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The Right’s Violence Problem (Published 2022)
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To all the sanctimonious right wingers who are blaming “left-wing networks” for the shooter who killed Charlie Kirk, stop fucking projecting. Political violence in the US has reached epidemic proportions among right-wing extremists, not leftists. JD Vance is lying.
www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/b...
www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/b...
Trump’s big “emergency” case to get troops into our cities is loaded with falsehoods. No paywall:
Times Analysis Finds Errors in Trump’s Supreme Court Filing That Calls for National Guard in Chicago
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Times Analysis Finds Errors in Trump’s Supreme Court Filing That Calls for National Guard in Chicago
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Times Analysis Finds Errors in Trump’s Supreme Court Filing That Calls for National Guard in Chicago
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Trump’s big “emergency” case to get troops into our cities is loaded with falsehoods. No paywall:
Times Analysis Finds Errors in Trump’s Supreme Court Filing That Calls for National Guard in Chicago
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Times Analysis Finds Errors in Trump’s Supreme Court Filing That Calls for National Guard in Chicago
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
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Many are struggling to understand what “illegal orders” the members of Congress could be referring to. But we’ve already seen examples. During his first term, Trump asked, “Can’t you just shoot them? Shoot them in the legs,” referring to protesters. #holdfast
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Former Pentagon chief Esper says Trump asked about shooting protesters
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Mark Esper about his forthcoming book, "A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times."
www.npr.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Many are struggling to understand what “illegal orders” the members of Congress could be referring to. But we’ve already seen examples. During his first term, Trump asked, “Can’t you just shoot them? Shoot them in the legs,” referring to protesters. #holdfast
www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1...
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Just one of the many sick fucking things Trump has said or done in recent days. Listen, you sick fuck, the Russian peace plan Putin wrote for you won’t win a Nobel, only a place in the trash can inside the Oval. Zelensky cannot, but we can tell the orange diarrhea stain to STFU.🤬
November 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Just one of the many sick fucking things Trump has said or done in recent days. Listen, you sick fuck, the Russian peace plan Putin wrote for you won’t win a Nobel, only a place in the trash can inside the Oval. Zelensky cannot, but we can tell the orange diarrhea stain to STFU.🤬
Jesus effin’ Christ — the white nationalists have totally forgotten their commandments. And we’re paying for this disgusting, cruel, inhuman behavior. Yeah, I’m paying for it!! Do our votes matter? But for 1.5%, we wouldn’t be going through this now.
Not many people are talking about the children being harmed by #ICELawlessness but it's important to talk about.
What's happening to these kids is being paid for by our tax dollars.
We're paying for the torture of children.
I know this is beyond grim, but we must let people know about this!
What's happening to these kids is being paid for by our tax dollars.
We're paying for the torture of children.
I know this is beyond grim, but we must let people know about this!
November 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Jesus effin’ Christ — the white nationalists have totally forgotten their commandments. And we’re paying for this disgusting, cruel, inhuman behavior. Yeah, I’m paying for it!! Do our votes matter? But for 1.5%, we wouldn’t be going through this now.
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Yes it’s going very very badly. #RESIST #BLUECREW #VOTEBLUE #PROJECT2026 #EPSTEINFILES #TRUMPISAPEDOPHILE
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Yes it’s going very very badly. #RESIST #BLUECREW #VOTEBLUE #PROJECT2026 #EPSTEINFILES #TRUMPISAPEDOPHILE
Leave it to us — the fucking Democrats — to snatch defeat from the jaws of clear and overwhelming victory. Following the head-scratching surrender of eight Senate Dems to end the shutdown, it’s clearly time for Schumer to resign. You couldn’t hold the caucus together after Tuesday? You’re gone.
November 11, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Leave it to us — the fucking Democrats — to snatch defeat from the jaws of clear and overwhelming victory. Following the head-scratching surrender of eight Senate Dems to end the shutdown, it’s clearly time for Schumer to resign. You couldn’t hold the caucus together after Tuesday? You’re gone.
Democrats ran the table!!
Note to Trump: Keep it up and we’ll get you out of there in record time.
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Note to Trump: Keep it up and we’ll get you out of there in record time.
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CNN exit polls find voters in key races dissatisfied with Trump, concerned with economy — CNN
Last November, Donald Trump won a return to the White House amid broad national dissatisfaction with the state of the country. A year later, preliminary CNN exit polling finds, the first major elector...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Democrats ran the table!!
Note to Trump: Keep it up and we’ll get you out of there in record time.
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Note to Trump: Keep it up and we’ll get you out of there in record time.
apple.news/AGxucTfnyRqe...
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Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.
October 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.
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Jack Smith on how the DOJ lacks process. I keep saying that somebody should be keeping a file on Bondi.
October 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Jack Smith on how the DOJ lacks process. I keep saying that somebody should be keeping a file on Bondi.
The entire civil rights movement in the U.S. is standing on a knife’s edge, teetering above a precipice, which looms over an abyss of hatred and inequality.
This Supreme Court wants to hand unchallenged racial superiority, idiotically and illogically, to white people. They just might do it.
This Supreme Court wants to hand unchallenged racial superiority, idiotically and illogically, to white people. They just might do it.
If SCOTUS overturns a key provision in the Voting Rights Act, it could cement Republican control of the House for decades.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
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October 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The entire civil rights movement in the U.S. is standing on a knife’s edge, teetering above a precipice, which looms over an abyss of hatred and inequality.
This Supreme Court wants to hand unchallenged racial superiority, idiotically and illogically, to white people. They just might do it.
This Supreme Court wants to hand unchallenged racial superiority, idiotically and illogically, to white people. They just might do it.
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If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.
October 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.
Will the Supreme Court nullify racial equality in our elections, destroy the Voting Rights Act, and hand leadership to racists still seething because they lost the 1861 insurrection and had to free their slaves? Will they now help the racist South win the peace? Gift. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...
Opinion | The Shadow of Jim Crow Looms Over the Supreme Court
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October 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Will the Supreme Court nullify racial equality in our elections, destroy the Voting Rights Act, and hand leadership to racists still seething because they lost the 1861 insurrection and had to free their slaves? Will they now help the racist South win the peace? Gift. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...
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Confusion and stupidity are requirements for entry into the conservative billionaire club. Listen up, Peter Thiel: there’s only one fucking antichrist figure these days and he sure as hell isn’t a liberal! www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...
Exclusive: Peter Thiel in talk on 'Antichrist' says he told Elon Musk not to give wealth to charity
Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and early supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, has urged long-time associate Elon Musk to quit the Giving Pledge under which signatories leave the majority of their wealth to charity.
www.reuters.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Confusion and stupidity are requirements for entry into the conservative billionaire club. Listen up, Peter Thiel: there’s only one fucking antichrist figure these days and he sure as hell isn’t a liberal! www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...
Help me understand: The guy who wants the Nobel Peace Prize so badly missiles unidentified boats in the Caribbean, lets Putin destroy Ukrainian cities and wipe out civilians, and now wants to turn American troops against his own citizens.
How about a Nobel War Prize for this arrogant asshole?
How about a Nobel War Prize for this arrogant asshole?
October 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Help me understand: The guy who wants the Nobel Peace Prize so badly missiles unidentified boats in the Caribbean, lets Putin destroy Ukrainian cities and wipe out civilians, and now wants to turn American troops against his own citizens.
How about a Nobel War Prize for this arrogant asshole?
How about a Nobel War Prize for this arrogant asshole?
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New Jersey, the choice is clear. Vote 🗳️ for @mikiesherrill.bsky.social Nov. 4th
September 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
New Jersey, the choice is clear. Vote 🗳️ for @mikiesherrill.bsky.social Nov. 4th
Break ‘em up. Antitrust law and public hearings are our only protections, but we sure as hell need Congress to spur some action. #bluetsunami2026
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
September 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Break ‘em up. Antitrust law and public hearings are our only protections, but we sure as hell need Congress to spur some action. #bluetsunami2026
“Get lost!”
In a post on social media, Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader, told Russell T. Vought, the White House budget director, to “get lost.”
“We will not be intimidated by your threat to engage in mass firings,” Jeffries said.
Dem leader strikes right tone.
In a post on social media, Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader, told Russell T. Vought, the White House budget director, to “get lost.”
“We will not be intimidated by your threat to engage in mass firings,” Jeffries said.
Dem leader strikes right tone.
September 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
“Get lost!”
In a post on social media, Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader, told Russell T. Vought, the White House budget director, to “get lost.”
“We will not be intimidated by your threat to engage in mass firings,” Jeffries said.
Dem leader strikes right tone.
In a post on social media, Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader, told Russell T. Vought, the White House budget director, to “get lost.”
“We will not be intimidated by your threat to engage in mass firings,” Jeffries said.
Dem leader strikes right tone.
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What the fucking fuck!
Fuck Trump, fuck MAGA
Find the missing people, you sick bastards.
Fuck Trump, fuck MAGA
Find the missing people, you sick bastards.
Not only do we routinely see kids dying in ICE custody, now they’re missing nearly 1000 people who were being held in Alligator Alcatraz?
HOW THE HELL is this not a stop the presses moment?
We can only hope it’s not a Brubaker moment.
HOW THE HELL is this not a stop the presses moment?
We can only hope it’s not a Brubaker moment.
September 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
What the fucking fuck!
Fuck Trump, fuck MAGA
Find the missing people, you sick bastards.
Fuck Trump, fuck MAGA
Find the missing people, you sick bastards.
This is a totally unacceptable Republican rape of lower-income Americans. Shut down the government, Sen. Schumer, and place the blame where it belongs — on MAGA
Obamacare (ACA) Health Insurance Premiums Could Rise More Than 80% Next Year...
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Health insurance premiums could rise more than 80% next year
The imminent expiration of COVID-era health care subsidies could see the insurance premium costs soar for millions of Americans.
www.newsweek.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This is a totally unacceptable Republican rape of lower-income Americans. Shut down the government, Sen. Schumer, and place the blame where it belongs — on MAGA
Couldn’t have said it better…
September 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Couldn’t have said it better…
Yeah, fuck you, make me, you bullshitting bully Trump
Bob Iger has a real chance to be a hero here and say “Fuck you. Make me.” to the FCC by reinstating Kimmel.
I’ll sign back up for Disney+ if he does. Until then, keep canceling your subscriptions!
I’ll sign back up for Disney+ if he does. Until then, keep canceling your subscriptions!
John Oliver says Bob Iger should use "the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away. And that is, 'fuck you, make me.'" youtu.be/ohPToBog_-g?...
September 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Yeah, fuck you, make me, you bullshitting bully Trump
The twerpy little asshole in charge of the Pentagon has quietly destroyed the military-legal structure that prevented officers from carrying out illegal orders. Hence, supposed drug boats blown out of the water and troops marching in our streets.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | The chilling reason the military is silent now
National Guard in cities and attacks on drug boats began with ousting military lawyers called JAGs.
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September 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The twerpy little asshole in charge of the Pentagon has quietly destroyed the military-legal structure that prevented officers from carrying out illegal orders. Hence, supposed drug boats blown out of the water and troops marching in our streets.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...