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The more or less able-bodied might be used to soak up bullets in a senseless war started by Agolf Xitler – or by one of his successors that the Rethuglkkkans install.

The CEOs of private penitentiary companies are rubbing their hands in glee.
Prigozhin at a Russian penalty colony recruiting prisoners to fight in Ukraine. Only a fraction of the convicts deployed by Wagner in Bakhmut survived.
April 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Maybe more akin to peacenik or peacemonger from the 1960s (I believe university campuses is where a significant proportion of the protests against the war in Vietnam took place)?
www.etymonline.com/word/peacenik
Bernie Boston photograph Scene from the 21 October 1967 Vietnam War protest at the Pentagon in Washington DC. A young man wearing a turtleneck holds a bunch of carnations in his hand and places one of the flowers into the barrel of a rifle held by a soldier of the 503rd Military Police Battalion. Marc Riboud photo Jan Rose Kasmir confronts the American National Guard outside the Pentagon during the 1967 anti-Vietnam march. This march helped to turn public opinion against the US war in Vietnam. Source: https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/politics/behind-the-image-protesting-vietnam-war-with-flower/
March 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Thanks to Tabitha (youtu.be/msJSmh98ztw?...) for sharing this resource.
www.project2025.observer
The Project 2025 plan to demolish the USA's democratic system is well underway.
This screenshot from the Project 2025 Tracker shows that of the planned Project 2025 measures to shutter the Department of Education, 10 are complete, 3 are in progress, and 10 are in the backlog.
March 25, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Some of the books Gillian Tett mentioned in her conversation with Ezra Klein are now on my reading list.
In the opening sentences of The Economic Consequences of the Peace, John Maynard Keynes describes a society eerily similar to today's 🤔.

oll.libertyfund.org/titles/keyne...
Episode from The Ezra Klein Show: Is Trump 'Detoxing' the Economy or Poisoning It? Excerpt: https://share.snipd.com/snip/e0e51203-cb61-49f8-ae20-8e840e4327e9 In 1919, after World War I, John Maynard Keynes wrote a haunting pamphlet called The Economic Consequences of the Peace, in which he pointed out that globalisation pre-World War I had been very good for people, so had free markets and the free movement of people and innovation. And that had delivered a huge economic boom. That was obviously disrupted after World War I. And after World War I, the governments had a choice. They could either go back to globalization, free market capitalism, and some element of collaboration, or they could go down the path of revenge politics and punitive policies that tried to essentially hurt other countries. He begged them, John Maynard Keynes, to go down the first path and warned that if they went down the second, it would simply stoke up more hatred and lead to World War II. Unfortunately, his pleas were ignored. And we actually did in the 1930s. It was all about revenge politics – with disastrous consequences. And so when I look at the revenge politics and the punitive measures and the beggar thy neighbour approaches being endorsed by the Trump regime, I think we're back to the beginning of the 1930s. And it terrifies me. ― Gillian Tett
March 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Breathe.
March 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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The question was posed at the time: thehill.com/homenews/hou...
Screenshot from: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/hr5370/text 118TH CONGRESS 1sT SESSION H. R.5370 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 8, 2023 Mr. Hill introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs A BILL To declare the Russian Federation an Aggressor State and provide for the transfer of blocked assets of such country to the United States to be used for the reconstruction of Ukraine, and for other purposes Section 1. Short title This Act may be cited as Reconstruction Act of 2023" the "Ukraine Sec. 2. Findings Congress finds the following. (1) The Russian Federation, aided and abetted by Belarus, has engaged in egregious and illegal behavior by invading Ukraine in violation of established norms of international law and the United Nations Charter.
March 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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That's a dead-end link 🫤
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March 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Justin Trudeau helps carry a man in a wheelchair down a flight of stairs.
March 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Doing nothing is LITERALLY aiding and abetting the Trump regime's assault on your country's institutions.

Doing nothing will guarantee that the midterm elections next year – if they even take place – will be neither free nor fair. 🧵1/4
Quote from Trump's campaign speech at the Believers' Summit, July 26, 2024: "We have to win this election, most important election ever. We want a landslide that’s too big to rig. If you want to save America, get your friends, get your family, get everyone you know and vote. Vote early, vote absentee, vote on Election Day. I don’t care how, but you have to get out and vote. And again, Christians, get out and vote just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what? It’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. "I love you, Christians. I'm a Christian. I love you, get out, you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote."
March 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Sammy Obeid post: "The White House Zelensky meeting was successful in that helped us forget about the Epstein files they didn't release yesterday"
March 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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I didn't find a Senate resolution 7 that deals with women's healthcare. But I did find a house resolution containing the text you quoted.
www.congress.gov/118/bills/hr...
March 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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I didn't do anything wrong and I promise to never do it again. ~~Richard Nixon~~ Doug Ford
February 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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🇬🇪 თავისუფლება 🇬🇪
Two people stand arm in arm on a city street at night. One with the EU flag draped over their shoulders, the other with the flag of Georgia wrapped around their shoulders.
February 26, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Screenshot from the netflix movie Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom. A man wearing an orange hardhat is speaking. Caption: Freedom is for us. Freedom is ours. Screenshot from the netflix movie Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom. A man wearing an orange hardhat is speaking. Caption: And we'll never be slaves. We will be free.
February 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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6 shades of toast
February 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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A scene from the film District 9. In the background is a city skyline. In the foreground a fence topped with barbed wire and a sign "no humans allowed." A space ship surrounded by helicopters hovers above.
February 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Toddler in a high chair at the dinner table, holding a toy phone to his ear. Caption: alright Dave, let's talk numbers. Keep in mind I can only count to three.
February 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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For context, here's a compilation of Diaper Don trying very hard to be a big boy
February 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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@siliconcurtain.bsky.social

This is so on point. Thanks
February 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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February 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Cartoon. Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump stand around a fire, with forks and knives inhand. They have planet earth on a spit, and stating which cuts they want to eat: Ukraine, South Korea, Taiwan, Canada, Greenland, and Panama
February 21, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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DOGE has everyone's PPI. I imagine that the US's new FBI director is looking forward to using it.
Good luck, and good night.
Charles Manson, apparently channelling his inner Kash Patel
February 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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‘e thikkk failure
February 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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A black cat with a white mark on her chest poses on a white and black rug.
February 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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‼️ I heard about @indivisible.org here on Bluesky. When I tried to share the information on YouTube, my comment was repeatedly deleted, no matter how I worded it.

I didn't take a screenshot of the first message. Here are the subsequent tries.
February 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM