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"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." -- Jack Layton

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Stephen Miller is still the head of the snake.

05.03.2026 19:45 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
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Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(πŸŽ₯ BBC News/BBC Verify)

05.03.2026 08:46 πŸ‘ 3959 πŸ” 2151 πŸ’¬ 104 πŸ“Œ 193

Paul is someone I've known for ages online and who I know to be a positive force in the world. I don't live in MN but I do believe in qualified, competent everyday people being able to be viable candidates for public office.

If you can support Paul here: www.ferenceformn.com

03.03.2026 18:14 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

god I feel this in my very bones

27.02.2026 15:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm just tired of people being absolute miserable nitpicky shits about everything. I get it, you want to be a miserable asshole all the time and want everyone else to be too.

Go touch some fucking grass.

27.02.2026 15:33 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power.

The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever.

But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.

26.02.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 4588 πŸ” 1372 πŸ’¬ 221 πŸ“Œ 66

Size. That's what's different. That's the first and biggest hurdle

France is about the size of Texas, so a general strike in Paris seems huge

Imagine trying to organize a general strike from Edinburgh to Cairo, across time zones and different political landscapes. Thats a general strike in the US

26.02.2026 15:35 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Biggest ratings ever

25.02.2026 00:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe today is the day

24.02.2026 19:59 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

stay cozy! i hope it comes back on soon!

23.02.2026 18:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Financial crimes generally don't have any hint of "he said she said" - and while I'm firmly in the Believe All Victims" camp, probably a lot easier to absolutely prove the numbers than the sex crimes

23.02.2026 18:04 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

if anyone is tempted to briefly hand it to John Roberts remember that he is about to finish his life’s work of destroying the Voting Rights Act and save yourself the trouble

20.02.2026 16:09 πŸ‘ 3243 πŸ” 709 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 9

Come, Sir Andrew, there’s no remedy

19.02.2026 13:13 πŸ‘ 3009 πŸ” 690 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 30

UK can arrest royalty, US can't even arrest a shitty former reality TV host.

19.02.2026 12:04 πŸ‘ 1266 πŸ” 242 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 6

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

18.02.2026 23:47 πŸ‘ 7866 πŸ” 2548 πŸ’¬ 65 πŸ“Œ 84

I just counted and its taken me 19 phone calls (so far) to five different offices to get my husband's MRI scheduled and while it is now approved and ordered and has preauth it is not actually *scheduled* yet

US Healthcare is also broken in ways unrelated to how we pay for it

18.02.2026 18:16 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

15.02.2026 17:30 πŸ‘ 41464 πŸ” 14036 πŸ’¬ 657 πŸ“Œ 593

My least favorite part of being married is that because my spouse woke up too warm I’m now freezing because half the blankets are off the bed

16.02.2026 06:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Google with AI buttons

Google with AI buttons

Google without AI buttons

Google without AI buttons

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more

github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

03.02.2026 00:30 πŸ‘ 23334 πŸ” 11641 πŸ’¬ 287 πŸ“Œ 229

From the court’s opinion today blocking Hegseth’s attempt to discipline Mark Kelly: β€œAs Bob Dylan once famously said, β€˜You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.’ Our retired vets deserve more respect from our govt, and our Constitution demands they receive it!”

12.02.2026 17:49 πŸ‘ 3589 πŸ” 800 πŸ’¬ 86 πŸ“Œ 33
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Kansas City developers halt sale of warehouse for ICE detention center as public pressure mounts Federal officials first toured the building in January, sparking speculation over whether the owners had sold the building to the U.S. government. Media reports suggested the sale was part of a push t...

Look!

"News of a potential immigrant detention center in Kansas City sparked fierce public backlash over the past month. At rallies and protests, many people called on Platform Ventures to not sell the building to the federal government..."

And now:

www.kcur.org/news/2026-02...

12.02.2026 18:57 πŸ‘ 4460 πŸ” 1393 πŸ’¬ 119 πŸ“Œ 96
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AOC on Susan Collins. Oof. #MEpolitics via @dabbs346.bsky.social

12.02.2026 02:01 πŸ‘ 54 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3
A photo of gallup

A photo of gallup

Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...

11.02.2026 19:12 πŸ‘ 3768 πŸ” 1393 πŸ’¬ 732 πŸ“Œ 1659

β€œIf all the names in the Epstein files are released then our entire system will collapse.”

Works for me.

10.02.2026 19:54 πŸ‘ 20033 πŸ” 3720 πŸ’¬ 959 πŸ“Œ 561

fascinated by the adults on tiktok who have convinced themselves they were part of an 80s CIA program for gifted kids. one lady was like β€œdon’t you remember how the rooms were painted light brown and they smelled like stale coffee and cigarettes?” like…babe? that’s every room in the 1980s

09.02.2026 23:07 πŸ‘ 83 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 4
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Byzantine Law Cambridge Core - European Studies - Byzantine Law

The book, Byzantine Law: The Law of the Eastern Roman Empire, by Daphne Penna, can be freely downloaded until February 14th - get it at www.cambridge.org/core/element... #Byzantine #LegalHistory

09.02.2026 23:14 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The FBI actively threatening Republicans in Congress saying that it will criminalize their staffers seems like something that should be front page news.

09.02.2026 20:42 πŸ‘ 842 πŸ” 218 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 0

The Puerto-Rican-specific details in this thread about Bad Bunny’s performance are worth reading:

09.02.2026 05:00 πŸ‘ 469 πŸ” 119 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2

🧡🧠πŸ₯°πŸ‘‡πŸ»

09.02.2026 05:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

God will not be mocked. Seattle wins and Trump's friend's team loses (teehee!) The Bad Bunny halftime show was iconic, and the only English spoken was by Lady Gaga. As Ice Cube used to say in the before times, today was a good day.

09.02.2026 03:32 πŸ‘ 1881 πŸ” 167 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 7