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About 50 years ago, I was reading political thrillers, including several by Fletcher Knebel. His 1966 novel, NIGHT OF CAMP DAVID, centers on a U.S. president who has gone insane. Signs of insanity include: desire for (a) an alliance with the USSR, and (b) annexation of Canada.

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"Money Heist" on Netflix is a glorious mess of comic book cinematography & leftist ideology built around the antifascist song "Bella Ciao." Deeply fun watch! Especially having just listened to the Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff episodes about the history of Bella Ciao @margaret.bsky.social

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someone put their pronouns in their email signature in 2017 and now the world's most irksome Boer has my social security number

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I think people disliked your article because its core argument is asinine! We're not upset about the mechanism by which Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico,we're upset because it is unilateral, absurd & racist. Authoritarians often use legal means for nefarious ends, we all know this. Why don't you?

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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

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Atlanta police have set up secret surveillance cameras outside of Stop Cop City activists' houses and gathering spots––and they refuse to answer any questions about the cameras www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 8 days ago • 101 comments

What the absolute fuck is this headline? Figure, emerge, reshape, team leader... such nice words. Such a cowardly failure to accurately describe what we can all see happening.

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go full shadow cabinet

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⚪️ Evangelicals mad because Kendrick showed how easy it is to call out predators on stage but they won’t do it.

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Yaaaay eliminating waste

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Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI. I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.

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"Gulf of America" is just a loyalty test. It's a way of checking who is going to abrogate reality for no reason other than a cowardly refusal to stand up to the bully or an opportunistic willingness to toady up to one. Anyone who will call it that will help you round people up or look the other way.

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The good news is that reactionary centrists are engaging in some self-reflection on the excesses of the right-wing backlash to 'wokeness.' The bad news is that they are saying it is woke people's fault. archive.is/CaC56

submitted 11 days ago • 279 comments

It's like putting a commercial on Fox News. It's a guarantee that he'll see it. At this point, the way out of this might be to flood the internet with fake history about all the awesome rightwing things Hitler did: free healthcare, education, childcare, voting rights, civil rights, gun control...

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One of the kids (he’s 19) who is carrying out Leon’s orders is the son of the owner the popcorn company Lesser Evil. That’s the one sold at Whole Foods with pink salt and avocado oil and shit. You know what to do. (Or better yet, what not to do)

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"The revolution about to be televised you picked the right time but the wrong guy" KENDRICK 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #superbowl

submitted 12 days ago • 168 comments

ALWAYS PUNCH NAZIS

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This Super Bowl Sunday, here's a reminder of what real courage looks like.

submitted 13 days ago • 980 comments

Hey NYTimes — now you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

submitted 13 days ago • 3222 comments

"Agree" = yes, and that's bad "Disagree" = yes, but I like it "Unsure" = I'll say I was for or against it all along, depending on who wins.

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Take a step back, see what's happening. Trump took office and abruptly gave the richest guy on earth free rein to unmake the US government without any White House oversight or coordination. That guy has been publicly radicalized into an increasingly open white supremacist and conspiracy theorist.

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Judge Raymond Alexander was an alum of Wharton & Harvard. In 1921 he sued Madison Square Garden for denying him entrance, he fought school segregation in the courts in the 1930s, & he consulted on the 1954 Brown case. Both of his parents were born enslaved.

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it will be cool in 3 years when SCOTUS finally rules that Elon shouldn't have been allowed to shut down USAID, Dept of Education, Dept of Energy, Center for Disease Control, Environmental Protection agency, Occupational Safety and Health Admi

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No one is handling things well. I remind folks: this is abnormal, disturbing, but you’re not powerless. Host a dinner, educate loved ones. Media: challenge the status quo. Lawyers: sign up for pro bono work. Corporate friends: affirm human rights, equity & benefits. Start small, but start now.

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🤷🏻

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One last point on Vance defending racism. LOSING A JOB IN YOUR 20s BECAUSE YOU WERE A RACIST FUCK IS NOT RUINING YOUR LIFE. If you really want to see people's lives get ruined, go watch an arraignment or eviction court call. Go see what's happening in Gaza. Follow the school to prison pipeline.

submitted 15 days ago • 46 comments

This is very bad.

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Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

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Now more than ever.

submitted 15 days ago • 449 comments

"this is HUGE" - the opening line to every tweet from every mullershewrote-ass Resistance Grifter account for the last 8 years

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i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that actual racism and discrimination divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist

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Defund SpaceX it relies on Govt for 35% of its funding.

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Anecdotally, the Dems’ attempt to enter Treasury on Tues broke through to the public in a big way. At least according to..the Mom-o-meter. My Mom before Tues: You’re doing what? Where? This can’t be a national emergency. Mom on Tuesday: WHO ARE THESE KIDS AND WHAT ARE THEY DOING WITH MY MONEY?

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Proud of my home states Wisconsin and Illinois (and definitely not Iowa, for a while now) riag.ri.gov/press-releas...

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