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Mike Maples
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Art is the curation of accidents. Screenwriter, working in LA.
Oregon Duck.
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“The JAG at Southern Command specifically expressed concern that strikes against people on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean…could amount to extrajudicial killings, the six sources said, and therefore legally expose service members involved in the operations.”
Top military lawyer raised legal concerns about boat strikes
The lawyer at U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the operations against alleged drug-smuggling boats near Venezuela, disagreed that the strikes are legal and was overruled, according to six sources...
www.nbcnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Marjorie Tsylor Greene was hated by the left for years and never had to fear for her life. She is hated by the right for two days and hires a security detail. What does that tell you?
November 19, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Every single promise Musk has made about Tesla and its world transformative technology has failed, literally every single one. So why do movers and thinkers take anything he says seriously? He leveraged the world’s biggest fortune against those promises and when it collapses he will be toast.
November 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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That part
November 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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I would say that he is a fool and a weakling but that would imply that his trade war was ever anything else but a scam to generate insider information so friends and family could get rich shorting stocks. (2/2)
November 17, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Trump lost his trade war in every possible sense. It hurt the economy; it made us look ludicrous and lawless; and it gave Beijing a chance to reach for world power. And there is nothing Trump can do about any of this except back down and blame others. (1/2)
November 17, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Why is every fucking GOP policy absolutely awful for the people in this country from both parties and why the fuck doesn’t the right admit it?
We found the US is on track to have the fewest foreign food safety inspections since 2011, excluding pandemic years.

In recent years, the FDA has typically been able to conduct ~110 inspections each month, but in March, the number of inspections dropped almost in half.

🔗: https://propub.li/4qTLkmN
November 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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"You’d think,after years of shutdowns,tantrums, and dysfunction, we’d learn. But here we are again; planes grounded, families separated, livelihoods upended, all because the Republican Party can’t bring itself to admit that healthcare is a human right, not a political bargaining chip"
MICHAEL COHEN
November 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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The whole pundit class is so useless because they're not actually experts in anything! They're not researchers. They're not doing practical work. They're just prolific take-havers with a platform that people interpret as authority. It's just a periodic letter to the editor written by the same guy!
November 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
But tell us again Mr. President what a disaster the Biden economy was and how you’ve fixed it
The data, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, shows that company layoffs soared last month to more than 153,000, marking the worst October for job reductions since 2003.

www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hit-wi...
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Trump has that, fuck, I’m next aren’t I, look about him.
RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible
November 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Worst of the worst, my fucking ass.
A damn daycare. This is sick. What are we doing?
November 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Trump just admitted it the shutdown’s been disastrous for Republicans. While millions suffer, voters know who to blame. The GOP’s chaos strategy backfired, and Democrats are the ones standing up for workers, families, and sanity.

The meltdown is theirs.
The momentum is ours.🔥
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Fucking absurd headline. Do better #AP
November 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Kitchen table issues?
November 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Phenomenal thread. I wish the people who need to read it could.
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I’ve spent the last 3 days tracking right-wing influencers morning and night. What I found is a machine, not a movement. Every day follows the same rhythm of fear, outrage, and punishment. It’s emotional conditioning disguised as news. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
November 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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This 👇 is why the government is shut down and why the Speaker won't swear in AZ representative elected 3 weeks ago.
October 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Americas pastime hates you loser
November 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Did this cartel short Don Jr. on an eight-ball, or something?
The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald, as the U.S. prepares to initiate the next stage of its campaign against the Soles drug cartel.
U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela in escalation against Maduro regime
The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald, as the U.S. prepares to initiate the next stage of its campaign against the Soles drug cartel.
bit.ly
October 31, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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The Heritage Foundation got him immunity from SCOTUS.

Elon Musk bought him the 2024 election.

Jeff Bezos paid $40M for a documentary about Melania.

Tim Cook got him a gold brick.

Zuckerberg (& the dickbags above) all donated millions to his inauguration and demolition of the East Wing.

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October 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
George Soros owes me sixty bucks.
October 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
So kids are going to go hungry because Congress couldn’t be arsed to do their job just to give Jeffery Epstein a chance to continue fucking kids from the grave.
October 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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A Theo Moudakis cartoon.
@thestar.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM