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In honor of A.A. Milne’s timeless work entering the #publicdomain
Within the crystalline palace, Don Quixote discovered that the enchanter had created many doorways, to many worlds #Kickstarter Dark Tales of Don Quixote
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New: The Interior Department may open tens of millions of acres of public lands for AI data centers. ProPublica found Trump officials who oversee these lands stand to profit from the growth of the industry. propub.li/4irJtn8
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Late stage capitalism:
A supermarket throws perfectly good food in the dumpster, pays its workers so little they can barely afford groceries, then asks customers to donate to the food bank at checkout.
And we're supposed to admire how fucking efficient this system is.
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I work in aviation so this morning I got to sit around with a bunch of pilots and discuss this horrible situation and I found it so interesting that none of the pilots thought the gender or race of the pilots were a factor at all but a bunch of fucking idiots on here do.
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I’ve never understood the “it was a different time” defence when discussing morality in the bible.
We’re told god is eternal, all-knowing and the ultimate source of objective morality. Yet whenever something morally questionable comes up, suddenly we’re told it was acceptable back then.
Acceptable to whom? Society or god?
Human standards change. But if god’s morality is supposed to be timeless, why does defending it depend on what people accepted thousands of years ago?
Was it morally right then, or are you admitting that human morality has progressed beyond what your scriptures permitted?
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106 years ago on November 2-3, during Election Day in 1920, the single bloodiest day in modern America political history happened, The Ocoee Massacre.
A black man attempted to vote & the Ku Klux Klan responded with rampage that led to the exile/death of every black person that lived there
—The dark day in Florida's history escalated after one Black citizen tried to exercise his right to vote at a polling location but was turned away on Election Day.
Mose Norman, who had been part of the voter registration drive in Orange County, decided to vote in the national election on November 2. When he attempted to do so, twice, he was turned away from the polls.
When Norman was driven away the second time, a white mob, then numbering over 100 men, decided to hunt him down. Concluding he had taken refuge in the home of another local Black resident, Julius “July” Perry, they rushed Perry’s home hoping to capture both men there. Norman escaped and was never found while Perry defended his home, killing two white men, Elmer McDaniels and Leo Borgard, who tried to enter through the back door. The mob called for reinforcements from Orlando and surrounding Orange County. Eventually they caught and killed Perry and hung his dead body from a telephone post by the highway from Ocoee to Orlando to intimidate other potential Black voters. Perry’s wife, Estelle Perry, and their daughter were wounded during the attack on the Perry home. They were sent to Tampa by local law enforcement officers.
The mob then turned on the Black community of Ocoee.
Homes and properties of Black families were scorched, burnt to the ground. At least four Black individuals were confirmed killed -- one of which was lynched, his body hanging from a tree limb for all to see.
On June 21, 2019, a historical marker honoring July Perry and others killed in the massacre was placed in Heritage Square outside the Orange County Regional History Center.
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THIS, is what voter suppression looks like! Because Ohio statehouse Republicans passed a law allowing only ONE early vote location per county, no matter the county size or population.
A huge shoutout to the amazing people of Ohio who waited in line for hours to vote.
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CORRECTION: Trump was almost put in prison for asking Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger to somehow "FIND" extra votes to help him win his state.
Now, let me exclaim this thoroughly so this ignorant fuck @SaltyGoat17 can STOP LYING.
The claim about "315,000 votes found against Joe Biden and for Donald Trump in Georgia" is NOT evidence of fraud, vote tampering, or invalid ballots. No credible evidence or official findings indicate that any votes were switched, added, or subtracted from Trump to Biden.
In December 2025, Fulton County officials admitted that approximately 315,000 early votes (from about 130-134 tabulator tapes) were certified WITHOUT the required poll worker signatures, which violated Georgia election rules.
These tabulator tapes are receipts printed from voting machines AFTER recording vote counts and are supposed to be signed by a poll manager and two witnesses to verify the process. This did not happen in Fulton County.
Now, tabulator machines scan and count paper ballots, and at the end of voting and then produce a tape that lists the total votes for each candidate processed by that specific tabulator. They act as a physical receipt or audit trail to verify that the number of ballots cast matches the recorded counts, helping ensure accuracy. In many jurisdictions, like in Georgia, these tapes must be signed by poll workers or officials as part of certification procedures.
What Fulton County officials admitted to was NOT SIGNING these tabulator tapes, but that is no indication that those 315,000 votes were not counted. They indeed were counted, and they were certified votes for the candidate the voter marked on their ballot.
The ONLY thing not administered correctly was the process of signing the tabulator tape. This was an administrative error — NOT voter fraud, NOT a stolen election, NOT stolen votes, NOT votes being switched.
Those 315,000 votes were STILL counted and certified, only the tabulator tapes were not signed or initialed. THAT IS IT!!
Fulton County's results were verified through:
- An initial machine count.
- A statewide risk-limiting audit (hand count of all ballots), which reported 525,293 votes cast in Fulton, with Biden receiving 381,179 and Trump 137,620.
- A machine recount requested by @realDonaldTrump campaign, which reported 523,779 votes, closely aligning with prior counts.
These recounts confirmed Biden's win by 11,779 votes statewide, with no discrepancies large enough to alter the outcome.
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He picked an air rifle up off the shelf in a Walmart and carried it round the shop while he talked on the phone.
The shop sells them. Ohio is an open-carry state.
The police shot John Crawford almost the moment they came through the door.
Beavercreek, Ohio. 5 August 2014. He was twenty-two.
He was in the Walmart. He had picked up an unpackaged MK-177 air rifle from the store's own sporting goods section and he was walking round with it while he shopped and talked on his mobile, the way anyone handles a thing they are thinking about buying.
A customer, Ronald Ritchie, rang 911 and reported that a man was pointing a rifle at people in the store.
Officers came in and shot him.
The store's surveillance video was later released, and here is what it shows.
He never aimed it at anyone. He is on the phone. He is holding it down. The officers fire almost immediately on entering and seeing him.
After the video came out, Ritchie walked his account back. His words: "At no point did he shoulder the rifle and point it at somebody." He maintained that Crawford had been waving it around.
He was never charged with anything.
A grand jury declined to indict the officer who fired, Sean Williams, on any count. In 2017 the Justice Department declined to bring federal charges and he returned to full duty.
Now hold the three facts that make this unbearable.
The item was merchandise. It came off the shelf of the shop he was standing in, which sells it, to anybody who walks in.
Ohio is an open-carry state. Carrying a firearm openly there is lawful with or without a licence. Even if the thing in his hands had been a real rifle he had brought in himself, he would have been breaking no law.
He was on the phone. He was mid-conversation with somebody when it happened.
And there is a detail after his death that you should know, because almost nobody does.
Tasha Thomas, the woman he had been seeing, was taken in and questioned by a detective immediately afterwards, while she still did not know he was dead. Reporting by the Guardian describes the detective threatening her with jail during that interview.
She died in a car crash in Dayton on 1 January 2015.
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DHS initially told Nevada election officials it found 15,000+ noncitizens registered to vote in the state.
But upon taking a closer look, Nevada found that the number didn’t seem to hold up.
Listen to this clip:
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Video of North Carolina A&T students marching to the polls after Trump removed their on-campus voting location.
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I’ve been early voting at this location for at least 10 years.
This the FIRST time I’ve ever seen a line for midterms…..presidential election, sure….but NOT midterms. This location is in a predominantly Black area.
BRING EM OUT @angieforfl!!!!
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Florida's had a Republican governor since 1999.
That's 27 years. Your home insurance bill can tell you how that's going, unless you've got a yacht, in which case things are going great.
Florida needs new leadership, and David Jolly's close enough to make Tallahassee nervous.
