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Military Veteran. Russian and German Linguist. IT guru. Degrees in International Relations and Philosophy. OG Star Wars nerd. Husband to a fantastic wife, father to three incredible human beings, Silverback for my family. Always Grumpy!
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Reminder: The State Department's reported plans for an office of “remigration” stem from a far-right policy that calls for “soft-style ethnic cleansing.” It is rooted in the debunked Great Replacement theory and favored by the European far-right and White nationalist extremists.
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Trump said he wanted a deal with Iran. I guess he couldn’t convince his good friend Netanyahu. No respect. Looks weak.
Israel aggressively bombing Iran—unlike two incidents of strikes in 2024, which followed Iranian missiles launches against Israel—is in part another consequence of a weak, chaotic US president. Worth noting that this didn't happen under Biden, Obama, or Bush, despite Israel talking about it a lot.
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That’s right. They want Mexican Americans to be ashamed of being Mexican. They’re leaning on the implicit racist belief of white people - including too many liberals - that Mexican heritage makes someone presumptively dangerous or criminal. It’s nativism and we shouldn’t give them one single inch.
They’re attacking latinos, flying the Mexican flag is about not bowing down to racists and the fascist administration it’s not about being proud to be “American” it’s about being proud of the things they are trying to demonize about you.
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I live in the mid-west corn land of southern IL. Land sits ununsed most of the year, between October and May. No cover crops, no winter wheat. Nada. Just cropped off corn stalks.
The US already devotes more than 40 million acres to growing corn for ethanol fuel production. If only ~1/3 of that land were converted to solar PV, it could generate enough electricity to cover the entire country's electricity needs.
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We're starting to get voter file data back and Change's model indicates that the biggest contributor to Kamala losing was new voters entering the electorate breaking heavily toward Trump substack.com/home/post/p-...
I am a government worker. We know where the inefficiencies are, but they are few and far between. The systems work, albeit sometimes slow, but that is for a reason: so we dont break important shit and we get things right 99.867% of the time.
Conspiracy theorists, and conspiracy theory-style thinking, is a major problem. That was evident in the takeover of Twitter, and even more so in the takeover of the US government. Convinced they’re the victim of dastardly conspiracies that don’t exist, find no evidence, mostly plow ahead anyway.
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seems kind of weird that the vice president of the united states is openly supportive of german neo-nazis!
Not only is he going out of his way to strengthen the European far right, that claim about the Berlin Wall is beyond absurd. This is a broad strategic alignment away from the liberal democracies toward the global right.
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RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
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Trump is reveling in how he humiliated these big law firms: "You have to ask them, 'Why did you all pay Trump hundreds of millions of dollars?' ... "They just signed whatever I put in front of 'em. I've never seen anything like it. I'm actually surprised myself." abcnews.go.com/US/full-tran...
This isnt a lie if you think like a white christian nationalist. Some math: 350M Americans - all the non-white Americans equals? Could it be 258M? Ballparkish? I think it is!!! They are literally telling us their plans on the daily: "we are getting rid of non-whites".
We need stronger social censure mechanisms against being miserably, incomprehensibly stupid in public.
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CNN Poll: Trump’s approval at 100 days lower than any president in at least seven decades www.cnn.com/2025/04/27/p...
The best story in sports! Our Captain is back! Been waiting for this McGahey call for three years! "Oh Captain, my captain!" #coloradoavalanche #goasshailsatan
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Imagine spending your life as embittered and angry as this pitiful excuse for a human being.
Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff for policy, has begun baselessly claiming that birthright citizenship is a massive welfare scam. Miller has previously endorsed a theory called “remigration” that refers to the forcible removal of non–ethnically European immigrants.
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One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.
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Remember when the economy was booming, stocks were soaring, we weren’t in a trade war with China, we didn’t have a day drunk for a Sec Def, a couch fucking Cabbage Patch doll for a VP or an evil, incurious idiot for a president & we still funded cancer research? Yeah, that was like three months ago.