Charl Peter Gerida
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low stakes posting today reminds me that 1) Facebook is for talking to people you know IRL but don’t like and 2) microblogging sites are for talking to people you don’t know but do like.
we forget these things at our peril
we forget these things at our peril
December 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
low stakes posting today reminds me that 1) Facebook is for talking to people you know IRL but don’t like and 2) microblogging sites are for talking to people you don’t know but do like.
we forget these things at our peril
we forget these things at our peril
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Wishing you all a happy holidays, Illinois.
December 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Wishing you all a happy holidays, Illinois.
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oh so the DSCC straight up does not have a candidate in Texas. honestly, great!
Talarico at an event last week. “I will use every bit of financial and diplomatic leverage that this country has to end the atrocities in Palestine,”.
I will not use your tax dollars to fund these war crimes. I will vote to ban offensive weapons to Israel.”
I will not use your tax dollars to fund these war crimes. I will vote to ban offensive weapons to Israel.”
December 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
oh so the DSCC straight up does not have a candidate in Texas. honestly, great!
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I agree with you in principle, I just need a detailed .pdf that lays out the political and policy path you propose, accounting for all possible contingencies. No, I will not fund your research into this matter.
I'm here willing to read anything someone puts together that details how we can get from here to there
I'm all for universal healthcare. Tell me how we get there.
I'm all for universal healthcare. Tell me how we get there.
December 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I agree with you in principle, I just need a detailed .pdf that lays out the political and policy path you propose, accounting for all possible contingencies. No, I will not fund your research into this matter.
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There's a lot of people I respect who cannot come to terms with the fact that this is what the American people voted for, they're getting it good and hard, and there is little to nothing a minority party can do to stop it.
Republicans ran on a platform of mass deportation and they're delivering.
Republicans ran on a platform of mass deportation and they're delivering.
This is outright Nazi stuff, and Democrats in Congress aren’t doing enough to try and stop it.
WaPo reports that ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people.
Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
December 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
There's a lot of people I respect who cannot come to terms with the fact that this is what the American people voted for, they're getting it good and hard, and there is little to nothing a minority party can do to stop it.
Republicans ran on a platform of mass deportation and they're delivering.
Republicans ran on a platform of mass deportation and they're delivering.
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Kubrick was murdered because they didn’t want him to make a warhammer 40k movie.
I don't really believe the conspiracy theories about Kubrick being murdered but I do absolutely believe in the theory that the Victor Zeigler character was based on/inspired specifically by Jeffrey Epstein.
December 24, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Kubrick was murdered because they didn’t want him to make a warhammer 40k movie.
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erika kirk trying to turn herself into jackie kennedy but forgetting that jackie pretty much withdrew from public life following her husband's death to mourn in private, due to not being a demonhearted pageant girl from arizona
December 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
erika kirk trying to turn herself into jackie kennedy but forgetting that jackie pretty much withdrew from public life following her husband's death to mourn in private, due to not being a demonhearted pageant girl from arizona
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Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean.
I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.
I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.
We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
December 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean.
I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.
I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.
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There's a dark triad for predatory scammer types: refusing to pay their bills; constantly name-dropping and social-climbing in pursuit of new marks; escalating depravity as if in an attempt to see if there's anything they can't get away with. The problem is that millions of Americans are like this.
December 19, 2025 at 4:24 AM
There's a dark triad for predatory scammer types: refusing to pay their bills; constantly name-dropping and social-climbing in pursuit of new marks; escalating depravity as if in an attempt to see if there's anything they can't get away with. The problem is that millions of Americans are like this.
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“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:53 AM
“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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Yeah, the problem with what I guess I'll call Ezra Klein-style liberalism is that it holds that ideas work like tokens that do not have any inherent moral valence, you can trade them and exchange them and they do not actually say anything about the person holding them
if you ever, at any point, thought marjorie taylor greene was maybe secretly a good person get your instincts checked
December 18, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Yeah, the problem with what I guess I'll call Ezra Klein-style liberalism is that it holds that ideas work like tokens that do not have any inherent moral valence, you can trade them and exchange them and they do not actually say anything about the person holding them
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Here in Boston, the Black community threatened violence after learning that promoters of "BIRTH OF A NATION planned to stage a reenactment on Boston Common featuring men wearing Klan robes. This was to occur just steps away from the Shaw-54th Massachusetts Monument.
one thing that is important to know is that BIRTH OF A NATION is so racist that people at the *time*, in 1915, were like, “holy shit this is racist”
When the slightest bit of research shows he was consistently racist and a daddy issues Confederate fanboy.
People try to paint BIRTH OF A NATION as a masterpiece with some unfortunate racism. The whole movie is racist, the “masterpiece “ thing was backfilled to excuse it.
People try to paint BIRTH OF A NATION as a masterpiece with some unfortunate racism. The whole movie is racist, the “masterpiece “ thing was backfilled to excuse it.
December 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Here in Boston, the Black community threatened violence after learning that promoters of "BIRTH OF A NATION planned to stage a reenactment on Boston Common featuring men wearing Klan robes. This was to occur just steps away from the Shaw-54th Massachusetts Monument.
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chat is it good for a republican president to be underwater with white people
![Gallup poll | 12/1-12/15
President Trump approval crosstabs (%)
🟥Overall (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥Democratic (93/3 disapprove) [-90]
🟩Republican (89/8 approve) [+81]
🟥Independent (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥18-34 (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥35-54 (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥55+ (53/43 disapprove) [-10]
🟥No college (55/37 disapprove) [-18]
🟥College graduate (59/37 disapprove) [-22]
🟥Male (53/42 disapprove) [-11]
🟥Female (64/30 disapprove) [-34]
🟥White (52/46 disapprove) [-6]
🟥Non-white (71/21 disapprove) [-50]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreifnv6vxufu6icjvsd5toirz3lmqkzertdpdnlqh7q44momevhfjqq@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
chat is it good for a republican president to be underwater with white people
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"porch piracy" is theft. it's illegal in every single state. in states with expansive statutes, this could even be burglary. there is no evidence that local police or prosecutors are unable to handle this. and existing federal law on interstate transportation of stolen property can handle big cases.
December 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
"porch piracy" is theft. it's illegal in every single state. in states with expansive statutes, this could even be burglary. there is no evidence that local police or prosecutors are unable to handle this. and existing federal law on interstate transportation of stolen property can handle big cases.
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that's cool, man, but have you tried the taste of a refreshing matcha latte
December 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
that's cool, man, but have you tried the taste of a refreshing matcha latte
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the 2028 democratic party is going to be 50% DSA and 50% CIA at this rate
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
the 2028 democratic party is going to be 50% DSA and 50% CIA at this rate
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It's the end of 2027. Americans struggle through stagflation, Silicon Valley pleads for bail outs from the AI bubble bursting, unbought crops rot in the fields and the Venezuela War drags on.
The White House tells the press that Trump is laser focused on the 33rd attempt to indict Letita James.
The White House tells the press that Trump is laser focused on the 33rd attempt to indict Letita James.
GRAND JURY DECLINES INDICTMENT AGAINST NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL JAMES FOR SECOND TIME-SOURCES
December 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
It's the end of 2027. Americans struggle through stagflation, Silicon Valley pleads for bail outs from the AI bubble bursting, unbought crops rot in the fields and the Venezuela War drags on.
The White House tells the press that Trump is laser focused on the 33rd attempt to indict Letita James.
The White House tells the press that Trump is laser focused on the 33rd attempt to indict Letita James.
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by far the most encouraging thing about the second Trump term has been the extent to which ordinary people, tasked with the execution of the very system of justice this administration wishes to corrupt, have said absolutely the fuck not
our institutions are failing but our people are not
our institutions are failing but our people are not
JUST IN: Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Snell just confirmed, at the prodding of U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling, that this motion for dismissal followed a "no bill" from a grand jury.
That means the grand jury refused to indict.
That means the grand jury refused to indict.
U.S. prosecutors in Chicago are dropping another case tied to Operation Midway Blitz, "without prejudice."
It's USA v. Nathan Griffin. Below is the motion, followed by excerpts from the complaint.
The feds don't say why they're dropping it, but they had until today to secure an indictment.
It's USA v. Nathan Griffin. Below is the motion, followed by excerpts from the complaint.
The feds don't say why they're dropping it, but they had until today to secure an indictment.
December 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
by far the most encouraging thing about the second Trump term has been the extent to which ordinary people, tasked with the execution of the very system of justice this administration wishes to corrupt, have said absolutely the fuck not
our institutions are failing but our people are not
our institutions are failing but our people are not
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once again everyone would have been happier, Trump included, if we just Truman Showed him and let him play pretend president on the teevee
December 18, 2025 at 2:18 AM
once again everyone would have been happier, Trump included, if we just Truman Showed him and let him play pretend president on the teevee
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a larger percentage of Americans believed that we faked the moon landing than believed that Joe Biden did not have dementia. also, and no one discovered this until after the election, he had the aggressive cancer he will almost certainly die of during the campaign.
If the choice was between Biden & Trump, the people who voted for Harris would've mostly come around. The big unknown is how many people who voted for Biden in 2020, but didn't vote for Harris would have come around. I'm not the only one who thinks sexism & racism were a factor.
October 28, 2025 at 5:28 AM
a larger percentage of Americans believed that we faked the moon landing than believed that Joe Biden did not have dementia. also, and no one discovered this until after the election, he had the aggressive cancer he will almost certainly die of during the campaign.
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I was wondering how they got a Trump judge on board here and lol lmao
November 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I was wondering how they got a Trump judge on board here and lol lmao
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I really do worry about the degree to which we rhetorically entrench Murc’s Law in pursuit of being pre-disappointed.
I’ll put it this way: I have significantly more optimism that we can beat this particular set of fascists than I do that Dems will do what is necessary not to hand the country right back over to the next batch four year later
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I really do worry about the degree to which we rhetorically entrench Murc’s Law in pursuit of being pre-disappointed.