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the best goddamn dancer in the american ballet academy // lauraolin.com
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I’d never have the temerity to say this warrants Louvre of Bluesky treatment but
His 1A Amendments are being violated and we will likely never know how many people are being disappeared but I'm glad your priorities are in order. The screaming kids not enough for you? It's no wonder we got Trump. Twice.
November 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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He could not be having a more delightful time
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Look at this cool leaf I found on my dog walk
many many colors on one small leaf
November 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Indivisible in an email tonight, starting project to primary Senate capitulators:

"At some point, you gotta either change your leaders’ minds or you gotta change your leaders. And the time for changing minds is over."
7. The only path to a real opposition party is through a cleansing primary season. We have spent a year now trying to convince the Democratic Party to unify and fight back. It started as a lonely fight shortly after the election, but our numbers grew. We’ve seen some Democrats lead from the beginning, some come around, and some do their best to at least perform resistance. There’s been real progress -- in large part because of our collective work. But at some point, you gotta either change your leaders’ minds or you gotta change your leaders. And the time for changing minds is over. After this week, we should expect more fecklessness unless we demand a change. You don’t demand that change in a general election -- you do it in primaries. And conveniently, primaries are right around the corner. This all leads to one big announcement. Today, Indivisible is launching the largest Democratic primary program we’ve ever run. This isn’t about left vs right. This is about fighting back vs losing. The regime’s threats are too real and the stakes are too high to settle for the feckless, loser version of the Democratic Party we saw this week. As we head into the midterms next year, we need a Democratic Party that inspires and instills pride. In this moment when the fascists are on the march, we need a Democratic Party with a spine. Our primary program will include both the House and Senate. We will work with Indivisible groups to identify key races, provide support on the ground, and tap into movement energy across the country to boost candidates with a spine. One thing we can say for sure: We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Majority Leader. And after the primary, whatever happens, we will rally behind the winner, and crush the regime electorally in the midterms just like we did this last week.
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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I might need to be physically restrained from adopting this dog www.instagram.com/p/DQr2KgADv7...
a FUCKING ADORABLE border collie mix with a black patch over one eye
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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This 31-year-old with an absolute unit of a beard is still the youngest-ever mayor of New York City
Hugh John Grant (September 10, 1858 – November 3, 1910) served as the 88th mayor of New York City for two terms from 1889 to 1892. First inaugurated at age 31, he remains the youngest mayor in the city's history.[1] He was one of the youngest mayors of a major American city, and was the second Roman Catholic mayor of New York City.[a]
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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My dog’s excited about Mayor Mamdani on the inside
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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the guy from The Thick Of It saying “fuckity bye” into a phone
November 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Best day of the year 🗽
November 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Got em!!!!!
cute Halloween voter sticker
October 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Ad in the DC Metro catering to Hegseth’s GI Joe “warfighter” nomenclature, fun
an ad with the tagline “vehicle intelligence for the warfighter”
October 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Here’s my beautiful girl Scully, who loves you even if she hasn’t met you yet
v pretty dog lying on a blue couch
October 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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I've never been happier to be utterly washed and out of step with the times afterschool.substack.com/p/trad-sons-...
ONSUMERS ARE PICKING UP THE AI “VIBES” META IS PUTTING DOWN, tubefilter Initially dismissed as an “infinite slop machine,” Meta AI’s mobile app “exploded” in popularity after launching its Vibes feed, an AI-generated short-video feature that mimics TikTok’s format. Daily active users jumped from 775,000 to 2.7 million in just four weeks, and downloads surged to 300,000 per day, up from under 200,000. The spike coincided with OpenAI’s invite-only Sora rollout, suggesting younger users locked out of Sora turned to Meta AI to experiment with generative video. The data also shows Meta gaining traction with Gen Z’s preferred medium — short-form video! — while ChatGPT, Grok, and Perplexity all saw user declines of 3-7%
October 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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October 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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October 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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#nokings Brooklyn
October 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Saw a celebrity at the Brooklyn #nokings march #blessed
October 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Women don’t like the vehicle
weird detail from a hieronymous bosch painting of a boat that is also a giant fish
October 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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An American flag with a swastika at a GOP Rep's office A scene from Peacemaker where John Cena asks "Fuck, how'd I miss that?" about a big mural with Hitler and an American flag with a swastika on it
October 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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In Chicago this weekend and it’s terrifying out here
October 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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I find this encouraging, from @indivisible.org:
A defining feature of an emerging authoritarian regime is that it makes the opposition feel like shit on a daily basis. Every day, there is some new atrocity committed; some new institution attacked; some new democratic norm demolished. Some of it -- much of it -- we have little ability to stop in the moment. But that’s not how to measure the health of an anti-authoritarian movement. Instead, we should measure it this way: Are we more unified than we were before? Are we bigger than we were before? Are our tactics proliferating? Is the regime’s popularity falling?
October 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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I'd read Dorothy Thompson's legendary "Who Goes Nazi?" piece before but this latest time it really jumped out to me that she described J.D. Vance to a tee 40 years before he was born.

"Pity he has utterly erased from his nature, and joy he has never known."
The saturnine man over there talking with a lovely French emigree is already a Nazi. Mr. C is a brilliant and embittered intellectual. He was a poor white-trash Southern boy, a scholarship student at two universities where he took all the scholastic honors but was never invited to join a fraternity. His brilliant gifts won for him successively government positions, partnership in a prominent law firm, and eventually a highly paid job as a Wall Street adviser. He has always moved among important people and always been socially on the periphery. His colleagues have admired his brains and exploited them, but they have seldom invited him—or his wife—to dinner. He is a snob, loathing his own snobbery. He despises the men about him—he despises, for instance, Mr. B—because he knows that what he has had to achieve by relentless work men like B have won by knowing the right people. But his contempt is inextricably mingled with envy. Even more than he hates the class into which he has insecurely risen, does he hate the people from whom he came. He hates his mother and his father for being his parents. He loathes everything that reminds him of his origins and his humiliations. He is bitterly anti-Semitic because the social insecurity of the Jews reminds him of his own psychological insecurity. Pity he has utterly erased from his nature, and joy he has never known. He has an ambition, bitter and burning. It is to rise to such an eminence that no one can ever again humiliate him. Not to rule but to be the secret ruler, pulling the strings of puppets created by his brains. Already some of them are talking his language—though they have never met him. There he sits: he talks awkwardly rather than glibly; he is courteous. He commands a distant and cold respect. But he is a very dangerous man. Were he primitive and brutal he would be a criminal—a murderer. But he is subtle and cruel. He would rise high in a Nazi regime. It would need men just like him—intellectual and ruthless. But Mr. C is not a born Nazi. He is the product of a democracy hypocritically preaching social equality and practicing a carelessly brutal snobbery. He is a sensitive, gifted man who has been humiliated into nihilism. He would laugh to see heads roll.
October 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Got to see oceans become battlefields on the big screen tonight thanks to the Paris Theater 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
October 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Yeah, no downside in Dems still engaging with and adding credibility to a site where "Schumer shutdown" is currently overwhelmingly trending and the Republican owner jukes the algorithm to privilege his terrible views however he likes
September 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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lol, and another one. this is on just one errand run
the stupid AI friend device as crossed out with the words DONT BE PHONEY BE A LUDDITE
September 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM