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Urbanism, family life & raising independent, strong & free children Advocates for a world improved via attention, community & effort

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Still no censure of Tommy Tuberville, Randy Fine, or Andy Ogles, who are openly promoting hate against Muslims while the US is bombing Iran, killing the Ayatollah, and people like Lindsey Graham are calling it a "religious war" DURING RAMADAN.

How do you think this all ends, folks?

12.03.2026 22:15 πŸ‘ 5454 πŸ” 1450 πŸ’¬ 299 πŸ“Œ 57

When right wingers talk about β€œWestern Culture” they aren’t even thinking about It's Time for the Percolator and that tells me everything I need to know about them

11.03.2026 13:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower

10.03.2026 04:00 πŸ‘ 4678 πŸ” 2273 πŸ’¬ 87 πŸ“Œ 93
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This isn’t over and the current market reaction, by reducing pressure on Trump, is only elongating the duration of the crisis and the physical disruption through the Strait of Hormuz.

10.03.2026 16:40 πŸ‘ 184 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 1

So much of right wing rhetoric is simply repeating a targeted argument/claim in a mocking tone. No actual engagement. No attempt at rebuttal.

Low effort mockery of even the most obvious truth their ubiquitous response

10.03.2026 19:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I did, lol

09.03.2026 17:43 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Jesus Christ

09.03.2026 17:26 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE Agent Injured After Repeatedly Trying To Detain People In Neighborhood Mural MINNEAPOLISβ€”Bleeding profusely as he radioed for backup against the uncooperative crowd, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Ken Fischer was reportedly injured Tuesday after making repeated atte...

ICE Agent Injured After Repeatedly Trying To Detain People In Neighborhood Mural

08.03.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 2639 πŸ” 348 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 12

Hey who’s that tolling for? That bell? Whβ€”why’s everyone looking at me like that?

09.03.2026 02:28 πŸ‘ 123 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

We are going to lose a whole bunch of farms this year

08.03.2026 23:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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07.03.2026 22:37 πŸ‘ 13370 πŸ” 5049 πŸ’¬ 88 πŸ“Œ 248

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

08.03.2026 00:29 πŸ‘ 6036 πŸ” 3500 πŸ’¬ 289 πŸ“Œ 237

The convergence of fascist state capture with the creation in AI of an aspirational unwaged labor machine really emphasizes the underlying desire to eliminate the rest of us.

07.03.2026 13:57 πŸ‘ 133 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

disturbing reports that donald trumps economic policy is exactly as bad as anyone who knows anything said it would be

06.03.2026 14:09 πŸ‘ 1360 πŸ” 240 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 6

Pair this with a day 2 pick at C and it’s a smart move

07.03.2026 00:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Grain market triplets missing, peptide preppers, Dean β€œRocket” Hall High School launch, AI zombie hordes cross Mississippi, erotic adventurism in dry bulk shipping and More!

06.03.2026 19:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Unfortunately, β€œYo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

06.03.2026 13:38 πŸ‘ 9641 πŸ” 2193 πŸ’¬ 90 πŸ“Œ 34

We are watching decades unfold in hours.

The gulf states will never trust America for defense again. We just ruined their economies for the long term. They will become uninvestable.

They have no more missile interceptors left, Iran can hit whatever they want.

All this for what? Trump doesn’t know

06.03.2026 00:35 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)

05.03.2026 20:07 πŸ‘ 3643 πŸ” 977 πŸ’¬ 72 πŸ“Œ 11

Because they think they are playing a video game. Morally, they see no difference.

04.03.2026 22:45 πŸ‘ 108 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

I wrote a quick thing about what actions we should be most concerned about from the Trump administration. Its jumping point is a proposed DOJ rule that would supposedly let the AG suspend some state bar investigations into DOJ agents.

04.03.2026 21:24 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No to fascism.
No to forever war.
No to occupation and genocide.
No to antisemitism and Islamophobia.

03.03.2026 20:28 πŸ‘ 1052 πŸ” 307 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 5

β€œThe future needs blood. It needs human victims, butchery. Internal war, & foreign war, revolution & conquest: that is history.... Blood is the wine of strong peoples, & blood is the oil for the wheels of this great machine which fies from the past to the future.”
-Giovanni Papini

04.03.2026 17:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s that time of year!

03.03.2026 22:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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David Ellison Unveils Sweeping Vision for Warner Bros: β€œThis Is About Reinventing the Business” HBO Max and Paramount+ will be merged when the deal closes, the mogul told Wall Street early Monday morning.

yes, nothing says "innovation reinvention" like a nepobaby trust fund brat with no meaningful experience being gifted a massive hollywood empire by his technofascist dad, who leveraged his corrupt influence over the country's pudding-headed autocrats to box out competitors (?)

02.03.2026 18:56 πŸ‘ 2981 πŸ” 726 πŸ’¬ 185 πŸ“Œ 114

Authoritarian parenting grooms kids for authoritarian governing.

01.03.2026 16:14 πŸ‘ 233 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 5
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Fela Kuti: Fear No Man Society & Culture Podcast Β· Series Β· In a world that’s on fire, what is the role of art? What can music actually…do? Can a song save a life? Change a law? Topple a president? Get you killed? InΒ Fela K...

I've been really enjoying this podcast series from Jad Abumrad about the life and music of Fela Kuti.

It's got everything: the birth of Afrobeat, his incredible revolutionary mother, post-colonial history of Nigeria, and the story of the movement he started. It's so fucking good.

02.03.2026 01:15 πŸ‘ 307 πŸ” 68 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 5

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

01.03.2026 14:15 πŸ‘ 11791 πŸ” 3831 πŸ’¬ 146 πŸ“Œ 176

Orwell taught us everything we need to know about the radical right

01.03.2026 02:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThe children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

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