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Still disgruntled. I been everywhere, man. Beach walks rule. Love me a good biography of punk rockers.

Pls, no porn, crypto or get rich marketing schemes.
Let's go whitecaps!
December 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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The windchill here is -4 degrees and I’m waiting for the bus. As I blink through the ice shards blowing into my eyeballs at 30 mph, I think about how glad I am they took the bus shelter down.

At least the unhoused will have cause to reflect on how little they contributed to the economy.
December 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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As I've said from the start, these charges are baseless. It's time for the weaponization of our justice system to stop.

I'm grateful to the members of the grand jury and humbled by the support I've received across the nation. I will keep doing my job standing up for New Yorkers.
December 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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During the latest US–Russia talks, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriev joined Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff in the Kremlin. Their presence underscores how Moscow is leveraging business channels to draw the Trump administration toward its stance, as I told The World.
December 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
WaPo, do better. Ru has sputtered on the battlefield for going in 4 years. Despite gross material and numerical advantages.

Hammer home? Misleading at best. Ukraine continues to hold its own, even with Kremlin assets in washington.
December 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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This administration is filled with the absolute dumbest, meanest, cruelest pieces of shit.

And they're so *proud* to be dumb, mean, cruel pieces of shit too. They delight in it. They brag about it.

It's vice signaling as a way of life.
I assume she means everyone who isn’t white.
December 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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An official government account using the word “remigration” is not normal. It’s an imported term from European far-right movements that refers to mass expulsion. Democracies do not use population-purification language. #holdfast #SteadyState
November 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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I wish all figures of authority cared about moms and babies. But some don’t. Some even want you to hurt. And those are the people who cast doubt on the vaccination miracle that has allowed so many of us to live longer and better.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
kentuckylantern.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans.

Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
November 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Big ups to Helen! #ProudToBU
DYK: Women have earned the majority of doctoral degrees awarded by American universities each year since 2009.

First women to earn a PhD in the US?

Helen Magill White. Her PhD was in Greek from Boston University, 1877. She was born #OTD in 1853. @bostonu.bsky.social

#education #highered #academia
November 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.

If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Vote for Aftyn, people of TN-07!
This week, @thetraecrowder.bsky.social and @markagee.bsky.social sat down with @aftynbehn.bsky.social to talk about her run in the TN-07 special election on December 2nd.
November 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
My anti-spirit animal. A grifting smelly old narcissist.
November 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Stunning incompetence. Stunning disloyalty to the best interests of the US.
Three things about the Witkoff tapes:

1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.

2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.

3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.

If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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#GVerse #KingResist #Unite #FBaRmy

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David Clayton is running for congress in NC's District 5 against #FuckMAGA Republican Virginia Foxx — and this is how he introduced himself.👇
November 23, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Never gets old sewing the cowboys get pushed around. 😀
November 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Vancouver = ballers!
November 23, 2025 at 5:40 AM
My boy scamp, bird watching. Miss him. He was the best.
November 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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I’ve said this every month for a year.
November 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Hero!
Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
November 21, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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if youre a congressional leader and you wont publicly criticize trump out of fear, please step down and give your seat to someone who will do it. because this is the job. this is the fucking job.
November 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM