The Opinionated Ogre
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Are you a fascist? A Republican? A Christian Nationalist? A white nationalist? All of the above? Fuck you.
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I'm not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence. - Molly Conger
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David Ellison reportedly told Trump he’d make “sweeping changes” to CNN if Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. gets approved.
Meanwhile, Jared Kushner and three Middle East countries are backing the bid — while Kushner advises Trump on foreign policy.
Corruption on display.
Meanwhile, Jared Kushner and three Middle East countries are backing the bid — while Kushner advises Trump on foreign policy.
Corruption on display.
December 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
David Ellison reportedly told Trump he’d make “sweeping changes” to CNN if Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. gets approved.
Meanwhile, Jared Kushner and three Middle East countries are backing the bid — while Kushner advises Trump on foreign policy.
Corruption on display.
Meanwhile, Jared Kushner and three Middle East countries are backing the bid — while Kushner advises Trump on foreign policy.
Corruption on display.
In the name of Jesus, no less.
December 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
In the name of Jesus, no less.
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The other reporters in the White House press corps are apparently waiting until the president actually takes a swing at one of their female colleagues before they say anything
December 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The other reporters in the White House press corps are apparently waiting until the president actually takes a swing at one of their female colleagues before they say anything
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it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
Rand Paul: Voice of reason.
That's how far the GOP has fallen.
That's how far the GOP has fallen.
Rand Paul: "This is an insane policy. It's inconsistent. It's not war. It's not the way we've ever done this. If we can blow up a boat in the ocean, what about when they get to Miami & put it in a truck? Can you shoot a grenade launcher at the truck? No! We arrest people b/c sometimes we're wrong."
December 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Rand Paul: Voice of reason.
That's how far the GOP has fallen.
That's how far the GOP has fallen.
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The U.S. is mirroring a pattern that has happened in authoritarian regimes around the world. When a government erects barriers to reproductive care, it doesn’t just cause death and suffering for women and their families. Such policies are often a first step in the gradual decline of democracies.
Opinion | Banning Abortion a Hallmark of Authoritarian Regimes
Seda Saluk writes about how U.S. policy on abortion rights has started to mirror patterns seen in authoritarian regimes around the world.
www.mississippifreepress.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The U.S. is mirroring a pattern that has happened in authoritarian regimes around the world. When a government erects barriers to reproductive care, it doesn’t just cause death and suffering for women and their families. Such policies are often a first step in the gradual decline of democracies.
"The machine cannot function when the right is so extreme that nothing can camouflage who and what they are.
Then it all falls apart. The only thing protecting the Republican Party was the fairy tale that they are normal, a regular political party."
Then it all falls apart. The only thing protecting the Republican Party was the fairy tale that they are normal, a regular political party."
Republican Nazis Will Destroy The "Both Sides" Lie Forever 🤣🤣🤣
You can't hide a giant swastika behind a fig leaf.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"The machine cannot function when the right is so extreme that nothing can camouflage who and what they are.
Then it all falls apart. The only thing protecting the Republican Party was the fairy tale that they are normal, a regular political party."
Then it all falls apart. The only thing protecting the Republican Party was the fairy tale that they are normal, a regular political party."
Daaaaamn.
Daniel Day Lewis came out of Instagram retirement to show support for Paul Dano. King shit.
December 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Daaaaamn.
It's important to understand that fascism is rooted in machismo, the desperate need for the insecure to prove their masculinity because they're failures at everything else.
You just don't usually see it on display at the highest levels of government like this because it's embarrassing.
You just don't usually see it on display at the highest levels of government like this because it's embarrassing.
Wild that the Secretary of Transportation is out here pretending pull-ups are policy while the rest of us are just trying to make sure bridges don’t collapse and planes don’t fall out of the sky.
December 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
It's important to understand that fascism is rooted in machismo, the desperate need for the insecure to prove their masculinity because they're failures at everything else.
You just don't usually see it on display at the highest levels of government like this because it's embarrassing.
You just don't usually see it on display at the highest levels of government like this because it's embarrassing.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
December 9, 2025 at 2:22 PM
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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The next Democratic administration should expand the court.
There’s no other way to redeem SCOTUS at this point.
There’s no other way to redeem SCOTUS at this point.
December 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The next Democratic administration should expand the court.
There’s no other way to redeem SCOTUS at this point.
There’s no other way to redeem SCOTUS at this point.
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We are dealing with such corruption in every aspect of our government, I don't know how we undo the damage.
December 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
We are dealing with such corruption in every aspect of our government, I don't know how we undo the damage.
What are they doing that they don't want to be recorded?
WATCH: An ICE agent pushes away a home security camera as she approaches a house.
This is what a police state looks like.
This is what a police state looks like.
December 9, 2025 at 2:52 AM
What are they doing that they don't want to be recorded?
These are not serious people.
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 9, 2025 at 2:51 AM
These are not serious people.
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In the least surprising news of the day …
A majority of the Supreme Court today appeared ready to back President Donald Trump’s argument that he should be able to fire members of independent agencies that for nearly a century have been protected from presidential politics.
www.cnn.com/politics/liv...
www.cnn.com/politics/liv...
Supreme Court signals it will give Trump more control of government
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faces pressure to release the video of a controversial follow-up strike on an alleged drug boat. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is reviewing a separation of powers dispute...
www.cnn.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
In the least surprising news of the day …
No questions from the press.
Trump last night had the complexion of a Thanksgiving turkey that was left in the oven too long and bandages were again visible on the back of his right hand
(photos via Getty and by Aaron Schwartz and Paul Morigi)
(photos via Getty and by Aaron Schwartz and Paul Morigi)
December 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
No questions from the press.
Gonna be amazing when the Democratic president in 2029 moves to fire all of Trump's people and the Republican Justices suddenly discover that they don't believe in the absolute power of the president to fire anyone after all.
unitarya executive theory presents the president as the sovereign embodiment of the people’s will. a sovereign cannot be divided against itself, and thus an agency cannot be independent of his will.
December 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Gonna be amazing when the Democratic president in 2029 moves to fire all of Trump's people and the Republican Justices suddenly discover that they don't believe in the absolute power of the president to fire anyone after all.
"When the power shifts back to the left?
Suddenly, we get a steady diet of Bob and Sally memes. We get a slew of “Life Is Too Short to Fight With Your Family” articles. We get a legion of self-pitying tweets and posts from the right about how they’re the victims."
Suddenly, we get a steady diet of Bob and Sally memes. We get a slew of “Life Is Too Short to Fight With Your Family” articles. We get a legion of self-pitying tweets and posts from the right about how they’re the victims."
MAGA Is Collapsing (Again) So Now They're Demanding Civility (Again)
From "fuck your feelings" to "Can't we all get along?" in record time.
open.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"When the power shifts back to the left?
Suddenly, we get a steady diet of Bob and Sally memes. We get a slew of “Life Is Too Short to Fight With Your Family” articles. We get a legion of self-pitying tweets and posts from the right about how they’re the victims."
Suddenly, we get a steady diet of Bob and Sally memes. We get a slew of “Life Is Too Short to Fight With Your Family” articles. We get a legion of self-pitying tweets and posts from the right about how they’re the victims."
Not the first to point this out but all these years of anger from the left but it wasn't until the right got mad at her that the terrorism started.
When this is over, and it WILL be over, we have to root out right wing terrorism in America the way the GOP is pretending to root out Antifa.
When this is over, and it WILL be over, we have to root out right wing terrorism in America the way the GOP is pretending to root out Antifa.
Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) now claims she and her family received pipe-bomb threats and death threats after Donald Trump labeled her a “traitor.”
Political threats are always serious — they must be investigated.
But across the U.S., people are rejecting her sudden “victim” narrative.
Political threats are always serious — they must be investigated.
But across the U.S., people are rejecting her sudden “victim” narrative.
December 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Not the first to point this out but all these years of anger from the left but it wasn't until the right got mad at her that the terrorism started.
When this is over, and it WILL be over, we have to root out right wing terrorism in America the way the GOP is pretending to root out Antifa.
When this is over, and it WILL be over, we have to root out right wing terrorism in America the way the GOP is pretending to root out Antifa.
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This is simply gobsmacking in the impenetrability and immensity of its dumbness. ~AA
December 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This is simply gobsmacking in the impenetrability and immensity of its dumbness. ~AA
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It's a different world today...
December 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM
It's a different world today...
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if this Supreme Court nullifies the 14th Amendment then i don't really have any problems with Democratic officials ignoring federal law for the foreseeable future
at that point we're just in a state of exception
at that point we're just in a state of exception
December 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
if this Supreme Court nullifies the 14th Amendment then i don't really have any problems with Democratic officials ignoring federal law for the foreseeable future
at that point we're just in a state of exception
at that point we're just in a state of exception
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bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it
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"I saw the video and what if a bird flew by and one of the shipwrecked used a paper clip and squid ink to write a message to attach to the bird's leg to get a message to Suriname so they could continue their mission?"
- Tom Cotton probably
- Tom Cotton probably
December 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
"I saw the video and what if a bird flew by and one of the shipwrecked used a paper clip and squid ink to write a message to attach to the bird's leg to get a message to Suriname so they could continue their mission?"
- Tom Cotton probably
- Tom Cotton probably