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Dave Miner
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This is fantastic. Make sure you stick around until the record scratch at the end.
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
Just a disjointed mess on both ends
What he looks like without makeup
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Ah yes, this venerable cartoon reminds me of another point I meant to add: part of reactionary psychology is a pathological aversion to taking personal responsibility for anything, so they will *tell* you that they're just reacting. Of course they will. But you're not obliged to believe them!
They’re bad at everything including marksmanship
I’m an alum and I’m disgusted. He’s a total POS
That was weird. Love that Hugo got meaningful minutes, he’s doing the work.
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“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said
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Combustion is the past, electricity is the future, pass it on.
If you want to be healthy, keep those around you healthy
undocumented people should receive free health care, just like everybody else.

in addition to health care being a human right, health care is also a collective issue. denying people health care creates risks for everyone. contagious diseases are the obvious one, but there are plenty of others.
Good thread I happened across. Keep resisting!
This brought out a bunch of doomers "...but! but!"-ing with all of the obstacles facing a pro-democracy movement in the USA, but I think it is worth thinking about the question from the other side.

What does MAGA need to do to do (not how, just what) to hold power long-term? Are they doing it?
Well, I guess my question for all of the doomers now would be why they think no one can stop Donald Trump from taking our democracy from us?

The guy couldn't even take Jimmy Kimmel.
Novels are books so all books are novels right?
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With the Kirk assassination becoming clearer, we need to talk about the radicalized, Right Wing subculture that carries out terrorism and mass shootings.

They’re an essential part of MAGA and so people really don’t want to see what is undeniable.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-threat...
The Threat No One Wants to Talk About
As details emerge in the Kirk Assassination, the picture is becoming much clearer
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
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Daniel Hunter says that researchers took 35 cases of democratic backsliding (rising authoritarianism) in states from 1991-2021. How often were people successful in stopping it?

7.5% with no civil resistance

51.7% WITH civil resistance

#OneMillionRising
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Most Americans long imagined that "the surveillance systems, the heavily armed police, the 'anti-terrorism' measures, the vast intelligence apparatus "would be used only for 'criminals'...Now we are surprised to find that we have been defined as the criminals."

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/welcome-to...
Welcome to the Age of Disappearance
America's new era of secret police.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
You’ve seen how they’ve abused “anti-semitism”?
It’s all consistent if you look at it as the selfish generation
Quit calling it deporting please. It’s a kidnapping at least.
Glad you’re here, missed you since I left the bird