Birthright Citizen
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the hyuck in your yum
Pinned
“Either Apartheid is right or it’s wrong.”
-Ta-Nehisi Coates
-Ta-Nehisi Coates
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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There is no winning. Read a book in public, you get accused of being performative. Don't read a book in public, Joyce Carol Oates says you are a human shell with no inner life. 😞
November 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
There is no winning. Read a book in public, you get accused of being performative. Don't read a book in public, Joyce Carol Oates says you are a human shell with no inner life. 😞
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They WERE NOT hype enough for my boi.
HE WAS GOIN DUMB ON THEM KEYS
HE WAS GOIN DUMB ON THEM KEYS
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
They WERE NOT hype enough for my boi.
HE WAS GOIN DUMB ON THEM KEYS
HE WAS GOIN DUMB ON THEM KEYS
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And let Newport Airport Director Lance Vanderbeck know what you think of turning one of the prettiest places on EARTH into Kroonstad Concentration Camp.
www.newportoregon.gov/common/conta...
www.newportoregon.gov/common/conta...
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
And let Newport Airport Director Lance Vanderbeck know what you think of turning one of the prettiest places on EARTH into Kroonstad Concentration Camp.
www.newportoregon.gov/common/conta...
www.newportoregon.gov/common/conta...
Pulp Fiction (1994)
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Pulp Fiction (1994)
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In central MD alone, ICE is rapidly contracting:
- AI skip tracing
- AI face recognition
- Cell tower spoofing vehicles
- Signal exploitation equipment
- 6 months of MREs for detainees
- Detainee transport vans
- Device cracking & data exploit firms
- AI skip tracing
- AI face recognition
- Cell tower spoofing vehicles
- Signal exploitation equipment
- 6 months of MREs for detainees
- Detainee transport vans
- Device cracking & data exploit firms
I have been actively watching contracts and surge funding over the last few days and what I would say to my friends in Baltimore is “be absolutely ready, right now.”
ICE poised to ramp up raids in Baltimore by Thanksgiving
The Trump administration has rush-ordered infrastructure to conduct raids, abduct residents, and detain people for months.
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
In central MD alone, ICE is rapidly contracting:
- AI skip tracing
- AI face recognition
- Cell tower spoofing vehicles
- Signal exploitation equipment
- 6 months of MREs for detainees
- Detainee transport vans
- Device cracking & data exploit firms
- AI skip tracing
- AI face recognition
- Cell tower spoofing vehicles
- Signal exploitation equipment
- 6 months of MREs for detainees
- Detainee transport vans
- Device cracking & data exploit firms
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Laws are made against the impulse a people most fears in itself. Do not kill was the Shing's vaunted single Law. All else was permitted: which meant, perhaps, there was little else they really wanted to do...
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Laws are made against the impulse a people most fears in itself. Do not kill was the Shing's vaunted single Law. All else was permitted: which meant, perhaps, there was little else they really wanted to do...
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bring back James Bond Jr
November 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
bring back James Bond Jr
Pull on that dip, too, and make sure it doesn't come off
November 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Pull on that dip, too, and make sure it doesn't come off
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This is a public service announcement—WATCH!
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This is a public service announcement—WATCH!
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Elon acting well-read like
November 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Elon acting well-read like
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In Italy labor unions helped start a network of left-leaning news/music radio stations that have become some of the staples of public information in much of the country. They now run on a donation / ads model, but initial investment was from labor. I think about this often.
The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
In Italy labor unions helped start a network of left-leaning news/music radio stations that have become some of the staples of public information in much of the country. They now run on a donation / ads model, but initial investment was from labor. I think about this often.
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So the US recently forced the Dutch to remove a memorial to America's own Black soldiers that died liberating the Netherlands from the nazis? On brand.
Towards the end of WW2, the French were shocked when the US refused to let its own Black soldiers join the celebration the liberation of Paris.
Towards the end of WW2, the French were shocked when the US refused to let its own Black soldiers join the celebration the liberation of Paris.
November 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
So the US recently forced the Dutch to remove a memorial to America's own Black soldiers that died liberating the Netherlands from the nazis? On brand.
Towards the end of WW2, the French were shocked when the US refused to let its own Black soldiers join the celebration the liberation of Paris.
Towards the end of WW2, the French were shocked when the US refused to let its own Black soldiers join the celebration the liberation of Paris.
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history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
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I like how humans look and not how all the app filters and AI makes us look.
November 11, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I like how humans look and not how all the app filters and AI makes us look.
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
Airline PAC money in their pockets
Y’all keep screaming “old politicians are ruining our democracy” but Fetterman is only 56, Kane is 67 about retirement age but is that too old to lead nowadays? Look at those 8 senators and tell me what they all have in common. I’ll wait…
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Airline PAC money in their pockets
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Napoleon Hill: "Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” gointothestory.blcklst.com/on-writing-2... #writing #screenwriting
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Napoleon Hill: "Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” gointothestory.blcklst.com/on-writing-2... #writing #screenwriting
The Untouchables was a late-era Western. Discuss.
Remembering today the late
🇮🇹Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor and trumpeter #EnnioMorricone (10 November 1928 – 6 July 2020) born #OnThisDay in Rome
🇮🇹Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor and trumpeter #EnnioMorricone (10 November 1928 – 6 July 2020) born #OnThisDay in Rome
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The Untouchables was a late-era Western. Discuss.
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this is why the black panther party was demonized and called terrorists by the govt. they were feeding ppl, holding clinics for healthcare, providing ambulance services, security, transportation. they had the govt shook.
We can't unite or unionize on anything if we are not in community with one another. That is why community is where the revolution starts. Once community is strong enough to depend on one another (& subsequently rely less on the government) we will be strong enough to fight back.
November 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
this is why the black panther party was demonized and called terrorists by the govt. they were feeding ppl, holding clinics for healthcare, providing ambulance services, security, transportation. they had the govt shook.
Mamdani wins big and Jeffries goes from Dom Lemon to Don Lemon
Jeffries: “Nobody who's serious in this country takes Dr. Oz seriously…I'm not going to respond to any comments from randos like Dr. Oz, who is woefully unqualified to be in whatever position he holds in the administration. He's a joke. These people are all jokes.”
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Mamdani wins big and Jeffries goes from Dom Lemon to Don Lemon
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Jeffries: “Nobody who's serious in this country takes Dr. Oz seriously…I'm not going to respond to any comments from randos like Dr. Oz, who is woefully unqualified to be in whatever position he holds in the administration. He's a joke. These people are all jokes.”
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Jeffries: “Nobody who's serious in this country takes Dr. Oz seriously…I'm not going to respond to any comments from randos like Dr. Oz, who is woefully unqualified to be in whatever position he holds in the administration. He's a joke. These people are all jokes.”
The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
Bomani and Kid Mero recently said how voters are so misinformed that they will make the candidate with a known last name just because they think that person must be good at politics cause of who their parent is. Cuomo’s for example.
Christine Pelosi, daughter of Nancy Pelosi, has announced she’s running for the California State Senate.
November 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
Jersey, we ride at dawn! 🇮🇹🍕🍝
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Jersey, we ride at dawn! 🇮🇹🍕🍝