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Foreign policy/intl affairs. Likes and reposts do not necessarily equal agreement
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Russia is an unburied corpse spreading disease.
October 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
October 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
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What causes WW3 as per my tankies:
🇹🇷Shooting 🇷🇺jet down
🇺🇸Killing 🇷🇺troops in🇸🇾
🇺🇸bombing Assad
🇺🇦Defending itself
Giving🇺🇦:
Training
Javelins
155mm shells
Patriots
Tanks
F-16s
HIMARS
ATACMS
Tomahawks
🇺🇦striking crimea
🇺🇦Deep striking🇷🇺
🇺🇦Occupying🇷🇺
Cutting🇷🇺off swift
What doesn't cause WW3:
🇷🇺attacking places
🇹🇷Shooting 🇷🇺jet down
🇺🇸Killing 🇷🇺troops in🇸🇾
🇺🇸bombing Assad
🇺🇦Defending itself
Giving🇺🇦:
Training
Javelins
155mm shells
Patriots
Tanks
F-16s
HIMARS
ATACMS
Tomahawks
🇺🇦striking crimea
🇺🇦Deep striking🇷🇺
🇺🇦Occupying🇷🇺
Cutting🇷🇺off swift
What doesn't cause WW3:
🇷🇺attacking places
October 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
What causes WW3 as per my tankies:
🇹🇷Shooting 🇷🇺jet down
🇺🇸Killing 🇷🇺troops in🇸🇾
🇺🇸bombing Assad
🇺🇦Defending itself
Giving🇺🇦:
Training
Javelins
155mm shells
Patriots
Tanks
F-16s
HIMARS
ATACMS
Tomahawks
🇺🇦striking crimea
🇺🇦Deep striking🇷🇺
🇺🇦Occupying🇷🇺
Cutting🇷🇺off swift
What doesn't cause WW3:
🇷🇺attacking places
🇹🇷Shooting 🇷🇺jet down
🇺🇸Killing 🇷🇺troops in🇸🇾
🇺🇸bombing Assad
🇺🇦Defending itself
Giving🇺🇦:
Training
Javelins
155mm shells
Patriots
Tanks
F-16s
HIMARS
ATACMS
Tomahawks
🇺🇦striking crimea
🇺🇦Deep striking🇷🇺
🇺🇦Occupying🇷🇺
Cutting🇷🇺off swift
What doesn't cause WW3:
🇷🇺attacking places
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My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?
Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
October 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?
Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
I just opened Instagram and almost every single ad as for some right-wing group, pro-Israel lobby, or mega church. What the fuck? Not my algorithm!
October 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I just opened Instagram and almost every single ad as for some right-wing group, pro-Israel lobby, or mega church. What the fuck? Not my algorithm!
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We at The Steady State have studied the indicators of authoritarianism for decades — usually dry words in intelligence reports. But sometimes, a single photograph says it all.
Authoritarianism doesn’t arrive all at once. It creeps in under cover of “order,” cloaked in uniforms, justified by fear.
Authoritarianism doesn’t arrive all at once. It creeps in under cover of “order,” cloaked in uniforms, justified by fear.
October 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM
We at The Steady State have studied the indicators of authoritarianism for decades — usually dry words in intelligence reports. But sometimes, a single photograph says it all.
Authoritarianism doesn’t arrive all at once. It creeps in under cover of “order,” cloaked in uniforms, justified by fear.
Authoritarianism doesn’t arrive all at once. It creeps in under cover of “order,” cloaked in uniforms, justified by fear.
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The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:
-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech
If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.
-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech
If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.
October 8, 2025 at 2:57 AM
The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:
-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech
If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.
-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech
If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.
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Your leaders call what we do to you "hybrid war". Because if they called it "war" you might expect them to do something about it.
September 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Your leaders call what we do to you "hybrid war". Because if they called it "war" you might expect them to do something about it.
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"Vaccine skeptics" is propaganda. The press needs to stop using the phrase. Kennedy is hiring liars and scammers, not skeptics. All scientists are skeptics. That's what science is. And we should be skeptical of vaccines until they are proven to be effective. Again, that's science.
September 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
"Vaccine skeptics" is propaganda. The press needs to stop using the phrase. Kennedy is hiring liars and scammers, not skeptics. All scientists are skeptics. That's what science is. And we should be skeptical of vaccines until they are proven to be effective. Again, that's science.
“The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof;”
August 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof;”
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"There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle."
-Bill Moyers
-Bill Moyers
August 17, 2025 at 3:32 AM
"There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle."
-Bill Moyers
-Bill Moyers
Holy crap. I just realized that Police Academy was a woke DEIA film. Was it the first?
August 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Holy crap. I just realized that Police Academy was a woke DEIA film. Was it the first?
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So you think Ukraine can just leave Donbas? It’s the shield forged in steel — and paid in blood
The Donbas fortress belt has held for years against Russia’s army. Surrendering it would open the road west.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/14/u...
The Donbas fortress belt has held for years against Russia’s army. Surrendering it would open the road west.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/14/u...
So you think Ukraine can just leave Donbas? It’s the shield forged in steel — and paid in blood
The Donbas fortress belt has held for years against Russia’s army. Surrendering it would open the road west.
euromaidanpress.com
August 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
So you think Ukraine can just leave Donbas? It’s the shield forged in steel — and paid in blood
The Donbas fortress belt has held for years against Russia’s army. Surrendering it would open the road west.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/14/u...
The Donbas fortress belt has held for years against Russia’s army. Surrendering it would open the road west.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/14/u...
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Americans deserve to know who is enforcing the laws and whether they are legitimate law enforcement officers. Masks embolden abuse. Full video:
youtu.be/lmAdOjyCA_0?si…
youtu.be/lmAdOjyCA_0?si…
July 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Americans deserve to know who is enforcing the laws and whether they are legitimate law enforcement officers. Masks embolden abuse. Full video:
youtu.be/lmAdOjyCA_0?si…
youtu.be/lmAdOjyCA_0?si…
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Saw someone call AI users “botlickers” and that is very funny
July 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Saw someone call AI users “botlickers” and that is very funny
Name a fictional character you believe would appear on the Epstein list:
July 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Name a fictional character you believe would appear on the Epstein list:
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Casar: Trump has pushed through a bill to knock 17 million Americans off their healthcare.. and he doesn’t want to be held accountable for it.
So he’s ordered Texas Republicans to target at least five districts held by Democrats.
The current map already violates the Voting Rights Act.
So he’s ordered Texas Republicans to target at least five districts held by Democrats.
The current map already violates the Voting Rights Act.
July 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Casar: Trump has pushed through a bill to knock 17 million Americans off their healthcare.. and he doesn’t want to be held accountable for it.
So he’s ordered Texas Republicans to target at least five districts held by Democrats.
The current map already violates the Voting Rights Act.
So he’s ordered Texas Republicans to target at least five districts held by Democrats.
The current map already violates the Voting Rights Act.
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Hey, remember when the Panama Papers were released and they showed how basically every wealthy person on the planet was avoiding taxes by offshoring their money and nothing was done about it except the reporter who broke the story was murdered with a car bomb?
July 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Hey, remember when the Panama Papers were released and they showed how basically every wealthy person on the planet was avoiding taxes by offshoring their money and nothing was done about it except the reporter who broke the story was murdered with a car bomb?
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A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
July 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
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The danger isn’t just that people believe lies. It’s that entire communities become locked into belief systems that can’t be challenged, where loyalty replaces evidence, and disagreement feels like betrayal. That doesn’t just distort truth, it breaks trust.
June 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM
The danger isn’t just that people believe lies. It’s that entire communities become locked into belief systems that can’t be challenged, where loyalty replaces evidence, and disagreement feels like betrayal. That doesn’t just distort truth, it breaks trust.
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You cannot overstate how badly the media botched it re public opinion on immigration. People turned off their brains and forgot what was long obvious: Opinion on this is thermostatic. Trump isn't a magical exception.
We need a better discourse on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1961...
We need a better discourse on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1961...
June 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
You cannot overstate how badly the media botched it re public opinion on immigration. People turned off their brains and forgot what was long obvious: Opinion on this is thermostatic. Trump isn't a magical exception.
We need a better discourse on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1961...
We need a better discourse on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1961...
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The Senate must reject Emil Bove's nomination to the federal bench. His reprehensible conduct at the Justice Department disqualifies him from a lifetime appointment as a federal judge.
June 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The Senate must reject Emil Bove's nomination to the federal bench. His reprehensible conduct at the Justice Department disqualifies him from a lifetime appointment as a federal judge.
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the issue is not just ICE.
we can live free and safe. or we can have police like we have right now.
we cannot do both
we can live free and safe. or we can have police like we have right now.
we cannot do both
LAPD assisted by the Huntington Beach Police just came in full force firing munitions and with Horse support. Someone was trampled. Another has a serious head injury.
June 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
the issue is not just ICE.
we can live free and safe. or we can have police like we have right now.
we cannot do both
we can live free and safe. or we can have police like we have right now.
we cannot do both
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