don’t add up

Trump administration tells states to ‘undo’ full SNAP benefits New guidance from USDA on Saturday informs states to move ahead with partial food stamp payments only given the Supreme Court stay.

Trump, Jan to Sept 2025: gleefully moves money from other budgets to his pet projects, saying he has that power.

Trump, Oct to Nov 2025: Move money from other budgets to government assistance? Why that's illegal! He won't do that!
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IIRC, pure capitalism makes fun things everyone wants because Adam Smith economics also has everyone in the economy be honest with each other.

Real world capitalism sucks because Adam Smith was a naive optimist capitalist who had the same opinion of upper class people as the US Founding Fathers.

Louvre heist reveals museum used ‘LOUVRE’ as password for its video surveillance, still has workstations with Windows 2000 - glaring security weaknesses revealed in previous report It's like using your name as your password.

Great news! The Louvre uses the same password security standard as your lazy non-technical relatives!
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

Trump seems like he's great at doing half a promise and then making sure the whole promise can't be kept.

Where the English might say 'It's the bee's knees', the French say 'C'est le petit Jésus en culotte de velours' (It's the baby Jesus in velvet shorts).

I’m putting the number of congressional Republicans secretly rooting for Trump to lose his tariff case before the Supreme Court at a little over 100.

Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

Judge orders White House to use American Sign Language interpreters at briefings The National Association of the Deaf is celebrating a legal victory against the White House. A judge ordered ASL for briefings conducted by the press secretary or President Trump.

TIL that many deaf and hard of hearing people do not understand English, because they only learned American Sign Language.

I also only have one slot in my brain for A Language, and I filled it with English. Multiple attempts to learn another language have failed.
www.npr.org/2025/11/05/n...

Many of the propagandists of Autocracy, Inc., have learned from the mistakes of the twentieth century. They don’t offer their fellow citizens a vision of utopia, and they don’t inspire them to build a better world. Instead, they teach people to be cynical and passive, because there is no better world to build. Their goal is to persuade people to mind their own business, stay out of politics, and never hope for a democratic alternative: Our state may be corrupt, but everyone else is corrupt too. You may not like our leader, but the others are worse. You may not like our society, but at least we are strong and the democratic world is weak, degenerate, divided, dying.

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.

I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

Keystone Kash needed a distraction from the story that he took another private govt jet to watch his girlfriend sing. apnews.com/article/detr...

Judge praises Trump, issues deadline for November SNAP benefit payments The USDA is now under a court-ordered deadline to ensure that SNAP benefits for November 2025 reach recipients on time.

Old man with dementia forgot what he said during his first term in office.

Judge John J. McConnell Jr.:
"[T]he president during his first term issued guidance indicating that these contingency funds are available if SNAP funds lapse due to a government shutdown."
www.newsweek.com/judge-praise...

Cream colored bookplate showing a black cat reading an open book with a candle beside it.

#Caturday goals.
c. 1890 Special Collections Dept. Univ. of Delaware Library

White House Lashes Out Over Clip Of Trump Being Led Around By Japan PM—But The Full Video Is Even Worse

There's no spinning this.

this is insane.

www.kivitv.com/canyon-count...

A timeline cleanse. Two hummingbirds taking shelter from the rain inside a rose.

Good night Bluesky.🥰

Under Dem presidents, Dems endlessly debate whether prez dares tout good econ news out of fear of seeming "out of touch." Trump makes up horseshit about creating "record" jobs and media never calls him "out of touch." Let's learn from this.

Exchange on this point:

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All the media and communication technologies ended up being purveyors of lurid trash.

Printing press? Inventors said better literature, owners made lurid pamphlets.

Radio/TV? Inventors said education, owners broadcast ads and cheap trash.

The VCR wouldn't have taken off without the porn industry.

Who knew that when he invented the iPhone, Steve Jobs would create such an amazing all-in-one device. A music player, a state-of-the-art phone, a portable internet browser and a machine that for some reason invites a neverending supply of scammy Medicare-related telemarketing.

It has occurred to me that this is a massive opportunity for Canadian entrepreneurs to create a trade passthru operation, which arranges purchases from European companies to US buyers, with Canada in the middle to facilitate delivery.

Nuclear testing isn’t something you greenlight in a post, but turning national security into a fear show is how authoritarians rule.