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Tim Dickinson
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Senior Writer & Editor, The Contrarian contrarian.substack.com

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Trump on Columbian president: "He has to watch his ass"
January 3, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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Rubio: not the kind of mission you can do congressional notification on
January 3, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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Trump on running Venezuela and what comes next: "We're not affraid of boots on the ground"
January 3, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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hegseth on maduro: "he f-d around, and he found out"

on the casus belli: "deadly serious about getting back the oil that was stolen from us"
January 3, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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The Donroe Doctrine = "precise attacks on sovereignty"
January 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Trump: "The oil business has been a bust.
Pumping almost nothing. We’re going to have our very large oil companies spend billions of dollars and start making money for the country."
January 3, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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Trump: "We’re gong to run the country"
January 3, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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Good morning, we've captured Maduro and intend to run Venezula to take its oil
January 3, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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Very good news: Judge dropped the bullshit RICO charges against #StopCopCity protesters. Georgia's republican AG might still appeal, but it's an increasingly unpopular stance, so this might be the end of it.
www.gpb.org/news/2025/12...
Georgia judge tosses landmark racketeering charges against 'Cop City' protesters
A Georgia judge has tossed racketeering charges against dozens of defendants accused of a yearslong conspiracy to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training facility. Critics call it “...
www.gpb.org
January 3, 2026 at 5:59 AM
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So many awful people are going to be upset when Mamdani actually improves life in NYC.
January 3, 2026 at 2:53 AM
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This is my favorite timeline cleanse account
pomological.xor.blue old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 1d
brazilian oranges, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1902
brazilian oranges, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1902
January 2, 2026 at 5:18 AM
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joshuaeaton.bsky.social
You’re telling me MechaHitler can’t be trusted to behave responsibly?
January 2, 2026 at 2:43 AM
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tomjoscelyn.bsky.social
Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.”

Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
January 1, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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A late entry for the most deranged post of 2025
January 1, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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In 2026 I'm going to become an evangelist for Organic Intelligence.
OI is unstoppable.
December 31, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Trump announces he’s pulling the National Guard from Portland, LA, and Chicago but threatens that “We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again - Only a question of time!”
We are removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, despite the fact that CRIME has been greatly reduced by having these great Patriots in those cities, and ONLY by that fact. Portland, Los Angeles, and Chicago were GONE if it weren’t for the Federal Government stepping in. We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again - Only a question of time! It is hard to believe that these Democrat Mayors and Governors, all of whom are greatly incompetent, would want us to leave, especially considering the great progress that has been made??? President DJT
December 31, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Trump's Golden Monstrosity
A retrospective of Trump's White House makeover I made for @contrariannews.org
December 31, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Just look at that accursed hearth
December 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Trump's Golden Monstrosity
A retrospective of Trump's White House makeover I made for @contrariannews.org
December 31, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Pretty sure this is the best reporting I've seen explaining this youtube.com/shorts/f_l9X...
What’s going on with the daycares in Minneapolis?
YouTube video by Dave Jorgenson
youtube.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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The driving impulse of so much of the administration's social media output? **Cruelty, but make it aesthetic**

open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
December 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Is it that difficult to conceive of someone with actual ideological commitments, who supports unions not for transactional reasons but because they genuinely believe in workers' power? nymag.com/intelligence...
Yet Mamdani is not acting like a mayor without debts. Even though he wasn’t supported by labor unions and many other left-leaning civic organizations in the primary, he had been their champion regardless. He didn’t get the teachers-union endorsement, but he still favored getting rid of mayoral control of schools, something mayors dating back to Bloomberg have fought vigorously for, since its alternative was an era of community school boards that was rife with dysfunction and graft and left a mayor powerless in the face of, for example, a bus-drivers strike. He wasn’t the first choice of the municipal-workers union but still pledged to oppose a proposal to switch city workers to a health plan that budget experts say is necessary to save the city $1 billion. He has called for 200,000 units of affordable housing to be built in the city, but despite not being endorsed by the building trades, he has said they should be built with union labor, which would drive up the cost of construction. (“He says he wants to build 200,000 units of affordable housing, all with union labor,” said one prominent developer. “I think he is going to be lucky to get 50.”) “It’s one of the strangest things I have seen,” said David Schleicher, a professor at Yale Law School and an expert on municipal policy. “He has no particular reason to follow the line of the teachers union or the building trades or any other union, but he seems to be doing it anyway.” It’s hard to shake the sense that Mamdani has come into office treating perceived ideological allies — including unions — as sacred, whether or not they’ve thrown their full support behind him.
December 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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The Top 10 most unhinged Trumpworld posts of 2025...

"a collection reflecting the bigoted, lawless, and conspiratorial tendencies of a government that often seems more interested in trolling the public than serving it."
The 20 Most Unhinged MAGA Media Posts of 2025 (Part II)
From Pope Trump to ‘Chipocalypse Now,’ a ranking of the Trump administration’s social media ragebait
open.substack.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)
abbij1961.bsky.social Abbi Lichtenstein @abbij1961.bsky.social · 5d
As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
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December 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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This is New England's version of the Louvre heist.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
$400,000 worth of lobster stolen en route to Costco stores, shipper says
The lobsters, which were not alive, were on their way to Costco stores in Illinois and Minnesota, according to Rexing Companies.
www.nbcnews.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM