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i think that my horse is regular-sized
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also like. we did. the us is scattered with new deal monumental architecture
It's easy to dunk on liberals with something like 'why can't liberalism build anything as interesting as Soviet towers or Mussolini's monuments' but the more interesting question is the opposite, why does everyone with strong opinions on monumental architecture turn out to be politically insane.
December 19, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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anyway medicaid paid for my top surgery and that saved my life so fuck these transphobes
December 19, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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It’s concerning that we’re enabling a police and surveillance state of unprecedented scale at the same moment when the veracity of any textual or visual document has become structurally suspect
“The thing that’s been the most difficult so far is that, in all of our interactions with the government, they’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them.”
ICE Says U.S. Citizen's Birth Certificate Is Fake After Arresting Her: Attorneys
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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"you're a man"
ad hominem

"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy

"you're amab"
false dichotomy

"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence

"trans people are mentally ill"
non sequitur

"changing your sex isn't possible"
skill issue
December 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Republicans voting against the felony national trans youth healthcare ban were Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), Gabe Evans (CO), Michael Lawler (NY), Mike Kennedy (UT).

Dems voting FOR the felony ban were Henry Cueller (TX), Vincente Gonzalez (TX), Don Davis (NC).

3 NVs on both sides.
December 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Very weird feeling waiting for the president to announce an illegal war based on total bullshit that they made up right in front of our faces on TV, almost like I've lived through this moment before
December 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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When climate change takes a flavor from the world.

My in-law family has told me about the tiny, intense pink shrimp that were harvested in stormy seas in Maine winters.

Now warming oceans have reduced the shrimp population to almost nothing, and the fishery has been officially closed.
New England’s shrimp fishery to shut down for the long haul after years of decline
Fishing regulators are extending a shutdown for New England’s historic shrimp fishing business, effectively shuttering an industry that fell victim to warming oceans.
www.pressherald.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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So if the suddenly-announced Trump speech really is an “the economy is fine and gonna be great actually” speech, they’ve gotta be absolutely panicked about the numbers they’re seeing (just coincidentally the day before cpi data comes out) right?
December 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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And GOP Rep. Rob Bresnahan has signed the Democratic discharge petition for a 3-year ACA funding extension.

He's the third Republican to sign it.

One more and it gets to 218.
December 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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White men—30% of US population!!—are CEOs at 72% of Fortune 500 companies, direct 83% of the movies made in the US, serve as 70% of US Senators, & on & on.

Their representation in key industries is at least double what their share of the pop predicts but it’s still not enough for them!
December 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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This is the legacy of "a nation composed of good and decent people" Fuck Ronald Reagan and fuck Gavin Newsom.
December 17, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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STOP BEING ANXIOUS ABOUT EVERYTHING AND LOOK AT THIS LITTLE GREMLIN #birds 🐣
December 17, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.

Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Protect Trans Care Now
As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.
action.aclu.org
December 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
'This isn't your granddad's KKK.' Inside the hate group expanding its presence in Tennessee
They are the largest hate group in America, wrapping themselves in the red-white-and-blue of the flag, marching into the middle of American cities and claiming to be patriots.
www.newschannel5.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.
December 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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the right attitude
December 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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My landlord is selling the house my partner & I rent. We've been scraping by, so unfortunately need help to afford moving.

I'm raising $1500 for deposit & moving expenses. We need to be out by END OF THIS MONTH.

At $470/1500!

Venmo: comradeconrad116
paypal.me/cerl116

#t4t #transmutualaid
December 16, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
utterly incapable of grace
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Evening Update: I'm down to needing $1440 by Christmas (December 25th) in order to pay my rent and stay housed this month. I'm so glad we got the ball rolling! #MutualAidRequest
December 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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As I suspected, it was not specific to BOS or DCA. This is national.
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Section 1 of the executive order is like "in order for this to mean anything, Congress must act." The rest of it is like "X department shall convene a task force to provide a list of recommendations etc. etc." It's completely toothless and this "blocking states" headline is brain-dead stenography.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 7d
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that blocks states from enforcing their own regulations around artificial intelligence and instead aims to create a "single national framework" for AI. https://cnn.it/49chVwf
December 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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REMINDER: Sex workers and people with OnlyFans accounts have been screaming at the top of their lungs about being turned away at the borders (even from Canada) due to CBP checking people’s social media and WARNED this was coming.

And yall said nothing.

What happens to the “least” happens to ALL
Bat shit crazy.

US plans to start checking tourists social media.

It will be "mandatory" to hand over the social media info, including email addresses & phone numbers used in the last five years, as well as the names, addresses, numbers, & birthdays of family members.

news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
US plans to start checking all tourists' social media
The potential social media mandate being proposed by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would apply to anyone visiting, whether they require a visa or not.
news.sky.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM