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NC Piedmont.
Rural pluralist and known adverb abuser. Delicious to biting insects.
Purveyor of GenX’s weakest posts.
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NC Piedmont.
Rural pluralist and known adverb abuser. Delicious to biting insects.
Purveyor of GenX’s weakest posts.
Pinned
ICE Detained an 18-Year-Old U.S. Citizen. This Is His Story.
YouTube video by The Hometown Holler
youtu.be
Meet Manny.
Like me, he was born in this country. We share a zip code and both have NC DLs.
Unlike me, he caught the attention of ICE because of his appearance.
Manny was detained for over an hour, handcuffed.
Manny now has no job because ICE has his whole construction crew.
youtu.be/Q0mQxt9jlCM
Like me, he was born in this country. We share a zip code and both have NC DLs.
Unlike me, he caught the attention of ICE because of his appearance.
Manny was detained for over an hour, handcuffed.
Manny now has no job because ICE has his whole construction crew.
youtu.be/Q0mQxt9jlCM
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In his 1996 RNC acceptance speech, Bob Dole directly told bigots (like the Buchanan/Duke types) to get out of his convention. It was just a rhetorical gesture, but it was at least a gesture. The far right, of which Rod D is very much a part, took that to be a temporary setback and kept organizing.
December 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
In his 1996 RNC acceptance speech, Bob Dole directly told bigots (like the Buchanan/Duke types) to get out of his convention. It was just a rhetorical gesture, but it was at least a gesture. The far right, of which Rod D is very much a part, took that to be a temporary setback and kept organizing.
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TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit
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i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesn’t like into a bespoke ideology. it’s not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded “ism” responsible for everything he doesn’t like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.
December 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesn’t like into a bespoke ideology. it’s not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded “ism” responsible for everything he doesn’t like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.
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My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
December 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
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This is so perfect. In 2012 CPAC banned the John Birch Society. In 2023 they were welcomed back into the fold. And now here they are working together with TPUSA.
December 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
This is so perfect. In 2012 CPAC banned the John Birch Society. In 2023 they were welcomed back into the fold. And now here they are working together with TPUSA.
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On the plus side, looks like someone finally found a way to turn a profit from OpenAI
online gambling is essentially legal and open money fixing and laundering at this point
December 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
On the plus side, looks like someone finally found a way to turn a profit from OpenAI
Feeling this groove, y’all
“intrigued by the idea of a think tank report that doesn’t suck shit”
“intrigued by the idea of a think tank report that doesn’t suck shit”
intrigued by the idea of a think tank report that doesn’t suck shit
“In fact, moderating on some positions was more likely to reinforce Republican talking points and make Democrats seem weak, according to the report”
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
“In fact, moderating on some positions was more likely to reinforce Republican talking points and make Democrats seem weak, according to the report”
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
December 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Feeling this groove, y’all
“intrigued by the idea of a think tank report that doesn’t suck shit”
“intrigued by the idea of a think tank report that doesn’t suck shit”
As someone whose life was ravaged by losing someone to pancreatic cancer, this makes me at once joyful and furious beyond words.
I gotta log off for a minute.
I gotta log off for a minute.
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
As someone whose life was ravaged by losing someone to pancreatic cancer, this makes me at once joyful and furious beyond words.
I gotta log off for a minute.
I gotta log off for a minute.
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we need more quilts with "tom homan is a bitch" patches
@hcrichardson.bsky.social my ways of resisting: becoming a card carrying member of my town’s Dem committee, going to protests and standouts, calling my electeds, and crocheting a protest blanket! The first two picks are the latest that I am stitching into the full blanket now🤗
December 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
we need more quilts with "tom homan is a bitch" patches
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A big part of the problem in the US is that “the left” has not been meaningfully present in national politics for so long that people can say it is just about anything and it will strike readers as plausible.
Americans have “heard of it” and that’s about it, making it a blank slate for charlatans.
Americans have “heard of it” and that’s about it, making it a blank slate for charlatans.
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
Why the Cinnabon Story Doesn’t Make Me Happy
The left should be promoting working-class solidarity, not delighting in seeing workers summarily dismissed.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A big part of the problem in the US is that “the left” has not been meaningfully present in national politics for so long that people can say it is just about anything and it will strike readers as plausible.
Americans have “heard of it” and that’s about it, making it a blank slate for charlatans.
Americans have “heard of it” and that’s about it, making it a blank slate for charlatans.
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The article is bait, of course, but let me tell you.
This sort of faux revolutionary "woke is the enemy of the worker" class reductionism is what dirtbag "leftists" gifted off for YEARS.
They made a ton of money and helped no one.
It's a grift
This sort of faux revolutionary "woke is the enemy of the worker" class reductionism is what dirtbag "leftists" gifted off for YEARS.
They made a ton of money and helped no one.
It's a grift
December 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The article is bait, of course, but let me tell you.
This sort of faux revolutionary "woke is the enemy of the worker" class reductionism is what dirtbag "leftists" gifted off for YEARS.
They made a ton of money and helped no one.
It's a grift
This sort of faux revolutionary "woke is the enemy of the worker" class reductionism is what dirtbag "leftists" gifted off for YEARS.
They made a ton of money and helped no one.
It's a grift
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ah yes, all workers should have the right to hurl racial slurs at black customers
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
Why the Cinnabon Story Doesn’t Make Me Happy
The left should be promoting working-class solidarity, not delighting in seeing workers summarily dismissed.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
ah yes, all workers should have the right to hurl racial slurs at black customers
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They can't pass a state budget so they spend their time holding a hearing to insult a local school board..
"Accusations of grooming, mentions of vulvas, and hurling of books—not an ordinary morning in the North Carolina State Legislature, but just another day in America’s culture wars." indyweek.com/news/chccs-l...
CHCCS Leaders Defend District in Hearing on Parents’ Bill of Rights Comments
GOP legislators accused the district of indoctrinating students in a theatrical hearing on comments the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools board chair made at a candidate forum.
indyweek.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
They can't pass a state budget so they spend their time holding a hearing to insult a local school board..
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The logical endpoint of class reductionism: solidarity demands that we support a racist “worker” and label anyone who takes offense at racial slurs as a decadent bourgeois.
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
Why the Cinnabon Story Doesn’t Make Me Happy
The left should be promoting working-class solidarity, not delighting in seeing workers summarily dismissed.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The logical endpoint of class reductionism: solidarity demands that we support a racist “worker” and label anyone who takes offense at racial slurs as a decadent bourgeois.
One of my hottest takes: violence (of any kind) in jails/prisons is a policy choice.
If a society cannot protect the incarcerated from violence then that society shouldn’t get to detain anyone. Period.
Whether the philosophy is punishment, rehab, exile, etc…
Incarceration=Responsibility
If a society cannot protect the incarcerated from violence then that society shouldn’t get to detain anyone. Period.
Whether the philosophy is punishment, rehab, exile, etc…
Incarceration=Responsibility
Prison rape is wrong.
Jokes about prison rape are wrong.
Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong.
If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity.
BUT
A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.
Jokes about prison rape are wrong.
Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong.
If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity.
BUT
A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
December 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
One of my hottest takes: violence (of any kind) in jails/prisons is a policy choice.
If a society cannot protect the incarcerated from violence then that society shouldn’t get to detain anyone. Period.
Whether the philosophy is punishment, rehab, exile, etc…
Incarceration=Responsibility
If a society cannot protect the incarcerated from violence then that society shouldn’t get to detain anyone. Period.
Whether the philosophy is punishment, rehab, exile, etc…
Incarceration=Responsibility
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Prison rape is wrong.
Jokes about prison rape are wrong.
Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong.
If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity.
BUT
A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.
Jokes about prison rape are wrong.
Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong.
If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity.
BUT
A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Prison rape is wrong.
Jokes about prison rape are wrong.
Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong.
If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity.
BUT
A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.
Jokes about prison rape are wrong.
Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong.
If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity.
BUT
A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
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America is a mafia state running a protection racket in the interest of the boss, not the people www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... bsky.app/profile/john...
December 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
America is a mafia state running a protection racket in the interest of the boss, not the people www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... bsky.app/profile/john...
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Today in “Dudes Rock”:
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
December 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Today in “Dudes Rock”:
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
therapist: “MattY, are the ‘bad groups’ here in the room with us right now? <looks around> Oh. Yes, I see. My apologies. Go on.”
December 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
therapist: “MattY, are the ‘bad groups’ here in the room with us right now? <looks around> Oh. Yes, I see. My apologies. Go on.”
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The point of accumulating political power ought to be to do what’s right. Otherwise you’re just hoarding power for its own sake.
Stopping the government from sending innocent people to a foreign prison where they were beaten, sexually assaulted, and tortured was the right thing to do.
Stopping the government from sending innocent people to a foreign prison where they were beaten, sexually assaulted, and tortured was the right thing to do.
December 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The point of accumulating political power ought to be to do what’s right. Otherwise you’re just hoarding power for its own sake.
Stopping the government from sending innocent people to a foreign prison where they were beaten, sexually assaulted, and tortured was the right thing to do.
Stopping the government from sending innocent people to a foreign prison where they were beaten, sexually assaulted, and tortured was the right thing to do.
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Tinker Swift, Taylor Swift, Soldier Swift, Spy Swift
December 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Tinker Swift, Taylor Swift, Soldier Swift, Spy Swift
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I can't emphasize enough that the public sees Trump as a regular partisan president rather than a threat to the Republic because Democrats consistently act like he's a regular president and not a threat to the Republic.
They will do the same mindless, cowardly thing over and over until we get a real leadership turnover.
Significant statement from Jeffries and House Democratic leaders saying they will vote “present” on the motion to table Al Green’s resolution to impeach President Trump. They say they’re “laser-focused on fighting to lower the high cost of living” plus on health care and corruption.
December 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I can't emphasize enough that the public sees Trump as a regular partisan president rather than a threat to the Republic because Democrats consistently act like he's a regular president and not a threat to the Republic.
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In case you ever needed proof that the Heritage Foundation is not a conservative organization, here we have them cheering on the Federal Government threatening to strip all funding from a state that does not make political decisions the President likes. Any true conservative would be howling.
December 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
In case you ever needed proof that the Heritage Foundation is not a conservative organization, here we have them cheering on the Federal Government threatening to strip all funding from a state that does not make political decisions the President likes. Any true conservative would be howling.