Kris Stern
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Kris Stern
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· Feb 28
Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova during today’s Oval Office meeting with President Trump, VP Vance and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy. (via White House pool)
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Our shame continues.
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I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
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Polish Foreign Minister replies to Musk: 🇵🇱
December 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Polish Foreign Minister replies to Musk: 🇵🇱
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NYT: “.. a wave of companies have begun petitioning officials” for tariff relief. “Businesses that depend on foreign materials .. argue that tariffs .. are simply raising consumer prices .. rather than encouraging more manufacturing ..”
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December 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
NYT: “.. a wave of companies have begun petitioning officials” for tariff relief. “Businesses that depend on foreign materials .. argue that tariffs .. are simply raising consumer prices .. rather than encouraging more manufacturing ..”
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“..’There’s some short-lived relief I think that it wasn’t Paramount, and Bari won’t be our boss,’ another staffer said.”
@washingtonpost.com $WBD
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December 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
“..’There’s some short-lived relief I think that it wasn’t Paramount, and Bari won’t be our boss,’ another staffer said.”
@washingtonpost.com $WBD
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@washingtonpost.com $WBD
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Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱
December 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱
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“.. Federal data shows corporate investment levels are roughly in line with last year, with companies on track to invest over $5 trillion in 2025. The $20 trillion surge Mr. Trump has claimed does not appear in the available data.”
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December 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
“.. Federal data shows corporate investment levels are roughly in line with last year, with companies on track to invest over $5 trillion in 2025. The $20 trillion surge Mr. Trump has claimed does not appear in the available data.”
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After months of holding steady, Trump’s approval rating has slid to the lowest of his second term in recent weeks as voters sour on his handling of the economy, according to a @nytimes analysis of public polling. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
Trump’s Approval Rating Dips as Views of His Handling of the Economy Sour
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
After months of holding steady, Trump’s approval rating has slid to the lowest of his second term in recent weeks as voters sour on his handling of the economy, according to a @nytimes analysis of public polling. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
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"If you do a Google search for 'ICE raid this is what I voted for' you will get a quick sense of how MAGA supporters are celebrating the cruelty of Trump’s deportation regime."
Good @sykescharlie.bsky.social roundup on MAGA sadism here (includes our pod):
charliesykes.substack.com/p/the-derang...
Good @sykescharlie.bsky.social roundup on MAGA sadism here (includes our pod):
charliesykes.substack.com/p/the-derang...
The Derangement of the Conservative Mind (Cont'd)
Plus: MAGA embraces the bloodlust
charliesykes.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"If you do a Google search for 'ICE raid this is what I voted for' you will get a quick sense of how MAGA supporters are celebrating the cruelty of Trump’s deportation regime."
Good @sykescharlie.bsky.social roundup on MAGA sadism here (includes our pod):
charliesykes.substack.com/p/the-derang...
Good @sykescharlie.bsky.social roundup on MAGA sadism here (includes our pod):
charliesykes.substack.com/p/the-derang...
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It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner
US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.
www.bbc.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
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If your appointment is invalid, you never had the job in the first place.
Just legal Calvinball. Obviously lawless.
December 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
If your appointment is invalid, you never had the job in the first place.
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“You mentioned ‘the President’s agenda’. Who could know what that is? The agenda seems to be: line your pockets, please Donald Trump, don’t get fired, and take the government jet to go see your girlfriend.” — Tom Nichols
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December 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“You mentioned ‘the President’s agenda’. Who could know what that is? The agenda seems to be: line your pockets, please Donald Trump, don’t get fired, and take the government jet to go see your girlfriend.” — Tom Nichols
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Here's a better headline for Axios: "How Trump has normalized racism and racist slurs." Why can't some journalists just call a thing what it is? https://loom.ly/hiKWr58
How Trump flipped America's race conversation
Language that once was disqualifying is now a fixture of national political discourse.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Here's a better headline for Axios: "How Trump has normalized racism and racist slurs." Why can't some journalists just call a thing what it is? https://loom.ly/hiKWr58
“Trump’s eight power flows: expansion, destruction, rule by Executive Order, unification as forced capitulation, erasing inconvenient truths, retribution, militarization, and brand-marking the White House are an authoritarian consolidation of power in the person of Donald Trump.“
“.. Trump desperately wants to be that hero, someone history can never forget. ..
“.. 𝘕𝘰𝘯 𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘴 𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘮 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘪 𝘐𝘰𝘣 .. There is no power on earth to be compared to him).”
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“.. 𝘕𝘰𝘯 𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘴 𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘮 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘪 𝘐𝘰𝘣 .. There is no power on earth to be compared to him).”
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Trump is or is becoming the Leviathan
And it's really not good
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December 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
“Trump’s eight power flows: expansion, destruction, rule by Executive Order, unification as forced capitulation, erasing inconvenient truths, retribution, militarization, and brand-marking the White House are an authoritarian consolidation of power in the person of Donald Trump.“
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My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
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Trump brands himself around peace while threatening war.
The "Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace" and his FIFA peace prize arrived as Trump issues new threats and his "Department of War" touts its lethal strikes.
"Orwellian is about the nicest term I can come up with,” @coons.senate.gov told me.
The "Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace" and his FIFA peace prize arrived as Trump issues new threats and his "Department of War" touts its lethal strikes.
"Orwellian is about the nicest term I can come up with,” @coons.senate.gov told me.
Trump wants to be known as a peacemaker while frequently threatening war
The president talks frequently of his desire for more peace. He also likes talking like a warmonger.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Trump brands himself around peace while threatening war.
The "Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace" and his FIFA peace prize arrived as Trump issues new threats and his "Department of War" touts its lethal strikes.
"Orwellian is about the nicest term I can come up with,” @coons.senate.gov told me.
The "Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace" and his FIFA peace prize arrived as Trump issues new threats and his "Department of War" touts its lethal strikes.
"Orwellian is about the nicest term I can come up with,” @coons.senate.gov told me.
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I wish this were an exaggeration of the new US National Security Strategy. It isn’t.
The NSS makes clear: The US sees as its partner not the people who actually govern Europe, but the factions there aligned with the global far-Right.
‘Sovereignty’, excepting the US, is goodspeak for satrapy.
The NSS makes clear: The US sees as its partner not the people who actually govern Europe, but the factions there aligned with the global far-Right.
‘Sovereignty’, excepting the US, is goodspeak for satrapy.
I am ratcheting down my social media, but let me just say that all European leaders except on the far Right should note that the U.S. now seeks regime change in their country; basically seeks to depose them. US strategy is to support the political forces that threaten liberal democracy in Europe.
Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I wish this were an exaggeration of the new US National Security Strategy. It isn’t.
The NSS makes clear: The US sees as its partner not the people who actually govern Europe, but the factions there aligned with the global far-Right.
‘Sovereignty’, excepting the US, is goodspeak for satrapy.
The NSS makes clear: The US sees as its partner not the people who actually govern Europe, but the factions there aligned with the global far-Right.
‘Sovereignty’, excepting the US, is goodspeak for satrapy.
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NEW: The Worst Part of Pete Hegseth’s Very Bad Week
Lawmakers are finally waking up to the problems the defense secretary has created www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Lawmakers are finally waking up to the problems the defense secretary has created www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Pete Hegseth Is Seriously Testing Trump’s ‘No Scalps’ Rule
Lawmakers are finally waking up to the problems the defense secretary has created.
www.theatlantic.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
NEW: The Worst Part of Pete Hegseth’s Very Bad Week
Lawmakers are finally waking up to the problems the defense secretary has created www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Lawmakers are finally waking up to the problems the defense secretary has created www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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December 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Trump’s Security Strategy Focuses on Profit, Not Spreading Democracy
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Todd Blanche is now warning lawyers who criticize Trump's Justice Department:
The DOJ's No. 2 official suggested that lawyers might have a harder time winning lenient treatment for corporate clients if they've publicly accused the Trump administration of being lax on white-collar crime.
The DOJ's No. 2 official suggested that lawyers might have a harder time winning lenient treatment for corporate clients if they've publicly accused the Trump administration of being lax on white-collar crime.
Blanche warns lawyers who criticize Justice Department
DOJ’s No. 2 official said says prosecutors see "inconsistency" in attorneys’ private pleas and public commentary.
www.politico.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Todd Blanche is now warning lawyers who criticize Trump's Justice Department:
The DOJ's No. 2 official suggested that lawyers might have a harder time winning lenient treatment for corporate clients if they've publicly accused the Trump administration of being lax on white-collar crime.
The DOJ's No. 2 official suggested that lawyers might have a harder time winning lenient treatment for corporate clients if they've publicly accused the Trump administration of being lax on white-collar crime.
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How is U.S. military killing these 11 people keeping drugs (fentanyl) out of the United States?
USG knew the drugs (cocaine) were headed to Suriname.
Yes, that's the OTHER DIRECTION.
Read what Bradley-Caine told lawmakers:
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USG knew the drugs (cocaine) were headed to Suriname.
Yes, that's the OTHER DIRECTION.
Read what Bradley-Caine told lawmakers:
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Exclusive: Boat at center of double-tap strike controversy was meeting vessel headed to Suriname, admiral told lawmakers | CNN Politics
The alleged drug traffickers killed by the US military in a strike on September 2 were heading to link up with another, larger vessel that was bound for Suriname — a small South American country east ...
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December 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
How is U.S. military killing these 11 people keeping drugs (fentanyl) out of the United States?
USG knew the drugs (cocaine) were headed to Suriname.
Yes, that's the OTHER DIRECTION.
Read what Bradley-Caine told lawmakers:
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USG knew the drugs (cocaine) were headed to Suriname.
Yes, that's the OTHER DIRECTION.
Read what Bradley-Caine told lawmakers:
Scoop by @natashabertrand.bsky.social
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NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse.
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
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The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
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December 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse.
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
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The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
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NYT: “.. the waving by the survivors could have been an attempt to surrender, which could raise questions about whether the military had violated the rules of armed conflict ..”
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December 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
NYT: “.. the waving by the survivors could have been an attempt to surrender, which could raise questions about whether the military had violated the rules of armed conflict ..”
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Occam’s razor prevails, says the news org that settled with Dominion Voting System for $787M
December 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Occam’s razor prevails, says the news org that settled with Dominion Voting System for $787M
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NBC NEWS: Jack Smith’s final report “said that Trump ‘inspired his supporters to commit acts of physical violence’ by spreading ‘demonstrably and, in many cases, obviously false’ claims about the 2020 election.”
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December 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
NBC NEWS: Jack Smith’s final report “said that Trump ‘inspired his supporters to commit acts of physical violence’ by spreading ‘demonstrably and, in many cases, obviously false’ claims about the 2020 election.”
@ryanjreilly.com
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