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Cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz | Andrews McMeel
December 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz | Andrews McMeel
"The Trumpist movement has generated a lunatic array of semiautonomous online subcultures that are largely indifferent to strategic considerations and immune from political consequences while still exercising influence over actors whose decisions are not so immune."
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Opinion | The Strange Death of Make America Great Again
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December 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
"The Trumpist movement has generated a lunatic array of semiautonomous online subcultures that are largely indifferent to strategic considerations and immune from political consequences while still exercising influence over actors whose decisions are not so immune."
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The Cracker Barrel thing was THIS YEAR. We have three more years of this shit. Anybody who makes it to 2028 without looking like Nosferatu will be required by the state to start a skincare brand.
December 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The Cracker Barrel thing was THIS YEAR. We have three more years of this shit. Anybody who makes it to 2028 without looking like Nosferatu will be required by the state to start a skincare brand.
Sooooooo which shipbuilder just made a large donation or crypto purchase?
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Trump to Announce Navy Will Buy New Class of Large Warship
The new vessels, which the president calls battleships, will be the latest in what the White House envisions as a “Golden Fleet.”
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December 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Sooooooo which shipbuilder just made a large donation or crypto purchase?
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
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Sounds like they're trying to Bari the story.
December 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Sounds like they're trying to Bari the story.
Young Turning Point conservatives sure sound like they want Democratic policies: more and higher paying jobs, affordable housing, lower energy prices and college education without going into debt.
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At Turning Point’s annual gathering, young conservatives fret about the future | CNN Politics
The mood at AmericaFest is unsettled as many of the promises Trump made to the group last year — including “lower prices,” an end to foreign wars and “generational change” — have yet to materialize.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Young Turning Point conservatives sure sound like they want Democratic policies: more and higher paying jobs, affordable housing, lower energy prices and college education without going into debt.
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Mitt Romney with a perfectly fine sentiment, but printing it in the NYTimes only ensures he reaches those who already converted.
And it seems to me, Mr. Romney knows this.
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And it seems to me, Mr. Romney knows this.
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Opinion | Mitt Romney: Tax the Rich, Like Me
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December 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Mitt Romney with a perfectly fine sentiment, but printing it in the NYTimes only ensures he reaches those who already converted.
And it seems to me, Mr. Romney knows this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
And it seems to me, Mr. Romney knows this.
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On Judge Dugan's conviction:
We live in a country where violent insurrectionists are pardoned, attempts to prosecute a former President are continually frustrated until he is ultimately deemed immune from prosecution for attempting to overthrow government and disrupt the transition of power...
We live in a country where violent insurrectionists are pardoned, attempts to prosecute a former President are continually frustrated until he is ultimately deemed immune from prosecution for attempting to overthrow government and disrupt the transition of power...
December 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
On Judge Dugan's conviction:
We live in a country where violent insurrectionists are pardoned, attempts to prosecute a former President are continually frustrated until he is ultimately deemed immune from prosecution for attempting to overthrow government and disrupt the transition of power...
We live in a country where violent insurrectionists are pardoned, attempts to prosecute a former President are continually frustrated until he is ultimately deemed immune from prosecution for attempting to overthrow government and disrupt the transition of power...
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December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Today's newsletter: The same machine that destroyed 600 lives over Charlie Kirk has nothing to say about Trump mocking Rob Reiner. www.readtpa.com/p/the-rules-...
The Rules of Grief
The post-Kirk purge was never about decency. Trump's response to Rob Reiner's murder proves it.
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December 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Today's newsletter: The same machine that destroyed 600 lives over Charlie Kirk has nothing to say about Trump mocking Rob Reiner. www.readtpa.com/p/the-rules-...
A regular profile in courage from the @opinion.bloomberg.com editorial desk.
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Boat Strikes Aren't Doing the US Military Any Favors
Briefing congressional leaders last week, a four-star admiral and Navy SEAL reportedly defended killing two survivors of a US strike on a boat suspected of ferrying drugs in the Caribbean — on the fac...
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December 13, 2025 at 1:11 AM
A regular profile in courage from the @opinion.bloomberg.com editorial desk.
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“'A 50-state patchwork is a startup killer,' Marc Andreessen of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz."
Yep. That totally kills the AI startups that are killing our kids. What an inconvenience...🙄
These people are unreal.
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Yep. That totally kills the AI startups that are killing our kids. What an inconvenience...🙄
These people are unreal.
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Trump Signs Executive Order to Neuter State A.I. Laws
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December 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
“'A 50-state patchwork is a startup killer,' Marc Andreessen of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz."
Yep. That totally kills the AI startups that are killing our kids. What an inconvenience...🙄
These people are unreal.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/t...
Yep. That totally kills the AI startups that are killing our kids. What an inconvenience...🙄
These people are unreal.
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And now, Do Kwon.
Exactly how many Stanford grads can go to prison for committing egregious criminal fraud within just a few years of graduating, before we start to openly acknowledge something is deeply, deeply broken with the culture of that institution?
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Exactly how many Stanford grads can go to prison for committing egregious criminal fraud within just a few years of graduating, before we start to openly acknowledge something is deeply, deeply broken with the culture of that institution?
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Do Kwon Gets 15 Years in Prison for $40 Billion Terraform Fraud
Terraform Labs Pte. co-founder and onetime fugitive Do Kwon was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the fraud that led to the company’s $40 billion collapse in 2022 and triggered a series of cascading...
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December 11, 2025 at 10:59 PM
And now, Do Kwon.
Exactly how many Stanford grads can go to prison for committing egregious criminal fraud within just a few years of graduating, before we start to openly acknowledge something is deeply, deeply broken with the culture of that institution?
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Exactly how many Stanford grads can go to prison for committing egregious criminal fraud within just a few years of graduating, before we start to openly acknowledge something is deeply, deeply broken with the culture of that institution?
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Huh. OpenAI users can now generate content with 200 Disney characters? Hope folks are buckled up for some weird stuff!
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Disney to Invest $1 Billion in OpenAI, License Characters for Use in ChatGPT, Sora
The three-year licensing deal will let users generate videos of more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar characters.
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December 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Huh. OpenAI users can now generate content with 200 Disney characters? Hope folks are buckled up for some weird stuff!
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"Trump: Asleep on the Job. Literally."
That could be a sticky mid-term campaign slogan.
And it works for all Republicans!
That could be a sticky mid-term campaign slogan.
And it works for all Republicans!
Mark Kelly: “Jobs are down. Wages are flat. Costs are up & this President is asleep — Like literally, he’s falling asleep on the job. It’s hurting the American people — He’s doing nothing to try to help people with the cost of groceries, rent, & healthcare”
December 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"Trump: Asleep on the Job. Literally."
That could be a sticky mid-term campaign slogan.
And it works for all Republicans!
That could be a sticky mid-term campaign slogan.
And it works for all Republicans!
"People who have seen the video disagree..."
Some of them see two survivors waving for help. And others see an invitation to commit a second war crime.
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Some of them see two survivors waving for help. And others see an invitation to commit a second war crime.
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Drug-Boat Attack Survivors Waved as U.S. Aircraft Flew By, Video Shows
People who have seen the video disagree over the meaning of the signal from the alleged traffickers.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM
"People who have seen the video disagree..."
Some of them see two survivors waving for help. And others see an invitation to commit a second war crime.
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Some of them see two survivors waving for help. And others see an invitation to commit a second war crime.
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"Hegseth Ordered a Lethal Attack but Not the Killing of Survivors, Hegseth Says"
Fixed your headline!
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Fixed your headline!
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Hegseth Ordered a Lethal Attack but Not the Killing of Survivors, Officials Say
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December 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"Hegseth Ordered a Lethal Attack but Not the Killing of Survivors, Hegseth Says"
Fixed your headline!
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Fixed your headline!
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Why is Luke Wilson on my TV playing cowboy for AT&T?
November 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Why is Luke Wilson on my TV playing cowboy for AT&T?
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If telling the troops not to follow illegal orders is “sedition,” what do we call colluding with the Kremlin to manipulate the U.S. President into advancing Russian interests over America’s?
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
If telling the troops not to follow illegal orders is “sedition,” what do we call colluding with the Kremlin to manipulate the U.S. President into advancing Russian interests over America’s?
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“OpenAI is a money pit with a website on top.”
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“OpenAI is a money pit with a website on top.”
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Here’s the plaque at West Point with the relevant text highlighted
November 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Here’s the plaque at West Point with the relevant text highlighted
Can we stop make believing that him-bo Jared is doing anything? At best, that man-child is a scrivener, taking down the demands of the worst people on earth.
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Secret US-Russia Talks Led to Plan That Blindsided Ukraine
The controversial 28-point plan dropped suddenly by the Trump administration to Ukraine as a take-it-or-leave it proposition mere days ago was mostly the result of several weeks of negotiations behind...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Can we stop make believing that him-bo Jared is doing anything? At best, that man-child is a scrivener, taking down the demands of the worst people on earth.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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David Brooks with the courage to ask, who really even cares if Trump participated in a global child sex trafficking ring?
😳🙄🤯
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😳🙄🤯
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Opinion | The Epstein Story? Count Me Out.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
David Brooks with the courage to ask, who really even cares if Trump participated in a global child sex trafficking ring?
😳🙄🤯
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😳🙄🤯
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Honest question: is Tim Cook a scumbag?
Because he sure seems to show up with other scumbags with increasing frequency.
Because he sure seems to show up with other scumbags with increasing frequency.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Honest question: is Tim Cook a scumbag?
Because he sure seems to show up with other scumbags with increasing frequency.
Because he sure seems to show up with other scumbags with increasing frequency.