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Don’t mind me just tracing the gyres. Talk about politics a lot but mostly want to talk about Stevie Wonder and August Wilson. She stay in the hills, he stay in Atlanta, I pay for them both.
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I haven’t asked in a while so!

1) What was the last work of art, in any genre or form, that changed your life?

2) When was the last time you changed your mind about anything, big or small, and why?
I don’t think Jasmine should run for Senate but I do think Collin should run for Governor so I’m a little uncertain lol.
December 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Trump's second term eviscerated regulatory autonomy. They even randomly fired Democratic commissioners.

This corruption WILL kill people and cause generational public harm, but it continues to receive less attention in the press than whatever brainfart Sam Altman has each morning
NEW: SCOTUS will hear arguments Monday on Trump’s attempt to fire the last Democratic FTC commissioner. A ruling for the president could dangerously expand his control over agencies regulating the economy, stock market, campaign finance and communications.
Supreme Court to Hear Arguments In Trump’s Bid for Total Control of Government
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
So they lampshaded this by saying the military DID find them but idk it doesn’t make sense. They can’t intentionally kill but they embarked on a mode of spreading their hive mind virus that killed a billion people? Instead of just sacrificing themselves and idk letting the lab rats go free?
Seems like the hive mind-ification could simply have proceeded voluntarily by kissing. But also the non hive minded would probably have just killed all the hive minds in that case.
December 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I imagine what needs to be done to rectify this; then I imagine what will be done in response to THAT and I just really settle in my spirit that this country is in for a reeeeeeeeaaaallllllyyyyyyyyyyy long and hard road for a while.
It's over.

Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.

www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.
www.dailynebraskan.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.

One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.

When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.

Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.

www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
December 7, 2025 at 5:13 AM
America doesn’t like this, America doesn’t want this, America doesn’t support this.
I spoke with Any Lucía López Belloza, the Babson College student who was on her way to surprise her family for Thanksgiving when ICE deported her.

"My 5-year-old sister still believes that I might go home for Christmas," she tells me.

www.thecut.com/article/any-...
I Wanted to Surprise My Family on Thanksgiving. ICE Deported Me Instead.
How the Trump administration turned a college freshman’s life upside down.
www.thecut.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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I spoke with Any Lucía López Belloza, the Babson College student who was on her way to surprise her family for Thanksgiving when ICE deported her.

"My 5-year-old sister still believes that I might go home for Christmas," she tells me.

www.thecut.com/article/any-...
I Wanted to Surprise My Family on Thanksgiving. ICE Deported Me Instead.
How the Trump administration turned a college freshman’s life upside down.
www.thecut.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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"Since her arrest, the White House media office has portrayed Ferreira as an absentee mother who had not been in Karoline Leavitt’s orbit in years....Court records, family photos and Ferreira’s account tell a different story." wapo.st/48qWW9C
Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest
In an interview, Bruna Ferreira, who chose the White House press secretary as her son’s godmother, contested the portrayal of her as a criminal, absentee mom.
wapo.st
December 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Bf has to sing a parody song for a radio show (his glamorous and violently underpaid singing side gig) and this man decided to stress an “a” and bf cannot make this make sense. I could not either. Mis-stressing is a real phenomenon y’all.
December 7, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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An internal list of military targets? Naming everyone on board, fulfilling wartime rules of engagement, ready in time for a covert boat trip, but requiring 40 minutes to justify a second strike?

May we see it?
EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people on a suspected drug-smuggling boat because they were on an internal list of military targets, the commander overseeing the operation told lawmakers, according to multiple sources.
Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets
Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had identified the 11 people on the boat and determined the military was authorized to kill them as part of Trump’s campaign against alleged drug-smuggling vessels.
nbcnews.to
December 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Pluribus is interesting bc it is clearly a woke era anti-woke program. It’s like a time capsule to 2023 truly.
December 6, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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RICH PEOPLE NEVER EVER LEAVE WHERE THEY WANT TO LIVE IF THEIR TAXES INCREASE FOR THE OBVIOUS REASON THAT THEY CAN EASILY AFFORD IT
December 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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We should be clear. SCOTUS justices who vote against birthright citizenship are enemies of the US Constitution & the United States of America.
The Supreme Court cannot “uphold the longstanding principle” or “strike down birthright citizenship.” The Supreme Court can follow the plain text of the constitution or declare itself in rebellion to the constitution. These are the only two options wrt birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 2d
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
December 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Birthright citizenship is a fact, regardless of how the Court rules
The Supreme Court cannot “uphold the longstanding principle” or “strike down birthright citizenship.” The Supreme Court can follow the plain text of the constitution or declare itself in rebellion to the constitution. These are the only two options wrt birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 2d
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
December 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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You know I’m just exhausted with framing battles over fundamental constitutional rights as little more than intellectual legal debates

I have a powerful distaste for America’s political elites
December 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Deputy Secy of State Christopher Landau says the US “cannot pretend that we are partners” w/ NATO nations because the European Union—of which many are members—pursues “policies of civilizational suicide.”

Landau is a former clerk of SCOTUS Justice Thomas. Stephen Miller lobbied for his appointment.
December 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Coldplay really didn’t come out til 2000? Crazy.
December 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Or I suppose, the good shit is essential and the bad shit is essential so we might as well try to maximize the good and minimize the bad, though we know it will never go away nor be defeated. Or, we can ignore all this and practice living in the other world.
December 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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“My dearest Bryndlynn,

It has been a week since the boys saw our last DoorDash. The Monster and Rockstar is long gone, and we’re down to our last case of Bang and one bag of Late Nite Loaded Taco Doritos.”
that's cool, man, but have you tried the taste of a refreshing matcha latte
December 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This is bars.
Resistance libs welcomed South Park into the anti-Trump fold with open arms. Our founder Evan Urquhart was a bit less joyous to see the anti-woke edgelords of South Park recognize, at last, the dreadful pandora's box that widespread anti-wokeness opened up.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
South Park Mourns the Death of Woke — Assigned
An adult cartoon that reveled in the anti-woke backlash reckons with its impact.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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What an interesting coincidence.
December 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Okay you joke but “person who dresses up as Alexis de Tocqueville as a seasonal tradition and judges us on our Americanness” is, like, that could be something. Maybe he gives us candy when we dignify the human spirit non-hypocritically
December 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
For the American religion: Voting. Arguing [at bars, on microblogging sites, within earshot of Alexis de Tocqueville].
the question becomes, I guess: if we have a creed, what’s our code and our conduct, as a religion?
December 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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america has our saints, our scriptures, our holy sites, even our pilgrimages. go to the national mall in dc and understand that, first and foremost, dc is a temple city, and the people there are making a pilgrimage to the holy tombs of the martyrs
December 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM