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“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judicial] in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self–appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” (James Madison, Federalist No. 51)

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Nazgul

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🎶That's my otter in the water... 🦦🌊 #embroidery #handembroidery

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neither of the people in the QT-thread are valid. I only date people who _fail_ the Qing-era examination, then lead a rebellion leading to the bloodiest war of the nineteenth century, because I have actual standards and I'm not falling for any fool who can write eighteen poems on their sleeve

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This man is FROM NEW JERSEY He fights for FASCISM

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Sadly, with these blatantly political firings, every single general and flag officer nominee going forward must be asked publicly under oath by SASC what sort of loyalty oaths, if any, they swore to the Administration.

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The Republican Party has been the motivating force behind most visceral patriotism in my life, because their efforts to destroy the cosmopolitan liberal democracy in which I was born have made me realize that I am in fact quite attached to it, and willing to countenance a lot in it’s defense.

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DOGE By The Numbers theonion.com/doge-by...

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btw, i will tell you this - i have been talking to people all day, and the media is missing, whether intentionally or not, how absolutely, volcanically angry the people who have been fired are, not because they lost their jobs, but because their jobs matter, *to us*

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Arctic fox.. 😊

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[willem dafoe unprompted] now, this cookie monster. [toothy smile] what a creature, what a lust. it consumes him. [crosses legs] he’s really a tragic figure.

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I TOLD YOU BRO. I TOLD YOU ABOUT THE AVATAR

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Unironically, these letters are a good example of how we’re ruled by evil men now. It would have cost them nothing to be at least slightly sympathetic. “Hey man, we know this is rough, but we have to tighten our belts and…” They instead deliberately made them as cruel as possible.

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Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

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for instance, in 2015, "we should kill the president if he declares himself king" would be a pretty uncontroversial thing to say, whereas in 2015 it is plausibly a true threat.

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Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE

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Managed Democracy, as featured in Helldivers 2

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what do these people plan to do when the last law is down, and the devil turns round on them? Where will they hide, all the laws being flat?

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Either he’s a sociopath without regard for treaties or sovereignty and should not be president, his words mean nothing and he should not be president, or both and he should not be president.

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This is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that one of Trump and Musk's MAGA allies undercuts a core legal argument of the administration in a public statement--it's not even hard, since most of the administration's legal arguments are nonsense. With friends like these, etc. etc.

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When they tell the history of this era Ukraine is going to be the main character.

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