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Hazen Hammel @hazenhammel.bsky.social · 24m

Harry Truman completely gutted and rebuilt the White House in 1952

I would stick with the fact that Trump has destroyed the main public entrance and intends to replace it with a party palace for his billionaire cronies and foreign oligarchs.

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Hazen Hammel @hazenhammel.bsky.social · 1h

consumers haven't reached their debt limit

you'll know we have, when bank robbers burn mortgages like Dillinger did in the Great Depression

Hazen Hammel @hazenhammel.bsky.social · 1h

You seriously want to claim Eleanor Roosevelt is irrelevant to working class history?

Next are you going to badmouth Rosa Luxemburg because she was SPD and not KPD?

or claim you don't like South Park??

Oh wait

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Hazen Hammel @hazenhammel.bsky.social · 1h

Dude, it's no longer the 1990s.

Since 2023, beef producers have been able to produce bovine spongiform encephalopathy right here in the United States

Also, the Argentinian beef in your Big Mac is now certified "Deforestation Free"

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Hazen Hammel @hazenhammel.bsky.social · 1h

Obama's drone strikes on US citizens and innocent bystanders in Yemen, based only on a secret White House memo, without even a judicial rubber stamp from the FISA court, paved the way for Trump's unchecked misuse of military power including his terror-killings in the Caribbean

Hazen Hammel @hazenhammel.bsky.social · 2h

"Oh sorry to hear that!" he says after an awkward pause

(the mental image of Jane with hammer and tongs sweating in front of a furnace distracted me)

Hazen Hammel @hazenhammel.bsky.social · 2h

Actual history can be useful

(Ho Chi Minh could quote the US Declaration of Independence)

The East Wing is a complicated symbol: both a bunker and the visitors' entrance, a relic of the war against fascism but connected to an older building built by slaves

analyze that

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Hazen Hammel @hazenhammel.bsky.social · 2h

"Let's eat steak and not pay!"

Young Republicans of Syracuse, NY

Hazen Hammel @hazenhammel.bsky.social · 2h

For someone who claims to promote "historical materialism", your grasp of the history of the White House is rather superficial.

The East Wing was added during WW2 to house offices for Eleanor Roosevelt's staff and her projects in civil and human rights.

It serves as the visitors' entrance

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Hazen Hammel @hazenhammel.bsky.social · 14h

I think it's important to let everyone know that people with disabilities can excel at whatever they choose.

Abbott has chosen to be exceptionally stupid.

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Hazen Hammel @hazenhammel.bsky.social · 18h

There was that 61 year old lady in Alabama who was arrested by three cops throwing her down on the ground and kneeling on her, for wearing an inflatable dick costume

Widely reported, posted on this site at least 6 times

So my research indicate that Christine Hallquist didn't do any

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Hazen Hammel @hazenhammel.bsky.social · 19h

Doctors have already been replaced by insurance claims adjusters

now ask the adjusters if they are worried about AI

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Hazen Hammel @hazenhammel.bsky.social · 19h

We're not journalists so its weird for you to tell us this, but now we know

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Hazen Hammel @hazenhammel.bsky.social · 1d

When our Democratic Party establishment, historically known for corruption and cronyism, turns on a twice-elected official like this, I am deeply skeptical.

Who knows? Maybe Ms. Martin isn't up to the job, despite the support of her constituents.

but I suspect there's a story behind this

Hazen Hammel @hazenhammel.bsky.social · 1d

Duh.

Drug laws exist to control people of color.

Control includes "disarming"

(in reality, prison for possession, not actually taking any guns off the streets).

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Hazen Hammel @hazenhammel.bsky.social · 1d

You got on a list??

I'm jealous

Hazen Hammel @hazenhammel.bsky.social · 1d

This is the chucklehead who wrote a book on atheism where he actually seriously argued that all religion was the satire of Anglicanism he remembered from Monty Python.

His ignorance was acceptable when you agreed with his conclusions.

How about now?

www.foxnews.com/media/richar...

Richard Dawkins leaves atheist foundation after it unpublishes article saying gender based on biology

Renowned atheist and biologist Richard Dawkins resigned from the board of an atheist foundation recently after it unpublished an article critical of transgender ideology.

www.foxnews.com

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Hazen Hammel @hazenhammel.bsky.social · 1d

not missing any meals

Hazen Hammel @hazenhammel.bsky.social · 1d

knowing three days later he'd have to get up, roll away the stone and reassure 500 idiot disciples in three different towns that it was going to be business as usual despite the whole death thing

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Hazen Hammel @hazenhammel.bsky.social · 1d

The Emperor's New Shitpost

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Hazen Hammel @hazenhammel.bsky.social · 1d

The Air Force under Eisenhower dropped two nuclear bombs (fortunately without their plutonium cores) from airplanes: one on Albuquerque in '57 and another on South Carolina in '58

Both detonated

but at least those were accidents

abc7.com/post/shrapne...

Shrapnel hit CHP vehicle during Marine Corps demonstration at Camp Pendleton, department says

According to CHP, the explosive ordinance that was fired over the freeway detonated overhead prematurely, striking and damaging a patrol vehicle.

abc7.com

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Hazen Hammel @hazenhammel.bsky.social · 1d

For ease, let's just ignore the research based on population and substitute "eligible voters"??

Did you learn this method from Nate Silver?

Hazen Hammel @hazenhammel.bsky.social · 1d

3.5% of 340 million is 11.9 million

10/18 numbers fall well short

there's always next time, though

Hazen Hammel @hazenhammel.bsky.social · 1d

The Israelis are MUCH better at the reputation-laundering protest

they combine liberal outrage with chauvinistic nationalist image discipline

I'm sure Leni Riefenstahl would have been proud

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Hazen Hammel @hazenhammel.bsky.social · 1d

confusion is excusable when a man mocked world-wide as an aerial baby wearing a diaper reposts ai generated video of himself dumping shit on people

but ceej is here to remind us that irony is not only dead, it's skeletonized

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