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Retired, tech enthusiast (usually), blue voter in a red state, 10 years past my Parkinson’s diagnosis, Healthcare before Wealthcare
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It might get me labeled as a Crazy Bluesky Radical, but I don’t think it’s great that our nuclear arsenal is at the disposal of a demented old man who’s just an exposed nerve of grievances and hatreds with absolutely no impulse control.
December 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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The DOJ has exactly 4 days to release the Epstein Files.

4 more days of relentless fuckery and mayhem before they violate the law or present us with useless, redacted garbage.
December 15, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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SCOOP: Elon Musk — who threatened to launch a third party and support challengers to Republican incumbents during his dispute with Trump — is now firmly back in the GOP's camp having begun funding Republican midterms campaigns.
Scoop: Elon Musk diving into 2026 midterms for the GOP
Musk recently cut big checks to help Republicans win congressional races next year.
www.axios.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Political Lede of the Year:

"Revenge, it turns out, is a dish best served with evidence."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
In Trump’s Justice Dept., Failing in Court Might Be Better Than Bucking the Boss
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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If the unredacted Epstein Files exonerated Donald J. Trump, we wouldn't still be waiting for them.
December 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.

I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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The Convicted FElon is not only hiding the Epstein files, & hiding the Jack Smith investigation files, but he is hiding the files from January 6, 2021.
This means that he guilty of crimes in all files.
youtu.be/cgcpggnmbxc?...
Trump Fighting To Hide Capitol Riot Files From The Public
YouTube video by Farron Balanced
youtu.be
December 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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theheadlinelab
What if Donald Trump's presidency was more than just political controversy—what if he was the Kremlin's greatest achievement? From praising Putin and undermining NATO to dismissing American intelligence, Trump's actions seem to align with Russian interests.
December 10, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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It’s important to remember that Laura Ingraham went to Dartmouth. She’s not as stupid as she sounds. She’s just a shameless liar.
December 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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however many trillions spent on developing Algorithms and hoovering up as much data as possible and amazon's recommendation algorithm still goes "oh you bought one window air conditioner? okay, do you want 15 more?"
December 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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December 6, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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If you see John Roberts in person, be sure to tell him he’s a worse Chief Justice than Roger Taney (pronounced “tawny”). That’s a nerd burn that will hit him where it counts.
December 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Trump calls human beings “vermin,” “garbage,” “diseases,” “poison,” and “animals.”

Then, when I rightfully point out that the same dehumanizing language has been used by fascist regimes to justify humanity’s worst atrocities—Republicans lose their minds.

Give me a break.
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Trump on Washington, DC: “We haven't had a murder in six months.”

This is not true.
November 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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This is very interesting (and yeah, I also had an initial “oh come on, that’s nuts” reaction to the first part of this article, but as I read on, I realized he was making some pretty compelling points)
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.

www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone.

Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.

Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Corruption at every level of government. Inconvenient truths are eradicated.
November 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Larry Summers to retire to spend more time with the family that he was doggedly trying to be unfaithful to
November 20, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Or just move them to a minimum security Club Fed and give them a puppy and yoga classes.
November 19, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Oh they don’t like the whistles? Hey everyone, they don’t like the whistles. If you use them it makes the armed goons sad.
Kristi Noem is mad that protesters are blowing whistles at ICE agents.
November 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Think about how much the press obsessed over Barack Obama’s “relationship” with former Weatherman Bill Ayers, a relationship that consisted of their serving on the same nonprofit board of directors for three years.
It's remarkable that the number of news analyses/pundit takes that the Democrats are too extreme--out of touch, too focused on divisive cultural issues, too beholden to progressive orthodoxy--far exceeds the articles on the Trump/GOP's connections to the far right. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Trump Defends Tucker Carlson After Nick Fuentes Interview
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM