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Barty
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1. The purpose of a system is what it does.
2. In my opinion, never mind.
Watch how fast "no new wars under Trump" Republicans and cultist shift from being shocked and outraged about a new war in the middle east to exclaiming ad nauseam how we all should set our political differences aside and support the pres when we're a country at war. Its so predictable I hate it.
June 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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What happens when this becomes law ????
May 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
May 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time
April 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Judge Wilkinson's opinion for a 3-0 panel in the Abrego Garcia case is written for the parties, but also for the public & perhaps a nod at SCOTUS. I go through it in this piece, which I think provides a much-needed boost for all of us. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-fourth-c...
A Fourth Circuit Judge Warns Against Reducing The Rule Of Law To Lawlessness
Thursday afternoon, the Fourth Circuit issued a decision, its second, in the Abrego Garcia case.
joycevance.substack.com
April 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.
April 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
What Americans are witnessing is the biggest self own this country has ever seen. Literally, everything that is happening was explicitly stated as a goal of his prior to getting elected yet people are still surprised. Idiots.
April 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Burn down a Teslurr get 20 years in prison. Burn down the United States Of America and get championed by idiots and go golf on your private golf course.
S&P 500 down 285 points.

@cnbc.com ⛳️
April 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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🚨 Elon Musk and his surrogates seek access to the Treausry Department’s sensitive payment systems (which processes your benefits and tax refunds among other things), prompting a senior official to resign www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Senior U.S. official to exit after rift with Musk allies over payment system
A top Treasury career staffer is expected to depart. Surrogates of Musk’s DOGE effort had sought access to sensitive payment systems.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🎶 "I been right so long, I been done wrong
Lost the fight and all I got left is this song
Singing a chorus but no one here to sing along
A solo to a choir of liars in the midday sun
Ten years of warning, in the end — it’s ten years gone."🎶
😭
"I don’t know how much more of a favor you can do for someone than tell the future in advance, other than forgive them when they don’t believe you."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-conflu...
The Confluence
I’ve been right so long, I’ve been done wrong.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
January 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The fascist are going to do everything they promised and more. This milk toast reaction to them coming to power is exactly what they hoped for. Keep using the courts to fight bc that worked out great in the past.
January 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The time to build a strong irl community was yesterday the next best time is now. We will need them to manage what comes next.
January 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I’m just a guy who voted. I will not be peaceful protesting, calling or emailing elected officials. I did those things and we still ended up with the most vile humans running this place. It’s going to be faster to let them destroy this place than to try and “save democracy”.
January 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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The de facto co-president and speaker of the house endorses Germany’s neonazi party. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Elon Musk gives nod to German far-right party as election looms
U.S. billionaire Elon Musk, set to join President-elect Donald Trump's administration, waded into Germany's election campaign on Friday, calling the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) the country's saviour.
www.reuters.com
December 20, 2024 at 12:08 PM
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The AfD just had three members arrested for plotting a violent overthrow of governments in East Germany to install a Nazi regime.
December 20, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Americans have been carrying water for a country that only sees them as marks. Mere cattle to be milked for every penny and them some. The sad part is after they've taken everything most of them will blame their neighbor or die b4 they realize the ultra wealthy and corporations are to blame.
December 13, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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December 12, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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I do appreciate Senate Republicans answering the question "are the Republicans going to govern as populists now?" by voting in lockstep against another term for the pro-labor NLRB chair who has substantially advanced workers' rights in her time.

www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-...
December 13, 2024 at 12:39 PM
The purpose of a system is what it does.
December 5, 2024 at 9:18 PM
Because Americans had the audacity to elect a black man as president the entire Republican establishment elevated a man thats every bit as corrupt and dangerous as they imaged Obama to be.
December 4, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Miss me with the outrage about Hunter’s pardon. I do not care.
December 2, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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December 1, 2024 at 6:40 PM
PSA: Mass strikes are extremely effective. The fact that the resistance grifters on the left don’t talk about effective ways to resist besides useless protest and filling out WH forums does not bode well for us.
December 1, 2024 at 1:32 PM
There are exactly zero black ppl who didn’t see this coming from outer space. Maybe one day other minority groups will stop aspiring to be accepted as white.
The lawyer that represented Asian students who helped break Affirmative because they thought Black students were less qualified and shouldn't have gotten in. is now suing because Asian enrollment is down at select Ivy-league schools. Come to find out, it is white students who have always benefited.
November 30, 2024 at 5:22 PM