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Two babies were born in New York within a year of each other, soon after WWII.
One, Rob Reiner, lived a life of humanity and achievement. He brought us delight and joy. His memory will be a blessing.
The other, Donald Trump, will be remembered as an embarrassment to our nation.
One, Rob Reiner, lived a life of humanity and achievement. He brought us delight and joy. His memory will be a blessing.
The other, Donald Trump, will be remembered as an embarrassment to our nation.
December 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Two babies were born in New York within a year of each other, soon after WWII.
One, Rob Reiner, lived a life of humanity and achievement. He brought us delight and joy. His memory will be a blessing.
The other, Donald Trump, will be remembered as an embarrassment to our nation.
One, Rob Reiner, lived a life of humanity and achievement. He brought us delight and joy. His memory will be a blessing.
The other, Donald Trump, will be remembered as an embarrassment to our nation.
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I'm still astonished that it was somehow not newsworthy to the WaPo or NYTimes or any number of other outlets that the father of the alt-right, an inspiration for Dylann Roof's murder spree, had secured front row VIP tickets for Trump's inauguration.
December 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I'm still astonished that it was somehow not newsworthy to the WaPo or NYTimes or any number of other outlets that the father of the alt-right, an inspiration for Dylann Roof's murder spree, had secured front row VIP tickets for Trump's inauguration.
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While searching for something else I stumbled upon this fascinating op-ed from Dec. 2015--ten years ago. It appeared in the Greenville, SC Index-Journal. It matter-of-factly pointed out that Trump was beloved by white nationalists like Jared Taylor. This was BEFORE the first GOP primary was held.
![Trump brings bigots out of hiding
WASHINGTON Once you notice it, you can't unsee it."
A
about a Trump rally near Phoenix where
couple of weeks ago, I wrote:
The Twitterverse, and social media a young man shouted "mother-f—.
"Let's not mince words, Donald generally, can be dark places, as can the ing tacos — go back to Mexico" at two Trump is a bigot and a racist." comments section of Washington Post
Latino protesters — and a 70-year-old
I cited a long list of incidents in which articles, and my email inbox. This is
retiree sucker-punched a demonstrator.
he targeted women, Latinos, African-
the seventh presidential campaign I've
And where is the condemnation of
Americans, Muslims, Asians and the covered in some form over 25 years, and this behavior? At the Las Vegas debate, disabled. Here's what I heard back from harsh criticism comes with the terri-
Trump's rivals all but ignored the front-
Trump's defenders:
tory. But the Trump backers venom is runner, who previously said of a black
"Let's not mince
without precedent. His supporters surely protestor at his event: "Maybe he should
words," somebody
aren't all bigots — but he is bringing the have been roughed up." Trump is burn-
tweeted under the name
bigoted in from the cold.
ing down the Republican house, and the
Helios Megistos. "Mil-
There is an obvious truth to what
American house, yet his rivals are on a
bank is an anti-white
white nationalist publisher Jared Tay-
march of the narcissists.
parasite and a bigoted
lor told The New Yorker this summer:
If Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, Jeb
kike supremacist."
Trump's "support comes from people
Bush, John Kasich and other sensible
"[Trump] may well
who are more like me than he might like
candidates were to unite behind any one
be a bigot and a racist,"
to admit."
of them, that person could likely beat
DANA
one Michael Banfield
I write this not out of any hope of
Trump, and Ted Cruz. Instead, enabled
MILBANK
wrote me via email. "But changing the minds of Trump back-
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December 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
While searching for something else I stumbled upon this fascinating op-ed from Dec. 2015--ten years ago. It appeared in the Greenville, SC Index-Journal. It matter-of-factly pointed out that Trump was beloved by white nationalists like Jared Taylor. This was BEFORE the first GOP primary was held.
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So weird that a lot people who loudly claim "being anti-Israeli government is not being anti-Semitic" sure spend a lot of energy attacking shit that is not the Israeli government.
December 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
So weird that a lot people who loudly claim "being anti-Israeli government is not being anti-Semitic" sure spend a lot of energy attacking shit that is not the Israeli government.
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Also Kolvet is literally the Turning Point PR guy like what in the fuck are you getting out of this interview except propaganda on top of propaganda like WHAT
December 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Also Kolvet is literally the Turning Point PR guy like what in the fuck are you getting out of this interview except propaganda on top of propaganda like WHAT
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Apologies for yet another thread with a hate read of a Douthat joint, but we need to talk about the role the credulous "center-right" is playing in normalizing fascistic illiberalism in the US. Kolvet is a rabid Islamophobe and anti-trans hatemonger, but you'd never know that from this interview.
December 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Apologies for yet another thread with a hate read of a Douthat joint, but we need to talk about the role the credulous "center-right" is playing in normalizing fascistic illiberalism in the US. Kolvet is a rabid Islamophobe and anti-trans hatemonger, but you'd never know that from this interview.
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Despite a number of Republican lawmakers denouncing his remarks, President Donald Trump continued to call actor and director Rob Reiner "deranged" less than a day after his killing was announced.
"[Reiner] was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned," the president said about himself.
"[Reiner] was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned," the president said about himself.
December 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Despite a number of Republican lawmakers denouncing his remarks, President Donald Trump continued to call actor and director Rob Reiner "deranged" less than a day after his killing was announced.
"[Reiner] was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned," the president said about himself.
"[Reiner] was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned," the president said about himself.
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NEW: Rob Reiner was a mensch. In death, he showed us that Trump is a schmuck. (He was also a friend, and I'll miss our very long lunches.)
Rob Reiner was a mensch. In death, he showed us Trump’s a schmuck.
The president's remarks about the murder of the filmmaker and his wife cast him as petty and callous.
www.motherjones.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
NEW: Rob Reiner was a mensch. In death, he showed us that Trump is a schmuck. (He was also a friend, and I'll miss our very long lunches.)
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
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Still in a state of shock trying to process the tragic loss of one of the most gifted men in the entertainment industry & his wife when the Embarrassment-in-Chief disgraces common human decency with this repulsive, deranged statement.
#NoWords 🤮
#NoWords 🤮
December 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Still in a state of shock trying to process the tragic loss of one of the most gifted men in the entertainment industry & his wife when the Embarrassment-in-Chief disgraces common human decency with this repulsive, deranged statement.
#NoWords 🤮
#NoWords 🤮
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Reporter: Rebecca Davis is a cancer survivor who recently lost her job. Her ACA subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year, doubling her premiums. But going without health insurance is simply not an option. She currently takes an expensive drug to keep her breast cancer at bay.
December 15, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Reporter: Rebecca Davis is a cancer survivor who recently lost her job. Her ACA subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year, doubling her premiums. But going without health insurance is simply not an option. She currently takes an expensive drug to keep her breast cancer at bay.
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Editor in Chief of Christianity Today Magazine 👇🏽
December 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Editor in Chief of Christianity Today Magazine 👇🏽
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This is what asylum practice is increasingly looking like; the Trump admin is moving to "pretermit" every single claim (or nearly every single claim) as a move to avoid having to grant anyone asylum.
I was in a tribunal a week ago where DHS moved to pretermit every single asylum case on "safe third country grounds." Every. single. one.
At one point, a judge scheduled a second master for a man to prove he would be in danger in Honduras. Confused, he said "No, Peru. I'm from Peru."
At one point, a judge scheduled a second master for a man to prove he would be in danger in Honduras. Confused, he said "No, Peru. I'm from Peru."
Immigration judges are "pretermitting" huge swathes of asylum claims on the grounds that the person can be deported to a third country instead — one of the explicit statutory grounds for denying the right to apply for asylum.
This is now happening at large scale nationwide.
This is now happening at large scale nationwide.
December 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This is what asylum practice is increasingly looking like; the Trump admin is moving to "pretermit" every single claim (or nearly every single claim) as a move to avoid having to grant anyone asylum.
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“We’re Jewish—we grew up knowing how hated we were just for existing,” Miller's cousin, Alisa Kasmer, tells me. "Now he’s trying to take away the exact thing his own family benefited from: that ability to create a life for themselves, to prosper, to build community...to live a rewarding life.”
Finally, Miller's cousin, Alisa Kasmer, gave us her first interview. It's powerful stuff:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
“We’re Jewish—we grew up knowing how hated we were just for existing,” Miller's cousin, Alisa Kasmer, tells me. "Now he’s trying to take away the exact thing his own family benefited from: that ability to create a life for themselves, to prosper, to build community...to live a rewarding life.”
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Trump suggests Rob Reiner’s fierce opposition to Trump got him killed
December 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Trump suggests Rob Reiner’s fierce opposition to Trump got him killed
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You cannot "combat the dangerousness of the right" by continuing to elevate and legitimate its institutions. In fact, one of the primary ways to "combat the dangerousness of the right" is to say "no, I'm not lending my talents and profile to you; if this is a space for Nazis, it's not one for me"
IMO it's hard to combat the dangerousness of the right by participating in a platform where they aren't present.
I think the best way to explain the X vs Bluesky preference is whether a person thinks the left is more annoying than the right is dangerous.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
December 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
You cannot "combat the dangerousness of the right" by continuing to elevate and legitimate its institutions. In fact, one of the primary ways to "combat the dangerousness of the right" is to say "no, I'm not lending my talents and profile to you; if this is a space for Nazis, it's not one for me"
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“Now he’s trying to take away the exact thing that his own family benefited from: that ability to create a life for themselves, to prosper, to build community, to have successful businesses—to live a rewarding life.” trib.al/W9yvjNi
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable. How far will Miller’s sadistic designs go?
trib.al
December 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
“Now he’s trying to take away the exact thing that his own family benefited from: that ability to create a life for themselves, to prosper, to build community, to have successful businesses—to live a rewarding life.” trib.al/W9yvjNi
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BREAKING: Donald Trump just issued a DESPICABLE statement following the death of Rob Reiner:
“Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away…due to the anger he caused others through his massive…TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME…”
“Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away…due to the anger he caused others through his massive…TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME…”
December 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
BREAKING: Donald Trump just issued a DESPICABLE statement following the death of Rob Reiner:
“Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away…due to the anger he caused others through his massive…TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME…”
“Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away…due to the anger he caused others through his massive…TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME…”
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Trump fights antisemitism by celebrating the death of famous and beloved Jewish figures.
December 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Trump fights antisemitism by celebrating the death of famous and beloved Jewish figures.
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Rob Reiner religion note: One of his last film projects was “God & Country,” a documentary released last year based on Katherine Stewart’s book.
The film turned a critical lens toward Christian nationalism.
Disclosure: I know this, because I’m in it. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
The film turned a critical lens toward Christian nationalism.
Disclosure: I know this, because I’m in it. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
Rob Reiner's 'God & Country' explores the politicization of Christianity
The new documentary looks at the rise of Christian Nationalism as a political movement through the eyes of theologians and conservative thinkers.
www.wbur.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Rob Reiner religion note: One of his last film projects was “God & Country,” a documentary released last year based on Katherine Stewart’s book.
The film turned a critical lens toward Christian nationalism.
Disclosure: I know this, because I’m in it. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
The film turned a critical lens toward Christian nationalism.
Disclosure: I know this, because I’m in it. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
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One of these refugee slots belonged to a friend of mine and her child. My She had been interviewed, screened, medically checked and approved to travel to the US. She was waiting for flight dates when Trump was inaugurated- and it was all cancelled. She has been a refugee for 19 years.
Some news on Trump's doling out of most refugee slots to white South Africans: Two former State Department officials tell us basic protocols designed to determine whether this group actually merits protection have simply been scrapped. It's just whim.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
One of these refugee slots belonged to a friend of mine and her child. My She had been interviewed, screened, medically checked and approved to travel to the US. She was waiting for flight dates when Trump was inaugurated- and it was all cancelled. She has been a refugee for 19 years.
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Reiner and his wife were found dead in an apparent homicide Sunday that Trump claims was related to the actor’s dislike of the president.
Trump Blames Director Rob Reiner’s Death On 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' In Bizarre Post
Reiner and his wife were found dead in an apparent homicide Sunday that Trump claims was related to the actor’s dislike of the president.
www.forbes.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Reiner and his wife were found dead in an apparent homicide Sunday that Trump claims was related to the actor’s dislike of the president.
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utterly incapable of grace
December 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
utterly incapable of grace
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this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
December 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
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Every accusation is an confession; the Trump admin says they’ll “re-review” 230,000 refugees who came under Biden in case they weren’t truly refugees, while also ordering the State Department to declare that white South Africans automatically meet the definition of refugees.
Some news on Trump's doling out of most refugee slots to white South Africans: Two former State Department officials tell us basic protocols designed to determine whether this group actually merits protection have simply been scrapped. It's just whim.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Every accusation is an confession; the Trump admin says they’ll “re-review” 230,000 refugees who came under Biden in case they weren’t truly refugees, while also ordering the State Department to declare that white South Africans automatically meet the definition of refugees.