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Proud Liberal🇺🇸, writer, editor, pacifist, mom🏳️‍🌈, INTP❤️Lakes, brownies, good coffee, words. http://preview.tinyurl.com/y2setcmt
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#pedotrump will certainly try to find ways to keep the files out of the public view, but perpetuating the fiction that they are one easily accessible database is disingenuous.
Text is an excerpt from Jay Kuo's "Everyone Take a Victory Lap...and Breathe": "On the question of Trump or the FBI tampering with the files (e.g., deleting instances of Trump’s name, removing video evidence, destroying images), I have significantly less worry about this than most. Why? The “Epstein Files” isn’t some centralized database. They comprise a host of electronic and physical evidence collected by the FBI, held under seal by the courts, used in civil proceedings, and held by third parties. The core investigative files, gathered by the FBI, are subject to strict chain-of-custody controls, meaning they have electronic timestamps, evidentiary IDs, digital authentications, and audit trails. That’s very hard to mess with, at least not without someone noticing."
November 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Clear+Vivid: Alan Alda speaks with Bill McKibben

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Text against a faded picture of windmills and solar panels: Clear+Vivid: Alan Alda speaks with Bill McKibben https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bill-mckibben-tomorrow-will-be-sunny/id1400082430?i=1000736294199 • In March 2025, fossil fuels made less than half our electricity. Around the world, 95% of new generation came from renewable sources. • In May, the Chinese were putting up 3 gigawatts of solar panels a day. A gigawatt’s the rough equivalent of a large coal-fired power plant…so one of them was going up every 8 hours. • Bell Labs invented solar panels in 1954, but they weren’t cost-effective for anything except satellites. Thanks to decades of science (and activism), it’s now cheaper to produce energy from the sun and the wind than from coal and gas and oil. • Fossil fuels: contribute to 1 in 5 deaths (9m/year) from byproducts and has been a major contributor in launching endless wars • Every 10th of a degree that we raise the planet’s temperature moves 100 million human beings out of a safe climate zone and into a dangerous one. • The current administration is stopping renewable projects to protect the profits of fossil fuel corporations. For example, Trump killed a R.I. wind project that would have generated enough electricity to power 2 million homes. • We’re ceding the technological and economic future to China.
November 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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These
Album cover: Tracy Chapman (eponymous album) Album cover: Melissa Etheridge (eponymous album)
November 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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I second yours, but close runners-up are these:
Album cover: Verities & Balderdah (Harry Chapin Album cover: Souvenirs (Dan Fogelberg)
November 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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His garish inspirations (from Russia, of course) have 1 word in common: Grand Kremlin PALACE, Winter PALACE, Summer PALACE...
garish Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow Romanov Winter Palace Summer Palace
November 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Text says, "The official was Joe Schmidt, the acting deputy chief. He was overheard saying the DOJ planned to redact Republican names from the Epstein files while leaving Democratic names visible. That raised a new question about who the Department is trying to protect."
November 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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"violent resistance"
5 people wearing brightly colored inflatable costumes
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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The Surrender Caucus senators "thought they were sparing their constituents some present pain, but they are actually dooming them to far worse pain later. And the surrender was a slap in the face to all who suffered to get us this far."

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Quotes text from Jay Kuo's substack "StatusKuo": "A deal only offering a commitment to hold a vote gives away everything for nothing. When the only deal on the table is a shit sandwich, the correct response is to get up from the table and walk away. Smearing some mayonnaise on that shit sandwich isn’t going to make it more palatable."
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Mainstream media is failing us. #fakenews #clickbait #politicizingdata

From @ourworldindata.org
bar graph shows causes of death in US in 2025 compared to New York Times coverage of causes of death in 2025. Reality top 5 = heart disease (29%), cancer (27%), accidents (7.8%), stroke (7%), and lower respiratory diseases (4.9%). But the New York Times coverage does not reflect reality. Their LARGEST focus percentages for causes of death were homicide (42% of articles) and terrorism (18%). In reality, less than 1% of deaths in the US in 2023 were homicides, and the percentage of deaths caused by terrorism was less than 0.001%.
October 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Fortunately, the vulgar ballroom should be large enough to hold the first wave of the Truth and Reconciliation Nuremberg-style trials that will be necessary to hold the malefactors in #CheetoBenito's administration accountable for their numerous crimes.
The image shows the historic East Wing of the White House reduced to rubble after the tangerine traitor illegally begins work on his gaudy $250 million boondoggle.
October 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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At least 215 people at our tiny (red) town's No Kings protest.
#NoKings
No Kings logo (blue on blue background that says No Kings, repeated; yellow crown outlined in thick white "paintbrush style" outline; red X through the crown
October 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Thomas Zimmer on Russell Vought

"The main reason why he is so angry is that he is not just after political power in a narrow sense but obsessed with status and cultural domination."

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Text: But there is nothing noble about what Vought is doing. He is a fully competent, utterly committed radical ideologue. He lusts for counter-revolution and radical measures. There is no line he doesn’t feel justified to cross. He does not talk about the conflict with “the Left” in the idiom of democratic politics, but that of war. Vought is at war with large swaths of the population, with the very idea of a democratic society defined by egalitarian pluralism. If you have correctly identified that this guy is now in a really influential position, that people like him are now in control of the American government, how is that not the main story?
October 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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I'd be more likely to trust THESE 3 than those fat fascists.
3 black bears (probably a mamma and 2 cubs)
October 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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#traitortrump announced he's moving US Space Command headquarters to Huntsville, Alabama, [reversing] the decision made by the Biden administration in 2023—reached after extensive consultation with military experts—that USSPACECOM is better situated in Colorado.
Image shows a screenshot excerpt from Charlotte Clymer's essay. The text says this: "U.S. Space Command is the central nervous system of our government's nuclear infrastructure. This is why President Biden chose to headquarter U.S. Space Command in Colorado in 2023. Because all the pertinent Space Force facilities were already there: Peterson, Schriever, Cheyenne Mountain, and Buckley military bases, the whole of U.S. Space Command. It wasn't about politics. It was about military readiness. It didn't make sense to put Space Force headquarters in any state other than Colorado when the only priority should be quick and effective communication in a nuclear crisis and there was already an infrastructure. Now, U.S. Space Command will not be fully operational for years because the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama lacks the existing infrastructure already available in Colorado. But Alabama is a GOP-dominant state and there are massive contracts involved. So, Trump is catering to his base over national security. Yet again."
September 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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He takes his inspiration from Putin and Epstein (photo 2).
Text says, "Trump in Russia in 1987. What do you notice?" Image shows a gaudy room ostentatious gold filigree Image shows a gaudy room with a disturbingly distorted portrait of an unknown subject hanging over a tacky, gold-embellished mantel, bracketed by ostentatious gold-filigree mirrors and ugly gold and white furniture. A stairway to the left leads to one of the areas where the perverts, including #traitortrump, raped children
August 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Image shows a weathered Adirondack chair on a dock with sunset lighting reflected in the water
August 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Looks familiar, too:

Epstein's NYC townhouse
Image shows a gaudy room with a disturbingly distorted portrait of an unknown subject hanging over a tacky, gold-embellished mantel, bracketed by ostentatious gold-filigree mirrors and ugly gold and white furniture. A stairway to the left leads to one of the areas where the perverts, including #traitortrump, raped children
August 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Can anyone verify if this is real?
Shows a screenshot of a tweet from JD Vance from September 4, 2021. The text says, "Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in jail? And now we just don't talk about it."
August 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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From @rhutabhayga.bsky.social (grabbed from IG)
Text says Fascism — rule by a dictator Oligarchy — government by the wealthy few Theocracy — ruled by religion Kakistocracy — government by the least qualified America has produced a unique system of government: A theofascoligkakracy
August 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Cool new Jaguar ad...but I can see why they didn't show the car. youtu.be/rLtFIrqhfng
Image caption says, "A Jaguar Type 00 concept car at the Goodwood festival of speed earlier this year." Photograph: John Keeble/Getty Images Image shows a sleek yet boxy bright blue car with almost no trim.
August 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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"[DHS's] reposting of American Progress seems designed instead to harness American traditional symbols in order to advance the [Nazi] idea of 'blood and soil' citizenship popularized in 1930s Germany." #Nazis_in_pedotrumps_White_House

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Screenshot of text that says this: The use of American iconography to push blood and soil showed in another post by the Homeland Security account from earlier this month. On July 14 it posted a painting of a white man with a white woman holding a baby in a covered wagon, an image the artist, Morgan Weistling, titled A Prayer for a New Life. The HHS account posted the image without Weistling’s permission, retitling it “Remember your Homeland’s Heritage: New Life in a New Land.” The new name and capitalization are significant. Just as in the words in the post about John Gast’s painting, the two Hs are capitalized, evoking “HH,” accepted in right-wing circles as a way to write “Heil Hitler.” On his web page, Weistling posted: “Attention: The recent DHS post on social media using a painting of mine that I painted a few years ago was used without my permission.”
July 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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I refuse to take "medical" advice from an apple doll heroin addict with a brain worm.
July 20, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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July 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Do NOT legitimize the Nazi administration's cutesy name for the hellhole in the Everglades. Call it what it is. #EvergladesConcentrationCamp
Image shows the definition of the noun phrase Concentration Camp: a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe in 1933–1945, among the most infamous being Dachau, Belsen, and Auschwitz.
July 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Please don't use their cutesy name for this hellhole. It's not a prison; it's a concentration camp.
Image shows a dictionary entry for "concentration camp": Part of speech: Noun Definition: a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe in 1933–45, among the most infamous being Dachau, Belsen, and Auschwitz.
July 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM