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      <link>https://tavexocor.shop/2026/05/21/yt-tibcjzzbmk-the-legaleagle-is.html</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 17:48:41 -0700</pubDate>
      
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The #LegalEagle is clearly upset. We should all be this enraged at this blatant corruption and outright theft of tax payer monies to, er&amp;hellip; do whateverthefuck they want, to pay whomever they please, and could even be used to fund a coup. #uspol #TFG #8647

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      <link>https://tavexocor.shop/2026/05/15/how-tommy-robinson-disguises-white.html</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 19:41:11 -0700</pubDate>
      
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://bylinetimes.com/2026/05/15/how-tommy-robinson-disguises-white-supremacism-in-the-coded-language-of-anti-islam-politics/&#34;&gt;How Tommy Robinson Disguises White Supremacism In the Coded Language of Anti-Islam Politics&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is a disturbing and revealing dive into the methodology of a white supremacist. It might be the UK, but forms of this are applied here in the US as well. It&amp;rsquo;s a sickness. #racism&lt;/p&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Say hello to your new (actually very old but newly emboldened) American Oligarchy™, now with 5,000% more #Crapitalism!! #capitalism #ai #nodatacenters #youHaveNoRights #youOwnNothing &lt;a href=&#34;https://youtu.be/Xou8-yr42Vs&#34;&gt;youtu.be/Xou8-yr42&amp;hellip;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Say Hello to The Future: Artificial Intelligence™&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From the makers of Theranos, 3D TV, Juicero, Self-Driving Cars, NFTs, Crypto, Boeing, The .COM Bubble, The Housing Bubble, Windows 11, 2008, Xitter, and countless more &amp;ldquo;beloved&amp;rdquo; technological advancements. #crapitalism #technology #TaxTheRich&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src=&#34;https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/151098/2026/paste-a66923c0.png&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;488&#34; alt=&#34;A protest sign spells CRAPITALISM in dripping letters, accompanied by a small drawing of excrement and the words THANX STEVE. From Occupy Toronto, 2011.&#34;&gt;
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      <link>https://tavexocor.shop/2026/04/11/sex-toys-thrown-at-detention.html</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:17:52 -0700</pubDate>
      
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-11/anti-ice-sex-toy-protest-outside-la-detention-center-leads-to-arrests&#34;&gt;Sex toys thrown at detention facility in L.A. anti-ICE protest; police declare unlawful assembly&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;They were shipped in from Minnesota. Can&amp;rsquo;t imagine why. Sex toy industrial complex center of the world? WTF knows. If you can, please explain? #activism #FUCKICE #FUCKTRUMP #FUCKFASCISM #LosAngeles&lt;/p&gt;
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      <link>https://tavexocor.shop/2026/04/03/here-have-some-bettemidler-and.html</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:09:14 -0700</pubDate>
      
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Here. Have some #BetteMidler and let&amp;rsquo;s sing this at the #NoKings rallies. Catchy tune! #activism #uspol #midterms #progressivewave &lt;a href=&#34;https://youtu.be/U5VXwncNvTo&#34;&gt;youtu.be/U5VXwncNv&amp;hellip;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:09:44 -0700</pubDate>
      
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Well, this is distressing. No, it&amp;rsquo;s not law yet, but with the corruption running rampant in #USPol and #SCOTUS&amp;rsquo;s willingness to bend legal definitions beyond the breaking point, I don&amp;rsquo;t doubt this is on it&amp;rsquo;s way. Get yourself an #opensource capable router for your home ASAP. #technology #opsec &lt;a href=&#34;https://youtu.be/04oL0qVSWJE&#34;&gt;youtu.be/04oL0qVSW&amp;hellip;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <link>https://tavexocor.shop/2026/03/15/the-strain-of-antiintellectualism-in.html</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:26:47 -0700</pubDate>
      
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The strain of anti-intellectualism [in America] has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that &amp;ldquo;my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;Isaac Asimov (1980) #uspol #TFG&lt;/li&gt;
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      <title>Stop buying new technology &amp; slow down Crapitalism</title>
      <link>https://tavexocor.shop/2026/03/15/stop-buying-new-technology-slow.html</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:58:14 -0700</pubDate>
      
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&lt;p&gt;Sick of Copilot, Grok AI, or the upcoming Googleization of Siri? Disgusted with the insane prices for RAM and storage? Tired of watching prices rise for video games, the proliferation of subscriptions for everything, and crapitalists monetizing everything and buying stuff just to kill it off? Well, you can&amp;rsquo;t affect change on your own, but we, as in &amp;ldquo;We the people&amp;hellip;&amp;rdquo;, can make a real dent in their appetite with one simple modification to our behavior:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t buy any new technology for one year. &lt;!-- more --&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That&amp;rsquo;s right. It&amp;rsquo;s that simple. If you were going to get a new desktop or laptop or tablet, put it off for a year. If you can&amp;rsquo;t wait an entire year, buy used or refurbished. Now I&amp;rsquo;m not suggesting you go full-on old school nor am I suggesting that professionals handicap their production pipelines, but little has changed significantly over the past decade when it comes to the technology that average people use every day.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m a writer, so I don&amp;rsquo;t push my systems very hard. My primary system is an Apple M1 Mac Mini. I have a 2019 Intel Mac Mini I use for &lt;a href=&#34;https://plex.tv&#34;&gt;Plex&lt;/a&gt; and a &lt;a href=&#34;https://yacreader.com&#34;&gt;YACReader&lt;/a&gt; server. I have a launch version Steamdeck I use with a dock for gaming. I have a 7th gen iPad I use for reading comics and books. I have an 8th gen Dell 7200 2in1 running Fedora KDE for those rare times I need to compute on the go. Aside from the Steamdeck, all of my systems are more than five years old, and still work great.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I had intended to upgrade a few of them, though, at least until recently. I&amp;rsquo;ve been eyeing the M4 Mini for some time, but have put off that upgrade because my M1 is still excellent. I was also excited for the Steam Machine, but there&amp;rsquo;s a strong chance that RAM and storage prices will make it more expensive than I was willing to spend, but more on that in a bit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If what you have now still works, take a year off before you consider replacing it with something brand new. Even a half million people making that decision will speedily impact the sales of major vendors and, more likely than not, anger their shareholders. The more of us who pile on however, the stronger the effect. Though I haven&amp;rsquo;t heard this phrase used much in recent years, &amp;ldquo;Put your money where your mouth is&amp;rdquo;, it is apropos. In a nutshell, this means you are making your feelings known by how you do or, in response to this AI-fueled RAMpocalypse, do not spend your money.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As something of a post-script, two things have happened recently that illustrate how disillusioned consumers are about the changes in the computer marketplace of 2026. First, after annoucing new hardware late last year, Valve has chosen to delay the launch of the Steam Machine and the Steam Frame VR headset in hopes that RAM and SSD prices will come back down instead of releasing the systems at prices far higher than Valve wants and what they thing consumers are willing to pay. Second, Apple has released their new MacBook Neo at $600 ($500 educational pricing) and the reviews are overwhelmingly positive. From a company never known to play in the entry-level market, this is significant.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, tell the big corporations how you feel, but not buying the crap they&amp;rsquo;re trying to force down our throats. They&amp;rsquo;ll only care when they start to feel some of pain we&amp;rsquo;ve been feeling.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;This is WhiteHouse.gov, the nation&amp;rsquo;s official webpage for the Executive branch of the US government. Apparently this is the new &amp;ldquo;humor&amp;rdquo; we&amp;rsquo;re supposed to be &amp;ldquo;enjoying&amp;rdquo; in #TFG&amp;rsquo;s AmeriKKKa. Disgusting. Don&amp;rsquo;t fall for the distractions, but remain aware. #uspol #idiocracy #NoFacists&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src=&#34;https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/151098/2025/screenshot-2025-11-04-at-2.25.50pm.png&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;752&#34; alt=&#34;A parody of MySpace called mysafespace, a place for dems, showing what is supposed to be Hakeem Jeffries&#39; profile regarding the government shutdown. The background is a repeating pattern of sombrero. The overall tone is mocking and juvenile. At the top is a banner ad for TrumpRX and there is a link to information on getting a Trump Card in the navigation. A tracker at the top claims that Democrats have shut down the government for 34+ days. &#34;&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The #GOP has their talking points nailed down, glued, epoxied, welded, then encased in Amber. The #Democrats should have understood this years ago when #TFG started his endless agitprop campaign and have direct counters to all the propaganda. But nope. So sick of this bullshit. #NOKINGS #uspol&lt;/p&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The #Democrats and &amp;ldquo;unbiased&amp;rdquo; mainstream media&amp;rsquo;s handling of the #GOP and #MAGA sucks. #TFG &amp;amp; Co.&amp;rsquo;s messaging is all tightly coordinated. They get their marching orders, are invited onto #CNN and whatnot to spew their lies, whilst Dems change nothing of their messaging. WTAF. #uspol #NOKINGS&lt;/p&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;RE: Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Putin: Gets invited to US soil for pomp and circumstance.
Zelenskyy: Gets a phone call.
NATO: Gets a phone call.
#uspol #fascism #TFG #Putin #SlavaUkraini&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src=&#34;https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/151098/2025/5f959dd6f7.jpg&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;429&#34; alt=&#34;Dumpster Trump and Short Vader warmly greeting each other at the 2025 Alaska Summit to discuss ending Russia’s illegal aggression against a bordering sovereign nation without inviting anyone from Ukraine. Like, you know, President Zelenskyy? &#34;&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;What an amazing group of Bolivian #Cholita #skateboarding enthusiasts who share their love of skating while honoring their ancestry by wearing traditional Pollera. They are working to make their dream of building a skate park come true. #culture #bolivia &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-99aaBz8w8k&#34;&gt;www.youtube.com/watch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Officials from #Florida have announced that they will kill protestors who throw things at their cops. I&amp;rsquo;m NOT kidding. Watch them say it themselves! #fascism #NoKings #StateSanctionedMurder #protests #activism #humanrights #civilrights #MAGA #FuckTrump &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lHFdiHprQs0&#34;&gt;www.youtube.com/shorts/lH&amp;hellip;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;This is AmeriKKKa&amp;rsquo;s new #Fascist #MAGA #Right. This is lawlessness in action while they scream that they&amp;rsquo;re &amp;ldquo;protecting&amp;rdquo; justice and the law. This is our road to hell. Go out and march peacefully. Violence is not the answer. #uspol #DHS #AlexPadilla #KristiNoem #racism #civilrights #humanrights&lt;/p&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Welcome to the new McCarthy &amp;ldquo;Red Scare&amp;rdquo; era. I guess we call this the &amp;ldquo;Not White Scare&amp;rdquo; era, then? This was posted on Twitter by the #DHS. I am disgusted on so many levels. #civilrights #humanrights #StopTFG #StopICE #EndFascism #EjectTrumpNow &lt;a href=&#34;https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5346337-dhs-sends-out-provocative-new-poster/&#34;&gt;thehill.com/homenews/&amp;hellip;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;There is one brain sickness that can&amp;rsquo;t be fixed by mere herd immunity: stupidity. It&amp;rsquo;s not that stupid people take over, but that smart people are suspending their critical thinking skills in response to a social climate that rewards doing so. #uspol #TFG #fascism &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfekgjfh1Rk&#34;&gt;www.youtube.com/watch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Centrism doesn&amp;rsquo;t work? You don&amp;rsquo;t say! I&amp;rsquo;ll let Adam cover the details as he&amp;rsquo;s far more effectively sarcastic than I am. #politics #humanrights #civilrights #activism #EndFascism #EndOligarcy &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWHxKD27XKk&#34;&gt;www.youtube.com/watch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I really hope #TFG keeps acting like he owns America &amp;amp; can do whatever he wants. The more he acts like a authoritarian, the more people he&amp;rsquo;ll piss off, and the closer we&amp;rsquo;ll get to his ejection. #uspol #NYC #activism #resistFascism #goodtrouble #congestionpricing &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.jalopnik.com/1867570/new-york-wont-shut-down-congestion-pricing-without-court-order/&#34;&gt;www.jalopnik.com/1867570/n&amp;hellip;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;4 Non Blondes was a great #rock band that only made one studio album and had the global hit What&amp;rsquo;s Up that lit the world on fire in 1993. It&amp;rsquo;s amazing that, to this day, that one song has remained in the cultural zeitgeist. #music #activism #LGBTQRights #LGBTQIAPlus &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.salon.com/2025/05/26/whats-up-song-4-non-blondes-whats-going-on/&#34;&gt;www.salon.com/2025/05/2&amp;hellip;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;This is about as bullshit as it gets. Just having this article up in my news reader makes it stink in here. #ai #capitalism #tech #artistsrights #kleptocracy &lt;a href=&#34;https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/26/2026200/nick-clegg-says-asking-artists-for-use-permission-would-kill-the-ai-industry&#34;&gt;tech.slashdot.org/story/25/&amp;hellip;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;rsquo;t think I can say it better or more succinctly than Mr. Lawrence Ware. I&amp;rsquo;ll add that the carefully coded hate speech from #TFG and his #KKK sycophants on TV every day from the Whitest House has been adding nuclear fuel to the fire. Criminals. #FuckRacism #uspol &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theroot.com/why-things-have-only-gotten-worse-for-black-folks-in-th-1851782348&#34;&gt;www.theroot.com/why-thing&amp;hellip;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Remember when we found out that pretty much everything being claimed by #Conservatives was a lie designed to rip #humanrights and #civilrights away from protected groups and decided that was stupid so stopped believing them? Yeah, me neither. #EndFascism #uspol #lawfare &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCAuHH5EYnE&#34;&gt;www.youtube.com/watch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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