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January 7, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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January 4, 2026 at 2:41 AM
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No low is too low.

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NASA Reportedly Shutting Down Its Largest Library, Throwing Materials Away
The Trump administration is shutting down NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's library — NASA's largest — and threatening to destroy books.
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January 3, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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January 3, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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Reminder for everyone operating at situationally-diminished capacity.
Screencap of post from tumblr user nitewrighter Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now? The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances. Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW. Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.
January 3, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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X Twitter post by Senator Mark Kelly The President of the United States just overthrew a foreign ruler and explained to the American people that this is about taking control of the oil reserves ofa foreign nation. He said that the U.S. will "run the country" until a proper transition can take place and went right into how US oil companies will benefit from this takeover. He doesn't understand the risks and costs involved with these poorly thought-out decisions that don't make Americans any safer today than they were yesterday. Nicolas Maduro is a brutal, illegitimate dictator who deserves to face justice. I want the people of Venezuela to be free to choose their own future, but if we learned anything from the lIraq war, it's that dropping bombs or toppling a leader doesn't guarantee democracy, stability or make Americans safer. More often, it leads to chaos or drags the US into a war and lengthy occupation. I don't trust that this administration has a plan, timeline, or price tag for what comes next. Over the past year, Trump's foreign policy has been reckless, chaotic, self-serving, and unconstitutional. Congress should vote this week to reassert its authority on behalf of the American people before he oversteps again. also want to recognize the professionalism and skill of the American service members involved in this operation. While don't agree with the administration's justification for this, I'm thankful that no service members were killed or seriously injured.
January 4, 2026 at 7:09 AM
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January 4, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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Here is the database that TheresasDaughter refers to in the clip below. As of 9:45pm Jan 2, 2026 there are 2119 actions they have recorded. This will be so important to have this all recorded. Thanks @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks for sharing this!

www.trumpactiontracker.info?
January 3, 2026 at 2:49 AM
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It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.

The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
January 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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Whether it’s Barack Obama being the editor of Harvard Law Review or Donald Trump narrowly passing a cognitive test used to detect dementia, there’s plenty of serious intellectual accomplishments on both sides of the aisle.
January 2, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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There’s a lesson there.
January 1, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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December 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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As reality pushes harder against the tunnel, the response is not reconsideration. It is escalation. Volume replaces coherence. Certainty replaces curiosity. Rage replaces reflection. What looks like madness is often loyalty made loud. The nervous system fires before the cortex ever gets a vote. None of this happened accidentally. Reality tunnels are governable. People who outsource perception are easier to mobilize, easier to enrage, easier to aim. A population trained to experience doubt as attack and certainty as virtue is a political asset. MAGA did not arise spontaneously. It was cultivated, rewarded, and reinforced because it works. Wilson warned that rigid tunnels collapse badly. When they finally crack, the psychological cost can be severe. The danger is not that millions of Americans are stupid. It is that millions have been trained to treat uncertainty as an enemy and identity as truth. The lesson is not that we are smarter than them. That is another tunnel talking. The lesson is vigilance over one’s own perception. Keeping beliefs provisional. Staying uncomfortable. Holding multiple frames without panic. Refusing the emotional payoff of certainty when reality is complex. Resistance does not begin with shouting facts at a sealed tunnel. It begins with refusing to surrender your own. Annotated Sources Robert Anton Wilson, Prometheus Rising. Foundational text introducing reality tunnels, belief systems, and how neurological and linguistic filters shape perception. Robert Anton Wilson, Quantum Psychology. Expands on cognitive flexibility, certainty addiction, and the dangers of rigid belief structures across political and religious systems. Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity. Influential precursor to Wilson’s work, establishing the map is not the territory principle that underpins reality tunnel theory. George Lakoff, Moral Politics. Examines how political worldviews are structured by cognitive frames rather than factual disputes. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism. Explores how mass movements exploit certainty, ideology, and enemy construction to suppress independent thought. Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death. Contextualizes how media environments shape cognition and reduce complex reasoning into emotional reflex
December 18, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Really excellent read.
Reality Tunnels and the Machinery of Certainty How MAGA Trained Millions to Stop Perceiving White Rose 17 December 2025 Robert Anton Wilson spent his life warning about a problem most political analysis never touches. Humans do not experience reality directly. We experience filtered reality. Language, reward, punishment, fear, belonging, repetition. These forces shape what even registers as real. Wilson called these filters reality tunnels. They are not beliefs. They are perceptual environments. They decide what you notice, what you dismiss, and what feels emotionally true long before logic enters the room. Wilson was not a partisan and not a culture warrior. He distrusted certainty wherever it appeared. His project was epistemology for ordinary people. Why intelligent adults believe absurd things. Why evidence rarely changes minds. Why certainty feels like strength and doubt feels like danger. His answer was blunt. Once a reality tunnel stabilizes, contradictory information does not correct it. It threatens it. Everyone lives inside a tunnel. Religious people. Atheists. Investors. Nationalists. Academics. The difference is not who has one. It is flexibility. Some tunnels are porous. Some are rigid. Some allow contradiction to enter and rearrange the furniture. Others respond to contradiction with anger, mockery, or outright hostility. Before politics, this is easy to see. Two people watch the same market crash and see opposite causes. Two people read the same religious text and see opposite meanings. Two people watch the same protest and see either democracy or chaos. The disagreement is not about facts. It is about filters. What counts as signal. What gets labeled noise. What threatens identity. Wilson emphasized that intelligence does not free you from this. It often locks you in tighter. Smart people are better at rationalization. Better at selective skepticism. Better at defending a bad map with elegant arguments. Intelligence becomes a tool of tunnel maintenance rather than exploration. This is where modern American politics stops being mysterious. Rush Limbaugh’s “dittohead” was not branding. It was training. Pride in echoing. Outsourcing perception. Loyalty rewarded with belonging. Questioning reframed as weakness. Wilson would have recognized it instantly. A stable reality tunnel requires repetition, emotional payoff, and social reinforcement. “Ditto” was an epistemic instruction. Do not process. Do not compare. Do not doubt. Repeat and feel righteous. MAGA did not invent this. It industrialized it. MAGA is not best understood as a political ideology. It is a closed perceptual system. Its language is not designed to argue. It is designed to compress and block. Fake news. Both sides. Deep state. Liberal kool aid. These phrases do not answer questions. They prevent questions from forming. They collapse complexity before cognition has a chance to engage. This explains the pairing of anti intellectualism with hostility. Thinking introduces ambiguity. Ambiguity destabilizes tunnels. Intellectuals are not distrusted because they are wrong. They are distrusted because they introduce friction. They slow reflex. They ask for evidence. A rigid tunnel experiences that as threat. Hostility is not a flaw in the system. It is a requirement. This also explains the most disturbing part. The intelligent people. The lawyers, engineers, academics, and professionals who suddenly sound unhinged. Their intelligence did not disappear. It was reassigned. Inside a rigid tunnel, intellect stops exploring and starts guarding. Reasoning becomes instrumental. Facts are cherry picked. Skepticism is applied outward only. Intelligence builds a moat around the tunnel rather than a bridge out of it. Projection is the tell. Accusations of brainwashing, propaganda, and kool aid drinking are not irony. They are structural blindness. You cannot see your own filters. Ideology is always something other people have. From inside a tunnel, neutrality looks like betrayal and nuance looks like cowardice. The “both sides” reflex deserves special attention. It masquerades as sophistication while doing the least intellectual work possible. If everything is equally corrupt, then nothing needs close examination. It anesthetizes moral judgment and blocks accountability. It is not balance. It is abdication.
December 18, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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December 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Amidst the Bondi horror, there were heroes. Jackson Doolan, a lifeguard sprinted TOWARDS danger, barefoot, from Tamarama beach, about 1.5km away, carrying a defibrillator to back up the rest of his team, as well as other lifesavers, police and ambulance crews.
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As beachgoers fled the Bondi terror attack, viral photo shows lifeguard sprinting ‘pedal to the metal’ towards the scene
Jackson Doolan ran barefoot from Tamarama to Bondi ‘at something that surely every fibre in your being would tell you to go in the other direction’
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December 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Try this. It works! 😊🦋🐈‍⬛
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
December 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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when he is finished, she has no immunity for her lies...
December 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Brown U kids who survived USA 389th mass shooting of 2025 will now pay out of pocket for their healthcare, because USA guarantees guns but not health.

Australians who survived the 1st mass shooting in 29 years will pay nothing for healthcare because Australia guarantees health & regulates guns.
December 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Trump’s prosecutors in Comey case are shockingly bad lawyers. But, of course, it’s hard to find good lawyers willing to pursue baseless cases.
December 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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After NYS Young Republicans club was disbanded for praising Hitler, the NYC Young Republican club chapter is rolling out the red carpet for leaders of Germany’s Nazi-cosplaying AfD party.

I condemn it in the strongest of terms, as should my New York GOP colleagues. The AfD is not welcome in NY-10.
Young Republicans chapter plans to host far-right German leader after ‘I love Hitler’ chat
The New York Young Republican Club will host Markus Frohnmaier, an AfD deputy chair, at its annual gala after calling for a ‘new civic order’ in Germany.
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December 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Where do we get our doll and pencil ration card.

"Trump declared, 'You know, you can give up certain products. You can give up pencils.' He added, 'You don’t need 37 dolls for your daughter — two or three is nice, but you don’t need 37 dolls'...”

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‘You can give up certain products’: Trump tells Americans to settle for less
The president expects Americans to make sacrifices but doesn’t appear willing to make any sacrifices of his own.
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December 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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🧪 Really? Do they think that they can change the laws of chemistry and physics? #ClimateChange
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EPA eliminates mention of fossil fuels in website on warming's causes. Scientists call it misleading
EPA eliminates mention of fossil fuels in website on warming's causes. Scientists call it misleading
The Environmental Protection Agency has removed references to fossil fuels from its online page about climate change causes.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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This is where I'm at....
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It's tough. I'm also very angry.
This sums it up ⬇️
December 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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December 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM