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Host of Shameless Cashgrab on YouTube, Leftist, and frequently suspended on other platforms for mocking TERFs. ;)
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And here it is, the Shameless Cashgrab Season 12 Wrap-Up episode. Thanks to @morganmerylsbs.bsky.social again for Season 12's card, to @littlebakery.bsky.social for Season 13's which makes its debut in this video, and @superherocrimson.bsky.social for being the countdown voice. youtu.be/uHHSQj2doBs
Shameless Cashgrab Season 12 Wrap Up
YouTube video by Arkle Studios
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It's just going to be this shit over and over again, isn't it? Socialism means you can only eat dry bread and wear potato sacks for clothes.
New York Post looks normal
January 1, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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The Savior's Army by Jenna Moreci.

Not loving the cover art, but the OG cover art for the previous book in the series, The Savior's Sister, us one of my all time mine faves.
Which 2026 book release are you most excited about?
December 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Big protests going in Iran, and the state is trying to put them down with force, already killing 3.

I don't know where this is going, and the Iranian government has survived big protests before. But whatever happens, it's admirably brave when people take on violently repressive regimes.
At least 3 reported killed during widening protests in Iran sparked by ailing economy
Protests over Iran's struggling economy have spread into rural areas, with at least three people killed.
apnews.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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January 1, 2026 at 6:01 PM
While I passed my 12 movie goal for the rewatch project this year, due to illness + trying to finish The Lies of Locke Lamora before the end of 2025 I wasn't able to get any more in after Christmas Eve. Still, it was nice not to finish one of these at the last minute. letterboxd.com/arkle/list/2...
January 1, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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Do other countries have this weird notion that you’re not a “real” representative of the nation if you live in an urban center? Like do the French say Parisians aren’t really French? Are you considered not a real German if you live in Berlin? Or is this mainly a weird American thing?
January 1, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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how lame is it that so many of the funniest standup comedians you used to like all simultaneously decided to give up on putting the work into being funny and became bigoted children who bully other kids on the playground and then cry to the teacher because little billy punched them for no reason
December 31, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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January 1, 2026 at 9:08 AM
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Because of a conspiracy theory-based stunt by a January 6 insurrectionist who was trying to intimidate children and daycare workers, Trump is now freezing ALL childcare payments across the country.

You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
December 31, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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‘Gender critical’ transphobes are now just openly advertising the fact they want to be the genital inspector Karen! 😆

They’re so immersed in their own transphobic hate bubble, they don’t even realise how bad this makes them look!
January 1, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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I was talking about this. You have to understand that the Sequel Trilogy was basically Gamergated (yes, this is a thing now) and the whole production faced unprecedented levels of abuse that has yet to be properly reckoned with. It reached a crescendo after The Last Jedi and I think JJ basically
i also think Rian Johnson made them more interesting but all the dumb fans and JJ Abrams hated that so they retconned some interesting stuff out
December 31, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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I'm entirely serious about this: until you internalize the view that urban America is Real America, you won't see the urgency of structural reform of an American government whose fundamental structures so disadvantage its population centers—the great engines of its prosperity, progress, & culture.
Another good practice for the New Year would be for all the non-fascists in America who want to opine about politics to really begin believing that urban America is Real America & that its denizens are The Authentic People. Get some self-respect & drop the volkish nationalist view that they're not
And I think liberals should stop taking the bait and ceding ground on immigration.

Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.
January 1, 2026 at 3:03 PM
So that year sucked, huh?
January 1, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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it’s all i’ve got
December 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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any discussion of city transit improvement online ever
January 1, 2026 at 12:07 AM
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Reminder 🎗️
It was in Minnesota that a devotee of the MAGA cult murdered two and attempted to murder several more and had an entire hit list of Democratic politicians he wanted to murder.
A MAGA/trump devotee, just like the guy in Pennsylvania and the guy in the bushes at Mar a Lardo.
Literally this year the MN Speaker was murdered at her home when a white male MAGA chud dressed up as a fake cop & killed her

Now mere months later, MAGAs are shocked that daycare operators in MN wouldn't open doors for white male MAGA chuds dressed up as fake journalists, demanding access to kids😐
December 31, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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They want to wipe out almost a third of the country. It’s got nothing to do with illegal immigration.

It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.
December 31, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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The unholy trinity of the gop powerbrokers in your standard rural area:

- Monopoly owners (car dealerships)
- The one property owner who owns everything
- the really sketchy dentist.
De facto outlawing of car dealers and realtors as currently constituted would be a good aim for a starting point
January 1, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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December 31, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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I'd like to point out that Doug Walker chose to end this year's "Disneycember" with three movies that were neither produced nor owned by Disney.

One of them has CHARACTERS currently owned by Disney, but that's it.

I think Doug might be straight-up losing his mind.
December 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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America is a culture of child abuse. Ask any survivor - we find one another, we form networks and communities.

The true scale of it would stagger and sicken you, and so it is buried, it is swept under the rug, it is denied and the survivors are silenced by whatever means are necessary.
Government of pedophiles. They're all tainted with this for the rest of their lives.
December 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Yup.
December 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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The swiftness with which Trump dismantled decades of meager, hard-fought protections exposed the limits of legal work.
twp.ai/4itNhb
In the Face of Anti-Trans Escalation, We Need More Than Legal Strategies
The swiftness with which Trump dismantled decades of meager, hard-fought protections exposed the limits of legal work.
truthout.org
December 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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I think Joe Biden was one of our worst presidents because he slow-walked prosecuting Trump for Jan 6th solely for the optics of not seeming too partisan and extreme, which he was accused of anyway obviously. They don't give a shit.

He refused to do the right thing for the optics.
I will never forgive Joe Biden for helping Clarence Thomas get onto the Supreme Court.

He was better than Trump but that bar is somewhere in Hell.

Joe Biden is the poster boy for the lack of morals that has destroyed the modern Democratic Party and alienated so many voters.
December 31, 2025 at 8:45 PM