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@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: “Republican senators should be very careful on this right now. If they do not come out and defend Senator Padilla’s right to ask questions of this administration of his colleagues, they are setting an extraordinarily dangerous precedent"
June 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Analysis: President Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested the United States should acquire additional land by purchase, agreement, coercion – and he hasn’t ruled out using military force. Yet some promises for bold action are coming up short.
American Battleground: Trump dreams of empire while struggling to keep some promises | CNN Politics
Vice President JD Vance chooses the perfect introductory words for his brief visit to Greenland, if he were a tourist just in for some laughs and an Instagram moment. But as the highest-ranking offici...
cnn.it
April 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Dude wants to be "tough on crime", unless its the government criming against addicts.
April 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Huzzah!
Good news, everyone! You get to do whatever you want! As long as you say you were trying to save the country, it’s all legal now.
February 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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What we are witnessing is probably best described as a Private Equity leveraged buyout of a nuclear armed state
January 31, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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The past several days have proven without a shadow of a doubt that Project 2025 is real and underway.

And those who warned America about it were right.
January 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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If your God gave you a right to a gun, but not to healthcare, your God is an absolute menace…
January 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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1. Alleged abuser harasses or assault someone
2. Alleged Victim speaks out.
3. Journalists cover it.
4. Abuser sues the journalists to stop others from speaking out and reporting on it because lawyers are expensive.

DARVO at its peak.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO
January 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Three graphs that explain America’s health care system.

1. More than 1 in 5 insured Americans have medical debts
December 20, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Fascist 'Jokes' About Annexing NATO Ally
open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...
Fascist 'Jokes' About Annexing NATO Ally
And everyone laughed and laughed.
open.substack.com
December 8, 2024 at 11:14 PM
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LA Times news story: "Massive earthquake along San Andreas Fault destroys thousands of homes, plunges region into chaos."

AI anti-bias alternative: "Earthquake reconstruction creates more jobs for robots!"
LA Times owner plans to add AI-powered ‘bias meter’ on news stories, sparking newsroom backlash. www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/m... "The reader can press a button and get both sides of that exact same story," says the owner.

If you think "critical of" equals "biased about" then you may enjoy this machine.
LA Times owner plans to add AI-powered ‘bias meter’ on news stories, sparking newsroom backlash | CNN Business
Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, who blocked the newspaper’s endorsement of Kamala Harris and plans to overhaul its editorial board, says he will implement an artificial intelligence-power...
www.cnn.com
December 6, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Of course he did.
December 4, 2024 at 11:20 PM
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My feeds right now on various social networks:

Facebook: Black Friday ads, photos from boomer relatives, weird promoted posts about Wicked

X: "Cry more, libtard c*nt"

Bluesky: "Twitter is toxic, stop telling me to stay on Twitter"

Instagram: bears & ballerinas
December 1, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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There seems to be a vast under-appreciation for the lines we’ve crossed and the world we’re in.

Trump’s win has basically put us in a post-rules world.

People in power don’t feel constrained by rules and any remaining checks don’t feel empowered to be checks.

This reality has not set in yet.
December 1, 2024 at 8:11 PM