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theparamecium.bsky.social
@theparamecium.bsky.social
Do not identify as a liberal, a feminist, an atheist, or anything that implies have adopted anyone else's ideals or conclusions. Recommend doing the same. Am a hiker, and when need be an activist..
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Here's a song we can all relate to while you give your eyes a break from reading. Hope you enjoy it :-)
Root Boy Slim-Rich White Republican
YouTube video by ChuckWest1978
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Think Project 2025 is bad? Project 2026 is worse:

"Their [Heritage’s leaders] message is unmistakable: They are coming for reproductive freedom. They are coming for voting rights. They are coming for LGBTQ+ equality. They are coming for the federal protections that women rely on every day."
Project 2026 Declares Open War on Women’s Rights
When the Heritage Foundation released its new policy blueprint for 2026 this week—an extension of the now-infamous Project 2025—it did so with the calm confidence of an institution convinced no one wi...
msmagazine.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:29 AM
December 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
GUILTY:

"President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not."
Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump ...
www.reuters.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The GOP is shaking in their jack boots. The mayoral race in Miami went from a 67 pt win in 2021 to a 20 pt loss today. Trump has revoked TPS for100,000 Venezuelans in greater Dade Co. And guess what? PBS is still here, and Frontline, along with ProPublica, is covering that tonite. Suck on it MAGA..
Democrats Send A Decisive Message By Flipping Miami Mayor's Office
The win adds to the party's momentum ahead of the midterms next year.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Rat on anyone not MAGA, get paid:

"..this implementation order..provides for a funding system to reward people that provide these tips that I was describing before. It’s basically a bounty system for anti-Trump thought and reporting on it."
Journalist Reveals FBI Is Offering a “Bounty” for Reporting “Anti-Trump Thought”
A leaked DOJ memo directs the FBI to review records from the past five years, says Ken Klippenstein.
truthout.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:05 AM
December 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The ongoing agenda to institutionalize inhumanity enacted:

"..the sweeping purge of dozens of immigration judges across the country is part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to hollow out the already overburdened courts..and reshape them as a tool for the mass deportation agenda."
Trump keeps firing immigration judges
Eight New York City judges have been terminated as the White House continues its purge of the courts.
www.motherjones.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Scarier than the Terminator? Yep:

"Drones are the killing machine of the twenty-first century, combining the remorseless brutality of medieval weaponry and the sadism of video games..responsible for 70 to 80 percent of all combat casualties on both sides in the nearly four-year-old war in Ukraine."
The Horrifying, AI-Enhanced Future of War Is Here
Tech bros and Silicon Valley billionaires are building new drones—and new ways to profit from conflict.
newrepublic.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Which is worse, the cruelty or the corruption?(toss-up?)

"For the Kremlin, the Miami talks were the culmination of a strategy..to bypass the traditional U.S. national security apparatus and convince the administration to view Russia not as a military threat but as a land of bountiful opportunity.."
GOP lawmaker levels Trump admin report: 'Churchill and Reagan are turning in their graves'
A Republican lawmaker bucked the administration on Saturday, citing the conservative Wall Street Journal's new report on Donald Trump allies who are cashing in on ending the Russia-Ukraine war.The Jou...
www.rawstory.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:11 AM
November 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Evil:

"[as] Robert's court rewrites the Constitution in the image of Trumpian autocracy, it’s become clear that [his] promise to be a neutral umpire was a lie. We are watching a rigged game, and Roberts set it up..spent Trump’s second term not applying the law so much as clearing it out of his way"
Inside the 'corrupt bargain' between Trump and Chief Justice John Roberts
Mother Jones writers Pema Levy and Ari Berman say that President Donald Trump "owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man" — Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts."Twenty years ago, John Roberts...
www.alternet.org
November 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
November 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Cruelty Oopsie:

"Drastic cuts in food stamps and health care programs were central planks in Project 2025..and were written into legislation in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that passed last summer. But the consequences of these cruel intentions weren't supposed to be this obvious this early."
Economist Paul Krugman: MAGA is showing its 'cruel intentions ahead of schedule'
When Donald Trump was running against Democrats in the United States' 2024 presidential race — first presumptive nominee Joe Biden, then the actual nominee Kamala Harris — he focused on the economy re...
www.alternet.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Evil:

"Roberts and his colleagues have done immense damage to the underpinnings of the democracy Americans painstakingly built. They have reallocated political power from ordinary citizens to billionaires, worsened congressional paralysis, and transformed many elections into meaningless exercises."
November 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Israel cannot stop killing Palestinians the same as a junkie can't quit using heroin--it just feels too damn good:

“The intensity of the death toll has decreased, but martyrs and shelling happen every day..and all the basic necessities of life are still lacking..”
Israeli airstrikes kill 33 people in Gaza in escalation of post-ceasefire attacks
Medical officials say 17 people killed in Khan Younis area and 16 in strikes on Gaza City
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Know this ICE theme song will be posted a thousand times, but gonna be one of them:
"Red" - Jesse Welles (LIVE at The Late Show)
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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November 20, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Embarrassingly, we wear the same eye patch:

"GOP leaders decided to ban Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) from traveling for three months due to an "alcohol-related episode" in Mexico..One Mexican official cracked a crude joke that made a woman present uncomfortable. Crenshaw toasted the remarks.."
Republicans ban GOP rep from international travel after 'alcohol-related episode': report
House Republican leadership recently took action to bar one of their own members from international trips, according to a new report.Punchbowl News reported Wednesday that GOP leaders decided to ban R...
www.rawstory.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:10 AM
MAGA existing beyond Tr*mp is a conservative fever dream:

"Trump is a generational talent who had been a celebrity long before he undertook a political career. Indeed, without his celebrity, there would have been no presidency. And without him, there is no MAGA.."
'There is no MAGA': Conservative media site warns end is near for 'Trump’s personal party'
Conservative news outlet Washington Examiner explains the Republican party's "shellacking" in the November elections as fallout from what happens "when a political party is transformed into a personal...
www.alternet.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Gaza HORROR:

"Al-Assar was saved by chance when a Palestinian man searching for his son’s body in the morgue saw the young girl’s fingers moving as she lay on a cold slab."

“I was in a coma for two weeks, and when I woke up, my family told me that I had been placed in the morgue refrigerator..”
Gaza girl shares story of being found alive in morgue after Israeli attack
Raghad al-Assar, 12, continues to suffer trauma after her home in central Gaza was bombed, killing two of her sisters.
www.aljazeera.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:09 AM
November 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
YGBFKM:

A senior White House source told ESPN there has been back-channel communication between the administration and a member of the team’s ownership about his wish.

“It’s what the president wants, and it will probably happen,” the source added.
Trump wants his name on the Washington Commanders’ planned $3.7 billion stadium, and he has ‘plenty of cards to play,’ report says
"He can make it very difficult, through government environmental approvals and other things, to make sure everyone who wants this stadium to be built will join to put his name on it."
www.yahoo.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The UK is calling out the IDF's murderous ways:

"Daniel, the tank unit commander, says in the documentary ["Breaking Ranks"] that the rhetoric declaring there was no such thing as an innocent in Gaza seeped down into army ranks. “You hear that all the time, so you start to believe it,” he says."
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Is it too much to hope for?

"Bottom line: If Republicans don’t fix this [the gov't shutdown] fast, 2026 won’t just be a loss — it’ll be an extinction event."
GOP strategist: The elections showed how badly we got outplayed by Democrats | Opinion
Simply put, the GOP got outplayed by the Democrats. But one bright opportunity is shining for Republicans. | Opinion
www.thestate.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:47 AM
On behalf of every decent Kentuckian--fuck Kim Davis
The Closed-Door Supreme Court Meeting That Everyone Should Be Paying Attention To
Kim Davis, the thrice divorced and four times married Kentucky clerk, wants SCOTUS to repeal same-sex marriage.
www.huffpost.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM