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When modern Christians say “it’s not the government’s job to help the poor,” they’re not echoing Jesus, Paul, the prophets, or the early church.

They’re echoing figures like Ayn Rand, who despised Christianity’s communal ethic of compassion and called altruism a “moral evil.”
October 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Police state.
#ToolOfTyranny

The Pentagon has ordered the National Guard to create “quick reaction” forces in every state and territory by January that are trained and equipped to respond to riots and civil unrest within the U.S.

www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Pentagon Orders National Guard to Establish Quick-Reaction Forces for Civil Unrest, Riots
The riot control units are a major shift, underscoring the Trump administration’s push to directly involve the military in responding to demonstrations and other domestic missions.
www.wsj.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Last month Judge Diane Goodstein blocked SC from giving DOJ voter data.

Last week Harmeet Dhillon of the DOJ condemned Goodstein's ruling.

Yesterday Stephen Miller called "left wing judges & lawyers" as "terrorists requiring force."

Today Judge Goodstein's home is on fire, investigated for arson.
October 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E
October 6, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Judge Immergut isn’t playing around and I suspect will slam the Trump Administration for trying to end-run her order from yesterday blocking Trump’s call-up of Oregon’s National Guard in Portland.
October 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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if youd like to get a bit more background on how young men get radicalized online but don't want to dive into hell facefirst alone i have a book about it

(it's five years old, but speaks to methods & human motivations that are still current, i think)

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia...
Culture Warlords
One reporter takes an immersive dive into white supremacy's explosive online presence, exploring the undercurrents of propaganda, racism, misogyny, and ...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"

That's... usually not the case!

In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.

We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?

youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
"Everyone Drank Raw Milk!" No They Didn't
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
youtu.be
September 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Hegseth's insistence that 'Department of War' fake-name-change is about 'warriors' and 'warfighters' is the dumbest s*** I think I have ever heard.

The guys that created the Department of Defense in 1947 - in NINETEEN FORTY-SEVEN - had done more warfighting than Trump's entire cabinet put together.
September 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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I have read Trump’s “war department” EO.

This is nothing. He changed nothing. He added pretend secondary titles with no power under the law.

He will make the government spend hundreds of millions for vanity labeling purposes.

If you’re in the media and you don’t harp on that, you’re failing.
September 6, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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the thing I love about Zohran’s campaign is that instead of “this place fucking sucks and I alone can fix it” his message is “being a New Yorker rules, we live in the best city in the world, let’s make it even better together”

show some damn pride in the places you want to govern
August 25, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Effective demagogues don't just make issues up out of thin air. They take real concerns and twist them to suit their dishonest purposes. That's why the challenge is you can't just wave away what they're talking about. You have to contend with the real issue while unmasking their distortion of it.
August 22, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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August 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Justice Brett Kavanaugh recently defended the Supreme Court’s use of unexplained emergency orders. Here’s why he’s wrong:
bit.ly/4mzvX0p
Supreme Court Must Explain Why It Keeps Ruling in Trump’s Favor
The Court has repeatedly halted lower court orders and allowed administration policies to go forward via its “shadow docket” without any explanation.
www.brennancenter.org
August 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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"...he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them."

"...no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust...shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title...from any King, Prince, or foreign State."
New Analysis Finds Trump Family Has Raked in $3.4 Billion Off the Presidency
President Donald Trump and his family have made a staggering $3.4 billion off the presidency, according to an analysis by the New Yorker.
www.rollingstone.com
August 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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We’ve said it repeatedly — the Trump assault on the Department of Education is an assault on kids with disabilities.

This Ohio district is violating the clear letter of the IDEA but with the Dept of Ed eviscerated and the courts turning a blind eye, parents are on their own.
Ohio parents of kids with disabilities are receiving letters from the school board demanding they pay “extra” for their disabled children.

This is ableism and discrimination at its finest.

They weren’t even given adequate warning. Just 17 days to pay up.
August 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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A graph Joe Rogan has brought up on SIX separate episodes of his podcast to disprove climate change explicitly says the opposite of what he claims.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1bM...
Joe Rogan Doesn't Understand Graphs
YouTube video by Climate Town
www.youtube.com
August 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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The Christianity rebrand is working
August 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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A thing I think we miss is that the “authoritarian playbook” isn’t a set of instructions authoritarians are reading from, it’s just a list of things that happen when narcissists get too much power.
August 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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I know we have seen a lot of agencies being hobbled and dismantled over the last six months. But the coup happening at the FBI should worry you the most asharangappa.substack.com/p/the-fbi-as...
The FBI As We Knew It is Gone
It took a hundred years to create the Bureau as we knew it. And it took one dinner at the White House to destroy it.
asharangappa.substack.com
August 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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The business community happily funding the destruction of everything that created its prosperity will be studied by historians of stupidity.

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-busine...
August 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Live by the conspiracy theory,
Die by the conspiracy theory.
July 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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The United States would not exist if George Washington hadn’t ordered his troops to be vaccinated.

We have spiraled back 250 years.
August 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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MAGA: I bet you wouldn't be demanding the Epstein list if you knew Democrats were on the list too

Me: lol, unlike you, I'm not in a cult, and if Democrats are on the list, I want every single one of them to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, no exceptions
July 18, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Adding these sillies here! Hope to bring some smiles to the frowning party.
January 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM