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· Dec 16
Ran to the ancestral plane
But they all showed up drunk and insane
When I asked what I could offer them
They said, "Gin and tonic or lithium"
l asked, "Which way should I go?"
And through cigarette smoke, they said
"Child, how would we know?"
But they all showed up drunk and insane
When I asked what I could offer them
They said, "Gin and tonic or lithium"
l asked, "Which way should I go?"
And through cigarette smoke, they said
"Child, how would we know?"
Papa V has come into his own, now, and was soaring in Tulsa, this weekend, still having a good time with it.
February 9, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Papa V has come into his own, now, and was soaring in Tulsa, this weekend, still having a good time with it.
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"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."
Good Bunny. Bad Super Bowl. Defund ICE.
Political lessons from the wide world of sports. And music.
lnk.thebulwark.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:30 PM
"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."
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Shares appreciated to help spread the word! 💕
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February 8, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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All spots open for February! Valentine Galentine Palentine Let Me Draw Your OCtines.
Shares appreciated to help spread the word! 💕
📧[ [email protected] ]
💻[ maddiebiscuitsart.com ]
[ #art #commsopen #commission #illustration #commissionsopen #characterart ]
‼️💕‼️💕‼️💕‼️💕‼️💕‼️
All spots open for February! Valentine Galentine Palentine Let Me Draw Your OCtines.
Shares appreciated to help spread the word! 💕
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[ #art #commsopen #commission #illustration #commissionsopen #characterart ]
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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.
It's been clear the game is rigged for decades, but here's a window into exactly how.
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.
www.bbc.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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.
It's been clear the game is rigged for decades, but here's a window into exactly how.
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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.
Deaths like these are always preceded by engineered abandonment. Disproportionate homelessness among people with disabilities is no accident.
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.
www.npr.org
February 9, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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.
Deaths like these are always preceded by engineered abandonment. Disproportionate homelessness among people with disabilities is no accident.
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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
February 9, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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
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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. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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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.
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.
'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.
news4sanantonio.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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.
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.
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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.
February 9, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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.
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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.”
February 3, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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.”
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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.
This line in particular is why I’ve hated Chomsky for so long.
"refugees are frightened and defenseless, at the mercy of alien forces. They naturally tend to report what they believe their interlocuters wish to hear."
February 1, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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.
This line in particular is why I’ve hated Chomsky for so long.
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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...
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...
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.
migrantinsider.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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...
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...
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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.
February 2, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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.
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felted rivalry
anyways, muppet heated rivalry
February 2, 2026 at 10:31 PM
felted rivalry
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These are government employees. So our tax dollars are funding ICE to flash white supremacist cards at vulnerable POC as an intimidation tactic. Who is giving this direction?
There’s something deeply sinister happening in this country right now, and I don’t think we can take three more years.
There’s something deeply sinister happening in this country right now, and I don’t think we can take three more years.
February 2, 2026 at 2:54 PM
These are government employees. So our tax dollars are funding ICE to flash white supremacist cards at vulnerable POC as an intimidation tactic. Who is giving this direction?
There’s something deeply sinister happening in this country right now, and I don’t think we can take three more years.
There’s something deeply sinister happening in this country right now, and I don’t think we can take three more years.
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They don't give a single fuck about their own supporters. It's particularly galling that they no longer care if they live or die.
Dr Oz on rural healthcare: "There's no question about it, whether you want it or not -- the best way to help some of these communities is gonna be AI-based avatars"
February 2, 2026 at 10:31 PM
They don't give a single fuck about their own supporters. It's particularly galling that they no longer care if they live or die.
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Arkansans are being sent back to prison through unfair parole revocation proceedings — no lawyers, no real hearings, and no chance to defend themselves. This lawsuit is about due process, dignity, and stopping a system that quietly fuels mass incarceration instead of justice.
February 2, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Arkansans are being sent back to prison through unfair parole revocation proceedings — no lawyers, no real hearings, and no chance to defend themselves. This lawsuit is about due process, dignity, and stopping a system that quietly fuels mass incarceration instead of justice.
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A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.
Defendant contacted police before freeway shooting
Charles Glen Simmons, 53, of Dillard, is in the Douglas County Jail on $1 million bail after Thursday morning’s alleged crime spree. According to a press release from the Oregon
www.nrtoday.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:18 PM
A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.
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📌 Released Palestinian prisoner Khaled Al-Sayfi has died a week after his release from Israeli prisons in critical condition, from the Dheisheh Refugee Camp, Shehab News reports.
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem says Israeli prisons have been turned into a coordinated network of torture camps...
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem says Israeli prisons have been turned into a coordinated network of torture camps...
February 2, 2026 at 7:37 PM
📌 Released Palestinian prisoner Khaled Al-Sayfi has died a week after his release from Israeli prisons in critical condition, from the Dheisheh Refugee Camp, Shehab News reports.
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem says Israeli prisons have been turned into a coordinated network of torture camps...
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem says Israeli prisons have been turned into a coordinated network of torture camps...
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🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump urged Republicans to seize control of elections and place voting under national authority Monday — one of his most explicit signals yet that he plans to interfere with the workings of democracy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump: ‘We should take over the voting’
Trump, as usual, offered no evidence for any of his claims.
www.democracydocket.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:30 PM
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump urged Republicans to seize control of elections and place voting under national authority Monday — one of his most explicit signals yet that he plans to interfere with the workings of democracy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Next commenter remarks on the kidnapping of an 11 year old in Little Village and how no parent can rely on the police to protect their children.
Crowd is uproarious. Chanting, "who do you serve? Who do you protect?"
Two CPD officers are watching from behind the bar in the back.
Crowd is uproarious. Chanting, "who do you serve? Who do you protect?"
Two CPD officers are watching from behind the bar in the back.
January 9, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Next commenter remarks on the kidnapping of an 11 year old in Little Village and how no parent can rely on the police to protect their children.
Crowd is uproarious. Chanting, "who do you serve? Who do you protect?"
Two CPD officers are watching from behind the bar in the back.
Crowd is uproarious. Chanting, "who do you serve? Who do you protect?"
Two CPD officers are watching from behind the bar in the back.
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Thousands of protesters marching through NYC right now in reaction to the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good (1/8/26)
January 9, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Thousands of protesters marching through NYC right now in reaction to the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good (1/8/26)