Francis X
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“Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy” - WC 🇺🇸 🚫MAGA 🚫CRYPTO
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Y’know when Snoopy is on his doghouse yelling in gibberish at things? That’s just me driving in central MA after 5pm because we all forgot how to drive when it gets dark ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
snoopy is wearing a helmet and scarf while sitting on a snoopy plane .
ALT: snoopy is wearing a helmet and scarf while sitting on a snoopy plane .
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November 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Y’know when Snoopy is on his doghouse yelling in gibberish at things? That’s just me driving in central MA after 5pm because we all forgot how to drive when it gets dark ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
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Tonight we voted unanimously (426-0) in the House to repeal a corrupt taxpayer-funded self-enrichment scheme written by and for United States Senators. Good development for the cause of anticorruption in this country.
November 20, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Tonight we voted unanimously (426-0) in the House to repeal a corrupt taxpayer-funded self-enrichment scheme written by and for United States Senators. Good development for the cause of anticorruption in this country.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.’
George Orwell, Animal Farm
George Orwell, Animal Farm
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 AM
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.’
George Orwell, Animal Farm
George Orwell, Animal Farm
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I wonder what would happen if everyone just turned off their cell phones for a day what financial impact it would have on META, Google, Apple and all the rest profiting off our attention?
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I wonder what would happen if everyone just turned off their cell phones for a day what financial impact it would have on META, Google, Apple and all the rest profiting off our attention?
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There are 195 countries in the world. Besides the US, how many have full or partial versions of the Epstein files?
Make the world a better place. Leak them!
Make the world a better place. Leak them!
November 20, 2025 at 11:22 PM
There are 195 countries in the world. Besides the US, how many have full or partial versions of the Epstein files?
Make the world a better place. Leak them!
Make the world a better place. Leak them!
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My Transition Co-chair Lina Khan and First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan joined Starbucks workers on the picket line today because making NYC affordable means an end to unfair labor practices and a living wage for our workers. We are their partners in the fight to live in this city with dignity.
November 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
My Transition Co-chair Lina Khan and First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan joined Starbucks workers on the picket line today because making NYC affordable means an end to unfair labor practices and a living wage for our workers. We are their partners in the fight to live in this city with dignity.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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Dublin, Ireland. Sept. 2022. #Monochrome #Dublin #Ireland #EastCoastKin #Photography #UrbanGaze #BlackAndWhite
November 21, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Dublin, Ireland. Sept. 2022. #Monochrome #Dublin #Ireland #EastCoastKin #Photography #UrbanGaze #BlackAndWhite
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Stock trading by members of Congress could be banned in bipartisan push sourcenm.com/2025/11/19/r...
Stock trading by members of Congress could be banned in bipartisan push • Source New Mexico
WASHINGTON — At least 25 bills have been introduced this Congress to further limit lawmakers and their family members from trading individual stocks, and representatives across the aisle renewed press...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Stock trading by members of Congress could be banned in bipartisan push sourcenm.com/2025/11/19/r...
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ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
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🚨BREAKING: Cleta Mitchell and activists from a top anti-voting group with close ties to the White House met last week to discuss plans to push for severely limiting early and mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Exclusive: Cleta Mitchell, Activists Scheme to Bring Back One-Day Elections
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
🚨BREAKING: Cleta Mitchell and activists from a top anti-voting group with close ties to the White House met last week to discuss plans to push for severely limiting early and mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Breaking News: A federal judge found that the presence of more than 2,000 National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., was unlawful.
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Breaking News: A federal judge found that the presence of more than 2,000 National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., was unlawful.
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If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
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Thanksgiving dinner planned, grocery shopping list drawn up, and dish preparation scheduled in a day-by-day grid. Feels a bit overwhelming until I realize how grateful we are to have a Thanksgiving celebration.
November 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Thanksgiving dinner planned, grocery shopping list drawn up, and dish preparation scheduled in a day-by-day grid. Feels a bit overwhelming until I realize how grateful we are to have a Thanksgiving celebration.
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#OTD in 2014, Georgia O'Keeffe's 1932 painting, Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1, sold for $44.4 million. The record for the highest price paid for a painting by a woman. #art #AmericanModerism
However, the O'Keeffe painting's record may fall...this very night (1/2).
However, the O'Keeffe painting's record may fall...this very night (1/2).
November 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
#OTD in 2014, Georgia O'Keeffe's 1932 painting, Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1, sold for $44.4 million. The record for the highest price paid for a painting by a woman. #art #AmericanModerism
However, the O'Keeffe painting's record may fall...this very night (1/2).
However, the O'Keeffe painting's record may fall...this very night (1/2).
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The 🇺🇸 American sports drama "ROCKY" directed by John G. Avildsen, and starring Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, and Burgess Meredith premiered #OnThisDay in 1976 at the Paramount Theatre in New York City
🎬 United Artists 🥊
🎬 United Artists 🥊
November 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The 🇺🇸 American sports drama "ROCKY" directed by John G. Avildsen, and starring Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, and Burgess Meredith premiered #OnThisDay in 1976 at the Paramount Theatre in New York City
🎬 United Artists 🥊
🎬 United Artists 🥊
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If a reasonable person would know the order is illegal, you MUST refuse.
Obedience is not absolute, duty to the Constitution is.
Oath is to defend the Constitution not a person
Yes. U.S. service members have a legal and moral obligation to disobey an illegal order.
Not just the right.
The DUTY.
Obedience is not absolute, duty to the Constitution is.
Oath is to defend the Constitution not a person
Yes. U.S. service members have a legal and moral obligation to disobey an illegal order.
Not just the right.
The DUTY.
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
If a reasonable person would know the order is illegal, you MUST refuse.
Obedience is not absolute, duty to the Constitution is.
Oath is to defend the Constitution not a person
Yes. U.S. service members have a legal and moral obligation to disobey an illegal order.
Not just the right.
The DUTY.
Obedience is not absolute, duty to the Constitution is.
Oath is to defend the Constitution not a person
Yes. U.S. service members have a legal and moral obligation to disobey an illegal order.
Not just the right.
The DUTY.
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“Survival of the fittest”
is often used to justify capitalist society, but this wasn’t a phrase that Darwin used.
He described it as “better designed for an immediate, local environment" and wrote of groups that survived through empathy and sharing rather than greed.
We must change
Or die
is often used to justify capitalist society, but this wasn’t a phrase that Darwin used.
He described it as “better designed for an immediate, local environment" and wrote of groups that survived through empathy and sharing rather than greed.
We must change
Or die
November 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“Survival of the fittest”
is often used to justify capitalist society, but this wasn’t a phrase that Darwin used.
He described it as “better designed for an immediate, local environment" and wrote of groups that survived through empathy and sharing rather than greed.
We must change
Or die
is often used to justify capitalist society, but this wasn’t a phrase that Darwin used.
He described it as “better designed for an immediate, local environment" and wrote of groups that survived through empathy and sharing rather than greed.
We must change
Or die
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Chris Murphy: "This is potentially the biggest scandal in presidential history ... I'm sure they are meeting in the White House right now trying to decide how they can get around complying with the law."
November 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Chris Murphy: "This is potentially the biggest scandal in presidential history ... I'm sure they are meeting in the White House right now trying to decide how they can get around complying with the law."
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Congressman Ro Khanna warns officials not to impede Epstein files release: ‘They will be prosecuted’
Congressman Ro Khanna warns officials not to impede Epstein files release: ‘They will be prosecuted’
Congressman Ro Khanna warns officials not to impede Epstein files release: ‘They will be prosecuted’
California lawmaker says names of anyone involved in Epstein’s crimes must come to light, Democrat or Republican
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Congressman Ro Khanna warns officials not to impede Epstein files release: ‘They will be prosecuted’
Congressman Ro Khanna warns officials not to impede Epstein files release: ‘They will be prosecuted’
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Oh, also in recent movie news, I got some friends of mine to watch both the original of The Blob and the 80s version.
They liked them both! Still crowd pleasers to this day, even if the original has like 40 year olds pretending to be high schoolers.
#horrorsky #filmsky #nowwatching
They liked them both! Still crowd pleasers to this day, even if the original has like 40 year olds pretending to be high schoolers.
#horrorsky #filmsky #nowwatching
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Oh, also in recent movie news, I got some friends of mine to watch both the original of The Blob and the 80s version.
They liked them both! Still crowd pleasers to this day, even if the original has like 40 year olds pretending to be high schoolers.
#horrorsky #filmsky #nowwatching
They liked them both! Still crowd pleasers to this day, even if the original has like 40 year olds pretending to be high schoolers.
#horrorsky #filmsky #nowwatching