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Stephanie Allen
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GenX // Californian // mom to a blind dog // dark humor enjoyer // backyard gardener

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum, bitches
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Shot Chaser
60 Minutes # O @60Minutes Follow President Trump's pardon of Changpeng Zhao came shortly after Zhao's company, Binance, helped catapult the Trump family's cryptocurrency firm, World Liberty Financial, into international recognition. The firm is a major source of the Trump family's fortune. 60 Minutes reports, Sunday. 60Minutes.com unusual...& Subscribe @unusual_Whales Trump says, "I only care about one thing: will we be number one in crypto"
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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The White House comms team:
Meme showing a fake tabloid cover with a baby in a life preserver and the text: WEEKLY WORLD NEWS THE WORLD'S ONLY RELIABLE NEWS Sailors find infant girl floating in old life preserver! THAT! TITANIC BABY FOUND ALIVE!
November 14, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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diVine
The viral kombucha meme with disgust (jack dorsey) and intrigue (anti AI) about the recent announcement that vine was coming back as diVine with all AI banned.
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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They’re never going to release the unemployment rate again.
unusual whales @unusual whales - 3s BREAKING: Verizon, SVZ, to cut 15,000 jobs, per WSJ unusual whales @@unusual whales - 17m White House official: We'll never actually know what the unemployment rate was in October.
November 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Zoinks
187 - John Carter: Do Leftists Have Souls? 280 views • 7 days ago
November 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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lol
Blinkist ad: When he's not building rockets, boring tunnels beneath Los Angeles, or sending cars into space, Elon Musk reads a lot. Here are 9 nonfiction books he thinks we should all read.
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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🎁 link

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
IN 1985, PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN appointed me as a federal judge. I was 38 years old. At the time, I looked forward to serving for the rest of my life. However, I resigned Friday, relinquishing that lifetime appointment and giving up the opportunity for public service that I have loved. My reason is simple: I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom. President Donald Trump is using the law for partisan purposes, targeting his adversaries while sparing his friends and donors from investigation, prosecution, and possible punishment. This is contrary to everything that I have stood for in my more than 50 years in the Department of Justice and on the bench. The White House's assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out. Silence, for me, is now intolerable.
November 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Hand drawn figure of Leonard Bernstein with the caption, “oh and one more thing, you aren’t going to like what comes after America”
November 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Weird, I wonder why that is.
November 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 6, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Who’s to say they weren’t.
Ryan J. Reilly "p...• @ry.. • 37s "Staff at ICE's training academy in Brunswick, Georgia, recently discovered one recruit had previously been charged with strong arm robbery and battery stemming from a domestic violence incident..."
November 4, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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“I….I was slathered, I…mean…I was SMOTHERED. I can’t pass a Jersey Mike’s without having flashbacks.”
November 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Might also be slightly related to the slight.
David Beard @dabe... • 4h The US has revoked the visa of a Nobel Prize winner in literature after the author called President Trump "Idi Amin in whiteface." Nigerian Wole Soyinka, 91, said the US consulate told him to bring in his passport so it could be canceled in person. www.bbc.com/news/article.
November 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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The way in which they declined was a whole vibe.
Nigeria says it won't accept U.S. deportees: "We have enough problems of our own" By Emmanuel Akinwotu (NPR) Yusuf Tuggar, Nigeria's foreign affairs minister at BRICS summit in Brazil 2025 MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP via Getty Images July 11, 2025 12:17 p.m. In an interview with Nigeria's Channels TV on Friday, Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar said the U.S. was pressuring several African nations to accept foreign nationals the U.S. wants to deport. "We already have over 230 million people," Tuggar said. "In the words of the famous U.S. rap group Public Enemy — you'll remember a line from Flava Flav: 'Flava Flav has problems of his own. I can't do nothing for you, man."" His comments mark one of the most high-profile rejections yet of the Trump administration's efforts to deport migrants, under threat of tariffs and visa restrictions for countries that refuse. The U.S. government has not officially confirmed it is pressing African nations to accept third-country nationals.
November 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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“We have enough evidence to kill them, just not enough to convict them, whoever they are, lol”
Zachary Cohen @ZcohenCNN Dem Rep. Sara Jacobs after today's briefing from Pentagon officials on boat strikes, via @AnnieGrayerCNN: "They said that they do not need to positively identify individuals on the vessel to do the strikes," Jacobs said, adding that was in part why admin "could not actually hold or try the individuals that survived one of the attacks is because they could not satisfy the evidentiary burden." 10:04 AM • Oct 30, 2025
October 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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It can always get worse.
So we are on the verge of trading the most powerful technology ever invented by humans in exchange for... beans. U.S. soybean sales to China 8 million metric tons 6 All soybean sales to Chinese companies ceased at the end of May. Source: United States Department of Agriculture By Jacqueline Gu Tim Fist @fiiiiiist • 23h Bloomberg reports that NVIDIA Blackwell Al chips will be on the *B negotiating table this Thursday in US-China...
October 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Texas continues its war on women, science and truth, hitting all new levels of stupidity.

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Forbes Texas Sues Tylenol Makers After Trump Links Drug To Autism "Fight like hell not to take it," Trump said about the drug, despite lacking definitive scientific evidence. By Ty Roush, Forbes Staff Published Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:10:38 pm EDT TOPLINE Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday announced a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson and Kenvue, alleging the companies deceptively marketed their Tylenol drug to pregnant mothers while Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday announced a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson and Kenvue, alleging the companies deceptively marketed their Tylenol drug to pregnant mothers while knowing the drug posed an increased risk of autism, an unproven link President Donald Trump made last month. TYLENOL
October 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Please daddy, may I have some of that American style democracy.
October 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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unusualwhales tweet: Amazon $AMZN announced it is cutting 30,000 corporate jobs HOUSE The White House v @WhiteHouse Follow ATTENTION: TRUMP DIDN'T COME TO PLAY. Six months in. All gas. No brakes. The winning will continue. The deportations will continue. The memes will continue. Meme from The White House shows Trump with flags and exploding eagles and the words 6 Months.
October 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Anyway, don jr’s newly flush with pentagon cash drone company has an interesting logo.
October 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Oh look, a John Baron cameo.
Trump agreed to donate them to the Met as long as the costs and the ability to physically remove the Art Deco artifacts were not unreasonably expensive. Trump surprised New York's art community on June 5, 1980 when a demolition crew jackhammered the sculptures off of the building. In addition, the intricate grillwork was removed. The destruction drew a public outcry. The Met received no advance notice. Trump initially avoided any comment about the Bonwit Teller artwork. But John Baron, a spokesperson with the Trump Organization, contacted the New York Daily News to discuss the situation. Baron informed the Daily News that "the merit of the stones was not great enough to justify the effort to save them." Baron stated that the removal process could have set back Trump Tower's construction timeline by two weeks. Baron also told the New York Times NYT+1% that he had no idea what happened to the ornate grillwork.
October 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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@unusual_whales "42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes," per FORTUNE 9:57 AM • Oct 20, 2025
October 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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🎁 link. Yikes.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...
On a call with right-wing activists in March, before her appointment to the Homeland Security Department, Ms. Honey suggested that the new administration could declare a "national emergency" and justify dictating new rules to state and local governments. She said this could be based on an "actual investigation" of the 2020 election if it showed there had been a "manipulation" of the vote. "And therefore, we have some additional powers that don't exist right now," she said in March, according to a recording reviewed by The New York Times from someone who joined the call, "and therefore, we can take these other steps without Congress and we can mandate that states do things and so on."
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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$40B 💸💨
October 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM