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IT professional turned English teacher, from the PNW, moved to Kyiv Ukraine in 2023. Into: Art, TRPGs, rationalism, democracy, ПЕРЕМОГА! 🇺🇦🇬🇪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Another night in gorgeous #Kyiv
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These motherfuckers! PLEASE call your House representatives and demand they vote NO on this piece of shit legislation. Not only is there this part but it would also require senators to be notified if they’re being investigated. So they can destroy evidence. No fucking way.
Rich off our taxpayer money!!!!

This is robbery at its finest.

#GOPRobbingUsBlind
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Watch what they do!!!
🚀 NOTICE: Federal US website newly registered.
https://trumpaccounts.gov

Action taken by the Department of the Treasury at or around 2025-11-12 06:13:07.
trumpaccounts.gov
Federal US website registered. Content may not be visible yet.
trumpaccounts.gov
November 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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The legislation the House and Senate Republicans just voted on will have your tax dollars go to corrupt politicians conspiring to overturn an election. The corruption is staggering. Your healthcare costs, household expenses, & ability to make ends meet go up while Republicans enrich themselves.
November 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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"The lack is not in intelligence, which is in plentiful supply; rather, the scarce commodity is systematic training in critical thinking."

-Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Chuck Schumer needs to go!
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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As I said last night on MSNBC as the news broke that eight Senate Democrats were joining the GOP: This must be the end for Chuck Schumer as Senate Democratic leader.
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Something I don't think we're talking about enough is in addition to all else, Chuck Schumer is also actively lying to the American people that he's not behind the surrender and approves entirely of it, despite how obvious it is, down to him grinning leaving the meeting last night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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TikTok users: yo check it out Scorsese is reading Letterboxd reviews to his films, also can Mamdani run for president
Bluesky users: here’s a wall of text on why the constitution is important
Twitter users: grok is SA bad
November 8, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Alexander Smirnov, the ex–FBI informant who admitted to lying about the Biden-Burisma connection, has been released from prison just months into his six-year prison sentence. trib.al/W2wJSVD
FBI Informant Who Lied About the Bidens Covertly Released From Jail
Alexander Smirnov pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and was sentenced to six years in jail.
trib.al
November 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Very cool…😎

Supermoon setting over Earth’s horizon from the International Space Station, captured by Astronaut Kimiya Yui.👏💙👏
November 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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The most corrupt America Last President in history. Every day a new pardon worse than one the day before.
November 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Ron, you're a winner for this 😂
November 8, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Why are ICE agents being paid during the shutdown, but not air traffic controllers? 🤨
November 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.

The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
November 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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The Highly Qualified Director of the Kennedy Center everyone. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
November 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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When your top judicial body wants you to die because you are poor

apnews.com/article/snap...
Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments
The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Day 345 of uninterrupted protests in Georgia. Police are physically preventing protesters from blocking Rustaveli Avenue, so some of us are marching in nearby streets.
November 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Ultimately Nancy Pelosi’s legacy is that she just kinda forgot to mentor a single person and that’s why we have Hakeem Jeffries now
November 7, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Brother Warnock lays it plain.
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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On top of refusing to fully fund SNAP during the shutdown, the Trump regime has:

-Cut $1 billion from USDA programs supporting food banks
-Enacted tariffs that have caused food prices to rise
-Made the largest cut to SNAP in history
-Canceled the annual food security survey

Shameful.
November 6, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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About an hour after Ellis entered this injunction, a group of agents, including Bovino, drove away from a Southwest Side gas station where they were confronted by protestors, and fired a round of pepper balls at a sedan that pulled up alongside their vehicle, reports @chicagotribune.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:38 AM