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Learned a new word today, kakistocracy. Thanks to Micelle Goldberg at the NYT.
December 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Learned a new word today, kakistocracy. Thanks to Micelle Goldberg at the NYT.
Learned a new word today, kakistocracy. Thanks to Micelle Goldberg at the NYT.
December 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Learned a new word today, kakistocracy. Thanks to Micelle Goldberg at the NYT.
apnews.com/photo-galler... show the last supermoon of the year shining in December skies
Photos show the last supermoon of the year shining in December skies
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December 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
apnews.com/photo-galler... show the last supermoon of the year shining in December skies
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A Klingon restaurant called ‘Five Guys’ and every burger contains meat from five different guys.
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
A Klingon restaurant called ‘Five Guys’ and every burger contains meat from five different guys.
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If members of the United States military are truly being paid their salaries by a private individual, the American people should know who that individual is. Now.
October 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
If members of the United States military are truly being paid their salaries by a private individual, the American people should know who that individual is. Now.
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Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
October 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.
These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.
This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.
Every American should reject it.
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The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.
October 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.
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This is a take-one-for-the-team moment.
Our country is dying, and Jack Smith knows it.
He’s asking to testify publicly, so you know he’s got receipts.
Doing this paints an even larger target on his back, and he's saying, "Fuck it."
Go Jack!
Our country is dying, and Jack Smith knows it.
He’s asking to testify publicly, so you know he’s got receipts.
Doing this paints an even larger target on his back, and he's saying, "Fuck it."
Go Jack!
October 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
This is a take-one-for-the-team moment.
Our country is dying, and Jack Smith knows it.
He’s asking to testify publicly, so you know he’s got receipts.
Doing this paints an even larger target on his back, and he's saying, "Fuck it."
Go Jack!
Our country is dying, and Jack Smith knows it.
He’s asking to testify publicly, so you know he’s got receipts.
Doing this paints an even larger target on his back, and he's saying, "Fuck it."
Go Jack!
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Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
www.volkskrant.nl
October 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Republicans are playing word games with “illegal immigrant healthcare” to gut subsidies 24 MILLION Americans rely on. The result? YOUR premiums could spike 75%—hundreds more every month. Don’t be fooled.
This is #TrumpsHealthCareShutdown. social.demcast.com/s/3aJB1qMI
This is #TrumpsHealthCareShutdown. social.demcast.com/s/3aJB1qMI
October 4, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Republicans are playing word games with “illegal immigrant healthcare” to gut subsidies 24 MILLION Americans rely on. The result? YOUR premiums could spike 75%—hundreds more every month. Don’t be fooled.
This is #TrumpsHealthCareShutdown. social.demcast.com/s/3aJB1qMI
This is #TrumpsHealthCareShutdown. social.demcast.com/s/3aJB1qMI
Here, in northern Ohio, at dusk last evening I noticed that the leaves were turning golden. This morning it continues. By next weekend we should be surrounded with the glory of color
October 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Here, in northern Ohio, at dusk last evening I noticed that the leaves were turning golden. This morning it continues. By next weekend we should be surrounded with the glory of color
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Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"
October 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"
Do members of Congress get paid during the shutdown?
October 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Do members of Congress get paid during the shutdown?
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I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
October 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
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I was a medic during the wars, and my rotations involved working at hospitals in the ER. Medical knowledge is important to me, so when these f***ing morons say that Tylenol causes autism, I have to say this.
Autism as a concept was introduced in 1911.
Tylenol wasn't invented until 1955
Autism as a concept was introduced in 1911.
Tylenol wasn't invented until 1955
September 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I was a medic during the wars, and my rotations involved working at hospitals in the ER. Medical knowledge is important to me, so when these f***ing morons say that Tylenol causes autism, I have to say this.
Autism as a concept was introduced in 1911.
Tylenol wasn't invented until 1955
Autism as a concept was introduced in 1911.
Tylenol wasn't invented until 1955
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Another piece of timely brilliance from lunch_bag_linos
July 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Another piece of timely brilliance from lunch_bag_linos
apnews.com/article/immi... arrest outside Oregon preschool rattles parents
Immigration arrest outside Oregon preschool rattles parents
Parents at a preschool in Oregon are reeling after immigration officers arrested a father in front of the school.
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July 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
apnews.com/article/immi... arrest outside Oregon preschool rattles parents
I planted seed that was supposed to be 'firecracker orange'
What I have looks just like this. Not what I expected but they are lovely.
What I have looks just like this. Not what I expected but they are lovely.
Dollar store snapdragons #gardensky #bloomscrolling 🌱
July 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I planted seed that was supposed to be 'firecracker orange'
What I have looks just like this. Not what I expected but they are lovely.
What I have looks just like this. Not what I expected but they are lovely.
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If you don’t think this moment of symbolism is 100% deliberate, you haven’t been paying attention.
The Speaker surrendering his gavel is purposeful, self-subjugation to the “King”. Congress betraying its role & yielding its power.
All on #July4th too.
The Speaker surrendering his gavel is purposeful, self-subjugation to the “King”. Congress betraying its role & yielding its power.
All on #July4th too.
July 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
If you don’t think this moment of symbolism is 100% deliberate, you haven’t been paying attention.
The Speaker surrendering his gavel is purposeful, self-subjugation to the “King”. Congress betraying its role & yielding its power.
All on #July4th too.
The Speaker surrendering his gavel is purposeful, self-subjugation to the “King”. Congress betraying its role & yielding its power.
All on #July4th too.
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Hello from Berlin where a few hundred Americans are outside the embassy, currently reading aloud from the Declaration of Independence. #nokings
June 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Hello from Berlin where a few hundred Americans are outside the embassy, currently reading aloud from the Declaration of Independence. #nokings
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Why does health care have to be attached to work? Why not have health care come out of universal taxes? Oh right, then everyone would get health care!
#TaxTheRich
#TaxTheRich
June 3, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Why does health care have to be attached to work? Why not have health care come out of universal taxes? Oh right, then everyone would get health care!
#TaxTheRich
#TaxTheRich
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If you’ve got to hide your face, maybe you know you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.
May 31, 2025 at 11:07 PM
If you’ve got to hide your face, maybe you know you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.
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