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Proud NM native. I refuse to let small, mean-spirited people frighten me. Proud to be anti-fascist. Reading is resistance. It's artificial intelligence.

Albuquerque, NM
Joined May 2008
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My social media history has already doomed me, so I might as well keep going (Point! Laugh! Ridicule!). I'm glad I live in a blue state, but there's still a better than zero chance I'll end up in jail or shot down in the streets. (Wish I was joking.)
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I know we all have much bigger issues. But the way big companies work to squeeze every last $ out of us is appalling. Yes, @Apple I'm looking at you, for my "free 7 day trial" you just went ahead and charged my $14.99 and didn't tell me. Gosh, makes me want to sign up for more!
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This. And the Kennedy Center will be demolished and the rest of the golf course destroyed. He'll be on a rampage.
Replying to @karaswisher
@KaraSwisher asked me how Trump will deal with defeat if Democrats win big next week. My expectation: He'll double down on risk. #HighStakes
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Here's my take on @DarlineGrahamSC She's the nice white lady in a small southern garden club who sits in the back row and never says much. And everyone knows she's not overly bright but she bakes good cakes for the annual bake sale (or her cook does.)
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I know it's petty of me, but gotta point and laugh. Really? This macho crew will surely make a difference in NH! (That was sarcasm, btw, Brandon.)
Our Turning Point Action team joined forces with @ScottPresler to knock on doors in Manchester, New Hampshire today for @SununuSenator and @DiLorenzo4NH .
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After all these years, I know I shouldn't be, but I'm amazed at how so many are leaning into the bat shit crazy, cult crap. @DarlineGrahamSC @RogerMarshallMD etc. Y'all are adults, with (I hope) more than two functioning brain cells. Truly pathetic.
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Methinks there's a Guy Ritchie film in this. (Seriously, follow Dr. Fry. You learn stuff.)
Lieutenant Colonel “Mad Jack” Churchill stormed into battle playing the bagpipes, armed with a Scottish broadsword and longbow. He captured 42 German soldiers single-handedly with just his sword and remains the last known man to kill an enemy with a bow and arrow in combat.
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This. Especially in urban neighborhoods.
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I suspect that a growing number of attendees are like this man. Also, protestors.
Fox: Why are you here this morning? Trump rally attendee: Well, in the late 70s, I was a little too young to go to South America for the Jonestown Massacre. But this is as close as I'll ever get, so that's why I'm here. There's nothing like seeing a cult right up front.
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Also, ask about Wakanda Africa immigrants to the US. "It's a shithouse country." Heh. (It helps to laugh but dear god...)
LMAO. I have always wished journalists could just start asking him questions about fake things just to see what nonsense comes out. Like: “Sir, do you you have a reaction to President Almondo of Marzipan's speech this morning attacking the Norwegian Nobel Committee for failing to award you this year’s Peace Prize?”
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This. Crude, but sadly all too true.
It's left to the foreign press to cover Trump accurately because every U.S. based WH reporter is competing to see who can fit his dick and balls in their mouth at the same time.
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One can only hope. And @SenatorTimScott should be sued personally. Make it hurt. (I can't help but pity the guy, but this is just beyond ridiculous. You are NEVER going to get a seat at the table, Tim, no matter how much you suck up to MAGA.)
Fox News about spend another $800 million.
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ICYMI. @SenJonHusted Really? Truly tragic how low you and most of the rest of the GOP has fallen.
“Vote for me because an 80 year old adjudicated rapist thinks I have a nice ass” is a hell of a closing message.
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I know. I know. This is brutal, but REALLY funny. (And Mullin is really stupid.)
I saw Markwayne Mullin on Fox News for a minute this morning. I had no idea what he was speaking about. He labors to say the simplest things. Honestly, he's not a bad communicator - he's a non-communicator. I imagine him at dinner nightly with his family, wanting someone to pass him the salt, and it never happens.
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This. I sometimes think we are living in the prequel to Parable.
“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.” -Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
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This. And I just read how Islam built libraries and saved thousands and thousands of Greek and Roman texts. (Library. An Unquiet History, recommended read.)
My comments on the triumph of Arab science and their contribution to preserving Aristotle, Ptolemy, Euclid, Pythagoras, Archimedes, during the dark ages, until it transitioned 500 years later to Copernicus, Galileo, Tycho Brah, Kepler, Vesalius, da Vinci, Gilbert. Without the great centers of Arab science in Baghdad, Cordoba, Cairo, all would have been lost. There would be no SpaceX, Anthropic, Meta, or at least not for another 500 years. You can take that to the bank straitstimes.com/world/unite…
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This. But the truly awful part is that the Brits shot the thousands of horses that made it to the end of the war because it was too expensive to ship them home.
As a nation we do memorials so well. IT HAS NO SADDLE. NO RIDER. AND IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY, A SINGLE TEAR. THIS IS THE NATIONAL MEMORIAL TO THE HORSES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR. Unveiled in 2018, she stands at Ascot. The horse is simply called Poppy.
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This. I mean, c'mon. It's so eye-watering stupid...
when they say things like “if democrats win, your kid will go to school a boy and come home a girl!!” the correct response is NOT “well, only 1% of the population is trans” The correct response is: THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN AND YOU NEED HELP FOR BELIEVING THAT IT DOES
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Oh look. NBC actually reported some news that isn't normalizing Trump.
On the day a sitting president landed in Lubbock, Texas, for the first time in 34 years, people waited for hours in lines stretching for blocks in this reliably red city. But the crowd wasn't waiting for President Trump. They were waiting for Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico. nbcnews.com/politics/2026-el…
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Yep. The tan suit. The arugula. The dijon mustard. All because he was black. *Sigh* It's so stupid it's funny.
is this what it was like from 2008-2016 lol
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This. And "Strategy" "Message" etc. in headlines today. Media still normalizin him. 🙄 Nope, he's always been dumb as a box of rocks and is now suffering from increasing mental decline.
Lawrence: “Identifying how breathtakingly stupid donald trump is has been one of the lonely pursuits of this particular hour of television. In most of the rest of the news media it’s assumed he has some kind of reason4why he says&does things…the only constant is his stupidity.”
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