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Country Noises. (Saul Steinberg, 1979) saulsteinbergfoundation.org

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I have learned in recent years there are 10s of millions of Americans not only willing but eager to go watch a lynching from the comfort of a picnic blanket and the only thing that was holding them back was the social penalty; really makes you think about those who warn against social penalties.

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Worst. Episode. EVER.

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A Brief History of Kids Today Have Too Much Freedom 🧵

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Polish poster for William Friedkin's TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985)

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That CSIS is even entertaining this situation is a mark of autocratic breakthrough. It is not a mere partisan proposal, it’s an attack on the free world & the post-war settlement as a whole. It must be assessed as such. I don’t think you can work there and stay true to the Four Freedoms.

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btw, i will tell you this - i have been talking to people all day, and the media is missing, whether intentionally or not, how absolutely, volcanically angry the people who have been fired are, not because they lost their jobs, but because their jobs matter, to us

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Haymarket Books for Fighting Fascism

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I wish I could turn off all swipe actions. Multiple times a day I want to scroll up or down and my phone decides I wanted to go left or right or vice versa. Not only that, but I have "swiped" and therefore want to do some thing. Like read the next email or delete a queued video. I never do!

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"These guides don't have solutions to your big problems, but they can make coping a little easier when life is difficult... not guaranteed to work for everyone, but with a little time and practice they make a difference for many" Evidence-based #zines by Kevin Tarlow. Free www.littlebetterzine.com

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This letter to the editor from 1961 voices the same diagnosis of the nation's ills and the same solution--to completely obliterate the New Deal state--that animates the MAGA/Project 2025 blitz we're experiencing now. That 1961 newspaper was put out by a fascist who helped found the Posse Comitatus.

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This is my long-held thesis as well.

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Restricting food choice in SNAP is paternalistic and wrong. I wrote about this recently. open.substack.com/pub/makethem...

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Never trust a man who fires up a chainsaw indoors.

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I've had this link on my MeFi profile for… god. A decade? A comment I wrote read, “Five year-old children would rather get less to make sure the other gets none. Some people never grow out of this and we call them Republicans.” The link is a _60 Minutes_ clip showing exactly that.

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AI is a library in the way that a pile of dog vomit produced by a dog who ate a book and then vomited it up is a book

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This is also the logical conclusion of decades now of slow mainstreaming of far-right talking points Islamophobia, transphobia, anti-immigration discourses were never "legitimate grievances" that deserved to be aired. Their purpose was to prepare the way for this

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sometimes I'll be in a shit mood and go post on Rednote and someone will send me something like this like "does this help??". Yes. Thank you random lesbian from Guangzhou. That actually helps tremendously.

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A Brief History of School Today Is Too Easy 🧵

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Tough situation. Maybe at some point we can amend the Constitution to provide a specific power Congress can use against an executive who’s unlawfully usurping its authority.

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This morning's email from @nplusonemag.com 's Dayna Tortorici in memory of Thomas Bolt really hit close to home.

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Cribbing this link from @garbageday.email , but it's a good one. www.tampabay.com/news/tampa/2...

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A lot of you seemed to like Jonathan, the office worker kobold, so I tried to draw him. 😅

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This is incredibly interesting, and a nice break from monitoring the collapse of everything.

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I had a random thought that will amuse perhaps a handful of people: "Healer's Guild Bathroom." #IYKYK #LARP

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Crazy how one guy can pretty much blow an entire nation’s post-WWII national standing and what was left of its good will

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Let 2025 be the year you break free of the "I have to save [x] for a special occasion". Every day is a special occasion (derogatory).

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A List of Things Banned by Schools 🧵

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I keep saying this but... if you live in a big city and want to fight fascism, questioning what your mayor and cops are doing to unhoused people is an excellent start. Criminalizing people who have nothing is how nice urban liberals do fascism.

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"Each of us deserves to be forgiven, if only for Our persistence in keeping our small boat afloat When so many have gone down in the storm." annennamade.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/k...

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I feel like way too many people forgot about Ron Paul Funeral City.

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Ice fog conditions in the Open Space below Bear Peak this morning. #COWX #Boulder

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NEW: Last week’s newsletter had ‘IT’S A COUP’ in big red letters on front page of NYT. Well, guess what? It still is. We have to stop framing what’s happening as in any way normal. It’s a coup & a collapse in the international order & none of this is ‘normal’ broligarchy.substack.com/p/us-coup-ga...

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I don’t want to say that we created the best videogame award show on the Internet. But you can! 👇🏻 THE ROCKET & RAYGUN AWARDS! - Celebrating 2024's Best Games - Electric Playground youtu.be/arCVQHsj-Vc

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A Brief History of America is in Decline Like The Roman Empire 🧵

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yes! www.peoplespolicyproject.org/projects/the...

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I'm gonna log-off for the day. I've had to work through the weekend and I'm feeling TIRED. But I put in my mutual aid/power building rep by turning a thread into a ton of different mutual aid resources, ideas, proposals and guides for you to use! Now you can do your one thing today too! 😘✌️

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