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Wondering the odds, in arrows:
⬇️Civil War but remain in tact afterward
↘️Civil War but break up afterward
➡️World War III
↗️Violent civil unrest; Martial Law
⬆️Continue BAU
↘️Quiet Revolution and Reorder
⬆️Some combination
⬇️Civil War but remain in tact afterward
↘️Civil War but break up afterward
➡️World War III
↗️Violent civil unrest; Martial Law
⬆️Continue BAU
↘️Quiet Revolution and Reorder
⬆️Some combination
Trump signs executive order seeking to block state laws on AI share.google/FMEptcOdhn3B...
Trump signs executive order seeking to block states from regulating AI companies
Congressional efforts to regulate AI at the federal level this year have fallen short.
share.google
December 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Trump signs executive order seeking to block state laws on AI share.google/FMEptcOdhn3B...
Oh wow, look, the turkeys who voted for Thanksgiving are shocked by their choice. 🙄
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
Denied Federal Disaster Aid, a Town in Trump Country Feels Forgotten
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Oh wow, look, the turkeys who voted for Thanksgiving are shocked by their choice. 🙄
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
Easily my favorite song the last 3 weeks. Came right around the anniversary of my Pops passing. Hits me in the gut every time I hear it. RIP Dad - RIP Dave 🙏🏾 🕊 🕯
youtu.be/7YeWMYdoGQs?...
youtu.be/7YeWMYdoGQs?...
De La Soul - Cabin In The Sky (Official Audio)
YouTube video by WeAreDeLaSoul
youtu.be
December 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Easily my favorite song the last 3 weeks. Came right around the anniversary of my Pops passing. Hits me in the gut every time I hear it. RIP Dad - RIP Dave 🙏🏾 🕊 🕯
youtu.be/7YeWMYdoGQs?...
youtu.be/7YeWMYdoGQs?...
Was a good run. Perhaps improbable. 28.5 yrs at one place isn't typical. Surviving Clinton, Bush, Bush, Obama, Obama, Trump, Biden, and 25% Trump2. 9/11, Great Recession, COVID...monumental changes. But, something went dreadfully wrong in 4 months. 🤷🏾♂️
Anyway, tighten the suspenders and move on.
Anyway, tighten the suspenders and move on.
December 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Was a good run. Perhaps improbable. 28.5 yrs at one place isn't typical. Surviving Clinton, Bush, Bush, Obama, Obama, Trump, Biden, and 25% Trump2. 9/11, Great Recession, COVID...monumental changes. But, something went dreadfully wrong in 4 months. 🤷🏾♂️
Anyway, tighten the suspenders and move on.
Anyway, tighten the suspenders and move on.
First order of business for the next Dem administration and Dem Congressional control is to expand the SCOTUS. Anything less is malpractice.
December 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
First order of business for the next Dem administration and Dem Congressional control is to expand the SCOTUS. Anything less is malpractice.
Dred Scott and many more decisions is all you need to know about the potential for the highest court in the land.
December 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Dred Scott and many more decisions is all you need to know about the potential for the highest court in the land.
New Edition with the bright white veneers...lol #treelighting
December 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
New Edition with the bright white veneers...lol #treelighting
The Jets clinched its
TENTH
CONSECUTIVE
LOSING
SEASON
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November 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The Jets clinched its
TENTH
CONSECUTIVE
LOSING
SEASON
😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤
TENTH
CONSECUTIVE
LOSING
SEASON
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I really thought that with the benefit of time and access to the internet that these damn idiots would know what Arabic numerals are. Folks still fighting over the Mamdani "mandate". They STILL don't get the joke.
November 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I really thought that with the benefit of time and access to the internet that these damn idiots would know what Arabic numerals are. Folks still fighting over the Mamdani "mandate". They STILL don't get the joke.
It was never really about cost cutting, OBVIOUSLY.
Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
It was never really about cost cutting, OBVIOUSLY.
I mean, this sounds like he's admitting to giving unlawful orders.
He's also fascinatingly stupid, so I can't really tell.
He's the smartest idiot and I supposed that kinda is the definition of a con artist.
He's also fascinatingly stupid, so I can't really tell.
He's the smartest idiot and I supposed that kinda is the definition of a con artist.
A sitting president shouting that people should be jailed for telling the military to follow the law.
You can hear the panic in every capital letter.
You can hear the panic in every capital letter.
November 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I mean, this sounds like he's admitting to giving unlawful orders.
He's also fascinatingly stupid, so I can't really tell.
He's the smartest idiot and I supposed that kinda is the definition of a con artist.
He's also fascinatingly stupid, so I can't really tell.
He's the smartest idiot and I supposed that kinda is the definition of a con artist.
Reposted
Fifty students who were abducted from a Catholic school in northern Nigeria on Friday have returned to their families after they managed to escape, the Christian Association of Nigeria said.
https://cnn.it/4pvYxkg
https://cnn.it/4pvYxkg
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Fifty students who were abducted from a Catholic school in northern Nigeria on Friday have returned to their families after they managed to escape, the Christian Association of Nigeria said.
https://cnn.it/4pvYxkg
https://cnn.it/4pvYxkg
"Cabin Talk" just hit me with all the emotions like we found out yesterday that Dave was gone.
November 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
"Cabin Talk" just hit me with all the emotions like we found out yesterday that Dave was gone.
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Elizabeth Warren on Colbert's show: "We don't think one corporation or one man named David Ellison should be able to buy up all the shows and buy up all the sports and buy up all the news and decide who watches what and I'm gonna stay in that fight."
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Elizabeth Warren on Colbert's show: "We don't think one corporation or one man named David Ellison should be able to buy up all the shows and buy up all the sports and buy up all the news and decide who watches what and I'm gonna stay in that fight."
Proud to say my sons have been 1/4Zipping for years. But they mix in Nike Techs and hoodies as well. They never sag their jeans though or rock skinnys. I like the new trend but teens still do dumb shit. Maybe less so now.
Now, let's open more Black owned businesses and support. 👊🏾💥
Now, let's open more Black owned businesses and support. 👊🏾💥
November 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Proud to say my sons have been 1/4Zipping for years. But they mix in Nike Techs and hoodies as well. They never sag their jeans though or rock skinnys. I like the new trend but teens still do dumb shit. Maybe less so now.
Now, let's open more Black owned businesses and support. 👊🏾💥
Now, let's open more Black owned businesses and support. 👊🏾💥
Lindsey Halligan has a face for radio.
Brutal.
Brutal.
November 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Lindsey Halligan has a face for radio.
Brutal.
Brutal.
I dunno, I guess I'm not a big believer that these files are going to change people's minds. Sure, it might end his presidency, but they'll just put JD Vance in his place. That's not much better. A nicer version, maybe. They'll never see themselves as being wrong about everything.
November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I dunno, I guess I'm not a big believer that these files are going to change people's minds. Sure, it might end his presidency, but they'll just put JD Vance in his place. That's not much better. A nicer version, maybe. They'll never see themselves as being wrong about everything.
Of course. Despite what they've said previously.
Coons on Epstein files: "My hunch is that AG Bondi, having just been ordered on social media by the president to open an investigation into a series of high-profile Dems, will promptly say, 'No, there's an ongoing investigation, we can't disclose any of this,' and the president will back that up."
November 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Of course. Despite what they've said previously.
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“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
"We've" is a big stretch. But, hell yeah.
"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."
I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.
I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.
White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion
Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.
rewirenewsgroup.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
"We've" is a big stretch. But, hell yeah.
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these are not even the files lol
November 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
these are not even the files lol
Verizon cutting 15K jobs, 15% of its workforce.
FIFTEEN 😢😠
FIFTEEN 😢😠
November 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Verizon cutting 15K jobs, 15% of its workforce.
FIFTEEN 😢😠
FIFTEEN 😢😠
Wild times.
Maybe it's Bill Clinton's fault. "I did not have sexual relations with....", "define what 'is' is?"
Maybe he normalized ridiculousness.
Being DIRECTLY associated with the world's best known pedophile and claiming it's a hoax is breathtaking.
(Al Franken resigned for FAR LESS)
Maybe it's Bill Clinton's fault. "I did not have sexual relations with....", "define what 'is' is?"
Maybe he normalized ridiculousness.
Being DIRECTLY associated with the world's best known pedophile and claiming it's a hoax is breathtaking.
(Al Franken resigned for FAR LESS)
November 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Wild times.
Maybe it's Bill Clinton's fault. "I did not have sexual relations with....", "define what 'is' is?"
Maybe he normalized ridiculousness.
Being DIRECTLY associated with the world's best known pedophile and claiming it's a hoax is breathtaking.
(Al Franken resigned for FAR LESS)
Maybe it's Bill Clinton's fault. "I did not have sexual relations with....", "define what 'is' is?"
Maybe he normalized ridiculousness.
Being DIRECTLY associated with the world's best known pedophile and claiming it's a hoax is breathtaking.
(Al Franken resigned for FAR LESS)
Banana Republic. I think the experiment is over.
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Banana Republic. I think the experiment is over.
"A clan of pedophiles" is certainly a label. I'd go further and say, "A Klan of pedophiles and pedophile protectors".
November 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"A clan of pedophiles" is certainly a label. I'd go further and say, "A Klan of pedophiles and pedophile protectors".