peppermint.jack
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starting a fistfight at the family 4th of july bbq by reminding the divorced uncles that trump is a convicted felon
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the great khan pritzker rallying his vassals as he prepares to wage war against the tyrants in washington
google maps broke and created some kind of unholy chicago singularity
if his reason was something like, "i was broke and/or unemployed when they offered me this job that paid a ton of money" i'd be pretty sympathetic

much less so if it was, "my 8-5 was boring so i quit because i wanted a gig where i could carry a gun & scream at people"
ackman playing both characters from that scene because he comes across as the type who would ask "how much for the little girl?"
i haven't really followed him closely since it's not my state but from the bits and pieces i've seen i like what he's saying & think he'd likely be miles better than mills (lower floor, far, far higher ceiling)

the blackwater thing is a huge concern though
ugh, watching this speech hits me personally because there are people i'm close to who have had similar background/experiences and have had similar anger & difficulty re-adjusting

i don't know if it means that the guy would be a good senator but it makes me sympathetic to where he's coming from
NO KINGS
The official White House account just referred to Trump as a “king” and posted an image with a crown on his head.

They’re not even hiding it.
trump was literally posting images of himself wearing a crown from his official social media accounts but new york times reporters who cover politics are trying to tell you it never happened
yes, this was from the official social accounts back in february
23 librarians for 274 schools

the texas GOP hates your kids, hate their teachers, and is destroying public education

it's because they want to make us all ignorant & gullible so that they have an easier time exploiting us and cheating us
trump et al are stealing *our* money to give to 4chan nazi youth and letting them use our institutions to mock us and taunt us
Not gonna link because block 'em but once again, it's illegal for govt workers to use govt resources for explicitly partisan purposes and that does include social media accounts. They're not just trolling you, they're stealing your tax money to pay people to break laws.
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George Santos is the 10th GOP Congressman to get a pardon or clemency from President Trump. The other nine were also all convicted of various criminal charges:
pritzker is the only dem who seems to be realizing that the average left of center voter wants to see fiery vengeance meted out with unprecedented fury against trump and his nazi lackeys
The people around Donald Trump are taking advantage of his diminished capacity to break the law.

Whatever they do now, we won’t forget — and we will hold them accountable.
it's a real sign of how in the tank the media is for trump that we're facing a month long gov't shutdown (at least!), that the GOP majority isn't even pretending to be working towards a resolution, yet this is barely registering in the news coverage of this crisis
Mike Johnson appears to be doing de facto dissolving of the House of Representatives as we know it - just so he could help keep the Epstein files in the dark.
It's official: Speaker Johnson just cancelled all votes in the House next week.

The next scheduled voting day is 10/27; the last time the House was in session was 9/19.
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government of convicted criminals, by convicted criminals, for convicted criminals
this is just the average ICE agent: a belligerent drunken asshole who has no business being allowed to drive a vehicle much less wield a badge and a gun

we must dismantle ICE and purge every agent from ever again holding any speck of authority
An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative
time to block all the fascists working for trump who have arrived here to try to Troll The Libs from these gov't accounts
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Anyone at LAPD pushing this should be fired and any lawyers involved in this filing should be disbarred. "WE HAVE TO BEAT UP JOURNALISTS, IT'S AN EMERGENCY" "sounds like a great case, can't wait to cash this paycheck" you should all be exiled to a remote island overrun with botflies
“LAPD wants judge to lift an order restricting use of force against the press” 😭😭😭

“Ahead of this Saturday’s No Kings protests, the Los Angeles Police Department has filed an emergency motion asking a judge to lift an injunction that restricts their use of force against the press.”
LAPD wants judge to lift an order restricting use of force against the press
The police department filed an emergency order ahead of this Saturday's No Kings protest.
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they literally did the "it never works—but it could work for us" meme but for their submarine that kept getting crushed by water pressure during testing and which they then decided to use anyway
Oh my god. The scale models kept imploding so he's like "don't worry I have a new manufacturing method that will stop these implosions" and they're like "should we test a scale model built with this new method" and he's like "no no just try it on the real sub I'm sure it'll work"
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look i was recently talking to a septuagenarian life long dem (who shall remain nameless) and generic lib, and she was like “i just think there should be firing squads and they should sell tickets.”
yet another data point that an economics professor is about as much of a scientist as a guy who goes dowsing for water
There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.

Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.
we should all be voting for whichever dem pledges to put the most trump administration figures in prison which means that, at least as of this moment, jb pritzker is our guy
Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."
very excited by the idea of timothy parlatore, prison lawyer
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They fired a top-level commander, the top of the chain of command but for SecDef and POTUS, because the wanton murder spree on the high seas as it's been conducted so far wasn't enough for them.
And there you have it. These strikes are clearly not legal. Pete will push commanders aside until he finds one who won’t question these extrajudicial killings. #SOUTHCOM
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If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
the bar is so low that if platner were to become grunge affect chris coons it'd be extremely disappointing but still a huge upgrade over collins