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pretty ironic that trump still says the Sleepy Joe “joke” still seeing how he looks like this much of the time

slumped over trump during cabinet meeting

December 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM

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picture i wish i could put into my veins #election #schadenfreude

cuomo in his feelings after losing the election on November 4. A table with New York loves Cuomo signs a few drinks and Cuomo with his hand on his forehead, looking down to his phone, sad and alone.

November 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM

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Victorians ate some crazy soups.

kinds of soup from the 1900s, oxtail, tomato, chicken, bouillon, consommé, vegetable, tomato, okra, mocked, turtle, mulligatawny, vermicelli, tomato, chicken gumbo okra, clam bouillon, clam chowder, mutton, broth, printanier, asparagus julienne, celery, beef, pea

October 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM

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open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

JVL says Democrats are negotiating about policy when they should be negotiating about power. The only compromises Democrats should accept and exchange for bailing out. The Republican controlled. Congress are the ones that would either a rebalance, the structure of government or be put limits on executive power.

October 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM

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September 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM

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I used Fight the Power in the classroom for students to ID what the claims were in the music/video.

white board with “Fight the Power” claims and some student responses on Post it Notes.

September 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM

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This meme has been getting heavy use.

September 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM

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Ya’ll. wtf. First John Yoo now this.

September 18, 2025 at 1:41 AM

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Make no mistake, this is dangerous af. Anyone will be able to make a submission that could ruin your life.
Any wrongthink will be punished.

Make a submission to snitch on your neighbors, friends, and families who have wrong think about Charlie Kirk.

September 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM

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Tweet screenshot from @conorgoldenboy that reads, “the world should never mourn for someone who actively makes the world a worse place, especially for the most vulnerable.” 9/10/25

September 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM

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“One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” -Omar El Akkad

An editorial cartoon drawn and in color, of a starving Palestinian boy with a red shirt, sorrow and trauma in his eyes, holding an empty bowl with tanks that have Israel flags filling his stomach. The background are smoke filled air, and broken buildings and dirt, surround him a Palestinian flag in the background on the side of a damaged building.

May 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM

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@jvl.bsky.social is right. liberalism sees state violence as a monopoly restrained by law. Fascism sees violence as a tool, unleashed when in power, and outsourced when not.

It’s not hypocrisy. It’s a worldview.

Call it what it is.

A screenshot from the Bulwark. If you were sketching out, liberalism approach to state sanctioned violence, it would go something like this: the state has a near monopoly on the sanctioned use of violence. This awesome power must be scaffold by a legal framework in which of the rule of law is regular, transparent, and durable. Meanwhile, fascist, take a different view: the purpose of the state power is the subjugate the disfavored classes. Therefore, the power of the state to commit violence must be unchecked when the fascists control it; but must be tamed by private sector, violence in the period, leading up to the fascist takeover.

I bring all of this up because it’s important. Not to view this disparity as an example of garden variety, hypocrisy. It’s not. It’s a coherent world view.
And we should call that world view by it’s proper name

May 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM

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is it normal to feel this amount of jealousy over good polite people who say “aboat” and “eh”? #CanadianElection #Canada

April 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM

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My favorite thing that truly changed my life from Pope Francis is this:

One thing people may tell themselves to feel better about not giving anything. The pope said is “I give money and then he spends it on drinking a glass of wine“ but the pope said if “a glass of wine is the only happiness he has in life that’s OK instead ask yourself what do you do on the slide? What happiness do you seek in secret?“ Or another way to look at it the pope said is recognize “you are luckier with a house a wife children” then ask why should the responsibility to help be pushed onto someone else? The way one reaches out to the person asking for help is important he said, and must be done by looking them in the eyes and touching their hands.

April 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM

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today in peak irony: the guy who lost the popular vote twice, did an insurrection, and praises authoritarian leaders is now calling ranked-choice voting is a system designed to reflect majority will “threat to democracy.”