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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦
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Editor and writer for an undisclosed publication. Auguste Piccard and Frank Wilhoit stan. Pope Sixtus VI papal name advocate. He/him.
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Pinned thread with various creative works I want to be able to find later. First, Adam the Golem, the story of the golem of Prague set to a possibly familiar tune: bsky.app/profile/toms...
Adam the Golem was a calm, reflective soul
With his chiseled jaw
And his sculpted abs
And two eyes made out of coal.

Adam the Golem was a fairytale they say.
He was made of clay
But the rabbis say
That he came to life one day.
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i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:56 AM
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Now we learn the billionaire owner of a bridge that will compete w/the new Canada-MI bridge met with Lutnick right before Trump issued his threat to shut down the new bridge. The Trump admin is a lawless mafia gangster extortion racket existing to enrich oligarchs at our expense.
February 10, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:

"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
February 10, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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Kelly needs to drop out. I still think Stratton will win with a late advertising barrage and having like, substance, but there's a chance if Kelly stays in she might not and that would be one of the worst missed opportunities in a while.
Look, all I'm saying is that if you just spent the last six years being frustrated with Durbin and you think there's a chance he's about to be replaced with a guy who thanks ICE for their service and takes AIPAC and crypto money, you should treat it like a very serious emergency
PPP poll | 2/2-2/3 LV

Illinois Senate Democratic primary 2026

🟦Raja Krishamoorthi 34%
🟦Juliana Stratton 23%
🟦Robin Kelly 8%
February 10, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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February 10, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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well I'm sure everything is just dandy at those unsupervised camps full of children
Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.**

He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
February 10, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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February 10, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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HOOOOOO boy.

Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.): "Do you consider yourself a religious man?"

Lyons: "Yes ma'am."

McIver: "How do you think Judgement Day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?"

"Do you think you're going to hell, Mr. Lyons?"
February 10, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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Trump threatens bridge to prevent Canadians from visiting country Canadians do not want to visit
Trump threatens bridge to prevent Canadians from visiting country Canadians do not want to visit
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S . President Donald Trump has threatened to halt the opening of a international bridge linking Windsor and Detroit, excluding Canadians from country that they have absolutely no ...
www.thebeaverton.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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All this said, a superbowl halftime show featuring Huun-Huur-Tu and athletes from the nomad games riding horses and shooting arrows with their feet and shit would fucking rule, look into that also goodell
Leaving the obvious racism aside for a second -- Bad Bunny has sold over 100 million albums and just won the Grammy for Best Album of the Year and these chuds are acting like he's an obscure Tuvan throat-singing act or something.

By any objective measure, he is wildly wildly popular.
Both these options sound objectively amazing, why do racists keep assuming everyone's racist?
February 10, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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what's the difference between the total value of one's assets less one's liabilities and a lisping woman who suckles other people's children?
February 10, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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The CEO of Discord is a '48 Palestinian from a Christian family, so the "Israeli" hysteria is doubly pathetic
February 10, 2026 at 3:49 AM
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Speaking of which, where the hell are my $5k DOGE checks?
February 10, 2026 at 2:59 PM
aha he reposted it here
doctor: treatment is simple. go see orville, very funny clown

pagliacci: what about pagliacci?

doctor: pagliacci? man i could not name a more suckass clown
pagliacci:

doctor: just downright dogshit of a clown
February 10, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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There's this guy, he's the most famous clown in the world, called the Great Pagliacci, right? So: the Great Pagliacci goes to the doctor one day.

indignity.net/the-clown-joke/?ref=indignity-newsletter&attribution_id=698a3cd4653fe5000118210c&attribution_type=post
The Clown Joke
Indignity Vol. 6, No. 13
indignity.net
February 10, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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removing a symbol of pride from a small park in the middle of the west village is really an enormous fuck you from the worst people on the planet
February 10, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.
February 10, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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April 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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I mean, if Musk announced his plan to begin ranching frogs since the average frog weighs 50% more than a cow, you'd think that someone at the FT might pause before putting "frogs, which on average weigh 50% more than cows" in a news story.
February 10, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Miss me yet? dot jpg
February 10, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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This is the part he’s not telling you: the only folks who’ll lose when this bridge opens are the Morouns—billionaire Trump donors who own the competing bridge. This is about rewarding them. With Trump it’s ALWAYS about the grift.
February 10, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Worth the hassle of doing the free ancestry trial subscription to check if you’re not sure. Took me a couple nights to work out that I wasn’t:(
FYI Americans: if you had Canadian grandparents/parents: you may be Canadian
February 10, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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This was that first frightening video in which masked men grabbed her off the street on her way home.

Now masked men are grabbing people off many streets every day. Many of the charges are dropped, only after harms to those who are kidnapped.
An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University
Immigration Court Drops Case Against Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk
The Turkish national had been arrested by plainclothes federal officers outside her apartment.
on.wsj.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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This is a tax on you.

You paid $1,000 more in a tax because of Trump.
Trump's tariffs cost American households $1,000 last year: Research group
President Donald Trump’s tariffs cost the average American household $1,000 last year, according to new research from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation.
abcnews.go.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:13 AM