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And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us but what stands before us. We close the divide because we know, to put our future first, we must first put our differences aside. We lay down our arms so we can reach out our arms
to one another. —AG
Both the United States and China are turning into a surveillance state
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Shenzen, China
November 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"Succeeding developments led to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie by Gavrilo Princip, a Yugoslav nationalist and ethnic Serb, at Sarajevo in June 1914, and the July Crisis that led to the start of the First World War."
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Mayerling incident - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
November 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
www.adl.org/resources/ha...

Since 1945, the swastika has served as the most significant and notorious of hate symbols, anti-Semitism and white supremacy for most of the world outside of Asia.
www.adl.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:08 PM
www.adl.org/resources/ha...

The hangman's noose has come to be one of the most powerful visual symbols directed against African Americans, comparable in the emotions that it evokes to that of the swastika for Jews.
www.adl.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:07 PM
People dress comfortably for air travel because

a. they're going to be in a small space for several hours

b. they don't want to set off metal detectors

c. they want to be able to take their shoes off easily
November 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
one meeting with a Saudi prince and ...
November 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Epstein also had lots of CCTV footage

just saying
November 20, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Stephen Miller wrote this 100%
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
"Mamdani and me, we're going to bring housing costs down across America. You wouldn't believe it."

—Trump
November 20, 2025 at 2:16 AM
November 20, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Albrecht Dürer - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM
November 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Arabic numerals - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I'm sure that by the next midterms the tv media will turn that around for people like this:
November 20, 2025 at 12:44 AM
which isn't very difficult tbh
November 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
But at some point systems become too complex for humans to fix

When that happens only systems that are maintained by automation (ai) will continue to exist

And God help us all when we find ourselves in that situation
November 19, 2025 at 1:34 AM
But Biden was president for 4 years, that's a long investigation
November 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Right, the name █████ will be redacted everywhere
November 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Pam Bondi will never release documents that mention █████.
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM