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It Dan
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Training to polish our future robot overlords. Definitely not in a swamp concentration camp yet, maybe? All opinions are my own. Recovering Army vet… #sackthequack
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We must invade with the military will no one think of the fully insured shopping carts…
Merry Christmas. And duck the administration that is ignoring the first amendment to make non Christians and non whites enemies of the state. You don’t have to support the America of the lynchers.
December 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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In retrospect the Bush-era War On Christmas stuff seems more ominous than it did at the time. It was just cable news guys crying about dumb/fake shit, then and now; I mean the campaign to turn Christmas, which most everyone likes and feels warmly about, into just another thing to get mad about.
December 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work.

This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
December 24, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.
"In Covid's Wake" Part 1: Lyin… - If Books Could Kill - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 06/17/2025 · 58m
podcasts.apple.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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From the blurb at Princeton University Press:

"... schools closed for months or even years."

Where were schools closed for YEARS? (No where.)

What kind of book gets blurbed with a false premise, ffs? Is the material inside as reckless with facts?
December 24, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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December 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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December 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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That schools named themselves and their mascots after the confederacy in the mid-1950s as a response to desegregation is the central premise of Rebel Spirit podcast. @akilahhughes.com and I even did a segment about this high school.
Fascinating story from VA: the Confederacy on trial, with a microcosm of the national dynamic that brought us here: the George Floyd protests and racial reckoning, and the furious backlash. Gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
The Confederacy Goes on Trial, Along With Schools Named Jackson and Lee
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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We’re in the busiest time of the year for food pantries — and the combination of federal funding cuts and rising prices is making it difficult for many pantries to meet rising needs. Please consider supporting your local food pantry this holiday season.
Find Your Local Food Bank and Holiday Food Boxes | Feeding America
Find the Feeding America member food bank nearest you. Over 200 member food banks can connect you with free food, food pantries, soup kitchens, and holiday food boxes in your community.
www.feedingamerica.org
December 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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i have spent time with bari weiss, who used to date my former roommate and who i am in an alumni program with, and i feel comfortable saying she is both stupid and evil
lol yeah that’s fuckin airtight wrap it up everybody no one’s ever been stupid and evil at the same time
December 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Have you considered that journalism might not be the right career for you?
December 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives.

Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
December 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Except that we won’t. The social Darwinism and eugenics are a huge part of MAHA. After all, a key idea behind the antivax movement is that vaccine-preventable diseases can’t harm you if you’re healthy and that if you’re not healthy it’s your fault.
December 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.

It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
CANCELLED 60 MINUTES CECOT DOC
YouTube video by eoin higgins
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Please give a warm Bluesky welcome to one of the nastier “vaccine skeptics.”

Freddie here is either part of, or jealous that he’s not part of the study where they’ll let African babies become chronically infected with Hep B in their Quixotic yet fruitless search for vaccine induced mortality.
December 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Very cool!
December 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
SQTUS the problem with Jim Crow was the branding not the conflict with constitutional law apparently.
December 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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This tweet from Big Balls says the new “Tech Force” website is their first using the “America Design System.” Here are just a few reasons why that sucks. 🧵
December 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Just the other day I noted that at least GW Bush made up WMDs to go to war for oil. I didn’t think he’d literally do it.
One of the dumbest EXECUTIVE ORDERS and also so so so reckless and dangerous.

If fentanyl is a "weapon of mass destruction," then will the people who procure it, store it, & distribute it be treated & prosecuted as terrorists?

If so, good luck, MAGA. Good luck.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
DESIGNATING FENTANYL AS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
December 16, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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“the problem is that nobody is giving the president credit for all the good things happening in the make-believe world he inhabits.”

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Stop criticizing Trump's bad economy. You're making him sad. | Opinion
Donald Trump is swiftly losing control of his presidency, and he has it in his head that 'affordability' is a hoax and not a real word.
www.usatoday.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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principals who act like:
December 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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One of the students at Brown at the moment is Mia - she came to the WH to introduce POTUS Biden in 2022… as a survivor of the high school shooting in California
December 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Alabama in over Notre Dame is an integrity problem. At minimum it’s the appearance of impropriety. Bama lost to FSU, the last place team in the ACC. Barely beat 5-7 Auburn. Only way they should’ve gotten in was winning the SEC title game. Instead they got held to -3 yards rushing and blown out.
December 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
It’s time for our favorite time of year the “war” on Christmas. After the skirmishes and devastation of the Friday of Black and cybers Monday we have reached a impasse in the trenches. There are candles near our position. I know not if we shall return to you my sweet Caroline.
December 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM