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Retired software engineer. I only eat plants. Unprofessional artist. Unreconstructed 1960’s leftist. They were fascists then too. Zero troll tolerance. He/him.

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Explain it to me like I’m five… 🤬

14.03.2026 23:11 👍 1922 🔁 1053 💬 102 📌 60

Ipcress File was the first film I saw him in.

15.03.2026 00:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If the someone cannot coherently answer this question while insisting that ICE, an agency currently terrorizing people across the country, cannot be abolished, they are unserious about a rather serious issue, or perhaps dishonest actors, or part of the mass of phone zombies.

14.03.2026 22:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

THREAD. I have to say that I am very disappointed with John Oliver. I finally watched his segment on police body cameras, and it was abysmal. Missed the whole point, and in the process bought into some of the worst copaganda about them.

14.03.2026 21:48 👍 236 🔁 74 💬 2 📌 9

We functioned before ICE and DHS existed. We will function after they are quite justly abolished. It does foreground a more interesting question: what should our immigration policy be, and how should it be implemented?

14.03.2026 22:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Political terminology in the US is intentionally vague. The center right majority faction of the Democratic Party is center-right neoliberal. The rest are frequently called ‘liberals’ or ‘progressives’ but trying to pin down what that actually means is nearly impossible.

14.03.2026 22:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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UIC Students Host Victory Rally After Kicking TPUSA Off Campus - PopularResistance.Org Chicago, IL – On March 4, 30 students rallied in the quad at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). The protest, organized by New Students for a Democratic Society, was originally a counter-protest meant to happen at the same time as a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) event. TPUSA announced a “Prove me Wrong” event featuring Pastor Lucas Miles, who has a record of anti-immigrant rhetoric. Immediately after TPUSA’s announcement, SDS organized a counter-protest with the slogan, “Tell TPUSA Immigrants are Welcomed Here!” The night before the morning rally, TPUSA shared on social media that they were canceling the event “due to weather.”

popularresistance.org/uic-students...

13.03.2026 19:54 👍 256 🔁 53 💬 5 📌 3
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Mark Ruffalo has a message for you:
@markruffalo.bsky.social

14.03.2026 16:25 👍 10199 🔁 2879 💬 236 📌 126

The US expecting the world to bail it out of its war of choice is the height of imperial arrogance.

We should all tell America to go fuck themselves. Over everything.

14.03.2026 18:44 👍 6010 🔁 746 💬 21 📌 2

In this case, given the intellectual depth of the op, it seemed entirely appropriate.

14.03.2026 21:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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How a small New Hampshire town stopped an ICE warehouse jail

afsc.org/news/how-sma...

14.03.2026 19:19 👍 2817 🔁 813 💬 45 📌 22

The war gaming of 'opening the strait' has US Naval forces suffering severe losses. It is a naval operations disaster. Our billion dollar ships would lose to speed boats.

14.03.2026 19:21 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Capitalism requires population growth to keep commodity consumption growing. It requires expanding commodity consumption to keep profits growing. It requires perpetual profit growth or the financial system collapses.

14.03.2026 19:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"But Mr. Habermas did not share in what was an understandably fatalistic tone to the critical theory developed by Adorno and Horkheimer. ... [As] Mr. Habermas characterized it, they saw capitalism’s mass consumer culture as a “total system of delusion” that quashed individuality."

Adorno was right.

14.03.2026 18:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m noticing an uptick in fake “Liberal” accounts that blame everything that’s happening on “Leftists.”

Don’t buy into their narrative. This is how they plan to divide us and weaken our coalition. It’s all hands on deck, people.

14.03.2026 18:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

There is no ‘securing the strait of Hormuz’. This is one reason why military action against Iran has been off the table for decades.

14.03.2026 17:57 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Apparently ‘No Quarter’ is the official Us position, so I assume that any captured US military personnel will be summarily executed.

Actually they won’t. The Iranians are not monsters.

14.03.2026 15:47 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

My guess is you have never used part D.

14.03.2026 14:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Generally Amazon shows suck. Also Bezos. And ads. Cancel.

14.03.2026 13:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“we’ve been killing people all over the world for 47 years and now I as the 47 president am killing even more”

14.03.2026 11:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Does anyone really believe that the people in the #Epstein sex club have all cleaned up their act and stopped raping girls? Hasn’t the party just reassembled elsewhere?

14.03.2026 11:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We stand for... democracy, of, by and for the people!
- No Kings Seattle March 28th! 12-4 Cal Anderson Park.
When we stand together, we win.
We will not be silent.
We will Speak up.
We will march.

What do you stand for?
#NoKingsSeattle #Resist #wehavefriends #Seattle #NoKings

14.03.2026 03:52 👍 228 🔁 85 💬 12 📌 8

I’ll follow up later, but I’m just amused at how resilient the dough was. I fret about timing and temperature and technique. I forget that people have been baking leavened bread for at least 5000 years, mostly under very primitive conditions.

14.03.2026 11:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I want to like Gould, but everything he’s been in, his acting is just off.

14.03.2026 10:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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YES OR NO: Do you support Hakeem Jeffries continued leadership?

13.03.2026 18:07 👍 1540 🔁 296 💬 340 📌 68
So it baked from a cold start after getting half baked the day before. I expected flatbread. The camel is sighing. Oranges for scale.

So it baked from a cold start after getting half baked the day before. I expected flatbread. The camel is sighing. Oranges for scale.

This #Sourdough #Bread was one accident after another. I accidentally switched the oven from Proof to Bake while cleaning flour stains, 30 min then aborting bulk ferment. Then I had to put it in a cold oven as it was out of its banneton before I realized the oven timer was not on DST.

14.03.2026 10:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Part D is a massively corrupt money funnel to Pharma.

14.03.2026 10:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The problem is that Allen’s movies cannot now be experienced as they were before he creeped out. The present has rewritten the past, as it does.

14.03.2026 09:27 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s filler, not just Botox. I call it labia lips. Perhaps Nat Geo could do an anthropology spread like they used to do all the time for assorted ‘primitive societies’ when I was a kid.

13.03.2026 23:04 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve tracked down marriage certificates much older than that. It’s not a lot of fun. You need good information to start with and a lot of patience and frequently a non-negligible amount of money. Plus it can take a fair amount of time.

This is an illegal unconstitutional poll tax.

13.03.2026 22:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0