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Michael Lapides
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Time to take a walk.
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If people admire you, they put your name on buildings. If you have to do it yourself, well… that’s different.
December 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
With all these extrajudicial boat murders, we have a president who is not only an adjudicated rapist, but also an unapprehended serial killer.
November 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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GOP: I can't believe Dems are trying to stop us from taking away your healthcare. Just for that, no food for you.
October 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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The decline isn’t subtle anymore.
October 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Yeap
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
If a "clean CR" spikes my constituents’ health insurance premiums, it’s not clean. It’s dirty and puts the interests of the richest Americans ahead of Minnesota and I won’t vote for it.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
October 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Aunt Ifa at No King, Barrington RI
October 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Can't wait to hear people defend this. Darn, I forgot, these young GOP are about to be offered new jobs in DHS or ICE.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Have the good times started yet?
October 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
October 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Broken elevator, call 1-800- ANFIFA
Antifa sabotaged the escalator.
September 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
On target. ABC should reinstate Kimmell.
John Oliver says Bob Iger should use "the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away. And that is, 'fuck you, make me.'" youtu.be/ohPToBog_-g?...
Jimmy Kimmel & the FCC: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
youtu.be
September 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
September 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
"...or just kill them". Blunt and to the point. When they tell us who they are we must believe them.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The Supreme Court is captured. Expect inconsistency.
GOP U.S. Supreme Court in June 2023 ruled that using race as a factor in college admissions is unconstitutional. BUT today they ruled ICE can use race as a factor when detaining people. To sum up: the GOP Justices ban considering race when it can help people but allow ICE to use it to deport people
September 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
For me, this @merriam-webster.com account is useful. :)
There are actually two kinds of homonyms: homophones and homographs.

Homonym = same name
Homophone = same sound [to/too/two]
Homograph = written the same [tear (rip) / tear (boohoo)]
September 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Thankfully we don't need the US government to know what rights we have. Not saying I don't want one. :/
BREAKING: The US government has just removed sections 9 and 10 of Article I of the US Constitution from their website.

Note that sections 9 and 10 deal with:

- Writ of Habeas Corpus
- Congresses ability to control tariffs.

See screenshot below: Notice that 9 and 10 are gone.
August 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
May this do Tesla level damage to Apple. Sure, investing $100 Billion to manufacturing in America is good, but how much will an iPhone cost in 5 years? Android owner here.
Tim Cook pathetically kisses Trump's ass by pretending him with a "24 karat gold" gift
August 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
If you are not on one of those other hell sites this may be news to you. It was to me.
The next part of the plan to steal the midterms and/or the 2028 election - an attempt to do a mid-decade census to take seats and electoral votes away from blue states. I knew this was coming.
August 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Your periodic reminder that the estimated cost to end hunger in the U.S. is $25 billion.
July 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM