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Grant Lorrell
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Still grumbling
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Jan 1: this is the year of new Me

Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
January 1, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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One of Mayor Mamdani's core political beliefs is that there's no contradiction between opposing antisemitism and supporting anti-Zionism.

That's why he repealed Adams' executive orders mandating the IHRA definition and banning BDS but he's keeping the Mayor's Office to Combat Antisemitism.
January 2, 2026 at 5:46 AM
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There's a correlation, not a contradiction; normal conservatives are just dumb and racist, any conservative who has been called a "bold, innovative thinker" by the NYT has wet dreams of being a death camp commandant.
January 2, 2026 at 5:44 AM
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80% of “mild mannered” conservative twitter people have gone full Nazi
I was wondering why their is so much random racist discourse on Somalis on the TL rn but oh it’s election season for governor rn lol
January 2, 2026 at 5:41 AM
I've become a broken record on this, but I'll keep beating the drum that it is fully within Congress's powers to establish an ad-hoc court.

The entire ICE agency (and DHS more broadly for that matter) should be dragged in front of a Nuremburg-style court for criminal proceedings.
Special prosecutors on day 1. Everyone in this administration who broke laws— including every ICE agent who ever kidnapped anyone— must go to prison. All of Epstein’s buddies prosecuted too, Democrat or Republican doesn’t matter.

Has to be this way or this country won’t survive.
No but really my fear is that the next democrat in the White House will be conciliatory and deliberate when what we need is a chainsaw and some sage.
January 2, 2026 at 1:09 AM
James Chace's "1912"
Ok, everyone, what book is sacred enough to you to get sworn in on?
Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
January 2, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Every accusation is a confession with that crowd, example #3,300
Drake and Adin Ross along with others are being hit with a Federal RICO case involving a tipping feature on Stake to transfer money among themselves, which was then used to artificially inflate Drake’s music streams across major distribution platforms. And, people questioned Kendrick.
January 1, 2026 at 11:34 PM
January 1, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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New York Times editorial board fucking S E E T H I N G at this callout rn
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:45 PM
This is definitely a key point that gets underdiscussed. There are of course popular Democratic figures who are decent-to-good at comms (AOC, Bernie, Crockett, etc). But a supremely gifted orator who can command & elevate the mood of an entire audience with a single speech is incredibly rare.
It feels like ages since we’ve heard anyone in elected office with any real command of the old American art of rhetoric. In my lifetime, I think Obama is probably the only other prominent example.
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM
"For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty" 🔊🔊🔊

WHACK THEM AGAIN!!!
January 1, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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"There will be Palestinian New Yorkers in Bay Ridge who will no longer have to contend with a politics of universalism and then makes them the exception" receives ovation.
January 1, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Bernie's speech is fine, but having to follow Jumane's barnburner is a bit of a letdown.
January 1, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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If strange Black men were doing this, the National guard would be deployed.
January 1, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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I guess some folks are comfortable with strange white men breaking into daycare centers in a country where white men are disproportionately mass killers.
January 1, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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"That's the thing about uncertainty—anything can happen, but anything CAN happen."

—Jumaane Williams, in his inaugural speech just now.
January 1, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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Conservative outlets love this pocket-watching hypocrisy trope, especially as some sort of gotcha for WOC, by willfully conflating left politics with forced universal aceticism.

To them, socialists are not supposed to be stylish or attractive. Rama's both, and on her own terms, not maga aesthetic.
New York Post looks normal
January 1, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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All other things put aside, the fact is that just a few years ago the views Mamdani holds on Palestine would have rendered him persona non grata and now they do not. The establishment has to contend with him. To what extent he then in turn has to contend with the establishment is still undetermined.
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who didn't endorse Zohran Mamdani for mayor, is expected to attend his inauguration at City Hall set to start shortly, per a source.

Schumer will be seated on the dais with other top pols.
January 1, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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Racist agitprop to support tradwife subsidies, leftishly
January 1, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Apparently the Kendrick snippet that Sounwave teased was sampling "Nights Over Egypt"??" 👀

Hoo boy, if we get an R&B/Funk project next I will levitate right off the Earth's surface.
January 1, 2026 at 8:26 AM
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Should be a bombshell but basically totally MIA from the NYT. An interesting decision by them!
On Jack Smith deposition, now released:

100% obvious why GOP refused to allow this as open testimony, aired live. It's damning.

Testimony from John Dean or Alex ("wiretaps") Butterfield in Watergate days would have 1/10th the impact if just in print.

What Smith says is far more incriminating.
December 31, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The ratings dip a few years ago was taken as definitive proof by many in sports media that the league was "dying", resulting in a litany of grievances as to why that supposedly was. Yet as ratings have objectively rebounded, that same crowd has suddenly gone mute. Curious! 🧐
December 31, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Something that many (at least online) seem to forget it how high this man was flying in January and where he is now. Yes he is richer and still terrible but the Tesla protests pierced the sense that he was beyond reach. And that matters a lot. Thanks to everyone who joined those ongoing protests.
Elon Musk promised a lot of things by 2025

- colonists arriving on Mars
- xAI achieving AGI
- Tesla robotaxis serving half the U.S.
- completely driverless robotaxis
- a Tesla Roadster demo
- DOGE cutting trillions

none of them happened
mashable.com/article/elon-mus...
Everything Elon Musk promised in 2025, but didn't deliver
Musk is now infamous for his false promises, but even this is excessive.
mashable.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:06 PM