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BREAKING: Representative Ro Khanna said 6 men have been identified as co-conspirators with Epstein:
Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonic Leonov, Nicola Caputo, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, and billionaire businessman Leslie Wexner.
Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonic Leonov, Nicola Caputo, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, and billionaire businessman Leslie Wexner.
February 10, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Name And Shame Them All
Well, when you are as old as Kid Rock, neurodegenerative disease is an increasing concern.
btw, once you are old enough to qualify for AARP membership, you can't call yourself Kid anymore. Thems the rules.
btw, once you are old enough to qualify for AARP membership, you can't call yourself Kid anymore. Thems the rules.
Kid Rock appears to forget the lyrics to his song while lip syncing at the Turning Point USA halftime show.
February 9, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Well, when you are as old as Kid Rock, neurodegenerative disease is an increasing concern.
btw, once you are old enough to qualify for AARP membership, you can't call yourself Kid anymore. Thems the rules.
btw, once you are old enough to qualify for AARP membership, you can't call yourself Kid anymore. Thems the rules.
Merry Super Bowl Day to those that celebrate
February 9, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Merry Super Bowl Day to those that celebrate
Imagine hating your husband so much that you would rather sit next to Jake Paul
February 8, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Imagine hating your husband so much that you would rather sit next to Jake Paul
Even Fartcoin??!?
February 5, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Even Fartcoin??!?
@jamellebouie.net is 100% correct here, but there is the other likely goal of Bannon, which is to distract the media from how much Bannon sniffed Epstein's throne, as was revealed in the latest Epstein files release.
i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections
Trump doubled down on his comments to nationalize voting Tuesday during an Oval Office press conference. “If you think about it, a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” Trump sai...
www.democracydocket.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:51 PM
@jamellebouie.net is 100% correct here, but there is the other likely goal of Bannon, which is to distract the media from how much Bannon sniffed Epstein's throne, as was revealed in the latest Epstein files release.
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AI conferences have rushed to restrict the use of LLMs for writing and reviewing research papers in recent months after being flooded with AI-generated slop (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
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February 2, 2026 at 7:20 AM
AI conferences have rushed to restrict the use of LLMs for writing and reviewing research papers in recent months after being flooded with AI-generated slop (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
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The director of Melania movie
January 31, 2026 at 6:59 PM
The director of Melania movie
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The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
January 30, 2026 at 11:21 PM
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
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A useful and timely comparison is the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and their sister organizations. They number about 200K in a country almost 1/4 the population of the USA. And they're barely holding the dictatorship up.
MAGA just doesn't have the numbers.
MAGA just doesn't have the numbers.
let's say the president wants to suppress the vote in detroit. assuming a conventional 20 soldiers for every 1000 civilians ration, he would need more than 12,000 ICE agents — more than double the current number of field officers — to occupy detroit and only detroit, a city of 630,000 people
imho people are focusing on the words "cancel the midterms" and saying uh actually a president cannot do that at the expense of what they would actually try to do, ie send troops/ice into liberal cities to suppress the vote
January 15, 2026 at 6:31 PM
A useful and timely comparison is the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and their sister organizations. They number about 200K in a country almost 1/4 the population of the USA. And they're barely holding the dictatorship up.
MAGA just doesn't have the numbers.
MAGA just doesn't have the numbers.
I dunno about you, but my Nanna's famous Chicken, Broccoli, and One Other Thing in Corn Tortillas were delicious!
Brooke Rollins: "We've run over 1,000 simulations. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing. So there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money."
January 15, 2026 at 4:42 AM
I dunno about you, but my Nanna's famous Chicken, Broccoli, and One Other Thing in Corn Tortillas were delicious!
The REAL truth THEY don't want you to know...
January 2, 2026 at 12:40 AM
The REAL truth THEY don't want you to know...
This is just despicable. These clowns joke about how working people are too afraid to do their job because the US military might destroy them with a Hellfire missile because they might be confused with a "narcoterrorist" whatever the hell that means.
Trump: "You don't even see fishing boats on water. You want to go fishing in that area? Anybody want to go fishing in that area?"
December 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This is just despicable. These clowns joke about how working people are too afraid to do their job because the US military might destroy them with a Hellfire missile because they might be confused with a "narcoterrorist" whatever the hell that means.
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Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation?
Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed.
Here are the key take-aways 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed.
Here are the key take-aways 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation?
Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed.
Here are the key take-aways 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed.
Here are the key take-aways 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
Exactly. Politics is the art of persuasion, to get as many people to change their minds and line up behind your bold vision. Politicians that only talk about poll-tested ideas are doing it backwards.
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
October 24, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Exactly. Politics is the art of persuasion, to get as many people to change their minds and line up behind your bold vision. Politicians that only talk about poll-tested ideas are doing it backwards.
This isn't wrong per se, and, yes, the opioid crisis is awful. But this is a weird way to characterize the stats and requires context.
Nearly 1 in 100 Americans died from heart disease over the last five years.
1 in 120 Americans died from cancer.
1 in 200 died from accidents!
Nearly 1 in 100 Americans died from heart disease over the last five years.
1 in 120 Americans died from cancer.
1 in 200 died from accidents!
Trump claims that "more than" 1 out of 1,000 Americans died from fentanyl overdoses over the past five years
October 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This isn't wrong per se, and, yes, the opioid crisis is awful. But this is a weird way to characterize the stats and requires context.
Nearly 1 in 100 Americans died from heart disease over the last five years.
1 in 120 Americans died from cancer.
1 in 200 died from accidents!
Nearly 1 in 100 Americans died from heart disease over the last five years.
1 in 120 Americans died from cancer.
1 in 200 died from accidents!
As everyone knows, we lost Vietnam not because we were supporting an unpopular authoritarian regime opposed by a well-funded gorilla organization but entirely because we changed the name from the Department of War 20+ years earlier. That and drag-queen story hour.
Trump: "We won the first world war, second world war -- I always say, everything before and everything in between -- and then we got woke and we said, 'Well, let's call it Defense.'"
October 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
As everyone knows, we lost Vietnam not because we were supporting an unpopular authoritarian regime opposed by a well-funded gorilla organization but entirely because we changed the name from the Department of War 20+ years earlier. That and drag-queen story hour.
Graded the first genetics exam for the term. Nearly half the class failed...
October 17, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Graded the first genetics exam for the term. Nearly half the class failed...
The Constitution does need significant revision, and maybe starting over would be a good idea.
But it is absolutely true that there are parts that are just being ignored and not enforced. e.g. the emoluments clause
But it is absolutely true that there are parts that are just being ignored and not enforced. e.g. the emoluments clause
There are problems with your Constitution, but I don't think this is one of them.
This is more a "the Constitution is a piece of paper and needs people, who believe that it has meaning, to enforce it" issue.
It doesn't matter how well the enforcement mechanisms are spelled out, if they're ignored.
This is more a "the Constitution is a piece of paper and needs people, who believe that it has meaning, to enforce it" issue.
It doesn't matter how well the enforcement mechanisms are spelled out, if they're ignored.
October 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The Constitution does need significant revision, and maybe starting over would be a good idea.
But it is absolutely true that there are parts that are just being ignored and not enforced. e.g. the emoluments clause
But it is absolutely true that there are parts that are just being ignored and not enforced. e.g. the emoluments clause
The Right-Wing perfected the art of Cancel Culture a long time ago. One of my favorite examples is how Phil Donahue's show on MSNBC was literally canceled because he questioned the pretense for the invasion of Iraq. This was over 20 years ago!
![n July 2002, Donahue returned to television after seven years of retirement to host a show called Donahue on MSNBC.[21] On February 25, 2003, MSNBC canceled the show.[22][23] Soon after the show's cancellation, an internal MSNBC memo was leaked to the press stating that Donahue should be fired because he opposed the imminent U.S. invasion of Iraq and that he would be a "difficult public face for NBC in a time of war"[24] and that his program could be "a home for the liberal anti-war agenda".[25] Donahue commented in 2007 that the management of MSNBC, owned at the time by General Electric, a major defense contractor, required that "we have two conservative (guests) for every liberal. I was counted as two liberals."[26]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpt5byfqomatbrxldigvleuw/bafkreiavqdor2z4vwxboapnxr627urj4hwp7egwuajmggx5gvaw666ih6u@jpeg)
September 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The Right-Wing perfected the art of Cancel Culture a long time ago. One of my favorite examples is how Phil Donahue's show on MSNBC was literally canceled because he questioned the pretense for the invasion of Iraq. This was over 20 years ago!
Called it.
September 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Called it.
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“We need a liberal Joe Rogan”
August 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
“We need a liberal Joe Rogan”
There are tons of schisms on the right that would be fascinating to liberals and would be effective wedge issues for the left, but the MSM ignores all of them.
one thing about the genuinely liberal media is that it’s too focused on serious stuff. we need a media ecosystem that covers this the way Fox covers Sydney Sweeney ad hysteria
In case you didn't know, there's a bizarre panic on the Granola Nazi far-right about bluetooth devices causing cancer
August 6, 2025 at 12:08 PM
There are tons of schisms on the right that would be fascinating to liberals and would be effective wedge issues for the left, but the MSM ignores all of them.
This is the absolute truth. Too many Dems think the way to win over the American Heartland is some complicated tax-deduction plan for small businesses. F that. They want red meat. If the next Dem presidential candidate says they will release Epstein docs, we're looking at FDR-sized landslide.
With the caveat that I am no political strategist, my take on whether to Glonzo the Epstein Files story is that demagoguery has always been central to the American political vernacular and I don't think liberals/the left should get too precious about this sort of thing now.
July 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This is the absolute truth. Too many Dems think the way to win over the American Heartland is some complicated tax-deduction plan for small businesses. F that. They want red meat. If the next Dem presidential candidate says they will release Epstein docs, we're looking at FDR-sized landslide.