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It's horrific an Australian (Rupert Murdoch of FOX) and a South African (Elon Mush) have been allowed to destroy our country from within.
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There are definitely things that have gone down. Hope, for instance. Faith in elected officials and institutions.
October 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
There are definitely things that have gone down. Hope, for instance. Faith in elected officials and institutions.
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The people complaining about how the left is holding onto the past by complaining about replacing the East Wing are the same people who raise 47 kinds of hell over removing statues of old, white racists who committed treason 160 years ago because HIsTOrY.
October 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The people complaining about how the left is holding onto the past by complaining about replacing the East Wing are the same people who raise 47 kinds of hell over removing statues of old, white racists who committed treason 160 years ago because HIsTOrY.
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Absolutely outrageous!! 😡
October 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Absolutely outrageous!! 😡
What could go wrong?
The people guarding the US nuclear stockpile are being furloughed today.
Meanwhile, Trump deemed those who helped him start trolling accounts on Bluesky and who disseminated his shitpost over the weekend essential.
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/19/p...
Meanwhile, Trump deemed those who helped him start trolling accounts on Bluesky and who disseminated his shitpost over the weekend essential.
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/19/p...
Federal agency overseeing US nuclear stockpile will furlough most of its workforce starting Monday | CNN Politics
The federal agency responsible for overseeing and modernizing the US nuclear stockpile will furlough the vast majority of its staff Monday as the government shutdown drags on, according to the Departm...
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October 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
What could go wrong?
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On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️🌈
October 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️🌈
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📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”
-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”
-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump
October 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”
-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”
-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump
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Why doesn't Donald Trump remember that he was President on January 6th, 2021?
October 12, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Why doesn't Donald Trump remember that he was President on January 6th, 2021?
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Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.
It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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October 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.
It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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We face an open open question as to whether the president, anywhere, anytime he pleases, can execute or round up people he says are terrorists—without due process. That we are even entertaining such a discussion tells you how far Trump has damaged democracy open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Words & Phrases We Could Do Without
‘Armed Conflict’? Trump declares war on all of us
open.substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We face an open open question as to whether the president, anywhere, anytime he pleases, can execute or round up people he says are terrorists—without due process. That we are even entertaining such a discussion tells you how far Trump has damaged democracy open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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I hope you have someone in your life that has your back like Trump does for rich pedophiles.
October 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I hope you have someone in your life that has your back like Trump does for rich pedophiles.
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Ron Johnson: "Quite honestly, by now it should be obvious to every American that it's not the Republicans that are a threat to our democracy. It's President Obama, it's President Biden."
October 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Ron Johnson: "Quite honestly, by now it should be obvious to every American that it's not the Republicans that are a threat to our democracy. It's President Obama, it's President Biden."
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LAWLER: They are playing pure politics here and it has to stop
COLLINS: You don't think the admin is playing politics by only canceling projects in Dem states?
L: Listen, I'm in NY & I'm a Republican & obviously this project cancelation impacts my district, so it's not just Dems getting impacted
COLLINS: You don't think the admin is playing politics by only canceling projects in Dem states?
L: Listen, I'm in NY & I'm a Republican & obviously this project cancelation impacts my district, so it's not just Dems getting impacted
October 2, 2025 at 1:30 AM
LAWLER: They are playing pure politics here and it has to stop
COLLINS: You don't think the admin is playing politics by only canceling projects in Dem states?
L: Listen, I'm in NY & I'm a Republican & obviously this project cancelation impacts my district, so it's not just Dems getting impacted
COLLINS: You don't think the admin is playing politics by only canceling projects in Dem states?
L: Listen, I'm in NY & I'm a Republican & obviously this project cancelation impacts my district, so it's not just Dems getting impacted
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"MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell
JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too"
too
also
he agrees the president is unhinged
JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too"
too
also
he agrees the president is unhinged
October 2, 2025 at 12:42 AM
"MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell
JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too"
too
also
he agrees the president is unhinged
JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too"
too
also
he agrees the president is unhinged
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Ty Cobb: "The simple theme is rewriting history. Trump wants to rewrite history so the next generation may not know that he incited a violent insurrection... America needs to learn from the mistakes that we've had. And one of the biggest mistakes that America ever had was reelecting President Trump"
September 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Ty Cobb: "The simple theme is rewriting history. Trump wants to rewrite history so the next generation may not know that he incited a violent insurrection... America needs to learn from the mistakes that we've had. And one of the biggest mistakes that America ever had was reelecting President Trump"
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If only we’d known in 2015 that we could just turn off the escalator.
September 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
If only we’d known in 2015 that we could just turn off the escalator.
Huh. Who'd a thunk?
Think of the waste this involves
New - “Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.”
www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...
September 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Huh. Who'd a thunk?
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In today's Letter, @hcrichardson.bsky.social has it all: extra-judicial killings, persecution of political enemies, censorship, ongoing purge of government officials, concealing information, & colluding with enemies of the state through inaction. Welcome to fascism. We won't have it. We are America.
September 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
In today's Letter, @hcrichardson.bsky.social has it all: extra-judicial killings, persecution of political enemies, censorship, ongoing purge of government officials, concealing information, & colluding with enemies of the state through inaction. Welcome to fascism. We won't have it. We are America.
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The right really does want to force this country to accept that they can say the most heinous, bigoted shit and they can never be held accountable for it
Ashley Rindsberg and Fox News are furious at Wikipedia editors for “attacking” Charlie Kirk by... listing the viewpoints he prominently and publicly advocated
September 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The right really does want to force this country to accept that they can say the most heinous, bigoted shit and they can never be held accountable for it
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Voters are going to learn in 2029 the normal crap of expecting a Democrat to clean up a Republican presidents disaster is literally not possible.
This is generational damage to the country.
This is generational damage to the country.
July 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Voters are going to learn in 2029 the normal crap of expecting a Democrat to clean up a Republican presidents disaster is literally not possible.
This is generational damage to the country.
This is generational damage to the country.
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*DOG: “You're finally back! I missed you so much!!”
September 3, 2025 at 12:29 AM
*DOG: “You're finally back! I missed you so much!!”
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No one needs to wonder any longer how nations morph into police states under the thumb of dictators determined to wreak vengeance and destroy the lives and livelihoods of millions. It happens gradually and then suddenly.
Had D POTUS rung up $37T debat, started a trade war, knocked job growth down from the 200,000s to 10,000's , tried to fire fed gov, fired experts who had the temerity to contradict him and his cultists with facts, and sounded loony (birds and windmills!) we'd be in impeachment or 25thA territory
Rs, before the Trump cult took hold, frequently railed (rightly so) against communist and fascist regimes that nationalized industry, indulged in crony capitalism, and substituted propaganda for free speech. (The five-year plan is working!) How times have changed. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
September 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
No one needs to wonder any longer how nations morph into police states under the thumb of dictators determined to wreak vengeance and destroy the lives and livelihoods of millions. It happens gradually and then suddenly.
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Robert E. Lee killed more U.S. troops in battle than Adolph Hitler and Osama bin Laden combined
The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, which includes a slave guiding the Confederate general’s horse in the background, to the West Point library three years after a congressionally mandated commission ordered it removed, officials said.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
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Pentagon Is Reinstalling Portrait of Confederate General at West Point Library
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August 29, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Robert E. Lee killed more U.S. troops in battle than Adolph Hitler and Osama bin Laden combined
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And to end it, *life has to become uncomfortable enough for enough Americans to do something*.
Sadly, a too-huge slice of tuned-out people possess limited critical thinking skills/civics ed. His actions must affect them personally in a profound way.
He counts on that.
It's how we got here.
Sadly, a too-huge slice of tuned-out people possess limited critical thinking skills/civics ed. His actions must affect them personally in a profound way.
He counts on that.
It's how we got here.
You are living through the unthinkable: the president of the United States using the military to seize domestic power. The greatest crisis of executive power in American history, at the hands of the worst, most corrupt, and most unfit president in American history.
August 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
And to end it, *life has to become uncomfortable enough for enough Americans to do something*.
Sadly, a too-huge slice of tuned-out people possess limited critical thinking skills/civics ed. His actions must affect them personally in a profound way.
He counts on that.
It's how we got here.
Sadly, a too-huge slice of tuned-out people possess limited critical thinking skills/civics ed. His actions must affect them personally in a profound way.
He counts on that.
It's how we got here.