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Wasting my potential since 1969
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November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Went to the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum and left fully depressed
November 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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it’s vitally important for the future of this country that this wildly unpopular administration is tied directly to its enablers in congress and the courts and used to discredit the entire conservative movement
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25

President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)

news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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"There are costs to performatively deploying members of the military—one of which is the risk of endangering them"

From @juliettekayyem.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
A Terrible and Avoidable Tragedy in D.C.
Trump was warned that members of the military could be attacked.
www.theatlantic.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

Grizzly bear
Wild boar
Alligator
Moose
Elk
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

- Hedgehog
- Toad
- Kingfisher
- Squirrel
- Fox
November 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.

This is the power of vaccines.

The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.

Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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November 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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I can only think of one person for whom this is true and it’s Stephen Miller, who for some reason will not rest till the US reproduces the violent xenophobia that made his and my ancestors flee eastern Europe. The rest of his family seems normal, though
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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What are abstract ideas like “being happy” and “having fulfillment” compared to real world achievements like “working full time for a company and still needing food stamps”
November 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Asked my kid and my husband separately what their favorite part of dinner was and they both answered, “when Artemis jumped on the table”
November 28, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Spoke to someone today who just got out of rehab and one thing she told me is “there is a LOT of fucking in rehab.”
November 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This meme lololololololol
I ain’t cooked a damn thing either and I’m bout to start drinking #anotherwomaninmaledominatedfields
November 28, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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having exactly (1) day out of the year where every amateur chef in America attempts to cook a giant bird and not fuck it up is, honestly, a wonderful and hilarious tradition
November 27, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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If you're feeling bad about spending Thanksgiving alone, don't. One Thanksgiving I went to see Lincoln alone, and 30 minutes in a woman stood up, yelled "I'M BORED!" and left. It was the best thing that ever happened to me.
November 28, 2024 at 7:27 PM
When all the food has been prepped and you can finally relax
November 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Nothing in the house to eat for dinner so I suggested we make Thanksgiving dinner tonight and serve leftovers tomorrow
November 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Can I share the best insult instead?

Walking with a friend. I was wearing grayish-purple lipstick and swinging my arms dramatically to make sure my Fitbit counted my steps and he told me, “You look like Sasquatch wearing a dead girl’s lipstick.”
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I’m declaring this hairstyle (that I believe @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social called cocker spaniel ears?) officially MAGA-coded. It’s part and parcel with MAGA face. Sorry if you wear your hair like that but
Former President Biden extended TPS for Haitians in 2024, citing “simultaneous economic, security, political and health crises."
Trump Administration Again Moves to End Haiti TPS Despite Worsening Crisis
www.newsweek.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”

“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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These people get framed as a “bad cops” but the people who hire police officers clearly find they have all the traits they desire for the role.
November 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 AM