Patrick Sullivan
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Mike Johnson refused to swear in Adelita Grijalva for 7 weeks after she won her election by about 40 points. Mitch McConnell refused to give Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, even a hearing for most of a year. Sen. Tommy Tuberville blocked all military nominations for 10 months /
November 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Mike Johnson refused to swear in Adelita Grijalva for 7 weeks after she won her election by about 40 points. Mitch McConnell refused to give Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, even a hearing for most of a year. Sen. Tommy Tuberville blocked all military nominations for 10 months /
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Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year
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i don’t study fascism and i’m not fucking leaving, this country belongs to us, not them, fuck you
Jason Stanley isn’t afraid to use the F-word when talking about President Donald Trump.
The author of How Fascism Works and Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future is clear: He believes the US is currently under an authoritarian regime led by a fascist leader.
The author of How Fascism Works and Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future is clear: He believes the US is currently under an authoritarian regime led by a fascist leader.
I study fascism. I’ve already fled America.
On this week’s “More To The Story,” former Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley explains his recent move to Canada and calls the Trump administration’s takeover of the US government a “coup.”
www.motherjones.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:09 AM
i don’t study fascism and i’m not fucking leaving, this country belongs to us, not them, fuck you
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I am not a military strategist, but I have a vague memory that not feeding the troops was one of those big fuck-ups that Sun Tzu talked about.
NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It
The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.
www.404media.co
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I am not a military strategist, but I have a vague memory that not feeding the troops was one of those big fuck-ups that Sun Tzu talked about.
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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I think we need to reframe things and refer to any software that intentionally negatively affects user experience to further some ulterior motive as "malicious software"
November 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I think we need to reframe things and refer to any software that intentionally negatively affects user experience to further some ulterior motive as "malicious software"
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Who could have predicted that what voters wanted after all were candidates with even a modicum of a spine? This was truly unknowable before today.
November 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Who could have predicted that what voters wanted after all were candidates with even a modicum of a spine? This was truly unknowable before today.
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Our elites may be the most pathetic class of quislings in a century but normal people all over the country are looking fascism square in the face and saying 'fuck no'
November 5, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Our elites may be the most pathetic class of quislings in a century but normal people all over the country are looking fascism square in the face and saying 'fuck no'
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How is there not an international ban on motion smoothing on TVs yet, how can this go on
November 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
How is there not an international ban on motion smoothing on TVs yet, how can this go on
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There are more of us than there are of them.
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
There are more of us than there are of them.
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Between Sliwa and Brad Lander probably the best thing you can do as a public figure right now (even if you’re odious! like Curtis!) is lose gracefully being exactly who you are. People are desperate for dignity to make a comeback and they’ll reward you later.
November 4, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Between Sliwa and Brad Lander probably the best thing you can do as a public figure right now (even if you’re odious! like Curtis!) is lose gracefully being exactly who you are. People are desperate for dignity to make a comeback and they’ll reward you later.
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Teen Vogue has shown that you can do courageous, accountability political journalism *and* get huge engagement while doing so. And they've just decided to throw that all away. This is an unbelievably grim day for journalism.
November 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Teen Vogue has shown that you can do courageous, accountability political journalism *and* get huge engagement while doing so. And they've just decided to throw that all away. This is an unbelievably grim day for journalism.
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People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.
November 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.
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Why does the headline make it sound like she drove into an ICE car, when your colleague's reporting makes it clear that ICE drove into her?
November 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Why does the headline make it sound like she drove into an ICE car, when your colleague's reporting makes it clear that ICE drove into her?
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Not enough people are talking about how Trump and the Republicans are trying to privatize the Tennessee Valley Authority, and how Right-wing megadonor Lee Beaman is a Trump nominee for one of the vacant board seats. www.bizjournals.com/nashville/ne...
November 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Not enough people are talking about how Trump and the Republicans are trying to privatize the Tennessee Valley Authority, and how Right-wing megadonor Lee Beaman is a Trump nominee for one of the vacant board seats. www.bizjournals.com/nashville/ne...
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Beloved KNOXVILLE falafel restaurant owner Yassin posts that his high health care costs are going up even higher — which Dems are fighting to stop. (@RepTimBurchett & @MarshaBlackburn could not care less)
“The system is broken.” 🎯 #MedicareForAllNOW
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“The system is broken.” 🎯 #MedicareForAllNOW
www.facebook.com/share/17YHdH...
November 3, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Beloved KNOXVILLE falafel restaurant owner Yassin posts that his high health care costs are going up even higher — which Dems are fighting to stop. (@RepTimBurchett & @MarshaBlackburn could not care less)
“The system is broken.” 🎯 #MedicareForAllNOW
www.facebook.com/share/17YHdH...
“The system is broken.” 🎯 #MedicareForAllNOW
www.facebook.com/share/17YHdH...
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I don't want you chuckling and repeating canned applause lines, I want you filled with righteous incandescent rage at the assholes who wrecked the country because they were bored and saw too many memes
November 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I don't want you chuckling and repeating canned applause lines, I want you filled with righteous incandescent rage at the assholes who wrecked the country because they were bored and saw too many memes
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A felon for president. A SecDef who leaks secrets on Signal. An AG who breaks the law. A DHS Secretary who doesn’t know what habeas corpus is. An HHS Secretary who lies about autism. A Nazi dwarf. An ass kissing House Speaker. This is the freak show running the country 🤦♂️
November 1, 2025 at 5:01 AM
A felon for president. A SecDef who leaks secrets on Signal. An AG who breaks the law. A DHS Secretary who doesn’t know what habeas corpus is. An HHS Secretary who lies about autism. A Nazi dwarf. An ass kissing House Speaker. This is the freak show running the country 🤦♂️
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Please turn off your #Ring cameras so that kids/families just trying to participate in #Halloween don't get caught up by ICE. Ring has partnered with them, so we know how this is going to turn out.
Also, please consider removing Ring entirely or AT LEAST turn on the e2e encryption.
RING=ICE
Also, please consider removing Ring entirely or AT LEAST turn on the e2e encryption.
RING=ICE
October 31, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Please turn off your #Ring cameras so that kids/families just trying to participate in #Halloween don't get caught up by ICE. Ring has partnered with them, so we know how this is going to turn out.
Also, please consider removing Ring entirely or AT LEAST turn on the e2e encryption.
RING=ICE
Also, please consider removing Ring entirely or AT LEAST turn on the e2e encryption.
RING=ICE
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“Log off? Are you prepared to kill me? BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT IT’S GONNA TAKE.”
October 31, 2025 at 3:56 PM
“Log off? Are you prepared to kill me? BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT IT’S GONNA TAKE.”
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Y’all remember what didn’t happen when Biden was president? *Any* of this shit. Tariffs, war with Venezuela, masked secret police grabbing people off the streets, people about to lose food aid, health care premiums skyrocketing, none of this.
October 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Y’all remember what didn’t happen when Biden was president? *Any* of this shit. Tariffs, war with Venezuela, masked secret police grabbing people off the streets, people about to lose food aid, health care premiums skyrocketing, none of this.
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“what radicalized you” idk paying attention
October 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
“what radicalized you” idk paying attention
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Too many people thought this politics shit was a game they could just opt out of. No. A lot of people are going to die. Could be in the millions. Fuck.
October 30, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Too many people thought this politics shit was a game they could just opt out of. No. A lot of people are going to die. Could be in the millions. Fuck.
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From an article about the man in the SS uniform arrested for attacking the woman in Georgia. Just wild that we've accepted that there's a huge social media platform where an account called "@GasChambers" is allowed to openly do Nazi fundraising and that's fine, in fact all the reporters post there.
October 29, 2025 at 5:46 AM
From an article about the man in the SS uniform arrested for attacking the woman in Georgia. Just wild that we've accepted that there's a huge social media platform where an account called "@GasChambers" is allowed to openly do Nazi fundraising and that's fine, in fact all the reporters post there.
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”