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I write, I talk, I joke, therefore I am. I love to travel and find new places. I laugh a lot because I'm a happy person. Trigger warning: Figurative and literal lefty. Love New Wave, Punk, Ska, and Oddball music from across the decades.
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Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

“Is he dead yet?” asked Piglet. “No,” said Pooh. “Fuck,” said Piglet.

submitted 16 hours ago • 145 comments

#SAVAGE

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“One Big Beautiful Bill”? Try one big, bold-faced lie. They swore this mess wouldn’t add to the deficit…but the nonpartisan budget office says otherwise. $2.4 TRILLION added to the deficit—and for what? Tax cuts for the rich.

submitted 1 day ago • 531 comments

Weatherpeople always tell the truth.

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Jon Stewart on Elon Musk's Black-Eyed Exit & Trump's Insane New Biden Conspiracy youtu.be/WIhlC3L99x8

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

On May 29, 2025, atmospheric CO₂ concentration at the Mauna Loa Observatory reached 430.71 ppm. When I was born in 1991, the global average was around 355 ppm. A cataclysmic geological shift in just three decades, and no serious effort to « flatten the curve » here.

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Actually, yes, this and a fantastic set of encyclopedias

submitted 2 days ago • 742 comments

This is so sad. Homophobes killed a man's dogs, burned down his house, then murdered him. Let that sink in. And trump and Musk would make it US Policy to do the same to all LGBTQA+ people in America. You must see how wrong that is. 🏳️‍🌈

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Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

submitted 5 days ago • 601 comments

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They should however, ban bronzer for facial use.

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In 2009, Alan Grayson characterized the Republican healthcare plan: "Don't get sick. And if you do get sick, die quickly." He was excoriated for his incivility. Actually, he was just a little bit early.

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My high school age son has a classmate just seized by ICE and she is now in a cell in Louisiana, her phone seized. This is High School in the USA in 2025. More Au Revoir Les Enfants than Ferris Bueller. School and community response already in motion.

submitted 6 days ago • 140 comments

David Bowie, 1982, by Greg Gorman.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Awww. A fine actress.

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I don’t know how many times we have to say this, but the U.S. government is not a business and shouldn’t be run like one. It’s a service—for the people.

submitted 6 days ago • 741 comments

Imbecile.

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submitted 9 days ago • 295 comments

Damn, that man could play guitar! A rock 'n roller through and through. Rest In Peace, Rick Derringer.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Devo, January 6, 1978 by Bruce Conner

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

The move towards trusting mob psychology more than single experts in a field is how we get to Idiocracy. "Thousands believe..." I don't care. What does science say?

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

This is the extra awful part of the one-two punch of bigoted book bans and capricious federal library funding cuts that regular people often don't get: Speaking and school and library visits are essential to the livelihoods of authors—especially authors who write for children and young adults.

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Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

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Happy Birthday to Siouxsie Sioux, born on this day in 1957, London, England Siouxsie And The Banshees (with Robert Smith) - Spellbound (Live at Royal Albert Hall 1983) #punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #siouxsiesioux #history #punkrockhistory #otd

submitted 9 days ago • 15 comments

One Georgia hospital is trading PCs for Apple gear -- and transforming patient care in the process.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Pete 😂😂

submitted 13 days ago • 54 comments

UPDATE: The Senate parliamentarian advised lawmakers that they couldn't use the Congressional Review Act to revoke California's right to set vehicle standards. But they did it anyway. Expect a legal fight.

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David Bowie and Iggy Pop, Tokyo, 1977 by Masayoshi Sukita

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Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Passes House, Takes From Poor, Gives to Rich youtu.be/XwcMnopTSjA

submitted 13 days ago • 32 comments

You're seeing America kamikaze itself into a brick wall. It didn't have to be this way. But greed and racism, our two sins, will be our downfall. Too many people still with their hands in the sand.

submitted 13 days ago • 666 comments