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Maroon Phoenix
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It is all one fight. I’m on the side of the oppressed over the oppressor. Learn to tell the difference.
#LandBack #Enough #ProtectTransKids #TeamOrca #CovidIsAirborne #CleanTheAir
#TaxWealthNotWork
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Were these remarks today? Maybe the old gods could show us some love
Meme of a girl holding a red ball, aimed to pelt someone else. The girl is labeled “Apollo” and the ball is labeled “the gift of prophesy [sic]”
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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James Watson was a thief and a racist.

May Rosalind Franklin’s name live forever in our memories for her contributions to molecular biology.

And may our cultural infatuation with mediocre white men one day be a distant memory.
Photo of New York Times story with headline “James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97.” An elderly James Watson is pictured above the headline, smiling in a button up shirt and leaning forward with his arms resting on a table or counter.
November 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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This is the house you can get. You can admire it while you eat your avocado toast. Then eat the house for dessert.
Two small hands put the final decorative touches on a holiday gingerbread house.
November 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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🫶 I really hope we are seeing the beginning of something great. If you haven’t seen it yet, this was a book dedication from his father to him
For Zohran, You teach us how to engage the world in difficult times. May you inspire many and blaze a trail! “It's like a path across the land—it's not there to begin with, but when lots of people go the same way, it comes into being.” —LU HSUN, "Hometown"
October 31, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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I wrote this about border patrol being the gestapo in 2020. If I could see it back then, so could others. Americans were massively failed by so many people, and MSM is near the top of that list.

Pretty sure I wrote this before 2020, this is just my earliest screenshot of where I wrote it.
June 2, 2020 9:45 AM •• Trump cultivated the border patrol early. Just 1 month after announcing his candidacy, he visited Laredo to speak to border patrol. If we have to fear a Trump gestapo or seizure of legislative power using a veneer of law enforcement, we should worry about border patrol.
October 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Oh look, a bipartisan tool
SENATE CAMPAIGN DECISION TREE graphic with text as follows. Am I under the age of 70? Yes: You should probably consider a bunch of other stuff before you run for Senate, but you could go for it! No: You are now at "mentorship" or "retirement" stage of your life. Why are you even reading this chart???
October 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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The “beautiful family” with this guy
Screenshot of a news story headline: “Utah father of 6 kills wife in murder-suicide after cryptic Facebook post” By Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News Published June 25, 2024
October 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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If I was that insecure about my little wiener, I would simply not line up all my GI Joe dolls to give a big speech about how maybe I have a big wiener.
A lot of 31 GI Joe dolls jumbled in a box, some undressed. Found on Google Images.
September 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
Screenshot of classic wint (@dril) tweet from September 29, 2013. — Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Candles $3,600 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying — Posted under wint’s usual avatar, a blurry headshot of a guy in sunglasses
August 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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This is the book we had for this topic. I think Pattie Fitzgerald came up with the “tricky people” language that a lot of other books now use. The book is “Super Duper Safety School” by Pattie Fitzgerald. Pattie founded an organization to prevent child sexual abuse.
Cover of the book “Super Duper Safety School: Safety Rules for Kids and Grown Ups” by Pattie Fitzgerald. The cover shows a group of 4 students smiling in front of a school.
May 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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The most hilarious thing about this is that the patriarchy invented the office job. Like it is one of the biggest symptoms of toxic dysfunction in the white male patriarchy. They live for that shit.
A “young” Michael Scott with hilarious long hair awkwardly shakes the hand of his boss. They both wear ties. Scene is from the TV show The Office.
April 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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I am canceling my subscription to @theatlantic.com over Daniel Engber’s “Evermasker.” Any publication that allows their writers to admit that truth doesn’t matter doesn’t deserve my subscription. The truth matters to me, whether the writer is working out a personal beef or not. /end
A screenshot of a cancellation of a subscription cancellation for The Atlantic. Main text: We're sorry to see you go You will receive an email confirming your cancellation. We thank you for your time, and hope to welcome you back in the future. If you have five minutes, please tell us about your experience with The Atlantic by emailing us or taking a survey. Your feedback would be incredibly helpful in our efforts to improve and better meet the needs of our readers.
April 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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I made this chart two years ago from a news article and Wikipedia. It still enrages me.
Chart showing Percentage in Congress compared to American Adults. Women 26% 50.5% Gen Z 0% 10% Millennial 5% 30% Gen X 30% 25% Boomer 58% 30% Silent 7% 5% Black 9% 14% Foreign Born Immigrant 3% 10% Indigenous 1% 2% Latine 9% 17% Asian 4% 7% White 78% 60% LGBTQ 2% 7% *Trans 0% 1% Median Wealth/ Income >$500,000 $70,000
March 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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But also he is too young 🙃
A black and white photo of an old parade (pre-1950s cars) overlaid with the text: 1997: the President of the United States was born in 1946. 2007: the President of the United States was born in 1946. 2017: the President of the United States was born in 1946. 2027: the President of the United States was born in 1946. @derektmuller
March 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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A four panel comic First panel: shows the meme with the grim reaper at a claw machine with the text “Is Henry Kissinger even in this thing?” Above the meme is a halo and the text “Time to go.” An arm is pulling the meme off to the side Second panel: little grim reaper asks “was I a good meme?” Third panel: big grim reaper holds up a bag of what looks like dog treats and says “no” Fourth panel: little and big grim reaper walk off into heavenly clouds with the text “I’m told you were the best.”
February 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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The girl from Jurassic Park looks alarmed as she holds up a spoonful of green Jello that she was about to eat.
February 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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The little boy from Jurassic Park movie stands in front of a buffet spread with many pies and desserts. A display of bread and salad is behind him.
February 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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First author Proal has been digging into viral reservoir theories since before SARS2 entered a human cell. Before Long Covid there was ME/CFS, where a lot of high-profile researchers falsely reassured people that viruses couldn’t do what people saw happening to their own bodies.

Good job Dr Proal!
A grassy green field with a woman walking, arms raised in seeming joy. This Louis Pasteur quote is imposed on the picture: “Chance favors the prepared mind.”
February 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Anyone who thinks they would be this guy but also hasn’t worn a mask in 2 years . . . LOL.

Most people can’t sit with the discomfort of being different no matter what they internally know about the right thing to do. Guarantee he wasn’t the only one in that crowd with internal misgivings.
Famous photo of a man generally credited to be August Landmesser. He is the lone man in a crowd to not give Hitler the Nazi salute.
February 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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You know what, I’ll take it. The sessions are going to be a mess but probably make me a better person? Maybe? At least I’ll laugh.
Blanche and Dorothy, two women from The Golden Girls TV show, stand awkwardly in cliche early 1990s black-and-white-with-sparkles workout outfits. The picture has a text title “When you buy some new workout clothes hoping it will motivate you.”
January 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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I loved that project where the artist did Pantone colors with photos of people. Would be cool to see similar done for the 2025 color. I think it is a beautiful color you see naturally on skin and hair of many people and I’d love to see a photo spread of many people who rock this color naturally.
Photos of various persons arranged in a block grid with the Pantone color of their skin tone set as the background in their photo and the color also named below each photo. This presentation helps illustrate the wide variation of color of human skin, even between people who have the same skin “color” as defined by race.
December 6, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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I made a chart
A two column table entitled Lessons for Democrats First Column, Should Have Learned Second Column, Actually Learned 1: Fire Up Your Base with the things they love you 2: Maybe campaign with Bush and Pence family in addition to to Cheneys 1: Have a real primary 2: Never run a woman 1: Appoint a real AG that will prosecute real crimes 2: Let seditionists and unconstitutional presidents go on the ballot 1: quit working with the same political consultants since 1992 2: hire psychics so that boomer consultants can potentially be consulted from beyond the grave 1: Don’t throw your voters under the bus, make a show of protecting them 2: Let’s pretend trans people don’t exist
November 8, 2024 at 1:01 AM
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I stumbled on a social media post yesterday where people were posting book quotes that uplifted them, and this one really grabbed me.

“If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal.”

Full quote/passage pictured below with Alt Text.
Text in photo: “The personal, as everyone’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here – it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide from under it with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way, you stand a better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous marks the difference - the only difference in their eyes - between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life and that it’s nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal. Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
November 7, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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I played with the map thingy. In my headspace, it comes down to NC. Four days to go.
A 2024 electoral college map simulation showing 266 votes for Democrats, 256 votes for republicans, with the 16 votes for NC marked as toss up. For the swing states, this map shows NV, MI and GA leaning red, and WI, PA and AZ leaning blue.
November 1, 2024 at 11:58 PM
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Ballot security should not fall under the umbrella of “personal responsibility” but … AMERICA.
Image of Smokey the Bear pointing out to you. Top text: Only You Can Prevent Ballot Fires!! Bottom Text: Wait….Shouldn’t Local Government Be Handling This One???
October 28, 2024 at 6:10 PM