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One of my favorite moments last year was a visit to DC, and I basically talked my partner's ear off about Grants poor hardscrabble background, his prosecution of the KKK, his willingness to sacrifice for what he thought was morally right, and even his fatal flaw loyal gullibility.

A girl excitedly explaining to an uninterested boy meme, with the words "Actually Grants drinking was overhyped lost cause propaganda"

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Happy Confederate Surrender day to all who celebrate. Please drink a cup of racist apologist tears and salute President Grant on this joyous day. Seriously tho Grant is fucking awesome. Favorite President hands down. He even gets what I think is the best position on the national mall.

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But Atlantic trade is nothing compared to what the port of LA is gonna get hit with... Asian countries have the worst tariff rates. Gonna be chaos.

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It happened during COVID too: long conga lines of container ships because there weren't enough stevedores to offload cargo. Same idea, except it's full warehouses of goods that importers can't pay customs fees for in a timely fashion, clogging up the ports.

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Dan Hetteix @danhetx.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Fun fact for my Bay Ridge folks! Take a walk along the water for the next few weeks. If the tariffs don't get removed by Republicans, you'll be able to see it on The Narrows. Container ships idling in the harbor as backlog builds in the Jersey ports as items can't clear customs on time.

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Groceries? Hey fellas, Groceries! Well la dee dah Mr French man. Why, what do you call it? A bag with different stuff in it.

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New York City Council @council.nyc.gov · 29/03/2025

Please enjoy each idea equally. vote.pbnyc.org

Photo of Ms. Casey from severance. Text reads “your outie votes in participatory budgeting”

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Cause this parent probably lived long enough to see their son's comics become movies. Long enough to realize that maybe, in 1942, they should have spent less time complaining about culture wars and more time fighting Nazis. Long enough to be forced to realize they sucked ass.

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So yeah. Fuck these fuckers. Make art. Be fucking cool. Create shit that'll last through the ages. Punch some Nazis in your underwear. Draw warlocks. Identify as a genderless robot. Do your thing. Break fascism any way you can, and do it loudly and in Technicolor.

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What pages did she rip out of her son's comic books as proof of this vile corruptive filth? This DEI horror? This anti-american trash? Captain America. And Vision punching an alligator. Both of which are objectively cool as fuck.

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She wrote a lot of letters. To the department of health. Because these horrible images will create rapists!! And god forbid black people and people of "low intelligence" find them, she screams into the void.

No wonder rape cases are on the increase! Can you imagine too the harm these suggestive pictures can do to all adolescent boys? They are equally bad for adults of low mentality such as white morons and most of our negro population. Stop the sale of these misnamed "comic books".

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Mike DeCillis for Congress (NY-11) @mikedecillis.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Every so often, as we fight in the trenches of this dumb culture war while also actually trying to save off fascism, I'm reminded of a letter I found in the municipal archives from 1942. An angry "a parent" complaining about evil comic books. Nightmare fuel. Hideous pictures.

What child wouldn't have difficulty going to sleep after looking at these hideous pictures? And what nightmare producers they are! Can't you help us stop this neurotic producing evil? Even if we do not buy them other kids do, and pass them on to ours. - A Parent

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🚨Staten Island: Fed up? SHOW UP! 👉 Join your friends and neighbors and DEMAND that Congresswoman Malliotakis explain her vote to make billions in cuts to Medicaid and SNAP so that the rich can get a 4 *trillion* dollar tax cut. Enough is enough.

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If they can't do a budget reconciliation, Democrats will block the cuts to Medicaid. So this is Nicole's only way of cutting it. It's possible the whole thing collapses, but Nicole has made her desire clear: she wants to cut Medicaid and probably a chunk of Medicare too. And she voted to do so.

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Why do they need to hit that number? Can't they cut less and not touch Medicaid? No. Because the bill is a hard requirement. If they cut less, the entire budget fails because Nicole is trying to pass the budget in a sneaky way that won't need debate (called Budget Reconciliation).

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And since the demanded cuts are so big, and the things the committee oversees are so few, Medicaid, mathematically, HAS to be cut. It's like a Jenga tower with only a few pulls left. One of them has gotta be Medicaid to hit the number Nicole is demanding.

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Nicole demanding people try to use Medicaid *now* as "proof" is dumb, because the cuts will come in a few months, not now. The law forces the committee to make cuts of a certain amount. But it's vaguely worded precisely so Nicole can claim she didn't cut Medicaid, the GOP committee did.

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Facts: no the law doesn't say Medicaid. Because it's a law that forces the committee that *oversees* Medicaid and Medicare to cut spending, so it doesn't need to name the programs. So if Medicaid doesn't see massive cut in a few months, it'd have to be huge cuts to Medicare instead.

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Dan Hetteix @danhetx.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

"I didn't cut Medicaid! I didn't cut Medicaid!" i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob

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Kinda wishing to be nestled in the back of a tiny Bay Ridge diner right about now. Literally any of them would be perfect. Cup of coffee and some bacon.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

“If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.” Damn. static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Malliotakis: We try to get to the bottom of where this money is going, $50 million for condoms in Gaza, for example. These are real things! Phillip: We know that there was not $50 million spent for condoms in Gaza. There was $0 spent on condoms in the Middle East. That is a complete lie

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Voters of Leopards Eating People's Faces Party frantically googling what Eating People's Faces actually means

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Dan Hetteix @danhetx.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

"I am less certain it's a negotiating tactic" says local businessman, confused why a panther just ate his face.

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Dan Hetteix @danhetx.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I'm all for closing Rikers and reforming the prison system in NYC, but can we keep a special memorial wing that's designed to be exactly the same as it is right now, just for Harvey Weinstein? Doesn't need to be open long. abcnews.go.com/US/harvey-we...

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Harvey Weinstein begs to get out of Rikers Island 'hell hole' in court

Harvey Weinstein begged to go on trial earlier than planned, saying he isn't sure he will survive long enough in the "hell hole" of New York's Rikers Island jail complex.

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Justin Brannan @justinbrannan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Trump is illegally holding back federal funds Congress already approved – money New Yorkers rely on for housing, education, childcare, and more. NYC gives more to DC than we get back, and now they’re making us pay the price for their chaos. We. Won’t. Back. Down.

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(Also my sincere apologies to my D&D players who will have a GM who preps even less than usual for the next 4 months)

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CB10 Pedestrian Safety Select Committee January 21, 2025

Check out my first outing here, and lemme know if you have any comments or ideas!! www.youtube.com/live/1D9GP1x...

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YouTube video by Brooklyn CB10

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All of that is to say: I'm the chair of Community Board 10's pedestrian safety committee and I really wanna do this thing RIGHT. It's gonna probably mean I put a bunch of stuff on the backburner for half a year. But it'll be worth it I hope.

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I think I just could never get around the idea that, in my brain, I'm driving around in the equivalent of a loaded gun. I know I'm wired differently, but I saw friends get killed by cars. I just couldn't normalize them in my brain.

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I never learned to drive. Not because I don't think I'd be good at it... I'm just terrified of hurting someone. That, and whenever i took a lesson, my brain simply failed to do that thing where your mind expands to make you "one" with the car. It was always a big, metal, "other". Never comfy.

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