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I use this to scream into the void. Apologies.
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When the definitive history of our time is written, the last words in the book will be, “White Americans determined that they would rather end democracy and endure tyranny than risk being governed by another black man.”
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Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover.
Scientists capture the crackling sounds of what they believe is lightning on Mars
Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover.
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover.
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There is no demonstrable difference in crime before and after the Guard came to the District. They were made props with big, fat targets on their backs.
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
There is no demonstrable difference in crime before and after the Guard came to the District. They were made props with big, fat targets on their backs.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Two National Guard members have been shot in Washington, D.C., and their condition isn't known, AP source says.
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two National Guard members have been shot in Washington, D.C., and their condition isn't known, AP source says.
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Sue to invalidate the action because it was done because of terrorist threats of violence. Cite the guarantee clause.
It can't be constitutional for the president to coerce state legislative action by threatening to murder state legislators.
It can't be constitutional for the president to coerce state legislative action by threatening to murder state legislators.
“I’d rather my house not get firebombed.” Is that any way to set redistricting policy? [Russell Berman, The Atlantic]
The Fear Taking Hold Among Indiana Republicans
“I’d rather my house not get firebombed.”
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Sue to invalidate the action because it was done because of terrorist threats of violence. Cite the guarantee clause.
It can't be constitutional for the president to coerce state legislative action by threatening to murder state legislators.
It can't be constitutional for the president to coerce state legislative action by threatening to murder state legislators.
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I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.
It would appear death threats from the President’s supporters work.
Indiana Republicans reversed course and said they would vote on the new congressional map that President Trump has sought.
Indiana Lawmakers Are Poised to Vote on Redistricting After All
Republican leaders in the legislature backtracked and said they would vote on a new congressional map that President Trump wants, though support remained uncertain.
nyti.ms
November 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
It would appear death threats from the President’s supporters work.
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This is why Democrats need to actually be proactive instead of reactive on redistricting. These guys always balk or lie. Florida will eventually gerrymander AGAIN too. Every statewide democrat that isn't gerrymandering should be targeted with primaries, it's the number 1 most important issue.
Indiana Republicans reversed course and said they would vote on the new congressional map that President Trump has sought.
Indiana Lawmakers Are Poised to Vote on Redistricting After All
Republican leaders in the legislature backtracked and said they would vote on a new congressional map that President Trump wants, though support remained uncertain.
nyti.ms
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 AM
This is why Democrats need to actually be proactive instead of reactive on redistricting. These guys always balk or lie. Florida will eventually gerrymander AGAIN too. Every statewide democrat that isn't gerrymandering should be targeted with primaries, it's the number 1 most important issue.
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Do you ever think how bleak things are in the UK that our best head of government since the millennium was Obama and theirs was Gordon Brown? And that our second best was Biden and theirs was Theresa fucking May?
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Do you ever think how bleak things are in the UK that our best head of government since the millennium was Obama and theirs was Gordon Brown? And that our second best was Biden and theirs was Theresa fucking May?
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47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.
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This is how I learned Bill Richardson is dead.
November 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
This is how I learned Bill Richardson is dead.
What in God’s name is Starmer doing over there??
The UK has gone from "We need to enshrine the right to jury trial in a British Bill of Rights" to "We need to abolish jury trial" in the space of about 3 years.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
What in God’s name is Starmer doing over there??
My home state never surprises me and also always disappoints me.
Trump’s approval collapses nationwide, turning several deep-red states negative — Economist tracker
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
My home state never surprises me and also always disappoints me.
Joking about yourself requires both the ability to laugh about yourself (something Trump is incapable of doing) and punching up rather than down (something his Admin would rather die than do). It’s supposed to be funny and comes across as menacing and tone-deaf.
Trump: "Instead of pardons, some of my more enthusiastic staffers were already drafting the paperwork to ship Gobble and Waddle straight to the Terrorist Confinement Center in El Salvador."
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Joking about yourself requires both the ability to laugh about yourself (something Trump is incapable of doing) and punching up rather than down (something his Admin would rather die than do). It’s supposed to be funny and comes across as menacing and tone-deaf.
I am fast approaching middle age and I have never once had green bean casserole at a single Thanksgiving. Up until recently I thought it was fake, like saying you feel like a million bucks.
with charity and goodwill, i must here part ways with rolls.
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I am fast approaching middle age and I have never once had green bean casserole at a single Thanksgiving. Up until recently I thought it was fake, like saying you feel like a million bucks.
I maintain TDS is real, but it’s the Republicans that have it- they bent their principles, beliefs, religion and integrity because they do not have the emotional maturity to accept losing even once. They have to be right, no matter the damage. They sold their souls.
Illegal orders talk is “rigged election” garbage all over again. A universally agreed on principle is no longer universally agreed upon because a spoiled idiot and his handlers had their fee fees hurt and half the country adopts a new viewpoint like a bunch of trained seals being told when to clap.
November 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I maintain TDS is real, but it’s the Republicans that have it- they bent their principles, beliefs, religion and integrity because they do not have the emotional maturity to accept losing even once. They have to be right, no matter the damage. They sold their souls.
Illegal orders talk is “rigged election” garbage all over again. A universally agreed on principle is no longer universally agreed upon because a spoiled idiot and his handlers had their fee fees hurt and half the country adopts a new viewpoint like a bunch of trained seals being told when to clap.
November 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Illegal orders talk is “rigged election” garbage all over again. A universally agreed on principle is no longer universally agreed upon because a spoiled idiot and his handlers had their fee fees hurt and half the country adopts a new viewpoint like a bunch of trained seals being told when to clap.
Wanted to teach at college but I hated college. Wanted to work for the government but was worried about my Mormon “testimony.”
Became a corporate trainer who is now a gay exmormon. Testimonies are overrated anyway.
Became a corporate trainer who is now a gay exmormon. Testimonies are overrated anyway.
November 23, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Wanted to teach at college but I hated college. Wanted to work for the government but was worried about my Mormon “testimony.”
Became a corporate trainer who is now a gay exmormon. Testimonies are overrated anyway.
Became a corporate trainer who is now a gay exmormon. Testimonies are overrated anyway.
Quiet, piggy.
November 23, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Quiet, piggy.
🎶Ra-ra, ah-ah-ah
Roma-, roma-ma-
Gaga, ooh, la-la
Want your bad romance🎶
Roma-, roma-ma-
Gaga, ooh, la-la
Want your bad romance🎶
November 23, 2025 at 3:34 AM
🎶Ra-ra, ah-ah-ah
Roma-, roma-ma-
Gaga, ooh, la-la
Want your bad romance🎶
Roma-, roma-ma-
Gaga, ooh, la-la
Want your bad romance🎶
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everyone's talking about how bright and charming zohran must be, which is true, but then you remember the spider-brained cryptkeepers trump's surrounded himself with since '15 and realize a single smile from mamdani must have hit like barbecue spare ribs down the gullet of a 12th century peasant.
November 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
everyone's talking about how bright and charming zohran must be, which is true, but then you remember the spider-brained cryptkeepers trump's surrounded himself with since '15 and realize a single smile from mamdani must have hit like barbecue spare ribs down the gullet of a 12th century peasant.
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the message from dems should start becoming "the earlier you speak up, the more likely it'll be that you won't need a warden's approval to see your children graduate from college"
November 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
the message from dems should start becoming "the earlier you speak up, the more likely it'll be that you won't need a warden's approval to see your children graduate from college"
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Greene is lying low for ‘28.
November 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Greene is lying low for ‘28.
What’s Marge’s play?
November 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
What’s Marge’s play?