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After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

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it really speaks to how trump does not see himself as a steward of the white house or the presidency but as its owner. he will do with it as he pleases.

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Trampoline

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Skeleton Warrior by John Tedrick www.artstation.com/a...

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they’re not, they just aren’t, full stop. much smaller countries with much larger federal police forces / paramilitaries buckle under this kind of strain. you cannot just redeploy the US military domestically on a whim and doing so is a monumental risk to your own regime.

submitted 23 hours ago • 19 comments

the american voter approves of the idea of giving everyone a pony, but if will go psychotic if ever have to deal with horse shit on the street, and don't vote for pro pony candidate because they'd actually only give ponies to black people

submitted 22 hours ago • 7 comments

These charts in the post together with The Chart® tell the entire story of the election and most of the discourse and punditry about it is just completely unnecessary.

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the empirical evidence is pretty conclusive that the 2020 protests contributed to trump’s defeat. why did it take four years for the “calamitous imagery” of those protests to have a decisive electoral impact in trump’s favor, & what caused the political valence of that imagery to reverse entirely?

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Yes, and it makes them not realize that the point wasn't to win then and there, that day, but to horrify bystanders. Showing everyone that Jim Crow was nothing but a playground for the most vicious thugs who happened to be White--that was powerful.

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the pay is shit, everyone — even other law enforcement agencies — hates you and thinks you're stupid brutes, your coworkers are on the news ziptying grandfathers and kindergarteners every day, your quotas are laughably unrealistic and your bosses spend all day going on tv, what's not to love

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

He's so chill

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The best scientific evidence is that the 2020 BLM protests helped defeat Trump in the election. These protests are likely doing the same. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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We need a bigger boat

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We are at war.

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Research shows that outreach to members of the military and security services is one of the single most effective activities civil resistance movements can engage in! Military forces are much less likely to shoot protesters if they think their friend or cousin could be in the crowd.

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Stunts! The Best Stunts of All Time www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-s...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

it's kind of nuts that the Empire unveiled the Death Star, destroyed Alderaan, and had the Death Star blown up on the same day. Imagine what the memes on Star Twitter were like.

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

It's going to be a long hot summer.

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Dilly Dally, a loggerhead turtle who survived a run-in with a predator that ultimately cost her a flipper, has been rereleased into the wild. 🐢

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

It's the Washington Monument in the background that really takes this to next-level dystopian

submitted 3 days ago • 381 comments

watching CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD and had a chuckle thinking about the in-universe tell-all book about the aides who knew president ross was the hulk the whole time

submitted 3 days ago • 75 comments

was thinking about how the UK avoided the dangerous American worship of the military in part because of class snobbery: the squaddie - depicted as working-class, sexually uncontrolled, violent, drunk, possibly Irish - is not a figure of admiration.

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c a r g o c u l t a u t h o r i t a r i a n i s m

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At 56 years old, Ted Roosevelt Jr was the oldest man to land on June 6, 1944 as assistant division commander of the 4th infantry division at Utah Beach. When he and his staff discover that they landed at the wrong beach, Roosevelt simply remarked, “Well start the war from right here.”

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Happy D-Day to all of those that celebrate!

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

I always really liked Eisenhower's message before D-Day

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"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law...And remember that we are not descended from fearful men." - Famous Murrow speech just got cheers on Bway

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Me most of the time: this state is horribly mismanaged, we're led by morons, and the nonprofit industrial complex has a veto Me when chuds say California is a shithole:

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With you in spirit, LA. ❤️ from Portugal.

submitted 3 days ago • 183 comments

notably in China which doesn't have those licensing requirements 'plumber' and 'electrician' barely exist; instead you have generalized handymen (often attached to housing compounds). This produces extremely cheap service but also frequently incompetent service.

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My D-Day take is that Eisenhower was one of the greatest generals in history not because he was a Napoleon or Su!-Tzu, but because he was the best diva manager who ever lived when the western Allies had a lot of divas to manage.

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My painting APPROACHING STORM

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So who gets Joe Rogan in the divorce?

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I may have a problem... I already had 6 library books to go through but went and got 12 more... 🫣🫣

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AAAHH! We somehow convinced THE @abigaillarson.com to work with us on a SUPER fun project! She's been SO cool, and can't wait to reveal it to you guys next year when it's closer to dropping! . . . All Art by @abigaillarson.com

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From @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Too many Christians are transforming Christianity into a vertical faith, one that focuses on your personal relationship with God at the expense of the horizontal relationship you have with your neighbors,” writes our columnist David French.

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I’m torn between “haha, yes, the Orange Man will crush my hated enemy and then my ideology can rule from the wreckage” and “how did that work for every single human being who thought that the past decade, you fucking imbecile?”

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