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It's interesting how the "American conservative movement" in the 1970s and 80s mashed together "leave me alone to do whatever I want" libertarianism with an evangelical movement premised upon the idea that "it is our entire job in the world to never leave you alone until you act & believe as I do."

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TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

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www.cnbc.com/2025/05/03/t...

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This does not look official. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

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"Even the sultan needs to be taught."—Somali proverb

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I love this idea from Cleve Jones to try to help Andry José Hernández Romero, a gay man abducted by ICE and whisked away to a brutal prison in El Salvador. Organizers of every Pride fest in the U.S. and beyond should immediately name Hernández Romero their Honorary Grand Marshal. Pass it on.

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Most Accurate Headline of the Day 🏆 www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

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Is basic competence too much to ask for? Apparently, yes.

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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

submitted 93 days ago • 1549 comments

Check out this great piece from "60 Minutes"

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Share the media. The news is compromised. We're starting to boil over.

submitted 100 days ago • 16 comments

The logic of authoritarianism demands that the circle of repression must always widen. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

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One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.

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Texas state rep Stan Gerdes's new bill (HB 4814) would outlaw "nonhuman behavior" in schools, including possession of litter boxes (students will no longer be able to carry their litter boxes to school with their lunch pails); leashes, collars, etc.; animal noises; and—most cruel—licking oneself.

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Democrats should play hardball and refuse to vote for ANY budget until the lawbreaking stops. No more illegal impoundments of public money!

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I agree--no cooperation from Dems on the budget until the lawbreaking stops. Period.

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“ Several House Republicans told Axios they have succeeded in — or at least contributed to — getting DOGE to reverse certain cuts through private back-channeling.” As Senate Dems fiddle Rs keep scheming w Musk to make sure DOGE inflicts pain mostly on Democratic states, districts. @axios.com

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In Ruth Marcus' new column for The New Yorker in which she unveils the Washington Post column that was rejected and led to her resignation, she points out that the paper's media critic Erik Wemple also had a piece disagreeing with Bezos' new opinion mandate nixed. www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...

submitted 103 days ago • 21 comments

Ad on the London Underground

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Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

submitted 115 days ago • 1186 comments

This is the kind of thing CFPB was invented to handle www.thecut.com/article/pslf...

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The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach. www.tsunami.gov

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Dear Jeff Bezos: There was a time when an online bookstore, especially one that was a monopoly, might have been seen as an invaluable service that brought books and many other items to my door. Today, the internet makes it easy to find alternatives to do that job. I've cancelled my Prime membership.

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Top of the charts! "Hostile Government Takeover" remix. www.youtube.com/shorts/sLn8G...

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"Stars and Stripes Forever?" (1970) by Bill Stettner (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)

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