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November 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
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To a first approximation: all of them.
I have traveled to 12-20 US cities every year for 25 years and every time I revisit one I see new public spaces, businesses, revitalized streetscapes, etc. Lots of new pedestrian areas and parks. River walks. Bike paths. Festivals. Free concerts. Etc.
I have traveled to 12-20 US cities every year for 25 years and every time I revisit one I see new public spaces, businesses, revitalized streetscapes, etc. Lots of new pedestrian areas and parks. River walks. Bike paths. Festivals. Free concerts. Etc.
Which US city has improved the most over the past 15 years?
November 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
To a first approximation: all of them.
I have traveled to 12-20 US cities every year for 25 years and every time I revisit one I see new public spaces, businesses, revitalized streetscapes, etc. Lots of new pedestrian areas and parks. River walks. Bike paths. Festivals. Free concerts. Etc.
I have traveled to 12-20 US cities every year for 25 years and every time I revisit one I see new public spaces, businesses, revitalized streetscapes, etc. Lots of new pedestrian areas and parks. River walks. Bike paths. Festivals. Free concerts. Etc.
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There's a lot we have not visualized in a useful way.
One of the big ones is the SHIFT in govt employment from "people who cure cancer" and "people who make sure your Social Security comes on time" and "people who care for veterans" to "people who kidnap your neighbors."
One of the big ones is the SHIFT in govt employment from "people who cure cancer" and "people who make sure your Social Security comes on time" and "people who care for veterans" to "people who kidnap your neighbors."
The fascist's unemployment solution: hiring some people to terrorize and cage others
www.huffpost.com/entry/us-hir...
www.huffpost.com/entry/us-hir...
U.S. Hires 50,000 Federal Workers Under Trump, Boosting Immigration Roles
The bulk of the new hires, reported first by Reuters, work at Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
There's a lot we have not visualized in a useful way.
One of the big ones is the SHIFT in govt employment from "people who cure cancer" and "people who make sure your Social Security comes on time" and "people who care for veterans" to "people who kidnap your neighbors."
One of the big ones is the SHIFT in govt employment from "people who cure cancer" and "people who make sure your Social Security comes on time" and "people who care for veterans" to "people who kidnap your neighbors."
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That a Reagan judge would give up his lifetime appointment willingly because he feels a future GOP president has rendered that appointment meaningless in the midst of an authoritarian speedrun is quite remarkable:
November 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
That a Reagan judge would give up his lifetime appointment willingly because he feels a future GOP president has rendered that appointment meaningless in the midst of an authoritarian speedrun is quite remarkable:
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Seriously, for their own good, Dems who voted for this need to not be saying “we did a good thing, this is why.”
The line needs to be “we fought like hell to get healthcare back, but Donald Trump was willing to burn the country to the ground.”
The line needs to be “we fought like hell to get healthcare back, but Donald Trump was willing to burn the country to the ground.”
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Seriously, for their own good, Dems who voted for this need to not be saying “we did a good thing, this is why.”
The line needs to be “we fought like hell to get healthcare back, but Donald Trump was willing to burn the country to the ground.”
The line needs to be “we fought like hell to get healthcare back, but Donald Trump was willing to burn the country to the ground.”
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No, you have every right to run your own experiments, gather your own data and publish results that can be challenged through peer review. But just arguing about science is not science, it's just being an asshole.
November 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
No, you have every right to run your own experiments, gather your own data and publish results that can be challenged through peer review. But just arguing about science is not science, it's just being an asshole.
Guy with no training besides ‘I don’t think Tylenol is cool’ vibes stands outside science lab and wants to weigh in on the peer review.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Guy with no training besides ‘I don’t think Tylenol is cool’ vibes stands outside science lab and wants to weigh in on the peer review.
She’ll be big mad that quotes have left out that she said it’s grodie! And she isn’t defending it or whatever! But since she bookends this with 1. A confession of reasonable suspicion of crime, and 2. A nonsensical distinction between age 8 and age 15 as to what is fine for men to victimize.
First of all, a 15-year-old is not "barely legal." The age of consent in Florida is 18. So sexual behavior with a 15-year-old is rape.
Megyn Kelly is VILE trash for saying otherwise.
And Megyn Kelly is confessing to having insider information about what Jeffrey Epstein was up to but stayed silent.
Megyn Kelly is VILE trash for saying otherwise.
And Megyn Kelly is confessing to having insider information about what Jeffrey Epstein was up to but stayed silent.
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
She’ll be big mad that quotes have left out that she said it’s grodie! And she isn’t defending it or whatever! But since she bookends this with 1. A confession of reasonable suspicion of crime, and 2. A nonsensical distinction between age 8 and age 15 as to what is fine for men to victimize.
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Megyn Kelly is out here normalizing Epstein by arguing over what “type” of child he preferred. This is the GOP’s moral rot on full display — minimizing abuse, defending child molesters, and expecting America to swallow it. Absolutely not.
November 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Megyn Kelly is out here normalizing Epstein by arguing over what “type” of child he preferred. This is the GOP’s moral rot on full display — minimizing abuse, defending child molesters, and expecting America to swallow it. Absolutely not.
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Frog looked at Toad's calendar. The November page was still on top.
November 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Frog looked at Toad's calendar. The November page was still on top.
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Earlier in the year I drove 9600 miles to do Milky Way photography.
Between that, work, my health, and the terrors, I'm exhausted.
I promised myself no more trips over 100 miles from home for the year, unless critical for the union.
I broke that promise Saturday.
Worth it.
Final version. 🪶
Between that, work, my health, and the terrors, I'm exhausted.
I promised myself no more trips over 100 miles from home for the year, unless critical for the union.
I broke that promise Saturday.
Worth it.
Final version. 🪶
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Earlier in the year I drove 9600 miles to do Milky Way photography.
Between that, work, my health, and the terrors, I'm exhausted.
I promised myself no more trips over 100 miles from home for the year, unless critical for the union.
I broke that promise Saturday.
Worth it.
Final version. 🪶
Between that, work, my health, and the terrors, I'm exhausted.
I promised myself no more trips over 100 miles from home for the year, unless critical for the union.
I broke that promise Saturday.
Worth it.
Final version. 🪶
#birdoftheday #waderwednesday
Green heron, fishing in the algae. Those feet morphed effortlessly from claws to webs and back again. He was also really tiny for a heron?
Green heron, fishing in the algae. Those feet morphed effortlessly from claws to webs and back again. He was also really tiny for a heron?
November 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
#birdoftheday #waderwednesday
Green heron, fishing in the algae. Those feet morphed effortlessly from claws to webs and back again. He was also really tiny for a heron?
Green heron, fishing in the algae. Those feet morphed effortlessly from claws to webs and back again. He was also really tiny for a heron?
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IT GOT BETTER
📍Central MN
📍Central MN
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 AM
IT GOT BETTER
📍Central MN
📍Central MN
I think it’s really important to emphasize just what a terrible idea such a mortgage would be in real terms. Here’s for $350,000 at 6%
So yeah your house payment is $250 cheaper a month BUT your loan will end up costing you more than A MILLION DOLLARS.
So yeah your house payment is $250 cheaper a month BUT your loan will end up costing you more than A MILLION DOLLARS.
November 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I think it’s really important to emphasize just what a terrible idea such a mortgage would be in real terms. Here’s for $350,000 at 6%
So yeah your house payment is $250 cheaper a month BUT your loan will end up costing you more than A MILLION DOLLARS.
So yeah your house payment is $250 cheaper a month BUT your loan will end up costing you more than A MILLION DOLLARS.
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if you told 17 year old me how thoroughly, world-historically vindicated ICP would be within a couple decades...
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
if you told 17 year old me how thoroughly, world-historically vindicated ICP would be within a couple decades...
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Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.
He is newly elected and represents the proudly republican backwater between Charlotte to the southeast and Asheville (to the west) that is the N.C. 10th district. Bless his heart.
But you might be wondering why this dude seems so thirsty, so here’s context:
But you might be wondering why this dude seems so thirsty, so here’s context:
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
He is newly elected and represents the proudly republican backwater between Charlotte to the southeast and Asheville (to the west) that is the N.C. 10th district. Bless his heart.
But you might be wondering why this dude seems so thirsty, so here’s context:
But you might be wondering why this dude seems so thirsty, so here’s context:
IMO the rise of always-on nonsense and socials has not “leveled the playing field” so much as opened a platform for randos with agendas and no expertise. It’s a cool IDEA that information isn’t all being gatekept by the ‘Elite’ but damn has it turned the noise up, and we are all worse for it.
Why bother learning anything important when you can just go out there and make up whatever crazy nonsense you want?
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
IMO the rise of always-on nonsense and socials has not “leveled the playing field” so much as opened a platform for randos with agendas and no expertise. It’s a cool IDEA that information isn’t all being gatekept by the ‘Elite’ but damn has it turned the noise up, and we are all worse for it.
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If you don’t have a transit card on your phone with use in the last 2 years, you don’t get to talk about cities.
November 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
If you don’t have a transit card on your phone with use in the last 2 years, you don’t get to talk about cities.
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Don't stop searching for joy.
Track it down if you can.
Look in cluttered bookstores, historic theaters, haunted playgrounds, and misty moors.
Take joy out for tea, adventure, and gentle mischief across the land.
Track it down if you can.
Look in cluttered bookstores, historic theaters, haunted playgrounds, and misty moors.
Take joy out for tea, adventure, and gentle mischief across the land.
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Don't stop searching for joy.
Track it down if you can.
Look in cluttered bookstores, historic theaters, haunted playgrounds, and misty moors.
Take joy out for tea, adventure, and gentle mischief across the land.
Track it down if you can.
Look in cluttered bookstores, historic theaters, haunted playgrounds, and misty moors.
Take joy out for tea, adventure, and gentle mischief across the land.
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“I went around the corner to see if spring was there.”
“Did you find it?” asked Toad.
“No,” said Frog. “There was only an old worm asleep on a tree stump.”
“Did you find it?” asked Toad.
“No,” said Frog. “There was only an old worm asleep on a tree stump.”
November 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
“I went around the corner to see if spring was there.”
“Did you find it?” asked Toad.
“No,” said Frog. “There was only an old worm asleep on a tree stump.”
“Did you find it?” asked Toad.
“No,” said Frog. “There was only an old worm asleep on a tree stump.”
Speaking of recovery, DBT (dialectical as in dialogue) is a therapy that focuses on quality of life, including practical ways to interact with crazy you can’t fix. Dems keep pretending that there is a way back to normal from where we are. But the reality is THAT WILL NOT HAPPEN. So DBT says,
SO MUCH THIS.
Until the remaining Dems finally accept the reality that a lawless, corrupt, fascist regime is in control of the entire federal government, we'll never even be able to START putting together a way out.
Not to be flippant, but Step One of ANY recovery is admitting you have a problem.
Until the remaining Dems finally accept the reality that a lawless, corrupt, fascist regime is in control of the entire federal government, we'll never even be able to START putting together a way out.
Not to be flippant, but Step One of ANY recovery is admitting you have a problem.
This is the thing that drives me insane. Things aren't normal; this isn't politics as usual. And when you accurately describe everything this administration is doing, it's so lawless, radical, and authoritarian that *you* sound like a partisan extremist.
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Speaking of recovery, DBT (dialectical as in dialogue) is a therapy that focuses on quality of life, including practical ways to interact with crazy you can’t fix. Dems keep pretending that there is a way back to normal from where we are. But the reality is THAT WILL NOT HAPPEN. So DBT says,
Finally a measured take! Thank you for the nuance, Dems all along needed to feel out when the public opinion would turn. Any closer in to the holidays and Dems start catching heat. But election results speak loudly and it’s time to get back to work.
Simon Rosenberg is correct, as usual -- as a political matter -- Trump and the Republicans lost this shutdown badly, as they did the election.
And the cracks in the TrumpedGOP coalition are showing, and will only grow. It is Democrats' job to aid in turning those cracks into crevasses.
And the cracks in the TrumpedGOP coalition are showing, and will only grow. It is Democrats' job to aid in turning those cracks into crevasses.
Some thoughts on what comes next for Democrats....👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/ok-the-sen...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/ok-the-sen...
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Finally a measured take! Thank you for the nuance, Dems all along needed to feel out when the public opinion would turn. Any closer in to the holidays and Dems start catching heat. But election results speak loudly and it’s time to get back to work.
C. In life and in work.
There's only three kinds of writers out there... which one are you? 👀
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
C. In life and in work.