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Sky's the limit over here. Rockin' the greater Houston area 'burbs…exiled from New Orleans, but not in the Napoleonic sense. Trans-Sabine Texmudgeon. Also found on 🧵 as liprap3. https://liprapslament-theline.blogspot.com
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Progress. #xstitch
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I think all Democratic eight senators who caved to the GOP should have to read this to truly understand who they've hurt.
The voices of SNAP
Recipients have become political pawns. They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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“Structural ignorance.” Yes.
Public health depends on citizens accepting scientifically-grounded guidance. When official institutions produce politically-determined science and independent verification infrastructure is eliminated, the capacity for evidence-based health policy collapses, writes Renée DiResta.
How Political Power is Capturing Knowledge Systems and Manufacturing Structural Ignorance | TechPolicy.Press
We're witnessing the simultaneous capture of knowledge-producing institutions and the elimination of independent verification mechanisms, writes Renée DiResta.
www.techpolicy.press
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
My new battle cry - if y'all could KINDA FIGURE IT OUT AND NOT SUCCUMB TO FASCISM, that'd be great.
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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My DUDE
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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"Standing up to Caesar didn't work. My bad. You can go home now." - Jesus
It's cool when a member of Congress says there's no point in standing up to the bully who is literally taking our tax money.

We do not have a federal government.
Sen. Angus King: "Standing up to Donald Trump didn't work"
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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The rare HELL YEAH FUCK YEAH from the Supreme Court.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide.

Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I was just sent a link to get prescribed hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin for my illness. I thought we were past recommending that crap for COVID, but I guess not.
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"Whereas a similar-sized ship would be lost on the lakes every six or seven years before the Fitzgerald, none has gone down since then, he said.

“'Every sailor on the Great Lakes that’s sailing today owes a great deal of debt of gratitude to the Fitzgerald'”
www.wbay.com/2025/11/03/l...
‘The legend lives on’: Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald still resonates 50 years later
November 10th marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, perhaps the most famous of all the estimated 6,500 ships that have gone down in the Great Lakes.
www.wbay.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Now for some levity and logic based in facts.
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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It's terrible, but unsurprising, that the right wing Heritage Foundation asked the body which administers US war graves to remove a memorial in the Netherlands to black US soldiers. It's hopeful, however, that this has provoked protest from across almost all the political spectrum in the Netherlands
1/ Eleven Dutch parties across the political spectrum from socialist to conservative have issued a joint appeal to a provincial government to build a memorial to Black American soldiers who died in World War II, to replace one removed from the Netherlands American Cemetery. ⬇️
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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So cool! Prince *loved* libraries. For example, this is one donation he made from his charity a few days after 9/11 to save the Louisville Free Public Library, the first library in the community to serve African Americans.
November 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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I could be wrong about this but

I also think it's worth contacting your Senator if they are not on this list. Let them know you'll be pissed so they might up the pressure on these assholes. They probably don't have a lot of leverage but who knows
Call them:

Schumer (NY)
202 224-6542

Booker (NJ)
202 224-3224

King (ME)
202 224-5344

Hassan (NH)
202 224-3324

Durbin (IL)
202 224-2152

Ossoff (GA)
202 224-3521

Shaheen (NH)
202 224-2841

Gillibrand (NY)
202 224-4451

Masto (NV)
202 224-3542

Warner (VA)
202 224-2023

Fetterman (PA)
No Point
November 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
No no no, don't cave to the Grody Old Pedophile party. Do not do it.
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Well. Shit.
November 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Thread...
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Here's a gift link for y'all.

It's also important to note that this Judge retired to senior status in 2013 so his replacement was appointed by Obama more than 10 years ago. His resignation is not creating an opening on the court.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
'Splainin'
Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays.

Listen in ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Probably not. Men can ruin themselves all day long without any help. Next question.
"Did Women Ruin Men Blaming Women For Ruining Things?"
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Anywhoo, here's Donnie looking super contented.
I love catching him slow blinking at me
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Started having a runny nose and cough yesterday. Woke up with my usual job-related pains and the same runny nose and cough, plus I'm still feeling all kinds of ways about my grandma passing away. Ready to just dissolve into a puddle of weird misery, me.
November 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
God forbid any men challenge their sexuality by cooking and/or cleaning. Even for themselves.
Good morning Bluesky. What's the most ridiculous thing that you've been told is "gay"? Or at least "gay when a man does it"?

I'll start: birthday parties.
November 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
So Johnson doesn't know a damn thing...except for this.
Of. Course.
Good summary of the plan.
Johnson: If we lose the majority… They will try to end the Trump administration. He won't have 4 years. He'll have only 2, because they will move to impeach him, probably on the first day of the new Congress in January 2027 and try to systematically unwind all the important reforms that we've done."
November 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM