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Progressive, news junkie and tail-end Boomer doggie mama. #BDS #BLM Anti-anti-vax. #AdministrativeLaw #CivilRightsLaw #ConstitutionalLaw […]

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From **Scott Robeson **@indianaclimate.bsky.social; a pyramid-shaped diagram of socially acceptable expressions of white supremacy vs. those that are socially unacceptable:
OVERT WHITE SUPREMACY (Socially Unacceptable): Lynching Hate Crimes Swastikas KKK Burning Crosses The N-Word Neo-Nazis Racial Slurs Racist Jokes COVERT WHITE SUPREMACY: Hiring Discrimination Police Murdering POC "Make America Great Again" School-to-Prison Pipeline Confederate Flags Racial Profiling Not Believing POC Police Brutality Discriminatory Lending Anti-Immigration English-only Initiatives policies/Practices Virtuous Victim Narrative Fearing People of Color Housing Discrimination Self-appointed White Ally Expecting POC to Teach White People Believing we are "Post-Racial" "Don't blame me, I never owned slaves. Denial of White Privilege Denial of Racism Blaming the Victim Bootstrap Theory "But what about me?" Tokenism Racist Mascots Cultural Appropriation Claiming Reverse Racism Colorblindness "But we're just one human family." "It's just a joke!" Not Challenging Racist Jokes White Savior Complex
November 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Is there something they're not telling us?
Graphic from my latest Safeway/Albertsons grocery store ad. Text says 'Savings like it's 1929, the year of the stock market crash and start of the Great Depression.
November 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Tiger Elephant Giraffe Hat @kenwhite. | reject the notion that we must coddle and support people who don't want to live near people who speak other languages, and it's not clear to me how this is significantly different than "it's fine not to want to live next door to someone of a different ethnicity or religion. The central lie — the key dishonesty — of modern conservatism is that being judgmental about the ethnicity or language or culture of the person next door is fine and acceptable, but being judgmental of that attitude is elitist and arrogant and closed-minded. What vapid bullshit. October 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
October 30, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Governor Newsom Press Office DOZY DON IS LITERALLY DESTROYING THE PEOPLE’S HOUSE — FOUNDING FATHERS ARE ROLLING OVER. INSTEAD OF LOWERING PRICES LIKE ME, AMERICA'S FAVORITE GOVERNOR, HE’S BUILDING HIMSELF A “TEMU-VERSAILLES” (GOLD-PLATED BALLROOM)! AND THE PRICE KEEPS CHANGING: $200M... $250M... $300M... NOW $350M. NO “ART” IN THAT DEAL!!! NEXT WEEK IT’LL BE A TRILLION (“A BARGAIN!”). HE CLAIMS IT’S “HIS MONEY” (FALSE! DONOR BRIBES!). NO HEALTH CARE FOR YOU, BUT A GOLD BALLROOM FOR HIM. EPSTEIN INVITED TO PARTY LATER THIS YEAR?? IT’S TIME TO RETURN THIS SAD, PARTY-CITY PUTIN PALACE AND THE DISCOUNT DICTATOR FOCUSED ON DECORATING. THROW DOLLAR STORE DON AND HIS FAKE GOLD OUT (DEMOCRACY!). THANK YOU FOR 'YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! — GCN 10:30 AM - Oct 24, 2025
October 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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"Kirk's rise as a Christian hero exposes the faith's perilous path: Attempts to sanitize Kirk demonstrate a perilous consensus among many Christians to make the faith the bedrock of authoritarianism." […]

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If Kirk was an evangelist, his call apparently wasn’t to amplify the traditions, stories and rituals that followed from what Jesus preached. Jesus preached that one of the two greatest commandments from God is to love one’s neighbor. He demonstrated this himself by waging scandalous spectacles of welcome, acceptingknown “sinners” and outcasts into the kingdom of God and combating the pervasive culture of purity depicted inthe Gospels. See, for instance, the famous story in which Jesus pardons a woman “caught” committingadultery. Compare this to Kirk’s show of antagonizing transgender people, makingliberal use of the slur “tranny.” He broadcast anti-Blackness, wielding statistics to propagandize us as “prowling Blacks” targeting our white neighbors for sport. He stoked Islamophobia, warning conservatives that “Marxism” and “woke-ism” were “combining with Islarmism to goafter what we call the American way of life”
October 19, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Seattle #nokings at the Seattle Center, with the Space Needle in the background, near the International Fountain with some trees showing lovely fall colors of oranges, reds and yellows (our trees seem to be particularly spectacular this year).

That large […]

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October 19, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Americans Mystified Why Nonessential Federal Employee Still Has Job

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/americans-mystified-why-nonessential
A picture of Mike Johnson in a blue suit and faux tortoiseshell framed glasses looking somewhat blank
October 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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@ Being Liberal Update from the frontline in Portland: VIA @ibe_brenda Dearest Mother, | write to you from the front lines of the Great Portland Conflict of '25, where our battalion bravely holds the line between the artisanal kombucha stand and the vegan taxidermy co-op. The enemy, armed with reusable tote bags and passive-aggressive signhage, launched a surprise assault during our morning mindfulness drills. Our oat milk rations are low, and Private Jasper refuses to fight until his chakras are realigned. Pray for us, Mother, and send more flannel.
October 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Via FB: "some artists should create danceable protest songs, with basic line dance steps. Protests could be protes music and line dances (with protest signs/tshirts). No one can spin that into "violent protests", but it's still getting the message out there. (response: love this idea, I'm in)
October 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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President Miller has spoken:
Aaron Rupar @atrupar Stephen Miller: “We are going to channel all the anger we have over the organized campaign [that lead] to this assassination to uproot and dismantle these terrorist networks ... The organized doxxing campaigns. The organized riots. The organized street violence. The organized of dehumanization. Vilification. Posting people’s addresses. Combining that with messaging designed to trigger and incite violence and the actual organized cells that carry out and facilitate the violence. It is a vast domestic terror movement. With God and as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy these networks, and make America safe again for the American people. It will happen, and we will do it in Charlie’s name.”
September 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Charlie Kirk Called Gun Deaths the Price of Freedom. And Then He Paid It.

https://drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/charlie-kirk-called-gun-deaths-the
But this isn’t martyrdom. It’s feedback. Martyrs die for higher ideals like justice, truth, freedom from tyranny. They face the gallows because they refused to betray their conscience, or the firing squad because they stood on the side of liberation. Charlie Kirk is not that. He’s a man who made a fortune off of stoking fear, turning young white people into foot soldiers of white grievance, and building a political brand where violence is an acceptable byproduct of freedom. He didn’t give his life for justice. He didn’t fall for truth. He got caught in the crossfire of the very culture he championed. This is what happens when you normalize violence as liberty. When you recast school shootings as ideological props, like when Kirk’s platforms amplified false, anti-trans conspiracy spins instead of focusing on victims. When you dismiss trauma, weaponize identities, and body counts become political fodder. Sooner or later, that circle of blood closes in on you.
September 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Before she threatened to make everyone mocking Charlie Kirk's murder 'famous', Laura Loomer apparently called him a traitor to the cause...

https://x.com/IsaOfTheIsle/status/1966136879725814074
Laura Loomer: | don’t ever want to hear @charliekirk11 claim he is pro-Trump ever again. After this weekend, I'd say he has revealed himself as political opportunist and | have had a front row seat to witness the mental gymnastics these last 10 years. Lately, Charlie has decided to behave like a charlatan, claiming to be pro-Trump one day while he stabs Trump in the back the next. TPUSA was only able to thrive thanks to the generosity of President Trump. On the one year anniversary of the assassination attempt on Trump’s life, Charlie hosted @ComicDaveSmith at @TPUSA’s SAS conference where Dave Smith was able to speak to a bunch of conservative youth at an organization that claims to be Pro-Trump. 3 weeks ago, Dave Smith called for President Trump to be IMPEACHED and REMOVED from office over his decision to blow up Iran’s nuclear facilities. Charlie played both sides of the Iran issue on his show as we all saw, because he wants to play to both sides of the aisle. The honorable thing to do is to have a position and actually defend it to the death instead of flip flopping.
September 12, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Coping narrows horizons, When every decision is about getting through the week or the month, the future collapses info the present, Students put off education because debt feels like a trap, Small businesses stop planning for growth, This shortening of time horizons signals resilience giving way, When people stop planning, the system loses its capacity o adapt, leaving it brittle and vulnerable o sudden breakdown. Trump's economy is not only falling from the top down, Itis being remade from the bottom up, The constrained choices of millions of people do more than reflect the system—they become the system, When survival becomes the dominant logic, the economy loses coherence, It no longer sustains aspiration but improvisation. The future of this economy isn't just debated in Congress or measured on Wall Street, It is being decided at kitchen tables, where families weigh bills against groceries, or choose between rent and medicine, If we want to know where the system is headed, we need to pay attention fo those choices—not as statistics, but as signals of what kind of future people still believe is possible.
September 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Once businesses are drawn info the same struggle as households, instability multiplies, A system built on confidence and reciprocity shifts info one of retreat, Change doesn’t unfold gradually; it tips, Household caution becomes business retrenchment, and weakness cycles back down the chain, Adjustment spreads from kitchen tables to boardrooms and back again, turning resilience into exhaustion. Yet not all households improvise on equal terms, For some, it means drawing on savings or leaning on extended family, For others, it means payday loans, skipping meals, or taking jobs that carry greater physical fisk, The unevenness of survival strategies widens divides that were already stark, Those with resources weather storms and sometimes even profit, Those without are pushed further into precarity, Fragility doesn’t just reflect hardship—itis distributed unequally, reinforcing the very hierarchies Trump's system thrives on. As improvisation becomes individualized, the social commons erodes,. When people retreat into private fixes—personal credit, side jobs, improvised networks—the collective foundation weakens, Public institutions that once provided stability, from schools fo clinics to transit, are hollowed out by lack of frust and lack of investment, What was once ashared safety net frays info a patchwork of personal survival strategies, eating away at the very institutions that might have eased the strain. There s also the shrinking of time itself.
September 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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These adaptations aren’t passive, They are acts of authorship, People continue to engage, but on altered terms, Their improvisations send signals that cascade through the system, Enough delayed purchases slow whole sectors, Rising credit use shifts risk across the economy, Expanding informal work corrodes the foundation of public goods, Insecurity builds on itself, Economies, like ecosystems, can absorb strain for a time, then. break suddenly. Businesses, too, are caught in the loop, When customers hold back, companies delay investment, When households substitute cheaper goods, producers cut quality or shrink portions, When credit-fueled demand falters, firms trim hours or push isk onto workers, Each move may preserve profits in the short run, but together they deepen the doubt. The deeper paradox s that by rewarding the wealthy while leaving livelihoods precarious, the system erodes the very demand it depends on,. Profits aren’t meaningful if customers can't afford to buy, The more inequality widens, the thinner the base of solvent consumers becomes, leaving businesses to feed on a shrinking food chain, What looks ke resilience at the top is in fact brittleness at the bottom.
September 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Substitution tells a similar story, When households move from fresh food to packaged goods, o from brand names to generics, they are redefining value, lowering their expectations of what dally life should provide, Credit, 5oo, has shifted, Once a tool for mobility, it now fills the gap between wages and basic needs, Spending looks steady, but it rests on shaky ground, with defaults and deb' piling up beneath the surface. Informal labor fill the cracks left by eroding protections, Gig work, cash jobs, and side hustles are less about freedom than necessity, People aren't leaving formal jobs because they crave instability., They are pushed out when stability is out of reach, That shift drains public revenue, weakens worker rights, and redefines what counts as work. Even infimate decisions bend under economic sirain, Couples delay children, Families skip gatherings, Elder care becomes a calculation of cost and time, The economy is written not only in markets butin calendars, in conversations, in the quiet adjustments of expectation and hope.
September 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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A long post from James Greenberg (james.greenberg.5, guy in a straw hat) about the fragility of our economy and society right now...
Last week at the supermarket, | watched a mother put back a carton of milk. She had the money, but she chose to wait, That single hesitation fold a larger story: in today’s economy, ordinary families are forced to calculate not only what they can afford, but whether they can frust tomorrow enough to spend today. When families adjust how they spend, borrow, or work, they are not only reacting to conditions, They are reshaping the system ifseff, signaling what kind of future they believe is possible. Consider the simple act of postponing a purchase, A family waits another week to restock groceries, A shopkeeper delays buying supplies, On paper, these are minor adjusiments, In practice, they are statements about the future: a pause that says, *I can’t count on tomorrow.” That pause spreads outward, Retallers scale back, Suppliers hold inventory, Workers lose hours, The contraction has less to do with the absence of need than with the absence of confidence.
September 9, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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**Trump's tariffs are illegal**
Neal Katyal @neal_katyal Core of court holding: For the reasons discussed above, we discern no clear congressional authorization by IEPA for tariffs of the magnitude of the Reciprocal Tariffs and Trafficking Tariffs. Reading the phrase "regulate...importation" to include imposing these tariffs is "a wafer-thin reed on which to rest such sweeping power." Ala. Ass'n. of Realtors v. Dep't of Health & Hum. Servs., 594 &.S. 758, 765 (2021) Neal Katyal @neal_katyal Just found out: we won the tariffs case. President Trump’s tariffs are illegal. More to come.
August 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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I propose we also develop a sudden fondness for Mexican music played loudly...
@ Scooby | am as white as a hotel towel, and the closest thing to Mexican | am was a single all inclusive resort stay in Cancun. | put a Mexican flag sticker on my old Tacoma and was promptly pulled over by ICE in San Antonio. I'm happy to waste their time @RookaTX This is the way @Scooby Their big question was like, “why the sticker” | told them it was on the truck when | bought it- and they suggested | remove it. Obnoxious creatures.
August 22, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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I propose we also develop a sudden fondness for Mexican music and play it loudly...
@Scooby | am as white as a hotel towel, and the closest thing to Mexican | am was a single all inclusive resort stay in Cancun. | put a Mexican flag sticker on my old Tacoma and was promptly pulled over by ICE in San Antonio. I'm happy to waste their time @RookaTX This is the way @Scooby Their big question was like, “why the sticker” | told them it was on the truck when | bought it- and they suggested | remove it. Obnoxious creatures.
August 22, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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I propose we also develop a sudden fondness for Mexican music and play it loudly...
@Scooby | am as white as a hotel towel, and the closest thing to Mexican | am was a single all inclusive resort stay in Cancun. | put a Mexican flag sticker on my old Tacoma and was promptly pulled over by ICE in San Antonio. I'm happy to waste their time @RookaTX This is the way @Scooby Their big question was like, “why the sticker” | told them it was on the truck when | bought it- and they suggested | remove it. Obnoxious creatures.
August 22, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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""A great and very successful day in Alaska!" Trump began. "The meeting with President Vladimir Putin of Russia went very well, as did a late night phone call with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine, and various European Leaders, including the highly respected […]

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Man in a blue suit, fingers crossed behind his back (i.e., he's lying)
August 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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The Epstein files give MAGA a post-Trump future - Salon.com

https://www.salon.com/2025/07/23/the-epstein-files-give-maga-a-post-trump-future/
For MAGA influencers, the pressing knowledge that Trump won't be around forever must be frightening. It's not unusual for fascist movements to be incoherent in their ideology or goals. But with MAGA, it's especially pronounced because Trump so thoroughly dominates and defines them through a cult of personality. If the movement is to survive, however, they need something other than Trump worship as a central organizing force. The best that most MAGA influencers have come up with is conspiracism. Spinning non-stop lies about secret cabals conspiring against red America keeps their audiences hooked, and it also isolates them from reality-based society. That combination of nuttiness and alienation is their best bet for continuing the MAGA cult after the leader dies or ages out of his capacity to control them.
July 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Deranged drug addict makes interesting point - National Zero

https://nationalzero.com/2025/07/17/deranged-drug-addict-makes-interesting-point/
Screenshot of a tweet by Elon Musk: 'Wow, I can't believe Epstein killed himself before realizing it was all a hoax'
July 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Evangelicals lose their minds after Chip and Joanna Gaines cast gay couple on reality show

https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/evangelicals-lose-their-minds-after
Chip Gaines @chipgaines Talk, ask qustns, listen.. maybe even learn. Too much to ask of modern American Christian culture. Judge 1st, understand later/never It's a sad sunday when “non believers” have never been confronted with hate or vitriol until they are introduced to a modern American Christian
July 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM