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Patrick
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Alabama transplant in Chicago.
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found another dumbass in the wild--guy who is incredibly mad that al dot com reported a story about people supporting an anti-ICE school walkout. He's never heard of the concept of people honking as they drive past a picket or protest to show support--but he's got a lot to say about it!
AL.com story about an anti-ICE high school walkout: They found themselves with plenty of support from motorists passing by as rush hour approached along one of the growing city’s main thoroughfares with several vehicles honking their horns for support. Schools Superintendent Ed Nichols applauded student leaders for agreeing to shift the protest from a school walkout to an after-school gathering to express their views. Reporting by Scott Turner Read more at article linked in comments some dipshit named Rob Leopard: How do you know it was in support? When I honk my horn it is never in support of someone else's actions.
February 5, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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Saw a really dumb guy comment on a news story about how Border Patrol should get to empty clips into protesters, that protesting is bullshit, and then announce support for an immigration amnesty plan that is more liberal than any I've seen from any major presidential candidate of either party
WBEZ news story post on facebook: Miramar Martinez, shot by border patrol in Chicago speaks out after Good, Pretti deaths: "I am their voice" Commenter Richard Graves: Maybe try, not inserting yourself into federal law enforcement actions? Other commenter: so why did the DOJ drop all charges and their "case" against Martinez? Richard Graves: Politics. What the politics doesn't change the fact that she's a moron. There's ways for us to protest, and actually all that protesting is b******* anyway. We should be standing on pushing our elected officials to do something other than posture. We should be seeking actual policy changes seeking amnesty programs for illegals have been in the country for 5 years or more without committing any crimes to get residency and for 15 years or longer to get full citizenship.
February 4, 2026 at 3:28 AM
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Reading about the Pullman Strike, where the President illegally sent troops into Chicago, newspapers lied about violence from protestors, and federal marshals deputized every unemployable loser and criminal they could find to shoot people at random. Whew, glad nothing like that happens anymore!
Debs feared that the presence of Federal troops in Chicago would serve, not to keep the peace, but to inflame the populace, and he heatedly told a United Press reporter: The first shots fired by the regular soldiers at the mobs here will be the signal for a civil war. I believe this as firmly as I believe in the ultimate success of our course. Bloodshed will follow, and ninety percent of the people of the United States will be arrayed against the other ten per cent. And I would not care to be arrayed against the laboring people in the contest or find myself out of the ranks of labor when the struggle ended. This prediction proved all too true. Although there had been brief but serious outbreaks in the suburbs on June 30 and July 2, no violence had occurred in Chicago before July 5. On that day railroad tracks were blocked, a freight train was stalled, a signal house was burned. The regular soldiers made a bayonet charge against a crowd, and several people were injured....The presence of the Army had indeed proved to be a "signal for civil war," as Debs said; but the hundreds of special Federal deputy marshals had an even worse effect. Since men with regular employment were unwilling to accept these temporary jobs, Marshal Arnold had deputized labor spies, professional strikebreakers, racketeers, petty gangsters, the flotsam and jetsam of the city. Several public officials fiercely attacked these special deputies. Governor Waite of Colorado called them "desperadoes" who had been hired "without any regard for their qualifications but simply for military purposes." On July 6 near Pullman, where a mob of hoodlums was overturning freight cars, one of these deputies deliberately killed an innocent spectator
January 16, 2026 at 3:25 AM
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my dad had this put on a shirt, and I remember him wearing it all the time at home throughout the mid 90s. (never in public--he was an elementary school principal)
a sign reading "midvale school for the gifted" next to a boy pushing on a door labeled "pull"
December 17, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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uhhhh yeah I didn't retire in my 40s after making a shitload of money, I've uhhh had writer's block. Yeah. And it's because I love the written word too much. Not that I'm addicted to going on talk shows
that’s what it means. Writing—I do, obviously, find it immensely arduous. My editor—who, whenever I introduce him as my editor, always says, “easiest job in town”—he says that the paralysis I have about writing is caused by an excessive reverence for the written word, and I think that’s probably true.
December 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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It would be really, really funny if just one time, a magazine introduced her as "Frequent Real Time with Bill Maher guest Fran Leibowitz." She hasn't written a book since like 1993.
Variety magazine facebook post: #FranLebowitz says she voted for New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, and among many qualities, loves "how upset he made the old Democrats." https://wp.me/pc8uak-1lGDYQ "And I’m an old Democrat. I’m sick of these guys — and they’re almost all guys. It’s been really bad for the country. This country was never meant to have politicians in lifetime roles. So, the hysteria… I like that about him. He seems earnest, by which I mean he believes the things he says. People keep saying how young he is. He’s 34. I think he’s too old to believe these things, frankly. When I was 34, I was long past believing this kind of stuff. But I think it’s adorable."
December 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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elderly SUV driver giving everyone in the crosswalk this look after making a sudden stop like we didn't all witness her get a few feet away from murdering a toddler in front of us
stock photo of someone giving an embarrassed shrug
November 20, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Reuters: Border patrol agent who shot Chicago woman boasted about it in text messages By Renee Hickman November 7, 20259:10 AM CST Updated 6 hours ago Image: Law enforcement officers during a standoff with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and federal officers in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, U.S., October 4, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska/File Photo
November 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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goddamn, they saw a meme from a guy who juxtaposed Trump's actual heartless comments in relation to an actual shooting in Iowa. Then the sheriff threw him in jail on a terror charge because he's a dumbass who didn't look it up
Weems had been happy to publicize Bushart’s arrest at first. In the earliest news story on September 22, local radio station WOPC published Bushart’s mugshot along with a statement from the sheriff, who said that Bushart’s meme had alluded to “a hypothetical shooting at a place called Perry High School.” According to Weems, “That message caused considerable concern within the community and we were asked to investigate.” Readers found this perplexing. “I’m confused,” one woman wrote on Facebook after the story was posted on the station page. “He was talking about shooting up the school or shooting up a vigil. How are the two things connected?” Another reader speculated that Weems hadn’t heard of the Iowa shooting and misinterpreted the post as a threat. “A man is in jail because the sheriff didn’t use google.” In a comment that has since been deleted, Weems personally replied to correct the record. “We were very much aware of the meme being from an Iowa shooting,” he wrote later that afternoon. The meme “created mass hysteria to parents and teachers … that led the normal person to conclude that he was talking about our Perry County High School.”
October 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Young Thug defends James Harden for wearing a pro-police facemask: "He don't have internet"
October 22, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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wint @dril Hello Alan this is your lawer speaking. I am advising you today to please keep posting this shit
October 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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child touching a hot stove
October 10, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Andrew Johnson almost literally did the dril "I'm not mad" tweet live from the stump
Who can come and place his finger on one pledge I ever violated, or one principle I ever proved false to? CROWD MEMBER: "How about New Orleans?" ANOTHER CROWD MEMBER: "Hang Jeff. Davis, Hang Jeff-. Davis. Why don't you hang him?" CROWD: [Cries...] "Give us the opportunity." Have you not got the court? Have you not the Attorney General?' CROWD MEMBER: "Who is your Chief Justice, who has refused to sit upon the trial?" [Cheers.] THE PRESIDENT: I am not the Chief Justice. I am not the prosecuting attorney. [Cheers.] I am not the jury. I will tell you what I did do. I called upon your Congress that is trying to break up the government. CROWD: [Cries of...] "you be d—d" [and cheers mingled with hisses, and great confusion.] CROWD MEMBER: "Don't get mad Andy." THE PRESIDENT: Well, I will tell you who is mad—"Whom the Gods wish to destroy they first make mad." Did your Congress order any of them to be tried?' CROWD: "Three cheers for Congress!"
October 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Looked it up and Caleb Ragland voted for trump, not once--not twice--but three times. Is there any policy that owuld make him specifically lose even more money? I'd support it
“The frustration is overwhelming,” the American Soybean Association (ASA) president Caleb Ragland said in a statement last week. “U.S. soybean prices are falling, harvest is underway, and farmers read headlines not about securing a trade agreement with China, but that the U.S. government is extending [$20 billion] in economic support to Argentina while that country drops its soybean export taxes to sell 20 shiploads of Argentine soybeans to China in just two days.”
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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yeah, I think he self-identified as a social democrat for a while in the 70s. I think the trotsky connection only applies to a few people & for sectarian & other reasons a lot of people on twitter used to go overboard with it. Most neocons, like Kristol were lifelong Republicans
David Brooks appearing on a Milton Friedman tv show with the chryon "social democrat"
October 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Nobody responsible for terrorizing this little girl holding a baby doll will ever recognize themselves as the badguys in this picture. We need to bring back shame and ostracization for things like this in a big way in our society.
Border Patrol agents detain members of a family at Millennium Park Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025. Credit: Provided Lindsay Rich witnessed a family of four stopped by the federal agents in Millennium Park Sunday. All four family members — a man, woman, young girl and toddler — were detained and taken away in a white van by the agents, she said. The young girl in the family was crying and was seen holding a doll, Rich said. The incident was caught on video and shared on social media.
September 29, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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September 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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of course Khodorkovsky shows up really covering himself in glory here
Speaking to The Times, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the exiled former oligarch and Putin critic, said he had no problem with Trump’s wider immigration crackdown. But he urged the White House to reconsider its approach to Russians at risk of political persecution.
September 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Not sure if WSJ listed the source, but TMZ did, and it was Steven Crowder. They "verified" it with likely some dumbass spoils hire but it's obviously bullshit
Charlie Kirk's alleged shooter scrawled political messages on the equipment brought to the murder scene ... expressing support for the transgender community while making antifascist remarks. Erroneous report from TMZ: A bulletin -- posted online by conservative commentator Steven Crowder -- was sent around to agents in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. We've confirmed the authenticity of the bulletin with our federal law enforcement sources.
September 12, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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September 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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thinking about the guy who lined up for hours to spit on Pinochet's rotting corpse, no particular reason
Pinochet himself was never prosecuted for the Prats assassination, nor for the other acts of terrorism he ordered. After he died on December 10, 2006—ironically, international Human Rights Day—the Chilean military arranged for his open coffin to be viewed by his admirers. Francisco Cuadrado Prats, the grandson of Carlos and Sofía Prats, stood in the viewing line with hundreds of Pinochetistas; when he reached the coffin, he spat on the glass covering Pinochet’s face. “It was a spontaneous act to spit on him out of revulsion,” the young Prats recalled after he was beaten by Pinochet supporters and then arrested for his sacrilegious conduct, “because he had my grandparents murdered.”
September 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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GUY WHO JUST READ A HUGE BOOK ABOUT THE WHIGS: Getting a lot of Whig vibes from this era's Democratic Party
In the summer, after Fillmore's return, small Whig state conventions also assembled in Virginia, New York, Maine, and Massachusetts. In northern states like Massachusetts and Rhode Island, where a semblance of Whig organization still existed, the purpose of these avowals was "to keep the Whig party from falling into the Fremont current." In the South, where few Whig candidates had been run in 1855 and conversions to the Democrats were soaring in 1856, Whigs insisted "the Whig party [must] be reorganized" to "preserve unimpaired their distinct political character amid the many conflicting organizations by which they are surrounded and sought to be absorbed."' For admirers of the Whig party, including this historian, these poignant manifestos make for painful reading. They portray the pitiable condition to which the party had been reduced, predict the most pernicious consequences of its demise, and punctuate Whigs' seemingly endless capacity for self-delusion, their pathetic propensity to cling to pie-in-the-sky fantasies in the face of unwelcome realities. One is reminded, indeed, of Granger's cutting remark about the "out of place" Websterites at the 1852 Whig convention who waited "for the sky to fall so that they might catch larks."
August 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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You really don't need to cling on to internet microcelebs when they act like this because "they do good work on other issues". btw her "good work on other issues" is mostly just slop like this. She's just a charlatan, you can pretty much just ignore her entirely and be better off
Lorenz: "Actually, studies show the earlier a kid gets a smartphone the better the mental health. The idea that smartphones are ruining kids mental health is pseudoscience pushed by reactionaries who are using a moral panic to push dangerous censorship and surveillance laws"
August 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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I'm also reasonably certain that the Darryl that Auburn appears to be claiming as a source for their 2004 win is the guy from the Gary Johnson Getting Booed at the Libertarian Convention for Believing in Drivers Licenses video and I'm not kidding about this

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2004: Awarded by independent, non-NCAA-recognized selector(s) Selector(s) who listed Auburn as national championship: Darryl Perry; GBE College Football Ratings
August 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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i love leaving my parents' home in exurban metro Nashville, attempting to merge onto I-840, and immediately nearly having my family annihilated by a reckless driver who looks like this guy
collection of right-wing twitter avatars of middle-aged people in their cars while wearing huge sunglasses
August 6, 2025 at 2:53 AM