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I am an independent thinker impervious to religious or political dogma, guided solely by reason, evidence, and common sense. Well-read, open-minded, agnostic. https://medium.com/@moxymcmxlvii
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Daisy. She was 8 years old when she died in April, one of the two unvaccinated children lost in the measles outbreak that tore through West Texas.

#Trump #JFK #MAGA
Opinion | I Went to an Anti-Vaccine Conference. Medicine Is in Trouble.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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When faith is no longer necessary, identity becomes very important. The fewer people who actually follow Christianity, the more they might hold on to its cultural symbols as a way to mark tribal boundaries.

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#Trump #fascism #MAGA #Project2025
How Christian Is Christian Nationalism? A Meditation on the Post-Christian Faith
Donald Trump, whose relationship with Christianity was like his relationship with most of his wives: it was short-term, transactional, and…
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November 26, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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As long as most people are scared of being homeless, starving, or not being able to care for their loved ones, they’ll keep working, buying things, and keeping their voices down.

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#oligarchy #capitalism #slavery
The Oligarch’s Playground, America’s Capitalist Subjugation
In the United States, capitalism is less of an economic system than a clever regime run by an oligarchy that knows one simple rule. Keeping…
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November 23, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Slavery, a lasting testament to human creativity in the realm of subjugation, has endured throughout recorded history with the tenacity of an entrenched vice that resists eradication.

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#oligarchy #slavery #subjugation
The Elite Oligarchy Have Subjugated Humanity Throughout History
Slavery, a lasting testament to human creativity in the realm of subjugation, has endured throughout recorded history with the tenacity of…
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November 23, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Think of it like this: Trumpism is the culmination of a crooked scheme that began nearly a half-century ago, in which the rich and powerful looted our wealth and tore up the civic fabric of this nation

#Trump #fascism #MAGA #Project2025
'One big thieving cabal': Democrats warned to brace for a bigger threat than Trump
New Republic Deputy Editor Jason Linkins says Democrats must brace themselves for a much bigger enemy than Jeffrey Epstein if they want to truly show the public they are taking on U.S. corruption.“The...
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November 23, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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fascist ghoul Stephen Goebbels Miller, who sees every critic or court loss as “legal insurrection” and “domestic terrorist sedition

#Trump #fascism #authoritarian #ruleoflaw #strike #organize #resist #read #think #oligarchy #billionaires
We Go As We Please: What the Fuck Is Wrong With Y'all | Common Dreams
The American Gestapo's brutish, racist, unholy crusade rampages on. They've now left Chicago - trailing tear gas, court losses, manifest lies, the wrath of a people - to terrorize diverse blue Charlot...
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November 23, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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We want to blame someone or something. Vaccines are real things. Tylenol can be managed. You can get rid of gluten.
A Guided Tour Through the Spectacular Museum of Autism Bullshit
I’ve been doing my own cultural study by making a list of all the crazy things people think cause autism.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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That asshole who swerved across three lanes to remind me how unimportant I am? He’s not the only one.

We have climate control, antibiotics, and handheld devices that can give you wisdom in twelve different languages. But the way we all feel is like a hyperactive toddler
Everybody’s Angry at Everybody
Echo chambers chatter like monkeys. Everyone’s god is the only god and they are judge and executioner.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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I think I’ve spent a lot of my life believing what I can only call the craziest confidence trick ever: that life owed me something.

Not just anything, mind you. I always aimed high

I have to tell you the bad news, it definitely isn’t.

#mentalhealth #life #reality
Breaking News: Reality Continues Its Longstanding Policy of Not Giving a Shit About Anyone
Why the Universe Won’t Recognize How Awesome You Are
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November 15, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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When the familiar landmarks vanish and every turn leads into the unknown, it’s easy to see how people might feel adrift. That’s where we are now: not in the middle of a literal crisis, but an economic turning point that’s just as disorienting.

#Trump #MAGA #Project2025
Our Economic Order Is Dead, It’s Not The First Time Capitalism Has Transitioned
Is there anything more rattling than realizing the rules you’ve trusted for decades no longer apply?
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November 11, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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#Pulte approached #Trump last weekend with a 3x5 piece of posterboard that read "Great American Presidents," and showed a picture of #Roosevelt with the text "30-year mortgage" on the left, and a picture of Trump with the text "50-year mortgage" on the right.
'His days are numbered': Trump official blasted for 'publicly humiliating the president'
One high-ranking official in President Donald Trump's administration may soon be headed for the exits after a policy pitch went sideways. Politico reported Monday that Bill Pulte — who is the director...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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“The only silver lining about this completely pointless, cowardly, and tone-deaf cave is that it’ll accelerate the complete overhaul of the leadership—and god willing, direction—of the Democratic Party,”

#Democrats #Schumer #cowards
'Next Step Is Primaries': Calls for Schumer Ouster After Leading Shutdown Surrender | Common Dreams
The capitulation of Senate Democrats in ending the government shutdown without healthcare concessions has sparked outrage. Calls for new leadership and primary challenges are growing. The fight for a ...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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While just 31% of those surveyed said they would have voted for Mamdani—more than any other candidate—and the same share said they would vote for a candidate who identified as a “democratic socialist,” the policies he ran on garnered far more support.

#Mamdani
'Not Just NYC': Poll Shows Mamdani Economic Policies Popular Across US | Common Dreams
Amid outrage over Democrats caving in the government shutdown fight, polling shows the nationwide popularity of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's economic agenda.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Neoliberalism the flagship doctrine since the 1980s is fast unraveling before our eyes. What was once solid ground now feels like a maze of shifting policies, faltering markets, and aftershocks that hit our wallets instead of our neighborhoods.

#Trump #MAGA #Project2025
Our Economic Order Is Dead, It’s Not The First Time Capitalism Has Transitioned
Is there anything more rattling than realizing the rules you’ve trusted for decades no longer apply?
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November 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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“Heritage’s captain stays aboard sinking ship while crew jumps overboard, antisemitism task force ghosted them, and the right eats itself

#Trump #MAGA #Project2025
Opinion | Cruelty, Bigotry and Rage. What’s Not to Like?
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November 10, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Critically, it did not rule on the legality of the Trump administration’s efforts to resist payments, which ramped up over the last week after SNAP lapsed on payments for the first time in its 61-year history.

#Trump #fascism #MAGA #Project2025
Trump's war on the hungry continues with Supreme Court stay
The pause allows, for now, the president to keep using hungry Americans as a political weapon.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Republicans are refusing to negotiate,” Murphy (D-Conn.) said in a video, arguing that President Donald Trump and the GOP’s continued stonewalling is “further confirmation” that Republicans are uninterested in preventing disastrous premium increases

#Trump #MAGA
Republican stonewalling shows they are 'committed to raising your costs': insider
US Sen. Chris Murphy said Saturday that the GOP’s rejection of Democrats’ compromise proposal to extend enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits for a year in exchange for reopening the federal govern...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Supreme Court order allowed the Trump administration to continue withholding some funding for the nation’s largest anti-hunger program.

#Trump #MAGA #Project2025
Families in Limbo After Supreme Court Order Interrupts Food Stamp Payments
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November 9, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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#American #foreign #policy, conceived and executed almost entirely by men, has produced a catalog of catastrophes so comprehensive that one might begin to suspect that male anxiety about female intelligence operates in inverse proportion to actual competence.

#men #women
Male Anxiety and Intelligent Women
A Personal Observation on Gender Dynamics and Foreign Policy Chaos
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November 9, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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The current myth of how to age well has nothing to do with reality. We’ve been led to believe that getting to your 80s and 90s is some kind of prize, a big accomplishment that should be celebrated. Don’t believe it!

#aging #aarp #medicare #Trump #MAGA #Project2025
November 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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with a speed that would be comical if it weren’t so consequential, the American right has seized those very weapons and turned them against their architects with devastating precision.

#Trump #fascism #authoritarian #ruleoflaw #strike #organize #resist #read #oligarchy
The Irony of Revolutionary Inheritance: How the Left Built the Weapons of Its Own Destruction
I’ve spent the better part of a decade watching the American political landscape with the fascination of someone observing a train wreck in…
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November 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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I’m embarrassed to tell you how my country, the United States of America, works on the world stage. We’ve decided that the whole world is within our legal authority. Even the backyard. More so if you live near one of our competitors and have resources.

#war #military
The Disgraceful Hypocrisy of The United States of America’s Foreign Policy
I’m embarrassed to tell you how my country, the United States of America, works on the world stage. We’ve decided that the whole world is…
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November 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Say what? Are we to regard people like Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth and Kristi Noem as gods of the underworld? His formulation might have the virtue of sending readers to the dictionary to learn a word from Greek mythology,

#Trump #fascism #MAGA #Project2025
Trump regime isn't fascist, claims leading intellectual: It just looks that way - Salon.com
Mark Lilla claims MAGA isn't even conservative, let alone fascist. This kind of cowardice won't age well
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November 4, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Holding your breath for rock bottom? Adorable. These grifters have the innovation of despots combined with the consistency of toddlers—new lows are basically their product roadmap

#Trump #fascism #MAGA #Project2025
There is No Rock Bottom: The Trump Regime’s Depravity Will Continue to Shock the World Until it is Removed
Washington DC, 9 AM, November 3, 2025 “For anyone holding their breath,” someone wrote me recently, “waiting for this fascist Trump regime to hit rock
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November 4, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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" Legal journalist Chris Geidner posted the DOJ filing and the appointment while quipping that Bondi "dressed up as a lawyer on Halloween."

#trump #maga
'Making up new rules': Legal experts mock Trump DOJ over 'fatally flawed' move
On Monday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) submitted a filing in the cases of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James defending the appointment of interim U.S. Atto...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:10 AM