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The Rhodes Scholar is baffled…
Fox News is confused by Trump's friendly meeting with Mamdani.

"You know, it was a surprise to see those two getting along as well as they did. A couple of times I asked the mayor-elect a tougher question, and the president almost helped him dodge it."
November 22, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I assume that this is a move to open up a lane for the Georgia Governor’s election in 2026.

https://www.onlineathens.com/story/news/2025/11/17/who-is-running-for-georgia-governor-in-2026-these-6-republicans-on-list/87315641007/
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Marjorie Taylor Greene is willingly leaving Congress a year early?!

*rips up and throws away bingo card
November 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Of course, one possibility — now that he’s MEGA-rich — is that Trump simply dumps MAGA and opts for 3 years of just playing Grandpa…
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
How true…
November 21, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Tom Nichols is one of those smart guys who gets a lot of things wrong…. Smh…

(FDR & Biden…)
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Looks mean a lot at the presidential level. It’s why Ted Cruz will likely never be President. A weak chin…
November 21, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Slotkin is super sharp and has really impressed me whenever I listen to her. Also, she’s been working on making herself look a hello of a lot more marketable lately.

Cp. with
November 21, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Lol…
Larry Summers’s co-teacher at Harvard:

“We will miss his insights and his wisdom”

Student:

“NO WE WON’T”

dude pretends he doesn’t hear, then intros Tony Blair lmao
November 21, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Mot often one sees a whole society go off the cliff of sanity…, all at once.
I’m getting more and more of these too. It’s depressing.
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I still think Kelly has presidential chops potentially. He has the kind of presence, persona, charisma, that just might work.

Would be very interesting to see him run, and to see how he stacks up.
Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."
November 21, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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but it was a roman salute
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate.

Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were

X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
La #LDH porte plainte contre la publication de #Grok, l’intelligence artificielle du réseau social X, pour contestation de crimes contre l’humanité.
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
If you consider the great Tyrants of the 20th cen. — Mao, Hitler, Idi Amin, Stalin, Gaddafi — it was never dementia.

All were mentally ill. But they kept it under control. But then, as their power grew, their delusions of grandeur and fanaticism grew apace.

The final stage was a homicidal fury.
November 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Funney how Stephen Miller thinks he’s the one Jew who won’t get sent to the ovens... He should read some history.
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I always enjoy(ed) reading (and writing) negative reviews far more than good or positive reviews.
November 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
🙇‍♂️
Lindsey Halligan, the attorney selected by Donald Trump to bring criminal charges against James Comey, has never prosecuted a case.

But, like Trump, she did get her start in reality TV — with a brief cameo on South Beach Tow.

Here is Halligan’s newly resurfaced TV moment:
November 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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This doesn't seem to be the kind of trade rebalancing that the president is looking for.
November 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I guess it’s clear now that the Trump Economic policy is simply to create a huge market bubble that will keep them afloat while they consolidate power —

crypto, housing, tech/AI, etc.
November 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The word “Corruption” can no longer accurately describes the scale and magnitude of what is going on in this regime.

We are going to have to come up with an entirely new word.

Right answers only, please…
November 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Winner of the 2025 Judge Learned Hand Award of Judicial Discretion:
November 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM