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Ronnie DeVries
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I fix stuff
I can recount at least 3 times that I (a regular person with no relevant degree or job) have showed up to volunteer and been in a matter of hours (spread across multiple days) put in charge of literally hundreds of people.

Just. Show. Up.
from a state party director
December 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Sorry Superman ain't flying around, randomly putting brown people in swamp prisons. That must be hard for you. Thoughts and prayers and whatnot.
July 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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"Yup, there's your problem. You've mistaken arbitrary norms specific to your social group for sacred immutable truths and it has driven you insane."
July 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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The anti-abortion movement and what it has wrought is more horrifying than any horror movie. It is a rejection of the dignity of life and a mockery of human wellbeing
June 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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The anti-abortion movement in America has killed people with guns, bombs and laws. Yesterday, one of its members assassinated a Minnesota politician.

We must reject religious extremism and restore reproductive rights for all Americans.
June 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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I really do love that Penn Jilette was a lifelong libertarian anarcho-capitalist who was just like "whoops! Yeah, sorry, completely wrong on that one. Bullshit ideology for losers" in 2020. I really do! An inspiring lack of ego on him
March 16, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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It’s wild that everyone who wants America to be “run as a business” seems to want lower taxes.

That’s not what a business would do if it had a monopoly and the violence of the government behind it to set whatever price it wanted.

A business would send taxes through the roof.
March 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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"You really think I care about what those people are saying about me?"

-Someone who thinks about absolutely nothing else
February 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Wish I were one of Elon's kids so I'd never see him again
February 24, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...
Algorithms are breaking how we think
YouTube video by Technology Connections
www.youtube.com
February 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet
February 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Laws are written in blood. Keep memories alive.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-4F...
This flag helped end lynching in the U.S.
YouTube video by American Experience | PBS
www.youtube.com
February 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson
February 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Every one of these guys thinks they’re Oppenheimer mixed with Andrew Carnegie and they own something called SplortDotCom that got bought by Boozoo
2025 will go down as the year when all the subtext became text
February 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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do i roll my eyes at a lot of DEI stuff? yeah, i wrote a whole essay about why i thought it was bullshit back in 2020. but trump et al aren’t saying, “corporate DEI policies mainly exist to protect corporate interests from discrimination lawsuits.” they’re saying “get the blacks out”
February 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
www.crisesnotes.com/day-six-of-t...

Great reporting on the real risks here, things that the establishment media / politicians can't yet fathom anyone would risk (But Musk is a psychopath so his blitzkrieg speed is an intentional tactic to get his hooks in before people wake up)
Day Six of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025: “Treasury has been denying that they gave Marko write access, but I am looking at his access request right now”
If you are a current or former career Bureau of the Fiscal Service Employee, especially if you’re a legacy IT programmer with years of experience and especially if you are a COBOL programmer currently...
www.crisesnotes.com
February 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I don't think I've ever wanted to share an article more than this one.
February 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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i think people who complain about the language police are, by and large, just cowards. say whatever you want! no one is going to stop you. but people may judge you or even, if you say the wrong thing in front of the wrong person, pop you in the mouth. but that’s life!
January 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I'm going to be selective about what I repost here, but this meets the criteria of something that I want every one of my friends to consider.
I think the extent to which election postmortems revolve around fights between libs and the left over policy, and Inside Baseball recapitulation of factional disputes over policy, is actually much more closely related to why we lost than any of the policies being disputed
January 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM