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Yeah many of these

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I am not eating Scrooge McDuck, not because I am morally opposed to it but because his flesh belongs to the people of Duckburg who have lived under his iron shadow for so long

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Everything is a “redistribution of wealth” — the only question is which direction it’s heading in. Stop letting them convince you the only valid direction is from the bottom to the top. They’ve been selling that snake oil for decades.

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There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details

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The Interstate Highway System was born 69 years ago today, on June 29, 1956, when Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act. It’s still the largest public works project in US history. In a new series, Places authors consider how the Interstates might be creatively adapted for the 21st century.

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My hot take on Jeff Bezos' wedding: That $50 million price tag is double what the US government was spending annually on food and medicine for 5 million AIDS orphans before the Trump administration canceled it. We are literally letting orphans die rather than make this guy pay taxes.

submitted 14 hours ago • 58 comments

It says lower middle class, but that spread reveals the truth—I love food.

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I need to go there. Might do a quick out and back after storm season.

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Who had "Senate Parliamentarian" on their Saves Democracy bingo card?

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David Attenborough voice it is at this moment the gazelle realizes he is surrounded, cornered...a cruel revelation dawns on him: he is no more than easy meat for the face-eating leopards who once seemed to tolerate him being near their pack.

submitted 18 hours ago • 20 comments

I'm home and the cats are back from camp. Both are wandering around the house making sure everything is where they left it. It should be as I didn't clean before leaving.

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There's a reason that Cascadia is one of the scenarios most often cited as the thing that keeps emergency managers up at night. We know it is going to happen and we know that we are not nearly as prepared as we could be because elected officials haven't directed enough resources to doing so.

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Landed back in Ohio. We aren't at the gate yet. The lead flight attendant who has a clear line of sight down the aisle of the whole plane: "Please keep your seatbelt fastened. As this is a full flight, there shouldn't be any seatbelts in the aisle." I was waiting for the seat to be called out.

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Blackouts in extreme heat means mass death, by the way.

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

Mamdani on "globalize the intifada": "That's not language that I used. The language that I used and the language that I will continue to use to lead the city is that which speaks clearly to my intent, which is an intent grounded in a belief in universal human rights."

submitted 18 hours ago • 359 comments

hi mom hi mom! hi! #cat #cats #catsofbluesky

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“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is

submitted 19 hours ago • 130 comments

So many people I know talk about going to France (specifically Paris) but I want to go to Germany. Plus, my German is soooo much better than my French.

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In a world of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, be like Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

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ICE already can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you.

submitted 15 hours ago • 302 comments

Friendly reminder if Medicaid gets cut I will very literally, not hypothetically, die. That’s just a fact. And there are millions of others just like me. We’re not just numbers, we’re not just political topics, we’re not just plot points and percentages. We are very real. Please remember that.

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I'm sitting in this fun little corner of DCA. Every man, of a certain age, who is at this end of the airport, has walked around me to get pictures out the window. I've been here for a couple hours. It's like a weird homing beacon for dads.

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Merrick Garland 2023. Many of us observant of where our country was heading, knew it. Biden's biggest failure: "...the US is the only country in history to allow a coup to go unpunished and a seditionist to run for president again – is due to Garland, the DOJ, and their accomplices in Congress."

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Democrats have been asked to disavow Zohran more than Republicans have been asked to disavow the guy who murdered two Democrats. Says a lot about how profoundly fucked up our political and media situation is right now.

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“Independence day is canceled because of fear of secret police raids” is really a level of on the nose political symbolism you just can’t make up.

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tyranny arose in America because that doritos locos taco burned on the way out

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Once you see this chart, you will never unsee it.

submitted 21 hours ago • 24 comments

That should be standard practice.

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This is how he builds his own personal army.

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This is the kind of shit I like to wake up to on my last day in DC.

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Federal agents used explosives to enter a U.S. citizen’s home and entered — guns drawn — on a baby, a 6-year-old, and their mother. She believes it’s because her boyfriend attended an ICE protest where he accidentally hit a cop car (and was released by cops). www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/h...

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TRUMP: “When they go to the prison in El Salvador they don’t get out.” He brags those they sent to the CECOT mega prison are there for life (or death) — the vast majority had committed no crimes.

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hey remember when a rich ceo died then when they caught the suspect they made a circus of it like they found osama bin laden and charged him with terrorism but less than weeks ago two democrat lawmakers and their spouses were shot as literal assassination to shift control and everyone already forgot

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A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper

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Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"

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I'm unironically of the opinion that when someone's net worth reaches, say, 100 million, they should be awarded a medal and a certificate of achievement for a playthrough of capitalism, and some road, park or overpass named after them. And then the excess should be taxed away.

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Will workshop it. 🧐 #ice

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this is an embarrassing thing for this guy to say in public but also touches on something that constantly rankles me, which is the vague idea of "feeling unsafe" as a problem that someone else needs to solve for you regardless of whether you are actually unsafe or not

submitted 3 days ago • 121 comments

I’m a hardworking, taxpaying, churchgoing, grandkid-raising American citizen. And if I work all day long and want to go home, smoke a joint & just stare at the fireplace for 3 hours…that’s my civil liberty. ‪ @sarapayan.bsky.social‬ reports on my mission to end America's prohibition on marijuana:

submitted 3 days ago • 244 comments