Derek Stiles
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September 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Dr. Monarez: “Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were inconsistent with my oath of office and the ethics required of a public official. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the science...He said, ‘If I was unwilling to do both, I should resign.’”
September 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Dr. Monarez: “Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were inconsistent with my oath of office and the ethics required of a public official. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the science...He said, ‘If I was unwilling to do both, I should resign.’”
Threatening war against a state of the Union is treason. Full stop.
September 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Threatening war against a state of the Union is treason. Full stop.
This case lays out the crux of the right's beliefs: that America is their special club, for them only. In fact, the Constitution's main thrust is the elimination of such from government, and this is treasonous reasoning, full stop.
abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/abcnews....
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Supreme Court formally asked to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling
10 years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to all same-sex couples, it will consider whether to take a case asking it to overturn the decision.
abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org
August 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This case lays out the crux of the right's beliefs: that America is their special club, for them only. In fact, the Constitution's main thrust is the elimination of such from government, and this is treasonous reasoning, full stop.
abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/abcnews....
abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/abcnews....
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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golf is just pool for dickheads. yeah I wanna have a few beers while trying to put a little ball in a little hole but I need 500 acres instead of 20 square feet.
June 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
golf is just pool for dickheads. yeah I wanna have a few beers while trying to put a little ball in a little hole but I need 500 acres instead of 20 square feet.
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This is the weakest imaginable shit. Roll20 and DriveThru should be ashamed of themselves. And so should the greater RPG hobby if this is left to stand. www.rascal.news/drivethrurpg...
@roll20.net @drivethrurpg.com
@roll20.net @drivethrurpg.com
DriveThruRPG delisted a tabletop game about revolutions over “hateful” politics
Rebel Scum's censorship reveals the limits of Roll20's apolitical guidelines.
www.rascal.news
June 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This is the weakest imaginable shit. Roll20 and DriveThru should be ashamed of themselves. And so should the greater RPG hobby if this is left to stand. www.rascal.news/drivethrurpg...
@roll20.net @drivethrurpg.com
@roll20.net @drivethrurpg.com
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I’m horrified by the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers at an event in DC last night.
The fact that the gunman said he did it to “free Palestine” makes me nauseous. Murdering people for their nationality is never acceptable and this violence hurts Jews, Israelis, *and* Palestinians.
The fact that the gunman said he did it to “free Palestine” makes me nauseous. Murdering people for their nationality is never acceptable and this violence hurts Jews, Israelis, *and* Palestinians.
May 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I’m horrified by the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers at an event in DC last night.
The fact that the gunman said he did it to “free Palestine” makes me nauseous. Murdering people for their nationality is never acceptable and this violence hurts Jews, Israelis, *and* Palestinians.
The fact that the gunman said he did it to “free Palestine” makes me nauseous. Murdering people for their nationality is never acceptable and this violence hurts Jews, Israelis, *and* Palestinians.
At Adobe Offices:
"Team, Figma is eating our lunch. We've got to respond-what have we got ready to launch?"
"Gotchu fam"
"Team, Figma is eating our lunch. We've got to respond-what have we got ready to launch?"
"Gotchu fam"
May 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
At Adobe Offices:
"Team, Figma is eating our lunch. We've got to respond-what have we got ready to launch?"
"Gotchu fam"
"Team, Figma is eating our lunch. We've got to respond-what have we got ready to launch?"
"Gotchu fam"
So which day / stage is the Pope playing at Riot Fest this year?
May 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
So which day / stage is the Pope playing at Riot Fest this year?
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it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.
April 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.
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"You have crudely reduced me to 'the man who will eat me,' which is unfair. When I see you, I see Frank from accounting, my best friend in the firm, a proud single father of two beautiful girls, and yes, someone who could potentially be made into soup."
Although I Voted for You to Be Turned into Soup, There’s No Reason We Can’t Be Friends Before You Are Liquefied
A small percentage of my friends, coworkers, and loved ones may soon join the ranks alongside other hot liquids I slurp for nourishment. But there’...
www.mcsweeneys.net
March 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"You have crudely reduced me to 'the man who will eat me,' which is unfair. When I see you, I see Frank from accounting, my best friend in the firm, a proud single father of two beautiful girls, and yes, someone who could potentially be made into soup."
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"My brethren, soldiers may leap out of that statue tonight and kill me, but what’s leaping out at me right now is our total disregard for norms. What you see as an enemy threat, I see as a one-of-a-kind statue of a mare."
Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy
“In the wake of votes by a handful of key Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, to pass a GOP-led continuing resolution funding f...
www.mcsweeneys.net
March 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
"My brethren, soldiers may leap out of that statue tonight and kill me, but what’s leaping out at me right now is our total disregard for norms. What you see as an enemy threat, I see as a one-of-a-kind statue of a mare."
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Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.
Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:
March 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.
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In vast areas of the US, the sentiments expressed in this wonderful letter from a British man about why it's a privilege to pay tax to enable the National Health Service to run would see him probably certified as insane and labelled a "socialist".
March 6, 2025 at 6:39 AM
In vast areas of the US, the sentiments expressed in this wonderful letter from a British man about why it's a privilege to pay tax to enable the National Health Service to run would see him probably certified as insane and labelled a "socialist".
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If you need a pick-me-up this morning, go listen to what IL Gov. Pritzker said yesterday. Glad he’s not bending the knee.
youtu.be/hS66O1C7Gp4
youtu.be/hS66O1C7Gp4
Gov. Pritzker SLAMS Trump and Musk in closing remarks of State of the State address
YouTube video by NBC Chicago
youtu.be
February 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
If you need a pick-me-up this morning, go listen to what IL Gov. Pritzker said yesterday. Glad he’s not bending the knee.
youtu.be/hS66O1C7Gp4
youtu.be/hS66O1C7Gp4
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democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard
February 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard
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Me sowing: Move fast, break things!
Me reaping: Oh no, everything is broken.
Me reaping: Oh no, everything is broken.
February 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Me sowing: Move fast, break things!
Me reaping: Oh no, everything is broken.
Me reaping: Oh no, everything is broken.
Bay area is trying to take over the title of best retirement communities from South Florida, huh?
February 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Bay area is trying to take over the title of best retirement communities from South Florida, huh?
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No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
January 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
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Don't ever use AI, even (and especially) as a joke to show how AI is terrible.
“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
fortune.com
January 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Don't ever use AI, even (and especially) as a joke to show how AI is terrible.