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Truly the point of it all 🙏🏼
Y'all the Berditchever is saying that the point is not whether or not one identifies as religious or whatever, but that the whole point of everything is

HOW

WE

TREAT

OTHER

HUMAN

BEINGS

and if you say you love God but treat people like garbage, he's calling you on it.
the point of it all
we serve God when we care for one another
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
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This perspective is so worth a watch
January 23, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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A billionaire known as “Bitcoin Jesus” was under indictment for massive criminal tax fraud and very likely going to prison.

Then, he hired a “Friend of Trump” and the criminal charges disappeared.

How did they do it? Avi Asher-Schapiro and I spent months getting the inside story.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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One year into Trump’s second term, working people are paying more and getting less. Costs are up. Wages are down. Jobs are disappearing. Meanwhile, billionaires and Big Tech are cashing in. This is the real Trump economy. Read the full report:
ONE YEAR IN: More Expensive & Less Free
But together we keep fighting back
www.meidasplus.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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The markets did everything they could to hold steady in the face of the Jerome Powell subpoenas, but I’m not sure they’ll do well with this news.
Looks like the EU-US trade deal is now dead, with all three major groups in the EU Parliament calling at least for suspension. The downward spiral has already begun.
January 17, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military
January 17, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality
A few days ago, Fox News was whining about ICE agents getting heckled at a Mexican restaurant in Minneapolis.

Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
ICE agents ate at a Minnesota Mexican restaurant before arresting staff
Immigration law enforcement agents reportedly followed employees out of the restaurant after they closed for the evening
www.independent.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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Talked to a Somali man today who said his mosque last night was surrounded by neighbors ready to protect them against ICE if needed. Made me feel proud to live in this city.
January 17, 2026 at 10:05 PM
we all need a little less raging against the dying of the light and a little more coordinated tactical assault on the darkness factory ( mastodon.social/@glyph/11591... )
Glyph (@glyph@mastodon.social)
we all need a little less raging against the dying of the light and a little more coordinated tactical assault on the darkness factory
mastodon.social
January 18, 2026 at 3:25 AM
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There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
A-telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop
Children, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's going down

youtu.be/gp5JCrSXkJY
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967
YouTube video by PettyYou007
youtu.be
January 15, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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The sunset off the septa line in Philly always hits hard
January 13, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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Eve Sedgewick said "what I'm proudest of is having a life where work and love are impossible to tell apart" and I'm going to wear this like a locket
January 11, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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NEW: Here is the alleged video from Jonathan Ross's cell phone synched with the main eyewitness video we've all seen. As you can see it synchs perfectly. I don't think any internal cuts were made.

I have left audio for both videos in this synch so that you can hear them aligned.
January 9, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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Why is Trump fixated on Greenland? @sbg1.bsky.social recalls what he told us in 2021: "I said, 'Why don’t we have that?' You take a look at a map...I love maps. And I always said 'Look at the size of this, it’s massive and that should be part of the United States.'" www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Why Donald Trump Wants Greenland (and Everything Else)
There’s no Trump Doctrine, just a map of the world that the President wants to write his name on in big gold letters.
www.newyorker.com
January 9, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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Worth remembering that in 1952, Chaplin - for 40 years maybe the most famous man in the world - had his visa revoked as he sailed for Europe. J. Edgar Hoover didn't like that he was a vaguely left-wing pacifist who slept around. He never really got over it. His creativity didn't.
The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism.

Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.
January 9, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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January 9, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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Welcome to the American petrostate

By Michael E. Mann | Nov 7, 2024
@BulletinAtomic

The U.S. is now a failed Democratic state. With the reelection of Donald Trump..the U.S. is now poised to become an authoritarian state ruled by plutocrats & fossil fuel interests.
thebulletin.org/2024/11/welc...
Welcome to the American petrostate
I’ve long said that the obstacles to stabilizing warming below catastrophic levels aren’t physical or technological; they are entirely political in nature, and political obstacles can be overcome. But...
thebulletin.org
January 5, 2026 at 4:49 AM
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pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
December 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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There's only one true calculighter
December 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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And may every day be another wonderful secret.
December 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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In 1931 in Kiel, Germany, Rachel Posner, the wife of a rabbi, took this picture.

On the back of the photograph she wrote:

“‘Death to Judah,’ so the flag says.

‘Judah lives forever,’ so the light answers.”

The light will continue to answer the darkness. Happy Hanukkah.
December 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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🎯 CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER @oliverma2026.bsky.social: “The detention centers are run by private prison companies (like @CoreCivic) — they make millions PER PERSON… that’s why they’re looking for anybody brown, so they can keep stealing from taxpayers.”

*THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
December 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Conway: This is a criminal government. Unless you are willing to say that, you’re basically fighting on their terms. They get to lie, and they win that battle because people say, “We shouldn’t use that kind of language.”

But you get to use that language when it’s fucking true.
December 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM