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Cristine
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Just a mom, kids all grown, but living at home. Work/college. I enjoy cooking, crochet, reading, decorating, hiking and saving Democracy! Also, one dog, two cats.
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7 years ago.
Back when it was possible to count the Donald Trump administration's crimes, and when there were actually people bringing charges.
December 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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5 years ago.
How Bullwinkle Taught Kids Sophisticated Political Satire

Those can-do goofs from Mooselvania.
How Bullwinkle Taught Kids Sophisticated Political Satire
Culture critic Beth Daniels argues the cartoon moose even allowed viewers to reckon with nuclear war
www.smithsonianmag.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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This Story on Cellphone Tracking 'Is the Most Important Article You Should Read Today. Period.' | Common Dreams

6 years ago.
"When we first started working with the data, we wanted to see if any sensitive sites were included. I zoomed into the Pentagon and saw this.
Our jaws hit the floor. "
This Story on Cellphone Tracking 'Is the Most Important Article You Should Read Today. Period.' | Common Dreams
The New York Times published the first piece in its "One Nation, Tracked" investigation based on a data set with over 50 billion location pings.
www.commondreams.org
December 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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The AI tech bubble of 2025 closely parallels the .COM bubble of 2001.
The reality behind OpenAI is darker than just Sam Altman’s con. It’s a vehicle for the richest people on the planet to manipulate the world towards their anti-human worldviews."
December 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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10 years ago.
Bethlehem.
December 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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“The Trump Administration is trying to justify blowing small boats out of the water by arbitrarily calling them ‘designated terrorist organizations’ — a label not grounded in U.S. statute nor international law, but in solely what Trump says,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., told The Intercept.
White House Refuses to Rule Out Summary Executions of People on Its Secret Domestic Terrorist List
The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its NSPM-7 list — even while answering our other queries.
theintercept.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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‘Human trafficking behind prison walls’: women jailed in Texas allege rampant sexual abuse | Texas | The Guardian

The Texas Republican Hell.
‘Human trafficking behind prison walls’: women jailed in Texas allege rampant sexual abuse
Women at FMC Carswell – long a focus of sexual abuse investigations – say prison officials have turned a blind eye
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Since Ronald Reagan destroyed American naval manufacturing in the 1980s, the country has lost expertise and even the ability to manufacture modest systems. Pentagon is a minefield of mismanagement and the fiscal idiots in our country is unwilling to even pay a professional labor or for training.
Opinion | America Can’t Make What the Military Needs
The U.S. defense industry has lost the ability to build quickly and effectively.
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Showing the national Republicans to be really, really weak and pathetic.
It's hard to believe that this is the person who's actually running the country minute to minute, leaving us to wonder who's filling the power vacuum of the napping president,” says Chris Hayes. 

youtube.com/watch?v=vR3W...
Hayes: Who is calling the shots for a napping President Trump?
YouTube video by MS NOW
youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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The official title of the Iraq war was initially
"Operation Iraq Liberation".
That's right. O.I.L.
They thought we wouldn't notice their cute little joke.
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""Let's be absolutely clear. America is an oil company with an army." - often attributed to George Carlin
December 4, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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“I literally was not being aggressive, I was asking for clarification, which is my right as a member of Congress,” she said. “I just can only imagine if they’re going to treat me like that, how they’re treating everyone else.”
Arizona congresswoman says she was pepper sprayed by ICE at a taco joint
Rep. Adelita Grijalva says she was ‘sprayed in the face’ and ‘pushed around’ as agents descended on restaurant
www.independent.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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But Donald Trump MUST have done better in other parts of this Cabinet, right?
And he who destroyed our country from within shall bare one name and one name only... tRump
December 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Jesus was a refugee.
December 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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It's the patriotic thing to do.
December 10, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Un-regulated growth is cancer.
It will kill you.
It will kill the world.
Cancer-capitalism.
💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
December 1, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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"Paramount Skydance will reportedly distribute the film. Not coincidentally, Paramount Skydance is desperate to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. It’s a merger that would normally face ginormous antitrust obstacles, given that the companies collectively control a third of the North American box office. "
Why a Jackie Chan Sequel Says a Whole Lot About Trump’s Economy
Kung-fu corruption.
www.thebulwark.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Because we love our guns more than we love our children.
December 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Artificial Intelligence is already falsely diagnosing pre-crime.
If this happens to you, sue the bastards.
apnews.com/article/immi...
Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

Network of cameras scans and records vehicle license plates. Algorithm flags vehicles deemed suspicious.
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Evil.
November 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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The Republicans have raised the funding for ICE to have 3x the budget of The United States Marines.
November 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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If Nazis program your A.I. monster, it will become a Nazi A.I.
tnsteve.com Steve @tnsteve.com · Nov 23
What the actual Grok F*ck? Claims Elon the greatest at everything ever. Read for more entertainment.

"Grok made French-language posts claiming that the gas chambers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp were actually used to disinfect prisoners, not to kill them."

www.ms.now/opinion/elon...
Grok's hilarious flattery of Elon Musk hides a more serious problem
The chatbot’s latest problem is a great demonstration of why giving billionaires more and more influence over our politics is so dangerous.
www.ms.now
November 23, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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America 101.
Every officer should know.
Every politician should know.
They took an oath.
November 23, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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The corporate propaganda machine colluding with the Trump propaganda machine to lie to the American people about Thanksgiving.
November 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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New @navigatorsurvey.bsky.social data shows GOP position on the shutdown eroding; deep unhappiness with Trump's attempt to starve people; Republicans losing the big arguments.

navigatorresearch.org/government-s...
November 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Lauren Boebert Slammed For ‘Most Disgusting’ Halloween Costume
www.huffpost.com
Lauren Boebert Slammed For ‘Most Disgusting’ Trump-Era Themed Halloween Costume
twp.ai
November 4, 2025 at 8:12 AM