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Tim Chapman posts on X - I loved my time at Heritage Action and was proud to be the co-founder of what was such an important part of the conservative movement, so I say this with respect and sadness:

There is nothing conservative about backing threats to a state's federal funding because it declines to push a President's own political agenda - that is unconcstitutional and coercive to states.

Wjat would conservatives say if a Democrat threatened states federal funding to redraw congressional maps?

Sly Cooper - the thieving raccoon from the PS2 series that sadly didn't gain traction

a simple lline drawing of Amelia Earhart with thought balloon saying "Release the Epstein Files!!!!"

Video game character height chart showing Master Chief from Halo at 7'2" and Lady Dimitrescu from Resident Evil Village at 9'6"

For comparison the Halo 3 Rat is included and listed as "Smol"

Text: "People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as parasites fail to understand economics and parasitisim. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by its host. One that can make its host work for it without appearing as a burden, such as the ruling class in a capitalist society."

an image of a map of the body of water bordered by the Yucatan peninsula, eastern Mexico and the southern portion of the United States of America including Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida. It is properly labeled as the Gulf of Mexico.

Image of President Dwight D. Eisenhower - text reads: When asked if the United States should have a military parade to show off its might, this was then President Eisenhower's response - "Absolutely not. We are the pre-eminent power on earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak."

Cafe cat chilling in a cat bed under a stuffed koi plushie

Columbia, RiffRaff and Margenta from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, dancing

Apology from Rockstar games indicating that Grand Theft Auto VI has been delayed to May 26, 2026

10 lesson for strong [political] movements

Picture of otter holding sign -
1 - "Imperfect Alllies aren't Enemies"

{I'm guessing these are things you otter know}

2 - critique to build, not tear down
3 - Organize, don't just argue
4 - Movements win, not individuals
5 - Perfection is the enemy of progress
6 - Ego kills movements
7 - Plan for the long game
8 - Meet people where they are
9 - Power does not care about feelings
10 - Division is a weapon used by Elites, don't play along

Daughter of MLK and Coretta Scott King posted this advise as the next 6 months are going to "get Real."

1. Don't use his name; EVER (47 will do)
2. Remember this is a regime and he is not acting alone
3. Don't argue with those who support him - it doesn't work
4. Focus on his POLICIES, not his orangeness or mental state
5. Keep your message positive; they want the country to be angry and fearful because that is the soil from which their darkest policies grow;
6. No more helpless/hopeless talk;
7. Support artists and the arts;
8. Be careful not to spread fake news. Check it;
9 Take care of yourself; And
10, Resist!
When you post or talk about him, don't assign his actions to him. Assign them to "The Republican Administration," or "The Republicans". This will have sevearl effects: the Republican legislators will either have to take responsibility for their association with him or stand up for what some of them don't like; he will not get the focus and attention he craves.

$Image shows that the formula put forward to determine the tariffs is trade deficit divided by imports. They added two extraneous terms in the denominator of the fraction that simplify down to 1$

Frank Wilhoit - " Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-group whom the law binds but does not protect."

Quote from Naomi Shulman -

"Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than "politics." They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren't nice people? Reisters.

nyc skyline in 1970's nearly invisible behind the haze of smog

photo of Mike Oldfields album cover - tubular bells, which to my limited knowledge, did not possess WMDs

Picture of Toad, from Frog and Toad, with all of his buttons on the table in front of him. But given the random shapes they could just as well be a set of polyhedral dice

Clueless gamer writes about the perceived flaws in StarWars outlaws and makes suggestions on what they would have done to fix it. None of the solutions have any basis in the reality of the day to day experience in the game industry

Photo of Marco Rubio looking supremely uncomfortable during the Oval Office meeting Between Zelensky and the Russian assets in the white house

Darke meme format - Geordi LaForge from Star Trek The Next Generation raising a hand saying "hold up" to the idea that Doge was naked for the Shiba Inu meme. Pointing directly, an image of the Doge of Venice, the oligarchs elected by fellow oligarchs that wielded extreme power in Venice for over 1000 years - THIS is what we are up against.

Exceprt from NYT article
"At the cabinet meeting, Mr. Musk insisted his actions were all designed to keep the country from going bankrupt by slashing 15 percent of the government's overall spending. He said he received permission from Mr. Trump a week ago to threaten to fire any employee that did not respond about their workweek."

Photo of actor Natan Fillion, who portrayed writer Richard Castle on the tv series Castle

Julie Haggerty as Elaine Dickinson, the stewardess from the movie Airplane!, speaking into the intercom after Captain Over and Co-pilot Roger Murdock have been incapacitated by food poisoning and asking if there is anyone on-board who can fly a plane

The 1980 electoral map of the United states showing the massive electoral college victory Reagan secured over Jimmy Carter in that election.

The popular vote was 43 million to 35 million [though oddly still only over 50.7% of votes cast overall

Text of quote from NYTimes April 9 ,1944

The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how to best present the truth to the public, but how to best use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free-enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all of their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

Henry A. Wallace

Screen grab taken on Jan 26, 2025 of the US department of education website press release calling the complaints about book bans a "hoax from the Biden administration" rather than than an accurate response to the attempt of a conservative minority to control what materials can be placed in public schools

A photo of a five and a quarter inch floppy disk with a specialized punch that would cut a rectangular notch out of the casing to allow the disk to be inserted upside down in the drive so that data could be written on the obverse side

An old rotary dial phone and handset from before Bell Telephone was broken up. The handset is off of the hook and placed into an acoustic coupler, a device that would capture the analog sounds used to encode the data so that it could be translated back to digital data.

Thew transfer was slow enough that you could watch the terminal write each new character to the terminal.

street art of Green skinned, spiral-eyed zombie like humanoid face painted on a light purple wall.