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USS_Dauntless

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December 28, 2025

A One Percent Wealth Tax

The greatest tragedy in the history of the world.

Billionaires including Peter Thiel, the tech venture capitalist, and Larry Page, a co-founder of Google, are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents, according to five people familiar with their thinking.

https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/oligarchs-may-flee-ca-over-proposed-1-wealth-tax/

Boo hoo hoo hoo!

December 12, 2025

How Many Members Does Antifa Have? Where Is Its Headquarters? The FBI Has No Answers.

https://theintercept.com/2025/12/11/fbi-antifa-terrorist-location/

A top FBI official toed the White House line about antifa as a major domestic terror threat at a House hearing on Thursday — but he struggled to answer questions about the leaderless movement.

Pressed repeatedly by a top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee about antifa’s size and location, the operations director of the FBI’s national security division didn’t have answers.

https://theintercept.com/2025/12/11/fbi-antifa-terrorist-location/

America is a fucking Kakistocracy of the highest order.
December 11, 2025

Trump says Democrats want to turn "every member of your family" transgender

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/says-democrats-want-to-turn-every-member-of-your-family-transgender/

The president of the United States claimed that Democrats want to turn everyone transgender “if they’re not feeling well,” while he ranted at a recent speech that was ostensibly about the economy.

“I think ‘transgender for all’ is a great, great thing for the Democrats to be talking about,” he said during a speech at the Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, casino yesterday. The speech was billed as a chance for Trump to “reclaim the economic narrative,” according to The Guardian.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/says-democrats-want-to-turn-every-member-of-your-family-transgender/

Gods, I hate this man so fucking much. I hate him. I hate him. I hate him. I hate him.

For fuck's sake, LEAVE LGBTQ PEOPLE THE FUCK ALONE!

August 30, 2025

RFK Jr., without evidence, targets psychiatric meds in wake of Minneapolis mass shooting

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Thursday that he’s looking into psychiatric medication as a potential cause for American gun violence and mass shootings. The comments were a repetition of an unfounded assertion that Kennedy has made before, this time in the wake of a Minneapolis mass shooting that killed two children.

Kennedy’s comments came at the end of a Thursday press conference in Austin, where the health secretary sat alongside Gov. Greg Abbott to talk about rural health care. A reporter asked Kennedy if he considers gun violence to be a public health crisis.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/rfk-jr-without-evidence-targets-psychiatric-meds-in-wake-of-minneapolis-mass-shooting/

August 28, 2025

Portland, OR Mayor Keith Wilson Is Sending Unhoused People Back to Their Families

https://www.wweek.com/news/2025/08/27/mayor-keith-wilson-is-sending-unhoused-people-back-to-their-families/

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson won the 2024 election running on one promise: ending unsheltered homelessness by 2026. His unabashed determination to reach what longtime politicos said was an unattainable goal resonated in a city that has seen the number of people sleeping on the streets rise steeply over the past decade.

Since he took office, most of the spotlight has been on the piece of Wilson’s plan that’s most public-facing: opening nighttime shelters across the city in churches, vacant storefronts, and old office buildings. He’s opened four city-run shelters so far and is close to opening another two—while receiving the customary backlash from those living close by.

But another tentpole of the mayor’s plan to end unsheltered homelessness has received less attention. Perhaps that’s because it doesn’t require obtaining physical spaces in neighborhoods tired of tents.


https://www.wweek.com/news/2025/08/27/mayor-keith-wilson-is-sending-unhoused-people-back-to-their-families/
August 20, 2025

Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters

Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters

Exclusive: Olajuwon Ayeni racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile as far right weaponises clip of family in park
Robyn Vinter and Ang Walton
Wed 20 Aug 2025 00.00 EDT

A family say their lives have been ruined after a video of a black man and his brother playing in the park with his white granddaughters was shared by Tommy Robinson and weaponised by the far right.

Olajuwon Ayeni, a musician from Redcar, North Yorkshire, has been racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile in the week since the family video was stolen from the TikTok account of his wife, Natalie, whom he married five years ago, and shared by extremists online.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/20/family-in-fear-after-tommy-robinson-shares-video-of-black-man-with-white-granddaughters?

August 19, 2025

My two wishes for this website:

1. It never gets sold.

2. It never does an IPO.

I've been lurking here since around 2009-ish. I have watched so many websites go to absolute shit when some bigger company buys them or they do an IPO like Reddit.

August 19, 2025

Would you ever forgive anyone that voted for Trump? Under any circumstances?

I sure as hell wouldn't.

In my book, all Trump supporters deserve is laughter, mockery and scorn. Oh, sure. A lot of them might regret their vote, like this couple.

https://www.theroot.com/trump-voting-couple-gets-stopped-by-border-patrol-now-2000056380

But regret is not the same as remorse. They only "regret" it because it affects them. They could not care less if the Orange Thing's policies hurt, disenfranchise, marginalize or kill someone else. MAGA is simply pathological selfishness in the form of a political ideology.

Empathy is a sin in the disgusting world that is MAGA.

Trump is a rapist and pedophile.

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