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I would say Sadistic AI Teddy is the most 2025 thing ever, but the final 43 days will undoubtedly find a way to top him

Acquired Tastes: A Call for Submissions For younger writers, ages 15-21

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💯 this point. I keep thinking about how many people — from all walks of life — have risked so much to be in the c*lt. We’re not prepared for the scale of this unraveling / deprograming. But ppl will find ways to grift it. “From broke to woke: how to monetize your intersectionality” retreats, etc

Predicting their next move is pushing for loopholes allowing products with lab-made “active compounds”, which they’ll claim are safer without fertilizer & pesticides, etc.

a woman wearing a santa hat says " stop trying to make fetch happen " ALT: a woman wearing a santa hat says " stop trying to make fetch happen "

Brown is the new fetch.

The face of the chestnut brown and white horse whose misdoings in a past life have led him to this moment, where Cosplay Kristi lives out her Hollywood dreams in front of The Six Grandfathers (the Lakota land the colonizers call Mt. Rushmore). His expression is brooding, pensive. Very much not a happy horse.

The same Chestnut horse, but cropped to highlight the malice-clouded eyes and furrowed brows of this poor beast.

Gill has thoughts about this asshattery. Dark thoughts.

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Whole bunch of stuff beginning to make a lot of sense.

Screenshot of text from a news website: ‘At a rally at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Unity, Pa., on Saturday afternoon, Trump held up Palmer, who came from nearby Latrobe, as a symbol of a macho male. "Arnold Palmer was all man and I say that in all due respect to women, and I love women, but this is a guy that was all man," Trump said. "This man was strong and tough, and I refuse to say it, but when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there and they said, 'Oh, my God, that's unbelievable.'" As the crowd laughed, Trump chuckled with them. "I had to say it," he said.’

The homage Cantaloupe Caligula paid to Arnold Palmer’s manhood in 2024 makes a lot more sense today.

Your Mercury-ruled, pattern-matching, tech auntie here to remind you that Mercury’s back on his retrograde bs until 11/29.
So…
Backup everything. Twice.
Restart all the devices. Now.
Don’t buy new technology.
Expect communication friction.

Don’t say you weren’t warned.
#astrology #astrowitch

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Fuzzy magnified screen capture of the replied-to photo that shows a posterboard on an easel. There’s a rendering of a monumental-sized arch on the poster board.

Fuzzy magnified screen capture of the replied-to photo that shows three poster boards on an easel. All the boards have various artistic renderings of a monumental-sized arch. The middle board appears to compare the size of this proposed structure with other arches in the world, and it appears to have a large arrow pointing to the largest arch, which appears to be the proposed one.

What’s. With. All. The. Arches.

A black and orange poster reads GET r n h e g a e a n t g k e (GREET ENGAGE THANK)

Noticed this at Home Depot today. These employees are not paid enough for this shit.

You know something is really wrong because he’s not orange.

The guy on the mic said “Gordon” so it was the exec. Everything WP reports is WH propo now.

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

Dick Cheney dying on the eve of this vital Election Day is on-brand for him AND a good omen for this country. #LFG

What’s stopping these deputized thugs from terrorizing poling stations tomorrow in every contested county? Oh right. Nothing is.

I wish a new progressive party would do exactly this — but use the action to launch & promote a clear, human-rights-centered platform. I’d add a dash of community-building by partnering with local restaurants, public assistance orgs & libraries.

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

All those CA counties have diverse demographics, e.g., Kern county is 54% Latino. Monitoring polls will deter prop 50 voters + give the goon squads hundreds of locations to target in a single day.

Headlines from a news aggregator: The New York Times In Florida, Obamacare Price Hikes Pose an Outsized Threat Politico Republicans are barreling toward an Obamacare subsidy cliff - with no unified plan The Washington Post Average Obamacare premiums are set to rise 30 percent, documents show NBC News As Obamacare premiums climb, some plan to drop their health insurance and go uninsured

For a few months, news outlets have used ACA in lieu of the divisive Obamacare handle. And then today💥 we’re right back to making everything the fault of a man who hasn’t been in the Oval since 2016. Is it capitulation or do they publish #propoganda for the rage farming?

Profile view of two cats basking worshipfully in warm sunlight.

Neither me nor my cats feel prepared for the months of overcast gloom that the SF Bay Area calls winter. Light therapy and heating pads never make you feel like this. (We have it easy & would never survive a real winter. Sending 🧠 & 🙏 to Midwest cats) #CatPics #SeasonalWhining #canihazmoarspringplz

He’s in a hurry to build that max security bunker before he’s dragged by his kankles from 1600 Pennsylvania

Good to see some media reporting the #EastWing demolition is a cover for expanding the presidential emergency ops bunker. It’s going to be gaudy, lavish, fully equipped, and will allow him to hide behind a bulletproof door. He’s racing to build so he can go underground asap. There’s a reason why.

He’s talked abt this since June, so the plans—the real ones—have been in development for at least 3 mos. I’m convinced the *submitted* plans will be a lie. The PEOC, a literal bunker, sits under the East Wing. So what’s going in that new 90k sqft basement? A bigger, gaudier bunker, obviously

DHS quietly eliminates ban on surveillance based on sexual orientation and gender identity The DHS quietly updated its policy manual earlier this month, removing LGBTQ+ identities from the section prohibiting surveillance based solely on immutable characteristics.

This is bad. Very bad.

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The ballroom’s a beard for a ballooning bunker beneath.

Per Wikipedia:

The Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) is a bunker underneath the East Wing … it serves as a secure shelter and communications center for the president of the United States and others in case of an emergency.

a woman in a white coat is talking and saying `` we need to make a plan . '' Alt: A gif from TV series “Scandal”: Olivia Pope, in a white coat, is talking to (Newsom doppelgänger) President Fitzgerald Grant III and saying ``we need to make a plan .''

Hey @governor.ca.gov — the cheaper insulin is great but why stop there? Be the Gav who pushed gay marriage rights fwd. It’s time for CA universal healthcare. Give everyone an equal standard of care, abolish for-profit insurance & wipe existing medical debt. *That* will get you The Oval, Fitz.

Saw the story, brain went 🧐, googled what’s in the east wing, and found out the PEOC (presidential emergency operations center) — the panic bunker — sits under it.

So now I’m certain that “big beautiful ballroom” is a cover for expanding the PEOC into a hidden, maximum security residence.

The Presidential Emergency Operations Center — the “panic bunker” — is under the East Wing. So, I would wager bigly that the ballroom is just a cover for expanding the PEOC into a larger, gaudier, maximally secured residence.