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Give all US Territories Statehood. 🇺🇦
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Auerspergian-bushido-liberal.

manus haec inimica tyrannis ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem

“True Strength lies in Right’; save this, all is transitory” - Klemens von Metternich
Pinned
“May hosts of heroes cluster
That scorn to wear a chain.
And blast the venal sycophants
Who dare our rights betray;
Assert yourselves, yourselves, yourselves
For brave America,”
“No pie-eating people can be permanently vanquished”
People will just say a thing on this site. "Apple pie is bad." "Key lime pie is bad." Presumably they're allowed to drive, or even have children. Makes you think.
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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People will just say a thing on this site. "Apple pie is bad." "Key lime pie is bad." Presumably they're allowed to drive, or even have children. Makes you think.
November 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
"For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury"
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
“In our own glad and fortunate country the seasons are known by their respective dominant pies—for each there is an appropriate pie, with apple pie for all the year 'round.“
Apple pie is bad. This is not really debatable. So is key lime pie, while we’re on the topic. Pecan pie is the 🐐 tho.
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Trump take six frigates.
Going to wait for @gigansprogress.bsky.social to reference pee dee eff on what this means, but it sounds bad for the Navy so I'll give it a provisional "el oh el".

*US NAVY CURTAILS FRIGATE PROGRAM TO TWO VESSELS FROM SIX
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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"only MDs are allowed to go by doctor" discourse is negatively polarizing me into being one of those "actually they STOLE the title from academics cranks"
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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confusing the democratic establishment for cable news bookers looking to fill a talking head time slot

a classic blunder
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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There is a really bad habit on the left of middle class people trying to dress their concerns up as the views of the impoverished and down trodden, and this basically formalizes it
Man, gotta love some Wall Street guy who decides It’s Time To Care About Poverty and uses vibe math to recalculate the poverty line, as… $136,500

Extreme “it’s one banana, Michael” energy
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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also, frankly, RFK's personal story is way less important than the fact that he is going to kill many, many people.
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
#Finland will begin to #Russia - proof its rail network, integrate with EU train infrastructure.

The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).

www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
On one hand, fuck the NYT. OTOH, oh god no.
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Much of the South supported the Confederacy, but that only accentuates the heroism of those who remained loyal, despite their environment. A narrative of the “true” South being the heirs of the loyalists, not the Confederates, is exceptionally powerful at damaging the lost cause.
November 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Did the DOJ's demand for technology companies to remove immigration tracking apps come with implicit threats? EFF is suing to find out. www.eff.org/press/relea...
EFF Demands Answers About ICE-Spotting App Takedowns
SAN FRANCISCO – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the departments of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS) today to uncover information about the federal government demanding that
www.eff.org
November 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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the more you read about this stuff, the more that Foucault's point about the exaggeration of Victorian repression rings true. We want to imagine the past as being more prudish than it really is because it makes us feel more free than we really are
November 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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"No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb."
Russia flat out rejects Trump's 28-point peace plan: "Even in a reduced military and territorial form, Ukraine would remain a significant danger, requiring us to keep our forces on the western borders."
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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its so funny when theres so much discourse internally about how the United States is like the world's policeman/piggybank, then you actually check with the rest of the world and its "please police me daddy"
people predicting a "post-American world" really over their skis
france defense chief: "we do not have that dawg in us 😔"

all these french politicians: "that's right! no dawg!"

www.france24.com/en/france/20...
November 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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people are reading "catch-and-kill" in the journalistic sense but she was probably just finding raccoons for him to eat
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜

🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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bruh, just vocally recommit to diversity and queer inclusion, it's not that complicated
Target makes bold changes to keep customers from fleeing stores
November 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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The USPTO wants new rules that would slam the door on inter partes review—the only affordable way the public can fight junk patents.
The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed new rules that would effectively end the public’s ability to challenge improperly granted patents at the Patent Office itself. We need EFF sup...
www.eff.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Mamdani could save the country by just staying at the White House, infiltrate the administration and become a scheming Vizier (laudatory) to oppose the work of all the other scheming Viziers (derogatory).
November 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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foreign countries don't need to make concessions to Trump, just deploy a handsome guy in a suit who smiles a lot and he's putty.
November 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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"last person to talk to him" theory of policy development is looking like an absolute lock
Q: would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani administration ?

TRUMP: I would. I really would.
November 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM