Monte G 🎄
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See, this is the problem with these things. Daddy would have gotten us Uzis.
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Hey friends! Unfortunately I learned that my current gig will be ending right after Christmas. But in the spirit of turning these lemons into explosive lemons, I'm OPENING UP COMMISSIONS! Help me spread the word and make some cool art for people.✌️
A couple of ink and watercolor commissions on a quiet Sunday evening. Want one of your own? Let me know!
December 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Hey friends! Unfortunately I learned that my current gig will be ending right after Christmas. But in the spirit of turning these lemons into explosive lemons, I'm OPENING UP COMMISSIONS! Help me spread the word and make some cool art for people.✌️
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I was hasty and careless. The whole concept of self-deportation is bullshit, and I shouldn't have used the phrase.
This ad is an act of white supremacy, a targeted threat against Latino people who are living and working and paying taxes in the US, documented or otherwise, made possible by Google.
This ad is an act of white supremacy, a targeted threat against Latino people who are living and working and paying taxes in the US, documented or otherwise, made possible by Google.
December 1, 2025 at 7:44 AM
I was hasty and careless. The whole concept of self-deportation is bullshit, and I shouldn't have used the phrase.
This ad is an act of white supremacy, a targeted threat against Latino people who are living and working and paying taxes in the US, documented or otherwise, made possible by Google.
This ad is an act of white supremacy, a targeted threat against Latino people who are living and working and paying taxes in the US, documented or otherwise, made possible by Google.
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Listening to Mexican folk music on Youtube and they're running this horrible ad urging people to self-deport.
Fuck you Kristi Noem, and fuck you Google for taking her money.
Fuck you Kristi Noem, and fuck you Google for taking her money.
December 1, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Listening to Mexican folk music on Youtube and they're running this horrible ad urging people to self-deport.
Fuck you Kristi Noem, and fuck you Google for taking her money.
Fuck you Kristi Noem, and fuck you Google for taking her money.
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Since the Feds seem uninterested in cracking down on these criminals, I guess it's up to us.
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Since the Feds seem uninterested in cracking down on these criminals, I guess it's up to us.
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President Hernandez was responsible for smuggling 500 TONS of cocaine into the United States! He was the top dog; the Pablo Escobar figure! He wasn’t just “selling drugs in that country.”
Reporter: You have made so clear how you want to keep drugs out of the US—
Trump: Right
Reporter: Can you explain why you would pardon a notorious drug trafficker?
Trump: If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president
Trump: Right
Reporter: Can you explain why you would pardon a notorious drug trafficker?
Trump: If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president
December 1, 2025 at 1:02 AM
President Hernandez was responsible for smuggling 500 TONS of cocaine into the United States! He was the top dog; the Pablo Escobar figure! He wasn’t just “selling drugs in that country.”
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James Earl Jones might be the one here. Everything from Dr. Strangelove, Hunt for Red October, and Star Wars to The Sandlot, Field of Dreams, and Lion King.
This is a Bill Simmons game, but you’re stranded on a desert island. You can only have one actor’s filmography. You get it all, including cameos. But just the one performer.
I’m taking Cate Blanchett: Talented Mr. Ripley, LOTR, Life Aquatic, Black Bag, Tár, Ponyo, Hot Fuzz, Eyes Wide Shut, Thor
I’m taking Cate Blanchett: Talented Mr. Ripley, LOTR, Life Aquatic, Black Bag, Tár, Ponyo, Hot Fuzz, Eyes Wide Shut, Thor
December 1, 2025 at 5:31 AM
James Earl Jones might be the one here. Everything from Dr. Strangelove, Hunt for Red October, and Star Wars to The Sandlot, Field of Dreams, and Lion King.
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I'm really glad to see someone like Kelly finally saying this. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I'm really glad to see someone like Kelly finally saying this. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
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Condolences to the students at OU who *were* working hard, doing the course work and earning good grades long before the administration there decreed that you only need to say "as the Bible teaches" and be done with it.
I'm sorry your university hates you and hope you can transfer somewhere good.
I'm sorry your university hates you and hope you can transfer somewhere good.
If I was working at OU, I would just start handing out 100's to every student and stop writing comments.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Condolences to the students at OU who *were* working hard, doing the course work and earning good grades long before the administration there decreed that you only need to say "as the Bible teaches" and be done with it.
I'm sorry your university hates you and hope you can transfer somewhere good.
I'm sorry your university hates you and hope you can transfer somewhere good.
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'Tis the season once again!
Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
December 1, 2025 at 3:58 AM
'Tis the season once again!
Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."
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conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
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Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.
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(There's no chance he actually releases the results of his MRI, obviously.)
December 1, 2025 at 2:18 AM
(There's no chance he actually releases the results of his MRI, obviously.)
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A+ headline work from the AP apnews.com/article/dona...
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
A+ headline work from the AP apnews.com/article/dona...
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It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
SOURCES: Michigan State is firing head coach Jonathan Smith, @theathletic.com has learned.
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
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He brags about it being funded by private donations, as if that were not part of the actual problem or the criticism.
“It is something that has been needed and desired at the White House for over 150 years, but something which no other President was equipped to do…”
December 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
He brags about it being funded by private donations, as if that were not part of the actual problem or the criticism.
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The first strike was also murder. You can’t just up and kill civilians on the high seas and then claim you were at war with them.
Reporter: If there were a second strike that killed wounded people, would that be legal?
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
November 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The first strike was also murder. You can’t just up and kill civilians on the high seas and then claim you were at war with them.
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The DoD law of war manual explicitly states that firing on shipwrecked people is not only an illegal order but something every Navy personnel knows is illegal. It is the example of an order that should not be complied with. No ifs, ands, or buts.
It dovetailed with the freakout over the unlawful orders video, but also it is just qualitatively worse. It's absolutely a crime under all circumstances, even against a real enemy in a real war. And that has deep historical roots as *the* most notorious clear-cut war crime you can commit at sea.
Does anyone have a robust theory as to why the recent reporting on follow on strikes has galvanized this response and not you know the murders they were in the first order?
December 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The DoD law of war manual explicitly states that firing on shipwrecked people is not only an illegal order but something every Navy personnel knows is illegal. It is the example of an order that should not be complied with. No ifs, ands, or buts.
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Normal and great
> Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your RCS and SMS texts are no longer private.
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
> Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your RCS and SMS texts are no longer private.
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer
Warning — what happens on your Android phone, doesn’t stay on your Android phone.
www.forbes.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Normal and great
> Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your RCS and SMS texts are no longer private.
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
> Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your RCS and SMS texts are no longer private.
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
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By Dan Hollaway’s own standards, it should be acceptable to let all the air out of his tires and then drone strike him while he’s waiting for AAA
Pete Hegseth will face prosecution for real war crimes, not imagined ones, so there's no problem.
And come on, no one believes a podcaster is going to murder military police and martial court judges over one douchebag that's no longer in office.
And come on, no one believes a podcaster is going to murder military police and martial court judges over one douchebag that's no longer in office.
November 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
By Dan Hollaway’s own standards, it should be acceptable to let all the air out of his tires and then drone strike him while he’s waiting for AAA
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Thread, on why we need specific (and realistic) goals for the Second Reconstruction.
And I think it doesn’t just motivate those who want to resist, but it silences the preemptive self-surrendering doomers, whose entire stock-in-trade is to equate their lack of vision w actual helplessness.
And I think it doesn’t just motivate those who want to resist, but it silences the preemptive self-surrendering doomers, whose entire stock-in-trade is to equate their lack of vision w actual helplessness.
The weakness of Democratic (and lowercase-d democratic) rhetoric right now isn't, in general, that it lacks "we'll fight!" They say that a lot. It feels like insipid weak tea because it's so rarely followed up with specific goals and methods, what you intend to actually do in the face of the crisis.
November 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Thread, on why we need specific (and realistic) goals for the Second Reconstruction.
And I think it doesn’t just motivate those who want to resist, but it silences the preemptive self-surrendering doomers, whose entire stock-in-trade is to equate their lack of vision w actual helplessness.
And I think it doesn’t just motivate those who want to resist, but it silences the preemptive self-surrendering doomers, whose entire stock-in-trade is to equate their lack of vision w actual helplessness.
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Reporter: “You have made so clear how you want to keep drugs out of the US …”
Trump: “Right.”
Reporter: “Can you explain why you would pardon a notorious drug trafficker?”
Trump: “Right.”
Reporter: “Can you explain why you would pardon a notorious drug trafficker?”
November 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Reporter: “You have made so clear how you want to keep drugs out of the US …”
Trump: “Right.”
Reporter: “Can you explain why you would pardon a notorious drug trafficker?”
Trump: “Right.”
Reporter: “Can you explain why you would pardon a notorious drug trafficker?”
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She should just skip the formalities and drop out to get on the conservative grifter tour because that’s clearly the goal here
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
She should just skip the formalities and drop out to get on the conservative grifter tour because that’s clearly the goal here
Strong floor, no ceiling
November 30, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Strong floor, no ceiling
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This comes to mind because rhetoric about determination to fight can, on its own, feel hollow and unpersuasive, more like desperation. It has to come with some explanation of a plan to really win. Including that you respect people's intelligence enough to treat them as able to follow your reasoning.
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This comes to mind because rhetoric about determination to fight can, on its own, feel hollow and unpersuasive, more like desperation. It has to come with some explanation of a plan to really win. Including that you respect people's intelligence enough to treat them as able to follow your reasoning.