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Gonna level with you bro I think DHS needs to be dissolved after this. Regardless of what national security functions fall under its remit, it's clearly institutionally constructed in such a way allows it to be used as an unaccountable tool of executive power. Can't reform your way out of that.

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Imagine 5 million people leaving their homes just to let you know that you’re a despicable asshole

submitted 2 days ago • 64 comments

Trump is alone, humiliated, surrounded by loser supporters, and extremely angry. This is when he'll be at his most dangerous and will do as much as possible to hurt America and the world.

submitted 2 days ago • 227 comments

The giant baby in a rare moment between conflicts

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ICE has only existed since 2003. A Bush-era creation, it is a militarized federal secret police that has been imbued with the Supreme Court with the unconstitutional power to ignore the fourth amendment. Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.

submitted 10 days ago • 39 comments

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

submitted 10 days ago • 106 comments

The discourse about how to protest right is a distraction from what the protests are actually about: SECURITY FORCES CAME IN THE NIGHT AND TOOK 2000 PEOPLE AWAY Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

You cannot go about your life thinking about ways to avoid making fascists angry. You will not succeed, and you will not be free.

submitted 11 days ago • 24 comments

One of those moments when you're staring at a picture and it stares back at you from a history book

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Spiders re-homed from inside to the garden get named. Just removed a male wolf spider I christened “Dumb Bitch Juice”

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Read Poppy Z. Brite Read Clive Barker Read Hailey Piper Read Andrew Joseph White Read Gretchen Felker-Martin Read Alison Rumfitt Read Sofia Ajram Read David Demchuk Read Paula D. Ashe Read Joe Koch READ QUEER HORROR ALL YEAR 🏳️‍🌈🖤

submitted 18 days ago • 11 comments

Ich ❤️ Blue Skye, and thou shouldest feele moost welcome to repost thys yf thou dost also love Blue Skye

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments

“Propaganda—yes, even propaganda that you make for your own side to balance out the outrageous propaganda of the other side—makes the public more susceptible to bullshit. Competing streams of propaganda are not the same thing as news.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/free-advic...

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Okay, here's the master plan: 1) create a multi-disciplinary initiative to conceptualize and fund a generational space ship capable of holding a bank of genetic material, all our cultural and technological treasures, and cryonic/cybernetic systems for carrying a select few humans 1/3

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

submitted 40 days ago • 629 comments

applying for jobs again

submitted 45 days ago • 149 comments

if you spread a malicious rumor about a cardinal to tank his chances at the papal conclave is that a pap smear

submitted 43 days ago • 8 comments

The true spirit of May the Fourth is taking some of the copious amounts of complaints the Star Wars fandom is blessed with, and making a charitable donation on behalf of less-fortunate franchises.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Eventually, all media will alienate the viewer who demands to never be challenged by the presence of “politics." Even inoffensive, frivolous art will inevitably make the person experiencing it consider his or her place in the world. And when you’re an arsehole, that’s enraging.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

There may be no greater abdication of responsibility than the head of government research saying “do your own research.”

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Babu Frik was wasted on Rise of Skywalker

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Low-rent British drug dealer named Pablo Tescobar

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Dude you’re transphobic? Like from Harry Potter? Grow up.

submitted 57 days ago • 3 comments

Settler colonialism, I guess?

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

Evil gnomes need real estate too!

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And here is why the respectable publications like the New Yorker that inflated their traffic by hyping this phony company's bullshit should hang their heads in shame: “Pick your favorite species and call up Colossal.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

submitted 70 days ago • 6 comments

"Scream it for me baby / Like you're gonna die" goes extremely hard for a pop song.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments