More of this everywhere, please! 😃
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Viral Philadelphia Sheriff Clip Condemns ICE Shooting | Renee Good' #blackhistory #america #history
YouTube video by BWBH
Banana republicanism sadly remains in style.
But I'd like to hope we have the cooperation and communication now, to make this outcome at least slightly different from all those before it?
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Venezuela as Exit Positioning
YouTube video by Robert Arnold
+1 for the alt text!
And, you know, the stunning view. 😃👍
This video makes some cogent, important points about the Vanity Fair piece likely being orchestrated to help Trump ride out the Epstein release.
It's a great reminder that media can manipulate us most easily when it says what we want to hear.
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POV: Vanity Fair releases a "hit piece" on Trump so you check in with the smart sibling
YouTube video by SilentMiddleChild
As a practicing Spongebobist household, we're gonna be watching this. 😃👍
ON DECEMBER 19th: ship happens. I voice The Flying Dutchman, the most pants-wettingly scariest ghost to ever roam the high seas.
THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SEARCH FOR SQUAREPANTS.
Arrgh you ready?
DOJ has sued Maine, Oregon, California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Washington, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Vermont for access to its most sensitive voter data.
My firm has moved to intervene in 10 of those cases. We are working on the last 4.
So, does this mean all 36 other states have willingly complied?! I'm a bit disappointed MA isn't being sued too...
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That is an awesome and inspiring plan! 😃👍
Save 100% on Amazon Prime Day! Skip it entirely. 😃
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You Need to Know This About Prime Day Deals
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I think they're trying hard to not be perceived as "shoppers", strolling with a cart for their own groceries -- pulling it says, "Not my groceries, not even my cart, and I certainly am not enjoying this, I'm *workin'* here!". Or such. :)
This Map Of Europe Is Scary... Kinda...
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Never mind, it's AI. Wish I could un-repost.
I just found the Remove Repost button, but my post-repost complaint comment seems to make it unremovable. True irony.
Ah, well. Please enjoy the fake cats. I did, for a bit!
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To me, mRNA is a mark of quality!
Oh, this light sniffle that would have killed me otherwise? Well, I try not to put on airs (looks around), but it is actually (whispers) mRNA. So, yeah, a little treat for moi...
This is both accurate and helpful -- sharing information is good, spreading despair isn't.
If we make our posts constructive and inspiring (even if the inspiration is just to work against the newest evil), we can contribute to someone's fierce resistance and not to someone's doomscrolling! 😃👍
This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.
I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
Yes, it's a skit -- but for 2 minutes, please turn off your brain and pretend it isn't. Your brain needs the rest, and so do you. :)
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Fish Mascot Eats Worker (Original)
YouTube video by yonakito12
Some satisfying good news to read, with doggie derring-do and human courage!
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Toddler Safe After German Shepherd Tracks Her for Hours in Cold Dense Woods
Jeremy Corson from Concord, almost 40 miles away, arrived with Freyja, a trained scent tracking dog to lend a hand, a heart, and a nose
me, Nov 2024: We are all fucked.
me, June 2025: We're gonna win this thing!
me, Oct 2025: Oh, it's both.
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Ms. Stefanik, please stick to disappointing western New York and leave the City to its own decisions?
Please stop pretending you're all Brooklyn when you're all Batavia.
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That is his typical evil behavior. Good thing Trump isn't in charge of any states! (quisling governors aside)
This is Trump very desperate to be seen as strong and powerful, and to get the govt open before those insurance company premiums officially start their climb.
Violence and hate are easy but self-defeating, since they also destroy the wielder; sacrifice and compassion are unglamorous but build the only true strength.
Yoda was really onto something, besides Frank Oz's hand.
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Does their whole plan hinge on us rioting?
YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture
Thought experiment, how much of the White House could the president tear down before anyone in power did anything meaningful to stop it? Like if he just kept going?
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I do see your point: the White House has indeed been a symbol, to the whole world, of the US and its resolve.
But the US government is being gutted, so perhaps the literal gutting of this treasured symbol is a great way to tell the US and the world, "Technical Difficulties, Be Right Back, Maybe"?
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Agreed! As George Carlin noted, we can "leave symbols to the symbol-minded".
But it is awful, of course, not least because new construction allows for bugs and other devices to be put in, so now the East Wing can spy at close range on the West Wing.
Another reason to tear that ballroom down ASAP.
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Also one of them definitely went to jail for burglary, got out and went straight to planning this heist, but only so he could give his entire share to his estranged family.
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To Austin, from Boston: you are our heroes!!
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Streisand Effect is in effect! Just blocked 'em. So quiet... 😃
Thankfully, the glance I got of their profile verified that pre-emptive blocking is a solid move.
Floating wind turbines, ala Big Hero 6! If we can just get rid of the whole real-life dystopic tyranny thing, we can all enjoy decorating these as koi. Sweet deal! 😃
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New Airship-style Wind Turbine Can Find Gusts at Higher Altitudes for Constant, Cheaper Power
At 40% cheaper to build and deploy than a normal turbine, it presents the opportunity for a 30% lower cost for buying the wind energy.
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Did not realize I miss reading poetry until now -- going to remedy that.
Thanks for the reminder of how surprising and transporting poems can be!
It is amazing how many democracy "guardrails" have turned out to be painted road lines. I personally did not know how much our government operates like the movie "Air Bud", and one day I hope to stop asking, "Wait, can they DO that?"
Then again, a dog President would be SO good, aw, yes they WOULD!
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One entertaining facet of Transmet is how the President is so unloved that when Spider shows up to harass him in the men's room with a bowel disruptor, the Secret Service is like: whatever, go right in.
I dream that Trump soon enjoys such scorn and dismissal even from his inner circle.
Stephen Miller blurts out his end goals too soon, then panic-freezes. Scary, but also hilarious.
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Little Stephen "SS" Miller Tries To Claim PLENARY Authority
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Social media posts and executive orders are not laws.
This is fascism but not the effective kind.
Since fear is a limited resource before it gives way to numbness, let's not fear social media posts written by staffers. :)
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That bill is to keep DST permanently, which is probably why it's failing. Of course, a bill to abolish DST will also probably fail for the same reasons.
In the end, I don't think America needs its own special 'merica time with DST. We delude ourselves enough, let's leave the clocks out of it? 🙂
@markey.senate.gov, please read this and then find another cause to champion besides permanent DST?
Perhaps establishing freedom from tyranny would be a much better capstone for your storied career. 👍
MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell
JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too
D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?
J: I didn't see it
D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.
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He didn't deny her assertion, that's for sure!
Though I'm sure he'll be forced to clarify/backpedal soon. "I'm told that what I *meant* to say was..."
I do enjoy a good typo-based autolink to oddly-named websites. 😃
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She knows that Trump is not inevitable, and only has the power we give him. 👍
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Does Cyberpunk 2077 really say "choom"? I seem to recall CP2020 using "cho" -- short for chobatta?
I never played Shadowrun, but often pondered spells and SMGs being in the same scene. And yeah, "decker" is way better -- we said 'runner instead of netrunner, but we could sense the apostrophe.
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I really like this angle! I'd bet simple enforcement/inspection would close a lot of these facilities.
They certainly aren't driving properly-registered cars, either. They think they're at war, so why would they seek local/state regulatory approval for anything?
Bureaucracy can bite them back.
This is delusional but you don’t have to read the whole thing.
Boils down to: he’s shutting down the government because he thinks he’s a king.
Mad Mango could not have written something this long. I would be surprised if his staff could even read it to him in one sitting.
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Good call, I was indeed doomscrolling, and I have stopped just now, thanks to you!
It is time to joyfully help the world outside my handheld rectangle, instead.
@lynch.house.gov is this you keeping company with Jared Golden and Donald Trump, now? As a MA resident, I'd to ask if you could please explain your action?
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My favorite part is when both front paws leave the ground at that last word! He was excited but actually keeping it together right up until then. 😃
Happy doggies always take me along for rhe ride!
Damn, this dude inspires in the face of bleakness!
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Defiance until death.
YouTube video by LiberalMama85
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That red panda is captivatingly cute, but it made me think that there are 8 billion people on this planet, and at least one of them would see this video and go, "Dear God, not one of *those* fucking things!", and I am now desperate to hear their story.
But for now, I am content with the cuteness!
Brown University is caving to Trump.
They are banning trans women from female bathrooms, dorms, locker rooms, and sports across campus. They're also cracking down on trans care for minors, though that is unlikely to be broadly impactful since it's a university.
president.brown.edu/president/br...My college played Brown in hockey twice a year, and our favorite chant during those games now comes to mind:
"Around the bowl! Down the hole! Go, Brown, go!"
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Beautiful photo!!
Also, I never realized that "Lothian" was a real place one could go, even after hearing Marillion sing about it in a non-trivial percentage of their lyrics. They must have been very taken with the seascape!
Just watched this and it helped me understand a bit more about just why the cruelty is the point: because it's the currency used to pay the psychological wage.
I am pondering how to give people something better to revel in than feeling superior by stomping on faces.
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What Makes Trump & MAGA So Cruel? A Psychiatrist Explains
YouTube video by Dr Russell Razzaque
'The Wizard of Oz' (1939) vs 'The Wizard of Oz at Sphere' (2025)
Over 90% of the film has been 'touched up' with AI
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Totally agree -- the first thing I thought was that the bottom 20% is the movie and the top 80% is a Windows background, and they said mission accomplished, it's a spherical movie now, just... don't look up.
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Ellis from Diehard, before the tragic events of 12/25.
(realizing just now that I don't actually know the date that movie took place on)
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My first thought was, dang, no way to escape that! It went hundreds of feet in a couple of seconds with no apparent warning.
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