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Jimmy Hendricks
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Dealing with climate change by deploying solar, storage, and other technologies during the day, and as a first responder at night. he/him
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Whenever I see "Kid Rock" trending, I want to share that Robert James Ritchie was raised on a 6 acre estate with tennis courts, private stables, two garages holding 5 cars, a jacuzzi, apple orchard and 5,600 sq ft home.

"Trailer park" is a persona, a character he plays.
September 27, 2024 at 12:30 AM
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February 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
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When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."
January 31, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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A short and glossy but useful history of American borders and why ICE and the services it provides are extremely unnecessary

Like we don’t need anything that ICE does (or much of what INS did)

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surajpatelnyc on Instagram: "If you’re older than 25, you’re older than ICE.And that’s precisely why refusing to abolish it is actually the extreme position.For…"
If you’re older than 25, you’re older than ICE.And that’s precisely why refusing to abolish it is actually the extreme position.For most of American history, we did not have immigration enforcement as we know it today. From roughly 1800 to 1924, the United States operated with what was effectively an open-border system. There were no visas, no green cards, no deportation force. If you arrived, you were generally allowed to stay — and in time, you became American.Then came a familiar chain of events.A global Spanish Flu pandemic swept the world in 1918. Supply chains were snarled. Inflation surged. Economic anxiety spread. And political leaders, facing fear and instability, went looking for someone to blame.Inflation rises. Housing tightens. Supply chains strain. And once more, immigrants are blamed for economic forces they did not cause. Fear hardens into grievance. Scarcity becomes political currency. And the instinctive response is to close off rather than invest forward.The scapegoat was immigrants. Isolationism surged and America elected the most scandal-plagued president in its history — well, until now. So, in 1924, Congress passed the Immigration Act — effectively shutting down immigration through national-origin quotas designed explicitly to preserve the country’s existing ethnic makeup. In fact, so awful was this law that the drafters wrote its racism into the Congressional Record: “The purpose of this act is to preserve the ideal of U.S. homogeneity.” It’s radical, it’s disgusting, and frankly it’s Stephen Miller and Donald Trump’s explicit position. They consider it an intellectual underpinning but really, it’s just simply racist. After 1924, legal immigration collapsed almost overnight. Paired with tariffs and protectionism, those policies did not protect American workers. They deepened and prolonged the Great Depression, destabilized democracies abroad, and helped create the political conditions that ultimately led to World War II.If that story feels eerily familiar, it should. And we are living through the same dumb mistakes again. Closed borders did not save the economy. They helped break it.[cont. in comments]
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January 31, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:
January 30, 2026 at 1:24 AM
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Concentration camps.
January 30, 2026 at 3:04 AM
The real reason they wear masks:
January 29, 2026 at 5:35 PM
They really looked at this chart and said "0.03 deaths per TWh - those are rookie numbers, we can really pump those up!"
January 28, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Don't worry, I've got you
Rest in Peace, Alex.

Beautiful street art tribute by Topsy (topsy_paints on Instagram) in Seattle, U.S.
January 26, 2026 at 7:27 PM
I haven't paid close attention, but it feels like this is a "sorry, all the Nazi stuff wasn't really my fault, could you please ignore my behavior over the last several years and give me money?"

Like when Elon issues his apology right before Trump leaves office and asks us to start buying Teslas.
I haven’t listened to the album so I have no idea what he’s hoping the letter will do in tandem to it
January 26, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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As was true in 2020, an actual work stoppage by even a single NBA team (ie the Timberwolves) would be tremendously powerful although I’m sure that everyone who has direct access to these players is telling g them not to do that. Athletes, know your own power.
The NBPA on the killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ICE in Minnesota:

"Now more than ever, we must defend the right to freedom of speech and stand in solidarity with the people in Minnesota protesting and risking their lives to demand justice."
January 25, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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How many other 1960s-era sprinters do you remember?

Athletes, know your power.
January 25, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
January 24, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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One of the reasons I am so insistent that everyone remember that only 22% of the US population voted for Trump is that the Christian Nationalists want the myth of a mandate in circulation.

We need to reject it. They never had a mandate, and their coalition is shrinking.
The new NYT poll finds Trump 17 points underwater on immigration, and the nonwhite and young voters who went to Trump in 2024 have snapped back to Dems

It's almost as if 2024 might not have represented a seismic cultural realignment on immigration after all, despite 1,000 NYT op eds to the contrary
January 22, 2026 at 5:17 PM
We could have achieved the same ends wrt Greenland through normal diplomatic channels, resulting in tighter, win-win partnerships with our closest allies. Instead, we torched a huge amount of goodwill, weakened our standing in the world, and drove our closest allies to align with our largest rival.
January 21, 2026 at 8:29 PM
The epstein photo they're trying to hide:
January 17, 2026 at 11:45 PM
My favorite sign from No Kings:
January 17, 2026 at 11:21 PM
I try to watch this video from 1945 at least once a year. What stood out on this watch (besides too many parallels) was: "There was still not enough food in his house. And when Hitler decided the time was right, Germany went to war, not by declaring war, but by sneak attack."

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Don't Be a Sucker
YouTube video by US National Archives
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January 17, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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Jacob Frey told ICE agents to get the fuck out of Minneapolis, a hugely popular viral moment, and the media has been browbeating him over it ever since. Trump flipped a guy off and told him fuck you and it’s barely acknowledged.
January 14, 2026 at 3:07 PM
At a time when the last shitty Republican President told Americans and the world a bunch of lies to justify a bullshit invasion and occupation, we asked our allies to stand with us. We recognize it as shitty, now, but at the time it was still scary and raw. Denmark stood with us.
January 8, 2026 at 5:03 PM
From this loser and sucker, on our anniversary, I just want to say one thing: "Go fuck yourself, traitor."
January 6, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Over the weekend I was at a bookstore and spotted a fancy looking book about Solarpunk. For a 2024 publishing date it seemed pretty optimistic on the "anticapitalist" potential of blockchain and AI.
January 6, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Do you think dogs dream about flying?
January 5, 2026 at 4:08 AM