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To Trump, Words are a Signal to the Base
We all read a lot of words about how much Donald Trump lies, or how some assertion or other he makes is factually wrong. The formulation tends to be: “is he lying or stupid?”
While there is not any...
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Wrote this 7 years ago. Critical we understand the GOP and Trump don't use words to communicate facts, but that Trump’s posts and speech essentially are marching orders for followers. They don’t care about truth, not embarrassed by being wrong. It's a cult.
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It's difficult for me to fathom how insane our country has gotten, largely because so many have capitulated to hateful propaganda.
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
February 9, 2026 at 4:55 PM
It's difficult for me to fathom how insane our country has gotten, largely because so many have capitulated to hateful propaganda.
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It’s a common but ethically bankrupt practice to surrender paragraphs in your news stories to people you know are trying to trick your audience with disinformation. There’s no rule that news outlets have to do it.
February 8, 2026 at 3:14 AM
It’s a common but ethically bankrupt practice to surrender paragraphs in your news stories to people you know are trying to trick your audience with disinformation. There’s no rule that news outlets have to do it.
Very much worth reading.
🧵How Putin Pulled Off The Greatest Intelligence Operation in History:
Putin's Small Investments Have Yielded Large Returns
This is a story about the best investment anyone’s ever made—anytime, anywhere.
Not a company.
Not a weapon.
Not a technology.
An idea. open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Putin's Small Investments Have Yielded Large Returns
This is a story about the best investment anyone’s ever made—anytime, anywhere.
Not a company.
Not a weapon.
Not a technology.
An idea. open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
How Putin Pulled Off The Greatest Intelligence Operation in History
Putin's Small Investments Have Yielded Large Returns
open.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Very much worth reading.
The right way to frame this. Cutting funding for a badly needed infrastructure project is not only criminal, but it affects thousands of jobs and millions of commuters. Trump is willing to hold citizens hostage for his own gain. And corrupt Chris Christie did the same thing.
February 6, 2026 at 11:53 PM
The right way to frame this. Cutting funding for a badly needed infrastructure project is not only criminal, but it affects thousands of jobs and millions of commuters. Trump is willing to hold citizens hostage for his own gain. And corrupt Chris Christie did the same thing.
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Stephen Marche's piece on a world reordering itself to the reality that America present an acute threat is the day's essential read.
Opinion | We’re All Canadian Now
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:44 AM
Stephen Marche's piece on a world reordering itself to the reality that America present an acute threat is the day's essential read.
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"PROVE ME WRONG"
"Show me a single fucking clip in the past 8 yrs of Donald Trump speaking INTELLIGENTLY about any policy decision, domestic or foreign."
"YOU WILL NOT FIND A SINGLE ONE. Not a single clip of the POTUS speaking like he has any fucking idea about policy whatsoever."
"Show me a single fucking clip in the past 8 yrs of Donald Trump speaking INTELLIGENTLY about any policy decision, domestic or foreign."
"YOU WILL NOT FIND A SINGLE ONE. Not a single clip of the POTUS speaking like he has any fucking idea about policy whatsoever."
February 5, 2026 at 4:29 AM
"PROVE ME WRONG"
"Show me a single fucking clip in the past 8 yrs of Donald Trump speaking INTELLIGENTLY about any policy decision, domestic or foreign."
"YOU WILL NOT FIND A SINGLE ONE. Not a single clip of the POTUS speaking like he has any fucking idea about policy whatsoever."
"Show me a single fucking clip in the past 8 yrs of Donald Trump speaking INTELLIGENTLY about any policy decision, domestic or foreign."
"YOU WILL NOT FIND A SINGLE ONE. Not a single clip of the POTUS speaking like he has any fucking idea about policy whatsoever."
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MAGA is a movement of America haters who despise this country and are conspiring to destroy it
February 4, 2026 at 4:58 PM
MAGA is a movement of America haters who despise this country and are conspiring to destroy it
Great stuff.
1. I think most liberals are probably familiar with one part of what has become known as Wilhoit’s Law – that the true goals of the right are inequality, injustice, repression and control. This is how composer Frank Wilhoit put it in 2018:
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February 4, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Great stuff.
This headline only makes sense and is journalustically accurate ispf the word "Lying" is inserted at the beginning. Otherwise it platforms fascism.
For the billionth time, we are neighbors helping neighbors. That's it.
I know people using the terms "insurgency" and "agitators" are acting in bad faith, but everyone else needs to treat them with flat-earth levels of disdain and contempt. The analysis should be "this is 1,000% wrong, DUH."
I know people using the terms "insurgency" and "agitators" are acting in bad faith, but everyone else needs to treat them with flat-earth levels of disdain and contempt. The analysis should be "this is 1,000% wrong, DUH."
Politicians Are Calling the Protests in Minnesota an Insurgency
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January 31, 2026 at 2:41 PM
This headline only makes sense and is journalustically accurate ispf the word "Lying" is inserted at the beginning. Otherwise it platforms fascism.
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In 21st century US politics, the two most important ongoing stories are:
1) The radicalization of the GOP, &
2) the degradation of the information environment, ie, the death of accountability journalism.
Neither gets a fraction of the attention devoted to, say, annoying woke undergrads.
1) The radicalization of the GOP, &
2) the degradation of the information environment, ie, the death of accountability journalism.
Neither gets a fraction of the attention devoted to, say, annoying woke undergrads.
January 26, 2026 at 8:44 PM
In 21st century US politics, the two most important ongoing stories are:
1) The radicalization of the GOP, &
2) the degradation of the information environment, ie, the death of accountability journalism.
Neither gets a fraction of the attention devoted to, say, annoying woke undergrads.
1) The radicalization of the GOP, &
2) the degradation of the information environment, ie, the death of accountability journalism.
Neither gets a fraction of the attention devoted to, say, annoying woke undergrads.
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Rittenhouse was their hero.
He brandished his weapon and killed two people.
Alex was help a woman who had been physically assaulted.
He did NOT brandish his weapon and somehow THIS IS THE DOMESTIC TERRORIST.
Republicans are the biggest hypocrites to walk the earth.
He brandished his weapon and killed two people.
Alex was help a woman who had been physically assaulted.
He did NOT brandish his weapon and somehow THIS IS THE DOMESTIC TERRORIST.
Republicans are the biggest hypocrites to walk the earth.
January 25, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Rittenhouse was their hero.
He brandished his weapon and killed two people.
Alex was help a woman who had been physically assaulted.
He did NOT brandish his weapon and somehow THIS IS THE DOMESTIC TERRORIST.
Republicans are the biggest hypocrites to walk the earth.
He brandished his weapon and killed two people.
Alex was help a woman who had been physically assaulted.
He did NOT brandish his weapon and somehow THIS IS THE DOMESTIC TERRORIST.
Republicans are the biggest hypocrites to walk the earth.
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I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.
January 25, 2026 at 2:20 AM
I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.
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Exactly right. The idea that immigration hurts Americans is a lie that bad faith actors make to spread racist hate.
Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.
January 24, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Exactly right. The idea that immigration hurts Americans is a lie that bad faith actors make to spread racist hate.
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Summary execution is too polite a term for what this video shows. A brutal, up close and personal, regime-sponsored murder. Boiling with rage doesn't begin to describe it over here.
January 24, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Summary execution is too polite a term for what this video shows. A brutal, up close and personal, regime-sponsored murder. Boiling with rage doesn't begin to describe it over here.
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The people starving African babies to death, cutting off people's insurance, bombing random boats and letting Russia starve Ukraine have thoughts on the sanctity of life.
JD Vance: "To our fellow Americans we say, you're never gonna find great meaning in a cubicle or in front of a computer screen. But you will find great meaning if you dedicate yourself to the creation and sustenance of human life."
January 23, 2026 at 7:38 PM
The people starving African babies to death, cutting off people's insurance, bombing random boats and letting Russia starve Ukraine have thoughts on the sanctity of life.
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Kushner in Davos today btw.
January 23, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Kushner in Davos today btw.
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Basically to be a member of our Media & Political Elite, a serious person, for last few decades you had to live in a Republican fantasy world and that is really coming back to harm US.
January 22, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Basically to be a member of our Media & Political Elite, a serious person, for last few decades you had to live in a Republican fantasy world and that is really coming back to harm US.
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It’s been one year of Trump.
Give me 2 minutes to explain why it’s been such a catastrophic failure.
Give me 2 minutes to explain why it’s been such a catastrophic failure.
January 20, 2026 at 9:13 PM
It’s been one year of Trump.
Give me 2 minutes to explain why it’s been such a catastrophic failure.
Give me 2 minutes to explain why it’s been such a catastrophic failure.
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We have to get rid of Jeffries and Schumer. We have to. It’s unendurable that these men are the most prominent Democrats of the moment. They are two of the most broadly undistinguished men I could imagine in politics, zero fire, zero fight, zero zeal, machine politicians with sinecures.
January 21, 2026 at 1:30 PM
We have to get rid of Jeffries and Schumer. We have to. It’s unendurable that these men are the most prominent Democrats of the moment. They are two of the most broadly undistinguished men I could imagine in politics, zero fire, zero fight, zero zeal, machine politicians with sinecures.
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This has had a profound effect on the west and has produced a significant break in trust between its people and its governments, universities and news outlets. For examaple: for all the handwringing US liberals did about the "fake news" of Fox News, the damage done by pretending the horrors of Gaza
January 21, 2026 at 10:30 AM
This has had a profound effect on the west and has produced a significant break in trust between its people and its governments, universities and news outlets. For examaple: for all the handwringing US liberals did about the "fake news" of Fox News, the damage done by pretending the horrors of Gaza
Democrats must talk this way. Now.
🇪🇸🇪🇺 Spain’s MEP Irene Montero went nuclear in the European Parliament, accusing Europe of humiliating itself before Donald Trump, according to Clash Report.
"Do you still believe that by helping the United States to commit its crimes, we will be safe?
"Do you still believe that by helping the United States to commit its crimes, we will be safe?
January 21, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Democrats must talk this way. Now.