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NRA in 2020: "We need guns to resist tyranny!"

NRA in 2021: "We need guns to resist tyranny!"

NRA in 2022: "We need guns to resist tyranny!"

NRA in 2023: "We need guns to resist tyranny!"

NRA in 2024: "Ya know, tyranny's not so bad."
May 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
May 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Cancer has human DNA in its cells
May 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Progressives and democrats aren’t overselling the message on inclusion. It’s MAGA that’s using the existence of humans having differences to fight one another.
May 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
It’s genuinely surprising we managed to find a place to live with an even smaller USPS service than interior Alaska
April 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"
April 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I thought about the term, “Go fuck yourself,” and realized it can be interpreted as, “You need to go masturbate.”

Can’t say I disagree with either message
April 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
The CFPB Has Been Gutted
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.
www.wired.com
April 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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March 31, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Apparently Reddit is censoring criticism of musk now?? Wtf??
March 30, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Happiness, contentment, and satisfaction require money

Especially if you can’t afford baseline needs to live
February 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
February 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM
No single person or branch of government was ever supposed to cause this much upheaval

Supporters and facilitators are traitors in the truest meaning of the word
February 9, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...
theonion.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Do yourself and democracy a favor. Support independent media.
February 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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NEW: I was asked to start compiling a list of companies bending the knee to the Trump regime by ditching their DEI programs. Here you go! www.muellershewrote.com/p/companies-...
Companies Ditching DEI
Please feel free to reply with additional corporations! Let's name and shame them.
www.muellershewrote.com
February 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
It’s nice being able to point to the cause of how shit got destroyed

Just kind of sucks that it got destroyed
February 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
You’re allowed to make mistakes

But you must learn from them
January 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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This aged well.
Once you realize that Trump isn’t nominating cabinet members to RUN agencies but DESTROY them, it makes more sense.
January 28, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Something useful about US approach to copyright is that works of the federal govt are automatically placed in the public domain.

So when President Trump's transphobic executive order causes a bonfire of official documents, they can live on on Wikimedia Commons commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NI...
January 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
While checking out the Jim Crow museum I also learned about this

Strong recommend both
Ferris Museum of Sexist Objects
www.ferris.edu
January 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Those that ignore the past will inevitably make it rhyme
It’s good to get a refresher course sometimes
Jim Crow Museum
jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu
January 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM