Ron
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Life's a game when you're non-violent; proportional self-defense incentivizes life-long learning:
Life = Efficiency = Learning = Love.
Life = Efficiency = Learning = Love.
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ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
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Welcome! Glad you're enjoying yourself.
The Eyes of Bluesky are upon you.
We're a big #proofofwork gang.
Here are select top of mind concerns potentially limiting your enjoyment in these parts 🤠.
Fix, for real, & We all turnt🍻
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
#EoB
The Eyes of Bluesky are upon you.
We're a big #proofofwork gang.
Here are select top of mind concerns potentially limiting your enjoyment in these parts 🤠.
Fix, for real, & We all turnt🍻
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
#EoB
Jets giving an excellent real world test of madden strategy
November 14, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Jets giving an excellent real world test of madden strategy
Another nfl maul for a TD. Time to start coaching scrum technique for safety and sustainability.
Likewise added dimension of "safely block adjacent defender or join maul"
&
Passing the ball back in the mall to peel off.
All bound by communication.
I believe this would also give linemen TDs 😍
Likewise added dimension of "safely block adjacent defender or join maul"
&
Passing the ball back in the mall to peel off.
All bound by communication.
I believe this would also give linemen TDs 😍
November 14, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Another nfl maul for a TD. Time to start coaching scrum technique for safety and sustainability.
Likewise added dimension of "safely block adjacent defender or join maul"
&
Passing the ball back in the mall to peel off.
All bound by communication.
I believe this would also give linemen TDs 😍
Likewise added dimension of "safely block adjacent defender or join maul"
&
Passing the ball back in the mall to peel off.
All bound by communication.
I believe this would also give linemen TDs 😍
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This is quite the update RE: intel sharing.
The Brits have stopped sharing drug trafficking intel w/us in the Caribbean, Latin American region. They believe our extra judicial killings are illegal. If you’ve worked on this stuff or w/ the Brits, you know this is really a big deal. DOD folks—your professional liability insurance won’t work.
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This is quite the update RE: intel sharing.
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“We can’t afford a weak and cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, and threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, and we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.”
indivisible.org/statements/i...
indivisible.org/statements/i...
Indivisible Launches its Largest Primary Program in Response to Senate Democrats Surrendering on the Shutdown Vote
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
“We can’t afford a weak and cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, and threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, and we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.”
indivisible.org/statements/i...
indivisible.org/statements/i...
Here's a script for any seeking words to express civil discontent with uncivilized hethens.
The weakness shown by Schumer et al is precisely why and how things have slid so far so fast.
Luckily, we have many ready to step in and step up.
All logistics are solvable. We're on our way.
The weakness shown by Schumer et al is precisely why and how things have slid so far so fast.
Luckily, we have many ready to step in and step up.
All logistics are solvable. We're on our way.
November 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Here's a script for any seeking words to express civil discontent with uncivilized hethens.
The weakness shown by Schumer et al is precisely why and how things have slid so far so fast.
Luckily, we have many ready to step in and step up.
All logistics are solvable. We're on our way.
The weakness shown by Schumer et al is precisely why and how things have slid so far so fast.
Luckily, we have many ready to step in and step up.
All logistics are solvable. We're on our way.
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Love these eight turncoat Dem senators giving an immediate press conference trying to justify why they support fascism and DGAF about the hundreds of thousands folks depending on affordable ACA subsidies. At least the press is attacking their stupid decision.
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Love these eight turncoat Dem senators giving an immediate press conference trying to justify why they support fascism and DGAF about the hundreds of thousands folks depending on affordable ACA subsidies. At least the press is attacking their stupid decision.
New leadership is all we need. Systems work just fine. Incredibly well, actually. So well, in fact, they were the first target of anti-American & anti-democratic forces.
Imagine what we'll achieve when productivity and value flow where they're made. Incredible times ahead if we do this right.
Imagine what we'll achieve when productivity and value flow where they're made. Incredible times ahead if we do this right.
In a functional party system, this kind of capitulation in the face of authoritarianism could mean the end of the Democratic Party.
In our system, it could mean the end of the two party system. Neither party can represent the pro-democracy majority. It's time for something new.
In our system, it could mean the end of the two party system. Neither party can represent the pro-democracy majority. It's time for something new.
November 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
New leadership is all we need. Systems work just fine. Incredibly well, actually. So well, in fact, they were the first target of anti-American & anti-democratic forces.
Imagine what we'll achieve when productivity and value flow where they're made. Incredible times ahead if we do this right.
Imagine what we'll achieve when productivity and value flow where they're made. Incredible times ahead if we do this right.
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Ngl the loud booing for Pete Hesgeth at the Lions/Commanders game felt real good
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Ngl the loud booing for Pete Hesgeth at the Lions/Commanders game felt real good
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If this week has taught us anything, it's that passionate people can defeat machines designed to break us. Don't look at the Dem Party as a completed institution, but one that is ready for change. We can take it and force it to work for us, which is happening now. Be a part of that and be loud.
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 AM
If this week has taught us anything, it's that passionate people can defeat machines designed to break us. Don't look at the Dem Party as a completed institution, but one that is ready for change. We can take it and force it to work for us, which is happening now. Be a part of that and be loud.
Happy Birthday, #Marines 🫡🤝🫂
"From the Halls of Montezuma" "to the foam!"
Team Blue|Green proves #diversity is #strength.
From a ☢️ wire biter to all 🖍️ eating Devil Dogs:
Semper Fidelis 📜 Ex Scentia Tridens 🧮💻
& only via consensus: Sic Semper Tyrannis 🕊️🇺🇸
With You,
"TINYd", sst
🍻+🦑+ 🐕 = 🦅🌎⚓️ 🎂
"From the Halls of Montezuma" "to the foam!"
Team Blue|Green proves #diversity is #strength.
From a ☢️ wire biter to all 🖍️ eating Devil Dogs:
Semper Fidelis 📜 Ex Scentia Tridens 🧮💻
& only via consensus: Sic Semper Tyrannis 🕊️🇺🇸
With You,
"TINYd", sst
🍻+🦑+ 🐕 = 🦅🌎⚓️ 🎂
a brown and white dog is sitting on a couch looking at the camera .
ALT: a brown and white dog is sitting on a couch looking at the camera .
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Happy Birthday, #Marines 🫡🤝🫂
"From the Halls of Montezuma" "to the foam!"
Team Blue|Green proves #diversity is #strength.
From a ☢️ wire biter to all 🖍️ eating Devil Dogs:
Semper Fidelis 📜 Ex Scentia Tridens 🧮💻
& only via consensus: Sic Semper Tyrannis 🕊️🇺🇸
With You,
"TINYd", sst
🍻+🦑+ 🐕 = 🦅🌎⚓️ 🎂
"From the Halls of Montezuma" "to the foam!"
Team Blue|Green proves #diversity is #strength.
From a ☢️ wire biter to all 🖍️ eating Devil Dogs:
Semper Fidelis 📜 Ex Scentia Tridens 🧮💻
& only via consensus: Sic Semper Tyrannis 🕊️🇺🇸
With You,
"TINYd", sst
🍻+🦑+ 🐕 = 🦅🌎⚓️ 🎂
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🏳️🌈 fuck yes, and love anyway you please!
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🏳️🌈 fuck yes, and love anyway you please!
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There’s still time to call senators. Let me explain. Sorry not sorry about the cat. He’s also really upset about this deal.
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
There’s still time to call senators. Let me explain. Sorry not sorry about the cat. He’s also really upset about this deal.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
File this and all other non-sustainable solutions under "bad management". Perpetually.
Do not support bad management. Working supports bad management.
Good mgmt is oft labeled "socialist" by extortionist #GOPedos & #shareholders.
Rather, find & support good management. Your check 📈.
#PoW > #PoS
Do not support bad management. Working supports bad management.
Good mgmt is oft labeled "socialist" by extortionist #GOPedos & #shareholders.
Rather, find & support good management. Your check 📈.
#PoW > #PoS
A 50 year mortgage is an overwhelming horrible idea, too many people already can't afford to be a home owner and the added interest of 20 more years is not feasible.
youtu.be/GpJwUVUe9wU?...
youtu.be/GpJwUVUe9wU?...
Trump Says Affordability Is A 'Con Job,' Proposes 50 YEAR MORTGAGE
YouTube video by Breaking Points
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
File this and all other non-sustainable solutions under "bad management". Perpetually.
Do not support bad management. Working supports bad management.
Good mgmt is oft labeled "socialist" by extortionist #GOPedos & #shareholders.
Rather, find & support good management. Your check 📈.
#PoW > #PoS
Do not support bad management. Working supports bad management.
Good mgmt is oft labeled "socialist" by extortionist #GOPedos & #shareholders.
Rather, find & support good management. Your check 📈.
#PoW > #PoS
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Dems who caved on the ACA, call them:
Catherine Cortez Masto: (202) 224-3542
Dick Durban: 202 224-2152
John Fetterman: 202 224-4254
Tim Kaine: 202 224-4024
Angus King: 202 224-5344
Jacky Rosen: 202-224-6244
Jeanne Shaheen: 202 224-2841
Maggie Hassan: 202 224-3324
Catherine Cortez Masto: (202) 224-3542
Dick Durban: 202 224-2152
John Fetterman: 202 224-4254
Tim Kaine: 202 224-4024
Angus King: 202 224-5344
Jacky Rosen: 202-224-6244
Jeanne Shaheen: 202 224-2841
Maggie Hassan: 202 224-3324
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Dems who caved on the ACA, call them:
Catherine Cortez Masto: (202) 224-3542
Dick Durban: 202 224-2152
John Fetterman: 202 224-4254
Tim Kaine: 202 224-4024
Angus King: 202 224-5344
Jacky Rosen: 202-224-6244
Jeanne Shaheen: 202 224-2841
Maggie Hassan: 202 224-3324
Catherine Cortez Masto: (202) 224-3542
Dick Durban: 202 224-2152
John Fetterman: 202 224-4254
Tim Kaine: 202 224-4024
Angus King: 202 224-5344
Jacky Rosen: 202-224-6244
Jeanne Shaheen: 202 224-2841
Maggie Hassan: 202 224-3324
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We want this #shutdown to end as much as anyone, but giving in to promises of a future vote on ACA subsidies is weak sauce. The House pen won’t even allow it and we can do this shutdown dance again in January. 😩
Senators, don’t make all this pain for nothing. Be bold. HOLD. THE. LINE.
More here:
Senators, don’t make all this pain for nothing. Be bold. HOLD. THE. LINE.
More here:
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
We want this #shutdown to end as much as anyone, but giving in to promises of a future vote on ACA subsidies is weak sauce. The House pen won’t even allow it and we can do this shutdown dance again in January. 😩
Senators, don’t make all this pain for nothing. Be bold. HOLD. THE. LINE.
More here:
Senators, don’t make all this pain for nothing. Be bold. HOLD. THE. LINE.
More here:
Sustainable systems produce provable and obvious abundance.
Non-sustainable systems ignore data and rely on loyalty to persist. Hence, authoritarian edge cases always run out of others to blame at some point.
Scarcity is fake. Abolish the 13th concession. No free trips. No kings. No slaves.
Non-sustainable systems ignore data and rely on loyalty to persist. Hence, authoritarian edge cases always run out of others to blame at some point.
Scarcity is fake. Abolish the 13th concession. No free trips. No kings. No slaves.
Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy.
For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy.
The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.
For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy.
The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Sustainable systems produce provable and obvious abundance.
Non-sustainable systems ignore data and rely on loyalty to persist. Hence, authoritarian edge cases always run out of others to blame at some point.
Scarcity is fake. Abolish the 13th concession. No free trips. No kings. No slaves.
Non-sustainable systems ignore data and rely on loyalty to persist. Hence, authoritarian edge cases always run out of others to blame at some point.
Scarcity is fake. Abolish the 13th concession. No free trips. No kings. No slaves.
It is hard. It is justifiably the basis for American Exceptionalism.
American exceptionalism is recognizing fighting for others first is how we keep our own.
Good times made soft people. Soft people make bad times.
1980 & younger are hard people who will make bad times good again. Ask them how.
American exceptionalism is recognizing fighting for others first is how we keep our own.
Good times made soft people. Soft people make bad times.
1980 & younger are hard people who will make bad times good again. Ask them how.
Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal".
But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.
But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It is hard. It is justifiably the basis for American Exceptionalism.
American exceptionalism is recognizing fighting for others first is how we keep our own.
Good times made soft people. Soft people make bad times.
1980 & younger are hard people who will make bad times good again. Ask them how.
American exceptionalism is recognizing fighting for others first is how we keep our own.
Good times made soft people. Soft people make bad times.
1980 & younger are hard people who will make bad times good again. Ask them how.
Where do I sign up?
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Where do I sign up?
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In other words, "We were able to secure a bunch of concessions that are either already law or will be meaningless in the hands of the GOP".
Fuck the old guard of the Democratic Party. Put them out of work asap.
Fuck the old guard of the Democratic Party. Put them out of work asap.
Jesus Christ, @kaine.senate.gov, getting a pinky promise to hold one single vote on ACA funding is not "a path toward fixing the health care mess" anymore than a lottery ticket is a "path toward fixing my personal finances"
“Um well there aren’t even any Senate Dem Press releases saying they support the deal”
Sen Tim Kaine: Hold my beer
Sen Tim Kaine: Hold my beer
November 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
In other words, "We were able to secure a bunch of concessions that are either already law or will be meaningless in the hands of the GOP".
Fuck the old guard of the Democratic Party. Put them out of work asap.
Fuck the old guard of the Democratic Party. Put them out of work asap.
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Curious as to how much more you’ll pay if @democrats.senate.gov decide your health isn’t worth fighting for?
Check out this calculator tool that shows what your ACA premiums will look like if @schumer.senate.gov and the Dems cave:
www.kff.org/interactive/...
Check out this calculator tool that shows what your ACA premiums will look like if @schumer.senate.gov and the Dems cave:
www.kff.org/interactive/...
Calculator: ACA Enhanced Premium Tax Credit
The ACA’s enhanced premium tax credits are set to expire at the end of 2025. This calculator estimates how much out-of-pocket premiums would increase for families if Congress does not extend the credi...
www.kff.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Curious as to how much more you’ll pay if @democrats.senate.gov decide your health isn’t worth fighting for?
Check out this calculator tool that shows what your ACA premiums will look like if @schumer.senate.gov and the Dems cave:
www.kff.org/interactive/...
Check out this calculator tool that shows what your ACA premiums will look like if @schumer.senate.gov and the Dems cave:
www.kff.org/interactive/...
Love rugby concepts disrupting American football.
Gibbs, Laporta, and the Sun God demo why mauls are a thing.
Offloads are another: "pop pass"|"offload" + "rugby sevens" to see how open field offloads work.
Both very teachable at high school & up in one off season.
These break zone defense.
Gibbs, Laporta, and the Sun God demo why mauls are a thing.
Offloads are another: "pop pass"|"offload" + "rugby sevens" to see how open field offloads work.
Both very teachable at high school & up in one off season.
These break zone defense.
November 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Love rugby concepts disrupting American football.
Gibbs, Laporta, and the Sun God demo why mauls are a thing.
Offloads are another: "pop pass"|"offload" + "rugby sevens" to see how open field offloads work.
Both very teachable at high school & up in one off season.
These break zone defense.
Gibbs, Laporta, and the Sun God demo why mauls are a thing.
Offloads are another: "pop pass"|"offload" + "rugby sevens" to see how open field offloads work.
Both very teachable at high school & up in one off season.
These break zone defense.
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It's California Native Plant season! At Hahamongna nursery in #Pasadena shopping for this season's garden babies! Located down the street from JPL, they're open every Sat 9am-2pm.
#SGV #nativeplants
#SGV #nativeplants
November 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
It's California Native Plant season! At Hahamongna nursery in #Pasadena shopping for this season's garden babies! Located down the street from JPL, they're open every Sat 9am-2pm.
#SGV #nativeplants
#SGV #nativeplants
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Sandwich guy not guilty! 🎉
November 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Sandwich guy not guilty! 🎉