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Avedon Carol (in that order)
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Old-school blogger, and grumpy with it.
This woman did not get to be a university freshman by writing papers like this. She knew she had to write a failing paper to make the lawsuit work, so that's why it's so bad. I'm told her mother, who is also her attorney, is the same lawyer who defended some J6 defendants....
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
December 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Need everyone laser focused on the fact the mom is anti-trans, the person grading the paper is trans, and this girl is trying out for the grifting circuit.

That's it.

The content of the paper is meaningless, the only goal here is getting a trans person fired and a grift running.
December 1, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Obligatory
November 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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gotta be a 'rich guy exception' in there somewhere
Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, just introduced a bill to ban Americans from holding dual citizenship. The bill says that to “preserve the integrity of national citizenship, allegiance to the United States must be undivided.” It’s called the Exclusive Citizenship Act.
December 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Nazi: we should be able to kill black people

POC: fuck you

Centrist *pops out of a trash can* you didn't even let them explain their reasoning
November 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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From the IDF soldiers themselves...mass killings of civilians without cause or consequence for the Israeli IDF.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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The grasshopper gets it — divide and conquer. Today’s robber barons use the same playbook. But together, we have all the power. Watch.
November 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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I think about this tweet a lot
November 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Here's Reeves telling us how bad child poverty is, that kids go to bed hungry, wake up in cold homes & end up in hospital with respiratory problems, all because of child poverty.

Last year Labour suspended 7 MPs from the PLP for voting to scrap the cap

She thinks we're idiots
November 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.

Lots of people are going to die.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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John Roberts made his life's work the destruction of democracy. This has been obvious for years. But it completely eluded the Democrats, their donors, and most of the legal community. It was actively supported by Rs, their donors, and the media their donors control.
November 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
At The Sideshow: A little stocking-stuffer of bad Democrats, a calculation, and a blast from the past -- News, analysis, history, nature, art, and music!
avedoncarol.blogspot.com/2025/11/thro...
Throw cares away
It's that time of year again! And nothing starts the season off like " The Carol of the Bells ", so here's a nice flash-mob version from ...
avedoncarol.blogspot.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.

They are lawless bestial scum.
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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NYT: "Some describe it as extortion while others prefer to use a mob euphemism for extortion"

The so-called Grey Lady is worthless.
How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?

"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Be careful, Elon. Literally every prominent Democrat has been compared to Hitler or called a Nazi. Many of the people caught up in your dragnet will be your allies. 1/6
November 27, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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The masterminds behind Bush-Cheney extraordinary rendition campaign never stood in the dock in the U.S. or The Netherlands for "outsourcing torture." I despair that those Shanghaiing undocumented immigrants off to African hell-hole prisons won’t either.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/26/w...
November 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
We've already known since the 1940s that you need to have high top marginal rates, strict antimonopoly laws, and a generous welfare state to prevent the rise of fascism, because rich guys will always fund the rise of fascism. So why did the Clintons jump on board with the Kochs?
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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This is who she was.
Passionate in her beliefs. Fiercely loyal to her friends. Never afraid to let you know exactly where she stood. The best.

Fun Fact: I remember arguing with her over which of us hated Piggy the most. I was sure I did. She disagreed. It remains unresolved...
Carrie Fisher was the blueprint.
Protect your people. Call out the predators.
#RESIST
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicans
It is the single largest donation Knight has made to an Oregon candidate or political action committee.
www.oregonlive.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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By rabid weevils. Starting with toes.
If this ends the way I suspect it will, jail will not be sufficient for the AI Bros. The moderate position is demanding they be eaten.
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis

Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.

Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
DOGE no longer has ‘centralized leadership’ under White House tech team, personnel head says
The team that was altered to house DOGE — formerly the U.S. Digital Service — is also still doing its own technology work across agencies.
www.nextgov.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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BUTNER, N.C. (AP) — H. Rap Brown, one of the most vocal leaders of the Black Power movement, has died in a prison hospital while serving a life sentence for the killing of a Georgia sheriff’s deputy. He was 82.
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 AM