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vanders
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No posts. Just here to follow and occasionally repost/like stuff.
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The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.

Run on *that*
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
September 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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I haven't seen this yet, but want to gently push back on the notion that Devo's success "drowned out" their ideas. As @samadams.bsky.social immediately notes, "The joke became reality, which proved the band’s point about cultural decline."

There is no contradiction there.

slate.com/culture/2025...
One of Rock’s Greatest Bands Started as Satire. Then It Became Everything It Satirized.
A delightful new Netflix documentary tells the story of one of the weirdest, wittiest bands in rock history.
slate.com
August 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Note on historic context and #Juneteenth — Many of the articles and social media posts today will correctly note that in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865, approximately 250,000 enslaved Blacks in were informed of their freedom.

Here’s a few important details about that number…
🧵 Happy #Juneteenth, y’all!

Original text of General Order No. 3:
June 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Working hard to defend the rights, dignity, and well-being of immigrants, refugees, and the undocumented, they need our help more than ever right now.

You can find this article and all resources to combat ICE on a special link we created. Lataco.com/ice

Please share
June 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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One of the things I hate most about Trump and MAGA is that they are everything wrong with normal bourgeois politics but ramped up to such a frenzied pitch of malicious insanity that they make normal bourgeois politics look sane and sensible and reasonable by comparison.
April 2, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Remember when Biden competed with Trump about who would fund the police more and said to give leftover COVID relief to them? Those are the same police who are assaulting people for protesting and defending Tesla dealerships right now. Not a good idea to give them more but here we are.
March 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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The energy got coopted by the Democratic Party and funneled into elections. Then the Biden presidency extended several Trump policies while moving liberal constituents to the right on issues like police funding, immigration, and foreign policy. Yes, let's never do that again!
For those of you sharing this as a call to arms, I get it. However, I want to remind you that in 2020 people took to the streets in unprecedented numbers and at a great personal cost.

I’m not saying people shouldn’t protest now, but let’s acknowledge what happened when we spoke up for black lives.
Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
March 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Everyone needs to have an outlook that doesn’t expect free and fair elections under fascism. For one, the USA has been overrun with discriminatory elections and voter suppression forever. Also, fascists don't need to have elections anymore at all! They can decide that's no longer an option.
March 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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March 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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One day we are going to teach Samoans how to kick and the USA will win like six World Cups in a row, much to the lament of the rest of the World.
March 6, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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"Eat the Rich"
Poster wheatpasted during a demonstration today in Washington DC ahead of Trump's inauguration.
January 20, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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"You can't shoot a fire, so why does LAPD get over 25% of our budget"
Poster spotted in Los Angeles
January 20, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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disrespectful that people are spreading this image around of the president looking at his own penis while urinating
January 20, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Right wing masculinity, so far as I can tell, is just to be a huge whiney baby about absolutely everything, and also to be extremely stupid.
November 10, 2024 at 2:24 AM