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The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
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Just by sheer chance we are always exactly one vote short of doing good stuff, and one vote over the line to do bad stuff.
Nancy Mace is expected to pull her support for the petition to release the Epstein Files, the day before Adelita Grijalva is sworn in.
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Just by sheer chance we are always exactly one vote short of doing good stuff, and one vote over the line to do bad stuff.
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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If I give the bully my lunch money every day eventually he will die of old age
March 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM
If I give the bully my lunch money every day eventually he will die of old age
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he's just proved you can steamroll your way through shit that virtually everyone agrees fucking sucks. he's literally razing the institutions. there's fertile ground for a new order literally there to be tilled. "lets calibrate a new bland bipartisanship" is like a message from a lost civilization
Say what you want about the guy but the public has been clamoring for a different politics and the guy hasn't even needed a full year to do it.
November 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
he's just proved you can steamroll your way through shit that virtually everyone agrees fucking sucks. he's literally razing the institutions. there's fertile ground for a new order literally there to be tilled. "lets calibrate a new bland bipartisanship" is like a message from a lost civilization
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Israel’s Defence Minister is accusing the IDF’s top lawyer of spreading blood libel because the lawyer leaked a video of IDF soldiers raping a Palestinian prisoner
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israeli military's top lawyer resigns over leak of video allegedly showing abuse of Palestinian detainee
Maj Gen Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi was facing an investigation into how the video at a detention facility holding detainees from Gaza was leaked last year.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Israel’s Defence Minister is accusing the IDF’s top lawyer of spreading blood libel because the lawyer leaked a video of IDF soldiers raping a Palestinian prisoner
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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For years people made fun of big tech for inventing things that already exist and they responded with their magnum opus: inventing fascism. Incredible work
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
For years people made fun of big tech for inventing things that already exist and they responded with their magnum opus: inventing fascism. Incredible work
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A rather dramatic update: Ynet reports that Israeli police is now searching for former IDF AG, who has been declared missing.
Allow me to summarize:
1. 5 IDF soldiers caught sexually molesting a Palestinian prisoner.
2. IDF files charges.
3. IDF AG faces enormous pressure from government to drop charges. Mob storms base where it happened.
4. IDF AG leaks video documenting the molestation.
5. IDF AG pushed out (continued)
1. 5 IDF soldiers caught sexually molesting a Palestinian prisoner.
2. IDF files charges.
3. IDF AG faces enormous pressure from government to drop charges. Mob storms base where it happened.
4. IDF AG leaks video documenting the molestation.
5. IDF AG pushed out (continued)
IDF's legal chief resigns over suspected involvement in Gaza detainee abuse video leak
In a Statement Friday Morning, Defense Minister Israel Katz Cited the 'Severity of the Suspicions' Against Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi in the Sde Teiman Affair, Saying She Won't Be Reinstated. Sh...
www.haaretz.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
A rather dramatic update: Ynet reports that Israeli police is now searching for former IDF AG, who has been declared missing.
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Excuse me? So the company the President currently owns is teaming up with a cryptocurrency company to create a prediction market, which will take bets... on things the President himself has quite a lot of control over?
Gosh, I'm sure nothing bad will happen.
www.ft.com/content/4855...
Gosh, I'm sure nothing bad will happen.
www.ft.com/content/4855...
October 29, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Excuse me? So the company the President currently owns is teaming up with a cryptocurrency company to create a prediction market, which will take bets... on things the President himself has quite a lot of control over?
Gosh, I'm sure nothing bad will happen.
www.ft.com/content/4855...
Gosh, I'm sure nothing bad will happen.
www.ft.com/content/4855...
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NEW: an a16z-backed startup called Doublespeed promises clients can “orchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts through both bulk content creation and deployment.”
Essentially an AI-powered bot service in violation of all major social media platforms
www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...
Essentially an AI-powered bot service in violation of all major social media platforms
www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...
a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service
Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.
www.404media.co
October 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
NEW: an a16z-backed startup called Doublespeed promises clients can “orchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts through both bulk content creation and deployment.”
Essentially an AI-powered bot service in violation of all major social media platforms
www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...
Essentially an AI-powered bot service in violation of all major social media platforms
www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...
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one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it
October 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it
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A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott argued his office’s emails with Elon Musk are confidential under a “common-law privacy” exception to public records laws because they may include “intimate and embarrassing” information.
(Published July)
With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org
(Published July)
With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org
Texas Governor’s Office Says Its Emails With Elon Musk May Be, in Part, Too “Embarrassing” to Release to the Public
We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not...
www.propublica.org
October 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott argued his office’s emails with Elon Musk are confidential under a “common-law privacy” exception to public records laws because they may include “intimate and embarrassing” information.
(Published July)
With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org
(Published July)
With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org
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Something hysterically funny about pointing out how lib winemoms have become radicalized into having more radical politics than the centrist cohort you belong to and chalking that up to a W against the left
every smug internet communist tweet about showing up to a No Kings protest with an abolish ICE shirt to scare the libs is getting completely mogged by the real-life winemoms showing up with slogans like "ICE will melt in hell"
October 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Something hysterically funny about pointing out how lib winemoms have become radicalized into having more radical politics than the centrist cohort you belong to and chalking that up to a W against the left
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
With his cryptocurrency venture, “Trump has created a powerful vehicle for those seeking influence. Anyone — you, me, an Emirati prince — can put money in his pocket by simply buying the tokens the company issues,” Jacob Silverman writes.
With his cryptocurrency venture, “Trump has created a powerful vehicle for those seeking influence. Anyone — you, me, an Emirati prince — can put money in his pocket by simply buying the tokens the company issues,” Jacob Silverman writes.
Opinion | World Liberty Financial Is a Powerful Vehicle for Those Seeking Influence
Trump’s crypto windfall represents a mixing of personal and government interests at an unprecedented scale.
nyti.ms
October 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
With his cryptocurrency venture, “Trump has created a powerful vehicle for those seeking influence. Anyone — you, me, an Emirati prince — can put money in his pocket by simply buying the tokens the company issues,” Jacob Silverman writes.
With his cryptocurrency venture, “Trump has created a powerful vehicle for those seeking influence. Anyone — you, me, an Emirati prince — can put money in his pocket by simply buying the tokens the company issues,” Jacob Silverman writes.
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Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.
www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...
www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...
October 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.
www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...
www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...
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The billionaire takeover of media is designed to shield oligarchs & politicians from accountability.
It's a 50-year master plan detailed in never-before-seen documents that we're about to publish in our new book.
We preview the documents today in The Guardian.
Order the book: LeverNews.com/book
It's a 50-year master plan detailed in never-before-seen documents that we're about to publish in our new book.
We preview the documents today in The Guardian.
Order the book: LeverNews.com/book
Bari Weiss’s ascent at CBS News was 50 years in the making | David Sirota and Jared Jacang Maher
A half-century ago, CBS’s own president was boasting of his support for an antidemocratic political project. Our new book uses never-before-reported documents to tell the story of a scheme to undermin...
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The billionaire takeover of media is designed to shield oligarchs & politicians from accountability.
It's a 50-year master plan detailed in never-before-seen documents that we're about to publish in our new book.
We preview the documents today in The Guardian.
Order the book: LeverNews.com/book
It's a 50-year master plan detailed in never-before-seen documents that we're about to publish in our new book.
We preview the documents today in The Guardian.
Order the book: LeverNews.com/book
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A lot of people who are barely sentient themselves believe that AI chatbots are sentient and I think that's beautiful
October 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
A lot of people who are barely sentient themselves believe that AI chatbots are sentient and I think that's beautiful
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NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.
It’s oligarchs all the way down.
My first for @zeteo.com:
zeteo.com/p/this-famil...
It’s oligarchs all the way down.
My first for @zeteo.com:
zeteo.com/p/this-famil...
October 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.
It’s oligarchs all the way down.
My first for @zeteo.com:
zeteo.com/p/this-famil...
It’s oligarchs all the way down.
My first for @zeteo.com:
zeteo.com/p/this-famil...
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Of course he did. When did people know this, and why is it news now, rather than previously, given its unlikely nobody knew about this.
October 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Of course he did. When did people know this, and why is it news now, rather than previously, given its unlikely nobody knew about this.
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Article: www.teenvogue.com/story/police...
Police Departments Surveilled Activists in the 1960s and 70s — and Erased The Records
"Just as police tracked civil rights, Black Power, feminist, and anti-war protesters in the 1960s and ‘70s, today they snoop on organizers taking a stand against ICE, Israel’s war on Palestine, and At...
www.teenvogue.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Article: www.teenvogue.com/story/police...
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Have a piece today in TEEN VOGUE from my new book POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT detailing how the NYPD, LAPD, cops in Chicago and Memphis surveilled the civil rights movement—and then destroyed millions of surveillance files in the ‘70s, including ones that may have shed like on MLK’s assassination.
October 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Have a piece today in TEEN VOGUE from my new book POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT detailing how the NYPD, LAPD, cops in Chicago and Memphis surveilled the civil rights movement—and then destroyed millions of surveillance files in the ‘70s, including ones that may have shed like on MLK’s assassination.
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REI is closing unionized stores. So many companies that like to pretend to be progressive remain still virulently anti-union at their core. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/b...
REI Co-Op’s Boston location is set to close next year - The Boston Globe
REI said it will close three locations on the East Coast, including a store in Boston, as it launches a new strategic plan.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
REI is closing unionized stores. So many companies that like to pretend to be progressive remain still virulently anti-union at their core. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/b...
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Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.
Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.
It failed 48-51.
Murkowski and Paul voted yes.
Fetterman voted no.
Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.
It failed 48-51.
Murkowski and Paul voted yes.
Fetterman voted no.
October 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.
Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.
It failed 48-51.
Murkowski and Paul voted yes.
Fetterman voted no.
Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.
It failed 48-51.
Murkowski and Paul voted yes.
Fetterman voted no.