J.J. sez ABOLISH ICE & NO WAR!

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Peace now, peace tomorrow, peace forever: ABOLISH ICE, NO WAR!!!

Clark Duke playing "Clark" on the US version of The Office
Floating, glowing green Malibu from the film Repo Man
A silhouette of a man-sized rabbit next to actor Jimmy Stewart, who is wearing a suit and hat, in a still promoting the film Harvey
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Album cover of The La's by the band The La's, which features a black and white close-up photo of woman's eye and eyelash, with the words "The La's" in black letters in the top left corner
A black and white photo of a young Sam Waterston wearing a straw boater hat
Bob's Big Boy, holding aloft a burger on a plate in checkered overalls
Hal Holbrook, standing inside a dark parking garage, in the film All the President's Men, half of his face covered in shadow, with a lit cigarette in his mouth
Dean Martin, 1958, wearing a shirt and tie, with a lit cigarette in his mouth
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William H. Macy as The Cooler
Bro in a Turnstile shirt, standing behind the NASA administrator on the deck of a Navy ship
Two Bluesky posts, the top saying Stocks session lows S&P -1.1%, the bottom showing Trump doing his cringe dance on the White House balcony
A view from my couch as I watch AEW Collision covered up in a blanket
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Sean Penn playing Colonel Lockjaw in the film One Battle After Another, sitting in a chair staring at the ceiling
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Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe in The Long Goodbye (1973), walking on a beach in a dark suit
Album cover for I Am The Cosmos by Chris Bell, featuring a picture of Chris Bell standing in front of a mountain range, looking pensively to the right
Tuesday night, in an off-year election, a majority — yes, a goddamn majority — of eligible American voters agreed with me. These people spent eight months living in a woke-free America and collectively decided, “We don’t want this.” What we DO want is to be left the f—k alone. Contrary to what Ted Cruz might tell you, that’s what woke does. Woke lets you drive around town without the threat of a cop pulling you over to gun you down. Woke lets you be gender fluid without an emergency PTA meeting springing up outside your door. Woke lets you go to college without entering into a modern sharecropping agreement. It lets children read, lets every citizen be able to vote without a fuss, leaves the original recipe for Tylenol intact, and endeavors to keep our air and water clean. Woke, in other words, is good.
A picture of a long line of people outside a food pantry in Pekin, Illinois on October 23, 2025, from a Facebook post, with the accompanying text: "This was the line today for the food pantry. We had 100 households come through today. Nearly half of those were first time visitors. We were hit really hard today. The need is very real. If there are any schools or businesses that are gearing up to do a food drive, now would be a good time. We are reaching out to the community and asking if you would be able to help out with any non-perishable food items. I don't know if this is the new norm but we have a great need. Thank you so much Team HOPE!"
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A close up of a fictional opera program from the film Citizen Kane, which reads: Chicago Municipal Opera House Presents Susan Alexander In SALAMMBO GALA OPENING
Aimee Mann sitting at a diner table next to a man with long hair in the film The Big Lebowski
Bizarro from the Super Friends cartoon with a blank speech bubble at the bottom of the image
Sickos meme from the Onion
Screenshot of a Bluesky post from @doomforpresident.bsky.social responding "Most likely because drunk ass wants to rant about "warrior ethos" or some shit" from September 25th, 2025
A meme showing two images of Eric Andre pretending to shoot Hannibal Burris; the top image shows the word "liberalism" superimposed over Burris, and the words "liberal people" superimposed over Andre; in the lower image, Andre faces the camera, and is superimposed by the words "can liberalism be saved?"
Adam Amin, former Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright, and former White Sox catcher AJ Pierzynski, broadcasting a Reds/Cubs game on Fox
But for all of Miller's furious Cobra Commander rhetoric, for all the metastatic gilding and trophy clutter in Trump's Oval Office, for all the strident and signifying fascism down on the streets, the reality of all this is plain and shabby. It is not any kind of full-spectrum authoritarian command, or even the grubby paranoid snitchscape of oppressive surveillance states, but the more familiar sputtering busybody bullshit and hair-trigger offense of a deranged Homeowners Association. Not some grand tyranny directed from above, but a sweaty congeries of little tyrants patrolling the little fiefdoms they've arrogated for themselves, working less to knit their awful stupid grievances together than merely against their neighbors everywhere and anywhere possible. Vance, true to form, was just amplifying the one thing that Trumpism has ever offered—not real opportunity or purpose, not inclusion or community, not even personal advancement, but merely the chance to hurt other people and get away with it.
What are we to make of a man who called for the execution of the American president, and then was executed himself? What are we to make of an NFL that, on one hand, encourages us to “End Racism,” and, on the other, urges us to commemorate an unreconstructed white supremacist? And what of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself.
AI Overview The Cato Institute is a prominent libertarian think tank that advocates for limited government, individual liberty, free markets, and peace. Although often seen as right-leaning, its libertarian principles lead to positions that sometimes align with conservatives and other times with those on the left. The organization asserts its independence and nonpartisanship, though it has faced criticism for ties to its original funders, the Koch brothers, and for accepting corporate donations.
As department heads, including the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, and the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, waited to be dismissed so they could go and do their jobs, Trump continued: Here we put out – you know these, these lamps have been very important actually, whether people love them or not but they’re if you see pictures like Pearl Harbor or Tora! Tora! Tora!, you see movies about the White House where wars are being discussed, oftentimes they’ll show those lamps or something like those lamps, something that looks like them. Probably not the reals, because I don’t think they’re allowed to – this is a very important room, this is a sacred room, and I don’t think they made movies from here. You never know what they do. But they were missing, er, medallions. See the medallions on top? They had a chain going into the ceiling. And I said: ‘You can’t do that. You have to have a medallion.’ They said, ‘What’s a medallion?’ I said: ‘I’ll show you.’ And then we got some beautiful medallions, and you see them, they were put up there, makes the lamps look [inaudible] so we did these changes. And when you think of it, the cost was almost nothing. We also painted the room a nice color, beige color, and it’s been really something. The only question is, will I gold-leaf the corners? You could maybe tell me. My cabinet could take a vote. You see the top-line moldings, and the only question is do you go and leaf it? Because you can’t paint it, if you paint it it won’t look good because they’ve never found a paint that looks like gold. You see that in the Oval Office. Er, they’ve tried for years and years. Somebody could become very wealthy, but they’ve never found a paint that looks like gold. So painting is easy but it won’t look right.”
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Mother Jones Pivar was also present for a number of Epstein's science summits. Epstein himself was no scientist, said Pivar, the author of Lifecode: The Theory of Biological Self-Organization and an advocate of non-Darwinian models of evolution. (This was borne out in a recent New York Times story that described Epstein's interest in cryonics and eugenics and his wish to "seed the human race with his DNA by impregnating women" at his New Mexico ranch.) Epstein was a dilettante, and easily distracted. But he pulled so many prominent thinkers into his social circle, using the promise of his money to create "some kind of a mini university of thought," that in Pivar's view he did "amazing, incredible, amazing, remarkable things for science." There were lavish dinner parties with the likes of Steven Pinker and Stephen Jay Gould during which Epstein would ask provocatively elementary questions like "What is gravity?" If the conversation drifted beyond his interests, Epstein was known to interrupt, "What does that got to do with pussy?!"
A couple stands in front of a Reservoir Dogs poster picturing Michael Madsen as Mr. Blonde
The cover of the Gary Wright album "The Dream Weaver"
The Supersonic Storybook album cover, by Urge Overkill, featuring Nash Kato, Eddie "King" Roeser, and Blackie Onassis
Christopher Walken in the movie Communion, sitting in a sauna with a magazine in one hand, next to the heads of two aliens from the film
Venn Diagram with a yellow circle on the left with the words "Chicago scholars", a blue circle on the right reading "Three Non Blondes", and a green overlap in between reading "knows what's up"
Goldie Hawn in the film Private Benjamin
Drake's Hotline Bling meme format, with Drake holding his hand up at the words "Let him rot in prison", and pointing a finger and smiling at the words "Make him a martyr"
Gary Wright, The Dream Weaver album cover
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