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Marilyn J-W
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Recently retired, writer, married 32 years with an adult son. Love s-f and fantasy, Star Trek, Star Wars, Supernatural, DC, Marvel. I'm cis she/her straight, 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally, loosely Episcopalian and spiritually minded. I ❤ Detroit & Michigan. My cat is Max. 🇺🇦
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I've decided the crown is OK because South Korea is punking him. Turns out it's a good news story.
That is a replica of the last Silla king's crown. The Silla dynasty collapsed of severe economic inequality, widespread corruption, and the erosion of Central authority. Aristocratic families accumulated vast wealth and land while imposing heavy taxes on farmers, creating widespread poverty and triggering peasant rebellions that fragmented the kingdom into rival states.
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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When crooks help crooks.
Former Al Qaeda and ISIS leader Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa just arrived at the White House. Thus guy had a million dollar bounty on his head a year ago. Today he's in the Oval Office & playing basketball with Secret Service protection. From feminist news now.
November 12, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Repubs put in amendment to sue govt for $500,000 for investigating their phone records for Jan. 6
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BREAKING: Senate Republicans just got busted giving themselves a $500,000 handout with an amendment that lets them SUE the government for investigating them for January 6th! In a shocking show of self-dealing corruption, Senate Republicans hid an amendment in the bill to reopen the government that allows them to sue the Department of Justice over the seizure of their phone records by the FBI during their investigation of the January 6th attack on the Capitol by Donald Trump’s feral zealots. The measure is retroactively dated to 2022, meaning anyone who was investigated by Jack Smith over involvement in January 6th can sue — and the violation is worth up to HALF A MILLION DOLLARS in a legal claim. To put it another way: they are paying themselves for breaking the law! “This is outrageous. Another reason the CR should not pass. It creates a new offense, tailored perfectly to allow Trump to write a government check of millions of dollars to 8 Republican Senators. GOP Leader Thune just made 8 of his colleagues rich. Off taxpayer money!” wrote a furious Sen. Murphy of Twitter. The shamelessness of the modern Republican knows no bounds. The government only exists as a tool to enrich themselves off taxpayer dime and to impose their radical fascist agenda on an unwilling American populace.
November 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Kristi Noem reportedly pushed for the purchase of 10 Boeing 737 aircraft from Spirit Airlines for official use, only to later learn the planes had no engines and weren’t owned by Spirit.

Questions raised about oversight, cost, & how the attempted purchase was approved in the first place.

📸: Getty
Photo of Noem with caption: Kristi Noem Spirit Airlines jet plan backfires after DHS finds planes without engines.
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Heartbreaking.
Man sitting against a wall weeping. A post describes that he was with his wife of 5 years at her immigration court case, following rules, when ICE took her into another room and disappeared her. He tracked her through her phone to another site until the signal disappeared. He doesn't know where she is or what happened to her.
November 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Classy as always.
Shows a corridor inside the White House lined with smallish gold-framed portraits of Presidents. Above in gold script, "The Presidential Wall of Honor," and everywhere, above the pictures and between the half-moon windows, there's an excess of gold-painted bric-a-brac.
November 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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From the LA Times
Trump accepting a ginormous gold crown from South Korea
November 7, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Resources in the Detroit Metro area.
Too detailed to transcribe here. Contact your state senator or representative for information on local food pantries.
November 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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So true.
"I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true." From Neil DeGrasse Tyson
November 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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It had a smaller one. It's where Princess Diana danced with John Travolta in 1985. Not enough room for rump to cage oligarchs for donations, though.
John Travolta dances with Princess Diana in the East Wing ballroom, 1985. Many guests are watching behind them.
October 29, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Here is the fine print on trump's legal history... a drop in the bucket I would surmise.
Another of detail here, but this is a comprehensive list of trump's crimes and legal history, including criminal convictions (34), sexual misconduct allegations (15 women named), documented election interference (5), financial crimes and tax fraud (11), bankruptcies and business collapses (11), legal settlements and fines (6), Epstein connections and sexual allegations (2), marital controversies and divorces (7), and impeachment proceedings (8).
October 28, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Did you go?
An historic plague mask from 14th century Europe. It looks like a metal beaked bird face with rivets and large round eye holes, and brimmed hat.
October 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Good list:
List of items to donate includes boxed milk, cereal, seeds pasta, spaghetti sauce, canned goods, cooking oil, spices, salt, pepper, tea, coffee, sugar, flour, fresh produce, fresh meat, tuna, crackers, sandwich bread for PB&J, butter or margarine, eggs, cake mis & frosting, dish soap, feminine hygiene products, stove top stuffing. Boxed Mac & cheese if there's milk and butter, hamburger helper if there's ground beef. Seeds for warmer months.
October 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Some reminders for those donating to people in need:
List of items to donate includes boxed milk, cereal, seeds pasta, spaghetti sauce, canned goods, cooking oil, spices, salt, pepper, tea, coffee, sugar, flour, fresh produce, fresh meat, tuna, crackers, sandwich bread for PB&J, butter or margarine, eggs, cake mis & frosting, dish soap, feminine hygiene products, stove top stuffing. Boxed Mac & cheese if there's milk and butter, hamburger helper if there's ground beef. Seeds for warmer months.
October 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Trump branching out into retail.
Destruction of east wing of white house along with an orange Home Depot logo, altered to read "Home Despot."
October 27, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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No lies detected.
This Modern World comic by Tom Tomorrow called "Effect and Cause" shows Trump declaring cities lawless, then prescribing random kidnapping, tear gas and pepper balls, calling it "rule of law." Then RFK Jr. says Americans' health is bad, so he's cutting cancer research, the CDC and vaccines to "cull the herd." Then Russell Vought says govt is a mess, so he's dismantling it and firing everyone. Then trump says the economy is a disaster so he's putting in tariffs according to whim. His last line: "if a problem doesn't exist, you've got to get out there and create it."
October 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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True
Drawing of otter, name tag Steve, shown at work with coffee mug, computer and books, with caption: Do not seize the day. That only startles it, and nobody wants to deal with an aggressive day before coffee. Approach it slowly. Avoid eye contact. Maybe offer a polite nod. Act casually. If the day growls, starts making demands, or mentions shenanigans, back away quietly and return to bed.
October 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Here are companies donating in exchange for kickbacks, contracts, pedo protection, and presidential pardons.
Companies donating to Trump's ballroom include Altria, Amazon, Apple, Booz Allen, Caterpillar, Coinbase, Comcast, Hard Rock, Google, HP, Lockheed Martin, Meta Platforms, Micron. Microsoft, NextEra Energy, Palantir, Ripple, Reynolds, T-Mobile, Tether America and Union Pacific Railroad.
October 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Gone.
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Photo of now destroyed east wing of the White House, showing a brick pathway and hedges outside a row of windows along a corridor toward a 3-story structure.
October 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Good news for once.
Graphic says: starting tomorrow everything is going to be okay! They just announced it.
October 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Oh come on assholes.
We classify you as one of the suck-up Nazis.
This one is for the history books: Pam Bondi with a Fox News chyron quoting her: "We classify inflatable frig costumes as part of the Antifa uniform."
October 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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‘No Kings’ event in Howell Michigan ranks as biggest, happiest protest in county history
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Two people, one in a frog costume and one dressed in a Biblical figure flashing the peace sign, stand in front of crowd on street in Livingston County, Michigan. Hundreds of demonstrators line street in Howell, Michigan. Many demonstrators including a giraffe and someone waving a US flag in Michigan town.
October 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Another movie with both of them, more recent and very sentimental, Our Souls at Night.
Movie poster for 2017 movie Our Souls at Night, showing older Robert Redford with Jane Fonda resting her head on his shoulder.
October 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Detroit represents.
'No Kings' protests take place across metro Detroit share.google/zIimoYkNPCMP...
Long line of No Kings protesters down Michigan Avenue in Detroit.
October 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Sleepy suburb near Detroit, Michigan. We had a rooster, donkey and unicorn in attendance. Lots of cars honking support as they drove by.

Oh, I forgot. Here we are, terrorists, illegal aliens and violent criminals.
Small group of mostly older folks in a parking lot in southeast Michigan. Woman in foreground carries a large American flag.
October 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM