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Looking back over my year of mostly re-posts and this one feels like it could use a reup. It’s been a bad year, this is…worth remembering

After all our data was, oh let’s go with ‘collected’ by DOGE too
One month apart.
December 2, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Oooh I see - that’s just standard negotiation tactics, my bad.
Something something Trump is a Russian asset
the American government is effectively ending its space program.
December 2, 2025 at 2:11 AM
So…the insurers are kind of like “death panels”?
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 4d
Few nursing homes can care for people who need help breathing with a ventilator because of ALS and other conditions. Insurers often deny payment for the best at-home machines, and innovative solutions are endangered by Medicaid cuts.
They need a ventilator to stay alive. Getting one can be a nightmare
Few nursing homes can care for people who need help breathing with a ventilator because of ALS and other conditions. Insurers often deny payment for the best at-home machines, and innovative solutions are endangered by Medicaid cuts.
n.pr
December 1, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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good news everyone the Mistaken Text From Grandma Thanksgiving buddy drama is still going strong

this story delights me every year
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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The crimes are happening everywhere, all the time. We’re going to learn about staggering amounts of corruption.

www.npr.org/2025/11/21/n...
November 23, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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If a man points in a woman's face and says "Quiet piggy" you say something about it... You stand up and you say "What the fuck did you just say?" www.welcometohellworld.com/the-love-we-...
November 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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I honestly can’t process how they see this as something new. It’s his whole deal! Always has been!
This is a Texas Republican who was part of the January 6th mob
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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NEW: Using his clemency power, Trump has undone prosecutions made by his own DOJ during his first term.

Experts say the actions show a broad contempt for the justice system: “He’s rejecting ... the work of people he appointed but didn’t fully control.”

By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
A Tale of Two Terms: How Powerful Figures Were Prosecuted in Trump’s First Term, Then Pardoned in His Second
We found that Donald Trump has granted clemency in at least a dozen criminal cases that originated during his first term. No other president has used clemency to erase his own appointees’ actions on s...
www.propublica.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Remarkable.
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
“Don’t let them eat cake!”
Wow! The lengths Trump will go to just to make Americans starve. His administration has ordered states to “immediately undo” any steps taken to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families.
Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Earlier this week I came across a book with this dedication page (from 1938).
November 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Literally how the country first used the taxing power
Justice Sotomayor:

“You say tariffs are not taxes, but that’s exactly what they are.”
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Nine southwestern Wisconsin Head Start classrooms to close due to government shutdown
Nine southwestern Wisconsin Head Start classrooms to close due to government shutdown
DODGEVILLE, Wis. — The Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program will close its nine preschool Head Start classrooms on Monday as the federal government shutdown stretches into its fourth week.
www.channel3000.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti.

The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.
October 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Some things we’re not going to get back.
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Just receieved this today from Florida Blue. This is for a Bronze plan. Our monthly premiums are going from $333 (2025) to $2300 in 2026.
October 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Madison, WI #nokings
October 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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A comet visible to the naked eye will make its closest approach to Earth on October 21
Look Up for a Rare Comet and Meteor Show
A comet visible to the naked eye will make its closest approach to Earth on October 21
www.scientificamerican.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Dentist office playing Golden is peak 2025
October 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff
Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
October 11, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Geesh - almost fall asleep and jerk awake once on a plane and your Facebook feed starts serving up narcolepsy study ads
October 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM