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I miss Wired. @kevin2kelly @chr1sa

@JVMonte2 Peter Gabriel The Police Rush

Which 3 from this group of albums released in 1980 are you keeping?

Trump reports zero illegal immigrants 'released' into the US. That means of those apprehended, zero were permitted to remain. That is easy to believe and can be accomplished by setting policy. He never mentions the estimated number of 'unencountered' illegal immigrants. I am sure that number is at least in the 10s of thousands per month, and includes your Al-Qaeda operatives.

We must stop this. I get the political narrative is that the southern border is closed, but then why is Al-Qaeda telling terrorists they can still cross. We have a disconnect between what’s being told and the reality that you can clearly see for yourself below. Stop letting the enemy in!

Capitalism is not the problem. Socialism is not the solution. The existing government is not serving as capitalists, it serves as opportunists. And as such has been compromised by malevolent external forces. For example, we established policies that invited 10s of millions to enter the border without permission and without knowing who they were. They were exploited, died of illness or accident, were killed, raped and robbed on their way here, but our government promoted this through downstream NGO funding via USAID, border enforcement policies, even providing transportation to known 'migrants who entered without a visa'. Our government could have established policies that brought the same numbers into the country through vetted pipelines, given them work visas and *dignity*. But it didn't. The result is higher apartment rents, higher crime, murdered citizens, drained social services, and desperate millions who entered illegally. Only a malevolent external force would cause such a set of policies to be set up.

Voters are hungry for someone who is offering a solution to their problems.

@ChrisMartzWX @grok when was the dust bowl?

Thankfully I have numbers rather than opinions. The average number of days per year in the U.S. reaching 95°F was ~18% lower during the 60-year period 1961 to 2020 compared to 1901 to 1960. The number of days reaching 100°F and 105°F have also declined since 1895.

@FischerKing64 He’s leveling with the role of president. It’s the same reason he met Trump in the Oval Office.

This is true. It would be refreshing to have mayors of cities entirely focused on quality of life issues in the cities they supposedly govern. State level politicians - state level things. But they all want to be celebrities and maybe national politicians. So they talk about national and international things. Obama bragged he was right about the Iraq war - because he talked about it in the Illinois legislature, which had no power at all to stop it.

@Excellentsalvic Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

@Rule3O3 Compare Dunkirk to 1917.

Confession: I saw Dunkirk opening night, after many weeks of menacing my wife with Churchill impressions and WWII trivia. I cried exalted tears and proclaimed it one of the greatest war films ever made. And then about six months later I went back for a re-watch. Very embarrassing. “Hey honey, I don’t remember the score being this intrusive. Zimmer really is the Salieri of movie composers. Can anyone really tell one from another with him? How come this didn’t bother me at the time?” “Whoa I forgot how heavily he relied on that non linear cut trick. I mean I know he always does but this is just egregious. On review it’s impossible not to mentally re-edit the movie in a straightforward way, and good lord what a slog it becomes. Makes it seem like Hitler’s master plan was to crush the allies with ennui.”

@AlexDelarge6553 You mean like John Petrucci with Dream Theater?

Yngwie Malmsteen the problem with this amazing guitarist is this. It's not a band it's him who wants to listen to just guitar. Name a hit song a rif we all know. If he could set the ego aside make a all-star band he could have been special. Am I wrong?

@visegrad24 It's amazing what you can do when you control the voting machines.

Last year, the DSA had 250+ members holding elected public office across 40 states, with 90% elected after 2019. They hold more than 30% of the seats in 5 large city councils and are particularly strong in Minneapolis and Portland.

Many mocked the DSA when a video from their 2019 National Convention came out. The repeated and increasingly woke “points of personal privilege” looked ridiculous. What many missed at the time was that the Democratic Socialists of America had just entered a massive growth phase which has now made it the largest socialist organization in U.S. history. The organization grew from 6,000 members in 2015 to more than 120,000 today with a notable surge after Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign. The median age of members dropped sharply from 68 in 2013 to 33 in 2017 while AOC and Rashida Tlaib became the first DSA members in the House of Representatives in over a decade in 2018. After seeing a lull in growth during Biden’s term in office, the DSA now has winds in its sails again, especially after their member Zoran Mamdani was elected Mayor of New York City last year. It’s now practically certain that two democratic socialists will be heading to Congress from New York (Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier, both of whom won their 2026 Democratic primaries with strong Mamdani and DSA backing). DSA’s Melat Kiros can also be certain of reaching Congress after defeating a 30-year incumbent in her strongly blue district in Colorado. Meanwhile, Janeese Lewis George, a DSA member, is poised to become the next mayor of Washington, D.C. after a decisive primary win. What began as a niche organization with a few thousand mostly older members has transformed into a significant force in American left politics. @AdamMilstein has just written an article in which he warns that a massive Trojan horse has been built inside the Democratic Party. He argues that DSA is the main vehicle of the red-green alliance in the USA. This cooperation between organisations with a far-left ideology and Islamist groups has also been growing in Europe in recent years. The two forces are building a joint platform on Third Worldism, socialism anti-Zionism to attack broader liberal democratic values. In America, the DSA is working on radicalizing the Democratic Party on issues such as public safety, criminal justice, borders, foreign affairs and Israel policy. Milstein warns that the DSA’s official platform (“Workers Deserve More”) reveals an underlying Marxist framework that seeks not mere reform but the dismantling of core American institutions: drafting a new constitution, creating a democratic socialist republic, nationalizing key sectors, eliminating private health insurance and policing as well as incarceration systems while pushing for open-border policies. The DSA has adopted a so-called “dirty break” strategy, based on using Democratic Party’s ballot line, resources and credibility as a temporary vehicle while building parallel structures to ultimately break away and transform or supplant the Democratic Party. Milstein warns that they could succeed if the Democrats don’t quickly counter the existential threat by a full institutional purge: - Stripping DSA-aligned officials of committee assignments and power - Cutting off campaign funding, resources, and institutional support - Denying the party ballot line to those pursuing the “dirty break” - Aggressively recruiting and funding mainstream primary challengers to unseat sitting DSA politicians. The argument is that continued accommodation only legitimizes a movement whose stated goal is the party’s eventual dissolution and that failing to act risks irreversible colonization of the Democratic Party. You can find Milstein’s full article in the comments below ⬇️

@SomeBitchIIKnow Now you know everything I know. But with Serkis directing and reprising, there is hope! x.com/warnerbros/sta…

@SquonkLives They seem to be doing a decent job with it, or what did I miss?

I think the funniest thing about The Odyssey is Eumaeus is played by John Leguizamo, who boycotted the Mario movies because he said Mario and Luigi should be Latino.

@SomeBitchIIKnow The Hunt for Gollum.

Still looking forward to Epic the Musical being adapted to the big screen. 😎

@adamscrabble Enough of this. What's on the telly?

You a cop?

@cliftonaduncan I just wish I could wear that suit.

The most famous scene in "North By Northwest" (1959) started as an absurd idea: A hero terrorized by a tornado. No one knew how the film's villain would've gotten control of the weather, so they used a crop duster instead. One of cinema's most iconic set pieces was born:

@BrianRoemmele Should I learn how to do that?

Traditional Wheelwright: Handcrafting Wooden Wheel.

@NagelHausForge @Outback Pretty soon, you’ll be blowing things out of …proportion.

Ordered the side salad with dinner tonight... @Outback my life is in your hands…

@FightWithMemes Depends on who you ask.

"Authority should derive from the consent of the governed." Is this true? If it is, is rebellion justified against a government that repeatedly violates the consent of the people?

@adamscrabble Respect.

Nancy never puts something in the same place twice

@StefanMolyneux Explain this.

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