Sam that was
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Retired by disability but still grooving.
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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Liberals say communism is a fantasy because of the immutably greedy and vicious human nature, then say "Our institutions will be fine actually because they rely entirely on the grand character, integrity, and judgment of a handful of very rich men directly beholden to the status quo"
November 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Liberals say communism is a fantasy because of the immutably greedy and vicious human nature, then say "Our institutions will be fine actually because they rely entirely on the grand character, integrity, and judgment of a handful of very rich men directly beholden to the status quo"
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if anyone knows of any toiletry giveaways in dc, please let me know.
was talking to a furloughed friend today & she brought it up as a need amongst her convos w/coworkers.
toilet paper, menstrual supplies, dish washing liquid, etc...
was talking to a furloughed friend today & she brought it up as a need amongst her convos w/coworkers.
toilet paper, menstrual supplies, dish washing liquid, etc...
November 2, 2025 at 1:12 AM
if anyone knows of any toiletry giveaways in dc, please let me know.
was talking to a furloughed friend today & she brought it up as a need amongst her convos w/coworkers.
toilet paper, menstrual supplies, dish washing liquid, etc...
was talking to a furloughed friend today & she brought it up as a need amongst her convos w/coworkers.
toilet paper, menstrual supplies, dish washing liquid, etc...
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Unless you’ve been on SNAP or had to be a cashier in a grocery store while someone discovers the insane restrictions placed on SNAP food choices, I simply think you should shut the hell up about food access.
November 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Unless you’ve been on SNAP or had to be a cashier in a grocery store while someone discovers the insane restrictions placed on SNAP food choices, I simply think you should shut the hell up about food access.
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Local governments: U must pay your local taxes
The people: Oh okay
Corporations: Well what if we're moving to town to enrich & build infrastructure for ourselves
The people: We don't even want you here
Local governments: Hey now settle down they are welcome here and here's a 10-yr tax abatement
The people: Oh okay
Corporations: Well what if we're moving to town to enrich & build infrastructure for ourselves
The people: We don't even want you here
Local governments: Hey now settle down they are welcome here and here's a 10-yr tax abatement
Amazon secures tax break for $3bn data center campus in Sidney, Ohio
Cloud giant continues to expand holdings in Ohio
www.datacenterdynamics.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Local governments: U must pay your local taxes
The people: Oh okay
Corporations: Well what if we're moving to town to enrich & build infrastructure for ourselves
The people: We don't even want you here
Local governments: Hey now settle down they are welcome here and here's a 10-yr tax abatement
The people: Oh okay
Corporations: Well what if we're moving to town to enrich & build infrastructure for ourselves
The people: We don't even want you here
Local governments: Hey now settle down they are welcome here and here's a 10-yr tax abatement
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
November 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
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Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do.
Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.
Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.
Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado at ICE detention facility: “Being here is an act of holiness…soon we will seek access to the facility to bring the Eucharist to our brothers and sisters; if they say no again, we will keep praying.”
November 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do.
Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.
Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.
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The onboarding process for benefits like SNAP can take several months. There are a lot folks who are months behind on benefits kicking in. My friend Indi is one.
If you can help keep food on the table for Indi and Shay, I’d be grateful. If your GA adjacent and have ideas to cut red tape, poke me
If you can help keep food on the table for Indi and Shay, I’d be grateful. If your GA adjacent and have ideas to cut red tape, poke me
gofund.me/b025baa58
2 days til the shutdown and still my ebt card hasn't arrived. Desperately need help. If you can't donate, please share! Thank you in advance!
2 days til the shutdown and still my ebt card hasn't arrived. Desperately need help. If you can't donate, please share! Thank you in advance!
Please Donate to help Indigo with living expenses, organized by Indigo Caldwell-Caron
Hi, my name is Indigo. You might know me as Skyliting or Para… Indigo Caldwell-Caron needs your support for Please Donate to help Indigo with living expenses
gofund.me
November 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The onboarding process for benefits like SNAP can take several months. There are a lot folks who are months behind on benefits kicking in. My friend Indi is one.
If you can help keep food on the table for Indi and Shay, I’d be grateful. If your GA adjacent and have ideas to cut red tape, poke me
If you can help keep food on the table for Indi and Shay, I’d be grateful. If your GA adjacent and have ideas to cut red tape, poke me
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“Yes to Peace! No to violence!”
In Tel Aviv tonight: Mass rally to mark 30 years since the assassination of Rabin and protest the government destroying both Israeli and Palestinian lives and future.
In Tel Aviv tonight: Mass rally to mark 30 years since the assassination of Rabin and protest the government destroying both Israeli and Palestinian lives and future.
November 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
“Yes to Peace! No to violence!”
In Tel Aviv tonight: Mass rally to mark 30 years since the assassination of Rabin and protest the government destroying both Israeli and Palestinian lives and future.
In Tel Aviv tonight: Mass rally to mark 30 years since the assassination of Rabin and protest the government destroying both Israeli and Palestinian lives and future.
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Trump deported Iranian Christians with open asylum claims for religious persecution four weeks ago.
He expelled other Iranian Christians, including children, to Panama in February.
He expelled other Iranian Christians, including children, to Panama in February.
Trump threatens US military action in Nigeria over treatment of Christians reut.rs/4qBrVXy
Trump threatens US military action in Nigeria over treatment of Christians
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he has asked the Defense Department to prepare for possible military action in Nigeria if the Nigerian government "continues to allow the killing of Christians."
reut.rs
November 1, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Trump deported Iranian Christians with open asylum claims for religious persecution four weeks ago.
He expelled other Iranian Christians, including children, to Panama in February.
He expelled other Iranian Christians, including children, to Panama in February.
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Mon Dieu! How shameful!
Everyone knows you pair white with a fall off a cliff.
Everyone knows you pair white with a fall off a cliff.
October 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Mon Dieu! How shameful!
Everyone knows you pair white with a fall off a cliff.
Everyone knows you pair white with a fall off a cliff.
I'd be curious to see an audit of which American universities straight up sold or enabled big tech vendor reps access to student data.
This is why I don’t trust these companies when they sell tech to education - because this is who they are: criminals who don’t care about digital rights or humans at all.
Stop letting them into schools, whoever they are. They lie and can afford the fines. Nothing but jail will make them do better
Stop letting them into schools, whoever they are. They lie and can afford the fines. Nothing but jail will make them do better
regulations that are put in place to protect individuals from the wealthiest and most powerful corporations are apparently `out of control’
October 31, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I'd be curious to see an audit of which American universities straight up sold or enabled big tech vendor reps access to student data.
I'm curious how much time the contingency funds would buy us.
(AP) — Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump's administration must to continue to fund SNAP, the nation's biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown.
October 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I'm curious how much time the contingency funds would buy us.
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Mithqal just found out that his home has been destroyed, as a friend of his returned to the area & sent him a picture. His family's homeless & starving--please help by sharing & donating to help them survive Israel's continuing genocide & the coming winter. No donations for 3 days:
October 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Mithqal just found out that his home has been destroyed, as a friend of his returned to the area & sent him a picture. His family's homeless & starving--please help by sharing & donating to help them survive Israel's continuing genocide & the coming winter. No donations for 3 days:
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I survived gaza gencide, but I came out to find that everything I knew my home, my work, my city is gone.
Starting again feels impossible, but I’m trying, support and share will give me a new start ❤️🩹🫂
chuffed.org/project/1389...
Starting again feels impossible, but I’m trying, support and share will give me a new start ❤️🩹🫂
chuffed.org/project/1389...
Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone and rebuild their life!
Hi my loves! My name is Caroline, and I created this fundraiser to help Jamal support his family as they fight to survive the genocide in Gaza, evacuate to safety, and eventually rebuild their lives f...
chuffed.org
October 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I survived gaza gencide, but I came out to find that everything I knew my home, my work, my city is gone.
Starting again feels impossible, but I’m trying, support and share will give me a new start ❤️🩹🫂
chuffed.org/project/1389...
Starting again feels impossible, but I’m trying, support and share will give me a new start ❤️🩹🫂
chuffed.org/project/1389...
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Love to see it!
"In achieving this resolution, the MFA recognizes that David Drake (also known as Dave the Potter) was deprived of his creations involuntarily and without compensation."
Exhibit they had few years ago featuring his work, esp. inclusion of works by Simone Leigh, was amazing.
"In achieving this resolution, the MFA recognizes that David Drake (also known as Dave the Potter) was deprived of his creations involuntarily and without compensation."
Exhibit they had few years ago featuring his work, esp. inclusion of works by Simone Leigh, was amazing.
October 30, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Love to see it!
"In achieving this resolution, the MFA recognizes that David Drake (also known as Dave the Potter) was deprived of his creations involuntarily and without compensation."
Exhibit they had few years ago featuring his work, esp. inclusion of works by Simone Leigh, was amazing.
"In achieving this resolution, the MFA recognizes that David Drake (also known as Dave the Potter) was deprived of his creations involuntarily and without compensation."
Exhibit they had few years ago featuring his work, esp. inclusion of works by Simone Leigh, was amazing.
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Between 1933 and 1939 30,000 members of the KDP were executed and 100,000 were sent to concentration camps- there is a reason the poem starts with Communists
October 31, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Between 1933 and 1939 30,000 members of the KDP were executed and 100,000 were sent to concentration camps- there is a reason the poem starts with Communists
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And these are just member of the Reichstag- almost a million people were slaughtered by the Nazis because of their political affiliations- most of them socialists and communists
October 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
And these are just member of the Reichstag- almost a million people were slaughtered by the Nazis because of their political affiliations- most of them socialists and communists
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This is literally Holocaust revisionism and I would like people to see the memorial in front of the Reichstag to members who were killed by the Nazis the vast majority of whom were killed for being communists- each slab is a known member
October 31, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This is literally Holocaust revisionism and I would like people to see the memorial in front of the Reichstag to members who were killed by the Nazis the vast majority of whom were killed for being communists- each slab is a known member
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Between this and the Louvre prosecutor describing the suspects’ statements as “minimalist” while bragging that they had worked on the case over a weekend it’s an absolutely incredible week for Frenchness
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
cbsn.ws
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Between this and the Louvre prosecutor describing the suspects’ statements as “minimalist” while bragging that they had worked on the case over a weekend it’s an absolutely incredible week for Frenchness
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two vast and trunkless legs
October 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
two vast and trunkless legs
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🚨Exclusive from Drop Site: Germany Coordinated ICJ Testimony on Arms Exports With Israel
As Germany faces accusations of "complicity in genocide" at the Int'l Court of Justice, docs from its own defense ministry suggest Berlin may have provided incomplete testimony.
By Karim Natour
Link in reply
As Germany faces accusations of "complicity in genocide" at the Int'l Court of Justice, docs from its own defense ministry suggest Berlin may have provided incomplete testimony.
By Karim Natour
Link in reply
October 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🚨Exclusive from Drop Site: Germany Coordinated ICJ Testimony on Arms Exports With Israel
As Germany faces accusations of "complicity in genocide" at the Int'l Court of Justice, docs from its own defense ministry suggest Berlin may have provided incomplete testimony.
By Karim Natour
Link in reply
As Germany faces accusations of "complicity in genocide" at the Int'l Court of Justice, docs from its own defense ministry suggest Berlin may have provided incomplete testimony.
By Karim Natour
Link in reply
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They're calling him the most French man in history
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
cbsn.ws
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
They're calling him the most French man in history
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Well, an acquaintance who relies on the ACA marketplace for insurance just received a notice explaining that their fee for coverage will be rising. Right now they pay $180 a month. The new price?
$2733.15 a month.
$2733.15 a month.
October 31, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Well, an acquaintance who relies on the ACA marketplace for insurance just received a notice explaining that their fee for coverage will be rising. Right now they pay $180 a month. The new price?
$2733.15 a month.
$2733.15 a month.
Emphasizing OP's point here. He was openly salivating over Duterte's vigilante execution squads in 2017 and it's on brand for his entire career. New Yorkers tried to tell folks.
October 31, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Emphasizing OP's point here. He was openly salivating over Duterte's vigilante execution squads in 2017 and it's on brand for his entire career. New Yorkers tried to tell folks.