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David Lovett
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The biggest lib in that rights are for all; let freedom ring

Trans rights are human rights. Woman's rights are human rights. Human rights for all or they will be for none. Reparations are owed.

"Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,"
Pinned
frankly, speaking as a cishet white man who can trace their ancestry back to the 1600s-

you should be fucking embarrassed if you aren't advocating for what was promised in the Declaration - that all are created equal, and granted unalienable Rights; Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
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Its almost crisis 🎅
#art #sharks
December 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
coming soon:

The Alpha and the Omega - Proverbs 13:24
Omegaverse Christian romance is only a few years away the way things are currently headed
December 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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In hindsight what will be most glaring is how much of his influence over elected officials has been they're truly terrified he'll get them killed, and can on a moment's whim bombard them and their families w/ threats, swatting, etc. It's no excuse, but it's real and bigger than openly acknowledged.
Even among Republicans, "give Trump a blank check to stochastically kill anyone who annoys him on any given day" is remarkably unpopular.

Just ask senators in Indiana.
The sociopathic tone of glee and mockery is bad enough, but that's really not the worst of it. He made up a claim that a Trump supporter had done it, *in order to say that would be good and justified.* Unambiguously telling his most insane cult followers that murdering his opponents makes him happy.
December 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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The smartest people love to say they make data-driven decisions.
December 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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i am not being cheeky, his popularity continues to fall to the point that it’s now starting to bite into republicans and the base, and there’s absolutely nothing we know of that the admin plans to do to try and improve it
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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stay on his current path without deviating, imo
What would Trump have to do to get his approval rating below 25%
December 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.

They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Yglesias saying you have to be on X to fight the right is kind of eliding the fact that he is the right. 1
December 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Anger is the correct response, but you can't capture the conservative viewpoint any more succinctly
go fuck yourself
December 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Miller is so extreme he is losing part of the American right: Joe Rogan "calls it “horrific” to arrest “normal, regular people that have been here for 20 years” in “front of their kids.”"

This articulation of what belonging and community means in America captures something fundamental:
December 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
a big win for nominative determinism

"Coming back to the term "Ahmad," Muslims have suggested that Ahmad is the translation of periklutos, celebrated or the Praised One, which is a corruption of parakletos, the Paraclete of John XIV, XV and XVI."

praised one for sure
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.

His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."

He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.

His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."

He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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also the online far-right are, almost to a man, porn-brained at a level that's quite difficult for people to process. they genuinely believe pornography is an expression of reality, and porn tropes shape their thinking about women.
December 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
big tech design is all too frequently 'just do a demo and fake anything you need to, then iterate until it does not fall apart as much until you can sell it'

why anyone would want to be in a vehicle with those design principles is beyond me
In case people don't know: Tesla uses the cheapest possible manufacturing techniques. Their margins are big because their manufacturing costs are lower than anybody else's, because they cheap out on basic stuff like "metallurgy" and "adhesives." They're essentially disposable vehicles.
please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts

www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter
—Infanta?
—No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly
December 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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People will ask how/why I left the Religious Right, and UD has described it well right here: There is no relief. From deep within the space, it was apparent almost no one was happy, and even the successes tasted like sawdust. You know in your guts the goals suck, but you know others won’t work too.
This is why, despite all of their success, the base is becoming even more violent while in power. They know none of it is enough, none of it will ever be enough. They have created a politics, an entire world view, that is predicated on smashing everything they do not like. There is no relief.
December 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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So does his base and they know there’s nothing that can stop it and that’s yet another invisible itch that they cannot scratch, a mortal wound to their id that makes them scream in hysteria every day but only to realize it is becoming less and less effective.
December 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Deep down he must know his death will be - outside the MAGA supporters (who I imagine will just switch off, like the robots at the end of the Phantom Menace) - a late night show punchline, a smile shared between strangers in the street
December 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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He knows he is dying. He knows he is hated. He knows the clock is running out on doing anything about the latter before the former happens. And where, in most people, this would trigger a sense of humility and grace, all he can feel is an increasingly panicked delirium.
This feels qualitatively different than his usual rants. This is morbid behavior in the strictest medical sense of the term.
December 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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just a dreadful, classless piece of shit incapable of normal human emotion or empathy
December 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
buying a car w/ same amount of money takes hours & requires a license

buying a firearm requires a background check and attestations

buying alcohol requires someone to be accountable to cut you off

this shit is done totally loose, gambling really is going to kill us
December 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Transferring anything more than idk $300 to a casino should require you to fill out ten times the amount of forms as I need to as poor in order to get welfare

Anything over $1000 should require the money be held in an escrow account for 2 weeks before you can spend it
December 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Sorry but I wish all these people who “didn’t vote for this” an extremely unpleasant time
The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.

New, @propublica.org
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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it probably shouldn't surprise anyone that this particular applicant does appear (via LinkedIn) to be wildly under-qualified for a 'good' job in tech, but that's not because of H1Bs. it's because tech is the most competitive field of work in the country, and even its 'bad' jobs are TOUGH af to land.
This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants
December 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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in the classic formulation

bsky.app/profile/dept...
December 15, 2025 at 6:06 AM