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White supremacy explains a lot of apparent contradictions. The GOP was for states’ rights when the politics supported white supremacy. When they can accomplish white supremacist goals with federal power, they are against states’ rights.

submitted 7 hours ago • 24 comments

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. J.R.R. Tolkien

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

We think with and through other people. Dialogue is not an inert product of thought but one method of thought itself. So what happens when you couple yourself to an interlocutor who has no understanding of reality and is merely a generator of probabilistic strings of symbols? Apophenia overdrive.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Second look at strange women lying in ponds distributing swords as basis for government?

submitted 20 hours ago • 213 comments

the Star Tribune just called me and told me they would not be publishing the obituary I wrote for my father as it is “unfair to him” and “in poor taste” so here it is and fuck the strib ✌🏻

submitted 1 day ago • 552 comments

I would really like to see Christian politicians asked about the New Apostolic Reformation and the Seven Mountain Mandate.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

A few folks have DM’d me abt the Frederick Douglass passage I excerpted at the rally. Here it is: “Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

The difference between this and Nazi propaganda against Jews is that this is AI-generated.

submitted 2 days ago • 249 comments

Deporting children of military veterans because they were born on an overseas military base. This man has no citizenship now.

submitted 3 days ago • 542 comments

Jesus

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I’m sharing it a little late this year, but if you’re still swimsuit shopping, remember that the color of a person’s bathing suit can be lifesaving www.today.com/parents/colo...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I bought one cookie and the vending machine gave me two, and I am not worthy of this blessing today

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Food deserts exist because private actors don't see opportunities for profit in them; one of the literal purposes of government in a mixed economy is to correct for the failures of the market to do things like provide accessible, affordable food.

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

“And”???? Should be a comma there

submitted 3 days ago • 143 comments

people are asking

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.

submitted 3 days ago • 298 comments

Where is the business community?? In addition to the obvious humanitarian consequences here, this would mean something like a quarter of a million people who currently have legal permits to work would be forced out of their jobs. That is something employers will notice www.cnn.com/2025/06/25/p...

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

Hepatitis B can be passed from parent to baby at birth - and when that happens, the consequences can be deadly. It is unscientific and dangerous to intentionally ignore the success of U.S. vaccination programs or argue that the U.S. should not vaccinate babies for hepatitis B at birth.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Once again, the US Military (no bastion of socialism) shows how it is perfectly possible to create publicly run ... - Grocery stores (post exchanges) - Health insurance (Tricare) - Single payer health care (the VA ... yes I know not technically part of DOD don't @ me)

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments