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Artist, musical performer, and former derby skater from the Midwest.

I'm single, childless, and married to freedom and adventure.

ACAB, Anti-War, and I hate Democrats, Republicans, and billionaires. (Yes, even your favorite billionaire: the pop star, the legendary athlete, or the soft-spoken investment guru.)

  • The Lesser Evil

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  • they have absolutely no chance intention of pulling any of it off

    I corrected this slightly, but you're right. They know that none of it is actually going to get done, and they have the excuses already lined up: not enough votes, obstruction, filibuster, parliamentarian, etc. etc. etc.

    It's the same reason some billionaires insist that they support higher taxation on themselves, because they know it is never going to happen.

  • Australia parliament votes for tighter gun controls after Bondi shooting

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  • I'm so jealous of countries that possess the capacity to react in a reasonable way to gun violence.

  • What was your life like in 2008?

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  • The first half of 2008 was okay. I was a year into having my own place, was dating a lot, and traveling multiple times a year. Going on your first solo vacations as a young adult is a pretty dang cool thing.

    I was still new in my career and was building my adult life. I had a job lined up in Chicago, but it was with a financial company, and the collapse of Bear Stearns, Lehman, and the whole economy got the offer pulled that September.

    I remember being very excited for the election. I actually got to go see Michelle Obama give a speech in the jazz district here in Kansas City, and the line to see Barack Obama speak at his Liberty Memorial campaign stop was so long they had to cut it off for security reasons. We sat on one of the hills and listened to the speech, and he was elected by a large margin.

    In hindsight, 2008 was the last year I had any real hope for the future.

    Obama was supposed to be the Anti-Dubya, but he turned out to be a conservative fascist too. The banks were rewarded with bailouts and bonuses for crashing the economy, and to this day, only one person's gone to prison for it. I now just assume each new year will be incrementally worse than the last, which while bad for my mental health, has been great for my financial planning.

  • Trump threatens 200% tariffs on French wine and champagne after Macron refuses to join 'board of peace'

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  • The only difference is that Trump does not hide behind cynical “diplomatic” statements.

    100%

    Well, 98%. There are a handful of good things those evil bastards did.

    There was USAID, and the US helped its enemies rebuild their countries after WWII, and the US was (generally) a good ally via NATO. But did we cozy up to every two-bit dictator willing to let our corporations plunder their country? You betcha we did.

    And the ones who wouldn't we just murdered and did it anyway, often letting the death squads our country funded devastate and pillage along with us.

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  • Nonsense.

    Donald has the same amount of power that Clinton, Obama, and Biden had.

    The problem isn't a lack of power. It's their predilection to enrich themselves at the expense of their constituents. The only difference is Donald isn't offering shitty excuses like Dems do.

  • The Lesser Evil

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  • Many democrats are on our side.

    Yeah, like three of them.

    And the rest are fighting harder to stop Democrats who actually are on our side than they are against fascists: people like Mamdani and Platner.

  • The Lesser Evil

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  • DNC platform is tax the rich, raise minimum wage, and fund social programs.

    And their campaign promises have so much value, clearly.

  • Stocks sell off globally as traders digest Trump message saying he wants Greenland because ‘your Country decided not to give me the Nobel’

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  • The limpest of limp dick energy.

  • Gov. Walz mobilizes Minnesota National Guard amid heated protests

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  • Honestly have no idea how that would work out legally.

    Closest thing I can think of is Governor Wallace's stand at the schoolhouse door, when Kennedy called in the national guard to escort a black child to class after integration and for all the theatrics, there was no violence. (And if a state/federal confrontation can achieve that in this case, I think that's the best case scenario.)

    I'm sure others in this sub-lemmy know way more.

  • DOJ says won’t investigate ICE agent’s fatal shooting of Renee Good

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  • I'm also pretty sure that most law enforcement agencies require all shootings to be investigated. (Not that it always happens of course.)

  • 'Grow a F*cking Spine': Critics Fume as Newsom Backtracks on ICE 'Terrorism' in Ben Shapiro Interview | Common Dreams

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  • Yup.

  • How is the dude with the equivalent charm of a vomiting donkey in charge?

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  • And the billionaires.

    They're the ones who ultimately make these decisions.

  • 'Grow a F*cking Spine': Critics Fume as Newsom Backtracks on ICE 'Terrorism' in Ben Shapiro Interview | Common Dreams

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  • Wasn't his first podcast guest Steve Bannon after the 2024 elections?

    Dude's a fascist, and a particularly oily one.

  • 'Grow a F*cking Spine': Critics Fume as Newsom Backtracks on ICE 'Terrorism' in Ben Shapiro Interview | Common Dreams

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  • No, he's definitely worse than most.

    As governor of California, he basically runs one of the most powerful and wealthy countries on earth. He could do so much good, but instead he's selling off California and its people to enrich himself.

  • At least 21 dead after Spanish high-speed trains collide in Cordoba

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  • Oh no. What an awful accident!

  • The 'Primary Fetterman' Website Is Now Live

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  • I hope someone makes this addled piece of refuse prepare and try to do a series of public debates. Fetterman might be one of the easier ones to primary, given the unpopularity of Israel and Zionism and his insistence on focusing solely on Israel and Zionism to the detriment of every other issue affecting his constituents.

    And just generally being a motherfucker who fellates Donald on command.

  • Gov. Walz mobilizes Minnesota National Guard amid heated protests

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  • No troops deployed.

    So does this do anything meaningful?

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    Gov. Walz mobilizes Minnesota National Guard amid heated protests

    www.usatoday.com /story/news/nation/2026/01/17/tim-walz-mobilizes-minnesota-national-guard-amid-protests/88235378007/

  • YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD.

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  • A real civil war wouldn't last longer than three weeks here in the US. A small group of whacked-out people love the idea of it, but they certainly have not thought it through. It's just a fun thought for them because they have never cracked open a history book and don't have any real perspective regarding what war actually means.

    This is the country that couldn't go three weeks without a haircut or toilet paper in 2020. People would walk into their first empty grocery store, toting their big impressive AR-15 rifles, and then demand that the war be ended.

  • ICE arrested a Navajo man and dismissed all the proof he presented of his identity, claiming he faked it and that they'd "get his family next".

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  • are they being deployed state after state or something ?

    Only a handful of cities, but their funding is something like $60 billion dollars, the equivalent of two or three branches of our military combined. I don't think ICE has the staff to go after whole states at this point, because there are many stories in the media that seem to indicate they are hiring every stupid motherfucker who puts in an application. They send a ton of people to small geographical areas so that, theatrically, it appears that they are more powerful and numerous than they really are.

    There are various means of resistance happening in local communities. Here in Kansas City, Missouri, for example, our city council just banned ICE from receiving an permits or zoning for mass detention facilities here in our city.

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    Supreme Court will hear appeal by maker of popular Roundup weedkiller to block thousands of lawsuits

    apnews.com /article/supreme-court-bayer-roundup-glyphosate-cancer-2e8e03708f125a84999259e624fb695c
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    Proposed billionaires’ tax in California rattles Silicon Valley, entangles Gov. Newsom

    apnews.com /article/california-billionaire-tax-gavin-newsom-silicon-valley-483f5bc9b3ef5105fb9275f0d91000ad
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    Thousands of nurses go on strike at several major New York City hospitals

    apnews.com /article/nursing-strike-new-york-5647ac366a8d067785b9cb4005204878
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    Senate advances resolution to limit Trump’s ability to attack Venezuela

    apnews.com /live/donald-trump-news-updates-1-8-2026
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    Hochul and Mamdani to unveil free child care plan in New York City

    apnews.com /article/hochul-mamdani-free-child-care-a4f06b6cd4ac26122daf736067f6c7e9
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    Trump administration says it’s withholding social safety net money from 5 states over fraud concerns

    apnews.com /article/trump-administration-safety-net-funding-fraud-a5b5712a99ea20695a85d2ffe3b687d9
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    Officer did nothing until it was too late during Uvalde school shooting, prosecutor says

    apnews.com /article/uvalde-school-shooting-police-officer-trial-bbabc23c1dc8aefe630773aa5ad204b1
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    Missouri minimum wage increases to $15 per hour, bringing relief to workers

    www.kshb.com /news/local-news/missouri-minimum-wage-increases-to-15-per-hour-bringing-relief-to-workers
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    Zelenskyy says US has agreed to offer Ukraine ‘strong’ 15-year security guarantees

    www.theguardian.com /world/2025/dec/29/volodymyr-zelenskyy-donald-trump-us-security-guarantees-ukraine
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    Trump urges Republicans to ditch filibuster rule in US Senate

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/dec/27/trump-republicans-filibuster-rule-senate
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    Dying Light

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    Supreme Court keeps Trump’s National Guard deployment blocked in the Chicago area, for now

    apnews.com /article/supreme-court-trump-national-guard-97192a48f01dd4954f1ba505628b5f21
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    Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed (NOTE: GRAPHIC)

    www.404media.co /archivists-posted-the-60-minutes-cecot-segment-bari-weiss-killed/
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    CBS postpones ’60 Minutes’ report on El Salvador’s CECOT prison

    www.cnbc.com /2025/12/22/cbs-postpones-60-minutes-report-on-el-salvadors-cecot-prison.html
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    5 Christmas Movies You Never Heard Of or Forgot About (Youtube)

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    Trump gives a partisan prime-time address insisting the economy is stronger than many voters feel

    apnews.com /article/trump-address-economy-popularity-midterms-65d3b79a613cfb778432bcc719a313ab
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    Susie Wiles on Trump, Vance, Epstein Scandal: The Key Revelations

    www.newsweek.com /susie-wiles-trump-vance-epstein-files-maga-11219812
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    Kash Patel faces criticism for touting FBI’s work tracking down suspect prematurely

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/dec/15/kash-patel-brown-shooting-suspect
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    ALL KEYS CLAIMED - Free PC Game Keys to Give Away (Merry Christmas!)