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🎃 Milo BOO!aynes 👻
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Senior Editor at @thehometownholler.bsky.social Subscribe: thehometownholler.substack.com NC Piedmont. Rural pluralist and known adverb abuser. Delicious to biting insects. Online since Bush, yet somehow the weakest poaster in GenX.
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One month after the murder of Charlie Kirk, I sat down to write about anything but the murder of Charlie Kirk.

The result is a personal reflection on faith and politics… and a local congregation’s unfortunate blend of the two.
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Everything But The Guy
One month later...a minor meditation on a local congregation, faith, politics and just about anything but Charlie Kirk.
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Definitely call it rank corruption. And don't forget what the occasion was: you can see Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, on the right, staring at the ballroom plans, instead of the (not-pictured) NATO Secretary General, who was there on a visit to discuss Ukraine.
Call this what it is: rank corruption.

Major corporations funding a president's vanity project is a textbook model for pay-to-play. Why else would tech giants, crypto firms, and defense contractors care about a 90,000 sq ft ballroom?
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That’s the kind of kneejerk dismissive advice that makes me violent. Telling people to just grow their own food is tantamount to telling them to eat cake.
On Threads, the usual suspects are telling ppl about to lose SNAP benefits to just start a garden. As a gardener, I had to laugh. You need at LEAST an acre of land to feed a family of 4. Start-up costs are enormous. But yes, subsistence farming on the balcony of your rental apartment is the answer
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we truly are governed by the worst people imaginable
I kid you not, this is currently what the White House's "Major Events Timeline" shows for the East Wing expansion.

www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
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Has he ever called a white person low-IQ?
Trump on Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: "Low IQ. Very low IQ. And we don't need low IQ people."
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Every time he says this he’s talking about a black person.
Trump on Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: "Low IQ. Very low IQ. And we don't need low IQ people."
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I've started calling this "society fetishism." The biggest financial/political beneficiaries of living in a society do not realize this or understand how it works & they get furious when any friction reveals the complex interrelationships they're enmeshed in & benefit from, then try to destroy them.
one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it
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Nothing to see here. Just a corrupt technofeudalist plutocracy, going about its business.
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God it's so gross. I wish I had something more sophisticated to say about it. It's just so fucking gross.
Stephen Miller: "Let me just say Mr President that this country was going to die without you. This country was going to actually die without you ... you alone saved it."
My god this makes me angry
Trump: "You have the radical left lunatics They're fighting us bc we want to stop crime. They're paid money. I guess they're paid a lot of money. But I saw that ridiculous march the other day. These people are not representative of our country. Not all of them, but many of them are low lives."
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When I say the MAGA movement is post-truth, this is the sort of thing I mean. Push blatant lies in advance of an event, see overwhelming evidence that the lies were false, know that others saw it too, but plow ahead with the same lies, opposed to the notion that living in factual reality matters.
Mike Johnson calls No Kings the "Hate America Rally" and claims "it was funded by George Soros and co-sponsored by the Communist Party and many other nefarious groups"
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Guess which ones they listened to.
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Watching this fool knock down the White House and feeling pretty solid about all the times people called me crazy.
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To me it says everything that Cuomo knows he won’t win, knows the ICE storm the city is in for once Mamdani does, and he’s willing to rip the social fabric of the city apart for rejecting his attempt at redemption.
Cuomo has went all in on the anti Arab and anti Muslim rhetoric and decided to laugh along to a "Mamdani would support 9/11" joke.
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Just a quick PSA that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in your public movements. This is why law enforcement can follow YOU or photograph YOU in public without reasonable suspicion or probable cause. Law enforcement doesn’t get “extra” protection in that regard. Goose/gander etc.
Because he’s doing his job…reporting. Because we still live in a free country with a First Amendment and a free press.
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Reminder that DOGE was a rounding error - did a ton of damage, saved little in the scope of the federal budget. Better understood as a mechanism for undermining the administrative state and pursuing ideological objectives than as a way of reducing federal spending.
Total federal spending is up +7% in 2025 over 2024 year-to-date to Oct 20.

The story that the fed govt is tightening its belt is contradicted by its own real-time expenditure data. Admin spectacularly hammering some things but raising spending elsewhere.

Was -7% just after Inauguration Day.
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Old Soviet joke:

Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?

One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals
New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST
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North Carolina is virtually synonymous with partisan gerrymandering. Republicans have drawn all election maps in our state for 14 years running - the last Democratic lawmaker to touch any map, whatsoever, was back in 2003.

Here are just a few examples of the rigged maps that are in effect today.
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quite depressing that choosing to belittle a bona fide medical condition for....fun? profit? attention? makes you an award-nominated journalist these days pressgazette.co.uk/press-gazett...
Would like to see some confirmation of its origin.

But, that said:
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