Apparently Normal
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Liberal wonky technologist who likes bad dad jokes.
Favorite quote: "Beer is proof that G-d loves us and wants us to be happy"
-- Benjamin Franklin
Favorite political quote from a movie: "We're all in it together"
-- Harry Tuttle in Brazil
Favorite quote: "Beer is proof that G-d loves us and wants us to be happy"
-- Benjamin Franklin
Favorite political quote from a movie: "We're all in it together"
-- Harry Tuttle in Brazil
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ROB REINER: “This is just the beginning, and people have to understand our democracy is being taken away from us. We have a year before this country becomes a full on autocracy…
December 15, 2025 at 5:14 AM
ROB REINER: “This is just the beginning, and people have to understand our democracy is being taken away from us. We have a year before this country becomes a full on autocracy…
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This is what happens when the FBI is run by two right-wing conspiracy theorist podcasters who spent the last 11 months purging almost anyone with institutional knowledge from the bureau. They're going to keep fucking this kind of thing up.
BREAKING: Authorities will release the person of interest in the Brown University shooting, officials said, as the investigation continues.
Live updates: Person of interest identified after 2 killed and 9 injured at Brown University
Live updates: 2 dead, 9 wounded in Brown University shooting; person of interest in custody
nbcnews.to
December 15, 2025 at 5:45 AM
This is what happens when the FBI is run by two right-wing conspiracy theorist podcasters who spent the last 11 months purging almost anyone with institutional knowledge from the bureau. They're going to keep fucking this kind of thing up.
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Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
December 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
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With this latest mass shooting at Brown University, this might be a good time to mention that Bill Clinton’s assault weapons ban reduced mass shooting deaths by 43% - but after George W Bush & Republicans let it expire, mass shooting deaths spiked by 239%.
It's the guns!!! :(
It's the guns!!! :(
December 14, 2025 at 6:17 AM
With this latest mass shooting at Brown University, this might be a good time to mention that Bill Clinton’s assault weapons ban reduced mass shooting deaths by 43% - but after George W Bush & Republicans let it expire, mass shooting deaths spiked by 239%.
It's the guns!!! :(
It's the guns!!! :(
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Per a Reuters-Ipsos poll in early December, 3/4 of trump voters said they approved of trump's handling of the cost of living, compared to 1/3 of all respondents. This is what a cult looks like. When reality conflicts with dear leader, reality loses. #MAGACult
December 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Per a Reuters-Ipsos poll in early December, 3/4 of trump voters said they approved of trump's handling of the cost of living, compared to 1/3 of all respondents. This is what a cult looks like. When reality conflicts with dear leader, reality loses. #MAGACult
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We all deserve the same healthcare we provide to Congress…
December 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
We all deserve the same healthcare we provide to Congress…
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Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
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Based on the rapid pace of Trump’s mental decline, which only exacerbates his malignant narcissism, repulsive behavior, megalomania, and habitual lying, 2026 is going to be a rough year.
December 12, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Based on the rapid pace of Trump’s mental decline, which only exacerbates his malignant narcissism, repulsive behavior, megalomania, and habitual lying, 2026 is going to be a rough year.
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In 2017, I believed the institutions would hold on to withstand Trump’s worst impulses. They hung on by a thread. Then I watched Trump, Miller & Project 2025 plot for 4 years to make sure they wouldn’t hold again. Which is why I didn’t believe they would hold again. They aren’t.
December 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
In 2017, I believed the institutions would hold on to withstand Trump’s worst impulses. They hung on by a thread. Then I watched Trump, Miller & Project 2025 plot for 4 years to make sure they wouldn’t hold again. Which is why I didn’t believe they would hold again. They aren’t.
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Thinking of that time when my dad, himself a doctor, was thrown by a horse on a trail ride. Punctured his spleen, internal bleeding, got him to an ER just in time. He lived another 20 years. With two hours delay, probably wouldn't have.
We rushed to *nearest* ER. Not comparison-shop for ER prices.
We rushed to *nearest* ER. Not comparison-shop for ER prices.
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Thinking of that time when my dad, himself a doctor, was thrown by a horse on a trail ride. Punctured his spleen, internal bleeding, got him to an ER just in time. He lived another 20 years. With two hours delay, probably wouldn't have.
We rushed to *nearest* ER. Not comparison-shop for ER prices.
We rushed to *nearest* ER. Not comparison-shop for ER prices.
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If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
December 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
In 2026 the interest on the national debt is estimated to be $1 trillion (larger than DOD's budget). Interest on the debt is now the fastest growing part of the budget. 2021 stimulus debt is rolling over to new loans this year w/the new interest rate four times higher.
ALL ROADS LEAD TO QE AS US WILL SPEND ONE TRILLION IN 2026 FOR INTEREST ON MATURING DEBT- GAME OVER
YouTube video by Ox Talks
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December 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
In 2026 the interest on the national debt is estimated to be $1 trillion (larger than DOD's budget). Interest on the debt is now the fastest growing part of the budget. 2021 stimulus debt is rolling over to new loans this year w/the new interest rate four times higher.
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The so-called “war” with Venezuela was supposedly about stopping drugs… yet they’re out there seizing an oil tanker.
December 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The so-called “war” with Venezuela was supposedly about stopping drugs… yet they’re out there seizing an oil tanker.
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December 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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The US seizes a Venezuelan oil tanker. But doesn't seize any Russian oil tankers.
Everything you need to know.
Everything you need to know.
December 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
The US seizes a Venezuelan oil tanker. But doesn't seize any Russian oil tankers.
Everything you need to know.
Everything you need to know.
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“Don’t say you weren’t warned: Trump’s new national security strategy seeks to destroy liberal democracy as we know it”
The US is not just Europe’s unwilling ally, but an adversary steeped in far-right ideology | Cas Mudde
Don’t say you weren’t warned: Trump’s new national security strategy seeks to destroy liberal democracy as we know it, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
“Don’t say you weren’t warned: Trump’s new national security strategy seeks to destroy liberal democracy as we know it”
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Republicans just wrapped a meeting on healthcare and not even pretending to have a plan.
They’re blaming Dems for the shutdown, as if that stopped them from doing the job. They were still getting paid, they could have been working the entire time.
15 years of whining about Obamacare—still nothing!
They’re blaming Dems for the shutdown, as if that stopped them from doing the job. They were still getting paid, they could have been working the entire time.
15 years of whining about Obamacare—still nothing!
December 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Republicans just wrapped a meeting on healthcare and not even pretending to have a plan.
They’re blaming Dems for the shutdown, as if that stopped them from doing the job. They were still getting paid, they could have been working the entire time.
15 years of whining about Obamacare—still nothing!
They’re blaming Dems for the shutdown, as if that stopped them from doing the job. They were still getting paid, they could have been working the entire time.
15 years of whining about Obamacare—still nothing!
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"We can't allow fact checkers into the country" is late-stage USSR shit, real end-of-empire stuff
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"We can't allow fact checkers into the country" is late-stage USSR shit, real end-of-empire stuff
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Make America Healthy Again my ass.
December 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Make America Healthy Again my ass.
"migrants held by ICE and transferred to Alligator Alcatraz no longer appear in ICE's databases. They are also not registered in any public database. there is no official record of their detention and no way to track where they are being detained"
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:31 AM
"migrants held by ICE and transferred to Alligator Alcatraz no longer appear in ICE's databases. They are also not registered in any public database. there is no official record of their detention and no way to track where they are being detained"
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“I’d have no problem releasing the video”
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“I’d have no problem releasing the video”
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
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Good. There's no reason to hand the violent burglar your possessions and part of your house in hopes that they'll leave and not kill you. And Trump is ultimately going to screw Ukraine over anyway. Europe needs to step up until America comes back to its senses.
JUST IN: Ukraine will NOT surrender territory, President Zelensky declared Monday, rejecting a central Russian demand that Donald Trump had incorporated into his “peace plan.”
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Zelensky rules out ceding land to Russia, refusing to bow to Putin or Trump
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country would not give up territory, not to hasten peace talks, not to satisfy Washington and not under pressure from Moscow.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Good. There's no reason to hand the violent burglar your possessions and part of your house in hopes that they'll leave and not kill you. And Trump is ultimately going to screw Ukraine over anyway. Europe needs to step up until America comes back to its senses.
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