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lurching between crisis & complacency while patiently
observing the entropic decay of a certain imperium
(also, books, kittens, cinema, kittens, etc...)
Pinned
a line has two sides
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December 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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This is a lost episode of Parks and Rec
Knowlton Anderson, who says he is Abraham Lincoln’s second cousin, six-times removed, is speaking at the funeral
December 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
now reading: "The Ministry for the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson
💙📚 #Booksky
December 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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The administration appears to just be removing Trump's name from the Epstein files and then putting it everywhere else.
December 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"the old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters."
December 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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🤲
December 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
how your email finds me this morning
December 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Exit (2025) photograph by Anne Billson
December 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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this is why you don't give them an inch
Alabama rep cites Gavin Newson's vote to out trans kids to parents as precedent that the federal government should follow
December 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Zohran’s not even in Gracie Mansion yet, and the Knicks already won a cup. New York is back!!! 🟠🔵
December 17, 2025 at 4:06 AM
fueled in part by a desire for retribution
December 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
ditto
this is my surprised face
December 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Terrific story about Rob Reiner being as much of a mensch in real life as he seemed.
I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.
December 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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he's indecent and vulgar as well as being a racist fascist.
December 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
how your email finds me today
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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How fascism works
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
won't someone bring me the head of ...
December 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
now reading: "Death of the Author" by Nnedi Okorafor
💙📚 #Booksky
December 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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It’s not like I didn’t already think this situation was really fucking bad, but I was beginning to think it was way fucking worse.
December 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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...then fucking perish.
December 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
define yourself this #Caturday
December 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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It’s kind of incredible how little has been published about this guy and how little conservatives seem to care. Did people just forget these people were screeching for civil war when they thought he was a liberal?
Suspected Charlie Kirk assassin makes first in-person court appearance
The Utah man charged with killing Charlie Kirk made his first in-person court appearance Thursday as his attorneys pushed to further limit media access in the high-profile criminal case.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. every bit of cruelty, boasting, slander, and persecution was for absolutely fucking nothing.
December 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
you are an engineer
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December 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM