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Chad L. Norris
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As square as they come, folks.
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Happy Star Trek Day! Here are some of my favourite Lower Decks drawings from the last year or so.
September 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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"Liminal Fascist Space" is a great term for the teetering-on-the-edge-at-all-times vibe; it's hard to get any sort of footing from one day to the next on where exactly we stand; an anxious time but not a hopeless time.
I think people really struggle w partially consolidated authoritarianism, either understating our problem or understating our power

It's like we're in a liminal fascist space. And not recognizing how far gone we are or thinking we're simply too far gone are both grave errors we can't afford to make
any argument that trump has fully consolidated authoritarian power has to contend with the fact that the government wants to deport kilmar abrego garcia to uganda but hasn't done so, because a judge told them not to
August 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Coward Nazi Scum all of them
June 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Always a pleasure to visit the Music Box Theatre. Was awesome to see The Shrouds with *the* David Cronenberg!
@musicboxtheatre.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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He is risen
April 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.
April 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Thank you Anxiety Wolf
February 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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if the president can say “i don’t like the department of energy,” and within a week it’s closed, then the constitution means nothing, and the president’s entire claim to power is the loyalty of the military. either he is constrained by the constitution or he’s a dictator, there isn’t a middle ground
February 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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February 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Rarely known fact: Riker is part of the horn section that plays live the TNG theme for each episode
February 3, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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I mean he could complain, but he probably wouldn't be back to make any more appearances #StarTrek #JellicoTrek
January 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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My instinct is to make the case that USAID is extremely good, actually. But I feel like it’s more important to say, “What is happening is antagonistic to the foundational document of the nation.”
February 4, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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USAID matters. I've often disagreed with their strategy and choices, but their work saves more lives than any philanthropy can. It's a rounding error in the federal budget, and one of the best things we do as a country. To see it destroyed overnight by one unelected man is an unmitigated horror.
February 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Dear Canada and Mexico,

We’re so, so sorry.

— Sane America
February 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
As a kid who grew up on a healthy diet of Star Trek, I've aspired to live in their world of diversity, egalitarianism, & science-focused progress. Where there's no hunger, no greed, & all the kids know how to read.

Instead we got a fascist coup leading us towards WWIII. How is this is real life?
February 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Martin O'Malley:

"Our nation is in a moment of profound crisis...rule of law and the Constitution being kicked to the curb...and the person responsible for all of these offensive against the Republic, sits again in the White House and spits on patriot graves."

BOOM!

🔥
February 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Get in there and stop them! Bring a camera crew! Show us you're not going to capitulate!
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
February 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Now would be a good time for the X-Men to arrive from the future or something
January 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Everything I have known and been taught about my own country my whole life is that we take pride in our participation in the defeat of nazism. No economic situation is worth sullying the memories of the men and women who fought for our freedom. Do not flirt with nazism, it will not set you free.
January 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Hypocrisy is a fascist feature. Their hypocrisy is a demonstration of power & social hierarchy in the absence of accountability & consequence.
January 23, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.

“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”

AOC 🔥🎯
January 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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The me that watched the night that Obama won his first election never foresaw a future so bleak.
January 20, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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#Neuromancer
Re-reading Neuromancer, & there's a forward from Gibson sort-of apologizing for not predicting things like mobile phones & the Fall of the USSR... yet, it seems like the novel is becoming more & more prescient on a fresh reading.
January 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM