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He is, as we used to say, hightailing it out of town.
The expression “hightailing” comes from 19th‑century U.S. ranching/slang and refers to the way animals raise their tails when fleeing at full speed.
The expression “hightailing” comes from 19th‑century U.S. ranching/slang and refers to the way animals raise their tails when fleeing at full speed.
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Contrast of Forms, by Fernand Léger, 1913, (rotated) 📸 by Mike Segar
February 12, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Contrast of Forms, by Fernand Léger, 1913, (rotated) 📸 by Mike Segar
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They sent 3000 troops to arrest 4000 people. It likely cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per person on top of the permanent distrust they created for decades. What an absolute failure.
February 12, 2026 at 3:12 PM
They sent 3000 troops to arrest 4000 people. It likely cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per person on top of the permanent distrust they created for decades. What an absolute failure.
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Bush didn’t fall below 38 until Katrina
Trump hits a new low on the @fiftyplusone.news approval tracker at 38.8%
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Bush didn’t fall below 38 until Katrina
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THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
February 10, 2026 at 11:19 PM
THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
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In case you missed the moment.
Art is powerful
Art is powerful
February 9, 2026 at 2:05 AM
In case you missed the moment.
Art is powerful
Art is powerful
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Researchers estimate that the life expectancy for people forced to work in cane fields was mid 20s.
They were slaughterhouses. Being sent to one was functionally a death sentence.
They were slaughterhouses. Being sent to one was functionally a death sentence.
Mortality rates were so high on sugar plantations during slavery that slaveholders used to coerce enslaved people working other crops like cotton with threats to sell them or their loved ones to sugar plantations.
That’s where the term “sold down the river” came from.
That’s where the term “sold down the river” came from.
February 9, 2026 at 5:02 AM
Researchers estimate that the life expectancy for people forced to work in cane fields was mid 20s.
They were slaughterhouses. Being sent to one was functionally a death sentence.
They were slaughterhouses. Being sent to one was functionally a death sentence.
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It’s odd that the religious right is so upset about a halftime show that celebrated marriage, love, community, small business, hard work, and family. 🤔
February 9, 2026 at 4:50 AM
It’s odd that the religious right is so upset about a halftime show that celebrated marriage, love, community, small business, hard work, and family. 🤔
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Just in sheer cynical political calculation, rejecting a beautiful depiction of Latin culture by one of the most popular performers in the world right now is an incredible own goal.
February 9, 2026 at 4:47 AM
Just in sheer cynical political calculation, rejecting a beautiful depiction of Latin culture by one of the most popular performers in the world right now is an incredible own goal.
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Just had a Super Bowl halftime where the singer:
1) boasts about the poor place he’s from;
2) boosts the value of agriculture;
3) celebrates small town life;
4) highlights the joy of inter-generational celebrations; and
5) promotes marriage.
And tomorrow, the MAGA movement will attack it.
1) boasts about the poor place he’s from;
2) boosts the value of agriculture;
3) celebrates small town life;
4) highlights the joy of inter-generational celebrations; and
5) promotes marriage.
And tomorrow, the MAGA movement will attack it.
February 9, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Just had a Super Bowl halftime where the singer:
1) boasts about the poor place he’s from;
2) boosts the value of agriculture;
3) celebrates small town life;
4) highlights the joy of inter-generational celebrations; and
5) promotes marriage.
And tomorrow, the MAGA movement will attack it.
1) boasts about the poor place he’s from;
2) boosts the value of agriculture;
3) celebrates small town life;
4) highlights the joy of inter-generational celebrations; and
5) promotes marriage.
And tomorrow, the MAGA movement will attack it.
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It has long been my opinion that the rise of Trump 2.0 is fundamentally the result elites in every sector of society absolutely losing their minds over Me Too and the racial justice uprising, and every new piece of Epstein content just further validates this
New files released by the Justice Department show Jeffrey Epstein joking about being in a "pariahs club" and discussing the fate of powerful men who had been accused of wrongdoing.
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Epstein Tracked #MeToo Fallout and Advised Accused Men Behind the Scenes
This story was originally reported by Grace Panetta of The 19th. Meet...
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February 6, 2026 at 2:06 PM
It has long been my opinion that the rise of Trump 2.0 is fundamentally the result elites in every sector of society absolutely losing their minds over Me Too and the racial justice uprising, and every new piece of Epstein content just further validates this
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Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Marc Andreessen share an enduring fascination with eugenics, race science, and transhumanism and there is an entire generation of public intellectuals who benefited and continue to benefit from their patronage.
Pinker, Huberman, Attia, Weinstein, etc.
Pinker, Huberman, Attia, Weinstein, etc.
January 31, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Marc Andreessen share an enduring fascination with eugenics, race science, and transhumanism and there is an entire generation of public intellectuals who benefited and continue to benefit from their patronage.
Pinker, Huberman, Attia, Weinstein, etc.
Pinker, Huberman, Attia, Weinstein, etc.
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ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?
January 29, 2026 at 4:45 PM
ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?
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The GOP is in fact the party of divorced middle aged men whose blue haired daughters hate them
i love that rightwingers genuinely seem to believe that political ideology is a set genetic inheritable trait
January 28, 2026 at 10:50 PM
The GOP is in fact the party of divorced middle aged men whose blue haired daughters hate them
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I heard someone say it was “extreme” to demand the names of the ICE agents who murdered Alex Pretti.
No. Demanding government disclosure of the names of government agents when they kill Americans is moderate.
Wanting to read the names off the plaque at a mass grave would be, perhaps, extreme.
No. Demanding government disclosure of the names of government agents when they kill Americans is moderate.
Wanting to read the names off the plaque at a mass grave would be, perhaps, extreme.
January 27, 2026 at 3:33 PM
I heard someone say it was “extreme” to demand the names of the ICE agents who murdered Alex Pretti.
No. Demanding government disclosure of the names of government agents when they kill Americans is moderate.
Wanting to read the names off the plaque at a mass grave would be, perhaps, extreme.
No. Demanding government disclosure of the names of government agents when they kill Americans is moderate.
Wanting to read the names off the plaque at a mass grave would be, perhaps, extreme.
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CNN reporting that a week before Alex Pretti was killed, 5 agents tackled him and he suffered a broken rib. CNN says he stopped his car after he saw ICE agents interacting with a family on foot and began to blow his whistle. Source tells CNN Pretti believed “That day he thought he was going to die”
January 27, 2026 at 5:19 PM
CNN reporting that a week before Alex Pretti was killed, 5 agents tackled him and he suffered a broken rib. CNN says he stopped his car after he saw ICE agents interacting with a family on foot and began to blow his whistle. Source tells CNN Pretti believed “That day he thought he was going to die”
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MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
January 26, 2026 at 5:10 PM
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
He is, as we used to say, hightailing it out of town.
The expression “hightailing” comes from 19th‑century U.S. ranching/slang and refers to the way animals raise their tails when fleeing at full speed.
The expression “hightailing” comes from 19th‑century U.S. ranching/slang and refers to the way animals raise their tails when fleeing at full speed.
January 26, 2026 at 8:58 PM
He is, as we used to say, hightailing it out of town.
The expression “hightailing” comes from 19th‑century U.S. ranching/slang and refers to the way animals raise their tails when fleeing at full speed.
The expression “hightailing” comes from 19th‑century U.S. ranching/slang and refers to the way animals raise their tails when fleeing at full speed.
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Democrat conceal carries to a protest: Terrorist
Republican open carries and murders civilians at a protest: Hero
Republican open carries and murders civilians at a protest: Hero
January 25, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Democrat conceal carries to a protest: Terrorist
Republican open carries and murders civilians at a protest: Hero
Republican open carries and murders civilians at a protest: Hero
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1. Wasn’t at a protest
2. Was disarmed when they shot him while he was face down
3. New gun rights rule: the second amendment is when conservatives can carry guns everywhere, but if anyone else has a gun we can kill him on sight
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2. Was disarmed when they shot him while he was face down
3. New gun rights rule: the second amendment is when conservatives can carry guns everywhere, but if anyone else has a gun we can kill him on sight
bsky.app/profile/atru...
KARL: He was an ICU use who worked for the VA and there's no evidence he brandished the gun whatsoever
BESSENT: But he brought a gun
KARL: I mean, we do have a Second Amendment
BESSENT: I've been to a protest -- guess what? I didn't bring a gun. I brought a billboard
BESSENT: But he brought a gun
KARL: I mean, we do have a Second Amendment
BESSENT: I've been to a protest -- guess what? I didn't bring a gun. I brought a billboard
January 25, 2026 at 5:15 PM
1. Wasn’t at a protest
2. Was disarmed when they shot him while he was face down
3. New gun rights rule: the second amendment is when conservatives can carry guns everywhere, but if anyone else has a gun we can kill him on sight
bsky.app/profile/atru...
2. Was disarmed when they shot him while he was face down
3. New gun rights rule: the second amendment is when conservatives can carry guns everywhere, but if anyone else has a gun we can kill him on sight
bsky.app/profile/atru...
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He was shot while on his knees protecting a woman. He was unarmed… say what you want… we can see.
January 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
He was shot while on his knees protecting a woman. He was unarmed… say what you want… we can see.
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Trump & Vance: You have the right to free speech if you praise Trump but not if you criticize him, the right to religious liberty if you’re a conservative evangelical but not if you’re a Catholic in ICE detention, the right to have a gun if you’re Kyle Rittenhouse but not if you’re Alex Pretti.
January 25, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Trump & Vance: You have the right to free speech if you praise Trump but not if you criticize him, the right to religious liberty if you’re a conservative evangelical but not if you’re a Catholic in ICE detention, the right to have a gun if you’re Kyle Rittenhouse but not if you’re Alex Pretti.
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Protester in Minnesota: I’m 70 years old and I’m fucking angry *disappears into gas*
January 24, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Protester in Minnesota: I’m 70 years old and I’m fucking angry *disappears into gas*
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This was always where it was gonna lead.
January 24, 2026 at 3:59 PM
This was always where it was gonna lead.
What Scott Jennings will say: "Shooting a guy point blank on the ground while 7 officers surround him is taught in every police academy in America. Just ask Black people."
January 24, 2026 at 4:16 PM
What Scott Jennings will say: "Shooting a guy point blank on the ground while 7 officers surround him is taught in every police academy in America. Just ask Black people."
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Not only does ICE need to be abolished, but there should be publically aired tribunals for as long as it takes to hold every last one of these thugs accountable. No one, not even the people who file paperwork or handle payroll, should be immune from prosecution.
January 24, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Not only does ICE need to be abolished, but there should be publically aired tribunals for as long as it takes to hold every last one of these thugs accountable. No one, not even the people who file paperwork or handle payroll, should be immune from prosecution.