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I have strong feelings about Oxford commas & double spaces after periods. Will never say no to a cheese enchilada. Live by the Golden Rule, but still love me some occasional schadenfreude. 🤘⬇️

☮️, 💙, & 👍🏼 ‘94
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“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport”

By Ruben Bolling

Genius. Click in.
June 5, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
May 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Trump’s waiting by the phone for Xi Jinping to call. But Beijing’s not blinking — and they’ve got more than just tariffs in their playbook. They can block US companies, squeeze rare earth exports, dump Treasuries, and hit our farmers hard.

China’s playing the long game & Trump doesn’t even know it.
April 14, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Never before has there been such a gang of Republican politicians so willing to sell their souls for their own reelection at the expense of the rule of law and the health, safety, security and freedom of their children, grandchildren, constituents and country.
February 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Here is a quick guide by our outstanding graphics team. Malika Khurana; Andrew Wilson and Lily Boyce.
February 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Thou shalt not spend millions on Super Bowl ads about Jesus when you could’ve used it to feed the hungry.
February 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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American farms supply ~41% of the food aid USAID sends around the world each year.

In 2020, they bought $2.1 BILLION in food aid from American farmers.

“You start dismantling these [food aid] programs and it’s a ripple effect,” he said. “The farmers are affected; the farm economy is affected.”
Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses
U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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It’s illegal, Musk is not an elected official. DOGE is not a government agency, it doesn’t have Congressional approval required for its creation. Lock him up!
February 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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the problem with “norms” is they’re just held together with common sense and a fear of shame. when people have neither, it all collapses.
The Framers foresaw this problem and figured legislators' ambition, self-preservation, and self-respect would drive them to act against a tyrant.

The Framers didn't expect a majority of Congress would be cowards and fools who cheered it like pigs celebrating the arrival of the butcher.
February 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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If you think wild fires are caused by a Jewish Space Laser, natural disasters are caused by wokeness, and Haitian immigrants are eating people’s pets, DEI causes plane crashes sounds like a logical conclusion.
January 31, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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The highest compliment from someone who disagrees with you is not “You were right.” It’s “You made me think.”

Good arguments help us recognize complexity where we once saw simplicity.

The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It’s to promote critical thinking.
January 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Should go without saying but the point of diversity in hiring is to find _better_-qualified candidates outside of stagnant social networks that don't reward merit, like the kind of network that would put an MTV personality with a marketing degree in charge of the Department of Transportation
January 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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These orders aren’t coming from Donald Trump. He’s the useful idiot for Heritage Foundation, the 100 organizations that wrote Project 2025, and the donors that paid $25M+ to fund it. They aren’t even scrubbing the meta data off the PDF’s.
a close up of a curtain with a floral pattern on it
ALT: a close up of a curtain with a floral pattern on it
media.tenor.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Mitch McConnell wouldn’t have to vote no on dangerous cabinet picks if he’d done his damn job in 2021.
January 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Deportation flights never stopped. The Biden Admin deported about 1 million people per year. Republicans never talked about that because it didn’t fit their narrative, and Democrats never talked about it because they feared it would anger part of their base. So ignorance ruled.
January 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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I'm so sad for America right now. Voters got it wrong.

You elected an insurrectionist buffoon and his cabal of billionaires.
January 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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I love my state. We have some really great people here.

I'm just so ashamed of the asshole politicians we keep electing to our own detriment, and I am worried about not just the next four years, but the GENERATIONAL challenge of unwinding these policies & winning back the state for decent people.
What UT lost with SB 17: American-Statesman's guide to changes due to Texas' anti-DEI law
After SB 17 became law, Texas public universities and colleges can longer have DEI offices and programs. Here's a list of what we know changed at UT.
www.statesman.com
January 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Special Counsel report: The incoming president of the United States would have been convicted of violent crimes against the Constitution if his case had been brought in a timelier manner.
January 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Anyone who says there wasn’t enough water in the reservoirs to fight the California wildfires NEEDS to watch this & help stop misinformation. Can we please get back to uniting as a country when there are catastrophic disasters? Lying only disrupts efforts to help people in need.
youtu.be/OsuBmAVqR7I
L.A. Fires: Why Did the Fire Hydrants Run Dry? What We Know | WSJ
YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal
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January 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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I'm more than disgusted. Mitch should look in the mirror. Had he rallied his Senate team to convict Donald Trump after his second impeachment we would not be here. A simple majority vote was needed after that to ban Trump from office.
Mitch McConnell: “We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now, reminiscent of before world war two,” he says. “Even the slogan is the same. ‘America First.’ That was what they said in the ’30s.”
Mitch McConnell: ‘We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now’
The Republican Senator on his plans to spend the last two years of his term fighting back against an increasingly isolationist GOP
www.ft.com
December 11, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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I am the mother of three sons.

I would sell my soul to the devil to save each of them.

Especially if I recognized the devil.
December 3, 2024 at 1:06 AM
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“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say
November 19, 2024 at 3:56 AM
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November 22, 2024 at 12:40 AM