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Mostly harmless. Like most of us, I hope.
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November 2, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state.

That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress:

Sit back and do absolutely nothing.
An Onion front page with the headline: Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice Who will stand up for our democracy? This question, fraught in even the most peaceful times, has only grown more pressing as our country approaches its 250th anniversary. Each passing day brings growing assaults on essential liberties like freedom of speech and due process. Meanwhile, our delicately assembled legal system faces a constant barrage of threats. Even as this issue reaches publication, the U.S. military has been deployed against peaceful protesters. We teeter on the brink of collapse into an authoritarian state. That is why, today, The Onion calls upon our lawmakers to sit back and do absolutely nothing. Members of Congress, now more than ever, our nation desperately needs your cowardice. Our republic is a birthright, an exceedingly rare treasure passed down from generation to generation of Americans. It was gained through hard years of bloody resistance and can too easily be lost. Our Founding Fathers, in their abundant wisdom, understood that all it would take was men and women of little courage sitting in the corridors of power and taking zero action as this precious inheritance was stripped away—and that is where we have finally arrived. Now is not the time for bravery or valor! This is the time for protecting your own hide and lining your pocket. Now is not the time for listening to your idiotic constituents drone on about what’s happening to their precious democracy. This is the time for getting down on all fours and grov- eling. Now is not the time to say, “Enough is enough,” and have the tough conversations about resisting the ongoing assaults on American liberty. This is the time to let the wave of apathy and indifference roll over you as you think about getting a really nice renovation to your house in Kalorama. But what can I, one coward, do alone? you might ask.
June 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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WE STAND UNITED
June 23, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
www.quaker.org.uk
March 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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March 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
Opinion | Don’t Believe Him
Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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George’s Newsletter
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George’s Newsletter | George Hazim | Substack
Writing about a changing world - political duplicity, subterfuge and how people are used as pawns in a game they are unaware of but should be. Click to read George’s Newsletter, by George Hazim, a Sub...
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February 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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I have news for you - we aren’t taking over Gaza.

But the media and the chattering class will focus on it for a few days and Trump will have succeeded in distracting everyone from the real story - the billionaires seizing government to steal from regular people.
February 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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🕯️🙏 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quaker statement on Donald Trump's proposal to take over Gaza
​Quakers are horrified by Donald Trump's proposal to take over and own Gaza and ethnically cleanse two million Palestinians.
www.quaker.org.uk
February 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Submission on the Regulatory Standards Bill by Emeritus Professor Jane Kelsey.
It articulates (quite succinctly, considering) all the many *many* ways in which this bill is terribly flawed and a betrayal of democracy & our nation.
#kikorangi #nzpol
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Jane Kelsey's Submission on the proposed Regulatory Standards Bill
A guest post by Emeritus Professor Jane Kelsey, sharing her in-depth knowledge of neoliberalism and the Regulatory Standards Bill
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January 9, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Good morning!☕️✌️
My therapist told me "write letters to the people you hate and burn them." Dude that, but now I don't know what to do with letters.
December 8, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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jimmytwohands.bsky.social
you ever seen a more relatable headline
A article headline that says “A rabies scare in West Virginia turned out to be just raccoons drunk on crab apples” And there’s a picture of a raccoon underneath his face loooks cute
November 13, 2024 at 2:25 AM