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First, Be Kind
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Kind but angry. Trying to find light in the darkness. Sometimes succeeding.
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Irony is dead.

#MAGA #USPolitics #TFG
Two images of Donald Trump: The top one quoting him saying "The United States will not let men steal trophies from women." (August 5, 2025), the bottom one showing him taking the Nobel Peace Prize medal from María Corina Machado (January 16, 2026).
January 23, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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From a link elsewhere in the thread. Study following a cohort of 26.3M residents of California, age 21+, who weren't initially gun owners, for ~12 years from 18/Oct/2004.

Huge increase in suicides (men 3.34x, women 7.16x), driven by gun suicide (other forms unchanged).

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Results A total of 676,425 cohort members acquired one or more handguns, and 1,457,981 died; 17,894 died by suicide, of which 6691 were suicides by firearm. Rates of suicide by any method were higher among handgun owners, with an adjusted hazard ratio of 3.34 for all male owners as compared with male nonowners (95% confidence interval [CI], 3.13 to 3.56) and 7.16 for female owners as compared with female nonowners (95% CI, 6.22 to 8.24). These rates were driven by much higher rates of suicide by firearm among both male and female handgun owners, with a hazard ratio of 7.82 for men (95% CI, 7.26 to 8.43) and 35.15 for women (95% CI, 29.56 to 41.79). Handgun owners did not have higher rates of suicide by other methods or higher all-cause mortality. The risk of suicide by firearm among handgun owners peaked immediately after the first acquisition, but 52% of all suicides by firearm among handgun owners occurred more than 1 year after acquisition.
January 11, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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#MAGA #USPolitics #Humor
A woman seated in an armchair talking on her phone: "O.K., I'll put that on my calendar and we'll just keep an eye on the weather and the fall of democracy."
January 9, 2026 at 10:29 AM
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#Fascism #MAGA #Politics
I read 1984 when I was 10 (mid 70s) because I was bored and it was in the bookcase and I liked things set in the future. I remember finishing it and thinking “That was interesting, but I don't think I understood it.” So I read it again when I was 11. And when I was 12. I think I skipped a couple of years and next read it when I was 15, and decided I finally understood it. (I was wrong, but I got there in my 20s.) I did not expect to see it playing out in my 50s.
January 8, 2026 at 10:33 AM