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The beatings will continue until moral improves.
Next year's artists signed contracts to perform at "The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts." Since a venue with that name no longer exists, and one with a very division name many artists would not wish to be associated with does, they should be able to get out of their contracts.
December 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The beatings will continue until moral improves.
The next (D) president should halt federal executions and pledge not to pardon anyone for any reason.
December 28, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The next (D) president should halt federal executions and pledge not to pardon anyone for any reason.
The US and most of the world are run and ruled by minority parties or authoritarian leaders.
The **reason** for this is racism, xenophobia, and greed.
Fight the leadership, but look around in the crowd...it's those people who are screwing it up for the rest of us.
The **reason** for this is racism, xenophobia, and greed.
Fight the leadership, but look around in the crowd...it's those people who are screwing it up for the rest of us.
Russia launched large-scale overnight strikes less than 24 hours after Zelensky said he plans to meet Trump in Florida Sunday. https://cnn.it/4qsff4s
December 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The US and most of the world are run and ruled by minority parties or authoritarian leaders.
The **reason** for this is racism, xenophobia, and greed.
Fight the leadership, but look around in the crowd...it's those people who are screwing it up for the rest of us.
The **reason** for this is racism, xenophobia, and greed.
Fight the leadership, but look around in the crowd...it's those people who are screwing it up for the rest of us.
Thinking about embarrassing things...
December 27, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Thinking about embarrassing things...
This is not financial advice, but I'm long in 2026 in the guillotine market.
December 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is not financial advice, but I'm long in 2026 in the guillotine market.
✏️ I will not post bad stuff on Christmas.
✏️ I will not post bad stuff on Christmas.
✏️ I will not post bad stuff on Christmas.
✏️ I will not post bad stuff on Christmas.
✏️ I will not post bad stuff on Christmas.
✏️ I will not post bad stuff on Christmas.
✏️ I will not post bad stuff on Christmas.
December 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
✏️ I will not post bad stuff on Christmas.
✏️ I will not post bad stuff on Christmas.
✏️ I will not post bad stuff on Christmas.
✏️ I will not post bad stuff on Christmas.
✏️ I will not post bad stuff on Christmas.
✏️ I will not post bad stuff on Christmas.
✏️ I will not post bad stuff on Christmas.
While cleaning for Christmas, I found about 500 travel magazines from the last decade. I know I won't read them, so I built an app to save the covers and create an editable and shareable summary. It works on any image, but it's built for text.
Cheers!
Cheers!
Turn Magazine Covers Into Your Ideas - Magz
Snap a photo of any magazine cover to create, save, and share notes and ideas.
magz.app
December 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
While cleaning for Christmas, I found about 500 travel magazines from the last decade. I know I won't read them, so I built an app to save the covers and create an editable and shareable summary. It works on any image, but it's built for text.
Cheers!
Cheers!
The Germans do Christmas right.
Big dinner, presents, going out: 24th
Staying home, being cozy: 25th and 26th
10/10. Would recommend.
Big dinner, presents, going out: 24th
Staying home, being cozy: 25th and 26th
10/10. Would recommend.
December 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The Germans do Christmas right.
Big dinner, presents, going out: 24th
Staying home, being cozy: 25th and 26th
10/10. Would recommend.
Big dinner, presents, going out: 24th
Staying home, being cozy: 25th and 26th
10/10. Would recommend.
My secret Santa gift this year is transgender for everyone. 🎁
December 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
My secret Santa gift this year is transgender for everyone. 🎁
If I were a multi-billionaire, I would purchase as many Trump gold cards as possible for Somali students.
December 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
If I were a multi-billionaire, I would purchase as many Trump gold cards as possible for Somali students.
If you have a student loan and you do not vote against every MAGA (Republican) candidate, you deserve what happens. Because even if you're not in default, your repayments will be higher because Trump and MAGA are destroying the global economy.
Breaking News: The Trump administration said it would soon begin to garnish pay from federal student loan borrowers who are in default, stepping up a repayment enforcement effort that began this year. trib.al/9KWd6Iw
December 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
If you have a student loan and you do not vote against every MAGA (Republican) candidate, you deserve what happens. Because even if you're not in default, your repayments will be higher because Trump and MAGA are destroying the global economy.
Every kind of technology that presumably enables mobility like self driving cars, rental scooters, rental bicycles, all take away from investing in public transportation.
December 21, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Every kind of technology that presumably enables mobility like self driving cars, rental scooters, rental bicycles, all take away from investing in public transportation.
Governors should set up ICE checking task forces...specialized police that pull random ICE agents aside and check for ID, weapons licensing, outstanding warrants (you know this is a thing for sure), etc. Force those people to follow state law.
The people who are keeping Gestapo goons (=ICE & US Border Patrol)from getting enough shut eye are Great Americans
#Trump #ICEAndBorderPatrolAreUnAmericanThugsAndBullies
#Trump #ICEAndBorderPatrolAreUnAmericanThugsAndBullies
December 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Governors should set up ICE checking task forces...specialized police that pull random ICE agents aside and check for ID, weapons licensing, outstanding warrants (you know this is a thing for sure), etc. Force those people to follow state law.
I have a theory on the Trump hand bandage: it's possible during one of his idiotic, super manly handshake battles with Macron or someone, he suffered a hand injury that's getting worse. I don't believe a doctor would be jamming an IV into the same dominant hand for months and months.
December 21, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I have a theory on the Trump hand bandage: it's possible during one of his idiotic, super manly handshake battles with Macron or someone, he suffered a hand injury that's getting worse. I don't believe a doctor would be jamming an IV into the same dominant hand for months and months.
I would think that math, simple addition and subtraction, would be unassailable fact. But with Trump, nothing is safe to assume.
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 19, 2025 at 5:26 AM
I would think that math, simple addition and subtraction, would be unassailable fact. But with Trump, nothing is safe to assume.
Sometimes AI really delivers. President Plaque Brain was extra unhinged tonight.
December 18, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Sometimes AI really delivers. President Plaque Brain was extra unhinged tonight.
I plan to spend my tariff rebate beofre Christimas. That's fine, right? I mean, hell, 17 TRILLION in foreign-paid tariffs is cool, eh?
December 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I plan to spend my tariff rebate beofre Christimas. That's fine, right? I mean, hell, 17 TRILLION in foreign-paid tariffs is cool, eh?
I don't believe the racist, greedy morons that voted for Trump will learn from the impending collapse of the US economy.
Healthcare costs are going to skyrocket. Older knowledge workers will have near-zero chance for reemployment. Education costs will be a 40+ year RTO. Forget home ownership.
Healthcare costs are going to skyrocket. Older knowledge workers will have near-zero chance for reemployment. Education costs will be a 40+ year RTO. Forget home ownership.
The US gained 64,000 jobs in November but lost 105,000 in October; unemployment rate at 4.6%
The United States gained a decent 64,000 jobs in November but lost 105,000 in October as federal workers departed after cutbacks by the Trump administration, the government said in delayed reports.
apnews.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I don't believe the racist, greedy morons that voted for Trump will learn from the impending collapse of the US economy.
Healthcare costs are going to skyrocket. Older knowledge workers will have near-zero chance for reemployment. Education costs will be a 40+ year RTO. Forget home ownership.
Healthcare costs are going to skyrocket. Older knowledge workers will have near-zero chance for reemployment. Education costs will be a 40+ year RTO. Forget home ownership.
I’m fairly sure we’re going to get a war before then.
The DOJ has exactly 4 days to release the Epstein Files.
4 more days of relentless fuckery and mayhem before they violate the law or present us with useless, redacted garbage.
4 more days of relentless fuckery and mayhem before they violate the law or present us with useless, redacted garbage.
December 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I’m fairly sure we’re going to get a war before then.
I read and watch many opinions about how the United States needs to be reformed out of basic necessity, that we need a bigger tent or a “listening tour”. These things are complete fantasy. MAGA voters are motivated only by racism and greed, and no tent size will change that. They are irredeemable.
December 16, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I read and watch many opinions about how the United States needs to be reformed out of basic necessity, that we need a bigger tent or a “listening tour”. These things are complete fantasy. MAGA voters are motivated only by racism and greed, and no tent size will change that. They are irredeemable.
I think it's 50/50 Trump never builds the ballroom and just keeps the cash.
December 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I think it's 50/50 Trump never builds the ballroom and just keeps the cash.
I honestly cannot think of another ending to this story other than total uprising across the country.
The level of laughable, amateurish gaslighting is so high there is really no rhetorical position for these MAGA freaks to shift to when the end comes.
The level of laughable, amateurish gaslighting is so high there is really no rhetorical position for these MAGA freaks to shift to when the end comes.
Secretary Scott Turner: "We need to continue to deport illegals that are taking houses from the American people"
December 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I honestly cannot think of another ending to this story other than total uprising across the country.
The level of laughable, amateurish gaslighting is so high there is really no rhetorical position for these MAGA freaks to shift to when the end comes.
The level of laughable, amateurish gaslighting is so high there is really no rhetorical position for these MAGA freaks to shift to when the end comes.
Zero. Bitcoin to $0.
Ban it.
Laugh at people who think a fake currency has legitimacy.
Ban it.
Laugh at people who think a fake currency has legitimacy.
Bitcoin's 2025 rollercoaster may end on a low reut.rs/4rLceh5
Bitcoin's 2025 rollercoaster may end on a low
With a series of record highs and crushing sell-offs, 2025 has been a rollercoaster ride for bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency, which is at risk of ending the year with its first annual decline since 2022.
reut.rs
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Zero. Bitcoin to $0.
Ban it.
Laugh at people who think a fake currency has legitimacy.
Ban it.
Laugh at people who think a fake currency has legitimacy.
Hey, EU. Love the energy...yep. Ahh, but let's tighten it up, though. Deal with Orban. Sort out German transport and healthcare. Standardize retirements. Empower your central bank. Ask Norway how to adopt EVs. Make sure Spain has water. Push back on right-wing freaks. Check back with me later, OK?
The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
The US has declared rhetorical war on the EU
The calls from America this weekend to destroy the EU are revealing. They hate the union because it's the only thing that can keep European countries from being Russian or American vassals.
davekeating.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Hey, EU. Love the energy...yep. Ahh, but let's tighten it up, though. Deal with Orban. Sort out German transport and healthcare. Standardize retirements. Empower your central bank. Ask Norway how to adopt EVs. Make sure Spain has water. Push back on right-wing freaks. Check back with me later, OK?
One important thing to keep in mind: live below your means whenever you can. Saving money brings you freedom. You can only choose your own path if you have options, and those options come from having savings. Wealth inequality is getting worse, and almost everyone will suffer from it. Save money.
The only surefire way to stop oligarchs buying up the things we love is to drop those things the moment oligarchs buy them & that requires changing habits and massive self-discipline.
It means going to alternatives that might not be quite as good or convenient.
It’s really hard. But there it is.
It means going to alternatives that might not be quite as good or convenient.
It’s really hard. But there it is.
December 9, 2025 at 6:14 AM
One important thing to keep in mind: live below your means whenever you can. Saving money brings you freedom. You can only choose your own path if you have options, and those options come from having savings. Wealth inequality is getting worse, and almost everyone will suffer from it. Save money.