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DeKalb County (GA) Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor. Author of 12 books. Mother of Ches. My publisher pal advised me to rebuild my social media presence before pitching this half-written scifi novel, and I haven't written much since. Sigh.
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It’s like living in a Central American quasi-dictatorship circa 1985. Except this time they’ve got drones with cameras instead of having to take photos of the crowds to know who to disappear in the next phase of oppression.
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The revolution will not be televised. But it is being recorded by security cameras and drones.
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Maybe we should be glad ICE’s aesthetic is the same as the Tonton Macoute’s. Since their MO is also essentially the same. If it looked 2% more like Mayberry our delusional population would see them like regular cops.
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They hit a journalist in the head with a canister? These images remind me of Ruben Salazar, the first (one of the first?) Latino LA Times correspondent. He was shot in the head, probably accidentally, with a teargas canister that killed him. National Guard, I think. www.amazon.com/Border-Corre...
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“Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened”.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Just because they're MAGA traitors doesn't mean they aren't Americans.
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Maybe they're firing "randomly" now, but journalists covering tear-gas fights need to acquaint themselves with the story of Ruben Salazar.
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Oh and just FYI, the military doesn't need new recruits, they just fired all their trans soldiers yesterday, which suggests they have too many people right now.
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#RubenSalazarWept
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You’re really good at this. I’m so glad you’ve jumped into the ring.
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She’s evil, not stupid.
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Marsha Blackburn was calling a guy who wrote in chalk on the sidewalk outside a Tesla dealership a "terrorist" and called for him to be persecuted as a whole-ass Osama bin Laden and it's like, I was doing terrorism to play hopscotch when I was 7 years old, what is happening to our country?
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Are we calling them "pro-immigrant" instead of "pro-democracy" or "anti-police state" now? Not entirely untrue but that's quite the framing shift..
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Tonton Macoutes
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We'll find out if this was a chess move on the part of the fascists or a genuine fight in a couple of months, I suppose.
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Everyone’s distracted by Linda McMahon’s latest WWE wrestling-rivalry promotion. We don’t even notice we’re paying double for popcorn while we wait for Trump to hit Musk in the head with a folding chair.
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They're literally our employees. If we want them to take off the masks and put on badges that identify them, that's the job. If they're too cowardly to work for the American people, maybe they need to find employment in the private sector.
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Congrats on 12k and thank you for hosting today 🙂💛
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Awww you’re so sweet—you helped me fill in the ad hominem square on logical fallacy bingo! In gratitude, I’ll pay attention to this fight rather than actual policy changes.
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The number of people falling for Linda McMahon's latest WWE fight is sad. Jesus, people, in the year of our lord 2025, we're still falling for MAGA's lies and distractions?
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If you want to believe WWE wrestling is real, you do you. You don’t need pop psychology to justify your beliefs. All you have to do is ignore real news and try to get others to pay attention to the contrived spectacle as well, rather than real news.
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We’ve known Trump was an Epstein client for 20 years, Musk isn’t telling us anything new. Come on. You seriously think WWE wrestling is real?
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As long as people are falling for this fake WWE fight between Musk and Trump, Linda’s doing a great job at her current job.
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Wow Musk is “revealing” that Trump was an Epstein client? We’ve only known this for twenty years.
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Linda McMahon is good at her job. I’m amazed at how many people who I assumed had triple-digit IQs are falling for this WWE fake fight.
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His “good billionaire” shtick consists of 80% writing the most obvious advice (eg “buy foreign products in bulk before the tariffs kick in” ok chief, hadn’t thought of that!). And 20% tricking the working and middle classes to support “good” billionaires, like him, instead of their own interests.
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Linda McMahon is good at her job. Which has always been about distracting adults, not educating children.
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Oh, I see you don’t even bother to post here, just on Twitter with Elon. So you’ll never see this. So I’ll never know why you tried to blame your anti-trans bigotry, lifted straight from 1933 Nazi German law, on me. When my rights as a cis woman have never once been compromised by trans people.
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You lied and said trans people don’t have equal rights (and never did!) “because other people have rights too”? What rights do I, a cis woman, lose because my neighbor has the freedom to use the bathroom in public places? None. I lose NOTHING. Don’t blame your lies and bigotry on me. Own it.
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Maybe these ICE alpha male master race guys couldn’t believe it. Because no one had ever thrown any of them a birthday party.
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Flaunting that black eye to every news outlet in the world when there's a makeup team just off camera felt very Linda McMahon, too.
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[Googles] [wikipedias] Oooooooh yeah, I can totally see that guy as Souperman. Thanks for the heads’ up.
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You spelled "homophobic dog-killing monster" incorrectly. I get it though, "neighbor" has that silent gh that makes it confusing. If it were spelled naber, the editor would have caught the mistake, eh?
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UNC needs a click-to-pay guest checkout option like PayPal or Apple Pay or all of them. The process of finding a credit card can kill an impulse purchase! But I wanted to do it before the Reagan Youth start heiling, so happy birthday to me. Thanks for writing this, Nathan!