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Pete Normal
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Proletarian therapist. Aging punk. Lover of hoops. Harsher of mellows.

Making sounds with @burrowmusic.bsky.social
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Want to hear how I landed on the enemies list of the most prominent White supremacist in America when I was 14? Interested in how the stabbing of a Portland punk legend in Corvallis sparked a successful Anti-racist organizing campaign? Hit that link below.
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A Stabbing at the Peacock
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“According to the OHA, there have been 1,475 reported cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, breaking the state’s previous record set in 1950, which was 1,420.”
Whooping cough cases spike in Oregon, breaking 1950 record
Oregon has had a record-breaking number of pertussis cases in 2025 as of Wednesday, according to the state health authority.
www.kptv.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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ICE being evil enough they start angering famously racist police departments was really not a turn I was expecting
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara to US citizen detained by ICE: "I apologize that this happened to you in my city with people wearing vests that say 'police.' That's embarrassing."
December 11, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Me meeting Portugal The Man:
"So which one of you is Portugal?"
December 11, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Trump: "We have a dead head Fed hair"
December 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Breaking News: President Trump said the U.S. seized a tanker off Venezuela’s coast, amid his pressure campaign against the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro.
U.S. Seizes Oil Tanker Off Venezuelan Coast, Trump Says
The seizure comes as the United States builds up its forces in the Caribbean as part of a pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro, the leader of Venezuela.
nyti.ms
December 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
You guys, how cool would it be if Tisse and Jrue came back for that Pels game on Thursday?
Tiago Splitter says Jrue Holiday is “getting better” and participated in some non-contact drills in practice today but hasn’t been fully cleared yet. Matisse Thybulle is also doing some shooting and ballhandling work but not full contact yet.
December 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"

Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
You guys, how cool would it be if Tisse and Jrue came back for that Pels game on Thursday?
Tiago Splitter says Jrue Holiday is “getting better” and participated in some non-contact drills in practice today but hasn’t been fully cleared yet. Matisse Thybulle is also doing some shooting and ballhandling work but not full contact yet.
December 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Singing is underrated. I think we should all sing more.
December 8, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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December 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM
There's part of me that kind of feels for Paul Stanley. From the stories I've heard, he doesn't work hard to keep his sexual orientation a secret, but has never officially come out, presumably due to fear of what that would do to his income. Seems like that would eat at your soul after a while.
Pictured (L-R): Sylvester Stallone, apparently stung by an entire beehive; Paul Stanley, revealing that the KISS makeup was load bearing; and Donald Trump, recently poisoned by the Joker
December 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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"Trump has said that he was “98% involved” in the selection of this year’s slate of honorees: Sylvester Stallone, George Strait, Gloria Gaynor, KISS and Michael Crawford."
Trump decided to make himself the host of tonight's Kennedy Center Honors so if you do decide to tune in prepare yourself for a night of him rehashing the 2020 election, attacking Democratic leaders and lying about all of his great accomplishments since January 2025.
deadline.com/2025/12/trum...
Trump Makes Prediction About Hosting Kennedy Center Honors: “If I Can’t Beat Out Jimmy Kimmel In Terms Of Talent, Then I Don’t Think I Should Be President”
The president said that he will do better than Jimmy Kimmel
deadline.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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(Gene Simmons wipes away a single tear as a children's choir delivers a haunting rendition of "Love Gun")
December 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Can't believe our tax dollars are going to be spent settling the upcoming exorbitant defamation suit with Sabrina Carpenter, but maybe this is just how public arts funding is going to work now.
Sabrina Carpenter ratioed the White House after it used her song in an ICE video.

The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
December 6, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Holy shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I do think it’s important we credit this woman for providing hope to 60-something philanderers across this great nation.
December 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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there are of course many examples of political constituencies that have in fact killed scores of children (en route to some other evil goal), but I can't offhand think of any historical examples of a political constituency organized for that specific purpose
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Ok people like when I talk about my job, modern logistics work for food manufacturing,

And here’s a fun one: there’s already a shortage of truck drivers and it’s about to get very bad, this will lead to a lot more inflation

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
December 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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This mockery of a cherished ideal occurring less than 24 hours after US lawmakers publicly detailed US war crimes says everything you need to know about both FIFA and the United States government.
this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Just a reminder again that Gavin Newsom isn’t the answer.
Gov. @gavinnewsom says he disagrees with Mayor @zohrankmamdani about the need for a wealth tax on billionaires, which he is “adamantly against” - says Dems are a “big tent party” with both views.

More on the CA proposal: www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
December 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
My employer sent out an email this morning encouraging us to start using AI to write our progress notes and treatment plans. It really is time for me to go into private practice.
December 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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I swear maybe once a decade in public, and this is the moment. This fucking racist and all the gibbering racists nodding along behind him are the ruination of our country. Our fucking job for the next fucking year is to fucking destroy them in the next election. Fuck them.
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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“just do everything the legal way and there will be no problem!!!1!!!1!!-!!-!!”

About that…
South Floridians from Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela expecting to become U.S. citizens this week learned instead that their naturalization ceremonies had been canceled after the Trump administration issued a sweeping directive aimed at halting immigration from so-called high-risk countries.
South Florida immigrants on cusp of citizenship told to wait as DHS changes policy
The cancellations, confirmed by multiple immigration attorneys, came after the Trump administration paused immigration from 19 nations and froze all asylum claims.
www.miamiherald.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:51 AM