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That Obama arrest video shows what MAGA is about at its core. Remember, no one took Trump seriously until his racist accusations against Obama. Notice, the video doesn't just show Obama getting arrested, or even Obama resisting his arrest, it shows Obama being put in his place on his knees.
July 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional.

We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.
June 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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MAGA in a nutshell
June 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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It's so weird when people can't tell they're the villains in the story. People wake up like "doo da doo time to put on my ski mask and cover my badge number like a hero would." "I'm not wrong, it's the crying family I'm tearing apart that is the problem."
June 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
You know what would absolutely ruin Trump’s day? If no one in LA threw rocks or started fires.
June 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns

los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
June 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I think the root of a lot of our problems is people basically refusing to read anything except social media. And that goes all the way from the leader of the free world down to my colleagues who reply to emails asking questions that were directly addressed in the email I sent them.
June 6, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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There is zero ZEROOO doubt in my mind that AI cults are going to be huge. I don't mean, like, "I LOVE AI SAM ALTMAN IS SENPAI" I mean like, "I have used AI to tap into the deep secrets of the ancient, forgotten texts that tell the future and it tells me that /you/ have been /chosen/...to follow me."
May 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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This selfie is, literally, out of this world.

NASA's Perseverance rover took a photo of itself on the surface of Mars on May 10 to mark its 1,500th Martian day exploring the planet. That’s equivalent to 1,541 Earth days because one day on Mars is 24.6 hours long.

📸: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
May 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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At NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Manhattan, they specialize in planetary climates — especially Earth's.

The White House decided not to renew their building lease — where they’ve been for 64 years.

NASA’s total funding is 0.3% of the Federal Budget. Just saying.
May 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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"They want obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay the longer hours the reduced benefits the end of overtime and the vanishing pension" ~George Carlin
April 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Crazy but not so surprising given the context. Computer security will suffer from continued degradation of the CVE system.

Various EU laws mandate the creation of cybersecurity institutions that, in principle, should play a similar role. I hope that can work.
BREAKING.

From a reliable source. MITRE support for the CVE program is due to expire tomorrow. The attached letter was sent out to CVE Board Members.
April 16, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me
April 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Why isn’t this information being broadcast over and over in the American media? Because it’s not good TV. Even if you support the idea of tariffs, this implementation is moronic and destructive and you can see that with basic arithmetic. youtu.be/PWhv-06DNjE?...
The bizarre way Trump’s team calculated reciprocal tariffs | About That
YouTube video by CBC News
youtu.be
April 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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The Heard and McDonald Islands in the remote Antarctic, which together form another Australian territory — this one uninhabited — is on the Trump administration's list and subject to 10% tariffs. to.pbs.org/3FUqhxk
5 places Trump has targeted for tariffs even though they have few or no exports
The Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs have touched rocky outcrops home to polar bears in the Arctic, tiny tropical islands and a former British penal colony whose leader is befuddled that it was...
to.pbs.org
April 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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I enjoyed this idea that authoritarian states are more like the movie Brazil than the book 1984 - because authoritarianism breeds incompetence.

observer.com/2025/02/terr...
Terry Gilliam’s ‘Brazil’ At 40: More Prescient Than Orwell
Gilliam’s vision of totalitarianism as both evil and bumbling, with parallels to our current dystopian moment.
observer.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Smiling and nodding when Elon says “if we cancel something good we’ll just put it back in like we did with ebola prevention” requires you to believe that Elon Musk both is and should be the emperor.
March 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Hiring your brother is the original affirmative action for white people.
Diversity initiatives were meant to overcome the old patterns of nepotism, so I guess it makes sense that the enemies of diversity are big fans of nepotism.
Why is Pete Hegseth bringing his wife to top security meetings and hiring his brother at the Pentagon? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
March 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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The thing I admire most about Jeffery Goldberg right now is that he didn't sit on his incendiary scoop, waiting to reveal it only when he could make money from it in a book, like so many other selfish people who know shocking things about this administration have done and will continue to do.
March 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
If you wanted to destroy the brand of the United States, one great way would be to convince other countries not to send their kids to school here. Think about it, even dictators send their kids to colleges in the United States. I bet revoking student visas will accomplish that.
March 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Unless you have dedicated thousands of hours of rigorous study to a topic you are not capable of doing research on that topic. Watching YouTube videos and reading blog posts is not research.
March 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Historians will record today as the end of Pax Americana.
February 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Mark Hamill posting rebellious content in a battle against a dictator and his robotic sidekick is the most Star Wars shit ever.
February 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM