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As always

04.03.2026 19:43 👍 3075 🔁 431 💬 53 📌 30

you can tell that this isn't a real problem, because if it was this would be written by someone it happened to and not someone who it didn't happen to saying "but if it did that would have sucked."

03.03.2026 16:41 👍 1371 🔁 218 💬 15 📌 8

Fuckery goes on in Arkansas, too, with a very obvious goal of restricting voting access to people who would never NOT choose a godly capitalism king. Republican campaigners with signs and flags stand right outside the doors. No point in complaint, we ALL know. We always have, after all.

04.03.2026 19:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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In ominous sign, Texas Republicans changed voting rules, then blocked efforts to protect voters “We can’t let a small group of conspiracy theorists set the rules for Texas voters anymore."

Texans in two counties struggled to find their polling locations for primary voting Tuesday after a GOP-driven change. The secretary of state’s office failed to provide accurate information. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

04.03.2026 19:10 👍 1517 🔁 722 💬 80 📌 45
February 27, 2026
February 27, 2026 YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

The Reasons For It All, of course:

01.03.2026 19:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My right index finger is poking Phantom in the left knee, here, and it pleases me, a lot.

STILL didn’t get any used picks or set lists, and they were SO generous.

10.02.2026 19:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#thebandghost #skeletour

09.02.2026 20:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Papa V has come into his own, now, and was soaring in Tulsa, this weekend, still having a good time with it.

09.02.2026 20:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s gotta go on soon.

09.02.2026 20:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Good Bunny. Bad Super Bowl. Defund ICE. Political lessons from the wide world of sports. And music.

"Law enforcement refusing to investigate a crime scene because it would prove the president is lying about it is the sort of thing that tends to happen in failed and failing states. Time will tell how well that ends up describing us."

09.02.2026 19:30 👍 215 🔁 52 💬 5 📌 0
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Andrew shared confidential information with Epstein as trade envoy, files suggest Under official guidance, trade envoys have a duty of confidentiality over sensitive, commercial, or political information.

There's an entire separate #Epstein scandal beyond the pedophilia stuff, in what it reveals about the country-club network of oligarchs and their hangers-on making sure the money and power stays inside the club.

It's been clear the game is rigged for decades, but here's a window into exactly how.

09.02.2026 18:19 👍 82 🔁 40 💬 5 📌 0

Why in the world would you spend your own time going to talk to fake reporters whose business model is so obviously divorced from all reality and decency?

The audience isn’t interested in anything like basic sense or self awareness.

What did they pay you to waste your life, like that?

09.02.2026 20:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
09.02.2026 13:23 👍 21306 🔁 5589 💬 382 📌 147
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High rents outpace federal disability payments, leaving many homeless Supplemental Security Income, a federal program meant to be a financial floor for people unable to work, hasn't kept pace with inflation. Many recipients are homeless, unable to save for an apartment.

A reminder: there is not a single housing market in America—not one city, state, or county—where someone relying on SSI can afford a one-bedroom apartment.

Deaths like these are always preceded by engineered abandonment. Disproportionate homelessness among people with disabilities is no accident.

09.02.2026 16:41 👍 837 🔁 339 💬 9 📌 16

it’s a good thing we don’t have socialized healthcare because otherwise we might have to endure untenable wait times for basic care. anyway the annual checkup I scheduled last July to take place in March has just been rescheduled to May

09.02.2026 19:23 👍 547 🔁 118 💬 7 📌 2

So he doesn’t get sued. The names have the money, so they won’t face consequences, but HE will if he mentions them. Just like the rest of us always have, any time we ever tried to seek justice.

09.02.2026 19:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Let me guess.

It doesn’t matter and nothing happens now.

09.02.2026 19:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Actively hunting for what you’re mentioning, I can’t find it at all in the convoluted mess of the disjointed, disorganized and constantly moving threads.

09.02.2026 19:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

To terrorize ordinary people into proactive defense of and submission to an authoritarian government, that is systematically stripping the population of basic human rights, for profit, at every age and status.

That is why.

09.02.2026 19:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

09.02.2026 12:25 👍 11565 🔁 7422 💬 197 📌 827
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'What's wrong with the world?' Man in wheelchair found dead outside in freezing temps The 61-year-old man had been released from a hospital the day before.

During freezing temperatures in Port Arthur, Texas, a 61-year-old homeless man was found dead in his wheelchair outside a convenience store.

He was wearing a hospital gown and no shoes. Authorities say he had been released from a hospital the previous day.

This is a diseased society.

09.02.2026 16:09 👍 1988 🔁 811 💬 86 📌 132

Well, at least they’ll pretty immediately lose the data to hackers, and/or hand it directly to whatever government offers them best deal, so it can more efficiently target young protestors. Since Parents Are Scared, & will therefore cheer for this nonsense, with no ability/time to remember or learn.

09.02.2026 19:36 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Globally. For profit. So obviously. While we are told to just Read What the Company Said, as if it’s ever anything but lies and fakery. These people aren’t interested in safety for kids. These people are interested in selling the facial rec data of kids to the government with the best tax deal.

09.02.2026 19:28 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh cool I’ll go finally get that account deleted then. Thanks for the heads up. Nothing there I need, if that’s the view the company has of their fellow human people on earth. Ever.

09.02.2026 19:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As the negotiations over DHS budget continue, please remember: the ICE detention budget alone was exploded in 2025 so it is now 62% greater than the entire Bureau of Prisons. People are not clocking what this infusion of cash to build concentration camps will do to our society.

09.02.2026 14:58 👍 374 🔁 169 💬 3 📌 4
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Luke Ganger, Renee Good’s brother: “In the last few weeks, our family took some consolation thinking that perhaps ‘Nee’s death would bring about change in our country. It has not.”

03.02.2026 20:36 👍 11247 🔁 3667 💬 183 📌 139

This is Noam Chomsky talking about Cambodian refugees accurately describing the horrors of the Khmer Rouge that they’d escaped from.

This line in particular is why I’ve hated Chomsky for so long.

01.02.2026 17:31 👍 1286 🔁 280 💬 29 📌 11
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How the Pentagon is Quietly Building Trump’s Concentration Camps SCOOP: A repurposed Navy contract is funneling tens of billions into a "ghost network" of detention camps that can materialize anywhere in America overnight.

175 billion for ICE and detention centers in the GOP's billionaire bill.

This is what they're doing with the money. Building concentration camps.

And it's not going to be used for immigrants only.

migrantinsider.com/p/how-the-pe...

03.02.2026 01:01 👍 475 🔁 259 💬 41 📌 14

You don't get it sir. They ARE trained. They're trained to brutalize. Police are trained to brutalize. They're all trained to brutalize.

02.02.2026 22:33 👍 142 🔁 6 💬 6 📌 0