Nick Peterson
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Camus' greatest rock pusher. Currently doing design work on high tech labs & manufacturing facilities. Interested in anything and everything.
He/Him/They
He/Him/They
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This was pretty much the shut down. Dems felt good about stopping the government and it gave them a momentary high but
1. Trump was still President and doing bad stuff
2. The GOP didn’t (and dont) care about being blamed for the shut down
Dems weren’t in as strong a position as they felt
1. Trump was still President and doing bad stuff
2. The GOP didn’t (and dont) care about being blamed for the shut down
Dems weren’t in as strong a position as they felt
That there is no easy button to push to stop Trump 🤷♂️
All jokes aside, the majority of the angst leads back to November 2024. People just want it all to stop and the unfortunate reality is, elections are the only thing that will do that.
All jokes aside, the majority of the angst leads back to November 2024. People just want it all to stop and the unfortunate reality is, elections are the only thing that will do that.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This was pretty much the shut down. Dems felt good about stopping the government and it gave them a momentary high but
1. Trump was still President and doing bad stuff
2. The GOP didn’t (and dont) care about being blamed for the shut down
Dems weren’t in as strong a position as they felt
1. Trump was still President and doing bad stuff
2. The GOP didn’t (and dont) care about being blamed for the shut down
Dems weren’t in as strong a position as they felt
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Joyce Carol Oates should say he can't do backflips off the roof next
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Joyce Carol Oates should say he can't do backflips off the roof next
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Trading places with Elon would be like waking up as a cockroach and the worst part is that you would have traded away your knowledge of Kafka and the literary grounding to make sense of said experience.
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Trading places with Elon would be like waking up as a cockroach and the worst part is that you would have traded away your knowledge of Kafka and the literary grounding to make sense of said experience.
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the government forcing the wiggles to do a podcast episode as punishment really shifts the Overton window of regulatory enforcement possibilities
www.accc.gov.au/medi...
www.accc.gov.au/medi...
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
the government forcing the wiggles to do a podcast episode as punishment really shifts the Overton window of regulatory enforcement possibilities
www.accc.gov.au/medi...
www.accc.gov.au/medi...
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we're all clear that SNAP has work requirements for almost everybody, correct
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
we're all clear that SNAP has work requirements for almost everybody, correct
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If you want Republicans to get the blame, you can start by blaming Republicans.
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
If you want Republicans to get the blame, you can start by blaming Republicans.
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if I'm an ATC who took one measly sick day since it was fucking October and my kid had a cold I am *incandescent* over this.
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
if I'm an ATC who took one measly sick day since it was fucking October and my kid had a cold I am *incandescent* over this.
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not even my favorite cover, but I deeply appreciate Headstones for crafting a version that is most likely the version that the men on the ship and their friends would have actually liked.
Headstones - The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
YouTube video by Headstones
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November 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
not even my favorite cover, but I deeply appreciate Headstones for crafting a version that is most likely the version that the men on the ship and their friends would have actually liked.
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Yeah I know we're all angry, but blaming this on the Jews is really really bad.
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Yeah I know we're all angry, but blaming this on the Jews is really really bad.
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some remarks on the shutdown fight, courtesy of philips o'brien: "A battle is more a snapshot in time--a moment when two armed forces reveal their current strengths and weaknesses. What to take from a battle... is what it reveals about the direction of travel of the armed forces involved."
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
some remarks on the shutdown fight, courtesy of philips o'brien: "A battle is more a snapshot in time--a moment when two armed forces reveal their current strengths and weaknesses. What to take from a battle... is what it reveals about the direction of travel of the armed forces involved."
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I need those ACA subsidies.
My neighbors need food.
I’m not going to fault the only party that wants us to have both for only being able to secure the food.
Be mad at Republicans.
Be mad at your maga family.
Use the rest of your energy to give Democrats a majority.
My neighbors need food.
I’m not going to fault the only party that wants us to have both for only being able to secure the food.
Be mad at Republicans.
Be mad at your maga family.
Use the rest of your energy to give Democrats a majority.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I need those ACA subsidies.
My neighbors need food.
I’m not going to fault the only party that wants us to have both for only being able to secure the food.
Be mad at Republicans.
Be mad at your maga family.
Use the rest of your energy to give Democrats a majority.
My neighbors need food.
I’m not going to fault the only party that wants us to have both for only being able to secure the food.
Be mad at Republicans.
Be mad at your maga family.
Use the rest of your energy to give Democrats a majority.
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If that's the deal, and the minibus stops RIFs, and we can just do this all over again in February if they renege... I think that's a viable outcome.
The bottom line is that if the GOP wants to break the ACA, they're going to be able to do it, and we should chain it to their necks in the midterms.
The bottom line is that if the GOP wants to break the ACA, they're going to be able to do it, and we should chain it to their necks in the midterms.
"More than enough" Senate Democratic Caucus members to pass shutdown deal led by Shaheen, King and Hassan, source familiar with deal says
- CR through Jan. 30
- ACA bill vote on bill of Dems' choosing in December
- Minibus has RIF reversals and "protections" against them in future
- CR through Jan. 30
- ACA bill vote on bill of Dems' choosing in December
- Minibus has RIF reversals and "protections" against them in future
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
If that's the deal, and the minibus stops RIFs, and we can just do this all over again in February if they renege... I think that's a viable outcome.
The bottom line is that if the GOP wants to break the ACA, they're going to be able to do it, and we should chain it to their necks in the midterms.
The bottom line is that if the GOP wants to break the ACA, they're going to be able to do it, and we should chain it to their necks in the midterms.
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I keep thinking, stuff like this doesn’t come down without a mandate from fairly high up, ultimately at least sanctioned by the top, to remove everything that positively mentions Black people. It’s not like the memorial to Black soldiers in the Netherlands was on anyone’s radar otherwise.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I keep thinking, stuff like this doesn’t come down without a mandate from fairly high up, ultimately at least sanctioned by the top, to remove everything that positively mentions Black people. It’s not like the memorial to Black soldiers in the Netherlands was on anyone’s radar otherwise.
If you see this, post one image from your device with no context.
November 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
If you see this, post one image from your device with no context.
Sweet bejeebus this is beyond tacky. Actively humiliating what this asshole has done to the people's house.
In case you thought this was fake. It’s from the official White House photographer:
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President Donald Trump speaks with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the Oval Office before a bilateral meeting, Friday, November 7, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)
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November 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Sweet bejeebus this is beyond tacky. Actively humiliating what this asshole has done to the people's house.
If only Infantry Dort was remotely this poetic
Facebook? This isn’t Facebook. It’s the wall at dusk, the last line between order and entropy. A man left his shopping cart dead center of the parking lot—metal glinting in the sun like wreckage. I saw it and remembered 73 Easting: chaos in the sand, armor pushing through dust and disbelief.
Dude get off Facebook. It'll be refreshing.
November 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
If only Infantry Dort was remotely this poetic
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Yeah and it's honestly pretty disgraceful that these kinds of unsourced insinuations and rumors can have a real effect in our politics. I think EVERYONE should be reposting this just to set frivolous people straight.
sure hope the rumors coming out of the GOP House caucus about the horrors in the Epstein files aren't true. that would sure be bad for big don
November 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Yeah and it's honestly pretty disgraceful that these kinds of unsourced insinuations and rumors can have a real effect in our politics. I think EVERYONE should be reposting this just to set frivolous people straight.
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“We have exited normal politics. We are no longer here to have a debate about the importance of the top marginal tax rate. We are here to save our republic.” www.liberalcurrents.com/fight-on-eve...
Fight On Everything
"This dictatorship has been asserted but not yet consolidated. We must therefore 'fight on everything,'" according to Rob Tracinski's "Dictator From Day One."
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
“We have exited normal politics. We are no longer here to have a debate about the importance of the top marginal tax rate. We are here to save our republic.” www.liberalcurrents.com/fight-on-eve...
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Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
Here's the planned BLS data release schedule for Nov 2025.
On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.
This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.
Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.
This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.
Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever