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Lina O
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🏳️‍🌈, gen-x, she/her
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“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.”

- Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail

Silence is not neutral. It is a choice.
January 19, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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Sarah's bedroom in the movie Labyrinth is one of the best examples of set design as environmental storytelling and foreshadowing/backstory in the history of cinema. Everyone knows it is filled with things that you see later in the film, but there's even more that you don't notice at a glance.
January 15, 2026 at 10:39 AM
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telling the secret police they have immunity to harm & kill citizens really lays bare the hollowness of decades of right-wing GOP screeching about encroaching Big Government - it was never a problem they had with government per se, just that it wasn't being used to harm the people they wanted to
January 14, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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Law Enforcement Baronial Class as official policy
January 14, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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Hi there, I would like to talk about paywalls

Today I had a rather large article drop in Slate and there was a soft paywall. A lot of people commented upset about that paywall

Let's talk about:

a) how to get around paywalls
b) why you shouldn't be mad about them
January 14, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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January 10, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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I can't believe local government is cowering while local normies are trying to protect their community. Just letting guys with guns threaten people like this
Minneapolis - Border Patrol stops a protester following them, and tells the car it’s their “first and final warning” to quit.
January 10, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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This is an occupying force.
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."

The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"

"Learned what?" she asks

Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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This will do nothing.

Trump will just continue to give the military orders, which they will obey.

The Rule of Law is dead, which means new laws won’t stop what’s happening.
January 7, 2026 at 3:24 AM
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An off-duty ICE agent was just confronted in Minneapolis after people noticed a Nazi SS lightning bolt tattoo on his neck.

If you’re proud enough to ink it on your neck, why are you running when people notice?
January 6, 2026 at 5:15 PM
My jaw.... stayed exactly in place. 🙄
Why women on LinkedIn are masquerading as men
One woman’s gender-swap experiment quadrupled her reach on the career platform, underscoring concerns about gender stereotypes and algorithmic bias.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Looking forward to Nancy Mace’s condemnation of these men in a women’s bathroom.
ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
December 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Bari Weiss lied in her memo. She said segment didn't report administration's legal justification (it does in the very first sentence) and didn't say how many detainees had been charged with crimes as opposed to just those who were convicted (it does). www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Do you think this might start a push to digitize the rest (or maybe just MORE) of the world's knowledge? It could be fascinating but the current state of world affairs has me believing there would be a monstrous amount of fuckery, rather than an army of emotionless bureaucrats with flatbed scanners.
December 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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December 21, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
December 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Ok, here's the unlocked version of the NYT summary of the VF piece: 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Trump’s Top Aide Acknowledges ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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“Constant lying is not about making people believe a lie, but about ensuring that no one believes anything. A people who no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between good and evil: a people deprived of the power to think,”
Hannah Arendt.

Are we there yet?
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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I’ve never seen an administration so wholly committed to destruction not just of our own country but of the whole world.

It’s like America elected the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and a demon brigade.
November 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Trump team axes Biden plan that would have paid passengers for flight delays
Trump team axes Biden plan that would have paid passengers for flight delays
Trump team axes Biden plan that would have paid passengers for flight delays
www.independent.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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I really like Bernie Sanders’ elder statesman era.

Unlike too many older politicians who cling to power and perpetuate an outdated political culture, Bernie is actively mentoring the next generation of progressive leaders before he retires.

It’s how it should be.
And it’s working.
November 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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For more than 54 days the House has been closed—no votes, no hearings, no negotiations, and for most of our GOP colleagues no where to be found.

And, where were they last night on our first night back? ⬇️
Rep. Stansbury: Where is the GOP on the First Night Back after Closing the House for 54 Days?
YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM