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Recently, my friend: "John, I'm 40 years old, I've got bad knees. It's over."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I don't want to say the Schumer optics are bad but Gavin Newsom just invited him on his podcast.

Chuck Schumer needs to go. The best thing he can hope for his legacy at this point is that people won't regularly piss on his grave after he kicks it.

Ahh, but does this shop contain itself?

Y'know how in Dante's Inferno, the lowest rung of Hell is frozen and is reserved for betrayers, who are chewed in Lucifer's three mouths for eternity? I think the insurance co doctors who deny patients medicine and care they need to get paid exorbitantly go there. They betray their oath every day.

Haunting article about the way authoritarianism comes to overtake the US govt during the Trump admin, called "competitive authoritarianism," where we don't have death camps, but instead use the power of the govt to chill speech and capture the executive branch. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

1. EXCLUSIVE Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information. The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work

Do me a favor, like this if you can see it. I'm not fishing, I'm trying to see if my comments and posts are being hidden for some reason.

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a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job