Timid Pessimist
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"When we become Americans, we accept not only citizenship's privileges that we did not earn but also its responsibilities to correct wrongs that we did not commit." - Richard Rothstein
Chicago
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Chicago
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there are not enough hotdog gifs in the world
December 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
there are not enough hotdog gifs in the world
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Attacking them with housing growth, economic prosperity and a growing tax base
"We will not allow outside groups — even longstanding allies — to attack the Palisades," @gavinnewsom.bsky.social spokesperson on a now-filed YIMBY Law lawsuit against his July executive order banning duplexes in L.A. wildfire rebuilding www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Newsom wouldn’t budge on his duplex ban for the Los Angeles wildfire rebuild. So, a YIMBY group is suing him.
Gov. Gavin Newsom shrugged off a lawsuit by a YIMBY group over his executive order to ban duplexes in Pacific Palisades.
www.politico.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Attacking them with housing growth, economic prosperity and a growing tax base
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White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
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Oh my god he admit it
December 10, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Oh my god he admit it
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it rules that this addled prat is the literal fucking president of the united states. like how did we somehow rig things were the white house is the residence of last resort for people who keep getting kicked out of memory care units for behavior
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
December 10, 2025 at 2:52 AM
it rules that this addled prat is the literal fucking president of the united states. like how did we somehow rig things were the white house is the residence of last resort for people who keep getting kicked out of memory care units for behavior
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Soldier: Our position is about to be overrun, we need mortar support
Gemini: It sounds like you’re facing a really challenging situation, and it makes sense that you’d want to stabilize things as quickly as possible. When you’re dealing with fast-moving pressure like this, it can help to break the
Gemini: It sounds like you’re facing a really challenging situation, and it makes sense that you’d want to stabilize things as quickly as possible. When you’re dealing with fast-moving pressure like this, it can help to break the
Pete Hegseth: "The future of American warfare is here, and it's spelled AI."
He says the military has launched a new platform that "puts the world's most powerful frontier AI models, starting with Google Gemini, directly into the hands of every American warrior."
He says the military has launched a new platform that "puts the world's most powerful frontier AI models, starting with Google Gemini, directly into the hands of every American warrior."
December 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Soldier: Our position is about to be overrun, we need mortar support
Gemini: It sounds like you’re facing a really challenging situation, and it makes sense that you’d want to stabilize things as quickly as possible. When you’re dealing with fast-moving pressure like this, it can help to break the
Gemini: It sounds like you’re facing a really challenging situation, and it makes sense that you’d want to stabilize things as quickly as possible. When you’re dealing with fast-moving pressure like this, it can help to break the
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This is the most Starship Troopers coded shit. Paul Verhoeven is like, "shit I should have gone further"
jesus christ
December 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This is the most Starship Troopers coded shit. Paul Verhoeven is like, "shit I should have gone further"
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America is blowing up its near century-old position as strategic hegemon in the western hemisphere because Trump has a personal affinity with Eastern European autocrats, Stephen Miller hates immigrants, and Elon Musk thinks being asked to follow local laws is unacceptable.
December 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
America is blowing up its near century-old position as strategic hegemon in the western hemisphere because Trump has a personal affinity with Eastern European autocrats, Stephen Miller hates immigrants, and Elon Musk thinks being asked to follow local laws is unacceptable.
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free market fascism folks
New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."
Behind Paramount’s Relentless Campaign to Woo Warner Discovery and President Trump
David Ellison has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Discovery, taking his case directly to shareholders after Netflix clinched a deal.
www.wsj.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
free market fascism folks
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The Trump administration has made me a flagrant moralist in a way that has led me to tossing aside years of snark, and you know, I'm good with that. It's time to talk about what being a good person means; about why it's good to signal virtue, why it's good to press for values, not spectacle.
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The Trump administration has made me a flagrant moralist in a way that has led me to tossing aside years of snark, and you know, I'm good with that. It's time to talk about what being a good person means; about why it's good to signal virtue, why it's good to press for values, not spectacle.
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I refuse to live this fictional Red Pill Sigma Male lifestyle this dumbass meathead Administration is trying to foist upon all of us.
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I refuse to live this fictional Red Pill Sigma Male lifestyle this dumbass meathead Administration is trying to foist upon all of us.
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Winning the Cold War only to blow yourself up for no reason 30 years later is such a good bit
December 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Winning the Cold War only to blow yourself up for no reason 30 years later is such a good bit
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Corruption has largely defeated law in the United States.
Our institutions are on life support, and I don’t see a way out of this aside from a gigantic groundswell of sustained popular outrage over how our government has turned everything good we were taught America was as kids into a sick joke.
Our institutions are on life support, and I don’t see a way out of this aside from a gigantic groundswell of sustained popular outrage over how our government has turned everything good we were taught America was as kids into a sick joke.
December 8, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Corruption has largely defeated law in the United States.
Our institutions are on life support, and I don’t see a way out of this aside from a gigantic groundswell of sustained popular outrage over how our government has turned everything good we were taught America was as kids into a sick joke.
Our institutions are on life support, and I don’t see a way out of this aside from a gigantic groundswell of sustained popular outrage over how our government has turned everything good we were taught America was as kids into a sick joke.
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Glad I saved this by @longwall26.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Glad I saved this by @longwall26.bsky.social
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Congresswoman says she was shoved & pepper-sprayed after identifying herself during ICE operation. "‘When I presented myself as a member of Congress asking for more information, I was pushed aside and pepper sprayed.’" www.commondreams.org/news/adelita...
ICE Goons Pepper Spray Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva During Tucson Raid | Common Dreams
"If federal agents are brazen enough to fire pellets directly at a member of Congress, imagine how they behave when encountering defenseless members of our community," Grijalva said.
www.commondreams.org
December 8, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Congresswoman says she was shoved & pepper-sprayed after identifying herself during ICE operation. "‘When I presented myself as a member of Congress asking for more information, I was pushed aside and pepper sprayed.’" www.commondreams.org/news/adelita...
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3 days ago, Hakeem Jeffries stated that Donald Trump was right on immigration and the border.
December 8, 2025 at 12:58 AM
3 days ago, Hakeem Jeffries stated that Donald Trump was right on immigration and the border.
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My Senator told me FedSoc judges keep ignoring his unambiguous laws so I asked how many laws he has and he said he just goes to the Congress and gets a new law afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding unambiguous laws to FedSoc judges and then his chief of staff started crying.
December 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
My Senator told me FedSoc judges keep ignoring his unambiguous laws so I asked how many laws he has and he said he just goes to the Congress and gets a new law afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding unambiguous laws to FedSoc judges and then his chief of staff started crying.
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bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it
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We need to develop an understanding that climate denial is first and foremost ideological and not driven by the supposed ‘non-ideology’ of rational self-interest/greed
“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”
December 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
We need to develop an understanding that climate denial is first and foremost ideological and not driven by the supposed ‘non-ideology’ of rational self-interest/greed
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At some point someone just needs to say “you are an indecent person, you are lying to cover the slaughter of defenseless men, you know you are lying, and even under the tenets of your own professed faith you will certainly burn in hell if you continue down this path”
WELKER: Isn't it possible that even the act of taking off a t shirt could've been part of an attempt to get attention for help?
TOM COTTON: Or it could've been an attempt to signal to another cartel boat to come pick them up and pick up the cargo
TOM COTTON: Or it could've been an attempt to signal to another cartel boat to come pick them up and pick up the cargo
December 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
At some point someone just needs to say “you are an indecent person, you are lying to cover the slaughter of defenseless men, you know you are lying, and even under the tenets of your own professed faith you will certainly burn in hell if you continue down this path”
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Unbelievably depressing how rare it feels to regard people outside of your borders as human
Sometimes I wish there was a god to enact judgement on people for how they lived
Sometimes I wish there was a god to enact judgement on people for how they lived
December 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Unbelievably depressing how rare it feels to regard people outside of your borders as human
Sometimes I wish there was a god to enact judgement on people for how they lived
Sometimes I wish there was a god to enact judgement on people for how they lived
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you: "what are you talking about, 'sacred scriptures,' bullshit--"
me:
me:
December 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
you: "what are you talking about, 'sacred scriptures,' bullshit--"
me:
me: