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Why is food assistance not an “essential function” that continues during a shutdown but ICE raids are?
November 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Why is food assistance not an “essential function” that continues during a shutdown but ICE raids are?
Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education - NPR
October 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education - NPR
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He wants so badly to be their next Trump, but let’s be honest: he’s not even Temu Trump. He’s the shit you find on the clearance end cap at a Weis supermarket...
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
Malevolent Mayonnaise with a Smoky Eye
Nobody likes JD Vance. Nobody. But what he represents is dangerous as fuck.
open.substack.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
He wants so badly to be their next Trump, but let’s be honest: he’s not even Temu Trump. He’s the shit you find on the clearance end cap at a Weis supermarket...
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
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“Dems cannot pretend this is a normal Republican administration. They cannot ignore masked agents in the streets, armed troops in the cities, billions of dollars of money going into the Trump family’s pockets… If Dems cannot make an issue out of all that, then they are screwed and so are we.”
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Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
www.nytimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“Dems cannot pretend this is a normal Republican administration. They cannot ignore masked agents in the streets, armed troops in the cities, billions of dollars of money going into the Trump family’s pockets… If Dems cannot make an issue out of all that, then they are screwed and so are we.”
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For folks not in DC:
- There are full-on police checkpoints most nights
- Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC
- National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter
- Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl
- Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
- There are full-on police checkpoints most nights
- Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC
- National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter
- Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl
- Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
August 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
For folks not in DC:
- There are full-on police checkpoints most nights
- Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC
- National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter
- Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl
- Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
- There are full-on police checkpoints most nights
- Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC
- National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter
- Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl
- Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
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They aren’t trying to erase history because they’re embarrassed by it. They’re trying to erase history because it’s their current playbook.
August 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
They aren’t trying to erase history because they’re embarrassed by it. They’re trying to erase history because it’s their current playbook.
Pure evil: Médecins Sans Frontières calls for immediate closure of US and Israelibacked aid group in Gaza – Middle East crisis www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Médecins Sans Frontières calls for immediate closure of US and Israelibacked aid group in Gaza – Middle East crisis live
MSF says it has rarely ‘seen such levels of systematic violence against unarmed civilians’ as it has at GHF aid sites
www.theguardian.com
August 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Pure evil: Médecins Sans Frontières calls for immediate closure of US and Israelibacked aid group in Gaza – Middle East crisis www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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It's not political to think people shouldn't be starved to death.
July 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
It's not political to think people shouldn't be starved to death.
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Just a reminder it was the now late and forever thoroughly great Tom Lehrer who said “political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”
July 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Just a reminder it was the now late and forever thoroughly great Tom Lehrer who said “political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”
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"I think it’s a pointless exercise that needlessly derails a simple truth that should horrify all of us: the Israeli military is literally shooting and killing starving people while they attempt to get food."
I Think It's Bad to Shoot at Starving Kids
Perhaps controversially.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
July 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
"I think it’s a pointless exercise that needlessly derails a simple truth that should horrify all of us: the Israeli military is literally shooting and killing starving people while they attempt to get food."
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So let me understand this -- the United States is starting a war in the Middle East, after having rid the entire American military of every competent person that would have been useful. And put in charge an alcoholic idiot.
Do I have that about right?
Yeah, this should end well.
Do I have that about right?
Yeah, this should end well.
June 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
So let me understand this -- the United States is starting a war in the Middle East, after having rid the entire American military of every competent person that would have been useful. And put in charge an alcoholic idiot.
Do I have that about right?
Yeah, this should end well.
Do I have that about right?
Yeah, this should end well.
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DEVELOPING: Huge 'No Kings' crowds protest in Arlington ahead of military parade
www.arlnow.com/2025/06/14/d...
www.arlnow.com/2025/06/14/d...
DEVELOPING: Huge ‘No Kings’ crowds protest in Arlington ahead of military parade | ARLnow.com
Anti-Trump protesters mobilized in force across Arlington today (Saturday) as part of nationwide "No Kings Day" demonstrations ahead of the military parade in D.C. Waving signs, banners and American flags,...
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June 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
DEVELOPING: Huge 'No Kings' crowds protest in Arlington ahead of military parade
www.arlnow.com/2025/06/14/d...
www.arlnow.com/2025/06/14/d...
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Military Members: Do NOT violate your oath only to end up on the wrong side of history
June 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Military Members: Do NOT violate your oath only to end up on the wrong side of history
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Once again wishing everyone who didn't vote for Harris in 2024 a very happy "fuck you and die"
June 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Once again wishing everyone who didn't vote for Harris in 2024 a very happy "fuck you and die"
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Private 🍅 schools 🍅 aren't 🍅 better🍅 than 🍅 public 🍅. They're 🍅 just 🍅 allowed 🍅 to 🍅 discriminate🍅.
May 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Private 🍅 schools 🍅 aren't 🍅 better🍅 than 🍅 public 🍅. They're 🍅 just 🍅 allowed 🍅 to 🍅 discriminate🍅.
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If you couldn’t make it in South Africa with a six generation head start and 70% of the arable land….
I don’t know how to tell you this but
I don’t know how to tell you this but
May 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
If you couldn’t make it in South Africa with a six generation head start and 70% of the arable land….
I don’t know how to tell you this but
I don’t know how to tell you this but
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we have a secretary of
-transportation making it more dangerous to travel
-education making kids stupider
-defense making us more vulnerable to attacks
-homeland security making us feel less secure than ever
-health and human services trying to spread illness
everything’s fine.
-transportation making it more dangerous to travel
-education making kids stupider
-defense making us more vulnerable to attacks
-homeland security making us feel less secure than ever
-health and human services trying to spread illness
everything’s fine.
May 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
we have a secretary of
-transportation making it more dangerous to travel
-education making kids stupider
-defense making us more vulnerable to attacks
-homeland security making us feel less secure than ever
-health and human services trying to spread illness
everything’s fine.
-transportation making it more dangerous to travel
-education making kids stupider
-defense making us more vulnerable to attacks
-homeland security making us feel less secure than ever
-health and human services trying to spread illness
everything’s fine.
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I will vote for any Democrat who promises to prosecute any ice agent who detains or arrests anyone illegally.
May 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I will vote for any Democrat who promises to prosecute any ice agent who detains or arrests anyone illegally.