TheSickness
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Movies, tacos, Richard Kind enthusiast. Protect trans lives. Black Lives Matter. Just like on the bird app but hopefully better. (He/him)
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What the fuck are we actually voting for, here? The fucking MAJORITY of Democrat Representatives just fell immediately in line to expand funding to TRUMP'S fucking military AND establish federal regulation of sex.
115 democrats just voted to establish the first federal statutory definition of sex, which could now be used to
• charge fraud for using documents that misrepresent “sex”
• reverse all federal records gender markers
• sue a future gov’t for attempting to rescind trump’s anti-trans exec orders
• charge fraud for using documents that misrepresent “sex”
• reverse all federal records gender markers
• sue a future gov’t for attempting to rescind trump’s anti-trans exec orders
As Trump drags us into an Iraq-style war in Venezuela, 312 members of the House — including 115 Democrats — just voted to authorize over $900 billion in military spending.
December 11, 2025 at 4:13 AM
What the fuck are we actually voting for, here? The fucking MAJORITY of Democrat Representatives just fell immediately in line to expand funding to TRUMP'S fucking military AND establish federal regulation of sex.
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I genuinely don't think I've ever seen a more transparently corrupt government and I'm from India
trumpcard.gov is live and the million dollar fees are all referred to as “gifts” or “contributions” to an undisclosed party lol
December 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I genuinely don't think I've ever seen a more transparently corrupt government and I'm from India
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In the real world, man's in the mid-30s, underwater by 20 pts, and strong/somewhat is even more brutal. There are two dozen voters in the whole country who are like "hmm, I dislike Trump, but impeachment is going too far," and all of them have newsletters exclusively read by the DC political class.
December 11, 2025 at 5:07 AM
In the real world, man's in the mid-30s, underwater by 20 pts, and strong/somewhat is even more brutal. There are two dozen voters in the whole country who are like "hmm, I dislike Trump, but impeachment is going too far," and all of them have newsletters exclusively read by the DC political class.
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There's a Hill bubble narrative, posing as savvy realism, in treating impeachment as some radioactive poison and so Democrats must squash any talk of it. But there's zero evidence for that. No polls back it up, nor recent history. It's all just pundit-brained conventional wisdom eating its own tail.
December 11, 2025 at 4:21 AM
There's a Hill bubble narrative, posing as savvy realism, in treating impeachment as some radioactive poison and so Democrats must squash any talk of it. But there's zero evidence for that. No polls back it up, nor recent history. It's all just pundit-brained conventional wisdom eating its own tail.
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Completely immoral, entirely unjustifiable. How many people are going to go hungry in the next year? How many people are going to lose their electricity in the dead of winter? Where is the line? What’s the breaking point?
As Trump drags us into an Iraq-style war in Venezuela, 312 members of the House — including 115 Democrats — just voted to authorize over $900 billion in military spending.
December 11, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Completely immoral, entirely unjustifiable. How many people are going to go hungry in the next year? How many people are going to lose their electricity in the dead of winter? Where is the line? What’s the breaking point?
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Pathetic. Our US military budget is an obscenity and with this administration in charge, voting for this should be seen as enabling war crimes. Everyone who voted for this, including the Democrats, is absolute garbage.
As Trump drags us into an Iraq-style war in Venezuela, 312 members of the House — including 115 Democrats — just voted to authorize over $900 billion in military spending.
December 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Pathetic. Our US military budget is an obscenity and with this administration in charge, voting for this should be seen as enabling war crimes. Everyone who voted for this, including the Democrats, is absolute garbage.
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Part of the right wing sales pitch was "Liberals are annoying" but they quickly proved they are infinitely more irritating, it's not even close
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Part of the right wing sales pitch was "Liberals are annoying" but they quickly proved they are infinitely more irritating, it's not even close
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The horror story we live in.
December 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The horror story we live in.
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Jeff Bezos’s personal PR department endorses segregation. Cool stuff!
Washington Post editorial board really speaking truth to power
December 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Jeff Bezos’s personal PR department endorses segregation. Cool stuff!
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Upon researching for this story I discovered that Republicans for National Renewal founder and grass roots director, Shane Trejo, is listed as an administrator of a Telegram group chat created by a “pro-nazi blogger” in which some users have expressly shared their neo-nazi beliefs.
December 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Upon researching for this story I discovered that Republicans for National Renewal founder and grass roots director, Shane Trejo, is listed as an administrator of a Telegram group chat created by a “pro-nazi blogger” in which some users have expressly shared their neo-nazi beliefs.
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The official position is “okay but not like that.” Turns out there’s no way to precisely harass immigrant communities. Go figure.
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 4:52 AM
The official position is “okay but not like that.” Turns out there’s no way to precisely harass immigrant communities. Go figure.
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Hiring a Black woman: “identity politics”
Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!
(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!
(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
December 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Hiring a Black woman: “identity politics”
Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!
(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!
(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)
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Importantly, this wouldn't have passed without Dem support. There was enough of a split within Republican ranks that if Dems had voted against the bill it would've been doa. Giving Trump a blank check to warmonger *and* passing an anti-trans measure was a choice.
115 Democrats just voted to codify the first federal trans segregation law.
December 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Importantly, this wouldn't have passed without Dem support. There was enough of a split within Republican ranks that if Dems had voted against the bill it would've been doa. Giving Trump a blank check to warmonger *and* passing an anti-trans measure was a choice.
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...and that was before THIS development. What a catastrophe that this unqualified hobbyist and his right-wing daddy now have their fingers around the throat of CBS News. bsky.app/profile/bgru...
David Ellison appears to be mortified that CBS/60 Minutes is “going rogue” by covering the news and by keeping him “in the dark” about a segment critical of Trump.
Because Ellison doesn’t realize that’s how it’s supposed to work.
nypost.com/2025/12/10/m...
Because Ellison doesn’t realize that’s how it’s supposed to work.
nypost.com/2025/12/10/m...
December 11, 2025 at 4:59 AM
...and that was before THIS development. What a catastrophe that this unqualified hobbyist and his right-wing daddy now have their fingers around the throat of CBS News. bsky.app/profile/bgru...
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They weren’t found to be innocent. They were pardoned. They’re entitled to nothing.
Almost 400 people pardoned or granted clemency by President Donald Trump in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol are now seeking millions of dollars in payouts from the federal government.
Trump Pardoned Them for Jan. 6. Now They Want Millions of Dollars
Almost 400 people pardoned or granted clemency by President Donald Trump in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol are now seeking millions of dollars in payouts from the federal government, according to their lawyer.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:59 AM
They weren’t found to be innocent. They were pardoned. They’re entitled to nothing.
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This is something you’d expect to see on Fox …
December 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
This is something you’d expect to see on Fox …
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huh that’s weird
Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:11 AM
huh that’s weird
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I'm sorry to say it, but I think the answer might be the .mp3. Instantly turned art into a disposable file that was seen as worthless + thus devalued the entire artform of music - and its existence inspired everyone else to start making media for the digital landscape instead of the physical one.
What do you think the first death knell of the modern media landscape was? When we started conflating art with content or when we stopped being able to tell the difference between audience and community?
December 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I'm sorry to say it, but I think the answer might be the .mp3. Instantly turned art into a disposable file that was seen as worthless + thus devalued the entire artform of music - and its existence inspired everyone else to start making media for the digital landscape instead of the physical one.
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“You weren’t supposed to say terrorist anymore.” Adult teachers at my middle school had my best friend arrested because she was south Asian and they thought she was a terrorist in waiting. We were 11.
December 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“You weren’t supposed to say terrorist anymore.” Adult teachers at my middle school had my best friend arrested because she was south Asian and they thought she was a terrorist in waiting. We were 11.
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“The mainstream talking heads” means literally only Susan Sontag and the backlash was so virulent that her career never recovered.
ah yes, everyone remembers that moment after 9/11 where everyone got cancelled and we started the extremely woke war on terror www.piratewires.com/p/heather-co...
December 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
“The mainstream talking heads” means literally only Susan Sontag and the backlash was so virulent that her career never recovered.
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From 2005 to 2012, one CBP officer or agent was arrested for corruption, crimes, or misconduct EVERY SINGLE DAY. By 2019, it had slowed to just one every 35 hours. Still a huge problem:
“A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent allegedly used his gun and badge to force his way into hotel rooms and rob and sexually assault at least four prostitutes in Chicago’s suburbs in 2022, according to federal charges made public Tuesday.”
Border Patrol agent charged with robbing, raping women in Chicago suburbs in 2022
December 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
From 2005 to 2012, one CBP officer or agent was arrested for corruption, crimes, or misconduct EVERY SINGLE DAY. By 2019, it had slowed to just one every 35 hours. Still a huge problem:
OH COME THE FUCK ON! ITS NOT A HARD QUESTION
Chuck Schumer won't say if he opposes regime change in Venezuela.
JAKE TAPPER: Do you disagree with President Trump's ultimate goal of regime change in Venezuela?
CHUCK SCHUMER: President Trump throws out so many different things in so many different ways, you don't even know what the heck ...
JAKE TAPPER: Do you disagree with President Trump's ultimate goal of regime change in Venezuela?
CHUCK SCHUMER: President Trump throws out so many different things in so many different ways, you don't even know what the heck ...
December 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
OH COME THE FUCK ON! ITS NOT A HARD QUESTION
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"The entire project of the US right wing, is re-establishing the permissions structures [for] the persecution and dehumanization of hundreds of millions of people, specifically so that violence, whether vigilante, interpersonal or state violence, can be used to discipline... everyone it sees fit."
"The entire project of the US right wing, is re-establishing the permissions structures [for] the persecution and dehumanization of hundreds of millions of people, specifically so that violence, whether vigilante, interpersonal or state violence, can be used to discipline... everyone it sees fit."
I struggle with the conversations about “political violence,” because so many of them are based in not recognizing it’s a daily reality, not an anathema or some kind of rare occurrence. Any attempt to “deal with it,” that ignores this is doomed. Free to all.
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December 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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"The entire project of the US right wing, is re-establishing the permissions structures [for] the persecution and dehumanization of hundreds of millions of people, specifically so that violence, whether vigilante, interpersonal or state violence, can be used to discipline... everyone it sees fit."
"The entire project of the US right wing, is re-establishing the permissions structures [for] the persecution and dehumanization of hundreds of millions of people, specifically so that violence, whether vigilante, interpersonal or state violence, can be used to discipline... everyone it sees fit."
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so all year I have been saving nearly every story of ICE or CBP abuse I see on social media (from people's own reports to news stories to court filings) and am now going through them all to try to put them into story form and I don't think it's possible but
December 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
so all year I have been saving nearly every story of ICE or CBP abuse I see on social media (from people's own reports to news stories to court filings) and am now going through them all to try to put them into story form and I don't think it's possible but