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Joel Riemer
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Canada/U.S. dual citizen living in Montréal, interested in science, mathematics, politics, sports, music, and the gay good life.
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🇺🇦 Re-upping this one in the name of decency and democracy.

Slava Ukraini!
August 16, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Very good work. Read it and act.
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-secret...
The Secret Police Are Here
While the Professional Moderates Clutch Their Pearls
www.notesfromthecircus.com
July 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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“The distance between what is said, and what is known to be true, has become an abyss…The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands - we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest.”
June 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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The spectacular Butterfly Nebula, with its 3 light-year wingspan of gas ejected from a dying central star, is among the most structural complex planetary nebulae ever observed.

Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble SM4 ERO Team
June 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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June 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Wow. What a sign that criminal case against Abrego Garcia may be politically cooked up.

"Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons"

Schrader spent 15 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville and was chief of the criminal division
Abrego Garcia indictment led top federal prosecutor in Tennessee to resign: Sources
abcnews.go.com
June 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Around the time that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was indicted in the Middle District of Tennessee, the chief of the criminal division in that district posted this on LinkedIn:

“Earlier today, after nearly 15 years as an Assistant United States Attorney, I resigned…”
June 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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New York Red Bulls fans unvei a tifo ahead of their game against Atlanta United last night, depicting the Statue of Liberty in pride colours and commemorating the 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York, a pivotal moment in the LGBTQ rights movement.
June 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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In a short 400 years we went from knowing we were the center of the universe to knowing that we are just one planet in one of billions of solar systems in our galaxy and our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies and I do think we haven't quite dealt with that...
May 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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April 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
March 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Pretending you’re at Sotheby’s isn’t going to stop fascism.
March 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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A hero and a coward are meeting in the Oval Office today.

And when the meeting is over, the hero will return home to Ukraine.
February 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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February 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."
February 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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European Parliament member 👇🏽
February 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.
February 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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“There is no logical stopping point for them, and … the only recourse will be for people to get out and say, we want the rule of law, we want a government that obeys the law, and that's going to require people to go out on the streets, because … there is no other alternative,"
'Mark my words': George Conway predicts alarming showdown that could 'end' U.S. democracy
George Conway predicted that Donald Trump would engage in a constitutional showdown that could spell the end of U.S. democracy.Vice President J.D. Vance argued Sunday that federal courts “aren’t allow...
www.rawstory.com
February 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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My take, essentially, is that we could be weeks or maybe even days away from the disintegration of the rule of federal law in this country. At some point this administration is going to stop obeying court orders. What then? Nothing good.
If I were the one who had made up the title of this episode, I would have added “—Or Not” to it. And with some emphasis on the “not.”
How to Stop the Dismantling of Our Government
George Conway explains.
www.thebulwark.com
February 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Senator Schiff (as Dems filibuster the nomination of Project 2025 author Russ Vought): “The moment you say it’s ok to violate the law to shut down USAID you have said it is ok to violate the law and shut down anything.”
February 6, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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February 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM