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"This isn't the America I know."
Black People:
Black People:
November 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"This isn't the America I know."
Black People:
Black People:
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So little patience for the people perfectly content riding the tiger of white resentment and nativism while it was helping them push through tax cuts, who now stare at it running loose and feral in the streets and are like, "the left should reflect on how it let things get this far."
November 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
So little patience for the people perfectly content riding the tiger of white resentment and nativism while it was helping them push through tax cuts, who now stare at it running loose and feral in the streets and are like, "the left should reflect on how it let things get this far."
Y'all, the richest man in the world is boiling the ocean to create divorce taulpas.
Elon Musk is over on Twitter posting his sad/pathetic Ai prompts.
November 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Y'all, the richest man in the world is boiling the ocean to create divorce taulpas.
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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So far this week:
Monday: Dick Cheney kicks it
Tuesday: 34-yo Muslim becomes mayor of NYC
Wednesday: Gorsuch raises grave concerns abt Congress abdicating the power to declare war
Thursday: Pelosi announces retirement
Monday: Dick Cheney kicks it
Tuesday: 34-yo Muslim becomes mayor of NYC
Wednesday: Gorsuch raises grave concerns abt Congress abdicating the power to declare war
Thursday: Pelosi announces retirement
November 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
So far this week:
Monday: Dick Cheney kicks it
Tuesday: 34-yo Muslim becomes mayor of NYC
Wednesday: Gorsuch raises grave concerns abt Congress abdicating the power to declare war
Thursday: Pelosi announces retirement
Monday: Dick Cheney kicks it
Tuesday: 34-yo Muslim becomes mayor of NYC
Wednesday: Gorsuch raises grave concerns abt Congress abdicating the power to declare war
Thursday: Pelosi announces retirement
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NEW — LEGO finally unveils their long-rumored 3600pc, $400 STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D brick set and limited-availability shuttlepod kit, coming in late November
#StarTrek #Lego
blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/lego...
#StarTrek #Lego
blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/lego...
LEGO Unveils New 3600-Piece STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D Brick Set
LEGO finally unveils their long-rumored 3600pc, $400 STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D brick set and limited-availability Shuttlepod kit, coming in late November
blog.trekcore.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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I feel like we don’t say “fuck Ronald Reagan” enough.
November 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I feel like we don’t say “fuck Ronald Reagan” enough.
*looks directly at camera*
Our director @rshapiro.bsky.social on our latest: FBI warns that ICE impersonators are harming ICE's image in immigrant communities, quietly urges ICE agents to identify themselves, as revealed in an intel doc we obtained and shared w/ @dell.bsky.social / @wired.com www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
*looks directly at camera*
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
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WHAT A FRIDAY HAPPY NEWS STORY!!
October 31, 2025 at 8:56 AM
WHAT A FRIDAY HAPPY NEWS STORY!!
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“Under the plan, bounty hunters may receive “monetary bonuses” depending on how successfully they track down their targets — and how many immigrants they then report to ICE.”
Or ICE could just fund the Klan directly.
Or ICE could just fund the Klan directly.
ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants
Companies hired by ICE would be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate — and paid cash bonuses for performance.
theintercept.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
“Under the plan, bounty hunters may receive “monetary bonuses” depending on how successfully they track down their targets — and how many immigrants they then report to ICE.”
Or ICE could just fund the Klan directly.
Or ICE could just fund the Klan directly.
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THIS is southern heritage
November 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
THIS is southern heritage
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Robert Englund 👹 poses with his newly unveiled star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, wearing a Freddy Krueger claw and surrounded by his "Nightmare on Elm Street" family.🎃 #Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Robert Englund 👹 poses with his newly unveiled star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, wearing a Freddy Krueger claw and surrounded by his "Nightmare on Elm Street" family.🎃 #Halloween
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"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"
Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food.
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
October 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"
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What I think is funny is that people still assume he’s going to stop with the east wing, and that what’s going in is a ballroom.
October 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
What I think is funny is that people still assume he’s going to stop with the east wing, and that what’s going in is a ballroom.
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Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?
October 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?
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Is traditional legacy media incapable of meeting a moment in which power relies on propaganda and political theatre?
This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.
This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit
A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.
newrepublic.com
October 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Is traditional legacy media incapable of meeting a moment in which power relies on propaganda and political theatre?
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UNC caves to Trumpism.
“The lounge has been in the "co-ownership" of UNC BSM since 1973 and has served as a community space for Black students to "gather to study, read, relax and socialize in a predominantly Black atmosphere.”
www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
“The lounge has been in the "co-ownership" of UNC BSM since 1973 and has served as a community space for Black students to "gather to study, read, relax and socialize in a predominantly Black atmosphere.”
www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
UNC ends Black Student Movement's 52-year 'co-ownership' of Upendo Lounge
BSM President Adam Sherif said administrators cited new federal guidelines that instruct all federally funded entities to ensure they are not engaging in "discriminatory practices, including those lab...
www.dailytarheel.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
UNC caves to Trumpism.
“The lounge has been in the "co-ownership" of UNC BSM since 1973 and has served as a community space for Black students to "gather to study, read, relax and socialize in a predominantly Black atmosphere.”
www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
“The lounge has been in the "co-ownership" of UNC BSM since 1973 and has served as a community space for Black students to "gather to study, read, relax and socialize in a predominantly Black atmosphere.”
www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
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I admit that I also feel worn out from having warned about U.S. policing for decades.
October 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I admit that I also feel worn out from having warned about U.S. policing for decades.
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If this ends without actual trials and Truth and reconciliation?
It’s not worth anything
Because we don’t get HERE with just “Trump Bad”
It’s not worth anything
Because we don’t get HERE with just “Trump Bad”
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
If this ends without actual trials and Truth and reconciliation?
It’s not worth anything
Because we don’t get HERE with just “Trump Bad”
It’s not worth anything
Because we don’t get HERE with just “Trump Bad”
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people in Portland are taking down ICE with what looks like a party from Chrono Trigger
October 12, 2025 at 3:28 AM
people in Portland are taking down ICE with what looks like a party from Chrono Trigger
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an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can
NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4
October 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can