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“The roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd…“

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Got a great idea: Let's stop elevating these assholes in the press and (in this case) the Page Six rag. Their success is because we make it so. STOP IT.

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Even if Iran attacked us first, the President does not have the authority to declare war on a sovereign nation. That right is reserved to Congress. Where the hell are our reps?!?

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Demanded by the trump administration, the president now holds one share of class G, or “gold" stock, giving him permanent veto power over nearly a dozen actions the company might take, and power over its board of directors. Government control over the means of production is communism. Q.E.D.

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More and more these days I see familiar names and familiar faces in the obits. While I certainly am saddened by their passing, I am emboldened by it as well: Life is to f****g short. Get busy living it!

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"....but what I find most humbling is the thought that my journey means something to you..." -- Harvey Fierstein, upon acceptance of the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award at the 78th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday June 8, 2025. Well earned, well deserved.

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tagging @elizfinn.bsky.social on this. See? There's reason to hope! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsK-...

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Hilarious.

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81% of Palestine’s population exposed to conflict, 35,000 fatalities recorded in 12 months (50,000+ since Hamas’ attack on 7 October 2023); civilians remain under daily assault from bombings and incursions. 52 incidents occur in Palestine per day. (Credit: acleddata.com/conflict-ind...)

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"... It's really like herding a lot of very festive cats that have gotten the zoomies." -- from a description of the duties of a holiday parade coordination team in a summer vacation hotspot.

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This country is descending into autocracy. Fast. More evidence here. Worth a quick watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLuY...

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"....For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury... "...For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences..."

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I needed this chuckle... :)

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In the end, the love we received will be all that is left to us, and the love we shared will be all that is left of us. Nothing else matters.

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At the academy of music in Northampton for a rare night out.

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www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-f...

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Just overheard as I walked through the lobby of the local high school: A teacher or advisor, speaking to a student, saying “OK, that sign should read ‘welcome to the class of 2031’” Oh, my. When did I get so old?

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From @hcrichardson.bsky.social: "Once you give up the idea that we are all equal before the law and have the right to due process, you have given up the whole game. You have admitted the principle that some people have more rights than others... 1/2

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The feds requested that Harvard create a political office "to audit those programs and departments that most fuel antisemitic harassment or reflect ideological capture." This is some seriously Soviet era, zampolit bullshit. #Harvard said no. As in 1776, Boston steps first into the line of fire.

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One of our best actors reading the most important words of our time. Thanks to @politicsgirl.bsky.social for bringing this to my attention.

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"Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of speech, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" is, IMHO, pretty fucking self-explanatory. When you judge some speech as 'good' and other speech as 'bad', regardless of your intentions, all speech suffers.

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#47 is playing the system. He is - literally - rigging the economy. He knew that tariffs would cause a stock-market drop, and he knew that a 90-day pause would cause it to skyrocket. Who did he tell in advance? Who knew what, when? The rich get richer, and we get nothing. EAT THE RICH.

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We don't deserve to survive. We are a species gone mad.

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Every time I hear the Cheeto In Chief use the word “great”:

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"All animals are equal... ....But some are more equal than others."

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I never realized that I could solve all my problems, just by cutting out the 'five feminizing foods' from my diet - just like a good Christian should. (....I really gotta get a good ad-blocker that works on YouTube ads...)

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Worth a watch, in order to understand the logic - or lack of it - of the tariff calculations of the current administration.

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Yep - this:

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They keep taxing us, but at this point, we're getting absolutly NO return on our investment.

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