Jonathan M. Katz
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Jonathan M. Katz
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· Nov 10
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The neo-Nazi groyper scumbags who make this stuff are zero percent religious, not a smidgen of pious feeling in their rotted souls. They say it for one reason: making intentional mockery of the Constitution and to directly spit on people who aren’t Christian, especially Jews.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The neo-Nazi groyper scumbags who make this stuff are zero percent religious, not a smidgen of pious feeling in their rotted souls. They say it for one reason: making intentional mockery of the Constitution and to directly spit on people who aren’t Christian, especially Jews.
I’m in the “listening to various versions of Fairytale of New York on repeat while everyone else is asleep” portion of Nittelnacht/Christmas Eve
December 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I’m in the “listening to various versions of Fairytale of New York on repeat while everyone else is asleep” portion of Nittelnacht/Christmas Eve
Pope Woke II
Pope Leo calls for kindness to strangers and the poor in Christmas message
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Pope Leo calls for kindness to strangers and the poor in Christmas message
Refusing to help those in need is tantamount to rejecting God himself, says pontiff during Christmas Eve mass
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Pope Woke II
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December 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I’m behind on Hanania’s self-reinvention tour. Is he mocking Ramos for being insufficiently “race-realist” or the pro-natalists for going too far?
December 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I’m behind on Hanania’s self-reinvention tour. Is he mocking Ramos for being insufficiently “race-realist” or the pro-natalists for going too far?
Need my agent to get me a spot on Yoto Daily
December 24, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Need my agent to get me a spot on Yoto Daily
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He is promising, on camera, to break his oath to the Constitution by illegally and unconstitutionally usurping the exclusive authority of Congress. Sprinkle in a little 'blowing up the Union' to boot
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
He is promising, on camera, to break his oath to the Constitution by illegally and unconstitutionally usurping the exclusive authority of Congress. Sprinkle in a little 'blowing up the Union' to boot
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once again you fools have prejudged someone based on their previous patterns of behavior and existing incentives
December 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
once again you fools have prejudged someone based on their previous patterns of behavior and existing incentives
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lol yeah that’s fuckin airtight wrap it up everybody no one’s ever been stupid and evil at the same time
December 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
lol yeah that’s fuckin airtight wrap it up everybody no one’s ever been stupid and evil at the same time
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There's an audio recording of him, not an aide, asking for votes to swing a state in a Presidential election and that wasn't enough to get him locked up or even keep him from the White House
As people comb the Epstein files for some crime they can get Trump on I’m thinking about how he was found with boxes of stolen top secret files in his possession and somehow that ended up being impossible to prosecute.
December 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
There's an audio recording of him, not an aide, asking for votes to swing a state in a Presidential election and that wasn't enough to get him locked up or even keep him from the White House
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That letter can’t be real, can it?
December 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
That letter can’t be real, can it?
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Everyone sat around talking about how these people were incredibly stupid and then they managed to successfully implement large swathes of the plan that they all told us they were going to execute and you really have to wonder who is the stupid in this equation
December 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Everyone sat around talking about how these people were incredibly stupid and then they managed to successfully implement large swathes of the plan that they all told us they were going to execute and you really have to wonder who is the stupid in this equation
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Read this thread on the 60 Minutes CECOT episode that aired in Canada despite Bari trying to bury it. Some horrific details and revelations. And keep in mind that the US is sending people to torture and concentration camps.
Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
December 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Read this thread on the 60 Minutes CECOT episode that aired in Canada despite Bari trying to bury it. Some horrific details and revelations. And keep in mind that the US is sending people to torture and concentration camps.
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this story has been designed in a lab to confuse foreigners
Breaking news: The Kansas City Chiefs have informed administrative officials that they will announce their move to Kansas today, according to sources who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
Read the developing story: bit.ly/4b9qGJI
Read the developing story: bit.ly/4b9qGJI
December 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
this story has been designed in a lab to confuse foreigners
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Can't remember who first made the observation, but a long-term consequence of normalizing Trump's objectively deranged rambling is that he can just utter a string of disconnected phrases and people will re-assemble it into a policy message which appeals to them.
December 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Can't remember who first made the observation, but a long-term consequence of normalizing Trump's objectively deranged rambling is that he can just utter a string of disconnected phrases and people will re-assemble it into a policy message which appeals to them.
So mucking around it looks like Trump has made some mouth noises about making government payments directly to (some people?) using HSAs, which would somehow bypass insurers (except how?) and this guy has spun that into a whole fanfic about something that is allegedly currently happening.
December 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
So mucking around it looks like Trump has made some mouth noises about making government payments directly to (some people?) using HSAs, which would somehow bypass insurers (except how?) and this guy has spun that into a whole fanfic about something that is allegedly currently happening.
I opened it to see the Hitler stuff for myself but this was funny
December 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I opened it to see the Hitler stuff for myself but this was funny
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The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.
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💰Trump’s wealth increased by about $2.5B since his reelection, to $6.9B
💰 Eric’s increased 10x, to $400M.
💰 Don Jr.’s 6x, to $300M.
💰 Barron, a college sophomore, is worth $150M.
💰 Eric’s increased 10x, to $400M.
💰 Don Jr.’s 6x, to $300M.
💰 Barron, a college sophomore, is worth $150M.
His policies are picking winners and losers — and blurring the lines between business and government. n.pr/48P2QSb
How President Trump reshaped capitalism in 2025
His policies are picking winners and losers — and blurring the lines between business and government.
n.pr
December 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
💰Trump’s wealth increased by about $2.5B since his reelection, to $6.9B
💰 Eric’s increased 10x, to $400M.
💰 Don Jr.’s 6x, to $300M.
💰 Barron, a college sophomore, is worth $150M.
💰 Eric’s increased 10x, to $400M.
💰 Don Jr.’s 6x, to $300M.
💰 Barron, a college sophomore, is worth $150M.
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as foretold by the prophesy
![Managing requires certain kinds of soft skills, ones I am not confident you possess. They weren’t necessary in your cushy Wall Street Journal op-ed job, or your cushier New York Times op-ed job. They were barely required at the publication you invented, The Free Press. So now you’re the head honcho at CBS News. [highlighted text] Let’s say you decide to skip levels to directly edit a 60 Minutes story. It doesn’t even have to be a controversial story to make all hell break loose — because you have neither the credibility nor the relationships required to take this kind of work on. And what’s more, you’ve got a news division composed exclusively of ambitious piranhas below you — not your handpicked cronies, like Tyler “I wish to see Hollywood virgins” Cowen. These people have decades in television, and you have a newsletter and a history of throwing your colleagues under the bus. [end of highlight]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j3tpb4iabrq3ukfaui6eymwf/bafkreiblgfxjkl4p7yos56wttujnqclubnwegqcdc7g74pdovoe24kzonu@jpeg)
December 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
as foretold by the prophesy
I keep waiting for this to happen, but so far there’s always been a bigger sucker
it's going to be so goddamned funny to see Bari Weiss, a lifelong contrarian mediocrity, face a reaping of her own sowing
The one smart thing the Ellisons did was turn their news business over to a completely disposable moron with no sense of self-preservation.
December 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I keep waiting for this to happen, but so far there’s always been a bigger sucker