Rick Hantz
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Retired programmer. Live at the top of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. Rock hound, gardener, mushroom forager, and avid reader of F&SF. Hate MAGA and Fascists. #Resistt
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Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
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It's not in your head.
The algorithms are designed to make you angry.
A PNAS study proves hating each other drives engagement, and engagement drives profit.
Source: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2024292118
The algorithms are designed to make you angry.
A PNAS study proves hating each other drives engagement, and engagement drives profit.
Source: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2024292118
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It's not in your head.
The algorithms are designed to make you angry.
A PNAS study proves hating each other drives engagement, and engagement drives profit.
Source: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2024292118
The algorithms are designed to make you angry.
A PNAS study proves hating each other drives engagement, and engagement drives profit.
Source: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2024292118
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TIL that when the Beatles first came to America there was still someone alive in the US who'd been born into slavery here
The fact that I'm only in my 40s and missed by only a decade or so being alive at the same time as a former American slave further brings home for me just how recent slavery was
The fact that I'm only in my 40s and missed by only a decade or so being alive at the same time as a former American slave further brings home for me just how recent slavery was
November 6, 2025 at 4:53 AM
TIL that when the Beatles first came to America there was still someone alive in the US who'd been born into slavery here
The fact that I'm only in my 40s and missed by only a decade or so being alive at the same time as a former American slave further brings home for me just how recent slavery was
The fact that I'm only in my 40s and missed by only a decade or so being alive at the same time as a former American slave further brings home for me just how recent slavery was
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IHIP News: Elon SCREWS Trump OVER, Outs MAGA X Users as FRAUDS On PURPOSE!
YouTube video by I've Had It
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November 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Everything is illegitimate
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Everything is illegitimate
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🚨 Rep. Don Bacon, NE (R) breaks from MAGA. Ukraine, threats to colleagues, the Epstein atrocities, ICE atrocities.... Whether individual or collective, there are lines people will not want their names historically associated with crossing.
November 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
🚨 Rep. Don Bacon, NE (R) breaks from MAGA. Ukraine, threats to colleagues, the Epstein atrocities, ICE atrocities.... Whether individual or collective, there are lines people will not want their names historically associated with crossing.
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A military vet and astronaut, more patriotic than Hegseths pinkie. WTH?
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A military vet and astronaut, more patriotic than Hegseths pinkie. WTH?
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#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #Pinks
We start the boycott November 25 to December 2 of the companies that support the regime. Here is a list of companies that did not bend the knee to the wannabe dictator.
We start the boycott November 25 to December 2 of the companies that support the regime. Here is a list of companies that did not bend the knee to the wannabe dictator.
November 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #Pinks
We start the boycott November 25 to December 2 of the companies that support the regime. Here is a list of companies that did not bend the knee to the wannabe dictator.
We start the boycott November 25 to December 2 of the companies that support the regime. Here is a list of companies that did not bend the knee to the wannabe dictator.
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Ah yes, AMERICAN Voice, proudly broadcasting from…checks notes…South Asia.
November 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Ah yes, AMERICAN Voice, proudly broadcasting from…checks notes…South Asia.
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🇺🇦 Zelensky: The crux of the entire diplomatic situation is that it was Russia, and only Russia, that started this war, and it is Russia, and only Russia, that has been refusing to end it throughout the full-scale invasion.
November 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🇺🇦 Zelensky: The crux of the entire diplomatic situation is that it was Russia, and only Russia, that started this war, and it is Russia, and only Russia, that has been refusing to end it throughout the full-scale invasion.
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After Epstein et al., Zuckerberg is that greatest child predator around.
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After Epstein et al., Zuckerberg is that greatest child predator around.
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November 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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After Epstein et al., Zuckerberg is that greatest child predator around.
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After Epstein et al., Zuckerberg is that greatest child predator around.
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MARJORIE "THREE BRAIN CELLS" GREENE IS HAVING A BIG SAD RIGHT NOW BECAUSE OF ALL THE "TOXIC" IN POLITICS. BOO FUCKING HOO. FUCK OFF STRAIGHT INTO THE SEA, MARGE, BECAUSE YOU STARTED IT. NO ONE THOUGHT A POST LIKE MINE WAS POSSIBLE. READ IT, BECAUSE IT'S SEDITION IF YOU DON'T! LINK: bit.ly/4ofLMcC
November 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
MARJORIE "THREE BRAIN CELLS" GREENE IS HAVING A BIG SAD RIGHT NOW BECAUSE OF ALL THE "TOXIC" IN POLITICS. BOO FUCKING HOO. FUCK OFF STRAIGHT INTO THE SEA, MARGE, BECAUSE YOU STARTED IT. NO ONE THOUGHT A POST LIKE MINE WAS POSSIBLE. READ IT, BECAUSE IT'S SEDITION IF YOU DON'T! LINK: bit.ly/4ofLMcC
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November 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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the economic success of the U.S. is significantly built on the land grant universities and in particular their excellent agricultural science tradition.
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
the economic success of the U.S. is significantly built on the land grant universities and in particular their excellent agricultural science tradition.
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This is…brilliant.
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
This is…brilliant.
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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WELKER: What is your message to Jewish New Yorkers who feel you won't be tough enough in your response to antisemitism?
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
November 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
WELKER: What is your message to Jewish New Yorkers who feel you won't be tough enough in your response to antisemitism?
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM