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“Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.” -Eisenhower

GenX in the western part of occupied L.A. https://www.laweekly.com/the-year-i-ate-pico-boulevard/

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  1. Jeffries is painfully feeble and compromised/programmatic about this. JFC.

    Good for Tim Miller to just Get At It already, appropriately f'ing direct. And yet Jeffries still wiggles around -- nothing like what an effective leader would do ... and he's our damn Minority Leader (sigh).

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  2. They gather data on climate change.

    This malignant moron is trying to erase the reality of climate by f’ing shooting at it.

    www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/c...

    NASA is planning to decommission premier satellite missions that gather information on planet-warming pollution and other climate vital signs beginning as soon as October, sources inside and outside o...

    The perfectly fine, already-paid-for satellites Trump wants to destroy in a fiery atmospheric reentry | CNN

    NASA is planning to decommission premier satellite missions that gather information on planet-warming pollution and other climate vital signs beginning as soon as October, sources inside and outside o...

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  3. This is pathetic.

    I was pleased when you became Leader and have rallied behind your leadership.

    Tho’ increasingly your appearances are unconvincingly stiff and you can see the talking points wires & gears moving.

    I’m not in NYC but this is lame BS.

    bsky.app/profile/kenk...

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  4. If you'd like to let UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk what you think of these demands, his email is chancellor@ucla.edu and his office's phone number is (310) 825-2151. chancellor.ucla.edu/about/chance...

    Chancellor A fourth-generation physician whose paternal grandparents fled Germany in the early 1930s to build a new life in Mexico, Julio Frenk catalyzed his deep gratitude for the kindness of strange...

    Julio Frenk - UCLA Office of the Chancellor

    Chancellor A fourth-generation physician whose paternal grandparents fled Germany in the early 1930s to build a new life in Mexico, Julio Frenk catalyzed his deep gratitude for the kindness of strange...

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  5. It's almost a silly exercise to break out separate issues to see if Trump followers change opinions on them.

    Just ask them how much they're following Trump, and map the issues accordingly to allot their support to WHATEVER Trump said that week.

    It's easy to track public opinion within a cult.

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  6. Had similar years, and they are by now well in the past. You can’t be crushed or stopped, not really. Yeah they can slow you, bloody you, and you sit in that bloodied slump, but you can’t be stopped.

    It’s Life, the wheel turns, new flowers push through from somewhere, the sun also rises.

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  7. How did I not know this? 1994 movie “Backbeat” soundtrack had Dave Grohl (then Nirvana), Mike Mills (REM), Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Dave Pirner (Soul Asylum) + others, absolutely killing early Beatles songs.

    magnetmagazine.com/2024/06/04/t...

    30 years ago today, the Backbeat Band—Dave Grohl (Nirvana), Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Greg Dulli (Afghan Whigs), Mike Mills (R.E.M.), Dave Pirner (Soul Asylum) and Don Fleming (Gumball)—played the...

    The Backbeat Band—Dave Grohl, Thurston Moore, Greg Dulli, Mike Mills, Dave Pirner and Don Fleming—Played The MTV Movie Awards 30 Years Ago Today - Magnet Magazine

    30 years ago today, the Backbeat Band—Dave Grohl (Nirvana), Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Greg Dulli (Afghan Whigs), Mike Mills (R.E.M.), Dave Pirner (Soul Asylum) and Don Fleming (Gumball)—played the...

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