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Paul B.T.
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Presbyterian.
Against Klansmen, neo-Nazis, and ICE.
Pritzker for President, I'm pretty sure.
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So denaturalize and deport Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, both of whom are public charges and security risks who undermine domestic tranquility and routinely promote radical foreign ideologies incompatible with America's pluralistic, scholarly, and secular traditions.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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These people are Nazis, and must be scourged from political life.
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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The most openly racist, eugenicist monsters are running the U.S. They will use every opportunity to advance their agenda.

And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Old Polish joke; two old friends meet for the first time in a while and stop to chat. "How's your year been?" asks the first. The second one shrugs. "Oh, you know" he says, "about average. Worse than last year, better than the next."
2025 actually did suck. i know we've all said this about a lot of previous years but this one was quite bad actually
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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i mean what are these "western values" these guys are so hopped up about? they are directly antagonistic to western europe. they don't believe in civil liberties. they reject democracy. and don't get me started on christianity, they hate their white neighbors almost as much as the brown ones
November 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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This is a deeply unprofessional and illegal partisan statement from the Trump hack who's currently director of the CIA.

It's also deeply dishonest, because the decision to grant the shooter asylum here was made by the Trump administration.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Populism should be obliterated not channeled
November 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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This is a level of blood libeling of immigrants (and their citizen children, being lumped in as 'illegals') comparable to the demonization of Tutsis in the time immediately preceding the Rwandan Genocide, or the libels against Jews in the buildup to the Holocaust.

Their intentions are clear.
So, traffic is...an immigrant problem?!
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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[leaking a strange brown fluid out of my nipple and through the novelty tuxedo shirt i picked up at spirit halloween] “we must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children,”
November 21, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Would be lovely if anyone learned the lesson of "saying Dems are as bad as the GOP gets the GOP in power, where they inevitably do a lot of stuff that is worse than even your parody version of the Dems would do" from last year, but it is more important to be mean to people you've decided are "libs."
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Simba from The Lion King is a Moses figure.

He was raised as a prince, flees home to avoid a murder rap, finds a new home for himself with a different group far from the land he was raised, then receives a message from beyond that calls him home, where he confronts the king and saves his people.
November 16, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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yep. this is, notably, the case wrt to the "brain isn't fully developed until age 25" myth. Brains do not stop developing and there is nothing notable that happens to them at age 25. There's just a development study that stopped following up at that age.
In general you can safely assume that any claim about human bodies that says "this stops at a hard cutoff of [x] years" actually means "the studies on this ran out of funding at [x] years"
November 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Reminder that the Refugee Convention was born out of the international community’s shame at failing to provide sanctuary to victims of the Nazis.

Shabana Mahmood seems to think we should’ve failed the survivors as well, by sending them back the second the Nazis were defeated.
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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ICE vs the clergy
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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We are much better served with leaders who made it through college with a B average but believe in liberal democracy than leaders who got straight As and believe in nothing but their own success
November 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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That seems like a sane response to the political situation here. There’s a chance that not only will women lose the right to abortion nationally but also birth control. Then there’s the problem of the manosphere teaching young men that women are undesirable unless they are doormats.
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Funny that the 'only liberals have agency" framing is adopted even on the Right, they've essentially made themselves NPCs
checking on ross "i would do anything for love but i won't" douthat
November 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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One predictable downside of making it "no this is only about ACA, our only demand" is that does get harder to defend as time goes on and the shutdown pain stacks up. The line for giving up on that, taking its loss as the lesser evil, is much lower than "we're not funding this fascist police state."
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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To say this was Dems voting, e.g., to fund ICE paychecks isn't unfair or an exaggeration. It's literally true. That they'd already given up on even trying to do anything about that doesn't change it, it's still in there. This is what constitutional accountability for the power of the purse is for.
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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I really want to go to the ICE facility here and pray and preach Matthew 25 again and again until everyone there has it memorized and knows they cant feign ignorance on the last day
November 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM