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Don't buy the canard that this is about Charlie Kirk. Abusing state power to lean on corporate leaders and get Jimmy Kimmel off the air because he told jokes about the president and made him feel bad was always the plan.
This is about the consolidation & transformation of media/information space into state media via private ownership.
Murdoch owns Fox, the Wall St Journal, & the NY Post.
Ellison owns CBS and soon TikTok.
Zuck owns FB/Insta/WhatsApp.
Musk owns X.
Bezos owns the WP.
Disney/Comcast cower in fear.
Murdoch owns Fox, the Wall St Journal, & the NY Post.
Ellison owns CBS and soon TikTok.
Zuck owns FB/Insta/WhatsApp.
Musk owns X.
Bezos owns the WP.
Disney/Comcast cower in fear.
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Literally exactly what the Founders worried about. Exactly.
A foreign country bribed the president with a bar of gold.
Where are my Originalists at?
Where are my Originalists at?
"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
November 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Literally exactly what the Founders worried about. Exactly.
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A foreign country bribed the president with a bar of gold.
Where are my Originalists at?
Where are my Originalists at?
"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
A foreign country bribed the president with a bar of gold.
Where are my Originalists at?
Where are my Originalists at?
The Republican Party under Trump is a criminal enterprise
This is so so disturbing. Trump is now pardoning January 6th rioters for unrelated crimes, just to reward them for their violence to keep him in power.
The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.
The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.
Trump re-pardons a Jan. 6 defendant to erase unrelated gun conviction
November 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The Republican Party under Trump is a criminal enterprise
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A former career DOJ guy told me a few weeks ago that prior to Trump, the FBI was the varsity team, DHI and ICE were junior varsity, and Border Patrol were like a drunken office softball team. And under Trump, the drunk softball guys are now in charge.
Listen to this Border Patrol agent cry about how he's going to be DOXXED after being arrested for drunkenly barging into a woman's restroom with a loaded gun, demanding a date from the woman inside, and then punching the arresting officers.
November 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
A former career DOJ guy told me a few weeks ago that prior to Trump, the FBI was the varsity team, DHI and ICE were junior varsity, and Border Patrol were like a drunken office softball team. And under Trump, the drunk softball guys are now in charge.
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Occasional reminder that not only is the use of force illegal in this situation, so is the *threat* of the use of force.
The country's largest aircraft carrier is expected to join thousands of service members in the northern Caribbean Sunday. But it's unclear if President Trump will use military force. n.pr/47XHvV3
U.S. official says the 'table is being set' for possible military action against Venezuela
The country's largest aircraft carrier is expected to join thousands of service members in the northern Caribbean Sunday. But it's unclear if President Trump will use military force.
n.pr
November 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Occasional reminder that not only is the use of force illegal in this situation, so is the *threat* of the use of force.
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Hi. Mike here. Listen to me very carefully. After I'm gone, if anyone, anywhere, for any reason, attempts to use some piece of shit AI app/bot/thing to play a video of me weighing in on literally any topic, I would like you all to seize their device and smash it with a hammer.
November 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Hi. Mike here. Listen to me very carefully. After I'm gone, if anyone, anywhere, for any reason, attempts to use some piece of shit AI app/bot/thing to play a video of me weighing in on literally any topic, I would like you all to seize their device and smash it with a hammer.
Our first step of addressing elite impunity should be firing Democratic staffers and campaign consultants who say Epstein is a sideshow.
Then we might actually be able to address elite impunity.
Then we might actually be able to address elite impunity.
made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow
The usual suspects are telling Dems that Epstein won’t win elections, get back to “affordability” and I think my head might explode. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...
November 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Our first step of addressing elite impunity should be firing Democratic staffers and campaign consultants who say Epstein is a sideshow.
Then we might actually be able to address elite impunity.
Then we might actually be able to address elite impunity.
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The usual suspects are telling Dems that Epstein won’t win elections, get back to “affordability” and I think my head might explode. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...
Force A Referendum On The Epstein Coverup
It divides Republicans much more than "affordability" or any other economic issue.
www.offmessage.net
November 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The usual suspects are telling Dems that Epstein won’t win elections, get back to “affordability” and I think my head might explode. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...
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AI in education is being treated as an unbelievable, better-than-Covid opportunity for profitmaking by the exploitative, predatory, extractive edtech industry
November 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
AI in education is being treated as an unbelievable, better-than-Covid opportunity for profitmaking by the exploitative, predatory, extractive edtech industry
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AI in education is not saving time but the subject of unbelievably time-consuming efforts, paperwork and rule-setting
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
AI in education is not saving time but the subject of unbelievably time-consuming efforts, paperwork and rule-setting
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AI in education is mobilized as a way to mitigate funding shortages in institutions (ie redundancies)
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
AI in education is mobilized as a way to mitigate funding shortages in institutions (ie redundancies)
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Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...
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AI in education is treated as the future of education when it actually represents very old ideas of individualized learning
November 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
AI in education is treated as the future of education when it actually represents very old ideas of individualized learning
So she completely lied in her “coming clean” process and has been rewarded by continuing to be allowed to work in an industry that ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT NEED more people like her working in it…
November 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
So she completely lied in her “coming clean” process and has been rewarded by continuing to be allowed to work in an industry that ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT NEED more people like her working in it…
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Shame needs to make a roaring comeback. Not just shame, but "you have dishonored me/my family/my little dog" posturing followed by aggressive immediate teeth-inna-gutter consequences.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Shame needs to make a roaring comeback. Not just shame, but "you have dishonored me/my family/my little dog" posturing followed by aggressive immediate teeth-inna-gutter consequences.
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"We covered this city for a living and love it, and we want you to know that what’s happening here is not normal. It’s eroding all of our rights and should be a warning to other cities that find themselves enveloped in an ICE storm."
"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong."
Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
November 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
"We covered this city for a living and love it, and we want you to know that what’s happening here is not normal. It’s eroding all of our rights and should be a warning to other cities that find themselves enveloped in an ICE storm."
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Between the Epstein birthday book and these emails it’d becoming increasingly difficult to accept that anyone hung out with Jeff because of his wit and conversational skills
November 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Between the Epstein birthday book and these emails it’d becoming increasingly difficult to accept that anyone hung out with Jeff because of his wit and conversational skills
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Jesus Christ, I would have been fired into the sun by the US Attorney if I pulled this shit
November 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Jesus Christ, I would have been fired into the sun by the US Attorney if I pulled this shit
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once again: it turns out that the actual execution of policy matters more than topline numbers or optimistic press releases
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed 4 years ago. In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social we study its effects.
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
Federal Infrastructure Spending on Transportation, Four Years after the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is up for reauthorization in 2026. New analysis shows that the act increased spending on transportation infrastructure, but…
www.urban.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
once again: it turns out that the actual execution of policy matters more than topline numbers or optimistic press releases
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Also we have to talk about how journalist now refuse to simply stay fact without having an outside authority saying that a duck is a duck.
It's the normalization of nihilism. Nothing is true, everything is just opinion.
It's the normalization of nihilism. Nothing is true, everything is just opinion.
Media standards:
1) No Democratic scandal on par with Trump-Epstein, so it’d be biased and unfair to five it much attention.
2) Trump wouldn’t be shamed into resigning and his cult of personality wouldn’t abandon him, so Trump-Epstein wasn’t worth pursuing.
Way too many think that’s journalism.
1) No Democratic scandal on par with Trump-Epstein, so it’d be biased and unfair to five it much attention.
2) Trump wouldn’t be shamed into resigning and his cult of personality wouldn’t abandon him, so Trump-Epstein wasn’t worth pursuing.
Way too many think that’s journalism.
November 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Also we have to talk about how journalist now refuse to simply stay fact without having an outside authority saying that a duck is a duck.
It's the normalization of nihilism. Nothing is true, everything is just opinion.
It's the normalization of nihilism. Nothing is true, everything is just opinion.
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it’s awfully clear now how much the media handed Trump the election
November 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
it’s awfully clear now how much the media handed Trump the election
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It’s hard to imagine what could ever bring down a president again if an infamous pedophile sex trafficker writing that the president was doing sex crimes at his house doesn’t meet the standard. That’s sort of a point of no return in a presidency full of them.
November 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
It’s hard to imagine what could ever bring down a president again if an infamous pedophile sex trafficker writing that the president was doing sex crimes at his house doesn’t meet the standard. That’s sort of a point of no return in a presidency full of them.
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
Which is why I no longer have any desire to save old journalistic institutions from themselves.
Renewing our democracy will require a thriving press, but it will not be helped by anyone who thinks this line of thinking is at all relevant to doing journalism.
Renewing our democracy will require a thriving press, but it will not be helped by anyone who thinks this line of thinking is at all relevant to doing journalism.
Media standards:
1) No Democratic scandal on par with Trump-Epstein, so it’d be biased and unfair to five it much attention.
2) Trump wouldn’t be shamed into resigning and his cult of personality wouldn’t abandon him, so Trump-Epstein wasn’t worth pursuing.
Way too many think that’s journalism.
1) No Democratic scandal on par with Trump-Epstein, so it’d be biased and unfair to five it much attention.
2) Trump wouldn’t be shamed into resigning and his cult of personality wouldn’t abandon him, so Trump-Epstein wasn’t worth pursuing.
Way too many think that’s journalism.
November 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Which is why I no longer have any desire to save old journalistic institutions from themselves.
Renewing our democracy will require a thriving press, but it will not be helped by anyone who thinks this line of thinking is at all relevant to doing journalism.
Renewing our democracy will require a thriving press, but it will not be helped by anyone who thinks this line of thinking is at all relevant to doing journalism.