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Video transcript in #AltText
Intro song Sonata Para Bombachas by Barenaked Ladies plays. "This is The Learning Channel. Time now for This Day in History." "Hello, I'm Deirdre Smythe Glieberman. On this day in history in 1534 French explorer Jacques Cartier landed on the shores of what is now eastern Canada. Cartier had hopes of starting a chain of expensive watch and jewelry stores. Cartier travelled inland to explore the new land." [Jacques has a mock French accent] Jacques Cartier (J): I claim this land for the glory of King what's-his-name of France. I shall be famous as the man who began a new era of French colonization. Immigration official (I): Not so fast. J: Who are you? I: Stand behind the red line. [waits a few beats] Next! J: What is the meaning of this delay, I am here to discover Canada! I: Well you're only about ten thousand years too late, friend. J: You look familiar, were you in that movie Dances with Wolves? I: [in mock French accent] Yes, I was. J: What was your name? I: Kevin Costner. Reason for visit? J: Reason? I am here to claim this land for the glory of la France. I: Well there goes the neighborhood. Occupation? J: I am an explorer, adventurer, courageous traveler. I: I'll just put down dork. I love this job. What's your native tongue? J: I am a master of many tongues. I: Oh yeah? What are they, Cree, Inuit, Dene? J: No. I: Blackfoot, Mohawk, Haida? J: No. I: Then you don't know any native tongues. I'll just put down illiterate. J: How dare you, I am Jacques Cartier, world famous explorer with over fifty thousand frequent sailor points. I am a very important person. I am very popular. I am known all over France. I can have any woman I want as long as I can come up with the cash. I: Big deal, I'm hosting the Genies next week. J: Look, the whole reason I am here is to discover Canada. You are treating me like a second-class citizen. I: Wait until you go through the body search. J: No way! I: Application for immigration denied. Next!...Denied!
November 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Video description in #AltText
He then flexes his now gloved fingers menacingly as he smirks at Jacques. Jacques deflates at this refusing the body cavity search so the official gets out a big stamp and times the smack like presses of it with his words denying the application of immigration. He then says next waving Jacques away who storms off in a huff to be replaced by a stereotypical looking Englishman circa the 1500s carrying the Union Jack. The official is doing paperwork and doesn't notice him approach till he's at the table then he looks him up and down once and just says Denied before going back to his paperwork. The Englishman looks confused as he walks away from the encounter. The words This Day in History fly in from right to close out the scene before cutting to the in studio audience applauding the performance.
November 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Video description in #AltText
Grainy VHS video opens and the Royal Canadian Air Farce logo featuring a yellow hand waggling like a chicken's comb over a close up image of one of the cast alongside the program's name in stylized text. Next frame shows another logo w/the letters TLC in 3 boxes and the words The Learning Channel beneath them. Next frame the words This Day In History appear in gold font above a line break beneath which the words A Concise History of Canada appear in white. Next frame there is a woman standing in front of a shelf of books holding an open book titled This Day in History in her hands as she speaks about this day in history in 1534 directing her remarks straight to camera. Cut to a shot of the book showing a black and white photo of Jacques doing a Cpt. Morgan pose that pushes in as it transitions to the scene w/Jacques in color. Jacques is standing in the woods with a French royal flag, a field of blue w/3 golden fleur-de-lis upon them, that he plants in the ground and admires for a few seconds before a local (played by Graham Greene) shows up. He walks up to a makeshift table opposite of Jacques and unfurls a banner set on the table displaying the words Customs and Immigration in black text. Jacques turns to look around befuddled as the customs official grabs a clipboard and taps a ballpoint pen to his tongue as he begins filling out paperwork. He looks Jacques up and down a few times then directs him to stand behind the red line on the ground behind him that is now in frame. Jacques looks at the line then daintily steps over it and stands there awkwardly waiting as the official scribbles a few more times on his clipboard before looking at nothing in particular as he makes Jacques, who is the only other person visible, wait his turn. He then signals for Jacques to approach and they have a hilarious exchange as Jacques gets more frustrated with the indignities of the process finally complaining about it to which the official responds by noisily putting on a latex glove
November 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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With actual #AltText of the document.
Text from last page of the human trafficking deal between the Trump admin (USA) and the Bukele admin (Government of El Salvador; GOES) listing five items. Annex - Additional Terms and Conditions 1. GOES agrees that none of the funds awarded under this agreement may be made available to encourage, mobilize, publicize, or manage mass-migration caravans towards the United States southwest border. Funds may not be made available for legal counseling on the United States asylum process, or for referrals to the legal representation in the United States. 2. GOES agrees that funds may not be made available for legal counseling on the United States asylum process; and/or for referrals to legal representation in the United States. 3. GOES agrees that none of the funds awarded under this agreement may be available for subawards, direct financial support, or otherwise used to provide any payment or transfer to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). 4. GOES agrees that none of the funds provided under this agreement may be used to lobby for or against abortion. That GOES agrees that none of the funds provided under this agreement may be made used to pay for the performance of abortion as a method of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to practice abortions. 5. GOES agrees that none of the funds awarded under this agreement may be used for initiatives or programs, or any activities that do not comply with Executive Order 14173 titled Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity. By signing this letter, the Recipient certifies the following: 1) Its compliance in all respects with all applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws is material to the government's payment decisions for purposes of section 3729(b)(4) of title 31, United States Code and; 2) It does not operate any programs promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion that violate any applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws.
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Quick reminder, the man in the photo is as much a Police Officer as those officials working for Trump in the Executive Office of Immigration Review are Judges.
An image of Paul Blart (actor Kevin James) a security guard for a mall, not a police officer, in his white uniform riding a Segway scooter with a serious look on his face.
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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With #AltText
Chicago By Carl Sandburg Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders: They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys. And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again. And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger. And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities; Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness, Bareheaded, Shoveling, Wrecking, Planning, Building, breaking, rebuilding, Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth, Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs, Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle, Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse, and under his ribs the heart of the people, Laughing! Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.
November 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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With #AltText

Lies of inversion, IDK or have a better name for them and I think it's a noteworthy tactic.

Truth: The wall is white
Their lie: The wall is black

Not the wall is ivory or cream. No, they consistently opt for the binary polar opposite.

Winning is losing. Up is down. Evil is good.
Screencap of FOX propaganda program The Ingraham Angle with an exceptionally stupefying chyron that actually reads "BY WINNING, DEMOCRATS ARE ACTUALLY LOSING"
November 6, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Step 4) While the butter is still melting down add the garlic and start stirring gently. Once the butter is melted add the parmesean until the garlic butter is buried then stir.
A pot of with a stick of butter melting with two cloves of pressed garlic added in. A mixture of garlic butter and grated parmesean cheese in a pot on a glass range.
November 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Step 4) The Alfredo Sauce, we going to be on step 4 for a minute so let's get going.

Gather the ingredients unsalted butter, garlic, parmesean cheese, half & half aka table cream, and corn starch. Then get a pot to cook this in starting with the butter.
A bunch of ingredients gathered on the stovetop. A full stick of unsalted butter still in its packaging and two cloves of garlic in a garlic press sit in the bowl of chopped broccoli next to a couple of cartons of half & half with a container of grated parmesean resting on top of them. A stick of unsalted butter melts down in a pot on the stove.
November 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Step 3) Chicken, chop up and season that chicken. Then cook it up.
Chicken chopped up and seasoned on a blue cutting board. A single large piece of chicken sits apart from the rest in a corner and remains unseasoned. That will be my dog Moxie's 14th birthday meal, she loves chicken.
November 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Step 2) Broccoli, rinse then chop the boccoli.

Chopping broccoli. 🎵
A bowl with two florets of broccoli chopped up on a glass stovetop with a mix of tomatoes from the garden and the leavings of the chopped broccoli and carrots on a blue cutting board in the background.
November 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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I think protecting Nazis is bad policy.
Freedom of Speech oil painting by Norman Rockwell depicting a man standing and speaking amongst a group of seated people most of whom are looking up to him as he makes his remarks. The painting has gained a newfound fame on the internet through its use as a sarcastic hot take meme in which an entirely reasonable position is framed as if it is controversial bordering taboo.
October 31, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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"If he was concerned, Bushart didn’t show it. He went back to posting. At 9:48 p.m.

It is known Larry is going to keep posting whether it's within hours of the goon squad showing up at his door or after they release him from wrongful imprisonment.
Weems contacted his investigator. Just under an hour later, in Lexington, Bushart wrote a two-line post on Facebook at 7:53 p.m. “Received a visit from Lexington PD regarding my posted memes on ‘What’s Happening in Perry County,’” he wrote. The police had come at the behest of Perry County, he said, but did not elaborate. If he was concerned, Bushart didn’t show it. He went back to posting. At 9:48 p.m., Bushart shared a meme from a page called Blue Wave 2026, featuring an unhinged-looking Roseanne Barr. “Many maga are claiming that Obama used the pressure of his office and the FCC to get Rosanne cancelled just like Trump did to Kimmel,” it read. “Except Obama wasn’t president in 2018. Care to guess who was?”
October 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Larry Bushart Jr. is one of the people targeted by the rightwing for viewpoint discrimination.

One piece of important context on the story missing from the cited NBC piece is Sheriff Weems ideological alignment with Kirk and how that clearly factored into the persecution of Larry Bushart Jr.
Excerpt from the Intercept's article with the third paragraph that begins "By Sunday evening" highlighted. But it was a more innocuous post that would soon send Bushart’s life spiraling out of control. It was an image he had previously posted to his own feed to little response: a photo of Trump alongside a quote, “We have to get over it.” The meme, which had been circulating for more than a year, drew from remarks Trump made after a January 2024 school shooting in Perry, Iowa. Beneath the quote was a line providing context: “Donald Trump, on the Perry High School mass shooting, one day after.” Above the image were the words “Seems relevant today.” If Bushart shared the posts to taunt those mourning Kirk, the reactions on the forum remained relatively mild. “Jeez Larry, take a stress pill or something,” one man commented. “Mow the lawn, get off the computer. A simple, concise statement like ‘I HATE Charlie’ would be sufficient.” Some of Bushart’s posts were received more positively; a meme arguing that “Billionaires fund the class war. Charlie Kirk sold it as a race war” got several likes. The Trump meme, meanwhile, was ignored. By Sunday evening, however, the posts had gotten the attention of Perry County Sheriff Nick Weems. An avid Facebook user himself, Weems had shared the information about the Kirk vigil on his own page a few days earlier. He had also posted his own emotional response to the news of Kirk’s murder in September, warning ominously about the “evil” in our midst. “Evil could be your neighbor,” he wrote. “Evil could be standing right beside you in the grocery store. It could be your own family member and you never even know it.” Weems contacted his investigator. Just under an hour later, in Lexington, Bushart wrote a two-line post on Facebook at 7:53 p.m. “Received a visit from Lexington PD regarding my posted memes on ‘What’s Happening in Perry County,’” he wrote. The police had come at the behest of Perry County, he said, but did not elaborate.
October 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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So this is a thing that happened.

#AltText #Butterfly
A Monarch butterfly in my hand with its iconic orange fringed in black with white polkadot wings in between full extension and folded together. The same Monarch butterfly in my hand now facing a different direction with its iconic orange fringed in black with white polkadot wings in between full extension and folded together.
October 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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DHS mission statement: With honor and integrity, we will safeguard the American people, our homeland, and our values.

DHS employee unfazed w/disappeared Americans: So to be clear, you're asking about an event from a month ago?

Disappearing Americans is mutually exclusive to safeguarding Americans.
Screen capture of the mission statement of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) direct from their page. The US flag is at the top of the blue background graphic and above a line break with the words "With honor and integrity, we will safeguard the American people, our homeland, and our values." Beneath is another line break with the DHS logo the US eagle in flight clutching olive branches in one set of talons and arrows in the other under a crest formed from a blue tower shield separated into three sections with stars above mountains (left) and waves (right). The same DHS logo scaled up so that it doesn't fit into the graphic partially shows offset lower right in light blue blending into the blue background.
October 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Travesty.

The Gamboa's couldn't get details about Randall at all for 6 weeks. Only after involving the Costa Rican Consulate do they find out he's been admitted to hospital but NO ONE will tell them why or his condition. They HAVE TO get a lawyer to do this. It gets worse. After finding Randall
A horrifying side by side picture of Randall Gamboa before and after being held captive for months by US immigration enforcement. In the left photo before being held captive at the orders of white supremacists and to further the cause of white supremacy Randall is happy and hale, a wonderful smile lighting up his face as he stands side by side in an embrace with someone he is close to; perhaps his fiancé(?). In the after photo on the right Randall is hardly recognizable, gaunt from being severely malnourished to the point he reminds me of some of the pictures of victims from the Nazi concentration camps. He lays in a hospital bed with his head twisted fixedly by his condition to the side with his chin nearly touching his left shoulder as a canula provides oxygen to him through his nostrils. Randall's state in August following nearly 8 months of being imprisoned by US immigration enforcement is described as follows per a Go Fund Me page made while Randall was still alive to investigate what happened: Randall is alive — but just barely. He cannot walk. He cannot move. He cannot speak. He can only blink his eyes. This from the Tico Times: A volunteer lawyer tracked him to a Texas hospital, where doctors diagnosed rhabdomyolysis, a condition that breaks down muscle tissue. Gamboa appeared malnourished, dehydrated, and in poor hygiene. Family members noted differences between U.S. medical reports and later tests in Costa Rica. In September, the U.S. government arranged an air ambulance to fly Gamboa back home. He arrived at Fernando Escalante Pradilla Hospital in Pérez Zeledón unable to walk, speak, or eat on his own. Doctors described his state as vegetative, with brain damage and other complications. The family still has not been provided answers by ICE the group that took Randall and held him as captive prisoner for the better part of a year for how this happened to Randall while he was under their charge.
October 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Congressional intent is evident that SNAP’s operations should
continue since the program has been provided with multi-year contingency funds that can be used for State Administrative Expenses to ensure that the State can also continue operations during a Federal Government shutdown.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP):OMB’s General Counsel provided a letter to USDA on May 23, 2025 stating that there is a bona fide need to obligate benefits for October – the first month of the fiscal year – during or prior to the month of September, thereby guaranteeing that benefit funds are available for program operations even in the event of a government shutdown at the beginning of a fiscal year. In addition, Congressional intent is evident that SNAP’s operations should continue since the program has been provided with multi-year contingency funds that can be used for State Administrative Expenses to ensure that the State can also continue operations during a Federal Government shutdown. These multi-year contingency funds are also available to fund participant benefits in the event that a lapse occurs in the middle of the fiscal year. To fulfill this Congressional intent, it is necessary that a limited number of FNS employees be excepted from furlough to support program operations. These activities include, but are not limited to, program policy and operations, financial management, and stakeholder communications.
October 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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"It didn’t matter that [mine] was a nonviolent charge. It was a simple, “We can’t hire you.” And yet Trump can be convicted of multiple felonies and still run for president? Can someone explain that to me?"

Rules for thee but not for me. It's called white supremacy.
Excerpt from the article that reads: What complicates this even more is [Donald] Trump being able to run for president again. For years I have been out here struggling to find employment and housing because of my felonies. My life before incarceration was hard, but prison took everything from me. Now, everywhere I go, I am defined by my criminal record, which makes life even harder, especially with finding work. Because I have a felony, I was recently turned down for a job within the construction field. I was told it was company policy that they could not hire anybody with a felony. It didn’t matter that [mine] was a nonviolent charge. It was a simple, “We can’t hire you.” And yet Trump can be convicted of multiple felonies and still run for president? Can someone explain that to me?
October 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Last thing. Within the context of the situation one could read this as the spokesperson asserting the most appealing candidate for Maine Democratic voters is a former blackwater mercenary who blames SA victims for SA and got and had an SS Nazi tattoo for the better part of two decades.
Excerpt from the article: The spokesperson said Platner’s image isn’t necessarily the model Democrats should seek in every race. “The Democratic Party should be running candidates to appeal to a broad, broad swath of the electorate in their home state, or in their district, or whatever they may look like,” they said. “There’s not a one-size-fits-all rule book.”
October 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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The Platner campaign spokesperson logic could also be applied to legitimize Trump's political campaigns. He also benefitted from continued popularity and loyalty amongst GOP voters despite scandals that would have derailed the campaigns of candidates with more scrupulous and principled supporters.
Excerpt from the article: “I’m convinced because the people in Maine are convinced. After all this went down we had 500 people at a capacity town hall. We had 100 people outside waiting to hear him speak,” said the Platner campaign spokesperson. “I’m convinced, because we continue to hold town halls across the state that are at capacity in rural areas, in bigger cities, in smaller towns.”
October 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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A symbol of the USA trashed, remarkably apt imagery for these dark times.
A picture of the destroyed East Wing of the White House with large uneven sections of it ripped apart by heavy machinery leaving interior rooms exposed and the building's infrastructure hanging like eviscera from a gutted animal. Water spays upwards like a disaster scene from a hollywood film where a fire hydrant is one of the casualties past the black metal arm of the implement of destruction, an excavator.
October 21, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Four heartbreaking excerpts from this piece about the people whose lives have been made a living nightmare by heartless tyrants.
As they wait, they worry about how they’ll survive when winter comes. Most days, Deybis visits local food pantries and looks for discarded items in alleys and on street corners that they can resell. A few weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to help pay the rent. “We’d rather be in Venezuela with our family than suffer here,” he said. Pérez said her daughter was the family’s main motivation to come; the girl had been born with a heart defect and needed surgery they could not find in Venezuela, where hospitals operate through power outages and have limited capacity for advanced surgeries, not to mention supplies. “We didn’t come for the American dream, or for a house, or for some life of luxury,” said Pérez. “What we wanted is for our daughter to live.” But as the months pass without an answer from the CBP Home program, Chicago doesn’t feel safe, either. This fall, the Trump administration zeroed in on the city for immigration enforcement, sending in the U.S. Border Patrol. Pérez recently downloaded another app that tells her whether there’ve been sightings of federal immigration agents nearby, and she watches videos of other immigrants getting arrested. One day in September, a federal agent shot and killed an immigrant in a nearby suburb. Pérez wonders if she might die, too. They share their mother’s anxiety. On their walk home, Pérez’s daughter leaned over her brother and chided him for speaking Spanish in public. The girl said her teacher had warned her that federal agents might be listening. It reminded Perez that she now needs to leave the U.S. for the same reason she came: her children. She plans to register yet again on the CBP Home app.
October 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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One Saturday night pizza inspired by @mostlybree.kitrocha.com pizza making.
A pepperoni and cream cheese pizza fresh out the oven. Some of the cheese and pepperoni on top are crisped up and the crust is golden brown. One small section of the cheese has flowed over the crust and down onto the pan as it melted while cooking in the oven.
October 12, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Video description in the image #AltText
Impressionist style artwork of the Portland Frog standing up alone against a long row of nightstick wielding men all clad in uniform black riot gear, a green island of whimsical defiance in front of a black wave of state repression. The image of the Portland Frog flickers with the forms of others before in the blink of an eye it is no longer the Portland Frog but a Black man in suit. It then shifts through various characters at a breakneck pace. A Black woman with her hair tied back, a man in a wide-brimmed hat, a man in a yellow chicken outfit with a USA flag cape. At first it's a blur as it cycles through many more including a little boy holding up a history book for the line of armed men to read, a priest, and a woman in a wheelchair. It slows as it cycles through these many characters once giving a better look at them all before speeding back up to a blur again. Then it stops with the exact same image it started with of the Portland Frog alone save for the words Stand Tall that appear in the top left corner. The flickering happens again as the characters shown before blur with the Portland Frog then in a flash the Portland Frog is standing together with them. Three more words now appear in the top left written beneath Stand Tall, We Will Win.
October 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM