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The fact that this, and every other Trump pardonee who has subsequently broken the law, has not ended Trump's political career, that it barely even registers on the national discourse, underlines just how far we are from a functioning democracy that values accountability.
A man pardoned by Donald Trump for his role in January 6th - he assaulted Capitol Police officers with bear spray & a metal whip - has avoided prison for child sex crimes because of the president’s sweeping pardon, despite pleading guilty to soliciting what he believed was a 15-year-old girl for sex
Trump Pardon Lets Convicted Child Sex Predator Walk Free
Andrew Taake walked free because of Trump’s pardons, despite being convicted of a child sex crime.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The fact that this, and every other Trump pardonee who has subsequently broken the law, has not ended Trump's political career, that it barely even registers on the national discourse, underlines just how far we are from a functioning democracy that values accountability.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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actual communism
Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
November 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
actual communism
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Trump's allies in Germany betraying the country and helping Putin. Sound familiar?
Senior German officials have accused the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party of deliberately abusing parliamentary powers to collect and likely pass secret information about the country's military capabilities and the state of critical infrastructure to Russia.
Source: Der Spiegel
Source: Der Spiegel
November 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Trump's allies in Germany betraying the country and helping Putin. Sound familiar?
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Dear Lord.
Armed ICE agents STOLE A BABY.
Both the baby and the dad were US Citizens.
www.latimes.com/0000019a-51e...
Armed ICE agents STOLE A BABY.
Both the baby and the dad were US Citizens.
www.latimes.com/0000019a-51e...
Armed federal immigration agents drive away with a toddler in the backseat
A video shared with the Times shows armed federal immigration agents driving away with a toddler in the backseat of a car after detaining her father during a raid at a Home Depot in Cypress Park Tuesd...
www.latimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Dear Lord.
Armed ICE agents STOLE A BABY.
Both the baby and the dad were US Citizens.
www.latimes.com/0000019a-51e...
Armed ICE agents STOLE A BABY.
Both the baby and the dad were US Citizens.
www.latimes.com/0000019a-51e...
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This is big fucking shit
BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election.
DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.
His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...
DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg.
His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...
Democrat Johnny DuPree Flips Republican-Held Mississippi Senate District in Forrest County
Johnny DuPree, a Democrat who served as the mayor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for 16 years, has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate seat.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This is big fucking shit
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“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN
10/10, no notes . . .
“Y'all come in here with your hearts bleedin' all over the floor about slum kids and injustice, you listen to some fairy tales. Well, you're not getting through to me, I've had enough. That sandwich exploded and that’s the end of it.”
November 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
10/10, no notes . . .
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NYT today.
It turns out that when you put tariffs on everyone, they just trade more with each other.
Trump made US the loner in the lunchroom of world trade.
It turns out that when you put tariffs on everyone, they just trade more with each other.
Trump made US the loner in the lunchroom of world trade.
November 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
NYT today.
It turns out that when you put tariffs on everyone, they just trade more with each other.
Trump made US the loner in the lunchroom of world trade.
It turns out that when you put tariffs on everyone, they just trade more with each other.
Trump made US the loner in the lunchroom of world trade.
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Remember when they said they were only going to deport criminals? Not only have they been going after grandmothers and cops, but now priests.
According to the diocese, the priest was legally working here. Now, he’s in ICE detention: www.ncronline.org/news/texas-e...
Texas Episcopal diocese says one of its priests has been detained by ICE
The Episcopal Diocese of Texas announced on Saturday (Nov. 1) that one of its priests, a Kenyan national, has been detained by immigration officials despite working in the state legally.
www.ncronline.org
November 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Remember when they said they were only going to deport criminals? Not only have they been going after grandmothers and cops, but now priests.
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Speaker Mike Johnson vs Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes -- who knows less about what's going on?
November 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Speaker Mike Johnson vs Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes -- who knows less about what's going on?
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This is an official government website paid for by US taxpayers.
this is achieving levels of 2003-era racist grandpa cringe that cannot be measured with any known scientific instruments
www.whitehouse.gov/mysafespace/
www.whitehouse.gov/mysafespace/
November 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This is an official government website paid for by US taxpayers.
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
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Joe Biden would have been impeached and removed from office for this answer.
It wouldn’t have just been bipartisan it would have been unanimous.
It wouldn’t have just been bipartisan it would have been unanimous.
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Joe Biden would have been impeached and removed from office for this answer.
It wouldn’t have just been bipartisan it would have been unanimous.
It wouldn’t have just been bipartisan it would have been unanimous.
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AUTO PEN?
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 1:37 AM
AUTO PEN?
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People who force their religion on others will force their politics on others. It’s why we separate church from state.
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
People who force their religion on others will force their politics on others. It’s why we separate church from state.
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November 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Admiral William Halsey, November 1942, Guadalcanal:
Yamamoto must have nerves of steel
November 2, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Admiral William Halsey, November 1942, Guadalcanal:
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The person who is currently running our country has lost his mind and it’s time we start talking about it.
Trump said he has instructed the Defense Department to “prepare for possible action” in Nigeria over the country’s alleged killing of Christians.
Trump tells Defense Department to 'prepare for possible action' in Nigeria
The move came a day after Trump designated Nigeria a "country of particular concern" over alleged violations of religious freedom.
nbcnews.to
November 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
The person who is currently running our country has lost his mind and it’s time we start talking about it.
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In the antebellum period, judges who ruled against fugitive slaves and in favor of their owners would get more money.
It incentivizes racial profiling and discrimination then as it does now. There is no real due process in a scheme like this.
It incentivizes racial profiling and discrimination then as it does now. There is no real due process in a scheme like this.
“Under the plan, bounty hunters may receive “monetary bonuses” depending on how successfully they track down their targets — and how many immigrants they then report to ICE.”
Or ICE could just fund the Klan directly.
Or ICE could just fund the Klan directly.
ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants
Companies hired by ICE would be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate — and paid cash bonuses for performance.
theintercept.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
In the antebellum period, judges who ruled against fugitive slaves and in favor of their owners would get more money.
It incentivizes racial profiling and discrimination then as it does now. There is no real due process in a scheme like this.
It incentivizes racial profiling and discrimination then as it does now. There is no real due process in a scheme like this.
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"But Her Emails" he cried softly
What the actual f*ck?!!!
“Members of Trump’s National Security Council, including White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post and interviews with three U.S. officials.“
“Members of Trump’s National Security Council, including White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post and interviews with three U.S. officials.“
Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say
Trump’s national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis. But new revelations about his team’s operational security are piling up in the inbox.
wapo.st
October 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"But Her Emails" he cried softly
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I mean, if you’re going to decline to tap into the SNAP emergency fund, you really should host a Gatsby-themed party, right?
Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)
November 1, 2025 at 5:58 AM
I mean, if you’re going to decline to tap into the SNAP emergency fund, you really should host a Gatsby-themed party, right?
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“A transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers” is, quite literally, the EXACT phenomenon that Hannah Arendt was referring to when she coined the phrase “the banality of evil.”
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
October 31, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Too many Americans either didn’t care or didn’t believe. Hopefully they do now.👇
October 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Too many Americans either didn’t care or didn’t believe. Hopefully they do now.👇
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“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” —George Orwell
New in PN: The triumph of bullshit
"We’re a long way from 'covfefe' and tumescent hurricanes Sharpied on a weather map. This is an era of lies as policy, where government priorities are based on right-wing conspiracy theories and fear-mongering."
"We’re a long way from 'covfefe' and tumescent hurricanes Sharpied on a weather map. This is an era of lies as policy, where government priorities are based on right-wing conspiracy theories and fear-mongering."
The triumph of bullshit
Internet conspiracy theories are now official government policy.
www.publicnotice.co
October 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” —George Orwell