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Gleichschaltung, coming to an institution near you. Faster than you can learn to spell "Gleichschaltung."
When the president had his stroke before Labor Day, do we think Susie Wiles is the one who found him soaking in puddle of his own urine?
November 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
When the president had his stroke before Labor Day, do we think Susie Wiles is the one who found him soaking in puddle of his own urine?
For fun, has anyone run the 2025 Texas gerrymander on 2018 demographics?
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
For fun, has anyone run the 2025 Texas gerrymander on 2018 demographics?
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We can claw it all back and put them in prison for accepting it in the first place
Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim
The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who — like the president — claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
We can claw it all back and put them in prison for accepting it in the first place
This is the definition of selective prosecution.
Breaking News: Pam Bondi assigned a prosecutor to look into Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to prominent Democrats including Bill Clinton, at President Trump’s urging.
Trump Live Updates: Bondi Assigns Prosecutor to Look Into Epstein’s Ties to Prominent Democrats
nyti.ms
November 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This is the definition of selective prosecution.
Mamdani's wife being actually hot is almost unfair in the same way that he's actually about six feet tall.
November 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Mamdani's wife being actually hot is almost unfair in the same way that he's actually about six feet tall.
Remember that Olivia Nuzzi wanted to fuck Madison Cawthorn.
November 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Remember that Olivia Nuzzi wanted to fuck Madison Cawthorn.
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Generic Ballot Polling:
🔵 DEM: 50%
🔴 GOP: 44%
Cygnal / Nov 6, 2025
(Republican Leaning Pollster)
🔵 DEM: 50%
🔴 GOP: 44%
Cygnal / Nov 6, 2025
(Republican Leaning Pollster)
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Generic Ballot Polling:
🔵 DEM: 50%
🔴 GOP: 44%
Cygnal / Nov 6, 2025
(Republican Leaning Pollster)
🔵 DEM: 50%
🔴 GOP: 44%
Cygnal / Nov 6, 2025
(Republican Leaning Pollster)
"Pete Skandalakis" sounds like a Paleologos emperor who reigned for 14 days under disputed circumstances that history forgot.
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
"Pete Skandalakis" sounds like a Paleologos emperor who reigned for 14 days under disputed circumstances that history forgot.
Oh, does Sarah Kendzior tolerate Democrats again? I don't keep track of her drama.
November 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Oh, does Sarah Kendzior tolerate Democrats again? I don't keep track of her drama.
2029: no arrests, no prosecutions
So old I remember when it was considered a political liability to hand out a presidential pardon to your son in law’s drug dealer buddy who went on to commit crimes of violence and sexual offenses. nypost.com/2025/11/11/u...
LI drug dealer freed by Trump now convicted of molesting his kids’ nanny and threatening synagogue congregant
Braun was first busted in 2010 for orchestrating a major cannabis distribution ring, smuggling millions of dollars worth of weed from Canada to New York.
nypost.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
2029: no arrests, no prosecutions
Democrats need to tell everyone involved that they are going back to prison, if not renditioned to El Salvador as a foreign policy matter.
NEW: DOJ has been in settlement talks with Michael Flynn -- Trump's first national security adviser seeking $50M for his prosecution by ex-special counsel Robert Mueller -- and Stefan Passantino, a Trump I White House lawyer who accused the House Jan. 6 committee of privacy violations
bit.ly/4hWdolc
bit.ly/4hWdolc
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Democrats need to tell everyone involved that they are going back to prison, if not renditioned to El Salvador as a foreign policy matter.
Robespierre did nothing wrong.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Robespierre did nothing wrong.
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There is a good argument to fire and disbar every DOJ lawyer involved with this.
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
There is a good argument to fire and disbar every DOJ lawyer involved with this.
"Would Harris have won in 2024 if she were a white man?"
Yeah, maybe. But then Biden might have lost in 2020 if she were.
Yeah, maybe. But then Biden might have lost in 2020 if she were.
November 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"Would Harris have won in 2024 if she were a white man?"
Yeah, maybe. But then Biden might have lost in 2020 if she were.
Yeah, maybe. But then Biden might have lost in 2020 if she were.
Am I the only person who always reads "Batya Ungar-Sargon" as "Baron Ungern-Sternberg"?
November 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Am I the only person who always reads "Batya Ungar-Sargon" as "Baron Ungern-Sternberg"?
Re. AI-related investment: do all the people spending hundreds of billions think there will be demand for what this investment is buying, or are they each building in anticipation of winning a winner-take-all game, leaving all the losers with sunk costs and overcapacity?
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Re. AI-related investment: do all the people spending hundreds of billions think there will be demand for what this investment is buying, or are they each building in anticipation of winning a winner-take-all game, leaving all the losers with sunk costs and overcapacity?
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No one demanded the market distorting effects of personalist dictatorship more than capital, they should be happy with their choice. bsky.app/profile/carl...
YELLEN: “.. businesses feel paralyzed by the uncertainty about policies that represent the strong but really personal whims of a single individual.”
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
No one demanded the market distorting effects of personalist dictatorship more than capital, they should be happy with their choice. bsky.app/profile/carl...
誅連九族。
NEW: A company run by the husband of Kristi Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson (and that has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides) secretly got money from $220 million DHS ad contracts 👀 by @justinelliott.bsky.social @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
誅連九族。
It's not often a Supreme Court majority gets the choice to decide if it will be merely packed into irrelevance or fully liquidated.
Trump administration sues California over its redistricting plan, months after a similar GOP-led effort in Texas met no resistance from the DOJ
https://cnn.it/4hYuE9J
https://cnn.it/4hYuE9J
November 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
It's not often a Supreme Court majority gets the choice to decide if it will be merely packed into irrelevance or fully liquidated.
Charge Trump and Hegseth personally for the cost.
Trump's Pentagon name change could cost up to $2 billion www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Trump's Pentagon name change could cost up to $2 billion
Officially changing the Department of Defense to the Department of War can only be done by Congress and would require updating thousands of signs, rewriting digital code and creating new letterheads,...
www.nbcnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Charge Trump and Hegseth personally for the cost.
This is another attitude perpetuated by Bernie Sanders. As if the worst thing about the current regime is they oppose a $15 minimum wage.
There's a tendency among a certain type of poster to assume everything they hate about politics and the state can be blamed on avarice, and I'm here to tell you it's actually worse than that.
I continue to disagree with this. The goal of mass detention is mass deportations. A private prison company leasing 100 beds to ICE gets paid the same if the beds are filled by 100 people for a year each or 1,000 people for a few days each. They don't earn more with long-term detention.
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
This is another attitude perpetuated by Bernie Sanders. As if the worst thing about the current regime is they oppose a $15 minimum wage.
"Should child rapists be shot without trial?" probably polls around 65% support. It's a dangerous game the ruling cabal of child rapists is playing.
November 14, 2025 at 12:33 AM
"Should child rapists be shot without trial?" probably polls around 65% support. It's a dangerous game the ruling cabal of child rapists is playing.
No, Bill Pulte doesn't look that old. He is graying and has jowls.
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
No, Bill Pulte doesn't look that old. He is graying and has jowls.
Operation Long Dong
November 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Operation Long Dong
Hitler did not have a micropenis. Come on, folks.
November 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Hitler did not have a micropenis. Come on, folks.