Rick Dean
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OTD in 1978 USSR & Afghanistan signed a "friendship treaty". We invaded them a year later.
So you can trust us with a peace deal now.
So you can trust us with a peace deal now.
December 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
OTD in 1978 USSR & Afghanistan signed a "friendship treaty". We invaded them a year later.
So you can trust us with a peace deal now.
So you can trust us with a peace deal now.
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"A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela."
Chinese Hospital Ship Visits Jamaica as US Gunboats Ply Caribbean
A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission ...
www.bloomberg.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela."
1767 hours means on average 5.8 hours per day that California's clean energy production covered 100% of its electric need, mostly high use daytime hours with dirt cheap prices. Go California. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
California has a huge solar power problem. A fix is coming.
The state's glut of solar power is about to become far, far easier to sell.
www.sfgate.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
1767 hours means on average 5.8 hours per day that California's clean energy production covered 100% of its electric need, mostly high use daytime hours with dirt cheap prices. Go California. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
Tonight I went back to Joseph A Banks, first time in 25 years since the salesman swore up and down that my email would only be used to notify me that the alterations were done. Liar. I tried many times to unsubscribe, and swore never to return.
Maybe I forgave to quickly.
Maybe I forgave to quickly.
December 3, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Tonight I went back to Joseph A Banks, first time in 25 years since the salesman swore up and down that my email would only be used to notify me that the alterations were done. Liar. I tried many times to unsubscribe, and swore never to return.
Maybe I forgave to quickly.
Maybe I forgave to quickly.
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Yeah. This seems like a tax dodge for rich ex-pats.
December 1, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Yeah. This seems like a tax dodge for rich ex-pats.
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“We literally have a whites only refugee policy and we are proud of it - was that 14 words?”
Leavitt: "Refugee admissions into the country right now are essentially at 0, with the exception of Afrikaners fleeing persecution in South Africa."
December 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
“We literally have a whites only refugee policy and we are proud of it - was that 14 words?”
*The* example, not an example. OMG
Make sense of this, too, Greg.
From page 1075 of the current Department of Defense Law of War Manual, section 18.3.21...
From page 1075 of the current Department of Defense Law of War Manual, section 18.3.21...
December 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
*The* example, not an example. OMG
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The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
Pharmacy loyalty cards are pricing fraud. Nearly everyone is paying with non-cash anyway. There should be only one price.
November 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Pharmacy loyalty cards are pricing fraud. Nearly everyone is paying with non-cash anyway. There should be only one price.
The next Democratic president, if we ever have one, better reverse this agreement. Obviously antisemitism is wrong, but antisemitism is only a pretext for this agreement designed to use government powers for partisan ends.
www.northwestern.edu/president/do...
www.northwestern.edu/president/do...
www.northwestern.edu
November 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The next Democratic president, if we ever have one, better reverse this agreement. Obviously antisemitism is wrong, but antisemitism is only a pretext for this agreement designed to use government powers for partisan ends.
www.northwestern.edu/president/do...
www.northwestern.edu/president/do...
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
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as always yes. Deep State becomes like the responsible party of last resort for anything we don't want to own that happened on our watch.
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
as always yes. Deep State becomes like the responsible party of last resort for anything we don't want to own that happened on our watch.
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I really wish journalists would stop using the word "retribution" to describe Trump's efforts to criminalize opposition to him, as it treats his claim that his adversaries did something wrong in the first place.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I really wish journalists would stop using the word "retribution" to describe Trump's efforts to criminalize opposition to him, as it treats his claim that his adversaries did something wrong in the first place.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Stop name calling me a liberal when I advocate for the same tax rate on billionaires that Reagan enacted.
* I do have many liberal positions, but not that one.
* I do have many liberal positions, but not that one.
November 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Stop name calling me a liberal when I advocate for the same tax rate on billionaires that Reagan enacted.
* I do have many liberal positions, but not that one.
* I do have many liberal positions, but not that one.
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Once a safe and effective vaccine exists for a disease, it becomes unethical to give participants a placebo in a clinical trial because you will be denying the control group protection that we know already works.
November 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Once a safe and effective vaccine exists for a disease, it becomes unethical to give participants a placebo in a clinical trial because you will be denying the control group protection that we know already works.
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We’re about to invade Venezuela because trump wants their oil. No other reason. The airspace has been cleared. Embassies are being evacuated. Flights are being canceled.
He’s going to kill people for oil.
He’s going to kill people for oil.
November 24, 2025 at 2:58 AM
We’re about to invade Venezuela because trump wants their oil. No other reason. The airspace has been cleared. Embassies are being evacuated. Flights are being canceled.
He’s going to kill people for oil.
He’s going to kill people for oil.
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A Fox News poll this week found Obamacare is more popular than Trump, either party and congressional leaders. Only 3 points below Fox's all-time high for the law reached in 2023 static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/...
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
A Fox News poll this week found Obamacare is more popular than Trump, either party and congressional leaders. Only 3 points below Fox's all-time high for the law reached in 2023 static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/...
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I’m not convinced that advising people to follow the law is “sedition.”
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I’m not convinced that advising people to follow the law is “sedition.”
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Democratic Senators: Don't follow illegal orders
Republicans: Like WHAT?!
Trump: Kill the Senators!!!
Republicans: Like WHAT?!
Trump: Kill the Senators!!!
November 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Democratic Senators: Don't follow illegal orders
Republicans: Like WHAT?!
Trump: Kill the Senators!!!
Republicans: Like WHAT?!
Trump: Kill the Senators!!!
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
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1) There were interviews. Fox didn't air them.
2) Due process isn't just for people we think are innocent. It's for everyone, even when we think they are guilty.
3) The US benefits from countries observing the traditional laws of the sea, and has every reason to set that example.
2) Due process isn't just for people we think are innocent. It's for everyone, even when we think they are guilty.
3) The US benefits from countries observing the traditional laws of the sea, and has every reason to set that example.
Cotton on Trump's boat strikes: "Use common sense. If any of these had been boats full of fisherman or refugees, CNN would've already been on the ground & interviewed all their families & told their stories. We can be confident all of these strikes have been against cartel-based drug traffickers."
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
1) There were interviews. Fox didn't air them.
2) Due process isn't just for people we think are innocent. It's for everyone, even when we think they are guilty.
3) The US benefits from countries observing the traditional laws of the sea, and has every reason to set that example.
2) Due process isn't just for people we think are innocent. It's for everyone, even when we think they are guilty.
3) The US benefits from countries observing the traditional laws of the sea, and has every reason to set that example.
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Is there going to be an app we can use when we have a gunshot wound and need to determine which emergency room is cheaper tonight?
Cassidy: "If she goes and gets 2 types of shampoo & one is a dollar cheaper, she'll get the cheaper one & the other lowers their price. Once you give her the power of making the decision, she's gonna shop -- that begins to save her money and squeezes waste out of the healthcare system."
November 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Is there going to be an app we can use when we have a gunshot wound and need to determine which emergency room is cheaper tonight?
I'm curious to see how the state ever proves there was a fertilized egg in any woman it prosecutes. Even if they somehow could, how would they prove it was fertilized before transiting the cervix? Any act of verification would itself be an abortion.
Women who get an abortion and anyone who helps them could face up to 30 years in prison under the bill.
It appears to ban any contraception that prevents a fertilized egg from implanting. That would ban IUDs and could strictly limit in-vitro fertilization.
It appears to ban any contraception that prevents a fertilized egg from implanting. That would ban IUDs and could strictly limit in-vitro fertilization.
Women Who Have Abortions Would Face Decades in Prison Under South Carolina Plan
Women who get abortions could spend decades in prison and IUDs would be outlawed under proposed legislation in South Carolina.
buff.ly
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I'm curious to see how the state ever proves there was a fertilized egg in any woman it prosecutes. Even if they somehow could, how would they prove it was fertilized before transiting the cervix? Any act of verification would itself be an abortion.
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if trump wants to release the files, he does not need house republicans to vote for him to do so. he can just release them.
Trump: "House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide."
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
if trump wants to release the files, he does not need house republicans to vote for him to do so. he can just release them.
I'm looking for Democratic politicians who aren't shy about criminally prosecuting Trump henchmen. In illinois we proudly imprison crooked politicians. Join us.
November 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I'm looking for Democratic politicians who aren't shy about criminally prosecuting Trump henchmen. In illinois we proudly imprison crooked politicians. Join us.