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I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before

but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply
December 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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It's so easy to imagine that the past is another country and like it's not even different people
December 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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i don't think it's responsible to let President Grandpa go out there without challenge and say that the way forward on health care are national FSAs seeded some token amount of cash and the right to buy individual health plans yourself off the retail rack. i think the stupidity should be pointed out
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Gradually becoming a supporter of capital punishment.
ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”

He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care

This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person

They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
November 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Indeed, he was allowed to to kill all those children because he is so rich
The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire
November 7, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Trump: "For 1,000 years, communism has not worked"
November 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.
November 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
this is my moment, 32 years in the making.
"we're in an economy right now where beef prices are soaring and American farmers have soybeans. The simple solution is, of course, more vegetarians."

...And this is one of those times when I can't tell if I'm giving serious economic advice, or having fun. Perhaps both.
October 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
October 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Things are looking doubleplusungood.
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · Oct 24
US border patrol is asking companies to submit plans to turn standard 4x4 trucks into AI-powered watchtowers—combining radar, cameras, and autonomous tracking to extend surveillance on demand.
DHS Wants a Fleet of AI-Powered Surveillance Trucks
US border patrol is asking companies to submit plans to turn standard 4x4 trucks into AI-powered watchtowers—combining radar, cameras, and autonomous tracking to extend surveillance on demand.
wrd.cm
October 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Pure venality.
Former US Sen. Kyrsten Sinema lobbies for data center developer at Chandler AZ Plan Commission. Says she's working "hand in glove" w Trump Admin & warns city to embrace DCs or face federal intervention. City Council vote on Sinema's DC scheduled for Nov. 13.
October 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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future grandchild: like shit, from an ass?

me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House
October 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I’m assuming this went through the Section 106 process.
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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To the scolds posting about how these big nonviolent protests are just for lame normies: _this_ is why it matters to get hundreds of thousands of people in one place yelling & waving signs: not just to create solidarity among those there, but to create images that show our huge numbers to the world.
😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Trump says a lot of weird and concerning stuff that people just kind of shrug at but right now I’m stuck on how he keeps insisting he’s going to hell
October 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Operation: Make Russ Vought a Household Name
a russ vought special
There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.
October 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Napalm is woke.
Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."
October 6, 2025 at 1:24 AM
why are they scared of the frog???
wizard frog is insane
October 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Don’t call it fascism until all the boxes are checked. But once they are, you can only say it to yourself.
If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.
the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.
October 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM