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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
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.
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My Unitarian Church in Rockford IL has the hugest BLM sign, got vandalized repeatedly until they made it a strong permanent structure. Unitarians dont play.
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A middle finger to erasure.

More of this, please. Now do Black Lives Matter!
Petty.
President Trump declares trade negotiations with Canada “are hereby terminated” because the Canadians “fraudulently used an advertisement” featuring former president Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs.
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THOSE BISCUITS MUST BE KNEADED
EVEN IF YOUR MOOD IS HEATED

CASE CLOSE
When you're making biscuits but you're still kind of mad about something
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Trump is furious because Canada went over his head and just made their case with Americans directly.

It’s what everyone should do.
Donald Trump just threw a late-night tantrum over an advertisement created by the Canadian province of Ontario, which featured Ronald Reagan’s REAL words expressing his dislike of tariffs. Trump says that, as a result, all trade negotiations with Canada are “HEREBY TERMINATED.”
If Joffrey Baratheon grew up to be an American president, this is pretty much what it would look like.
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There seems to be a common theme with the people Trump refers to as “Low IQ.”
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A man was arrested for playing Darth Vader's theme music, "The Imperial March," behind National Guard troops walking through Logan Circle.

Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I've heard it said that the Mob only makes money on unfinished projects. If he is getting money a cut, finished doesn't matter.

I'm just speculating.
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Absolutely no one spends $350 million on a remodel to a house they plan on leaving in three years. No one!!!
Fools! 😆

"Daniel Sasse, an attorney for Kluwe, said Becker submitted legal briefs citing “three cases that didn’t exist at all,” indicating Becker did not check the work produced by the artificial intelligence at all. Sasse counted 22 examples of incorrect citations to legal precedence."
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If Emanuel thinks that we will forget LaQuan McDonald, he has another thing coming.
Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Thursday a decision on whether to pursue the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination comes down to whether he thinks he can meet “both the challenge and the promise of tomorrow” and execute on it.
Rahm Emanuel points to record, trust with Republicans as he considers presidential bid
Former Chicago mayor and Japan ambassador Rahm Emanuel said at a City Club of Chicago luncheon he needs to have something unique to say and know he can execute on it to run for president.
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