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1000% correct.
The absolute accuracy of this.
January 18, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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I agree that we ought to use persuasion to bring people nearer to our political purposes; I think that making every single Republican a social and professional pariah for the rest of their lives would be very persuasive when it comes to people weighing the cost/benefit of aligning with fascism.
January 17, 2026 at 1:43 PM
OP is not a freak. Just someone healthy who is *not* a contemptible little coward with a shriveled up soul.
I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
January 17, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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The interior of the peridioles of Nidula niveotomentosa (a birds nest fungus) have surprising green fluorescence in 365 nanometer UV light. Photographed yesterday in Mendocino County, California.

Sliced in half with a sharp razor blade.

#fungi #mycology #mushrooms #fungifriends #uvphotography
January 17, 2026 at 8:21 AM
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I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
January 16, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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americans love replying to this post with their regionalisms and it makes me a little maudlin because it's such a display of americans loving being american in a time when america is not loving them back
the wildest thing is right-wingers acting like minnesotans in videos must be outside agitators when we can all hear their accents. i don't think i could do that accent convincingly if i spent a year practicing. and neither would i wish to. have you heard that shit? craziest american accent
January 16, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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I understand that folks are learning things as they go along so I’m cool with all the people I see surprised by the “Don’t tread on me” libertarian crowd.

They’re just republicans that don’t want to have to be sneaky when they visit a sex worker with weed in the glove box.

Now you know that.
January 12, 2026 at 1:45 AM
I... I can't unsee it. The US is a country overrun by LeFous.
I keep saying, conservative men are the LeFou to their fantasy of a Gaston. Whether he be Trump, some bro "influencer," or law enforcement. They idolize bullies as avatars for & proximity to power.
January 17, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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Called and left messages for both of my Dem Senators opposing any funding for ICE.

WTF is wrong with our Dem leadership?

Do they think voters will vote for them in the midterms after this? Because people are getting jaded. Apathy is coming if they won’t fight.
January 16, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.
He’s turned the presidency into the world’s largest ATM machine.
January 17, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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next reporter who interviews stephen miller should ask him point blank if his goal in minneapolis is to kill more americans
January 17, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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One of the stories that makes me the saddest out of this ICE invasion is one out of the Minnesota Star Tribune today about ICE agents eating at a little Mexican restaurant in the small town of Willmar, Minn, —and then, when they were done, arresting some of the workers.
January 16, 2026 at 12:56 AM
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the wildest thing is right-wingers acting like minnesotans in videos must be outside agitators when we can all hear their accents. i don't think i could do that accent convincingly if i spent a year practicing. and neither would i wish to. have you heard that shit? craziest american accent
January 16, 2026 at 4:57 AM
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Every couple of weeks we get a different description of the apparently awful stench coming off our necrotic president and I think it's high time the media nail down exactly what kind of rotten meat covered in women's perfume he actually smells like.
January 14, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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This is Minneapolis:

Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city.

Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.
January 13, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Exactly, and it's fucking infuriating. Call things by their true name, goddamnit!
one of the weirdest things about the current moment is how the national media have to pretend like they don't know what this is about. official government social media accounts are posting about racially cleansing America and they have to pretend like it's not clear who the bad guy is.
January 14, 2026 at 9:20 PM
What are they trying to make, "animated Superman" Brainiac but gooner? A gooner Brainiac?
Hegseth said Grok will go live inside the Defense Department later this month and announced that he would “make all appropriate data” from the military’s IT systems available for “AI exploitation.”

All DOD classified, unclassified and intelligence data!!!

apnews.com/article/arti...
Pentagon is embracing Musk's Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google’s AI engine inside the Pentagon network.
apnews.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.
January 14, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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And actually--Comet Pizza was a page out of a playbook that started with daycare decades before.

In 1983, a California mom accused her son's childcare provider of subjecting children to Satanic rituals--like flushing them down toilets into secret basements where they were then filmed for porn. 1/🧵
Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.
December 31, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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If my TV tries to show me ads when I pause the Nintendo so help me god I will take any and all measures necessary to defend myself and my family
Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads
Roku TVs could one day show ads as soon as you pause playing a game on a connected Xbox, or stop a stream on an Apple TV.
www.lowpass.cc
April 4, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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Its not good enough to delete our existences at home. Our existence has to be deleted overseas too.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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And for the last time...it's the Tappan Zee
November 6, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Spare a thought for centrist dem consultants this morning.

They just learned their ideal candidate for the Democratic 2028 presidential ticket has passed away.
November 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Dick Cheney died far too old and far too free. The fact that such monsters get to pass away in their eighties surrounded by loved ones instead of alone in a cage is an indictment of our entire civilization.
November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Morning.
November 4, 2025 at 5:11 AM