Rick O’Brien
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Health Abolish ICE
Solvitur ambulando
Don’t distract me
Solvitur ambulando
Don’t distract me
Pinned
A population that is busy being sick and dying is much easier to control.
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The overall plot was a running, tongue-in-cheek satire, often filled with Cold War paranoia (in the form of the Pottsylvanian spies), clever wordplay, and "breaking the fourth wall" with the narrator.
squirrel and a moose
squirrel and a moose
November 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The overall plot was a running, tongue-in-cheek satire, often filled with Cold War paranoia (in the form of the Pottsylvanian spies), clever wordplay, and "breaking the fourth wall" with the narrator.
squirrel and a moose
squirrel and a moose
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Today’s Daily Stoic:
“.. The call to courage is not simply the call to conquer fear. It is the call to conquer fear in service of something greater than yourself. To speak the truth, even when it costs you. To do what’s right, even when it’s hard.”
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“.. The call to courage is not simply the call to conquer fear. It is the call to conquer fear in service of something greater than yourself. To speak the truth, even when it costs you. To do what’s right, even when it’s hard.”
@dailystoic.com.web.brid.gy
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Daily Stoic | Stoic Wisdom For Everyday Life
Stoic Wisdom For Everyday Life
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November 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Today’s Daily Stoic:
“.. The call to courage is not simply the call to conquer fear. It is the call to conquer fear in service of something greater than yourself. To speak the truth, even when it costs you. To do what’s right, even when it’s hard.”
@dailystoic.com.web.brid.gy
dailystoic.com
“.. The call to courage is not simply the call to conquer fear. It is the call to conquer fear in service of something greater than yourself. To speak the truth, even when it costs you. To do what’s right, even when it’s hard.”
@dailystoic.com.web.brid.gy
dailystoic.com
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YOU CAN'T FIRE ME, I QUIT
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 AM
YOU CAN'T FIRE ME, I QUIT
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When American oil companies are about to make tremendous profits, first by destroying a direct oil extractor competitor, and later by taking ownership of their oil for themselves, it's frankly insulting to call this a distraction from whatever files.
November 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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If a man said what Megyn Kelly said, you would assume he was a trafficker.
This young lady is wise beyond her years, but she is still a “child”and she would like a word…
This young lady is wise beyond her years, but she is still a “child”and she would like a word…
November 16, 2025 at 4:16 AM
If a man said what Megyn Kelly said, you would assume he was a trafficker.
This young lady is wise beyond her years, but she is still a “child”and she would like a word…
This young lady is wise beyond her years, but she is still a “child”and she would like a word…
“…no reason for it to end since they have captured the authority of the Federal Government.”
November 16, 2025 at 7:14 AM
“…no reason for it to end since they have captured the authority of the Federal Government.”
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Much more honest is what they’ve become.
These Megan Kelly clips are pretty good proof that a lot of people have gotten much much much worse over the last 10 years
November 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Much more honest is what they’ve become.
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Every time I get a brain MRI scan the doc says “everything looks perfect, see you in three weeks”
so trump just out there getting standard MRI scans as a standard part of the standard multiple annual check ups a president gets in the first ten months
November 15, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Every time I get a brain MRI scan the doc says “everything looks perfect, see you in three weeks”
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Brazil didn’t stop at sentencing former president Bolsanaro to 27 years for an attempted coup; his entire inner circle—from the vice president and the military commander to the intelligence chief and even his son—are also facing decades in prison.
America, this is what democracy looks like.
America, this is what democracy looks like.
November 15, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Brazil didn’t stop at sentencing former president Bolsanaro to 27 years for an attempted coup; his entire inner circle—from the vice president and the military commander to the intelligence chief and even his son—are also facing decades in prison.
America, this is what democracy looks like.
America, this is what democracy looks like.
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There is currently nothing to discuss or negotiate with Russia, since it clearly only seeks to buy time and continue its war.
When talks eventually happen, Trump should not be the negotiator, because he is being blackmailed by Russia
When talks eventually happen, Trump should not be the negotiator, because he is being blackmailed by Russia
November 14, 2025 at 9:01 AM
There is currently nothing to discuss or negotiate with Russia, since it clearly only seeks to buy time and continue its war.
When talks eventually happen, Trump should not be the negotiator, because he is being blackmailed by Russia
When talks eventually happen, Trump should not be the negotiator, because he is being blackmailed by Russia
m.x.com/AdamParkhome...
Closer to a disintegrating Clown Car than a Formula One team, but who are the sponsors this crew?
Closer to a disintegrating Clown Car than a Formula One team, but who are the sponsors this crew?
m.x.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:56 AM
m.x.com/AdamParkhome...
Closer to a disintegrating Clown Car than a Formula One team, but who are the sponsors this crew?
Closer to a disintegrating Clown Car than a Formula One team, but who are the sponsors this crew?
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Every single GOP official has had to ask themselves if it mattered to them that their leader was a serial sex abuser pedophile pathological liar racist fraudster who was uncomfortably supportive of our enemies. And all concluded, “nah!” Until now. Before they thought he helped them win. Now what?
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Every single GOP official has had to ask themselves if it mattered to them that their leader was a serial sex abuser pedophile pathological liar racist fraudster who was uncomfortably supportive of our enemies. And all concluded, “nah!” Until now. Before they thought he helped them win. Now what?
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In just a decade they went from purity rings to teen sex slave positivity. Trump is a transformational president.
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
In just a decade they went from purity rings to teen sex slave positivity. Trump is a transformational president.
Please add a DoorDash decal to the Disintegrating Clown Car to keep the analogy of our federal government current.
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Please add a DoorDash decal to the Disintegrating Clown Car to keep the analogy of our federal government current.
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Republicans are a disintegrated clown car and the Democrats are a Formula One team that chronically fails to qualify because their sponsors don’t allow change in leadership.
Writers flummoxed about next season’s story arc. Comedic turn (again?) or do we really want to watch even darker shit?
Writers flummoxed about next season’s story arc. Comedic turn (again?) or do we really want to watch even darker shit?
November 12, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Republicans are a disintegrated clown car and the Democrats are a Formula One team that chronically fails to qualify because their sponsors don’t allow change in leadership.
Writers flummoxed about next season’s story arc. Comedic turn (again?) or do we really want to watch even darker shit?
Writers flummoxed about next season’s story arc. Comedic turn (again?) or do we really want to watch even darker shit?
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Russia and Ukraine are truly in a race against time, with both sides trying to make the other one give up because of the human and economic cost to end the war.
Russia, the aggressor, has more resources but this war is not as existential for it as it is for Ukraine
Russia, the aggressor, has more resources but this war is not as existential for it as it is for Ukraine
November 12, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Russia and Ukraine are truly in a race against time, with both sides trying to make the other one give up because of the human and economic cost to end the war.
Russia, the aggressor, has more resources but this war is not as existential for it as it is for Ukraine
Russia, the aggressor, has more resources but this war is not as existential for it as it is for Ukraine
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What in the ever loving…
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
What in the ever loving…
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This is important - is Bluesky now also complying?
Gets ever more clear: we need social networks of we the people!
Gets ever more clear: we need social networks of we the people!
‼️ Why did you, @jay.bsky.team @support.bsky.team suspend the account of one of the most outspoken, independent and important critics of the Trump regime - my friend and colleague @sarahkendzior.bsky.social ? By cutting her off, you also endanger her. Reinstall her account NOW!
Please share widely
Please share widely
November 12, 2025 at 8:18 AM
This is important - is Bluesky now also complying?
Gets ever more clear: we need social networks of we the people!
Gets ever more clear: we need social networks of we the people!
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Funny/tragic how much of what we consider to be "winning" on the politics is actually losing on the policy.
The incentives are weird. It's better to have an "issue" than a solution.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
The incentives are weird. It's better to have an "issue" than a solution.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Funny/tragic how much of what we consider to be "winning" on the politics is actually losing on the policy.
The incentives are weird. It's better to have an "issue" than a solution.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
The incentives are weird. It's better to have an "issue" than a solution.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...