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The GOP will probably evolve into something that echoes MAGA without actually being MAGA. JD Vance, however, has no future. 🍊🤡 “He is interracially married, he has no charisma or stage presence, and he projects very little authority. Also, he just isn’t mean enough.” www.rawstory.com/amp/maga-267...
This is why MAGA will die when Trump is gone
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January 2, 2026 at 10:07 PM
The GOP will probably evolve into something that echoes MAGA without actually being MAGA. JD Vance, however, has no future. 🍊🤡 “He is interracially married, he has no charisma or stage presence, and he projects very little authority. Also, he just isn’t mean enough.” www.rawstory.com/amp/maga-267...
Many artists who have previously performed at the Kennedy Center, respectful of the president who poetically venerated their role in our culture, are now refusing to perform there. They don’t wish to sully this institution by endorsing its seizure by Donald Trump. www.salon.com/2026/01/01/t...
Trump’s cultural coup is doomed to fail
Artists are protesting Trump's Kennedy Center takeover — and creating art in defiance of his repression
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January 1, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Many artists who have previously performed at the Kennedy Center, respectful of the president who poetically venerated their role in our culture, are now refusing to perform there. They don’t wish to sully this institution by endorsing its seizure by Donald Trump. www.salon.com/2026/01/01/t...
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Happy New Year in dem Fall
December 31, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Happy New Year in dem Fall
The Trump Administration’s Most Paralyzing Blow to Science 🐔🌮🍊🤡⚗️🔬🔭 Cuts to research may have spoiled the country’s appetite for bold exploration www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
The Trump Administration’s Most Paralyzing Blow to Science
Cuts to research may have spoiled the country’s appetite for bold exploration.
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December 31, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The Trump Administration’s Most Paralyzing Blow to Science 🐔🌮🍊🤡⚗️🔬🔭 Cuts to research may have spoiled the country’s appetite for bold exploration www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
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Trump has treated the 2024 election as proof that he embodies the public will. Performing in Trump’s cultural center is therefore a civic duty. Since the administration can't imprison artists who don’t comply, this demand is as silly as it is presumptuous. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Show Won’t Go On
President Trump’s threats against artists who decline to perform at the renamed Kennedy Center are ultimately hollow.
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December 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Trump has treated the 2024 election as proof that he embodies the public will. Performing in Trump’s cultural center is therefore a civic duty. Since the administration can't imprison artists who don’t comply, this demand is as silly as it is presumptuous. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has wrecked America’s public health. RFK Jr. transformed from an unserious third-party presidential candidate to the nation’s buck-wild authority on disease management. He never previously worked in medicine, public health, or government. newrepublic.com/article/2044...
RFK Jr. Will Let Us All Die Just to Make a Buck
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is forcing his MAHA agenda on all of us—and it’s already getting ugly.
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December 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has wrecked America’s public health. RFK Jr. transformed from an unserious third-party presidential candidate to the nation’s buck-wild authority on disease management. He never previously worked in medicine, public health, or government. newrepublic.com/article/2044...
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Good--stand up to the motherfucker, already.
New Year’s Eve Concerts at Kennedy Center Are Canceled 🐔🌮🍊🤡 The center can have my patronage again when Donald Trump’s name is chiseled off www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/a...
New Year’s Eve Concerts at Kennedy Center Are Canceled
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December 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Good--stand up to the motherfucker, already.
The Spanish parishioner who made headlines around the world for her botched restoration of a prized Jesus Christ fresco has died aged 94 🐒 Cecilia Giménez became famous 13 years ago after she tried to restore the painting titled Ecce Homo that was held in her local church www.bbc.com/news/article...
Spanish woman who found fame for botching fresco restoration dies
Cecilia Giménez's effort to restore the painting Ecce Homo earned the artwork the nickname "Monkey Christ".
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December 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The Spanish parishioner who made headlines around the world for her botched restoration of a prized Jesus Christ fresco has died aged 94 🐒 Cecilia Giménez became famous 13 years ago after she tried to restore the painting titled Ecce Homo that was held in her local church www.bbc.com/news/article...
New Year’s Eve Concerts at Kennedy Center Are Canceled 🐔🌮🍊🤡 The center can have my patronage again when Donald Trump’s name is chiseled off www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/a...
New Year’s Eve Concerts at Kennedy Center Are Canceled
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December 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
New Year’s Eve Concerts at Kennedy Center Are Canceled 🐔🌮🍊🤡 The center can have my patronage again when Donald Trump’s name is chiseled off www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/a...
Reflecting on yet another year of scientific fraud at the University of Minnesota 🎓 The run of stories in 2025 has an uncomfortably familiar sound, yet each episode has come and gone with barely a flicker of concern www.startribune.com/umn-professo...
Opinion | Reflecting on yet another year of scientific fraud at the University of Minnesota
Allegations a scientist doctored images in a paper on Alzheimer’s. Rachel Hardeman's resignation. An investigation into a pediatrician's reports of child abuse. The U saw a number of scientific scanda...
www.startribune.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Reflecting on yet another year of scientific fraud at the University of Minnesota 🎓 The run of stories in 2025 has an uncomfortably familiar sound, yet each episode has come and gone with barely a flicker of concern www.startribune.com/umn-professo...
The unofficial Trump Kennedy Center logo is the sharpest design trolling of 2025 www.creativebloq.com/design/logos...
Unofficial Trump Kennedy Center logo is the sharpest design trolling of 2025
It's becoming hard to tell satire from reality.
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December 30, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The unofficial Trump Kennedy Center logo is the sharpest design trolling of 2025 www.creativebloq.com/design/logos...
Pensions timebomb: Why Europe’s social contract is becoming unsustainable 🇪🇺 The right to a pension has been a plank of the European social contract, but people are living longer, birthrates are falling, and Europe’s pension systems are increasingly unsustainable www.theguardian.com/money/2025/d...
Pensions timebomb: why Europe’s social contract is becoming unsustainable
Ageing populations and falling birthrates have left ever fewer workers to support growing number of retirees
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December 30, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Pensions timebomb: Why Europe’s social contract is becoming unsustainable 🇪🇺 The right to a pension has been a plank of the European social contract, but people are living longer, birthrates are falling, and Europe’s pension systems are increasingly unsustainable www.theguardian.com/money/2025/d...
Russell Vought presents himself as a devout Christian. But Vought inflicts trauma on civil servants; boasts about turning his think tank into a “Death Star”; claims that Marxists rule America; helps Trump withhold aid to Ukraine illegally; and impounds appropriations. newrepublic.com/article/2044...
Why Russell Vought Is Worse Than Watergate
Conservatives used to think you could be a political hatchet artist or you could serve the Lord. Now they say: Why choose?
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December 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Russell Vought presents himself as a devout Christian. But Vought inflicts trauma on civil servants; boasts about turning his think tank into a “Death Star”; claims that Marxists rule America; helps Trump withhold aid to Ukraine illegally; and impounds appropriations. newrepublic.com/article/2044...
Samuel Alito keeps getting his way. So why does he seem so unhappy? 🪜 Win or lose, Alito exudes a sense of aggrievement www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...
ANALYSIS: Samuel Alito keeps getting his way. So why does he seem so unhappy? | CNN Politics
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has a remarkable record of transforming his old dissenting opinions into the new majority view and setting the direction of the law in America.
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December 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Samuel Alito keeps getting his way. So why does he seem so unhappy? 🪜 Win or lose, Alito exudes a sense of aggrievement www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...
Evaluating immigrant crime with statistics, not emotion 📐 The danger is not that stories are false, but that they crowd out the information required to interpret them responsibly www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinio...
Evaluating immigrant crime with statistics, not emotion | Opinion
Sharing anecdotes is not misinformation, but it can produce miscalibration, making to harder to make sense of the facts, writes Catherine De Soto.
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December 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Evaluating immigrant crime with statistics, not emotion 📐 The danger is not that stories are false, but that they crowd out the information required to interpret them responsibly www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinio...
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I would pay considerable amounts of money to secure a second passport or at least a resident visa 🛂 I am constrained, but necessarily by wealth, but by contrary opinion within my household regarding the relative merits of living within and outside the United States
December 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I would pay considerable amounts of money to secure a second passport or at least a resident visa 🛂 I am constrained, but necessarily by wealth, but by contrary opinion within my household regarding the relative merits of living within and outside the United States
A brain drain is coming for America — and it’s going to be catastrophic 🧠 > 🇺🇸 ‘The new American Dream is leaving America.’ Parents, students, professors, and retirees are planning to say goodbye to the United States in the near future www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
A catastrophic brain drain is coming for America
From social media to immigration offices, a new phrase is becoming more and more popular: ‘The new American Dream is leaving America.’ Holly Baxter reports on parents, students, professors, and retire...
www.independent.co.uk
December 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
A brain drain is coming for America — and it’s going to be catastrophic 🧠 > 🇺🇸 ‘The new American Dream is leaving America.’ Parents, students, professors, and retirees are planning to say goodbye to the United States in the near future www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump seems not to grasp the difference between respect and fear. Because he has surrounded himself with fawning toadies, no one has explained it to him. 🐔🌮🍊🤡 Trump absurdly believes that people respect you when they kiss your ass chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
Trump can't tell difference between fear and respect
There has never been a president who has made the U.S. less respected than Donald Trump.
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December 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Trump seems not to grasp the difference between respect and fear. Because he has surrounded himself with fawning toadies, no one has explained it to him. 🐔🌮🍊🤡 Trump absurdly believes that people respect you when they kiss your ass chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
Slow science: The Beal experiment at Michigan State University 🌱 In 1879 a scientist buried bottles filled with seeds. Every 20 years, one is dug up and studied. www.upworthy.com/in-1879-a-sc...
In 1879 a scientist buried bottles filled with seeds. Every 20 years, one is dug up and studied.
This incredibly long-running experiment will come to an end around 2100.
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December 27, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Slow science: The Beal experiment at Michigan State University 🌱 In 1879 a scientist buried bottles filled with seeds. Every 20 years, one is dug up and studied. www.upworthy.com/in-1879-a-sc...
Sales of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) soared when Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election. Nearly a year into Trump's second administration — and 50 years since Arendt’s death — it is a good time to see how the book explains 2025. theconversation.com/how-hannah-a...
How Hannah Arendt can help us understand this new age of far-right populism
One of the main lessons of Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism is that we must actively think in the now, and try to grasp new realities on their own terms.
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December 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Sales of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) soared when Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election. Nearly a year into Trump's second administration — and 50 years since Arendt’s death — it is a good time to see how the book explains 2025. theconversation.com/how-hannah-a...
Trump's 'Liberation Day' Tariffs Worked — They Liberated Americans From Their Jobs 🐔🌮🍊🤡 Trump’s economy since he imposed tariffs has created one-tenth of the jobs per month as Biden’s economy, while manufacturing has lost jobs each month www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump's 'Liberation Day' Tariffs Worked — They Liberated Americans From Their Jobs
Trump’s economy since he imposed tariffs has created one-tenth of the jobs per month as Biden’s economy, while manufacturing has lost jobs each month.
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December 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Trump's 'Liberation Day' Tariffs Worked — They Liberated Americans From Their Jobs 🐔🌮🍊🤡 Trump’s economy since he imposed tariffs has created one-tenth of the jobs per month as Biden’s economy, while manufacturing has lost jobs each month www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Aphorisms are concise, catchy, easily consumable. But so much discourse is anti-aphoristic — rage bait, trash talk, knee-jerk toxicity, gauzy affirmations, hashtag claptrap. AI promises to reduce our cognitive loads to zero by doing all of our creative thinking. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Aphoristic Intelligence Beats Artificial Intelligence
It’s not just okay for some things in life to be hard—it’s essential.
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December 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Aphorisms are concise, catchy, easily consumable. But so much discourse is anti-aphoristic — rage bait, trash talk, knee-jerk toxicity, gauzy affirmations, hashtag claptrap. AI promises to reduce our cognitive loads to zero by doing all of our creative thinking. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Magdalena Samozwaniec: Love is that short period of time when someone else holds the same opinion of us as we do of ourselves 💞
December 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Magdalena Samozwaniec: Love is that short period of time when someone else holds the same opinion of us as we do of ourselves 💞
Daniel Patrick Moynihan does not belong to some distant past. America is still experiencing the effects of the liberation movements that began in the 1960s. The battle that he chronicled between the regulars and reformers within his party has never entirely ended. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
To Understand Today’s Left, Remember Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Can the late senator show his party how to win again?
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December 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Daniel Patrick Moynihan does not belong to some distant past. America is still experiencing the effects of the liberation movements that began in the 1960s. The battle that he chronicled between the regulars and reformers within his party has never entirely ended. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...