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Chris Whipple said something in a NYT op-ed the other day that accords what I took away from his Vanity Fair profile of Susie Wiles. The reason she said so many batshit things to him is she doesn't understand that normies will recognize them as batshit.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
February 7, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Chris Whipple said something in a NYT op-ed the other day that accords what I took away from his Vanity Fair profile of Susie Wiles. The reason she said so many batshit things to him is she doesn't understand that normies will recognize them as batshit.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
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Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?
NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?
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Acive duty military are being ordered to buy a ticket to Melania and watch it, whether they want to, or not. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mil...
Military Pressured to See ‘Melania’ Against Their Will
A military group has evidence of troops being ordered into theater—the movie theater.
www.thedailybeast.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:06 AM
Acive duty military are being ordered to buy a ticket to Melania and watch it, whether they want to, or not. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mil...
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So far it has been revealed that the WH Faith Director advisor is pushing group sales of Melania tickets to her email lists, a GOP Rep seeking Trump’s endorsement is buying them in bulk and giving them to primary voters, and military commanders are pressuring troops to buy tickets.
February 7, 2026 at 2:22 PM
So far it has been revealed that the WH Faith Director advisor is pushing group sales of Melania tickets to her email lists, a GOP Rep seeking Trump’s endorsement is buying them in bulk and giving them to primary voters, and military commanders are pressuring troops to buy tickets.
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"The “anti-woke” movement was not a genteel intellectual inquiry, made by disinterested parties who cared deeply about free speech. It is a social circle of powerful people who feel threatened by #MeToo." www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...
How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo
The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.
www.theverge.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:00 AM
"The “anti-woke” movement was not a genteel intellectual inquiry, made by disinterested parties who cared deeply about free speech. It is a social circle of powerful people who feel threatened by #MeToo." www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...
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The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.
(Published May 2025)
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.
(Published May 2025)
Why Hospital Policies Matter in States That Ban Abortion
Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their ou...
www.propublica.org
February 6, 2026 at 4:00 AM
The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.
(Published May 2025)
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.
(Published May 2025)
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Your suspicion was right.
Trump shut down the Kennedy Center out of pure embarrassment after the cancellations.
He’s betting we forget in two years.
In 2023 the Kennedy Center was in the black, pulling in $286M in revenue. And it reopened from a $250M renovation in 2019.
Trump shut down the Kennedy Center out of pure embarrassment after the cancellations.
He’s betting we forget in two years.
In 2023 the Kennedy Center was in the black, pulling in $286M in revenue. And it reopened from a $250M renovation in 2019.
February 5, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Your suspicion was right.
Trump shut down the Kennedy Center out of pure embarrassment after the cancellations.
He’s betting we forget in two years.
In 2023 the Kennedy Center was in the black, pulling in $286M in revenue. And it reopened from a $250M renovation in 2019.
Trump shut down the Kennedy Center out of pure embarrassment after the cancellations.
He’s betting we forget in two years.
In 2023 the Kennedy Center was in the black, pulling in $286M in revenue. And it reopened from a $250M renovation in 2019.
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NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica built the Rx Inspector tool to show you.
Now a proposed bill would also require manufacturing location information on packaging for both generic and brand-name drugs.
Now a proposed bill would also require manufacturing location information on packaging for both generic and brand-name drugs.
The Clear Labels Act Would Change What You Know About Your Prescription Medication
The bill, introduced by Sens. Rick Scott and Kirsten Gillibrand, follows a bipartisan investigation that cited ProPublica’s reporting on dangerous foreign drugmakers and the medicine they continued…
www.propublica.org
February 6, 2026 at 1:00 PM
NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica built the Rx Inspector tool to show you.
Now a proposed bill would also require manufacturing location information on packaging for both generic and brand-name drugs.
Now a proposed bill would also require manufacturing location information on packaging for both generic and brand-name drugs.
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Jeffrey Epstein told people like Landon Thomas, Jr. specific and detailed info about Donald Trump.
Info that Epstein didn’t want to put in writing.
Info that Epstein didn’t want to put in writing.
I dive deep into the Epstein Files for the latest on the NY Times’ financial journalist, Landon Thomas Jr.’s relationship with Epstein & how it compromised the world finding out more about Donald Trump’s role in Epstein’s world before the 2016 election.
youtu.be/cE82IGjZPgk?...
youtu.be/cE82IGjZPgk?...
Trump World ROCKED as Epstein Files EXPOSE Dark SECRETS
YouTube video by Katie Phang
youtu.be
February 6, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Jeffrey Epstein told people like Landon Thomas, Jr. specific and detailed info about Donald Trump.
Info that Epstein didn’t want to put in writing.
Info that Epstein didn’t want to put in writing.
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Fascism is undoubtedly the purpose of the ICE budget, because ICE is already struggling to meet its kidnapping quotas with anything immigration-related. They're already deep into people with no criminal record, people at immigration hearings, veterans, children with cancer, and naturalized citizens.
Harvard sociologist/polisci Theda Skocpol explains how the vast expansion of ICE in BBB may be Trump's secret weapon to overcome the barriers of federalism and complete his autocratic takeover of the American state. (History from Germany & Hungary in 20s/30s.) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...
Critical Read About the BBB, Federalism and the Future of American Democracy
TPM Reader TS (Harvard sociologist/political scientist Theda Skocpol) and I often compared...
talkingpointsmemo.com
July 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Fascism is undoubtedly the purpose of the ICE budget, because ICE is already struggling to meet its kidnapping quotas with anything immigration-related. They're already deep into people with no criminal record, people at immigration hearings, veterans, children with cancer, and naturalized citizens.
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If Vladimir Putin had a plan to foul our air and water, wreck public health and drive America over the cliff of irreversible lethal climate change, it would look exactly like Lee Zeldin’s plan. This is a plan for self-inflicted environmental disaster.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump’s environmental rule-shredding will put lives at risk, ex-EPA heads say
Former agency leaders, including two Republicans, say rollbacks by Lee Zeldin could cause ‘severe harms’
www.theguardian.com
March 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
If Vladimir Putin had a plan to foul our air and water, wreck public health and drive America over the cliff of irreversible lethal climate change, it would look exactly like Lee Zeldin’s plan. This is a plan for self-inflicted environmental disaster.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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17 Democrats just voted to confirm Trump's anti-labor Labor Secretary.
If we have a constitutional crisis (we do), they should start acting like it.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
If we have a constitutional crisis (we do), they should start acting like it.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
March 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
17 Democrats just voted to confirm Trump's anti-labor Labor Secretary.
If we have a constitutional crisis (we do), they should start acting like it.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
If we have a constitutional crisis (we do), they should start acting like it.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
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The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
www.kcur.org
January 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
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If we wanted to make people sicker, on purpose, this is what we would do
The Trump administration, moving quickly to clamp down on health and science agencies, has canceled a string of scientific meetings and instructed federal health officials to refrain from all public communications.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/h...
Trump Administration Temporarily Mutes Federal Health Officials (Gift Article)
Scientific meetings were canceled, and research data on the bird flu outbreak was delayed, amid confusion over the directive.
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
If we wanted to make people sicker, on purpose, this is what we would do
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They hope he's lying when he says he'll fuck them over and telling the truth when he says he'll fuck other people over. Magical thinking for assholes.
December 13, 2024 at 4:50 AM
They hope he's lying when he says he'll fuck them over and telling the truth when he says he'll fuck other people over. Magical thinking for assholes.
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One downside of living in the richest country on Earth is how we're permanently stuck with substandard infrastructure because our plutocracy won't allow any improvements.
Elon Musk is reviving his campaign to kill California high-speed rail.
The Hyperloop only existed to fuel opposition to the project, now he seems to want to use his leverage with Trump for another crack at ensuring it’s never completed.
The Hyperloop only existed to fuel opposition to the project, now he seems to want to use his leverage with Trump for another crack at ensuring it’s never completed.
December 1, 2024 at 2:04 AM
One downside of living in the richest country on Earth is how we're permanently stuck with substandard infrastructure because our plutocracy won't allow any improvements.
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James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.
November 27, 2024 at 5:03 PM
James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.
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Hegseth, according to his books, could be counted upon to ignore threats to America from abroad, and to use a purged and politicized military against “enemies within.”
Essay: "Pete Hegseth: 13 Steps to National Destruction"
snyder.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...
Essay: "Pete Hegseth: 13 Steps to National Destruction"
snyder.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...
Pete Hegseth: The Short Course
13 Steps to National Destruction
snyder.substack.com
November 24, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Hegseth, according to his books, could be counted upon to ignore threats to America from abroad, and to use a purged and politicized military against “enemies within.”
Essay: "Pete Hegseth: 13 Steps to National Destruction"
snyder.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...
Essay: "Pete Hegseth: 13 Steps to National Destruction"
snyder.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...
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How many with Madison Cawthorn
November 18, 2024 at 9:37 PM
How many with Madison Cawthorn
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With RFK Jr. running Health, we're all gonna die.
Trump is nominating incompetents to his Cabinet, so when all fed agencies degrade in failure and scandal, he can say, "See? Institutions don't work. Only a dictator can fix it."
Trump is nominating incompetents to his Cabinet, so when all fed agencies degrade in failure and scandal, he can say, "See? Institutions don't work. Only a dictator can fix it."
November 18, 2024 at 1:41 AM
With RFK Jr. running Health, we're all gonna die.
Trump is nominating incompetents to his Cabinet, so when all fed agencies degrade in failure and scandal, he can say, "See? Institutions don't work. Only a dictator can fix it."
Trump is nominating incompetents to his Cabinet, so when all fed agencies degrade in failure and scandal, he can say, "See? Institutions don't work. Only a dictator can fix it."
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So apparently they’re considering having Stuart Fischbein join HHS. For those who don’t know, this man lost his license for inappropriate sexual relations with patients. He also doesn’t believe birthing people should get epidurals bc he thinks it disrupts their connection with the fetus.
November 18, 2024 at 2:57 AM
So apparently they’re considering having Stuart Fischbein join HHS. For those who don’t know, this man lost his license for inappropriate sexual relations with patients. He also doesn’t believe birthing people should get epidurals bc he thinks it disrupts their connection with the fetus.
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The idea that Bluesky is insular and X is a place for diverse views is a fallacy.
X is based on an algorithm rigged to push the views of Musk and others on the far right.
Bluesky is open. You can make it whatever you want it to be.
X is based on an algorithm rigged to push the views of Musk and others on the far right.
Bluesky is open. You can make it whatever you want it to be.
November 18, 2024 at 1:22 AM
The idea that Bluesky is insular and X is a place for diverse views is a fallacy.
X is based on an algorithm rigged to push the views of Musk and others on the far right.
Bluesky is open. You can make it whatever you want it to be.
X is based on an algorithm rigged to push the views of Musk and others on the far right.
Bluesky is open. You can make it whatever you want it to be.
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I really don't get how Democrats can be handed the easy layup of "Republicans are uniting to suppress the underage sex trafficking report about an unliked and unqualified nominee" and decide the best thing to do is minimize its importance.
Sorry, @hakeemjeffries.bsky.social, Trump’s cabinet is not a distraction, and the public has a right to the Gaetz report even if Republicans on the Ethics Committee decide to be partisan, and cover up a child sex trafficking scandal.
No, Trump's Cabinet Is Not A "Distraction"
They're cabinet secretaries, ffs!
www.offmessage.net
November 18, 2024 at 4:06 PM
I really don't get how Democrats can be handed the easy layup of "Republicans are uniting to suppress the underage sex trafficking report about an unliked and unqualified nominee" and decide the best thing to do is minimize its importance.