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I love how he makes all these sweeping and insulting generalizations about British people and culture while complaining that British people are being too insulting to him in the replies
November 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I love how he makes all these sweeping and insulting generalizations about British people and culture while complaining that British people are being too insulting to him in the replies
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I also accidentally wandered out of the secured zone in the Mexico City airport during a connection and had to re-enter through security. I immediately managed to understand that it was my failure to pay attention to signage, not because Mexico was experiencing civilizational collapse.
November 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I also accidentally wandered out of the secured zone in the Mexico City airport during a connection and had to re-enter through security. I immediately managed to understand that it was my failure to pay attention to signage, not because Mexico was experiencing civilizational collapse.
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Once again, if you wrote a story in which the jetsetting corrupt FBI chief took a government plane to the "Boondoggle Ranch" an editor would tell you to get a different job, because you're not cut out for writing believable stories.
New WSJ: After flying an FBI jet to see his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match, FBI director Kash Patel took the jet to a private Texas hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Kash Patel’s ‘Effin Wild’ Ride as FBI Director
In just one week in October, he ticked off his bosses with premature comments about a terror investigation squeezed in a trip to the ‘Boondoggle Ranch’ on the bureau jet.
www.wsj.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Once again, if you wrote a story in which the jetsetting corrupt FBI chief took a government plane to the "Boondoggle Ranch" an editor would tell you to get a different job, because you're not cut out for writing believable stories.
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Tricia trying to edit the tweet to say “young children,” like they’ve had to do every other time they’ve said, “we don’t do x to children.”
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Tricia trying to edit the tweet to say “young children,” like they’ve had to do every other time they’ve said, “we don’t do x to children.”
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why does transaction volume matter? Because of Prop 13, many homes are assessed *well below* their market value.
However, these homes are reassessed to their market values when they are transacted. So any decline in the transaction rate will lead to fewer reassessments and lower tax revenues
However, these homes are reassessed to their market values when they are transacted. So any decline in the transaction rate will lead to fewer reassessments and lower tax revenues
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
why does transaction volume matter? Because of Prop 13, many homes are assessed *well below* their market value.
However, these homes are reassessed to their market values when they are transacted. So any decline in the transaction rate will lead to fewer reassessments and lower tax revenues
However, these homes are reassessed to their market values when they are transacted. So any decline in the transaction rate will lead to fewer reassessments and lower tax revenues
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I am glad they have the text on the screen though
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I am glad they have the text on the screen though
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everyone is twelve
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Not even Brian likes haggling, and he may have been the messiah. Or not.
Yeah, people will be so much happier when they negotiate their own insurance because folks definitely have enough information to navigate that process without getting fleeced. And we all famously love negotiating prices - that’s why everyone loves used car salespeople.
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Not even Brian likes haggling, and he may have been the messiah. Or not.
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"They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance""
How exciting!
How exciting!
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
"They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance""
How exciting!
How exciting!
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Ominous
NEW: President Trump's pardon of his alleged 2020 co-conspirators was less about shielding them from past crimes, his adversaries say, than about signaling to others that he has their back if he needs them again in 2026 or 2028.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Ominous
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The orthogonality thesis as applied to scheming masterminds.
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The orthogonality thesis as applied to scheming masterminds.
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Even though so many of them look as if they were bullied in school…
Some of the most powerful and well-paid people in the world don't understand a lesson that every schoolchild knows: if you surrender to bullies, they will only bully you more
November 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Even though so many of them look as if they were bullied in school…
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By preemptively pardoning them, he tells the people who are now and in the future called upon to perform illegal acts for him that he has their back. This is not about Giuliani & Co, this is about the thousands of current and future ICE agents, the soldiers who execute people in the Caribbean, etc.
Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
By preemptively pardoning them, he tells the people who are now and in the future called upon to perform illegal acts for him that he has their back. This is not about Giuliani & Co, this is about the thousands of current and future ICE agents, the soldiers who execute people in the Caribbean, etc.
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Yes (but "just" seems out of place - it's a tall order!)
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Yes (but "just" seems out of place - it's a tall order!)
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Doesn’t just getting rid of the income cap extend it another couple decades?
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Doesn’t just getting rid of the income cap extend it another couple decades?
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Let me guess:
"Sell across state lines!"
"Patient-centric healthcare!"
"Portability!"
Or, if you want to go REALLY old school: "Tort reform!"
"Sell across state lines!"
"Patient-centric healthcare!"
"Portability!"
Or, if you want to go REALLY old school: "Tort reform!"
Mike Johnson on the Republican healthcare plan: "We've got notebooks full of ideas."
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Let me guess:
"Sell across state lines!"
"Patient-centric healthcare!"
"Portability!"
Or, if you want to go REALLY old school: "Tort reform!"
"Sell across state lines!"
"Patient-centric healthcare!"
"Portability!"
Or, if you want to go REALLY old school: "Tort reform!"
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So, we're fucked.
VAN SUSTEREN: Is the Republican healthcare solution going to go into effect at midnight on Dec. 31? Because people are gonna get sticker shock
MIKE JOHNSON: We have November and December to work on it
MIKE JOHNSON: We have November and December to work on it
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
So, we're fucked.
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First Trump is trying to expropriate $230M from DOJ for himself, now this
This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
First Trump is trying to expropriate $230M from DOJ for himself, now this
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I missed this awful detail in the Senate deal: helping politicians who conspired against America as part of Trump's coup hide their phone records.
That's right, as ICE brutally violates rights in ways that leave people with no recourse, the Senate found time to protect their colleagues from justice.
That's right, as ICE brutally violates rights in ways that leave people with no recourse, the Senate found time to protect their colleagues from justice.
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I missed this awful detail in the Senate deal: helping politicians who conspired against America as part of Trump's coup hide their phone records.
That's right, as ICE brutally violates rights in ways that leave people with no recourse, the Senate found time to protect their colleagues from justice.
That's right, as ICE brutally violates rights in ways that leave people with no recourse, the Senate found time to protect their colleagues from justice.
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Is that before or after we get his healthcare plan?
TRUMP: US TO LAUNCH NEW AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM WITHIN 2–3 WEEKS
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Is that before or after we get his healthcare plan?
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Seriously have no idea how you can host a major international sports even under these circumstances.
Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
NEW: British journalist Sami Hamdi is being released from US detention.
Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”
Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Seriously have no idea how you can host a major international sports even under these circumstances.
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The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target. n.pr/4qMrN7P
People want to avoid ultra-processed foods. But experts struggle to define them
The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target. n.pr/4qMrN7P
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For that matter, the ACA marketplaces literally allow you to “negotiate your own insurance” RIGHT NOW. That’s the whole point of having a marketplace: You can compare plans and pick the one you feel is the best value for your needs & budget.
November 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
For that matter, the ACA marketplaces literally allow you to “negotiate your own insurance” RIGHT NOW. That’s the whole point of having a marketplace: You can compare plans and pick the one you feel is the best value for your needs & budget.