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These people had countless prior chances to repent and join the opposition, and would have been admitted under the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" policy. They're only turning now because they are suffering, too, and their orange grifter God is bleeding. www.alternet.org/trump-voters...
'I was an idiot': Trump 'in significant trouble' as his own supporters regret their vote
“Runaway Country” Host Alex Wagner said President Donald Trump’s own voters are feeling increasingly betrayed as Trump’s slumping economy continues to turn on them.Wagner offered her opinion following...
www.alternet.org
December 16, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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December 16, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Once in a century political opportunity here, if only there were a party to claim it
"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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December 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.

Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.

All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.

All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Unbelievable - you literally wire money to some unspecified account. I assume this is so Trump can treat it as a slush fund he can deploy unconstrained by Congress (in violation of the Constitution).
December 15, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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I killed Facebook probably 7 years ago at this point, and I was a very very early Facebook user. Why is anyone with half a brain still on Facebook?
On the day of a violent antisemitic terror attack, Facebook is just feeding me blatant antisemitic conspiracies about it.
December 15, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Read this thread.

It's exactly right. But also note on the internet related stories—the banning of TikTok and the attack on Sec 230—Democrats happily helped MAGA accomplish their goals and people have cheered it on.

Democrats trying to destroy 230 are not helping you. They're helping Trump.
There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it."

It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
December 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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This week had more new measles cases than sales of “American Canto”.

Hope the media is proud.
December 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Hey we just had a bunch of Sherpas tote plutonium up a 25,000 ft mountain in India once and then we just left it up there www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device in the Himalayas? (Gift Article)
A plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the world’s highest mountains in a covert mission that the U.S. will not talk about.
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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The best way to test this is for a group of students to file complaints against every single professor on campus, leaving the school with no ability to teach at all.
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
December 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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ok so why should anyone vote for democrats
This is the vice chair of the Democrat caucus straight up saying that even if Dems win the midterms, they might not impeach Trump.
December 13, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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BTW that Erika Kirk interview was a huge success for CBS News, it went viral, just, uh, not for the reasons that Bari wanted
December 13, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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this is a 3-car pileup of
• only having one job that keeps you at the big table so you're playing it at 11 because it's already slipping away
• when you only talk to people like you so you +1 each other until you hit sephiroth
• when your AI brain's filtering that through a 100% daytime tv database
this is the cringiest shit I've ever seen
December 13, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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NEW: The Trump-Vance White House has falsely accused an ally of Pope Leo — Sr. Norma Pimentel — of illegal activity tied to migrant aid, and cut off all federal funding to Catholic Charities in Texas.

Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.
Trump-Vance White House Targets Beloved Nun in Texas, Retaliates Against Catholic Charities
Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley — praised by Pope Leo as an “agent of hope” — now faces a six-year federal funding ban. Church leaders say it’s a vendetta by the Trump-Vance White House.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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ya can't park there
December 13, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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In St. Louis, a historical marker is going up for a prison where a slave trader kept Black people he bought and sold. It’ll be located on what sits there now: a parking garage for the Cardinals baseball stadium. The team declined to contribute money toward the marker. www.stlpr.org/culture-hist...
New plaque will mark notorious St. Louis slave prison site near Busch Stadium
The bronze historical plaque will be installed at the site of a slave prison once owned by Bernard M. Lynch, a nationally known trader of enslaved men, women and children.
www.stlpr.org
December 13, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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It could have been easy for Andy Kim to not focus on fighting Democratic machines in Jersey once he won his Senate seat and defeated the Murphy Machine. But the fact he's still doing it shows he's sincere about it.
December 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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🙃
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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A classic of the genre
December 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.
December 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM