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Columbia, MD. U.S.A.
Columbia, MD. U.S.A.
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This has nothing to do with faith or observance btw. It’s just about establishing an official hierarchy of citizenship where they are on top. bsky.app/profile/mark...
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This has nothing to do with faith or observance btw. It’s just about establishing an official hierarchy of citizenship where they are on top. bsky.app/profile/mark...
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There is a direct line between Mario Rubio now weaponizing the government against “censorship,” Jay Bhattacharya crying “censorship,” M Shellenberger lying on Substack about “censorship,” and the ongoing destruction of our public health, vaccine, and science infrastructure.
The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax.
Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex - United States Department of State
The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose....
www.state.gov
December 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
There is a direct line between Mario Rubio now weaponizing the government against “censorship,” Jay Bhattacharya crying “censorship,” M Shellenberger lying on Substack about “censorship,” and the ongoing destruction of our public health, vaccine, and science infrastructure.
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Trump thinks the military is his, not ours. Because he's a dictator.
(I no longer say he's a "would-be dictator." He's a dictator who does dictator things. And he'll keep doing them until we stop him.)
(I no longer say he's a "would-be dictator." He's a dictator who does dictator things. And he'll keep doing them until we stop him.)
Trump announces 'Trump Class' of new Navy battleships
Trump announces new class of battleships that he says will be "the fastest, the biggest, and by far -- 100 times -- more powerful than any battleship ever built."
abcnews.go.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Trump thinks the military is his, not ours. Because he's a dictator.
(I no longer say he's a "would-be dictator." He's a dictator who does dictator things. And he'll keep doing them until we stop him.)
(I no longer say he's a "would-be dictator." He's a dictator who does dictator things. And he'll keep doing them until we stop him.)
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The DOJ is not even trying to hide that it functions as Trump's personal law firm
December 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The DOJ is not even trying to hide that it functions as Trump's personal law firm
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Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
December 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.
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its not just that reactionaries dont read the western canon they valorize, its also that they *cant* read it, not in the sense that theyre illiterate, though they are, but in the sense that substantive engagement with the texts would demystify and refute their cloying, sophomoric disinterpretations
"Homer wasn’t writing to glorify the Bronze Age. He lived in the wreckage of the Bronze Age. Every day his shattered society reminded him of that age’s failures." www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...
Reviewer Judge Words in Book: Bronze Age Mindset, Reviewed
We can be more and better than conquerors and thieves.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
its not just that reactionaries dont read the western canon they valorize, its also that they *cant* read it, not in the sense that theyre illiterate, though they are, but in the sense that substantive engagement with the texts would demystify and refute their cloying, sophomoric disinterpretations
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I would posit that (as well as a shorter work week,) this is directly related to the fact that everyone there has access to healthcare and education.
Sick and worried people aren't happy and well off, and the countries that "win" in the 21st Century will be the ones with the best educated public.
Sick and worried people aren't happy and well off, and the countries that "win" in the 21st Century will be the ones with the best educated public.
December 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I would posit that (as well as a shorter work week,) this is directly related to the fact that everyone there has access to healthcare and education.
Sick and worried people aren't happy and well off, and the countries that "win" in the 21st Century will be the ones with the best educated public.
Sick and worried people aren't happy and well off, and the countries that "win" in the 21st Century will be the ones with the best educated public.
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it's sycophants all the way down
❗ Trump: "anybody that disagrees with me will never be the Fed Chairman."
December 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
it's sycophants all the way down
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“At least 20 people who have received clemency from Trump so far this year…were also forgiven of financial penalties totaling tens of millions of dollars.”
Justice under Trump: Criminals go free while their victims get stiffed.
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Justice under Trump: Criminals go free while their victims get stiffed.
(gift link)
wapo.st/4s6dziJ
Trump’s pardons wipe out payments to defrauded victims
In addition to clearing prison sentences, the president’s clemency actions have erased millions in restitution payments.
wapo.st
December 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“At least 20 people who have received clemency from Trump so far this year…were also forgiven of financial penalties totaling tens of millions of dollars.”
Justice under Trump: Criminals go free while their victims get stiffed.
(gift link)
wapo.st/4s6dziJ
Justice under Trump: Criminals go free while their victims get stiffed.
(gift link)
wapo.st/4s6dziJ
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Pope Leo: “Creation is crying. But many powerful people do not hear this cry: the wealth of the earth is in the hands of a few, very few, increasingly concentrated – unjustly – in the hands of those who often do not want to hear the groaning of the earth and the poor.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
December 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Pope Leo: “Creation is crying. But many powerful people do not hear this cry: the wealth of the earth is in the hands of a few, very few, increasingly concentrated – unjustly – in the hands of those who often do not want to hear the groaning of the earth and the poor.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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Bozell has the distinction of not only holding disgusting views but being personally one of the angriest assholes you'll ever encounter, despite the fact that because of his family he has lived a charmed life of endless wingnut welfare while having no appreciable talents of any sort.
Among the nominees just confirmed is Leo Brent Bozell III, a far-right activist and critic of the fight to end apartheid, who Collins just approved to be the United States AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH AFRICA.
Vile and irredeemable. tinyurl.com/5fwv4dzc #MEpolitics
Vile and irredeemable. tinyurl.com/5fwv4dzc #MEpolitics
Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight To End Apartheid
As Black activists in South Africa fought against their country’s racist apartheid...
tinyurl.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Bozell has the distinction of not only holding disgusting views but being personally one of the angriest assholes you'll ever encounter, despite the fact that because of his family he has lived a charmed life of endless wingnut welfare while having no appreciable talents of any sort.
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It’s interesting who got called welfare queens (poor Black women) vs. who actually were (wealthy white men)
Never forget this @propublica.org story www.propublica.org/article/trum...
December 19, 2025 at 4:13 AM
It’s interesting who got called welfare queens (poor Black women) vs. who actually were (wealthy white men)
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vanity fair photographer christopher anderson posts this story on his instagram, suggesting he intentionally posed stephen miller underneath a painting of native americans
December 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
vanity fair photographer christopher anderson posts this story on his instagram, suggesting he intentionally posed stephen miller underneath a painting of native americans
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The thing about all these right-wing institutions—from Fox to Truth Social to this faux-university—is that they subsist entirely on parasitic criticism of leftists & things the left has built. Without the host body, they are nothing. They can't build, they can't create, they can only whine.
December 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The thing about all these right-wing institutions—from Fox to Truth Social to this faux-university—is that they subsist entirely on parasitic criticism of leftists & things the left has built. Without the host body, they are nothing. They can't build, they can't create, they can only whine.
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This analysis shreds Karoline Leavitt's press briefings, exposing her false stats and 'transparency' claims as pure Orwellian doublespeak. It's a chilling blueprint for making lies sound like truth, straight from the "1984" playbook.
Karoline Leavitt’s White House doublethink is straight out of Orwell - Salon.com
The press secretary's playbook is lifted from "1984."
www.salon.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This analysis shreds Karoline Leavitt's press briefings, exposing her false stats and 'transparency' claims as pure Orwellian doublespeak. It's a chilling blueprint for making lies sound like truth, straight from the "1984" playbook.
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NYT: “In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
December 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
NYT: “In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
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Sounds just like Chapter 15 of Mein Kampf.
December 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Sounds just like Chapter 15 of Mein Kampf.
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Massie: Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs that did not exist. Now it's the same playbook. Except we're told that drugs are the WMDs. If it were about drugs, we'd bomb Mexico or China or Colombia. This is about oil and regime change.
December 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Massie: Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs that did not exist. Now it's the same playbook. Except we're told that drugs are the WMDs. If it were about drugs, we'd bomb Mexico or China or Colombia. This is about oil and regime change.
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Per @garretthaake.bsky.social, the extremely tacky "presidential wall of fame" that lines the colonnade to the West Wing now has obviously-Trump-penned plaques insulting or praising the presidents.
December 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Per @garretthaake.bsky.social, the extremely tacky "presidential wall of fame" that lines the colonnade to the West Wing now has obviously-Trump-penned plaques insulting or praising the presidents.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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"The union for US Department of Education workers has raised alarm about a top department official's display of a flag with Christian nationalist associations that was flown during the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol building."
#WashingtonDC #USA #Education #Courts
#WashingtonDC #USA #Education #Courts
Flag Linked to Christian Nationalism, Jan. 6 Hung at Education Dept
The Education Department has been at the center of Trump's push to "bring back religion in America" and promote "Judeo‑Christian principles."
www.commondreams.org
December 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"The union for US Department of Education workers has raised alarm about a top department official's display of a flag with Christian nationalist associations that was flown during the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol building."
#WashingtonDC #USA #Education #Courts
#WashingtonDC #USA #Education #Courts
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The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
December 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
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Denaturalization is a prime example of psychological warfare against immigrants. A likely smallish number of actual cases will cause anxiety and fear for a disproportionately large number of others.
But …
In this case the targets are eligible vote.
But …
In this case the targets are eligible vote.
Breaking News: The Trump administration plans to ramp up efforts to strip some naturalized Americans of their citizenship, internal documents obtained by The New York Times show, marking an aggressive new phase in President Trump’s immigration crackdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
December 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Denaturalization is a prime example of psychological warfare against immigrants. A likely smallish number of actual cases will cause anxiety and fear for a disproportionately large number of others.
But …
In this case the targets are eligible vote.
But …
In this case the targets are eligible vote.
random checkpoints with masked armed men smacks of full on fascist police state to me
Border patrol under command of Greg Bovino running a checkpoint at the exit to the Uber lot at O’Hare airport in Chicago, asking drivers for proof of valid residency in this country
December 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
random checkpoints with masked armed men smacks of full on fascist police state to me