12 Monkeys in a Democracy Trenchcoat
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Operation REALLY WINDY currently underway
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Operation REALLY WINDY currently underway
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"The reality, as Singapore’s efforts show, is that America’s trading partners are actively searching for non-US alternatives.... If Trump’s pullback is indeed creating a global vacuum, China will be delighted to fill it."
We'll be lucky if it only takes us a generation to recover from this.
We'll be lucky if it only takes us a generation to recover from this.
November 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"The reality, as Singapore’s efforts show, is that America’s trading partners are actively searching for non-US alternatives.... If Trump’s pullback is indeed creating a global vacuum, China will be delighted to fill it."
We'll be lucky if it only takes us a generation to recover from this.
We'll be lucky if it only takes us a generation to recover from this.
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“Everyone with car insurance needs to go and wreck their car or at least have it stolen” is some dumb take
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“Everyone with car insurance needs to go and wreck their car or at least have it stolen” is some dumb take
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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I wanted to bury my face in my hands, sink down to the floor, and slip into my media, but I didn’t. After twelve long seconds, the intense feeling subsided.
November 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I wanted to bury my face in my hands, sink down to the floor, and slip into my media, but I didn’t. After twelve long seconds, the intense feeling subsided.
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We don't talk about what's going on here enough.
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
We don't talk about what's going on here enough.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) this week placed two federal prosecutors on leave after they wrote in a court filing that on Jan. 6, 2021, “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol,” a source familiar with the personnel moves told Democracy Docket.
DOJ Puts Prosecutors On Leave For Accurately Describing Jan. 6 Attack
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) this week placed two federal prosecutors on leave after they wrote in a court filing that on Jan. 6, 2021, “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol,” a source familiar with the personnel moves told Democracy Docket.
The most powerful cult of stupidity the world has ever seen
October 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The most powerful cult of stupidity the world has ever seen
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The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
October 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
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It's this photo if you missed it, savaging the East Wing to make a vanity ballroom.
October 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
It's this photo if you missed it, savaging the East Wing to make a vanity ballroom.
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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It's ours, folks. They gave it up for weirder, fashier ones. And they looks so clean when it's two dozen of them without blue lives matter or confederate or tea stained kekistan bullshit confusing the normies
![Folks with flags march past that big lit flag display in Times Square. A visible sign reads "Abusive Tyrant / $40 Billion to Argentina / $0 to [i think it says USA here?]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j53elsjlcag3iuran5ezcy32/bafkreidd4lk7pngyccsa6gy7b4zskxtgerfafjl4vmizmsji2fhwsctate@jpeg)
October 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
It's ours, folks. They gave it up for weirder, fashier ones. And they looks so clean when it's two dozen of them without blue lives matter or confederate or tea stained kekistan bullshit confusing the normies
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China expels two top generals from Communist Party in anti-corruption purge reut.rs/3IPiSRZ
China expels two top generals from Communist Party in anti-corruption purge
Two top Chinese generals have been expelled from the ruling Communist Party and the military for "serious violations of discipline and law", the country's defence ministry said on Friday.
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October 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
China expels two top generals from Communist Party in anti-corruption purge reut.rs/3IPiSRZ
SO SECRET
MUCH COVERT
U.S. Special Operations helicopters near Venezuela expand Caribbean mission
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
MUCH COVERT
U.S. Special Operations helicopters near Venezuela expand Caribbean mission
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. Special Operations helicopters near Venezuela expand Caribbean mission
U.S. Special Operations helicopters flew within 90 miles of Venezuelan territory, according to a Post analysis. Trump authorized CIA covert action inside the country.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
SO SECRET
MUCH COVERT
U.S. Special Operations helicopters near Venezuela expand Caribbean mission
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
MUCH COVERT
U.S. Special Operations helicopters near Venezuela expand Caribbean mission
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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“YOU hit HER.”
CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)
CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)
October 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“YOU hit HER.”
CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)
CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)
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Simon Schama: What America’s Founders can teach Trump about liberty on.ft.com/4o9o5Db
Simon Schama: What America’s Founders can teach Trump about liberty
The US president’s threats to free speech are nothing new — and we can draw inspiration from history to defend it now
on.ft.com
October 4, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Simon Schama: What America’s Founders can teach Trump about liberty on.ft.com/4o9o5Db
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Open til 8pm. Furloughed folks get 10% off.
October 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Open til 8pm. Furloughed folks get 10% off.
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Huh. Odd that.
About 25% of US adults say they use AI chatbots like ChatGPT for news, and 33% of them say they generally find it difficult to tell what is true and what is not (Pew Research Center)
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October 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Huh. Odd that.
Everything just got a little better
September 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Everything just got a little better
September 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe
www.chosun.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
My friends request you clean their windows, @FieldMuseum
September 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
My friends request you clean their windows, @FieldMuseum