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The Christian right will never turn down an opportunity to make false accusations of religious persecution.
These days, they’re especially eager to play the victim.
Doing so allows them to distract from the ugly reality that they,
in voting for Donald Trump, have helped to unleash in Minnesota:
A woman killed in front of her wife,
children ripped from their parents,
a baby nearly killedby Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents firing tear gas at a fam…

The pro-ICE church is worse than you think
Cities Church in St. Paul is the persecutor, not the persecuted

I never thought I’d see Waterworld on a list of «best of…» films. I mean, it’s a cheesy, fun movie — but good? Hm; maybe not. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/27/youre-gonna-need-a-bigger-b…

RE: https://pawb.fun/@itsOasus/115787031750775789
"Starting a company is really just about getting a credit card and frantically spending as much as possible until you're profitable. Don't worry about the debt. It's not going to be your problem."
This would be a useful metaphor if it wasn't just how these people think. Anyway, thanks for the free bugs. You'll never be able to pay enough consulting fees to keep from being hacked repeatedly forever.
This is how the system collapses. At some point it simply isn't possible to sustain the crushing weight of incompetence.

It’s funny how many people have no idea how to buy used stuff for non-inflated prices.
Here’s some tips to get you started (for eBay):
1. The first thing about eBay is that most things listed as “buy now” are overpriced—otherwise someone else would have bought it already. You have to always look at sold listings to see what things are actually worth.
2. Use saved searches specifically limited in price and distance.
3. Always sort by newly listed for “Buy Now” and ending soonest for auctions.
4. Look for older buy now listings and make offers. The older the listing the lower you offer. Some tools like flippah.net show you the listed date directly without having to dig deep on the eBay website. You can make offers even when the button isn’t there, just send a message.
5. Never buy anything from sellers with 0 feedback or less than a 98% or so rating.
A general thing to remember is that unless you buy new stuff or see a listing from a store (some categories have a lot of stores, e.g. cameras) you’re likely to deal directly with a private seller and a human being. Be polite and respectful but don’t be afraid to say no. Don’t make insulting offers.

"On July 23rd, 1984, the song was recorded at the Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse in Eden Prairie with the entire band. The song was played and recorded live. After 21 minutes the tape was full and the band were still playing."
It was never released before, with a reason, 21 minutes is a bit long 😆, still interesting for any Prince fan. And the song has an amazing groove...

America (12" Version) - 2025 Remaster
Prince · Around the World in a Day (Deluxe Edition) [2025 Remaster] · Song · 2025

The other day I had a funny conversation. A Finnish person was making excuses for my laziness at learning Finnish. Then she asked «is Italian hard to learn?». I never know how to answer the question so I said «I don't know: at least pronunciation is not too bad for Finns, they may sound funny but they're understandable; they mostly have trouble because they have no concept of separate p and b, and so on». She said «you mean strong p and soft p»? Not how I would have phrased it, but y…

Tornado survivors in St. Louis say recovery is a mess, due to FEMA changes : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/16/nx-s1-5608233/tornado-survivors-in-st-louis-say-recovery-is-a-mess-due-to-fema-changes

Cataloging our old CDs which I have never done before. Naturally I'm doing in in a spreadsheet with an API call to pull the data from the bar codes (lot of my old ones don't have them) and then building out an #11ty page with the covers - sortable by year, artist and genre. What fun!

Connecting to a modern server on an old AF computer is never not funny to me

After #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
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