Tom McGee
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Classical musician, web developer, art lover. Follow requests ignored unless you've got something to say.
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We don't have to let like 10 sloplords suck up all the water with soulless facilities that create a negligible amount of permanent jobs, pollute the environment with noise, and drive up electricity prices while the president carries out a fatwa against wind power.
My god, everything's so stupid.
My god, everything's so stupid.
U.S. electricity prices rose 7.4% in just one year, and energy policy analysts expect them to keep climbing faster than inflation in 2026. Meanwhile, data centers powering AI could nearly triple their energy use by 2030. buff.ly/KE663ZA
Rising electricity prices and an aging grid challenge the nation as data centers demand more power
Energy projects are expensive and take a long time to build. Where to build them is often also a difficult, even controversial, question.
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December 25, 2025 at 9:11 AM
We don't have to let like 10 sloplords suck up all the water with soulless facilities that create a negligible amount of permanent jobs, pollute the environment with noise, and drive up electricity prices while the president carries out a fatwa against wind power.
My god, everything's so stupid.
My god, everything's so stupid.
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I'm not an attorney, but I don't see anything here I would argue with.
I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 16, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I'm not an attorney, but I don't see anything here I would argue with.
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State newrepublic.com/article/2041... via @newrepublic.com
One could make the case that Miller is, in fact, un-assimilated.
One could make the case that Miller is, in fact, un-assimilated.
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State newrepublic.com/article/2041... via @newrepublic.com
One could make the case that Miller is, in fact, un-assimilated.
One could make the case that Miller is, in fact, un-assimilated.
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The grotesquely racist campaign against Somali immigrants; the attack on birthright citizenship; a national security strategy shaped by far-right talking points: These are not separate policy initiatives, but manifestations of a worldview defined by white nationalism as its organizing principle.
December 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The grotesquely racist campaign against Somali immigrants; the attack on birthright citizenship; a national security strategy shaped by far-right talking points: These are not separate policy initiatives, but manifestations of a worldview defined by white nationalism as its organizing principle.
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It was only a matter of time…
December 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
It was only a matter of time…
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Just when I thought Costco couldn’t get any better, they drop a lawsuit on Trump like it’s a free sample. MAGA rage-quitting is the membership perk I didn’t know I needed. 😆
December 4, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Just when I thought Costco couldn’t get any better, they drop a lawsuit on Trump like it’s a free sample. MAGA rage-quitting is the membership perk I didn’t know I needed. 😆
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This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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While the right lose their goddamn minds about a lone wolf doing something horrendous in DC today, let’s not forget that last week in the White House they all gushed over a genocidal, journalist murdering tyrant whose country financed 9/11.
November 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
While the right lose their goddamn minds about a lone wolf doing something horrendous in DC today, let’s not forget that last week in the White House they all gushed over a genocidal, journalist murdering tyrant whose country financed 9/11.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Earlier this year I met someone who was born and raised in Tulsa, and she attested that she never learned anything about the massacre until just a few years ago.
Earlier this year I met someone who was born and raised in Tulsa, and she attested that she never learned anything about the massacre until just a few years ago.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
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November 25, 2025 at 12:48 AM
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Earlier this year I met someone who was born and raised in Tulsa, and she attested that she never learned anything about the massacre until just a few years ago.
Earlier this year I met someone who was born and raised in Tulsa, and she attested that she never learned anything about the massacre until just a few years ago.
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
School board elections used to be uninteresting, but now we have to be vigilant to keep the crazies out. I read the candidates platforms and web sites carefully looking for any indications that a candidate is a moms-for-liberty type.
In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards
In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards
The party recruited and invested in school board races to oust Republicans. It worked.
dlvr.it
November 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
School board elections used to be uninteresting, but now we have to be vigilant to keep the crazies out. I read the candidates platforms and web sites carefully looking for any indications that a candidate is a moms-for-liberty type.
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Donald Trump publicly calls for the execution of Democratic congressmen, and Republicans don’t bat an eye. But as soon as you make a joke about Charlie Kirk’s views, all hell breaks loose.
November 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Donald Trump publicly calls for the execution of Democratic congressmen, and Republicans don’t bat an eye. But as soon as you make a joke about Charlie Kirk’s views, all hell breaks loose.
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I'm old enough to remember when "armed agents of the federal government raiding churches on Christmas" was not, in fact, a cornerstone of the Republican Party's agenda.
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I'm old enough to remember when "armed agents of the federal government raiding churches on Christmas" was not, in fact, a cornerstone of the Republican Party's agenda.
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Today Donald Trump saved us from some of the tariffs he put in place, in order to bring down the price of groceries he said never went up.
November 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Today Donald Trump saved us from some of the tariffs he put in place, in order to bring down the price of groceries he said never went up.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
The first paragraph of this is ...
The first paragraph of this is ...
Nick Fuentes’s Rise Puts MAGA Movement in a ‘Time of Choosing’
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November 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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The first paragraph of this is ...
The first paragraph of this is ...
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This is officially one of the strangest pictures in American history, and I do not doubt that it will be considered iconic a hundred years from now.
100% serious here.
100% serious here.
November 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This is officially one of the strangest pictures in American history, and I do not doubt that it will be considered iconic a hundred years from now.
100% serious here.
100% serious here.
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Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'"
I've saved her some time.
I've saved her some time.
October 29, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'"
I've saved her some time.
I've saved her some time.
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God I hope this is real
October 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
God I hope this is real
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‘No Kings’ protesters don’t ‘hate America” — they hate what Trump is doing to it
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‘No Kings’ protesters don’t ‘hate America” — they hate what Trump is doing to it
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October 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
‘No Kings’ protesters don’t ‘hate America” — they hate what Trump is doing to it
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Watch this.
Open your eyes to this brutality.
ICE beats up, drags & abducts this disabled visually impaired man.
Now share this.
Everyone must see the brutality of this administration & ask themselves what they are doing to push back.
You have power.
Even sharing this video exerts that power.
Open your eyes to this brutality.
ICE beats up, drags & abducts this disabled visually impaired man.
Now share this.
Everyone must see the brutality of this administration & ask themselves what they are doing to push back.
You have power.
Even sharing this video exerts that power.
October 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Watch this.
Open your eyes to this brutality.
ICE beats up, drags & abducts this disabled visually impaired man.
Now share this.
Everyone must see the brutality of this administration & ask themselves what they are doing to push back.
You have power.
Even sharing this video exerts that power.
Open your eyes to this brutality.
ICE beats up, drags & abducts this disabled visually impaired man.
Now share this.
Everyone must see the brutality of this administration & ask themselves what they are doing to push back.
You have power.
Even sharing this video exerts that power.
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