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I'm sorry, but this is obfuscation. The reality is simple.
Trump and his adherents are fascist white supremacists aiming to destroy every good thing in America.
If you look at a choice between them and a Democrat - any Democrat - and go "eh, not left enough, I'll pass" you are a child and a fool.
Trump and his adherents are fascist white supremacists aiming to destroy every good thing in America.
If you look at a choice between them and a Democrat - any Democrat - and go "eh, not left enough, I'll pass" you are a child and a fool.
I've seen a bunch of this online, mostly from people less credible than Stancil. I've been a union organizer for almost 30 years and worked on every election in that time period. (I also voted for Harris and protested the genocide.) Posts like this fail to grasp 3 universal truths about elections.
The reason people are concerned about lefties saying “I won’t vote for a moderate Dem” isn’t because they want Newsom. It’s because lefties keep not voting for moderate Dems!
I think all the scolding about it being years til the primary would hit a little harder if WE DIDN’T JUST GO THROUGH THIS
I think all the scolding about it being years til the primary would hit a little harder if WE DIDN’T JUST GO THROUGH THIS
February 17, 2026 at 2:55 AM
I'm sorry, but this is obfuscation. The reality is simple.
Trump and his adherents are fascist white supremacists aiming to destroy every good thing in America.
If you look at a choice between them and a Democrat - any Democrat - and go "eh, not left enough, I'll pass" you are a child and a fool.
Trump and his adherents are fascist white supremacists aiming to destroy every good thing in America.
If you look at a choice between them and a Democrat - any Democrat - and go "eh, not left enough, I'll pass" you are a child and a fool.
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Teapot Dome, the biggest scandal in American history pre-Watergate, involved less than $9 million, inflation adjusted. Meanwhile Noem's jet, at $70 million, is small potatoes in the Trump administration
There's literally no precedent in American history for the scale of what Trump et al are doing
There's literally no precedent in American history for the scale of what Trump et al are doing
February 17, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Teapot Dome, the biggest scandal in American history pre-Watergate, involved less than $9 million, inflation adjusted. Meanwhile Noem's jet, at $70 million, is small potatoes in the Trump administration
There's literally no precedent in American history for the scale of what Trump et al are doing
There's literally no precedent in American history for the scale of what Trump et al are doing
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Noem's jet is reportedly going to cost $70 million dollars.
Bush I's chief of staff John Sununu spent 2% of that on personal travel and it was such a big scandal he had to resign for it.
Bush I's chief of staff John Sununu spent 2% of that on personal travel and it was such a big scandal he had to resign for it.
The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
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Let Them Fly First Class: Kristi Noem’s DHS Luxury Jet Scandal
Inside Noem's flying palace. Plus: Pentagon demands obedient, deadly AI. The race to deploy untested nuclear reactors. Lawmakers move to rein in presidential pardons. And remembering Robert Duvall.
open.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Noem's jet is reportedly going to cost $70 million dollars.
Bush I's chief of staff John Sununu spent 2% of that on personal travel and it was such a big scandal he had to resign for it.
Bush I's chief of staff John Sununu spent 2% of that on personal travel and it was such a big scandal he had to resign for it.
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Congrats again to the 99 Senators who confirmed this guy because It's a Big Club 🤦♂️
Rubio to Orban in Budapest:
"We want this country to do well. It's in our national interest -- especially as long as you're the prime minister and the leader of this country."
Indecent and self-damaging policy that defeats any rational explanation, confirming the wildest of conspiracy theories
"We want this country to do well. It's in our national interest -- especially as long as you're the prime minister and the leader of this country."
Indecent and self-damaging policy that defeats any rational explanation, confirming the wildest of conspiracy theories
February 17, 2026 at 5:25 AM
Congrats again to the 99 Senators who confirmed this guy because It's a Big Club 🤦♂️
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I thought she was incredibly impressive. This is garbage.
Absolutely enraging headline.
There's another world leader who has a lot more power and actually stumbles quite a bit more than AOC. Really curious why the Times doesn't frame his comments as having "some stumbles" as well!
There's another world leader who has a lot more power and actually stumbles quite a bit more than AOC. Really curious why the Times doesn't frame his comments as having "some stumbles" as well!
February 17, 2026 at 1:04 AM
I thought she was incredibly impressive. This is garbage.
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joyce is going after elon again
February 17, 2026 at 1:22 AM
joyce is going after elon again
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Especially from people with a track record of being (in the kindest construction) indifferent between liberalism and fascism at the ballot box, “you have to earn my vote” means “my vote cannot be earned”
Hasan isn’t going to vote for any Democrat in 2028. It has nothing to do with Newsom.
February 16, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Especially from people with a track record of being (in the kindest construction) indifferent between liberalism and fascism at the ballot box, “you have to earn my vote” means “my vote cannot be earned”
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Treating this nonsense more seriously than it deserves:
(1) Anonymous police behaving unaccountably is an actual problem; voter fraud is not.
(2) Cops showing their faces & IDs has been the norm for all of our 250 year history; needing a passport to vote has not
(1) Anonymous police behaving unaccountably is an actual problem; voter fraud is not.
(2) Cops showing their faces & IDs has been the norm for all of our 250 year history; needing a passport to vote has not
February 16, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Treating this nonsense more seriously than it deserves:
(1) Anonymous police behaving unaccountably is an actual problem; voter fraud is not.
(2) Cops showing their faces & IDs has been the norm for all of our 250 year history; needing a passport to vote has not
(1) Anonymous police behaving unaccountably is an actual problem; voter fraud is not.
(2) Cops showing their faces & IDs has been the norm for all of our 250 year history; needing a passport to vote has not
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This has been my hunch for a while, but it's good to have it confirmed.
As I've noted before, Obama faced the same challenge with race that JFK did with religion. Their enemies were so primed to charge them with playing favorites they felt the need to downplay a topic closely tied to them.
As I've noted before, Obama faced the same challenge with race that JFK did with religion. Their enemies were so primed to charge them with playing favorites they felt the need to downplay a topic closely tied to them.
Political scientist Dan Gillion analyzed presidential speech and found that Obama talked about race and racial issues less than any other modern president
February 16, 2026 at 10:05 PM
This has been my hunch for a while, but it's good to have it confirmed.
As I've noted before, Obama faced the same challenge with race that JFK did with religion. Their enemies were so primed to charge them with playing favorites they felt the need to downplay a topic closely tied to them.
As I've noted before, Obama faced the same challenge with race that JFK did with religion. Their enemies were so primed to charge them with playing favorites they felt the need to downplay a topic closely tied to them.
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Many, many, many of us were either too addicted to the too-cool-for-school “both sides are equally bad” schtick or too blindly hostile to the left to recognize the historically extraordinary threat to freedom Trump represented. Way too many still are.
February 16, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Many, many, many of us were either too addicted to the too-cool-for-school “both sides are equally bad” schtick or too blindly hostile to the left to recognize the historically extraordinary threat to freedom Trump represented. Way too many still are.
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New at The Watch:
The Democrats' demands to "reform" Trump's immigration thugs aren't reforms at all. They're already the law, the Constitution, and widely accepted police practices. And in a free society, they'd never be negotiable.
The Democrats' demands to "reform" Trump's immigration thugs aren't reforms at all. They're already the law, the Constitution, and widely accepted police practices. And in a free society, they'd never be negotiable.
The Constitution is not a bargaining chip for a budget negotiation
The Democrats demanded that Trump's immigration cops follow the law and the Constitution. The Republicans called those demands "nonstarters."
open.substack.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:43 PM
New at The Watch:
The Democrats' demands to "reform" Trump's immigration thugs aren't reforms at all. They're already the law, the Constitution, and widely accepted police practices. And in a free society, they'd never be negotiable.
The Democrats' demands to "reform" Trump's immigration thugs aren't reforms at all. They're already the law, the Constitution, and widely accepted police practices. And in a free society, they'd never be negotiable.
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Oh, okay. I'll bite.
The right to vote is enshrined in the Constitution.
The "right" of armed federal cops to arrest, beat, and kill people with anonymity is not.
The right to vote is enshrined in the Constitution.
The "right" of armed federal cops to arrest, beat, and kill people with anonymity is not.
Emmer: "Another reform they claim they want is they want ICE agents to identify themselves, to show identification. But they don't want identification for voters in elections. I mean, this stuff is just intellectually inconsistent."
February 16, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Oh, okay. I'll bite.
The right to vote is enshrined in the Constitution.
The "right" of armed federal cops to arrest, beat, and kill people with anonymity is not.
The right to vote is enshrined in the Constitution.
The "right" of armed federal cops to arrest, beat, and kill people with anonymity is not.
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he doesn’t care about the pollution, he doesn’t care about the river, he doesn’t care about FEMA or the EPA, the sole purpose here is to give the impression that dems are blocking needed funding, and the minute they cave, he will go immediately back to ignoring both the problem and FEMA
February 16, 2026 at 8:32 PM
he doesn’t care about the pollution, he doesn’t care about the river, he doesn’t care about FEMA or the EPA, the sole purpose here is to give the impression that dems are blocking needed funding, and the minute they cave, he will go immediately back to ignoring both the problem and FEMA
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Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
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This and the incident where they arrested staff at a Mexican restaurant, but only after letting said staff first serve them a meal are just diabolical. They’re assaults on basic humanity and decency. Publicize the hell out of this stuff. Let Republicans try to defend it.
Minnesota family says ICE agents faked car trouble to lure man out of home
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February 16, 2026 at 7:04 PM
This and the incident where they arrested staff at a Mexican restaurant, but only after letting said staff first serve them a meal are just diabolical. They’re assaults on basic humanity and decency. Publicize the hell out of this stuff. Let Republicans try to defend it.
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It appears that I am unable to discuss the EPA's current course of action without considerable cursing.
"Just making s**t up" — David Roberts sounds off on the EPA
"To say members of Congress didn’t anticipate a specific pollutant is just f**king comical."
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February 16, 2026 at 7:05 PM
It appears that I am unable to discuss the EPA's current course of action without considerable cursing.
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Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.
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Aw. Truly one of the greats - never a false note, even in small or modest roles.
Robert Duvall, the legendary actor whose career has spanned over six decades, has died at 95, his wife announced
February 16, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Aw. Truly one of the greats - never a false note, even in small or modest roles.
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The idea that you should expected to be thrilled and delighted with the presidential candidate of a diverse brokerage party competing in a sprawling polity also willfully misunderstands the basic nature of coalition politics. You can't order presidential candidates to order like a bespoke suit
Imagine, just imagine, putting this in terms of “delight.” You have a chance to cast a vote against the government terrorizing American cities and presiding over the needless deaths of millions and you need *delight*? Get the fuck out of here.
I will crawl through broken glass to vote against a a Republican bc my life depends on it.
February 16, 2026 at 6:39 AM
The idea that you should expected to be thrilled and delighted with the presidential candidate of a diverse brokerage party competing in a sprawling polity also willfully misunderstands the basic nature of coalition politics. You can't order presidential candidates to order like a bespoke suit
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Of course it’s not a threat at all, under any interpretation, LET ALONE a true threat outside First Amendment protection, but I guess some of these people have a lot on their conscience about supporting a pedophile and tend to blurt it out.
February 16, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Of course it’s not a threat at all, under any interpretation, LET ALONE a true threat outside First Amendment protection, but I guess some of these people have a lot on their conscience about supporting a pedophile and tend to blurt it out.
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👇🎯 Once again, the option of simply not touching the stove & selecting the base of the triangle was also readily available. Alas, he couldn't help himself.
February 16, 2026 at 1:30 AM
👇🎯 Once again, the option of simply not touching the stove & selecting the base of the triangle was also readily available. Alas, he couldn't help himself.
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Also, what are you doing WSJ?
Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
Breaking this down by year, job growth in 2024 was revised down by more than a quarter (-553k jobs), and 2025 was revised down by close to 70% (-403k jobs). 2025 was the weakest year for job growth since the pandemic, and before that since the Great Recession.
February 15, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Also, what are you doing WSJ?
Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.