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Noteworthy, I think, that the Democratic establishment are putting much more effort into stopping Mamdani than stopping Trump
June 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Noteworthy, I think, that the Democratic establishment are putting much more effort into stopping Mamdani than stopping Trump
Damn. First Sly and now this? RIP Brian Wilson. From the soaring, suicidally devotional harmonies of God Only Knows to the mysteriously haunting nostalgia evoked in Surf's Up, no one has written melodies that made more of the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
youtu.be/i1HJ35p1Bm8?...
youtu.be/i1HJ35p1Bm8?...
The Beach Boys - Surf's Up (Visualizer)
YouTube video by TheBeachBoysVEVO
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June 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Damn. First Sly and now this? RIP Brian Wilson. From the soaring, suicidally devotional harmonies of God Only Knows to the mysteriously haunting nostalgia evoked in Surf's Up, no one has written melodies that made more of the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
youtu.be/i1HJ35p1Bm8?...
youtu.be/i1HJ35p1Bm8?...
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We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
June 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
We feed you.
They hunt us.
They hunt us.
Damn. RIP Sly Stone. One of the absolute greatest to ever do it youtu.be/WG_xmmllfFw?...
Sly And The Family Stone "I Want To Take You Higher" on The Ed Sullivan Show
YouTube video by The Ed Sullivan Show
youtu.be
June 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Damn. RIP Sly Stone. One of the absolute greatest to ever do it youtu.be/WG_xmmllfFw?...
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Because they just assume brown people are inherently criminals and are shocked to find that their racial biases are in fact just racism
June 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Because they just assume brown people are inherently criminals and are shocked to find that their racial biases are in fact just racism
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LAPD when they think nobody is watching
June 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
LAPD when they think nobody is watching
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May 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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It’s incredible that the President of the United States is openly flirting with suspending Habeas Corpus, disappearing people left and right, arresting judges and politicians, accepting ludicrous bribes from foreign countries, and people are still trying to normalize this shit.
May 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
It’s incredible that the President of the United States is openly flirting with suspending Habeas Corpus, disappearing people left and right, arresting judges and politicians, accepting ludicrous bribes from foreign countries, and people are still trying to normalize this shit.
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The US health care system is broken & wildly expensive.
The function of a health care system is not to provide billions in profits for insurance & drug companies. It is to provide quality care as a human right.
The time is NOW to pass Medicare for All.
The function of a health care system is not to provide billions in profits for insurance & drug companies. It is to provide quality care as a human right.
The time is NOW to pass Medicare for All.
It’s time for the US to guarantee healthcare to all | Bernie Sanders
We spend almost twice as much per capita on healthcare as any other country on Earth. It’s time to change that
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The US health care system is broken & wildly expensive.
The function of a health care system is not to provide billions in profits for insurance & drug companies. It is to provide quality care as a human right.
The time is NOW to pass Medicare for All.
The function of a health care system is not to provide billions in profits for insurance & drug companies. It is to provide quality care as a human right.
The time is NOW to pass Medicare for All.
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I know a lot of US citizens only care about US citizens, so I'll just go ahead and point out: when ICE arrests you, the due process would be the point where you prove you can't be deported because you're a US citizen. Without it, there's nothing stopping them from sending you to CECOT forever.
April 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I know a lot of US citizens only care about US citizens, so I'll just go ahead and point out: when ICE arrests you, the due process would be the point where you prove you can't be deported because you're a US citizen. Without it, there's nothing stopping them from sending you to CECOT forever.
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it's hard to find a motivation for DOGE other than 'hatred of the good.' these are bad people fundamentally envious or un-understanding of the idea that you might work or give for others, and attempting to punish it.
NEW: i spoke with several young AmeriCorps volunteers around the country who were abruptly pulled off projects building homes, readying forests for wildfire season, and working at food banks Tuesday afternoon. they are now on their way home thanks to DOGE cuts —
DOGE Cuts Pull AmeriCorps Volunteers Off of Disaster Relief Jobs
The youth volunteers who were working on projects ranging from rebuilding homes destroyed in storms to distributing supplies for hurricane recovery were suddenly pulled from service. Why? DOGE cuts.
www.wired.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:24 PM
it's hard to find a motivation for DOGE other than 'hatred of the good.' these are bad people fundamentally envious or un-understanding of the idea that you might work or give for others, and attempting to punish it.
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deporting people is wrong even if they are in a gang or have a criminal record
deporting people is wrong even if they are in a gang or have a criminal record
deporting people is wrong even if they are in a gang or have a criminal record
deporting people is wrong
deporting people is wrong even if they are in a gang or have a criminal record
deporting people is wrong even if they are in a gang or have a criminal record
deporting people is wrong
April 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
deporting people is wrong even if they are in a gang or have a criminal record
deporting people is wrong even if they are in a gang or have a criminal record
deporting people is wrong even if they are in a gang or have a criminal record
deporting people is wrong
deporting people is wrong even if they are in a gang or have a criminal record
deporting people is wrong even if they are in a gang or have a criminal record
deporting people is wrong
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I'm not going to stop saying this. We need to stop calling it "deporting." It may not always be fair or humane, but deportation has a process. And it means you're sent back to where you came from. These people are being trafficked and sold to slave prisons. Not deported.
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I'm not going to stop saying this. We need to stop calling it "deporting." It may not always be fair or humane, but deportation has a process. And it means you're sent back to where you came from. These people are being trafficked and sold to slave prisons. Not deported.
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It cannot be overstated how insane and dangerous this argument is. They're saying that the government can illegally abduct and imprison people—and even admit that it screwed up!—and then remove the ability of any court to intervene by shipping the victim to a foreign gulag.
If the Supreme Court decides that the government can "erroneously" disappear you off the street to a foreign torture prison, and that federal courts have no power to do anything about it, that is, in a meaningful way, Pretty Much It www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
April 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It cannot be overstated how insane and dangerous this argument is. They're saying that the government can illegally abduct and imprison people—and even admit that it screwed up!—and then remove the ability of any court to intervene by shipping the victim to a foreign gulag.
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they are segregationists, it has been obvious from the jump, and i think that pundits who dismissed the charge as hyperbolic should explain why they couldn’t see the fact pattern
“Tubman’s photograph is now gone. In its place are images of Postal Service stamps that highlight “Black/White cooperation” in the secret network and that feature Tubman among abolitionists of both races.”
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Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad
Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow
wapo.st
April 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
they are segregationists, it has been obvious from the jump, and i think that pundits who dismissed the charge as hyperbolic should explain why they couldn’t see the fact pattern
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Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
April 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
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Some voters got mad about people listing their pronouns, so now we're sending law-abiding, legal immigrants to torture prisons and being hit with the largest middle class tax hike in at least 40 years.
April 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Some voters got mad about people listing their pronouns, so now we're sending law-abiding, legal immigrants to torture prisons and being hit with the largest middle class tax hike in at least 40 years.
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even if it can't last, what booker is doing is grinding the machinery of government to a halt so that no further appointments can be voted on or legislation passed and it's what dems should have been doing persistently since this congressional session started, taking turns, one after the other.
April 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
even if it can't last, what booker is doing is grinding the machinery of government to a halt so that no further appointments can be voted on or legislation passed and it's what dems should have been doing persistently since this congressional session started, taking turns, one after the other.
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American civil society is full of abject cowards, that is the issue. The government is a mafia state but it is winning because most American elite institutions are devoid of anything resembling integrity and are folding rather than stand on principles that were little more than marketing.
March 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
American civil society is full of abject cowards, that is the issue. The government is a mafia state but it is winning because most American elite institutions are devoid of anything resembling integrity and are folding rather than stand on principles that were little more than marketing.
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This was always where it was going to go: when the President claims it can detain and remove anyone without judicial review or due process, they will try to deport and remove people without judicial review and due process.
Straight up authoritarian dictator stuff.
Straight up authoritarian dictator stuff.
Trump threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador
March 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
This was always where it was going to go: when the President claims it can detain and remove anyone without judicial review or due process, they will try to deport and remove people without judicial review and due process.
Straight up authoritarian dictator stuff.
Straight up authoritarian dictator stuff.
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Right now, we have an authoritarian president.
He called CNN "illegal." He is trying to encroach on the spending powers of Congress. He is going after the courts.
Trump does not respect our Constitution. He just wants more and more power for himself.
He called CNN "illegal." He is trying to encroach on the spending powers of Congress. He is going after the courts.
Trump does not respect our Constitution. He just wants more and more power for himself.
March 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Right now, we have an authoritarian president.
He called CNN "illegal." He is trying to encroach on the spending powers of Congress. He is going after the courts.
Trump does not respect our Constitution. He just wants more and more power for himself.
He called CNN "illegal." He is trying to encroach on the spending powers of Congress. He is going after the courts.
Trump does not respect our Constitution. He just wants more and more power for himself.
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If the constitution is still in operation, Trump's executive order abolishing the Department of Education is just a suggestion.
If Trump can abolish the Department of Education with an executive order, then the constitution is just a suggestion.
If Trump can abolish the Department of Education with an executive order, then the constitution is just a suggestion.
March 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If the constitution is still in operation, Trump's executive order abolishing the Department of Education is just a suggestion.
If Trump can abolish the Department of Education with an executive order, then the constitution is just a suggestion.
If Trump can abolish the Department of Education with an executive order, then the constitution is just a suggestion.
Things are bleak and it feels like there are no rules anymore. But the absence of rules can be liberating. For sure we need massive institutional changes to be made if we're going to live in a functioning society. But if we're going to be forced to live in a chaotic society, let's embrace the chaos.
March 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Things are bleak and it feels like there are no rules anymore. But the absence of rules can be liberating. For sure we need massive institutional changes to be made if we're going to live in a functioning society. But if we're going to be forced to live in a chaotic society, let's embrace the chaos.
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Oh, word? You sure they really cared about free speech and weren’t using respectable outlets like the New York Times to soften up higher ed for the kill?
March 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Oh, word? You sure they really cared about free speech and weren’t using respectable outlets like the New York Times to soften up higher ed for the kill?