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[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

Life is strange. One minute you're smiling and holding a weapon designed to tear human bodies apart, the next day you're laying on a slab in a temperature controlled room while half the world dances in celebration.

[Maximum atheist @Maximumatheist]

"Man created god because he couldn't accept That a woman created
Life."
-unknown

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

When it happens, please remember that those of us who published lengthy books about January 6 explicitly said that month—and every month after—that the Insurrection never ended and Trump would eventually move to end our democracy permanently.

We've been saying it for five years.

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: I said this a couple of weeks ago: I would not be surprised if, when ICE funding started up again, we would start to see more civilian deaths at the hands of ICE. And that’s exactly what has happened.

When you open the trenches with all of this money that Republicans have now funneled to ICE without any oversight, you’re going to see abuses of power. That’s exactly what’s happening.

Notice that we didn’t see things like this happening with the same degree of regularity when we froze ICE funding. And now that it’s been opened up again, we’re seeing multiple incidents.

[LynnZ @ZemanLynnZ]

never forget

[FireFighterDev @fire_starter457]

The most conservative study (Heritage Foundation) found that only 99 illegal immigrants are SUSPECTED of voting in the last 26 years.

That's it. We don't need the SAVE act.

[Elizabeth @alluringmedia]

January 6th is when Lindsey went on the floor and said he was done with Trump. Then Kevin McCarthy, then Mitch McConnell (all in this clip).

They could have walked away and followed through with the impeachment.

Don't ever forget that it's been the Republicans in Congress who have enabled this for the last 10 years.

[Staff Sergeant Gonell, Aquilino @SergeantAqGo]

As with many elected officials I protected for nearly two decades as a police officer, my interactions with him were limited, I do remember when he and I were alone in a elevator and he pretended he didn’t know who I was after my congregational testimony. I will never forget his betrayal to me and my colleagues.

[Bobby Fakename, Esq. @BobFakeNameEsq]

Appointing Lindsey Graham’s sister — who by any metric is woefully unqualified— is genuinely fucking insane. Being a senator is not a lordship. He wasn’t the goddamn Lord of Riverrun. Why can’t Republicans be serious about anything?

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Nicole Wallace ☠️☠️☠️

"Riddle me this: when Obama ran intelligence, the election was secure and Donald Trump won in 2016.

When Biden ran the government and the intelligence, the election was secure and Trump ran in 2024.

But when Donald Trump and all of his boobs were running US national security, it got all effed up. Is that the theory?"

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

The correct term for ICE killing 11 innocent people in the first 7 months of this year is serial killers.

[Sarah Ironside 💙 @SarahIronside6]

I am afraid that the United States is getting numb to the fact that we have a federal police force that is extrajudicially executing people in the streets with zero due process or accountability. This must stop!

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos. Think of the Sun’s heat on your upturned face on a cloudless summer’s day; think how dangerous it is to gaze at the Sun directly. From 150 million kilometers away, we recognize its power. What would we feel on its seething self-luminous surface, or immersed in its heart of nuclear fire? The Sun warms us and feeds us and permits us to see. It fecundated the Earth. It is powerful beyond human experience. Birds greet the sunrise with an audible ecstasy. Even some one-celled organisms know to swim to the light.

Our ancestors worshiped the Sun, and they were far from foolish. And yet the Sun is an ordinary, even a mediocre star. If we must worship a power greater than ourselves, does it not make sense to revere the Sun and stars? Hidden within every astronomical investigation, sometimes so deeply buried that the researcher himself is unaware of its presence, lies a kernel of awe.”

— Carl Sagan, Cosmos

[Billifer 🇨🇦 @billifer1973]

Reminder that less than six months ago, the world was horrified when an additional 3 million pages, 180,000 images, and 2,000 videos were released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, revealing allegations of ritualistic torture and even cannibalism of babies.

Reminder that many of the files have not been released, and that those that have remain heavily redacted.

Reminder that the President of the United States is mentioned in the files more than 38,000 times.

Yet somehow, this has vanished from the news cycle.

We can’t let this get buried. We need to keep demanding answers.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“There's some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.”

— Samwise Gamgee

[LynnZ @ZemanLynnZ]

just sayin’

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“We are liquidating the Earth’s natural capital. We are tearing down the biological library before we have even read the books. No amount of economic growth can compensate for the loss of a self-sustaining biosphere.”

— E.O. Wilson

[Saganism @Saganismm]

This planet is run by crazy people. ... Think what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so... brief. A few years. In the best of them, a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.

— Carl Sagan, Contact

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Trump's DOJ had a court order to release the remaining Epstein files and simply refused. That should be a much bigger story right now.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.”

— Richard Dawkins