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pro market, pro immigrant, pro gmo, anti superstition. avatar stolen from Jim Woodring (with permission.) yimby. 🇺🇸
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People of Illinois, we need your help.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
September 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
People of Illinois, we need your help.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
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David Cross folks.
September 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
David Cross folks.
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The other interesting thing about this clip is how outraged Kirk is that anyone would blame Republicans generally for the act of a single deranged individual just because they routinely said terrible things about Pelosi. What a concept.
September 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The other interesting thing about this clip is how outraged Kirk is that anyone would blame Republicans generally for the act of a single deranged individual just because they routinely said terrible things about Pelosi. What a concept.
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Technologically advance a band:
The B-2s
The B-2s
Technologically advance a band:
OLED Soundsystem
OLED Soundsystem
September 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Technologically advance a band:
The B-2s
The B-2s
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Some guy named Donald Trump, October 2024.
September 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Some guy named Donald Trump, October 2024.
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Note that neither President Biden nor any Democratic politicians called for Kirk to suffer any consequences for using his First Amendment rights this way in 2024. That was the right thing to do. Will this administration follow that precedent? bsky.app/profile/pale...
"Joe Biden is a bumbling, dementia-filled, Alzheimer's, corrupt tyrant who should honestly be put in prison and/or given the death penalty for his crimes against America."
-Charlie Kirk (07/24/23)
-Charlie Kirk (07/24/23)
September 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Note that neither President Biden nor any Democratic politicians called for Kirk to suffer any consequences for using his First Amendment rights this way in 2024. That was the right thing to do. Will this administration follow that precedent? bsky.app/profile/pale...
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"Smart People Don't Like Me": An Analysis of Right-Wing Grievance Politics (2026)
September 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"Smart People Don't Like Me": An Analysis of Right-Wing Grievance Politics (2026)
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It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth.
September 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth.
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It would kinda help encourage foreign experts to come to the US if they weren’t afraid of being fucking kidnapped by masked secret police.
September 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
It would kinda help encourage foreign experts to come to the US if they weren’t afraid of being fucking kidnapped by masked secret police.
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Again.
One of the only things I’m enjoying about the LLM era is the subplot about Musk’s toy saying true things and getting in trouble, so that Musk has to reach in and turn up the dial marked “racism,” at which point the toy turns into a deranged Nazi, the dial gets eased down, repeat
One of the only things I’m enjoying about the LLM era is the subplot about Musk’s toy saying true things and getting in trouble, so that Musk has to reach in and turn up the dial marked “racism,” at which point the toy turns into a deranged Nazi, the dial gets eased down, repeat
September 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Again.
One of the only things I’m enjoying about the LLM era is the subplot about Musk’s toy saying true things and getting in trouble, so that Musk has to reach in and turn up the dial marked “racism,” at which point the toy turns into a deranged Nazi, the dial gets eased down, repeat
One of the only things I’m enjoying about the LLM era is the subplot about Musk’s toy saying true things and getting in trouble, so that Musk has to reach in and turn up the dial marked “racism,” at which point the toy turns into a deranged Nazi, the dial gets eased down, repeat
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A thread worth reading.
Imagine, for one second, commanders like George C. Marshall. Dwight Eisenhower. Chester Nimitz. Joseph Stillwell, Hap Arnold, etc or countless combatants like George HW Bush or John F Kennedy—real "war-fighters" all—talking in this "I'm a real HE-man!!" cosplay fashion.
Imagine, for one second, commanders like George C. Marshall. Dwight Eisenhower. Chester Nimitz. Joseph Stillwell, Hap Arnold, etc or countless combatants like George HW Bush or John F Kennedy—real "war-fighters" all—talking in this "I'm a real HE-man!!" cosplay fashion.
Hegseth's insistence that 'Department of War' fake-name-change is about 'warriors' and 'warfighters' is the dumbest s*** I think I have ever heard.
The guys that created the Department of Defense in 1947 - in NINETEEN FORTY-SEVEN - had done more warfighting than Trump's entire cabinet put together.
The guys that created the Department of Defense in 1947 - in NINETEEN FORTY-SEVEN - had done more warfighting than Trump's entire cabinet put together.
September 6, 2025 at 3:01 AM
A thread worth reading.
Imagine, for one second, commanders like George C. Marshall. Dwight Eisenhower. Chester Nimitz. Joseph Stillwell, Hap Arnold, etc or countless combatants like George HW Bush or John F Kennedy—real "war-fighters" all—talking in this "I'm a real HE-man!!" cosplay fashion.
Imagine, for one second, commanders like George C. Marshall. Dwight Eisenhower. Chester Nimitz. Joseph Stillwell, Hap Arnold, etc or countless combatants like George HW Bush or John F Kennedy—real "war-fighters" all—talking in this "I'm a real HE-man!!" cosplay fashion.
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Your reminder that we don’t even know who wrote this crap because my former employer no longer says who is on its editorial board. And if you ask its AI helper, it lists seven people, three of whom have left and one of whom is semi-retired and lives in Hong Kong.
September 6, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Your reminder that we don’t even know who wrote this crap because my former employer no longer says who is on its editorial board. And if you ask its AI helper, it lists seven people, three of whom have left and one of whom is semi-retired and lives in Hong Kong.
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It will never not be shocking that the person with perhaps the greatest access to true information about the world in human history is this fucken stupid
Trump, apparently misled by video of 2020 protests, threatens to send troops to Portland
US president mistakes scale of anti-Ice rallies after TV report uses old footage from George Floyd demonstrations
www.theguardian.com
September 6, 2025 at 3:46 AM
It will never not be shocking that the person with perhaps the greatest access to true information about the world in human history is this fucken stupid
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Trump says "bad, sick" Democrats could have doctored the Epstein files to make him look bad. Great logic by Cheetolini. He's suggesting the Dems framed him, but forgot to release the dirt, let him win the election, and then quietly turned over the Epstein files to him.
Trump's new line on the Epstein files is that they were probably doctored by Democrats to make him look bad
July 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Trump says "bad, sick" Democrats could have doctored the Epstein files to make him look bad. Great logic by Cheetolini. He's suggesting the Dems framed him, but forgot to release the dirt, let him win the election, and then quietly turned over the Epstein files to him.
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So... you knew what was happening on the island and didn't alert authorities?
Trump on Epstein: I never went to the island. Bill Clinton went there supposedly 28 times. I never had the privilege of going to the island. I turned it down.
July 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
So... you knew what was happening on the island and didn't alert authorities?
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Used cars are cheap because of new cars. Day-old bread it half price because of fresh bread.
This has been a housing policy post.
This has been a housing policy post.
July 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Used cars are cheap because of new cars. Day-old bread it half price because of fresh bread.
This has been a housing policy post.
This has been a housing policy post.
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A reprieve for the USPS trucks:
The Senate parliamentarian ruled overnight that this provision violates the rules of budget reconciliation
It **cannot** appear in Trump and Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
The Senate parliamentarian ruled overnight that this provision violates the rules of budget reconciliation
It **cannot** appear in Trump and Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers.
That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value.
It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value.
It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
June 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
A reprieve for the USPS trucks:
The Senate parliamentarian ruled overnight that this provision violates the rules of budget reconciliation
It **cannot** appear in Trump and Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
The Senate parliamentarian ruled overnight that this provision violates the rules of budget reconciliation
It **cannot** appear in Trump and Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
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U.S. Begins Moving B-2 Bombers, as Trump Weighs Attack on Iran
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
U.S. Begins Moving B-2 Bombers, as Trump Weighs Attack on Iran
The move signals the U.S. is getting the bombers in place if they are needed for a strike on Iran, but officials said there had been no order given for an attack.
www.wsj.com
June 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
U.S. Begins Moving B-2 Bombers, as Trump Weighs Attack on Iran
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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just saw a group of masked men stuffing masked ICE agents into an unmarked car, who were saying "we're ICE we're ICE!" but the abductors shouted to the crowd "no we're ICE!" no one knew who was ICE, so no one in the crowd said anything.
June 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
just saw a group of masked men stuffing masked ICE agents into an unmarked car, who were saying "we're ICE we're ICE!" but the abductors shouted to the crowd "no we're ICE!" no one knew who was ICE, so no one in the crowd said anything.
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Medicaid Work Requirements Have Mostly Failed. The GOP Is Still Pushing Them. - WSJ www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Medicaid Work Requirements Have Mostly Failed. The GOP Is Still Pushing Them.
President Trump’s tax-and-spending bill aims to require many Americans to work to collect Medicaid. Similar efforts in Georgia and Arkansas have largely fallen flat.
www.wsj.com
June 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Medicaid Work Requirements Have Mostly Failed. The GOP Is Still Pushing Them. - WSJ www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Asked if the Trump admin will comply with Judge Farbiarz’s order to release Mahmoud Khalil, a DHS spokeswoman says, “An immigration judge, not a district judge, has the authority to decide if Mr. Khalil should be released or detained.”
June 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Asked if the Trump admin will comply with Judge Farbiarz’s order to release Mahmoud Khalil, a DHS spokeswoman says, “An immigration judge, not a district judge, has the authority to decide if Mr. Khalil should be released or detained.”
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Trump says Harvard has acted "appropriately" during negotiations and a deal could soon be announced.
Harvard just won a court case today
www.cnn.com/2025/06/20/p...
Harvard just won a court case today
www.cnn.com/2025/06/20/p...
Trump says Harvard has acted ‘appropriately’ and deal could soon be announced | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said Friday that Harvard has “acted extremely appropriately” during negotiations that could soon result in a deal, signaling a possible major shift in his administration’s effor...
www.cnn.com
June 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Trump says Harvard has acted "appropriately" during negotiations and a deal could soon be announced.
Harvard just won a court case today
www.cnn.com/2025/06/20/p...
Harvard just won a court case today
www.cnn.com/2025/06/20/p...
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It is my controversial take that no one—non-citizens included—should be jailed for their opinions, no matter how offensive I may personally find them.
BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Mahmoud Khalil *released* from detention, per
@eorden.bsky.social
@eorden.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
It is my controversial take that no one—non-citizens included—should be jailed for their opinions, no matter how offensive I may personally find them.
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"I said don't go in, if you're going to go in....keep the oil."
Q: 20 years ago you were skeptical of a GOP admin that attacked a Middle East country on the idea of questionable intelligence on WMD. How is this different?
TRUMP: That was somewhat pre-nuclear. It was the nuclear age but nothing like it is today
*proceeds to lie about opposition to Iraq*
TRUMP: That was somewhat pre-nuclear. It was the nuclear age but nothing like it is today
*proceeds to lie about opposition to Iraq*
June 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
"I said don't go in, if you're going to go in....keep the oil."