@Andercot I feel like they made a movie about this a few years ago
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Contio Pleb
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@ZyMazza Conservative backlash single-handedly killed off the forced sale of millions and millions of acres of BLM and Forest Service lands, twice, in the last year alone
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I will never understand how it came to pass that American "conservatives" managed to completely cede the core value of "Conservation" to the American left.
It's downright bizarre!
VB Knives@Empty_America
Intensely Blue Coded.
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i’m really confused about how laws work here. if i tried to go camping in a public park tonight i’d likely be told i cannot, because it’s illegal. i’ve been cleared out of parks for stargazing after hours.
a judge just ruled that berkeley has to give homeless people larger sidewalk spaces for camping than was previously determined. who qualifies for this? could i go stake out a piece of sidewalk?
Sanjana Friedman@metaversehell
Just learned the ‘Berkeley Homeless Union’ has been suing the city of Berkeley to prevent it from clearing a homeless encampment infested with what sounds like a kind of plague (“leptospirosis,” a deadly bacteria spread by rats)
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@Peter_Nimitz Just make an app, with biometrics and citizenship verification, and allow all citizens to directly participate in govt. Say for an annual budget or war powers, we all vote directly for or against. If a minimum participation threshold is not reached, then elected reps step in.
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One of the reasons it would be worthwhile to expand the House to 5,500 members (1 for every 60,000 people, same ratio as in the early republic) is that it would make strengthen the electoral filtration mechanism while weakening the media & FBI filtration mechanisms.
Auron MacIntyre@AuronMacintyre
People should absolutely involve themselves at the local and state level but let’s be clear, congress maintains a 90%+ incumbency rate while it’s popularity is in the single digits Those numbers aren’t explained by apathy, the system is rigged to produce this result
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@BrosnanHoban @mattrife Yeah bro, I’m sure us harnessing the propulsion and energy systems that these craft use to traverse across the galaxy would have no material impact on your standard of living. Just don’t think about it at all and keep your head in the sand at this point
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Not one piece of internet “drama” is crazier or more important than this and nobody even cares 😂😂 i fkn hate this world
TMZ@TMZ
Congressman Tim Burchett says aliens are real & there's been human contact 👽
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@WomanDefiner Jesus dude UFO have been a core conspiracy theory since the fucking 40s, with pictures and video throughout that entire 80 year period
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It's really odd how the Aliens became very real at the very second AI became capable of making photo realistic video people can't tell apart from reality.
Leading Report@LeadingReport
BREAKING: Aliens are real and human contact has taken place, according to Tim Burchett.
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@AustinJustice “Life is great in the surveillance state!” I just don’t like the direction any of this is going
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San Francisco is now a model for how to fight crime.
A few years ago it averaged 86 car break-ins per day. Today: 15.
SF did two things:
1. Got a DA that prosecutes criminals: Following the successful recall of Chesa Boudin, DA Brooke Jenkins started prosecuting prolific offenders and said so loudly. Crime dropped every year since she took office.
2. Put tech to use: In 2024, SF activated 400 license plate readers and deployed 80 drones citywide. This tech feeds officers live intelligence on suspects in motion. Drones alone have assisted in 1,000+ arrests since then. The technology lets authorities solve crimes as they happen rather than depend on much more intensive, legally perilous post hoc investigations (which ironically are often more intrusive than using tech).
The results:
- Car break-ins down 85%
- Robbery down 30%
- Burglary down 33%.
- Homicides hit their lowest level since 1954.
Plate readers, drones, a prosecutor who prosecutes. That's the whole formula!
Austin has the opposite approach. License plate cameras are effectively banned. Jail bookings are down despite repeat offenders victimizing innocent people regularly. Bond violations went from 37 in 2020 to 250 last year.
SF proved crime is a choice. Austin, so far, keeps making a different one.
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@LonghornJoker @sarahsalviander “Just the long term effect of gravity and electromagnetism acting on mud puddles, don’t worry about it”
GIF
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@sarahsalviander You and I are on opposite ends here, as I’m a biologist who is more impressed the evidence for god from physics
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As an astrophysicist, I was convinced of a Creator by the ingenuity of the observable universe; but I have to admit that biology is even more convincing. The incredible machinery of a living cell is far more complex than the structure of an entire galaxy of stars.
Wendell@wendelltalks
There is no way a person can see this image of a cell and deny that God exists.
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@sturgios And unlike Tom here, I doubt you tried to save even a single one. Some “friend” you are
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I have lost nine friends to suicide. I am a West Ham fan. My main hobby is walking in the countryside.
My biggest tip for robust mental health is - make more jokes and fewer things-skinned unpleasant attacks on strangers online. Give it a go.
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Tom Skinner’s men walking for mental health events - they look like West Ham fans in a post apocalyptic world searching for a football match that’s no longer being played
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@OwenShroyer1776 I’m sure the Israelis will send him back to us right at the same time they send us that rat Tom Alexandrovich. So never
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Trump suggested jail when he thought it was an American. Wonder if the same standard will be applied since it was an Israeli.
The General@GeneralMCNews
BREAKING: Israeli journalist Amit Segal, who is close to Netanyahu and leaked details about the missing second pilot in Iran, feels confident he won’t be charged by the Department of Justice.
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Today, the brave men and women of Arkansas’ 142nd Field Artillery Brigade depart for the Middle East.
Arkansas is thankful for their service. May God protect them.
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@Dapper_Det @ICEgov Deport? No they should get to stay. Forever, in fact
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🚨BREAKING: 4 Texas teens; Jose Rojas-Alvarado, Oscar Armando Santiago-Martinez, Angel Lemus-Perez & Carlos Roberto Oliva-Villeda—likely all illegal aliens being harbored in Democrat run Austin TX are charged with brutally kidnapping & torturing a boy.
@ICEgov deport this scum.
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@UsingLyft They just want free shit and they use race guilt to trick gullible whites into giving it to them
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I hate all race communism but I just never understood why brown people would ever get anything? At least with black people there was a history of race based laws against black people who were brought here against their will. What happened to brown ppl? Plus they chose this place
Brandon Straka #WalkAway@BrandonStraka
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveils a “racial equity plan” directing resources toward “black and brown New Yorkers” across city agencies. Critics argue the policy raises concerns over race-based treatment.
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@NikkoPliego Was only able to take a sextant reading like 5 times during the sail as well because of rough seas
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Tom Crean sailed a life boat with 5 other men across the most hostile sea in the world, and then trekked 3 days over frozen mountains with nothing but a pickaxe, a rope, and shoes retrofitted w/ nails.
They saved the Endurance crew stranded 900 miles south.
I think of him often.
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@afneil “Look how disarmed and helpless we are! We’re such better people than you!”
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Last year there were 14,651 murders in America involving guns.
Britain? 32
So I suspect even you can see where the problem is.
And we’re nowhere near an Islamist abyss.
James Woods@RealJamesWoods
Our friends, the Brits, went from relinquishing their right to bear arms in 1997 to standing on the edge of the Islamist abyss today. Our Second Amendment is not about the right to go duck hunting, folks. It’s about keeping power in the hands of The People.
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@mirandadevine There you go protecting your favored tribe again
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I just deleted a post quoting the Times of Israel, implying that the Iran rescue leak came from the office of the Israeli Minister of Defense, because that appears to be false, and the Times has deleted its mention - without acknowledging error - and the office of the IMoD strenuously denies being involved.
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@LWaler How many churches have been burned down in Canada in the past year? How many synagogues?
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My church in Toronto didn’t need these guys to keep us safe this week.
But my friend’s synagogue did.
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@Aethelleas Even if it’s a long shot, the process is the punishment. Look at all the BS that liberal activist judges do on a weekly basis. Time to give them a taste of their own medicine
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Pramila Jayapal came to US on an H1B – and used it to get citizenship.
All we have to do is to pull her paperwork and show that she lied about her technical skills, and probably many other things.
She could be easily denaturalized, if anybody in this country and especially our administration, had the balls to do it - and place Americans First.
What’s stopping them?
Southern Mama@SouthernMB82
A foreign-born Indian who wouldn’t have been allowed to immigrate here prior to the Hart-Celler Act wants to lecture Heritage Americans on immigration. Given that she continually pushes for Marxist policies that are antithetical to the Constitution and openly supports the invasion of our country by other foreigners, her citizenship should be revoked and she should be deported to India.
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@rishabhm The only way liberals know how to persuade is by using the oppressor/oppressed narrative and framing “the other” as the nebulous evil keeping the poor man down. Rich people have long been fair game to paint as the oppressor, so Warren frames her tax pitch this way.
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But with a wealth tax in place, Jeff would have never reached $222B. Every year Jeff would have had to sell Amazon stock to pay your wealth tax. Eventually Jeff wouldn't have control of Amazon. And without him calling the shots, the company that employs 500K people in the US wouldn't have become what it is. That would have been a significant net reduction in taxes collected by the Govt.
I refuse to believe that you are this dumb. Clearly you are choosing mischief over constructive policy making.
Elizabeth Warren@SenWarren
Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.
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