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Inspired by diversity in nature, creativity in all forms, and seekers of truth and freedom. "...The best way to dislodge evil is to make energetic progress in the good."
The I Ching, Book of Changes
The I Ching, Book of Changes
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AOC: "It's not just that Trump is corrupt. It's that everyone participating in this is corrupt. Elon is corrupt. Jeff Bezos is corrupt. Mark Zuckerberg is corrupt."
December 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
AOC: "It's not just that Trump is corrupt. It's that everyone participating in this is corrupt. Elon is corrupt. Jeff Bezos is corrupt. Mark Zuckerberg is corrupt."
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A “funeral that would never end.”
That’s how the CEO of a Florida nursing home characterizes the exodus of 38 immigrant workers, as they lose their temporary protected status.
“They’re my best employees.”
Gift link ⤵️
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/b...
That’s how the CEO of a Florida nursing home characterizes the exodus of 38 immigrant workers, as they lose their temporary protected status.
“They’re my best employees.”
Gift link ⤵️
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/b...
What America Might Look Like With Zero Immigration
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
A “funeral that would never end.”
That’s how the CEO of a Florida nursing home characterizes the exodus of 38 immigrant workers, as they lose their temporary protected status.
“They’re my best employees.”
Gift link ⤵️
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/b...
That’s how the CEO of a Florida nursing home characterizes the exodus of 38 immigrant workers, as they lose their temporary protected status.
“They’re my best employees.”
Gift link ⤵️
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/b...
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"According to US documents, Jeffrey Epstein was in Austria with three women shortly before his arrest in 2019. Equally puzzling: The American financier possessed an Austrian passport – under a false name." www.spiegel.de/ausland/jeff...
Meinung: Jeffrey Epstein: Warum reiste er heimlich nach Wien?
US-Akten zufolge hielt sich Jeffrey Epstein kurz vor seiner Verhaftung 2019 mit drei Frauen in der Alpenrepublik auf. Ebenso rätselhaft: Der amerikanische Finanzier besaß einen österreichischen Pass –...
www.spiegel.de
December 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
"According to US documents, Jeffrey Epstein was in Austria with three women shortly before his arrest in 2019. Equally puzzling: The American financier possessed an Austrian passport – under a false name." www.spiegel.de/ausland/jeff...
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Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed"
Right, of course! That’s why they erase our towns from the map, bomb our infrastructure and businesses. To force us to rebuild everything and succeed. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Right, of course! That’s why they erase our towns from the map, bomb our infrastructure and businesses. To force us to rebuild everything and succeed. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. It sounds a little strange but President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."
December 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed"
Right, of course! That’s why they erase our towns from the map, bomb our infrastructure and businesses. To force us to rebuild everything and succeed. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Right, of course! That’s why they erase our towns from the map, bomb our infrastructure and businesses. To force us to rebuild everything and succeed. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
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Great points in this thread: We don't usually think of 1965 immigration act as on par w/New Deal and Civil Rights, but it was a major liberal achievement and Miller's real project is to undo it. As @larryglickman.bsky.social says this connects w/goal of undoing other great 20th century achievements:
Finally had a chance to read this Incredible piece by @gregsargent.bsky.social that documents Miller’s attempt to undo and reverse the 1965 immigration settlement and reveals how central this effort is to the administration’s reactionary aim to take down the New Deal and civil rights orders.
December 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Great points in this thread: We don't usually think of 1965 immigration act as on par w/New Deal and Civil Rights, but it was a major liberal achievement and Miller's real project is to undo it. As @larryglickman.bsky.social says this connects w/goal of undoing other great 20th century achievements:
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Karoline Leavitt statement: "America
cannot function if President Trump
has to deal with co-equal branches
of government having the ability
to check his power."
cannot function if President Trump
has to deal with co-equal branches
of government having the ability
to check his power."
a child 's drawing of george washington with the year 1776 on his hat
ALT: a child 's drawing of george washington with the year 1776 on his hat
media.tenor.com
December 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Karoline Leavitt statement: "America
cannot function if President Trump
has to deal with co-equal branches
of government having the ability
to check his power."
cannot function if President Trump
has to deal with co-equal branches
of government having the ability
to check his power."
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I realize I don’t know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.
- Octavia Butler, “Parable of the Sower”
- Octavia Butler, “Parable of the Sower”
December 28, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I realize I don’t know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.
- Octavia Butler, “Parable of the Sower”
- Octavia Butler, “Parable of the Sower”
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The media coddles him, the Republican Party enables him, and a massive chunk of this country is treating his collapse like a joke.
We’re not.
trib.al/OQRVihw
We’re not.
trib.al/OQRVihw
Cognitive Decline? These Were Trump’s 11 Most Senile Moments This Year
When Donald Trump wasn’t busy falling asleep in front of the cameras, he spent his first year in office struggling to form coherent thoughts.
trib.al
December 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The media coddles him, the Republican Party enables him, and a massive chunk of this country is treating his collapse like a joke.
We’re not.
trib.al/OQRVihw
We’re not.
trib.al/OQRVihw
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The Kremlin launched a disinformation campaign claiming that Zelensky wished death on Trump in his Christmas address. Within hours, it had fully permeated right-wing social media in the US. How is this possible? Because it was, like most Russian disinformation campaigns, promoted by Elon Musk.
Matryoshka bot network launches fake campaign claiming Zelensky “wished death” on Trump in his Christmas address
The Kremlin-backed Matryoshka bot network has launched a disinformation campaign following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Christmas address, in which he wished death upon an unnamed person
theins.press
December 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The Kremlin launched a disinformation campaign claiming that Zelensky wished death on Trump in his Christmas address. Within hours, it had fully permeated right-wing social media in the US. How is this possible? Because it was, like most Russian disinformation campaigns, promoted by Elon Musk.
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As Hannah Arendt put it: "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." Undermining that distinction will be a lasting legacy of generative AI.
December 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
As Hannah Arendt put it: "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." Undermining that distinction will be a lasting legacy of generative AI.
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The history I was never taught as a child is mind boggling
163 years ago in Mankato, 38 Dakota men were hung in the largest mass execution in our nation’s history.
I’m grateful to the riders who continue to remind us the importance of fighting for accountability and healing for the Dakota people.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
I’m grateful to the riders who continue to remind us the importance of fighting for accountability and healing for the Dakota people.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Dakota riders return home to Minnesota via horseback, honoring legacy of Dakota 38
Dakota riders completed a journey of hundreds of miles to honor the 38 Dakota men executed in 1862 — the largest mass execution in U.S. history. The annual rides ending in Mankato serve as a poignant ...
www.mprnews.org
December 27, 2025 at 4:07 AM
The history I was never taught as a child is mind boggling
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Venezuela, Iran and Nigeria are all in Trump’s gunsights. Turns out that together, the 3 countries also hold almost a third of the world’s oil reserves.
Canada, aka Trump’s “51st state,”holds an additional 10 percent.
Canada, aka Trump’s “51st state,”holds an additional 10 percent.
December 27, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Venezuela, Iran and Nigeria are all in Trump’s gunsights. Turns out that together, the 3 countries also hold almost a third of the world’s oil reserves.
Canada, aka Trump’s “51st state,”holds an additional 10 percent.
Canada, aka Trump’s “51st state,”holds an additional 10 percent.
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December 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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A reminder that Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra’s parents emigrated here during a period when Italians were considered to be a genetically inferior and criminal-minded underclass that Stephen Miller’s racist predecessors said should be excluded from America
December 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
A reminder that Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra’s parents emigrated here during a period when Italians were considered to be a genetically inferior and criminal-minded underclass that Stephen Miller’s racist predecessors said should be excluded from America
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Neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post published stories about Trump writing 200 unhinged posts on Christmas Day
You almost have to feel bad for an ugly old man with no family or friends to keep him company on Christmas Day that he makes 200 crazy posts ranting about everything under the sun.
Almost.
Almost.
December 26, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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This is what every institution he threatens with frivolous defamation suits should be doing
President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR
December 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
This is what every institution he threatens with frivolous defamation suits should be doing
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This is a great example not just of Nazism being normalized, but of being so removed from the consequences of Nazism that it becomes just a thought exercise. I mean, hey, 20 years ago this avowed antisemite couldn’t even have been part of polite society and look at him now!
Joe Rogan and Shane Gillis on Nick Fuentes running for president one day.
Rogan: “He could probably win in a few years. Listen, he couldn’t have existed before, right? Ten, twenty years ago, couldn’t have existed. Now, super popular. What’s twenty years from now look like?”
Rogan: “He could probably win in a few years. Listen, he couldn’t have existed before, right? Ten, twenty years ago, couldn’t have existed. Now, super popular. What’s twenty years from now look like?”
December 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
This is a great example not just of Nazism being normalized, but of being so removed from the consequences of Nazism that it becomes just a thought exercise. I mean, hey, 20 years ago this avowed antisemite couldn’t even have been part of polite society and look at him now!
This is so spot on. Six months later and these understandings are even more important for us to grasp.
"The way to fight back is through community."
"The way to fight back is through community."
As the Trump admin predictably rolls the National Guard into the streets and a Republican army of enablers roots for military violence against Americans, some words on why, and the way forward.
The Tyranny of Tiny Men
The way to fight back is not to give up on anyone. The way forward is to stand with each other, for each other.
medium.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM
This is so spot on. Six months later and these understandings are even more important for us to grasp.
"The way to fight back is through community."
"The way to fight back is through community."
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📌The Epstein Files are only the latest ghastly example of white male privilege.
December 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
📌The Epstein Files are only the latest ghastly example of white male privilege.
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"any criticism of the election can lead to a minimum sentence of three years in prison, and even the death penalty"
Another reminder that elections are not the same thing as democracy
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Another reminder that elections are not the same thing as democracy
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
‘Not for the people’: Myanmar junta prepares for elections designed to legitimise grip on power
Elections will be first since military seized power in 2021, but analysts say vote is far from a step toward democracy
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
"any criticism of the election can lead to a minimum sentence of three years in prison, and even the death penalty"
Another reminder that elections are not the same thing as democracy
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Another reminder that elections are not the same thing as democracy
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
"In the real world, factory construction, adjusted for inflation, was down by more than 10 percent from its year ago level, as of August (the most recent data available)."
December 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
"In the real world, factory construction, adjusted for inflation, was down by more than 10 percent from its year ago level, as of August (the most recent data available)."
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Just Joe Rogan normalizing Nazis, year after year.
Joe Rogan and Shane Gillis on Nick Fuentes running for president one day.
Rogan: “He could probably win in a few years. Listen, he couldn’t have existed before, right? Ten, twenty years ago, couldn’t have existed. Now, super popular. What’s twenty years from now look like?”
Rogan: “He could probably win in a few years. Listen, he couldn’t have existed before, right? Ten, twenty years ago, couldn’t have existed. Now, super popular. What’s twenty years from now look like?”
December 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Just Joe Rogan normalizing Nazis, year after year.
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Amazing the degree to which the philosophy of tech fascism seems to come straight from Alexandr Dugin—Vladimir Putin's version of Curtis Yarvin.
"Antichrist" theme, "multipolarity," democracy as "global dictator"
They should be paying him royalties, if they aren't already.
From 2009:
"Antichrist" theme, "multipolarity," democracy as "global dictator"
They should be paying him royalties, if they aren't already.
From 2009:
December 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Amazing the degree to which the philosophy of tech fascism seems to come straight from Alexandr Dugin—Vladimir Putin's version of Curtis Yarvin.
"Antichrist" theme, "multipolarity," democracy as "global dictator"
They should be paying him royalties, if they aren't already.
From 2009:
"Antichrist" theme, "multipolarity," democracy as "global dictator"
They should be paying him royalties, if they aren't already.
From 2009:
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Now that Stephen Miller is calling for CBS to fire journalists who are trying to tell the truth about Trump's mass deportations, it's a good time to check out our deep reported dive into Miller's real worldview and agenda:
Now that Bari Weiss pulled a segment telling the truth about Trump's deportations to let Stephen Miller have his say (i.e. spread propaganda), it's a good time to check out our deep dive into Miller's real worldview and agenda, which doesn't pull any punches:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Now that Stephen Miller is calling for CBS to fire journalists who are trying to tell the truth about Trump's mass deportations, it's a good time to check out our deep reported dive into Miller's real worldview and agenda:
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Donald Trump defaulted on a $330 million loan for his Chicago skyscraper. And it wasn't the only time he defaulted on a loan or failed to pay a bill.
December 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Donald Trump defaulted on a $330 million loan for his Chicago skyscraper. And it wasn't the only time he defaulted on a loan or failed to pay a bill.