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wabi-sabi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺
@empiricist49.bsky.social
Humanist, antitheist and democratic socialist.
Say what?
January 16, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/w...
Machado Presents Trump With Her Nobel Peace Prize
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:38 AM
He pretends that he’s won the Nobel,
and that’s all fine and dandy, that’s swell,
but we all know the truth:
he ain’t got too much couth,
since his youth he’s had snake-oil to sell.
January 16, 2026 at 7:34 AM
He pretends that he’s won the Nobel,
and that’s all fine and dandy, that’s swell,
but we all know the truth:
he ain’t got too much couth,
since his youth he’s had snake-oil to sell.
January 16, 2026 at 7:30 AM
You sad little man, you.
January 16, 2026 at 6:31 AM
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Monica's Place Resister Starter Pack! 🌊💙🌊

I've gathered a collection of great Rebels, Resisters & Democracy Defenders to introduce you to tonight!
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January 16, 2026 at 1:38 AM
She may look like a Barbie Doll, but she talks like one of these.
January 16, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Looks like you're going to have to remove Schumer before you can remove Trump ...
Schumer as a major American metro is being brutally occupied by Trump goons: "The affordability crisis will be our focus throughout 2026 because that's what the American people are demanding"
January 15, 2026 at 11:42 PM
This novel by Sinclair Lewis was published on October 21, 1935

On the same day, October 21, 1935, Nazi Germany was actively consolidating its rapid rearmament and implementing radical antisemitic policies following the September Nuremberg Rally.
January 15, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Only do it real quick, as my American friends like to say.

The clock is ticking, ladies and gentlemen. Tempus fugit.

Has anyone seen a western called High Noon lately?

Spoiler alert: this is the very last scene of the film.

Question: why does Will Kane throw his tin star in the dirt?
January 15, 2026 at 11:25 PM
January 15, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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Here's a nICE family photo of their predecessors back in 1931.

If you don't wake up, there's a good chance you won't wake up at all at this rate, America, as you sleepwalk into a fascist state.

I'm posting both the sickness (left), and a potential cure (right).
January 14, 2026 at 8:42 AM
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Funny you should say that because, coincidentally, I've just come across this on the internet. Must have been when he was doing an internship on "How To Suck Up To The President" during what was Donald J. Blow My Own Trumpet's first term.
January 14, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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Whoever did this wins vid of the week. MF’er wants to rob Greenland for his own benefit. The same goes for
Venezuela. Trump is garbage and needs to be in prison. Republicans, do your damn job!
#LockTrumpUp
#SheShed
#Pinks
January 15, 2026 at 8:20 AM
And the tragedy? Everyone knows that, and Congress isn't doing a damn thing to put a stop to it.

It's going to end in tears ...
The recent ruling in Trump v. Illinois clearly stated that the president can’t use military forces inside the country unless there’s a clear legal or constitutional reason. This is why ICE agents are causing chaos to create trouble, it allows Trump to ignore that ruling and use the Insurrection Act.
January 15, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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Damn straight. Birds of a feather flock together, right?
January 14, 2026 at 6:15 AM
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Anyone out there know how Go Fund Me works? 💙💙💙

timessquarebillboard.com/billboard/
January 14, 2026 at 6:27 AM
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It's all over.

Black is white and white is black.

Never mind the marines, send for a piano tuner.
January 15, 2026 at 4:43 AM
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A case of cause and effect writ large.

All three of these crooks deserve to be impeached.

The whole damn thing stinks like the swamp he talked about draining, such is the depth of Trumpf's cant and hypocrisy.

Please don't share this if you think I'm out of my tiny mind.
January 15, 2026 at 5:33 AM
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And they've both got COPD at the moment, thanks to corporate greed and our consumerist society, hooked on "convenience".

Lungs have a remarkable capacity to repair and regenerate
after you quit smoking.

Quitting, of course, is always the hardest part ...
January 15, 2026 at 6:07 AM
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No flies on Elizabeth Warren, give her due, when it comes to Trump's shenanigans, trying to bend US law to his will. Again.
The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar.

“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar
The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.
www.semafor.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:22 AM
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January 15, 2026 at 6:27 AM
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again, Congress.
January 15, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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Devoted to African American performing arts.

Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Sara Vaughn, Pearl Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald, and Count Basie all played at the Howard Theater and - crucially - you won't see the Donald's name up in lights on its facade.
January 15, 2026 at 11:32 AM