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The Satch
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He/Him IBLP cult survivor. Their ideas are now mainstream... into history and politics. Voice actor, Video producer/director/DP. Made this: https://youtu.be/TVGgdOKRqYI?si=z7rt25teJ2qgsI0X
It's funny to me how many reviewers seem to be unaware that "Wicked: For Good" is the second part of the same story. It's not a sequel.

Like yeah, it's all dreary and serious because that's where the story goes. It's one story.

Really should've been 1 movie but capitalism.
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM
November 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Wowwwwww
Marge Greene announces she is resigning from Congress, that she doesn’t want to go through a brutal primary against a Trump backed opponent, and says Trump has treated her like a battered wife and has been hateful to her and is trying to destroy her.
November 22, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Trump is a piece of shit and his supporters like him because they are pieces of shit.
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
My dad (a MAGAt) popped up with the "Walmart says it's cheaper this year" in a conversation yesterday.

I knew he was wrong but nice to see it verified. Smaller turkey, fewer items...

As my wife says, just look at your grocery bills. It's obvious things are more expensive.
Gotta love how Jon Karl and ABC News had this graphic ready to go *the very moment* that Hassett rolled out his Walmart anecdote.
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Gotta love how Jon Karl and ABC News had this graphic ready to go *the very moment* that Hassett rolled out his Walmart anecdote.
November 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Really important and matches my experiences talking to leaders at food banks and soup kitchens. One chef at a soup kitchen said that in winter he has to figure out how to feed people using very random ingredients (peanut butter, pasta etc).

So donate now, but definitely plan to donate this winter!
Semiannual reminder that if the holidays are reminding you that you want to help your neighbors, pick a day and put it on your calendar. My homeless friends have told me that they could eat 30 free meals on Thanksgiving if they wanted to, but mid- February or March it all dries up!
November 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Worth reading.
My mistake has been trying to explain what "fascism" is to people who don't care what it is.

So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.

If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
November 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Party of the people...
BREAKING: The Trump administration is officially withdrawing a Biden-era plan to require airlines to pay passengers cash compensation when flight disruptions are caused by the airlines.
November 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938

zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Trump spent his first Thanksgiving after getting elected President with Jeffrey Epstein. 2017.
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
A bit cloudy but #ct has the #northernlights tonight. #auroraborealis
November 12, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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I’ve been using this GIF to describe actions of the Democrats for as long as it’s been technically possible to post GIFs on social media, and it sucks. It has always sucked, but it’s historically unconscionable to be this spineless & complicit when so much is plainly at stake. Primary all of ‘em.
a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
Alt: Lucy pulling the football away as Charlie Brown runs to kick it
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Really important. The Senate Dems who voted for this really got nothing.
Even if an extension of the ACA credits were to get 60 votes in the Senate, there is no guarantee whatsoever that Mike Johnson will allow a vote on that language in the House.

The Speaker alone controls what comes to the floor.
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Clearly he sees Dems caving as a win. Which in and of itself should give them pause...
Trump to air traffic controllers: "For those that did nothing but complain, and took time off, even though everyone knew they would be paid, IN FULL, shortly into the future, I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU. You didn’t step up to help the U.S.A. against the FAKE DEMOCRAT ATTACK"
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Ya know what solves this? Eliminating the profit motive for insurance. Best way to do that is universal healthcare coverage, which is why almost every other country has it.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This is important. These Senators, are very obviously out of step with the rest of the party.
Important to note that the DNC, House Dems, 2028 contenders, and even the most pro-leadership pundits and influencers are all laying on Senate Dems right now.

They betrayed all of us. Schumer has no allies left.
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This.
Go volunteer for a progressive launching a “hopeless” campaign against an extremely entrenched incumbent currently squatting in a safe Blue seat. The worst thing that happens, is that you drag the incumbent to the Left. Best case? Zohran Mamdani, who was polling at 6% in January.
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I bet it's a higher number now.
“67% of Democrats say their own party makes them feel frustrated in the September survey – far higher than the roughly half who said this in 2021 and 2019.”
Two-thirds of Democrats say their own party makes them feel frustrated. By far the most commonly cited reason is that the party is not pushing back hard enough against Trump. www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
No more pasta!!!
Trump trade war costs US Italian pasta: “Exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in America too costly and are preparing to pull out of U.S. stores as soon as January.” Via WSJ
Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves — The Wall Street Journal
Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of tariffs it has levied
apple.news
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Our political system is fundamentally broken. It was not designed to represent the will of the people and it is incapable of doing so today.

The people don't want a king. The people don't want Democrats to surrender. The people don't want only two parties.

The people don't want any of this.
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM