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When they tell us "there is no alternative," what they mean is "stop trying to think of alternatives." To imagine radically is to move beyond the helplessness of prediction: a radical imagination dares to insist that history is what we make, not what happens to us.

Do you see how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it heavier.

Sorry brother Arabs invented like 75% of math and culture and the rest comes from China

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

NEW: At least 18 voting centers in Alaska Native communities have not opened despite early voting having already started in the state last week. “There is no legal excuse for the failure to open these sites,” one state senator wrote to the Alaska elections chief.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

The modeling industry impresarios were all team rapists, and they each copied the visa and passport revocation game from one another. “Perv-A-Lago” was never just a joke.

The Secret Service is guarding a fortified rape palace at taxpayer expense. It’s not just the décor that evokes Saddam Hussein and family.

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

#BREAKING US embassy staff and families ordered to leave Saudi Arabia, with families of embassy staff in the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain also ordered to leave, diplomatic source tells AFP

J: i rec'd aa number of texts on the break from my mother and my brother because CNN is reporting i'm getting a lot of death threats. this is where we are. a federal judge getting death threats over a golf course. i really dont think this is what the founders envisioned. adjourned. /210

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Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice. Life – evolution – the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy – existence itself – is essentially change.

In a very real way, all of this horror goes back to our failure to really hold the Confederacy to account for their crimes against humanity. 

“Stephen Miller is the architect of the greatest and most systematic violations of Americans’ civil rights and constitutional liberties in our era. This country isn’t safe until he is held accountable and punished to the fullest extent of the law for his crimes.” — Rick Wilson

No wizardry would serve him now, but only his own flesh, his life itself, against the unliving.

The Tesla roadster doth use compressid ayre so technicallye it ys not a "flyinge" car it ys a "fartinge" car.

Waterloo Bridge at Sunset, Pink Effect - 1904 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10899

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It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's hand and the wisdom in a tree's root: they all arise together.

Kristi Rogers, wife of Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers, handed out $10 gas gift cards at Detroit’s Freedom Fuel station on October 14.

Michigan law prohibits giving anything of value to induce someone to vote a particular way. Federal law also prohibits paying people to vote or register to vote. We hope Michigan election authorities investigate. Source: The Detroit News.

Scotland has them too. They are well-loved, except by the right-wing parties. www.parentclub.scot/baby-box

"I don’t recognize America anymore…Conspiracy narratives are the new dogma, reality is fake news, chaos reigns…The barbarism of politics is seeping into daily life…And above all this (and above the law) sits Donald Trump, emperor by his own grace, surrounded by sycophants, lackeys and oligarchs" 2/2

"After more than 30 years as a DER SPIEGEL correspondent in the US, I am leaving. The country that I thought I knew no longer exists. It was an illusion - and it is being replaced by the unknown," Mark Pitzke writes. derspiegel.substack.com/p/the-erosio... 1/2

I spoke your true name. It's not what I thought it would be. And I don't feel easy about it. As if I'd left something unfinished. But it is your name. If it betrays you, then that's the truth of it.

Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov confirms Elon Musk's Space X crippled Ukrainian capabilities last night. In other words, the US deliberately sabotaged European defence operations mid-mission. Every country in the world should move away from buying American hardware ASAP.

Because of Medicaid cuts my Medicare Advantage plan's premiums just went up by 256%, and that's with the only insurance company in my area offering the plan. #VoteBlue all the way down to dog catcher!

There's a guy in my replies who says he doens't read women because they write well about emotional conflicts and unrequited love and that's not what he wants. He reads sci fi he says. Can you imagine reading sci-fi and not reading Octavia Butler? Or Ursula K Le Guin? Or NK Jemisin?

WASHINGTON—Trump’s federal agents raid Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home over decades-old “immigration paperwork” her father filled out when she was a kid. No charges. Breaking DOJ norms. Over the cliff, folks.

Trump critic Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home searched by federal agents https://aje.news/ae4pzt

It’s that time of year for my 2010 joke.

We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

“How do I know,” she said at last, “that you are what you seem to be?” “You don't,” Said he. “I don't know what I seem, to you.”

Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial.

We all do harm by being.

So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick

We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society formed upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.

OH JESUS H CHRIST WE DID WHAT??!!! :: flames come out of my head ::

Trump Admin Gears Up for Post-Midterm Crackdown on Abortion Drug talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Breaking: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to South African Navi Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law.