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CBP WiFi? Yes, please! 🙄

Notification that a phone can connect to an open Wi-Fi at LAX airport. The Wi-Fi name is "CBP_GUEST"

October 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM

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If you really understand how Trump communicates, this is the most terrifying thing he has ever said

A tweet by the account "Republicans Against Trump." It says:

Donald Trump will join hundreds of generals summoned to Virginia by Pete Hegseth

"It's really just a very nice meeting talking about how well we're doing militarily, talking about being in great shape, talking about a lot of good, positive things. It's just a good message," Trump said in an interview with NBC News.

September 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM

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Touched it up so it feels more accurate

Black and white picture of soldiers in front of a government building started with a huge banner of Donald Trump's face with the words "America 250" and "American Workers First" and the bottom. To the right of this banner is an equally large American flag.

August 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM

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All political photos of the Trump era should be taken in black and white. Captures the feeling perfectly.

Photo of a huge banner showing Trump's face unfurled down the side of a building. The photo is on black and white, perfectly capturing the dark, sinister feel of Trump's fascist regime.

August 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM

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Nailed it two weeks ago on Reddit!

My prediction:

They're going to militarize the city. Show of force, troops everywhere. They won't actually go after anyone yet, but they will claim (using all the used car salesman superlatives that somehow work on the con man's followers) that having troops everywhere has eradicated crime in DC.

Then, over the course of the next year, they will systematically claim that other areas are so overrun with crime that they'll have to do the same "to protect Americans."

However this will predominantly (exclusively?) take place in areas known for high Democratic turnout. Voila, suppressed opposition voting.

August 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM

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Texas is gerrymandering to steal control. If Florida, Indiana, and others do they same, then blue states will have no choice but to do the same. We will officially be divided and civil war can't be far off.

Congratulations, Vladimir Putin! Your active measures are succeeding

Trump post on "Truth" Social:

Big WIN for the Great State of Texas!!! Everything Passed, on our way to FIVE more Congressional seats and saving your Rights, your Freedoms, and your Country, itself. Texas never lets us down. Florida, Indiana, and others are looking to do the same thing. More seats equals less Crime, a great Economy, and a STRONG SECOND AMENDMENT. It means Happiness and Peace. But Republicans, there is one thing even better - STOP MAIL-IN VOTING, a total fraud that has no bounds. Also, go to PAPER BALLOTS before it is too late - At one tenth the cost, faster, and more reliable. If we do these TWO things, we will pick up 100 more seats, and the CROOKED game of politics is over. God Bless America!!!

Photo of Krushchev overlayed with a quote: "We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S. We will destroy you from within"
-Nikita Krushchev, January 15th, 1956

August 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM

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Our tax money is paying for propaganda

July 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM

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This bill will decimate mental health and mental health services in the US

Overall, the cumulative effect of H.R. 1 would be to push mental‐health problems higher by:
• Reducing treatment access—fewer therapists, higher out-of-pocket costs
• Deepening socioeconomic stress—more unemployment, housing and food insecurity
• Fraying community supports—less youth programming, weaker social cohesion
• Intensifying inequality—fueling despair, social alienation and substance misuse

Absent offsetting new investments in mental‐health services, prevention programs and social safety nets, we should expect notable increases in depression, anxiety, substance‐use disorders and suicide rates—disproportionately concentrated in lower-income and rural communities.

June 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM

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H.R. 1 will significantly damage public health

In summary:
H.R. 1, through direct loss of health coverage, weakened safety nets, increased economic strain, and undermining public health agencies, would predictably worsen health outcomes nationwide. The most severe effects would fall on vulnerable populations, reversing gains in life expectancy, child health, and disease prevention. This would not only harm individual well-being but could ultimately result in higher societal healthcare costs and reduced productivity over time.

June 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM

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This bill will increase crime rates

In sum, sociological models uniformly suggest that H.R. 1’s combination of deep welfare cuts, slower overall growth, and widened inequality would tend to increase both property and violent crime—especially in already disadvantaged communities—unless counter‐balanced by new investments in social cohesion, prevention programs, and equitable economic opportunity.

June 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM

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Economic impact of the "Big Beautiful Bill"

In sum, most mainstream models agree that, without further offsets, H.R. 1 would enlarge the federal deficit by roughly
$2–4 trillion over the next decade, trim revenues by $3–4 trillion, cut major health-care outlays by about $1.1 trillion, and—thanks largely to its tax cuts—produce a modest 0.8 percent boost to long-run GDP, while adding over half a trillion dollars in extra interest costs.

Overall Effect on a “Representative” Family
– A household at $30k sees its disposable income drop and its wage prospects dim;
– One at $70k stays roughly level, but foregoes faster wage gains it would have had;
– Families above $200k enjoy clear tax relief that more than offsets any growth-slowdown effects;
– Those in the top 1 percent capture the lion’s share of the bill’s benefits, exacerbating income inequality.

June 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM

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Asked what type of government emerges if this bill is passed, Chat GPT says:

Conclusion – What Type of Government Emerges:
If H. R. 1 passes, the United States would likely evolve toward a competitive authoritarian regime: official institutions of democracy (elections, Congress, courts) would remain, but executive power would be greatly enhanced and real checks and public input would be curtailed. Civil liberties and pluralism could erode, and policy would be enforced with little regard for opposing views or participatory mechanisms.

In short, the country would move away from a robust liberal democracy toward an authoritarian-leaning hybrid regime—retaining democratic shells but hollowing out accountability and transparency.

If current trends of polarization and distrust persist, this kind of regime typically becomes more entrenched and difficult to reverse.

June 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM

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Chat gpt has this to say about the "Big Beautiful Bill"

This isn’t just a “course correction” or some technocratic tweak: it’s a political battering ram, designed to upend years of environmental, climate, and public health policy in a single sweep. The bill is aggressive to the point of being almost reckless. It rescinds funds and programs wholesale—especially everything remotely “green,” climate-focused, or progressive in its outlook. It strips regulatory power from federal agencies (especially the EPA), cuts oversight, and tramples on environmental safeguards in favor of “fiscal responsibility” and energy industry priorities.

If you care about the climate or long-term public health, this bill is a nightmare. Plain and simple, it represents a deliberate, calculated effort to dismantle support structures for clean energy, pollution control, and environment-centric investments. The fossil fuel industry would smile from ear to ear reading this—there are explicit rollbacks of emissions standards, delays or abolishments of pending rules, and clawbacks of funding meant for energy transition and public health resiliency.

Beyond the climate attack, the bill slashes federal power in immigration enforcement, further limits social policy, and cements a deregulation-first, austerity-heavy mindset. Unless someone’s main metric for “success” is a swelling Pentagon budget and a neutered EPA, it’s hard not to call this out for what it is: partisanship masked as fiscal reform, with huge risks for anyone not in the fossil fuel, military, or certain law enforcement sectors.

If you want a blunt summary: This bill is a steamroller for conservative priorities, takes a sledgehammer to climate and health protections, and will likely draw legal challenges while stoking culture war fires. Its scope is so broad and its cuts so deep that it’s hard to read it as anything but a frontal assault on the last decade of climate, environment, and regulatory gains.

There’s no balance here—just a huge partisan swing. If you’re looking for bipartisan problem-solving or nuanced, pragmatic reform, it’s not in this bill. It's a scorched-earth political document, and it wears that fact on its sleeve.

June 6, 2025 at 10:40 AM

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I looked at about eight of the comments, and the text of six were identical. Screenshot below

Screenshot of a comment on the proposed regulation. It reads:

"I support President Trump’s efforts to bring accountability to the federal bureaucracy.

For too long, unelected career bureaucrats in the federal government have stifled efficiency by undermining the plans and policies of the Chief Executive.

OPM’s new rule cuts red tape and allows career bureaucrats to be reprimanded for poor job performance or misconduct, such as corruption or partisanship.

In any industry, rogue employees are held accountable to someone. Now, government employees will be held accountable for lack of performance or inaction.

I support President Trump’s work to rein in unaccountable bureaucrats and end the Deep State!"

May 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM

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This idiot randomly making a fruit salad in the middle of his speech

There are specified tasks and I assume there's roughly somewhere between 150 and 175 specified tasks. And each one of those tests specified tasks can be binned into categories. So we'll make sure we capture all of the tasks which I know that folks are doing that today and then we will bin them. And by bin them, I mean some of those, some of those tasks will be kind of orange-like tasks. And by orange, I mean the fruit orange, but they might be tangerines, they might be blood oranges, it just might be maybe a little bit of grapefruit. All those will go in one bin.

Then you have all of the banana type things, whether they're plantains or they're big bananas or small bananas, they go all go into another pile. Okay, so you get about 7 or 8 piles of similar but not the exact same things. And they will constitute our mission essential tasks. So we'll have our specified tasks, our mission essential task, and from those we will also make sure that we state our mission very, very clearly if it's not already, alright

May 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM

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Found this in some Pro-Trump propaganda from his press office.

Is there anywhere that has an accounting of all the regulations rolled back in his first term and the effects of doing so?

I'm not sure if we know the extent of the damage this regulation removal caused.

ROLLING BACK RED TAPE: President Trump is rolling back costly regulations that have burdened hardworking Americans and stifled innovation.

President Trump has followed through on and exceeded his promise to roll back two regulations for every new one created.
President Trump's Administration surpassed the 2:1 ratio in 2018, eliminating 12 regulations for every new one in 2018.
In 2017, the Trump Administration eliminated 22 regulations for every new one.

May 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM

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Stay hydrated, #Chicago

Photo of the United Airlines info screen. The temperature in Chicago is listed as 176° Fahrenheit

May 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM

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Don't know if it's true or not (and I'm certainly not qualified to assess the veracity of it), but I saw a claim with this video that Israel used a tactical nuke on Hodeidah, Yemen today. I don't see it reported anywhere reputable.

Real? Fake? AI? Misinterpretation?