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"No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up." - Lily Tomlin
Former pro guitarist, lover of 20th century music, cat servant. Pissed off boomer Socialist. COVID is *not* over.
Former pro guitarist, lover of 20th century music, cat servant. Pissed off boomer Socialist. COVID is *not* over.
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It is now officially my birthday :) Give me the present of being a paid subscriber :)
crisesnotes.com/birthday
crisesnotes.com/birthday
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
It is now officially my birthday :) Give me the present of being a paid subscriber :)
crisesnotes.com/birthday
crisesnotes.com/birthday
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🤍 This 'Thanksgiving Day', I thank God for those hands that, out of necessity, migrate despite obstacles and work tirelessly in another country.
Their stories are those of family heroes.
It is regrettable that many will not be able to be with their families today.
God bless them! 🙏
Their stories are those of family heroes.
It is regrettable that many will not be able to be with their families today.
God bless them! 🙏
November 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
🤍 This 'Thanksgiving Day', I thank God for those hands that, out of necessity, migrate despite obstacles and work tirelessly in another country.
Their stories are those of family heroes.
It is regrettable that many will not be able to be with their families today.
God bless them! 🙏
Their stories are those of family heroes.
It is regrettable that many will not be able to be with their families today.
God bless them! 🙏
Out of his mind dept.
BREAKING: Trump has said, "We may be cutting income tax almost completely because of tariff proceeds."
November 28, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Out of his mind dept.
Episode 3 of South Park, woa, they take on Sora A.I. & Trump, Vance, Peter Theil, Pam Bondi, Stephen Miller all get demolished...
November 28, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Episode 3 of South Park, woa, they take on Sora A.I. & Trump, Vance, Peter Theil, Pam Bondi, Stephen Miller all get demolished...
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The same road this picture was taken.
My neighborhood.
My neighborhood.
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The same road this picture was taken.
My neighborhood.
My neighborhood.
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A 16 year old American citizen has spent the last 9 months in an Israel prison.
Tonight he’s finally free.
Mohammed Ibrahim is a Palestinian-American from Florida.
He was arrested during an Israeli raid of his family’s home in the West Bank.
He had double digit weight loss & developed scabies
Tonight he’s finally free.
Mohammed Ibrahim is a Palestinian-American from Florida.
He was arrested during an Israeli raid of his family’s home in the West Bank.
He had double digit weight loss & developed scabies
Palestinian-American teenager held in Israeli prison freed after nine months
Israeli soldiers had taken Mohammed Ibrahim from his home in a night raid when he was only 15 years old
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
A 16 year old American citizen has spent the last 9 months in an Israel prison.
Tonight he’s finally free.
Mohammed Ibrahim is a Palestinian-American from Florida.
He was arrested during an Israeli raid of his family’s home in the West Bank.
He had double digit weight loss & developed scabies
Tonight he’s finally free.
Mohammed Ibrahim is a Palestinian-American from Florida.
He was arrested during an Israeli raid of his family’s home in the West Bank.
He had double digit weight loss & developed scabies
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Gaza became the place with the highest level of education in the Arab world, with zero illiteracy.
Today, for the third year in a row, Gazans are deprived of education no schools, no universities. Israel has destroyed them all.
Today, for the third year in a row, Gazans are deprived of education no schools, no universities. Israel has destroyed them all.
November 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Gaza became the place with the highest level of education in the Arab world, with zero illiteracy.
Today, for the third year in a row, Gazans are deprived of education no schools, no universities. Israel has destroyed them all.
Today, for the third year in a row, Gazans are deprived of education no schools, no universities. Israel has destroyed them all.
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I don't knowingly use AI for anything.
It amazes me how many people are willingly helping train Skynet.
Everyone complains about AI but also, let me ask it a question or feed it my article/paper...
Like why would you though?
It amazes me how many people are willingly helping train Skynet.
Everyone complains about AI but also, let me ask it a question or feed it my article/paper...
Like why would you though?
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I don't knowingly use AI for anything.
It amazes me how many people are willingly helping train Skynet.
Everyone complains about AI but also, let me ask it a question or feed it my article/paper...
Like why would you though?
It amazes me how many people are willingly helping train Skynet.
Everyone complains about AI but also, let me ask it a question or feed it my article/paper...
Like why would you though?
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Republicans are now negative double digits on immigration.
So...this is their message on Thanksgiving.
www.axios.com/2025/11/27/r...
So...this is their message on Thanksgiving.
www.axios.com/2025/11/27/r...
Republicans seek severe immigration crackdown over D.C. shooting: "Deport them all. Now."
"We must IMMEDIATELY BAN all ISLAM immigrants and DEPORT every single Islamist," said one Republican senator.
www.axios.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Republicans are now negative double digits on immigration.
So...this is their message on Thanksgiving.
www.axios.com/2025/11/27/r...
So...this is their message on Thanksgiving.
www.axios.com/2025/11/27/r...
“The folks that are taking the punches are the ones that can’t really afford to take the punches,” said Tuthill, president of Royal Food Import, a North Carolina-based company that distributes food to hospitals, food banks, schools and prisons.
kansasreflector.com/2025/11/26/t...
kansasreflector.com/2025/11/26/t...
Tariffs trickle into cost of Thanksgiving dinner, jilting consumers and farmers • Kansas Reflector
Collin Tuthill, president of one of the country’s largest canned and frozen food importers and distributors, said the current state of the U.S. food industry is “like we live in some kind of alternate...
kansasreflector.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:38 PM
“The folks that are taking the punches are the ones that can’t really afford to take the punches,” said Tuthill, president of Royal Food Import, a North Carolina-based company that distributes food to hospitals, food banks, schools and prisons.
kansasreflector.com/2025/11/26/t...
kansasreflector.com/2025/11/26/t...
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Trump administration's effort to end 1960s school desegregation cases faces a hurdle www.yahoo.com/news/article...
This is the Prez of US doing this, in 2025.
This is the Prez of US doing this, in 2025.
November 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Trump administration's effort to end 1960s school desegregation cases faces a hurdle www.yahoo.com/news/article...
This is the Prez of US doing this, in 2025.
This is the Prez of US doing this, in 2025.
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Miles, an Indigenous actor best known for her roles in “Northern Exposure,” “Smoke Signals,” “Wyvern” and “The Last of Us,” handed them her tribal ID from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon.
Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”
Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Miles, an Indigenous actor best known for her roles in “Northern Exposure,” “Smoke Signals,” “Wyvern” and “The Last of Us,” handed them her tribal ID from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon.
Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”
Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”
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November 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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I can't understand that people aren't more worried about the effects of these proliferating data centers. www.wired.com/story/amazon...
Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice says that over 1,000 workers have signed a petition raising “serious concerns” about the company’s “aggressive rollout” of artificial intelligence tools.
www.wired.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I can't understand that people aren't more worried about the effects of these proliferating data centers. www.wired.com/story/amazon...
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Destroy this fucking technology.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide
OpenAI’s response to teen suicide case is “disturbing,” lawyer says.
arstechnica.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Destroy this fucking technology.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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The Right Wants to Write #Indigenous People Out of US History. We Won’t Let Them. truthout.org/articles/the...
The Right Wants to Write Indigenous People Out of US History. We Won’t Let Them.
The Trump administration is reviving the visual language of manifest destiny and weaponizing the US’s founding myths.
truthout.org
November 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The Right Wants to Write #Indigenous People Out of US History. We Won’t Let Them. truthout.org/articles/the...
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South African youths chasing White people who hunt and kill Wildlife
👏👏👏👏👏😎
👏👏👏👏👏😎
November 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
South African youths chasing White people who hunt and kill Wildlife
👏👏👏👏👏😎
👏👏👏👏👏😎
Yeah avoiding it is pretty easy - Don't chat with AI !
Stopgenai.com we can show you how to avoid this tech completely…
November 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Yeah avoiding it is pretty easy - Don't chat with AI !
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It's gonna be really hard to convince people it wasn't a false flag now with this guy having ties to the agency who specializes in false flags
November 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
It's gonna be really hard to convince people it wasn't a false flag now with this guy having ties to the agency who specializes in false flags
Every spring and fall millions of snow geese and trumpeter swans migrate through our valley - so many that they are a problem for farmers as they eat their seeds. It's beautiful to see them anyway.
November 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Every spring and fall millions of snow geese and trumpeter swans migrate through our valley - so many that they are a problem for farmers as they eat their seeds. It's beautiful to see them anyway.
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Why We Fear AI is my favorite AI critique now, and these two paragraphs sum up so much so well, many thanks to @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg Glimmer 🙏🏻
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Why We Fear AI is my favorite AI critique now, and these two paragraphs sum up so much so well, many thanks to @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg Glimmer 🙏🏻
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MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes