The Ocotillos

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seriously I cannot get enough. cry more. cry harder. understand that as long as people draw breath the opposition to fascism is stronger than you. whatever your reasons for being a fascist, know every time that your gains will be short ones which you'll relinquish in tears every. fuckin. time

DIRECTLY INTO MY VEINS btw

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You don’t even have to like Kamala Harris to know how “let’s build a Rube Goldberg device to avoid nominating the person who was literally elected to step in for the president if necessary” would look

look - I'm receptive to both "no, it's gotta be him" arguments and "he's gotta step aside" arguments. not to be wishy-washy but both arguments have merit. "then we do a tourney" is OTOH flatly hilarious. yeah that'll go great. there will much much unity in the wake of the electoral deathmatch

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I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper

Leftists: “This conservative elected official is calling for mass executions. That’s fascism” The right: “A student club at Harvard says singing ‘zip a dee doo dah’ is a micro aggression. That’s fascism.”

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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation

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“You have the morals of an alley cat,” is like something you sing about the Grinch.

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Last Week Tonight did a dive into this. The writers did their best, but it was, obviously, tough to find much humor here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYwq...

Trump’s Second Term: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)www.youtube.com YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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wow I can’t believe their strategy of making it physically impossible to buy any of the number of objects I would gladly buy from them if they would just put it on a shelf and allow me to buy it without spending five minutes trying to find an underpaid worker with a key isn’t working out for them

Walgreens will close a “significant portion” of its 8,600 U.S. locations over the next three years as it struggles to keep up with a rapidly evolving retail pharmacy industry, the company announced Thursday.

Walgreens to shutter many stores as profits tumblewapo.st The retail pharmacy giant expects to close a “significant portion” of its 8,600 U.S. locations over the next three years.

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THE CARTOONISTS CLUB, a new graphic novel, combines Raina Telgemeier & Scott McCloud’s trademark charm, reliability, and comics expertise to blend narrative, how-to, and the enchanting art of comics to inspire a new generation of young cartoonists. Coming from Scholastic/Graphix 4/1/2025!

So which one was the time traveler- the woman who saved Roosevelt, or the assassin?

one random woman stopped the assassination of FDR right before he took office, which probably saved the New Deal & prevented Hitler from running the table in Europe, because FDR woulda been replaced by his anti-New Deal isolationist VP

Roosevelt unhurt, but Chicago mayor's condition critical - UPI Archiveswww.upi.com MIAMI, Feb. 16, 1933 (UP) - President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, saved from an assassin's bullets by the heroism of a woman, departed for New York today, leaving behind him, dangerously wounded, his...

make a band milder atari teenage nonviolent protest

make a band milder electric night light orchestra

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you get busted liking ONE pedo post

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JD Vance on D-Day: "Ask the Greatest Generation what they feel about sex changes for minors."

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threadswww.threads.net JD Vance on D-Day: "Ask the Greatest Generation what they feel about sex changes for minors."

Meet the 99-year-old transgender WW2 veteranwww.bbc.com Louise Jennings was 26 years old when she fought in World War Two as Robert Jennings.

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Every once in awhile I see somebody say something like "We never really recovered from 9/11" and I think shit like this is exactly what they mean

Okay but why does the Father’s Day balloon have bullet holes

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Frankly a little bit on-the-nose that the Washington Post has completed the cycle from covering Watergate, to hiring a publisher personally involved in hacking phones and corrupting journalists to cover up his scandals.

Holy shit: When Will Lewis was newly-hired Publisher and CEO of the Washington Post, he offered NPR media reporter David Folkenflik an exclusive story about the paper's future in exchange for him killing a story about Lewis' involvement in covering up criminal activity at Rupert Murdoch's tabloids.

'Washington Post' publisher tried to kill a story about allegations against him. It wasn’t the first time.www.npr.org The Post's new CEO Will Lewis tried to stop the paper from publishing a story about allegations he faces in Britain. It wasn't the first time he's attempted to head off unwanted coverage. I know, beca...

Just realized I still say “Google” as a verb even though I’ve exclusively used Duck Duck Go for years

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Me: *turns the A/C up a degree* Rollin Gotbux: *ships his Bugatti collection to the summer cottage in Monaco* Me: *shrugs and turns A/C back down*

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It is sad that Biden thinks avoiding “politicizing” the Trump convictions will somehow make people respect him, when in fact most voters probably think he did it and it would help if he just said so. “Yeah, I came after him, and I made it stick, unlike everything he’s ever tried on me. Skill issue”

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[Two racist billionaires join forces to make speaking Spanish illegal] The NYT: Um, Bromance Much? Here’s the Tea 🤪

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And stop acting like the stereotypical "backwards country Trump supporters" are all poor rural folks with no clue that you see on comedy clips. A lot of Trump/GOP/fascism supporters have a LOT of money, power, and influence in politics.

One of the most important things you can do as an ally and as fighter of fascism is stop laughing at evangelical Christians and realize they mean every single word they say. They’re not funny, they’re absolutely terrifying. Take them extremely seriously and act accordingly.

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The abuse of public records to attack researchers, a thread: On Tuesday morning of this week (May 21), Matt Taibbi began to send me a series of messages requesting my response to a series of leading questions about public records that he planned to publish as part of an upcoming series of articles.

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West Bank bus system only accessible to Israelis. I didn’t know about any of this.

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When we say “tech guys need the humanities too” we’re not talking about diluting the pool of Linus Torvalds with underwater basket weavers, we’re talking about arming them with enough literacy to comprehend Sci-Fi in a way that doesn’t get them sued by Scarlett Johansson

The Onion is back baby

Breaking News:

This is such a good contrast to Bill Maher pretending he’s a foreign policy expert.

Matt, this is idiotic and you know it. If I were widely known, knowledgeable and influential for my writing on foreign policy, you might have a point. But I’m not, so what I did instead was use my widely-read newsletter to boost the views of people who are those things and backed the withdrawal.

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You know, as a Packer fan, when my neighbor puts up a Vikings sign, I always immediately call for the overthrow of the United States. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/u...