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The answer to every “why?” is “to enrich himself.” That’s it. That’s the grift. He’s destroying the world economy to build a few more shitty hotels. Dude is melting the ice caps to get some beach front property.

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The rules I always state for audience Q&A: 1. Questions in the form of questions 2. Questions are one part questions 3. Questions are as brief as possible And the reason is so as many people as possible can ask questions. If you tell people the rules ahead of time, they're usually on board.

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Government by people you just want to have a wheatgrass shot and a shower after even thinking about

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the word "trucker convoy" has been thrown around a lot the past 5 years to describe certain political demonstrations. we may not have yet witnessed the size of a true political convoy.

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Call me old fashioned, but I think if you’re called “the Debate Commission,” there should be one thing you’re for sure really good at.

submitted 7 hours ago • 12 comments

“There is an old Vulcan proverb: only Nixon could go to China.”

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Please don’t mistake my kindness for actual kindness

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I keep thinking about senators keep taking a out how their GOP gym buddies admit this is awful in the gym but won't do anything about it

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My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more: www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 8 hours ago • 64 comments

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

submitted 9 hours ago • 146 comments

I’ve gotten to where I’m keeping one chilled, just for encouragement

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📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️

submitted 17 hours ago • 69 comments

They love killing Americans. Shitting in our food and laughing at us

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Stephano🍁Barberis - #cdnpoli "Ok. So, I’m 5’10. I met Carney and I’m ever so slightly taller than him. Poilievre is 5’9. The lifts he’s wearing make him look a lot taller. There is NOTHING authentic about that man."

submitted 15 hours ago • 12 comments

theonion.com/historians-q...

submitted 17 hours ago • 212 comments

FFS I got death threats about making Optimus Prime the wrong kind of truck when I wrote the TRANSFORMERS movie. Do the job or get out of the way.

submitted 18 hours ago • 98 comments

Gavin Newsom is so awful that I can't believe he's not running for mayor of New York.

submitted 16 hours ago • 71 comments

I've said this before, but I don't see how this is different from "I stole one dollar from each of 10,000 people, and none of those dollars individually either meaningfully changed how much money I had or meaningfully harmed the person I took them from, so what's the big deal?"

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Here's Palantir's Louis Mosley, grandson of Britain's most famous fascist leader, talking about the importance of AI, if you aren't convinced yet that this is one big co-ordinated push towards the destruction of everything good in life. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

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A blast from my past, brought back for anyone who might happen to be turning 45 sesquiotic.com/2012/10/22/f...

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Hoodoo—and who don't sesquiotic.com/2025/04/15/h...

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My last thought on this because I need some Offline Time: Because of their fear of being defined as "not neutral" or "biased," the bodies who label "journalists" and adjudicate access are increasingly complicit in the destruction of our information ecosystem. Meet the moment and grow a spine.

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Pretty much everything this guy does that isn’t currently a crime needs to become a crime

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Anti-trans policies don't just hurt trans people. They hurt anyone who doesn't fit neatly into a pink box or a blue one. And they hurt the rest of us by creating pressure to ensure that we always fit neatly into our box.

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Once again, posting this 2023 article. This was the plan all along.

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The overt use of digital authoritarianism is only going to expand now that palentir and the techno fascists are building comprehensive databases and connecting social media to real world government big data etc.

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Horrific. As a former FA, I know all too well how disastrous this is, and it certainly goes against everything air crew (including Pilots) have been taught about air safety. A ‘passenger’ is every soul on board.

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Window office

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Ewww.

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Barthes being timely:

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It works. The government here largely works. Because we are so spoiled by how well it works, we are letting a fool convince us it is broken.

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One of the most incisive critiques of Harry Potter's politics came from 4chan of all places.

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