Susan of Texas
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Rich people kill you for money.
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IIRC there were rumblings that one reason behind Trump's angling wrt Greenland and bluster toward Canada is that one of the two main Arctic shipping routes, the Northern Sea Route), is entirely within Russian territory giving them de facto control over Arctic waters (Canada controls the other).
If I'm being really really real, now that the US has shown that Europe is on its own, I would be worried af if I were Canada. That is a lot of land and natural resources and not a lot of people. Exactly the sort of situation that attracts imperialist countries looking for a conquest.
December 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
IIRC there were rumblings that one reason behind Trump's angling wrt Greenland and bluster toward Canada is that one of the two main Arctic shipping routes, the Northern Sea Route), is entirely within Russian territory giving them de facto control over Arctic waters (Canada controls the other).
If the right wont let you vote, everyone finds out you have no power, so why should they re-elect you? But if you lose the vote, that just means that the left didn’t vote hard enough to re-elect more centrists.
The Right: Let's invade Venezuela.
The Left: Don't invade Venezuela.
The Center: Don't invade Venezuela...without our permission.
Someday someone will have to explain to me like I'm 5 why the moderate position is "its okay to do a bad thing if you make sure to include us too."
The Left: Don't invade Venezuela.
The Center: Don't invade Venezuela...without our permission.
Someday someone will have to explain to me like I'm 5 why the moderate position is "its okay to do a bad thing if you make sure to include us too."
December 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
If the right wont let you vote, everyone finds out you have no power, so why should they re-elect you? But if you lose the vote, that just means that the left didn’t vote hard enough to re-elect more centrists.
Every year I become increasingly grateful that Sister Phyllis forced us to develop good handwriting.
This was the official objection, from Maxwell Rice, a former Republican candidate for #IL09, who filed objections to several candidates this cycle
The hearing was this morning at 9 a.m.
The hearing was this morning at 9 a.m.
December 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Every year I become increasingly grateful that Sister Phyllis forced us to develop good handwriting.
Authoritarian parenting is a blight upon the world. It is the vehicle by which dysfunction is passed down from one generation to the next.
and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you
December 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Authoritarian parenting is a blight upon the world. It is the vehicle by which dysfunction is passed down from one generation to the next.
Christ. We are the Nazis now.
This is far beyond 'NATO as we've known it is done.'
"The Trump administration had “a clear and consistent vision for Europe: one that prioritises US-Russia ties and seeks to divide and conquer the continent, with much of the dirty work carried out by nationalist, far-right European forces.”
"The Trump administration had “a clear and consistent vision for Europe: one that prioritises US-Russia ties and seeks to divide and conquer the continent, with much of the dirty work carried out by nationalist, far-right European forces.”
December 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Christ. We are the Nazis now.
Somebody who takes his kids to swim in shit doesn’t get to tell women how to raise their kids.
"...the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
Good heavens, how does he manage to even make nursing sound creepy?
Good heavens, how does he manage to even make nursing sound creepy?
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Somebody who takes his kids to swim in shit doesn’t get to tell women how to raise their kids.
Such Good Germans.
Any interview with Trump that does not confront him on his authoritarianism and his derangment is an abdication. Here's what I wrote about the last one: presswatchers.org/2025/11/cbss...
CBS’s interview with Donald Trump was an abdication | Press Watch
The elephant in the room is that he lies all the time
presswatchers.org
December 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Such Good Germans.
That miserable fucker is making the United States of America into just another dictatorship, allied with all the other dictatorships, and an enemy of freedom.
There is no national, or widespread human, security so long as we leave Trump et al regime in power.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The massive undermining of institutions & diplomacy, plus acceptance of might-makes-right, seems extremely dangerous given nuclear weapons, AGW, & history.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The massive undermining of institutions & diplomacy, plus acceptance of might-makes-right, seems extremely dangerous given nuclear weapons, AGW, & history.
Trump lambasts ‘weak’ and ‘decaying’ Europe and hints at walking away from Ukraine
US president recycles far-right tropes on European immigration and presses Zelenskyy to accept his peace plan
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
That miserable fucker is making the United States of America into just another dictatorship, allied with all the other dictatorships, and an enemy of freedom.
The message will always be that their choices and failures are someone else’s fault.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair on Trump's economic message: "The message is very simple -- we are trying to fix what Biden and the Democrats currently in Congress broke"
December 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The message will always be that their choices and failures are someone else’s fault.
This is so funny to see because authoritarian followers are still saying that the fault lies in the insufficiently obedient voters, not Harris, while Harris (almost) admits that she should have changed her stance and opposed genocide.
"Pressed for an actual misstep, she [Harris] added not doing more to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel for how he was waging the Gaza war “as it related to innocent Palestinians.”
Harris in an interview with the New York Times concedes that the Biden admin should have done more.
Harris in an interview with the New York Times concedes that the Biden admin should have done more.
Kamala Harris Isn’t Ready to Be Written Off
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This is so funny to see because authoritarian followers are still saying that the fault lies in the insufficiently obedient voters, not Harris, while Harris (almost) admits that she should have changed her stance and opposed genocide.
They’ve set up the apparatus, next year funding will increase exponentially, now it’s time to start rounding up white people.
Pam Bondi gave the FBI 30 days to compile a list of "terrorists" whose crimes are being pro-immigrant, pro-trans rights, or anti-capitalist, & directed the Joint Terrorism Task Forces to prioritize "rooting out all culpable participants".
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Bondi orders US law enforcement to investigate 'extremist groups'
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday ordered federal law enforcement to step up investigations into the anti-fascist antifa movement and similar "extremist groups," and asked the FBI to compile...
www.reuters.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
They’ve set up the apparatus, next year funding will increase exponentially, now it’s time to start rounding up white people.
Karoline Lie It and Leavitt
Karoline Leavitt lies with impunity on Fox & Friends: "Don't forget -- a year ago, President Trump inherited the worst inflation crisis in modern American history from the Biden administration."
December 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Karoline Lie It and Leavitt
People genuinely enjoy having an hierarchal society. They might not always like kissing up but they love kicking down.
December 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
People genuinely enjoy having an hierarchal society. They might not always like kissing up but they love kicking down.
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Yes, and what if your access to affordable healthcare was considered a right guaranteed to everyone by the government and not a bauble of certain types of employment or friggin club store membership? What then?
Rand Paul on his healthcare plan: "What if you could join Costco? Costco has 44m members and if one person negotiated for all 44 and they bought a group plan like Toyota or General Motors does, they would be the largest collective entity in the country. They would drive prices down by sheer might."
December 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Yes, and what if your access to affordable healthcare was considered a right guaranteed to everyone by the government and not a bauble of certain types of employment or friggin club store membership? What then?
We know there are no gods because she is never struck down by lightning.
Leavitt: "President Trump convinced President Xi to continue purchasing again American soybeans, which is something China wasn't doing under the last administration because they had no respect for President Biden or the country at the time."
December 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
We know there are no gods because she is never struck down by lightning.
One of the many consequences of ignoring climate change will be vast movements of people from newly inhabitable places to habitable places. Which puts the sudden global, vindictive vendetta against immigrants in perspective.
they've decided that stopping climate disaster isn't possible so they're jus no longer gonna report on it.
it's basically how they 'dealt' with covid. just stop talking about it. pretend it doesn't exist.
it's basically how they 'dealt' with covid. just stop talking about it. pretend it doesn't exist.
🚨🚨Major #EU news: More than 80 percent of Europe’s companies will be freed from environmental reporting obligations after @europarl.europa.eu and @consilium.europa.eu reached a deal on a proposal to cut green rules on Monday. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
December 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
One of the many consequences of ignoring climate change will be vast movements of people from newly inhabitable places to habitable places. Which puts the sudden global, vindictive vendetta against immigrants in perspective.
You will be visited by three spirits.
December 9, 2025 at 6:49 AM
You will be visited by three spirits.
So many people are trying to convince us that voting for genocide doesn’t make you a murderer, voting for evil doesn’t make you evil, voting for conservatives programs doesn’t make you conservative. This is not some clever deception, people. It’s right there in the name.
December 9, 2025 at 6:36 AM
So many people are trying to convince us that voting for genocide doesn’t make you a murderer, voting for evil doesn’t make you evil, voting for conservatives programs doesn’t make you conservative. This is not some clever deception, people. It’s right there in the name.
TPUSA in its glorious early years. Every TPUSsy should have this image hanging on the wall of their club house tree fort.
December 9, 2025 at 3:23 AM
TPUSA in its glorious early years. Every TPUSsy should have this image hanging on the wall of their club house tree fort.
We need to keep terrible leaders away from them. They are highly authoritarian followers and will be as bad as their authority encourages them to be. That is yet another reason why waiting for Trump to leave office and not prosecuting him is a terrible choice to make.
It’s time to stop saying that we need to understand these people. We do understand them.
We understand that they have dug in their heels so deeply, they will not be moved by anything: not facts or data or truth or their own eyes.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-cant-ch...
We understand that they have dug in their heels so deeply, they will not be moved by anything: not facts or data or truth or their own eyes.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-cant-ch...
We Can't Change These Hateful People, America. We Have to Outnumber Them.
There’s an old saying: “When the horse is dead… dismount.”
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
We need to keep terrible leaders away from them. They are highly authoritarian followers and will be as bad as their authority encourages them to be. That is yet another reason why waiting for Trump to leave office and not prosecuting him is a terrible choice to make.
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Over the past decade, there have been many things published in the NYT that have revealed it to be a propagandist rag.
This is particularly exceptional in its brazenness.
When an imperial institution gives up the pretense of democracy, it is a signal of impending violence.
Dissent will be crushed.
This is particularly exceptional in its brazenness.
When an imperial institution gives up the pretense of democracy, it is a signal of impending violence.
Dissent will be crushed.
A full, official editorial today in the New York Times. Not an op-ed. The statements and images are made on behalf of the paper itself.
December 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Over the past decade, there have been many things published in the NYT that have revealed it to be a propagandist rag.
This is particularly exceptional in its brazenness.
When an imperial institution gives up the pretense of democracy, it is a signal of impending violence.
Dissent will be crushed.
This is particularly exceptional in its brazenness.
When an imperial institution gives up the pretense of democracy, it is a signal of impending violence.
Dissent will be crushed.
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My grandpa was born in the US to German parents. He had younger cousins who were in Hitler youth in Germany. Decades later I talked with some of them about it (with the ruthless candor of youth). Why did you do that? What were you thinking? What they described was a lot like this.
Happening now: Texas leaders announcing a rollout of a statewide program to put TPUSA chapters in high schools and colleges across the state. Gov. Abbott adds that schools that stand in the way should be reported to the Texas Education Agency.
December 9, 2025 at 2:26 AM
My grandpa was born in the US to German parents. He had younger cousins who were in Hitler youth in Germany. Decades later I talked with some of them about it (with the ruthless candor of youth). Why did you do that? What were you thinking? What they described was a lot like this.
Good God Almighty.
Read this as an American woman and then go break something.
December 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Good God Almighty.
They must be prosecuted or our government will keep torturing people. No more “look ahead, not behind.”
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
They must be prosecuted or our government will keep torturing people. No more “look ahead, not behind.”
Because Donald Trump
Why is Jared Kushner
December 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Because Donald Trump