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HoiPollois🦋
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Democracy-defender. Cat-haver. Human rights + science = ✅ 🫂🪷🌈☔UU🐦‍⬛🗽💙 🦋 Welcome to Blue Sky!🦋
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"PITY THE NATION"

by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Pity the nation whose people are sheep
And whose shepherds mislead them

Pity the nation whose leaders are liars
Whose sages are silenced
And whose bigots haunt the airwaves

Pity the nation that raises not its voice
Except to praise conquerors
And accl
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Hell, I’d be shocked if he bothered to find out whether Melania was still in the East Wing before he destroyed it.
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Miller a foe of degenerate art
Stephen Miller: "The scandal is how Democrats & the left scarred the landscape of our country w/grotesque so-called modern art that celebrates ugliness ... very importantly, President Trump is making sure it's in the neo-classical design around which our nation's architecture has long been directed"
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I assumed that second quote was satire, or at least a paraphrase. It’s not. The thug trash said that.
“The use of force that I’ve seen has been exemplary — the least amount of force necessary to accomplish the mission,” Bovino told @cbsnews.com Friday. “If someone strays into a pepper ball, then that’s on them. Don’t protest and don’t trespass.”
FULL STORY: U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis ordered Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, who has led a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs, to appear in her courtroom in person at 10 a.m. Tuesday. @wttw.bsky.social
New motto of the times:

Go fash, lose cash.
Go fash, lose cash
Target cuts 1,800 corporate jobs in its first major layoffs in a decade.

No roles in stores will be cut.

www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cnbc...
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I know folks have been talking about this for a few days now, but I just want to emphasize: the next D POTUS needs to demolish everything Trump erects

Blot it all out
NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.

(📸 Getty Images)
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What was the last thing that went through Hitler's mind before the Allies got to him?

A bullet

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Hitler did do one fantastic thing no one else could achieve: he killed Hitler.
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An unboycottable list—good luck avoiding Amazon, Apple, Comcast, Google, Meta, and Microsoft unless you go live in a cabin in the woods buying nothing and using no technology
The White House has released a list of donors who contributed to President Trump’s new 90,000-square-foot ballroom, which is now estimated to cost $300 million, according to the White House.

Here’s the list:
Here are the donors contributing to Trump’s White House ballroom
Companies such as Google, Amazon and Meta are on the list of donors to the planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom. The East Wing has been demolished as part of the project.
www.washingtonpost.com
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If you're wondering who this fellow is:

Nephew of William F Buckley
Founder of Media Research Center, which attacked "liberal media," including, on a few dumb occasions, me
Wrote a weekly syndicated column until it was learned he wasn't writing it
Father of a convicted and then pardoned Jan 6er
So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating.

When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
We ARE our own war zone now.

☣️ IS at war with We The People.
Usually we do this in war zones or flood zones or to look for nuclear facilities. Now it's our own president demolishing a large portion of the most famous and historic federal building in the country, without notice to Americans
ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
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Usually we do this in war zones or flood zones or to look for nuclear facilities. Now it's our own president demolishing a large portion of the most famous and historic federal building in the country, without notice to Americans
ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
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Funny to see the Democratic mayor of NYC parroting AfD talking points about Germany.
Eric Adams, endorsing Cuomo: "New York can't be Europe, folks ... Those Islamic extremisms that are burning churches in Nigeria, that are destroying communities in Germany, that have taken over the logical thinkings. And that's what I'm fighting for."
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You know things are utterly FUBAR in the US when @bellingcat.com is doing satellite imagery analysis of the White House.
New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.
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Quite an unfortunate place to drift off into an ellipsis.
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A thing I think every damn day is that the wrong people are in charge of political ads.
It probably doesn’t matter but I would be flooding the zone with images of the White House destruction right now.
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“Trump says he will not seek authorization for extrajudicial murders of boaters” definitely has different implications
What is the Times doing calling this extrajudicial murder spree “cartel strikes”? On what evidence do they ape the killers’ propaganda?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
Trump Says He Will Not Seek Authorization for Cartel Strikes
www.nytimes.com
Is it possible that the Capitalist w a capital C countries are just not willing to build for low-and moderate- incomes?
Of all the housing charts not made by MMI, this one is my favourite. It shows how, despite rhetoric, housing shortages aren't a global phenomenon, but they do seem to be an Anglo-American one.
A true shortage or a low- and modest-income housing shortage.
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Of all the housing charts not made by MMI, this one is my favourite. It shows how, despite rhetoric, housing shortages aren't a global phenomenon, but they do seem to be an Anglo-American one.
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there are times I really enjoy being Unitarian
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If this is you (it is me)I recommend checking out your closest Unitarian Universalist (UU) congregation. Lots of secular humanists and social justice.
Possibly related: My dad is an atheist but goes to church because he is certain everybody needs a group of 300 people who will respond if one of them is in crisis.
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My Unitarian Church in Gainesville FL has a rainbow crosswalk in our parking lot.