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East Tennessee • reading/music/crafts/lurking • reposting and sharing things I find funny, beautiful, interesting, and informative • she/her

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Where It Ends Answering the enabler's constant question, and contemplating the depraved depths of the billionaire mindset.

Today I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power.

"Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?"

www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/

01.02.2026 15:21 — 👍 565    🔁 201    💬 13    📌 24
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Welcome to the American Winter In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

This is a really incredible piece. Share it widely 🎁https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/minneapolis-uprising/685755/?gift=C-rzmQ8PsUHt15odxTKJDn7xrpPNxSpotkNz_P27oI0

26.01.2026 05:29 — 👍 805    🔁 482    💬 28    📌 49
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How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.

If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.

08.01.2026 18:25 — 👍 3896    🔁 2263    💬 55    📌 160

They're not just doing tyranny, they're doing the *exact* things listed in the Declaration of Independence that the colonists accused the king of. It's surreal

08.01.2026 00:37 — 👍 8639    🔁 1665    💬 46    📌 59
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.

We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

16.10.2025 16:01 — 👍 3012    🔁 1591    💬 53    📌 112

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

08.10.2025 10:29 — 👍 27047    🔁 10278    💬 424    📌 184

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

30.09.2025 14:57 — 👍 11897    🔁 3112    💬 240    📌 166
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Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

This was, unsurprisingly, as good as people have said!

23.09.2025 17:19 — 👍 87    🔁 18    💬 4    📌 0
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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...

IT IS TIME.

22.09.2025 18:19 — 👍 1642    🔁 590    💬 20    📌 97

You are literally, constitutionally and biblically allowed to do this.

18.09.2025 21:25 — 👍 1641    🔁 246    💬 32    📌 5
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The official voice of the US government Is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us? Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.

The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.

“What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”

15.08.2025 14:23 — 👍 11219    🔁 4619    💬 496    📌 320
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This is the cowardice of The New York Times. Legacy media is failing.

20.01.2025 23:41 — 👍 47589    🔁 9591    💬 3737    📌 1088
Nocturnal landscape, moonlight from a full moon over a lake, through trees, a track leads to the lake, painting.

Nocturnal landscape, moonlight from a full moon over a lake, through trees, a track leads to the lake, painting.

Goodnight.
Moonlight, Henri-Joseph Harpignies, 1889.

20.01.2025 22:11 — 👍 405    🔁 82    💬 1    📌 1
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Composition by Serge Poliakoff, 1950

https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137836

13.01.2025 20:18 — 👍 44    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0
Screen capture from Season 6, Episode 21 of American sitcom "The Office."  The image depicts Michael Scott (portrayed by Steve Carell) wearing a shirt with an open collar spread over his jacket lapels and a backward Kangol hat striking a pose as the character's insufferably cringy alter-ego "Date Mike."

Screen capture from Season 6, Episode 21 of American sitcom "The Office." The image depicts Michael Scott (portrayed by Steve Carell) wearing a shirt with an open collar spread over his jacket lapels and a backward Kangol hat striking a pose as the character's insufferably cringy alter-ego "Date Mike."

27.12.2024 15:14 — 👍 27    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In my part of Appalachia it's "you'uns" or "yunz."

07.12.2024 03:37 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Painting of a small copse of trees on a dark moor silhouetted against a stormy sky.

Painting of a small copse of trees on a dark moor silhouetted against a stormy sky.

www.tumblr.com/oldpaintings...

23.11.2024 08:51 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Print featuring a green field with a stream in the foreground partly reflecting a line of bare trees in the background, centre to right, to the left background is a gray barn and in the distance behind it a hill rises to the left, all under a very pale blue sky

Print featuring a green field with a stream in the foreground partly reflecting a line of bare trees in the background, centre to right, to the left background is a gray barn and in the distance behind it a hill rises to the left, all under a very pale blue sky

'Winter field' by Yorkshire born printmaker Hester Cox #WomensArt

21.11.2024 12:46 — 👍 291    🔁 29    💬 0    📌 1
An illustration depicting a white borzoi lying on its side atop an orange and brown rug.

An illustration depicting a white borzoi lying on its side atop an orange and brown rug.

www.tumblr.com/hannahlockil...

15.11.2024 16:41 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is corny as hell but it does make you feel better to do something nice whether that is supporting a good newspaper or raking someone’s leaves or sending a friend an actual card in the mail. I’m getting Mister Rogers pilled in this fucker.

07.11.2024 23:09 — 👍 3169    🔁 485    💬 55    📌 44

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