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Cory Hawkins
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Radiochemist gripped by the beauty of the universe, from astrophysics to elementary particles. Seeking community upholding love, compassion, and resistance to authoritarianism. Have a Ph.D. in actual science. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🇺🇳
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“Those Trump critics who presume his latest about-face was a strategic or tactical maneuver are imagining that Trump’s dominant chakra is much, much higher inside his 5’11” body than it really is.”
No, his about-face to release the files is most likely his latest con.
Full quote in ALT
So this new move by Trump feeds every element of his personal and political id, ego, and lifetime of criminal instincts. It appeals to him as a defiler of all things decent, honest, and pure. It appeals to him as a man who profoundly detests, perhaps even more than the man himself could realize, every aspect of the nation that allowed a grotesque carnival barker and con man like him to become materially successful. It appeals to his impish yearning for anarchy, his childish satisfaction at getting away with something very very bad, and his need to wrongfoot the world as a means of compelling and maintaining its attention on him.
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Photo of the US capitol building at a distance, with dark clouds and foreground. Upper portion in white bold font is the classic quote from George Orwell’s 1984, “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, and most essential command.” Lower band states, “And here we are, folks.”
November 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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“Unexplained acquiescence to a genocidal state is why I wake every day fearing America will end.”

open.substack.com/pub/sarahken...
The USA is on a crime spree against foreign civilians and against its own people. Self-inflicted wounds are nothing new. The US government long ago justified them by deeming the targets — Black Americans, indigenous peoples, different ethnic groups at different times — as not truly American. But the scope of the current attack is unprecedented. It targets nearly everyone, regardless of party or race or location. It is a controlled demolition led by kleptocrats and billionaires. It is a going-out-of-business sale that Americans are not told is happening — because we are not the buyers, we are the product. Or, worse, we are in the way.
October 27, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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These are former intelligence officers who have used the methods of analysis they used to evaluate other nation states, looking inward at the USA. They are sounding the alarms.

open.substack.com/pub/steadyst...
“Absent organized resistance by institutions, civil society, and the public, the United States is likely to continue along a path of accelerating democratic erosion, risking further consolidation of executive dominance and a loss of credibility as a model of democracy abroad.”
October 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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“Everyday people have been far more resilient than individuals and institutions with enormous resources at their disposal. Maybe it’s because, after decades of having everything stolen, Americans have less to lose. We know what losing is like, and what it’s like when losing is called winning, and when theft is called business.” “And we’re not falling for that again.”
October 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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#NoKings Rockford, Illinois, “Lean on Me” - Bill Withers
October 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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#NoKings Rockford, Illinois
Poster reading, “Stop pretending your racism is patriotism.” To the right, the Axolotl. Haight Park gazebo, location for Rockford, IL No Kings rally Dinosaur 🦕 costume in a skirt with poster reading, “Don’t let democracy become extinct”
October 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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This is the antithesis of government of the People, by the People, and for the People. Let them hear us loudly tomorrow and until this corrupt regime falls. #NoKings #ReleaseTheFiles
They have money for a [grand] ballroom, a new plane, and endless golf trips. They have money for ICE [to terrorize our communities]. They have money to occupy our cities [with troops they may choose not to pay]. They have money for Argentina [bailouts] and Israel [genocide]. But there’s no money to fund healthcare and reopen the government.
October 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Corporate media must perish for democracy to be reborn.
Rolling Stone magazine post on alt-Twitter… “In the hours leading up to the decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel, two sources familiar with the matter say, senior executives at ABC, its owner Disney, and affiliates convened emergency meetings to figure out how to minimize the damage. Multiple execs felt that Kimmel had not actually said anything over the line, the two sources say, but the threat of Trump administration retaliation loomed.”
September 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.” —President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address
September 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Here is a more apt diagram of the inherent efficiencies, including solar with battery storage. Currently, nothing beats the efficiency, footprint, use of materials, and reliable baseload power of nuclear fission.
A plot of cost versus capacity factor for electrical power generation sources, where bubble size represents solid waste produced through plant decommissioning. Nuclear wins this environmental footprint by far, and it provides the most reliable baseload power.
September 7, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Photo of AG Robert Kennedy and President John F. Kennedy with caption: “Robert, your son is a fucking idiot.”
August 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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August 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Glowing orange at sunrise, bands of rain from a thunderstorm appear like fire in the sky.
Glowing orange at sunrise, bands of rain from a thunderstorm appear like fire in the sky.
July 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Snow White says, “BYE BITCH”
July 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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GIF of SNL sketch when an airline flight attendant played by David Spade says, “Geaaaat… Buh-Bye” to a passenger leaving the plane played by Adam Sandler. Cuomo can just go away now, thanks.
July 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Wall cloud and mammatus clouds… powerful and gorgeous
July 13, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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July 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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The context is often left out. Read the Alt for more details.
Portrait of Abraham Lincoln on right side of image. The correctly attributed quote from his writings and speeches around 1859 reads “We the people are the rightful master of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the men who would pervert the Constitution.” It was part of a larger passage with very problematic assertions of compromise with slave states. The context is often left out. “We must not disturb slavery in the states where it exists, because the Constitution, and the peace of the country both forbid us — We must not withhold an efficient fugitive slave law, because the constitution demands it — But we must, by a national policy, prevent the spread of slavery into new territories, or free states, because the constitution does not forbid us, and the general welfare does demand such prevention — We must prevent the revival of the African slave trade, because the constitution does not forbid us, and the general welfare does require the prevention — We must prevent these things being done, by either congresses or courts…”
July 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Keep this one under wraps, please 🥸
June 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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open.substack.com/pub/diplomat...
“If Iran now decides to move towards a bomb, it will do so following a clear strategic logic,” he wrote. “No one bombs the capital of a nuclear-armed country. June 21, 2025 may go down in history not as the day the Iranian nuclear program was destroyed, but as the day a nuclear Iran was irreversibly born.” - Former top European Union Iran nuclear negotiator Enrique Mora warned Wednesday
June 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Indeed it is the dark side.
June 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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This photograph was captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft on July 19, 2013. That pale blue dot on the horizon of the rings is our planet.
It truly puts our place in the universe into perspective. The only habitable place for us is infinitesimal. We are fragile, and should be cooperating to survive.
June 20, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Bugs Bunny laying comfortably on their back looking at the audience and chewing on a carrot, saying… “WHAT A MAROON! WHAT AN IGNORAMUS”
June 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM