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Sand in the gears
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Books, travel, gardens, dogs, and the Oxford comma. I will punch a Nazi.
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Saving The Idea Of America
Will we abandon our constitutional order in silence?
substack.com
September 6, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Greetings from Kyiv.

I opened the morning news.
russians hit a residential building in Kharkiv.
Five people were killed, among them a 1.5‑year‑old girl.

I made a warcoffee.
Damned peacemakers, peacedealers, and other peacenothings.
August 18, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Zelensky wore a suit this time.
August 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
🥚 The same people who get sentimental about crying puppies will be the first in line to take another woman’s baby without acknowledging any emotion or loss whatsoever.
July 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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We have to reset our priorities from top to bottom.
July 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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ok but haven't we all doodled a naked girl with signature pubes for our sex trafficking friend's 50th birthday while confirming we know he does secret shit every day? come on people
July 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Got damn
July 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Hmmmm
July 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
First you lose your child to baby vultures, then you get a shit education among Nazis in training
My face when I heard that Liberty University offered full ride scholarships to underage teen moms for *decades* contingent on them being shipped off to a maternity home and giving their newborns up to University-approved couples who happened to be big alumni donors:
a man wearing a watch is covering his mouth with his hand
Alt: Miss Jay clutching himself lest the evil of that story reach him.
media.tenor.com
July 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Grateful to all who’ve read and supported my AI coverage lately. This is probably the most difficult work I’ve done on the subject to date and I hope it it can be a wake-up call. My profound thanks to Kent Taylor for trusting me with his son Alex’s story.
He Had a Mental Breakdown Talking to ChatGPT. Then Police Killed Him
Alex Taylor believed he had made contact with a conscious entity within OpenAI’s software, and that she'd been murdered. Then everything went wrong.
www.rollingstone.com
June 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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And just like that, the ‘No New Wars’ people are all-in on a new war. Proving yet again that they really believe in nothing other than what one man tells them to believe today. Which could be different tomorrow. The very definition of a cult.
June 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Instead of CUTTING Social Security benefits, Congress should INCREASE payments by $200 per month and extend the solvency of the Social Security program by 75 YEARS.

How? Make the wealthiest Americans pay a fairer share.

I’ve got a bill to get it done.
Social Security's insolvency date is now a year earlier. Here's how it could impact your benefits.
Social Security is dipping into its trust fund to pay current retirees, with spending outpacing its revenue from payroll taxes.
www.cbsnews.com
June 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger
June 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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my goodness. someone on new york ave was killed by a driver hauling a tank post-army parade. a woman literally died for this useless excess.
Truck carrying tank after Army's 250th birthday parade kills pedestrian in DC
The accident happened on the evening of June 16 while a truck was moving the tank from the parade staging area to a Maryland railyard.
www.usatoday.com
June 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Sound familiar?
June 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening

historians: that thing is definitely happening

star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it

news outlets: these protesters are out of control
June 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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if it were really true that “love is what makes a family” then we could dispense with the legal fiction of #adoption and allow human beings to keep control over their identities.
May 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Hells Librarians🔥 #LibrarySky #ReadToLive
May 16, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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🥚 A 93-yo birthmother is still searching for the son who was forcibly taken from her in an Irish maternity home 76 years ago.

Tell me again how the enforced secrecies of adoption are a good thing.

Adoption = legalized kidnapping

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/w...
Her Final Wish: A Home for the Son She Never Got to Hold (Gift Article)
Chrissie Tully gave birth to a son 76 years ago in an Irish home for single mothers, shrouded in secrecy and shame. She’s still waiting for him.
www.nytimes.com
May 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Things the president of the United States said on meet the press today:

He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution

He’s fine with a recession

Americans can do with less

Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”
May 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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No notes. h/t @ianbremmer.com
May 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people
May 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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This is Sigourney Weaver and Alice. Sigourney Weaver is hard at work digging a hole, and Alice has accepted her very avoidable fate. 13/10 for both
April 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM