Derek of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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Derek of the Edmund Fitzgerald

The single most important message in American politics is that Trump and MAGA are strategically dividing us for the benefit of a few insatiable billionaires who live like gods on earth on the blood, sweat and toil of the rest of us.

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CaryJo

dealer's choice

Chicago River is a nice dense coffee brown this morning 🤢

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Holden vs The Internet

we all just wanna go out with smiles on our faces

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Derek of the Edmund Fitzgerald

For just $25 and the will to sit amongst the most deranged people in this country, you have the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

Welcome to hell buddy

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Ed Zitron

I mean, the guy he emulates often looks like he's just joylessly going through the motions.

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Paris Marx

Is it even Star Wars if isn't a bunch of good themes and ideas unevenly executed, Andor excepted?

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Derek of the Edmund Fitzgerald

raccoons, welcome to the luddite resistance

timeline cleanse hat tip @penryu.bsky.social

ORCAS: fuck them yachts RACCOONS: hold our tiny beers

TIRED: cross around one's neck WIRED:

checking in on night 2 of the RNC

were you there when the bullet grazed his ear were you there when the bullet grazed his ear ohhhhh-oh-oh-ohhh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble were you there when the bullet grazed his ear

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Derek of the Edmund Fitzgerald

You didn't know that you needed a picture of a tiny frog riding a giant beetle, but now you do.

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Holly Brolightly

my go-to topping is whipped cream then sea salt

I have become That Guy Who Names The Group Texts because cmon folks I can't follow what the hell nine of us are discussing versus what seven of us are discussing

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Derek of the Edmund Fitzgerald

At this stage of the election cycle, cryptocurrency-focused PACs have contributed more overall to Democrats than to Republicans.

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Derek of the Edmund Fitzgerald

I only read about half of The Privatization of Everything before I had to stop from sheer rage and frustration but there’s a whole section about how the attempted privatization of the NWS has already led to people dying from tornados as subscription services get weather alert priority.

It's because they want to privatize weather. They tried doing it under his last administration but many people didn't really notice beyond the weird hurricane drawing he did. It's also why they cut (or at least tried to it's been a minute since I read that stuff) a bunch of NASA Earth's funding too

Trump’s Pick to Lead Weather Agency Spent 30 Years Fighting Itwww.bloomberg.com Who owns the weather?

Tito Menendez will read from a prepared statement.

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Derek of the Edmund Fitzgerald

As always, it can be both! It’s not a masquerade

“Christian nationalism is a white supremacist political ideology masquerading as religion.”

Column: The once-secretive right-wing ideology emerging as an overt threat to American democracywww.latimes.com A new documentary, 'Bad Faith,' explores the racist, reactionary movement driving the success of Donald Trump and being endorsed by the likes of Josh Hawley.

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Matthew R Francis

The narcissism of small differences can afflict any group. It's important to call it out and work out those small differences.

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Derek of the Edmund Fitzgerald

You fuck over your friend of 30 years to appease Australians?!?

jack throwing kyle under the bus variety.com/2024/music/n...

Jack Black Cancels Tenacious D Tour and ‘All Future Creative Plans’ After Kyle Glass’ Remark on Trump Assassination Attempt: ‘I Was Blindsided by What Was Said’variety.com Jack Black says Tenacious D will no longer tour after blowback over a comment Kyle Glass made about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

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Derek of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Every state is more "purple" than people think. More Californians than Texans voted for Trump in 2020; more Texans than New Yorkers voted for Biden in 2020. If we ditched the Electoral College and instituted Ranked Choice Voting, politics would look very different on every level than they do now.

I went to Bowling Green and then lived in the Cleveland area after for about 10 years. The state is not as backwards as the rest of the country thinks.

Orange County in California is the crucible of the GOP of the last 50 years.

felled tree near Canal and Kinzie, Chicago

wild night

I just got here.

yeah lots of videos coming in … rain-wrapped tornados at night are particularly scary … light pollution in Cook County made them a little easier to spot from a distance

good news is we get another shot at this tomorrow evening

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Holly Brolightly

some folks on the tarmac at ORD got to ride out a tornado tonight after ground control and ATC evacuated

as many as 10 were active at once as the derecho plowed through Cook County

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ʇɐɥs sɐ ʇɹɐɯs

His Twitter is garbage replies to garbage posts, but his last act on earth was to protect his loved ones. That's, as the kids say, a W.