The Sewer Was Always Beneath Us
The dystopia is not that we discovered the sewer. It is that we were told — repeatedly, by people like Kendzior, by survivors, by whistleblowers, by journalists who paid with their careers, their safety, and sometimes their lives — that it was there. Danny Casolaro knew.
The victims of Jeffrey Epstein knew when they were children. Kendzior knew and documented it across two
meticulously researched books, Hiding in Plain Sight and They Knew, and was threatened with death for the trouble.
The dystopia is that the sewer was mapped, its contents catalogued, its architects named — and the response of institutions, media, and the public was to look away, shoot the messenger, or simply wait for someone else to act.
NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake @witnessblower.net on Epstein revelations:
“It is not merely that bad people did evil and terrible things. It is that the institutions designed to prevent those things…were captured, compromised, or rendered inert.”
eyewitness-for-history.mymagic.page/the-dystopia...
12.02.2026 18:29 — 👍 236 🔁 101 💬 5 📌 4
I want to know why I had to show my passport and birth certificate to get a Real ID
if the GOP thugs are trying to pass their Bullshit Voter Suppression ACT that says a Real ID isn't adequate documentation to register to vote in Federal elections.
Fuck those chuds.
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Moderna says FDA refuses its application for new mRNA flu vaccine
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is refusing to consider Moderna’s application for a new flu vaccine made with mRNA technology.
idiot goon/RFKjr ass-licker Vinay Prasad has arbitrarily and capriciously refused to allow Moderna to submit completed clinical trial data for approval of their new mRNA-based flu vaccine
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He doesn't know if the Census Bureau is part of the department he runs?! Or he doesn't know the Census Bureau establishes the poverty line?
Either way, that's the kind of staggering admission of utter cluelessness that should get this ass-kissing toady shown the door
10.02.2026 17:38 — 👍 4149 🔁 943 💬 233 📌 35
Does this mean that the arrogant lying goon lied? Color me <yawn> unsurprised.
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"Russia's security interests" sounds a lot like code for "we demand all of Ukraine."
And EU countries in NATO are massively ramping up their defenses in the face of Russian incursions on their own sovereignty, as well as abandonment by the feckless goons and tech bros in the US Administration
11.02.2026 01:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Trump administration on Thursday will revoke a scientific finding that greenhouse gasses pose risks to human health.
How the fuck do these ignorant revanchists "revoke" a scientific finding?
10.02.2026 23:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The "person of interest" in Nancy Guthrie's kidnapping?
"Nest hasn't publicly commented yet on how it was able to do this since Guthrie's camera lacked a subscription. Without a subscription, Nest was supposed to be limited to live view and shouldn't have been able to look at event history."
10.02.2026 23:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
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🚨 United States v. Benson
Learn more here.
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES DOJ lawsuit to gain access to Michigan’ unredacted statewide voter registration list. Another BIG victory for our clients and voters. Another stunning defeat for Pam Bondi. www.democracydocket.com/cases/michig...
10.02.2026 14:33 — 👍 21528 🔁 6148 💬 699 📌 395
There's a fundamental difference between stupidity and ignorance. These people are just stupid.
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A federal court just upheld California’s law REQUIRING federal agents to identify themselves.
California will keep standing up for civil rights and our democracy.
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This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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just saw another lawyer post "accountability in law is slow" and it struck me as truer words have never been spoken
the arc of history bends towards justice
it's inexorable
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they can't stop they won't stop because they're the ones committing the violence
the amazing thing about the American people is that they haven't yet taken the bait
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Of all the maga morons melting down over the best Superb Owl halftime show in our lifetimes
I actually have a little sympathy for Brett Farve. The helmets were thin back in his day. His actions speak to having suffered a lot of CTE.
I mean, the dipshit didn't even know he was stealing $1.7M
09.02.2026 22:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
when I checked YouTube this craptastic abomination had...
just over 10k views
laughed so hard I spit out my queso
09.02.2026 07:11 — 👍 107 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Kari Lake is definitely representing "American values"
too bad that the values she's representing are as shit as she is
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At the beginning I wondered why all the sugarcane plants had people inside them.
Very sci-fi
09.02.2026 07:01 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is cool
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Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade
The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.
A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
07.02.2026 21:59 — 👍 17213 🔁 6388 💬 414 📌 278
The President of America
said this.
I find it hard to root
for a 34X convicted felon
as president. A real loser.
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It doesn’t get any more disgusting than this.
07.02.2026 20:41 — 👍 19513 🔁 7858 💬 756 📌 346
“.. This is a 37 point shift left.”
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Schiff on Gabbard's involvement in Georgia: "All of this is intended to send a message and the message is, 'We will not tolerate or accept an election that we lose.' That's why in these budget discussions we need to make sure, among other things, that we don't have ICE agents at polling places."
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Hmmm... it all looks a lot like racketeering and corrupt influence, conspiracy, aiding and abetting...
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THESE 👇 ARE CRIMINALS......
08.02.2026 11:52 — 👍 6429 🔁 2400 💬 385 📌 171
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