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N. | Retired old-school journalist. Medievalist, feminist, humanist. Reader, writer, book hoarder. Scottish soul who loves a lament. Always curious. πŸ’™

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Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

05.03.2026 19:38 πŸ‘ 40301 πŸ” 9096 πŸ’¬ 1491 πŸ“Œ 306

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Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything.

01.03.2026 22:44 πŸ‘ 15851 πŸ” 5048 πŸ’¬ 425 πŸ“Œ 196

Inhumanity and insanity. The sort of thing a dying empire does.

28.02.2026 12:44 πŸ‘ 786 πŸ” 187 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2
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Before and after you sell your soul to the devil.

28.02.2026 00:15 πŸ‘ 10010 πŸ” 2486 πŸ’¬ 666 πŸ“Œ 170
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To MSM, Independants, politicians, pundits, &random users who keep talking about November elections, as if you will have them..

OR, not thinking of them to be anything but a total shit show, with decades of lawsuits to go with them, if not all out civil war...

Shut. The fuck. Up.

Rise... Or fall.

27.02.2026 02:19 πŸ‘ 3298 πŸ” 1400 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 1
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The Handbasket 100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media.

Off the top of my head:

www.thehandbasket.co
404media.co
www.garbageday.email

Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

26.02.2026 23:46 πŸ‘ 9582 πŸ” 3151 πŸ’¬ 524 πŸ“Œ 116
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What soulless, cowardice and morally bankrupt looks like.

26.02.2026 02:27 πŸ‘ 8105 πŸ” 1681 πŸ’¬ 729 πŸ“Œ 164

Same

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Think of how bad things must be for a Supreme Court Justice to feel he has to explain why it's a good idea to have laws enacted by legislators instead of decreed by wannabe dictators

21.02.2026 06:34 πŸ‘ 15740 πŸ” 4567 πŸ’¬ 875 πŸ“Œ 266

Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.

19.02.2026 11:16 πŸ‘ 10329 πŸ” 2285 πŸ’¬ 152 πŸ“Œ 67
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BREAKING: I read the new version of the β€œSave America Act” (S. 1383) so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty β€œSAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/

17.02.2026 21:47 πŸ‘ 4009 πŸ” 2840 πŸ’¬ 243 πŸ“Œ 343
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You Know What? Maybe the Time Is Right for an AOC Presidential Bid She’s only 36, and there’s a good argument that she should run for Senate and bide her time. But she also could be a formidable White House candidate.

The worst case scenario for an AOC presidential run in 2028 is that she’s setting herself up for 2032 or 2036.

She is going to be president somedayβ€”it’s just a matter of time.

16.02.2026 14:13 πŸ‘ 17078 πŸ” 2446 πŸ’¬ 1599 πŸ“Œ 312

Correct. An increasing lack of empathy is killing us.

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Building the camps The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

11.02.2026 02:24 πŸ‘ 5523 πŸ” 2790 πŸ’¬ 93 πŸ“Œ 196

I want to thank everyone who posts gift articles of really important stories that all Americans should read but are behind paywalls so most can’t.

There are some stories that are so important to the public interest that media companies should remove paywalls on some occasions.

08.02.2026 13:55 πŸ‘ 12330 πŸ” 2250 πŸ’¬ 418 πŸ“Œ 113

If every Republican elected official does not condemn the truth social post of Trump they should be seen as likewise racist sacks of shit and will be shunned in history.

06.02.2026 14:12 πŸ‘ 6126 πŸ” 1332 πŸ’¬ 373 πŸ“Œ 76

there's something unholy about the Trump administration being laser focused on "fraud" while Trump pardons an endless clown car of fraudsters and bilks taxpayers at every opportunity. it's just transparently absurd.

04.02.2026 22:13 πŸ‘ 6487 πŸ” 1589 πŸ’¬ 233 πŸ“Œ 71

And we thank you for it!

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@washingtonpost.com will survive in some degraded form. But this is literally the day in which a precious and storied institution, which among its thousands of accomplishments has served an indispensable historic role of holding power to account, was killed.

04.02.2026 17:43 πŸ‘ 883 πŸ” 192 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 10

Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...

04.02.2026 15:46 πŸ‘ 5527 πŸ” 1253 πŸ’¬ 157 πŸ“Œ 43

Are we great yet?

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happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

03.02.2026 16:19 πŸ‘ 43249 πŸ” 19358 πŸ’¬ 2400 πŸ“Œ 1616

Trump still whining about losing in 2020. It’s tiresome. Fucken broken record.

02.02.2026 23:13 πŸ‘ 2436 πŸ” 303 πŸ’¬ 174 πŸ“Œ 19

I have the same memories. Cedar Rapids. A night out with the girls was no more than a dollar’s worth of gas. In a Buick Le Sabre! 😎

02.02.2026 15:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Same in real life. People who refuse to use proper spelling, capitalization, punctuation, or even choose words that mean something, etc are signaling that it's your job to read their minds and fix their shit. They think it's hip. No, it's disrespect.

01.02.2026 13:08 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is exactly what local officials in Oklahoma City got stopped in OKC. Say what you will about Oklahoma, but OKC is run by a mayor who is an actual badass.

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Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.

31.01.2026 00:06 πŸ‘ 13435 πŸ” 3764 πŸ’¬ 237 πŸ“Œ 125

Honestly, I long for the day again when I can wake in the morning and not have to brace myself from some new horror committed by a man and his regime who are feeding themselves on the ruins of public liberty.

30.01.2026 13:06 πŸ‘ 4323 πŸ” 855 πŸ’¬ 151 πŸ“Œ 64

The president of the United States had his Justice Dept. raid an election office and seize ballots in order to cast doubt on an election he lost. Yet, this is treated by legacy media as just another normal day.

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