Seattle_Ben
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Seattle_Ben
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Geeky wine and food guy
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Speaking as a former Californian with continuing deep ties to the state: Go ahead and be Florida's problem, you greedy fascist fuckwaddles
Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
nyti.ms
December 27, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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abolish ice. theres no middle road on this and democrats will have to be held to it.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.

Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.

"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.

"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.

Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?
December 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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WHO GIVES A DAMN?

It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.

Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 2d
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Axios has learned that the White House has begun managing the DOJ's account on X to respond to posts highlighting mentions of Trump in the Epstein files, raising more questions about then ex-president Bill Clinton's tarmac meeting with Loretta Lynch.
December 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Are women ruining the workplace at CBS News?
December 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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kavanaugh not beating the allegations that he’s a dumbass
Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden.

Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?
Kavanaugh in a footnote in today's opinion says "the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity."
December 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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CBS burying the 60 Minutes CECOT story is exactly why the Ellison family shouldn’t be allowed to buy Warner Bros. Discovery
December 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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I wish I were in the timeline where I sleep peacefully through the night and not the one where I lay awake at 2AM doomscrolling about the president wanting to build a fleet of golden battleships named after himself to invade Greenland with and also rich guys writing sex crimes letters to each other
December 23, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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I'm feeling very annoyed that every recipe now is brown butter... get over yourselves.
December 23, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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FOER: “This is one of those moments in Trump’s presidency when an event that would otherwise be recognized as a death knell for democracy somehow fails to elicit the outrage it deserves.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.
December 21, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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The time to demand Bondi’s resignation or impeachment is NOW. Press them hard, put them on the defensive, and make this a key issue in the midterms.

It highlights everything wrong with the GOP — cult like loyalty to Trump, complete lawlessness, elite entitlement, etc.
#EpsteinCoverup is so blatantly hamfisted, it's political malpractice if Dems don't attack full bore: Impeach Bondi as the means to make it a defining issue next year in run-up to midterms.
Removing this obviously distributed-a-billion-times photo of Trump w/Melania, Epstein, & Maxwell from the DOJ release of files only points out the FBI team's foolish, slapdash attempt to cover up *any existence* of the adjudicated sexual assaulter FOTUS in them.

🧾 is.gd/7Dnadz
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December 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.
December 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.
December 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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December 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Every single democratic senator voted to confirm Marco Rubio as Secretary of State. Every single one. Not one “no” vote.
Q: Do you stand by your statement from earlier this year that nobody has died from USAID cuts?

RUBIO: I'm very proud of the changes we've made in foreign aid
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Stone-built Snake Bridge on the Macclesfield Canal, England
December 19, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Yellow-Red-Blue, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1925 (detail, rotated), 📸 by @riogiancarlo.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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repeating “the lady who handcuffed herself to the twitter building has veto power over national security personnel” to myself over and over and slowly going insane
Loomer got the NSA deputy director nom pulled
December 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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#GVerse #Food4Thought
For no reason at all…

Nixon didn’t go to prison over Watergate, but 48 others were convicted and served time for the scandal - notably, his Attorney General. Attention: Pam Bondi meet John Mitchell.
December 13, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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A Blue Jay giving a mid-flight glance over his/her shoulder while showing those beautiful blue feathers.
December 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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More from my Texas photography trip this time a fantastic encounter with a Crested Caracara who decided to eat his lunch right in front of me #Birds #BlueSkyPhotography #BlueSkyPhotographer #NatureLovers #Wildlife #BirdsofPrey #Texas
December 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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trump is a fucking liar.

Ask Ukraine.
December 8, 2025 at 1:10 AM