During the first airing of my Star Trek series where a kiss was objectionable; many southern stations pulled the episode & condemned the show. Using today’s vernacular it would absolutely be called“woke DEI crap”because it went against “norms” of society for its time. Not a lot seems to have changed.🤷🏼😑
Socrates in 460 BC: “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Marcus Aurelius in 150 CE: “You have power over your mind—not outside events.”
Augustine of Hippo in 400 CE: “Do not go outside; return into yourself. In the inward man dwells the truth.”
Marc Andreessen in 2026:
A DOGE bro just admitted he thinks veterans’ issues are “DEI.” 🤦♂️🇺🇸
He terminated grants that helped veterans because he supposedly “read books” about how bad they are… then couldn’t name a single book. 📚❌
As a veteran, I honestly don’t know how anyone who served could vote for Trump — never mind half.
Veterans deserve respect and support, not culture-war nonsense.
#Veterans #VA #SupportVeterans #Accountability
Neguse: Where is this company headquartered?
Noem: I don’t know.
Neguse: I don’t know either. We can’t find it. We did find an address that’s registered to a political operative. This company that received 143 million dollars was incorporated 8 days before this contract went out.
You want the American people to believe that this is all above board, that $143 million of taxpayer money just happened to go to this one company that doesn't have a headquarters, doesn't have a website, has never done work for the federal government before and is registered apparently or attached to a residence from a political operative, and of course one of the subcontractors of that contract, as you know, is a political firm that's tied to, to you back when you were governor of South Dakota?
I have never claimed to be a theologian but I do have two degrees in theology and have been a priest for 17 years.
NOWHERE in the bible or in any serious theology I have ever read are Christians told that we should start wars to hasten the return of Jesus.
This is a perversion of our faith.
.@JamesTalarico’s message to Gen Z: “You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.
Your boss cares about politics. Your landlord cares about politics. Your insurance company cares about politics.
And until you care about politics, they're gonna keep using the political system to screw you over.”
No, it literally used to mean 9-5. Companies decided to start making lunches unpaid and quietly switched it to an 8-5 while still calling it a 9-5. Which enrages me
This is the most important thing happening in the world right now.
The administration wants killer drones + mass surveillance of Americans.
Anthropic refuses to build it. While most tech companies fall in line, they are prepared to pay the price for their principles.
Gov. Spanberger: "In his farewell address, George Washington warned us about the possibility of 'cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men' rising to power. But he also encouraged us, all Americans, to unite in a common cause to move this nation forward. That is our charge once more, and that is what we are seeing across the country. It is deeply American and patriotic to do so, and it is how we ensure that the state of our union remains strong, not just this year, but for the next 250 years as well. Because we, the people, have the power to make change, the power to stand up for what is right, the power to demand more of our nation."
The DOGE/Project 2025 cuts forced 300,000 federal workers out of their jobs, created chaos for struggling families and jeopardized the services we rely on. There's no evidence whatsoever that all these workers are now cashing in. DOGE has been devastating for America's workers.
Just a reminder, Anthropic's top rules against military usage are only:
- Claude cannot be used to spy on citizens
- Claude cannot be used to automate kill decisions
So Hegseth thinks these rules are unacceptable...
Just so I understand this. Anthropic's leadership is saying, hey, we have this amazing product we are comfortable with you using provided you don't use it for mass surveillance of Americans or to have weapons fire without humans involved. And the Pentagon is saying, no?
Ok I need to address this:
Local organizers with labor orgs, abolitionist orgs and city elected officials in Kansas City have been organizing strategic campaigns against this facility for over a month!
This happened AFTER Platform Ventures, the capital firm that owns the warehouse, announced in a pissed off pouty statement that they weren't selling the warehouse to DHS. They cited "threats to their families" among other things meant to garner sympathy and slander the grassroots organizing that thwarted their plans. This person cares enough to catch an arson charge, but not enough to know the basic updates on this monumental development hours after the fact?
From everything I can tell, local news filmed this! KMBC was on the scene reporting on the aforementioned announcement and this person walked up in broad daylight in flip flops in February and did this on camera. You can tell from the camera movement this is a big camera all the way zoomed in on a tripod.
Stop giving this lady credit for cancelling the sale! Individual action will not save us, and it didn't here. Coordinated, collective, strategic action is what stopped this deal. Dumbass shit like this has incredibly high potential to blow back on the organizers who actually stopped this, and honestly I wouldn't put it past DHS or this capital firm to do this themselves to shape their narrative.
Body cam footage, released after months of court battles, shows Border Patrol agents in Chicago steering into American teacher Marimar Martinez before shooting her five times, contradicting DHS claims she “ambushed” them.