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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."
September 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."
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Trump: It looks like it’s about $3.1 billion
Powell: I’m not aware of that.
Trump: It just came out
Powell: You just added in a third building
Trump: It’s a building that’s being built
Powell: It was built five years ago.
Powell: I’m not aware of that.
Trump: It just came out
Powell: You just added in a third building
Trump: It’s a building that’s being built
Powell: It was built five years ago.
July 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Trump: It looks like it’s about $3.1 billion
Powell: I’m not aware of that.
Trump: It just came out
Powell: You just added in a third building
Trump: It’s a building that’s being built
Powell: It was built five years ago.
Powell: I’m not aware of that.
Trump: It just came out
Powell: You just added in a third building
Trump: It’s a building that’s being built
Powell: It was built five years ago.
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And there it is. The Minnesota assassin who shot Democratic lawmakers “voted for Donald Trump and was a strong Trump supporter,” according to his best friend.
June 14, 2025 at 10:53 PM
And there it is. The Minnesota assassin who shot Democratic lawmakers “voted for Donald Trump and was a strong Trump supporter,” according to his best friend.
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because its the playoffs
May 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
because its the playoffs
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“.. The slump is especially noteworthy because sales typically pick up in March as the spring buying season gets underway.”
@politico.com $XHB
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
@politico.com $XHB
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
April 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“.. The slump is especially noteworthy because sales typically pick up in March as the spring buying season gets underway.”
@politico.com $XHB
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
@politico.com $XHB
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Trump, asked about China’s denial of trade talks:
“Well, they had a meeting this morning.”
Reporter: “Who's they?”
Trump: “I can't tell you. It doesn't matter who ‘they’ is.”
@calltoactivism.bsky.social
“Well, they had a meeting this morning.”
Reporter: “Who's they?”
Trump: “I can't tell you. It doesn't matter who ‘they’ is.”
@calltoactivism.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Trump, asked about China’s denial of trade talks:
“Well, they had a meeting this morning.”
Reporter: “Who's they?”
Trump: “I can't tell you. It doesn't matter who ‘they’ is.”
@calltoactivism.bsky.social
“Well, they had a meeting this morning.”
Reporter: “Who's they?”
Trump: “I can't tell you. It doesn't matter who ‘they’ is.”
@calltoactivism.bsky.social
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🔥 @ninajankowicz.com: "Mr Taibbi said when he was first searching through the so-called Twitter files he didn't know what he was looking at. Well, he still doesn't. Everything looks like a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works."
April 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🔥 @ninajankowicz.com: "Mr Taibbi said when he was first searching through the so-called Twitter files he didn't know what he was looking at. Well, he still doesn't. Everything looks like a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works."
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Stephen Miller is on Fox News and it's not going great
January 31, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Stephen Miller is on Fox News and it's not going great
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The SEC's position at the moment is "Crypto tokens are unregistered securities and they're (almost) all illegal" and they've pursued that position quite extensively in court.
December 13, 2024 at 6:05 PM
The SEC's position at the moment is "Crypto tokens are unregistered securities and they're (almost) all illegal" and they've pursued that position quite extensively in court.
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For example, Kraken, the crypto exchange blanketing Canadian TV with ads, reached a $30M settlement with the SEC last year & agreed to shut down part of its operation in the US. (And the SEC is still suing it to try to shut down more of its business.) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Crypto Exchange Kraken Ends Staking Program in $30 Million SEC Settlement
www.bloomberg.com
December 13, 2024 at 6:16 PM
For example, Kraken, the crypto exchange blanketing Canadian TV with ads, reached a $30M settlement with the SEC last year & agreed to shut down part of its operation in the US. (And the SEC is still suing it to try to shut down more of its business.) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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This is basically what the SEC has done under Biden. The SEC has gone after tons of companies for tons of violations in recent years, but nobody reads the news any more so nobody knows that it happened.
fwiw I think the optimal situation for white collar crime is to mostly punish it much more consistently but with fairly light punishment and then for very high profile cases like SBF or Thernaos you gotta Make An Example of them and bring the hammer down.
America is far too punitive in sentencing in most cases and far too permissive when it comes to not charging white-collar crimes.
December 13, 2024 at 6:01 PM
This is basically what the SEC has done under Biden. The SEC has gone after tons of companies for tons of violations in recent years, but nobody reads the news any more so nobody knows that it happened.
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Did you know that the SEC and Justice Department rolled out a major crackdown on cryptocurrency exchanges and various related frauds over the past few years? People in the crypto industry know, which is why they all lined up behind Trump.
December 13, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Did you know that the SEC and Justice Department rolled out a major crackdown on cryptocurrency exchanges and various related frauds over the past few years? People in the crypto industry know, which is why they all lined up behind Trump.
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The rhetorical slight of hand that made such revolutionaries come across as "conservatives" is that the presented themselves as "Christian patriots," just unmarked "real Americans" trying to defend "traditional America" from "the forces seeking to destroy it."
December 8, 2024 at 7:36 PM
The rhetorical slight of hand that made such revolutionaries come across as "conservatives" is that the presented themselves as "Christian patriots," just unmarked "real Americans" trying to defend "traditional America" from "the forces seeking to destroy it."
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SCOOP: The Heritage Foundation’s 'Project Esther,' a conservative plan to counter antisemitism, sees the problem as one in which a handful of “masterminds” including Jews like George Soros are seeking to “dismantle Western democracies, values and culture,” according to internal Heritage documents.
Scoop: Internal Project Esther documents describe conspiracy of Jewish ‘masterminds’ seeking to dismantle Western values
A presentation meant to win supporters for the Heritage Foundation’s plan to fight antisemitism draws a line from George Soros to pro-Palestinian protests.
forward.com
December 8, 2024 at 12:44 AM
SCOOP: The Heritage Foundation’s 'Project Esther,' a conservative plan to counter antisemitism, sees the problem as one in which a handful of “masterminds” including Jews like George Soros are seeking to “dismantle Western democracies, values and culture,” according to internal Heritage documents.
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I have not listened to this podcast and I’m sure how to read the question mark but, for my part, I don’t think there has been an American politician since George C. Wallace who has built an appeal around identity politics more than Trump.
December 7, 2024 at 9:33 PM
I have not listened to this podcast and I’m sure how to read the question mark but, for my part, I don’t think there has been an American politician since George C. Wallace who has built an appeal around identity politics more than Trump.
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For some random reason I can't put my finger on, I've been thinking a lot lately about the jurors in the Martin Shkreli trial harpers.org/archive/2017...
December 8, 2024 at 2:32 PM
For some random reason I can't put my finger on, I've been thinking a lot lately about the jurors in the Martin Shkreli trial harpers.org/archive/2017...
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I have a massive trade deficit with my local beer shop, so I am going to invade it.
December 8, 2024 at 5:12 PM
I have a massive trade deficit with my local beer shop, so I am going to invade it.
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CNN's Clarissa Ward is now broadcasting live from Damascus, Syria. She says "the moment is just utterly surreal."
December 8, 2024 at 6:15 PM
CNN's Clarissa Ward is now broadcasting live from Damascus, Syria. She says "the moment is just utterly surreal."
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NEW: Russian state media reporting that former Syrian president Assad and his family are being given refuge in Moscow.
Putin giving safe harbour to one of his own.
Putin giving safe harbour to one of his own.
December 8, 2024 at 5:54 PM
NEW: Russian state media reporting that former Syrian president Assad and his family are being given refuge in Moscow.
Putin giving safe harbour to one of his own.
Putin giving safe harbour to one of his own.
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you can't even have assad anymore, because of woke al-qaeda
December 8, 2024 at 5:13 PM
you can't even have assad anymore, because of woke al-qaeda
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Out best chance for oversight in the next two years is regimes falling.
Wondering if the Syrian rebels would prefer to liberate embarrassing documents on Trump's DNI nominee ... or wait until she's installed and running things?
December 8, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Out best chance for oversight in the next two years is regimes falling.
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Just as you cannot understand the growth of Hamas without understanding the Israeli occupation you cannot understand why secular Syrians were cheering on the HTS offensive against the Assad regime. You don’t have to ‘like’ any of the actors to understand why they exist.
Again, please grow up.
Again, please grow up.
December 8, 2024 at 9:27 AM
Just as you cannot understand the growth of Hamas without understanding the Israeli occupation you cannot understand why secular Syrians were cheering on the HTS offensive against the Assad regime. You don’t have to ‘like’ any of the actors to understand why they exist.
Again, please grow up.
Again, please grow up.
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Yes person on the internet Syrians are aware that everything isn’t perfect and that there are challenges ahead. I think they didn’t need you to tell them that given that it’s been 5 decades of tyranny and no country ever emerged from tyranny without challenges ahead.
December 8, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Yes person on the internet Syrians are aware that everything isn’t perfect and that there are challenges ahead. I think they didn’t need you to tell them that given that it’s been 5 decades of tyranny and no country ever emerged from tyranny without challenges ahead.