Van Firth
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I’ve always said we live in an age when anyone can have a little box in their pocket that gives instant access to all the world’s experts and knowledge repositories. And yet people turn to pajama-wearing conspiracy theorists and rumor mongers for their news.
Your typical ICE goon isn’t very thin.
December 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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"These breaks come in addition to the roughly $4 trillion package of tax cuts that President Trump signed into law in July..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
A “vigorous travel schedule?” He flys in a plane that leaves whenever he wants, no sitting in a crowded terminal, no delayed flights, no carrying luggage, no TSA screening. The plane has a giant private bedroom for him, so he can sleep in a real bed. We only wish our travel was so easy.
November 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Posted by Mike Pence’s former Chief of Staff.
October 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
October 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...
October 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
They won’t agree obvs. But he is making a point that he has nothing to hide.
BREAKING:

Jack Smith is requesting that Congress and the Justice Dept. let him testify in public.

In new letters to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, Smith says he wants to testify "in open hearings" because of "the many mischaracterizations" around his investigations.
October 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
October 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Not a test, an excuse to end the ceasefire.
October 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Let’s check in on the downtown Portland webcam at 6:08pm PT on this Sunday evening. Looks awful…ly boring.
October 13, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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October 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Reminder: the President may be allowing his secretary to undermine access to vaccines for others and promote anti vaccine misinformation, but he himself is fully vaccinated, including this year’s flu and Covid vaccine.

In this, do as the president does, not as his secretary ‘s ACIP minions say.
October 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.
October 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges
Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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I don't know how you did this, Merriam-Webster, but I tip my hat.
October 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"
October 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Good lord.

@apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Remember, Posobiec co-wrote a book that declared progressives were "unhumans" and that praised Franco and Pinochet for their murderous war on leftists. That is, the guy who promoted Pizzagate essentially endorsed political violence. I wrote about that here:

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
October 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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I'm not sure "We want umaccountable armed thugs snatching people off the street in Britain too" is the vote-winner the Tories think.
October 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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has anybody ever been more obviously full of shit than Pam Bondi is at the end of this 20 second clip?
October 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The Republicans should go all in on this splendid idea. And brag about it on Fox News. They should make sure everyone knows not paying essential workers was their idea.
October 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Just go ahead and delete article 1 entirely while you’re at it.
Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT
October 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Why are we paying Congress if they’re going to he a meaningless debating society? They should just go home now that they’re irrelevant.
October 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The government “shutdown” isn’t really a traditional shutdown because the administration has decided to spend and/or withhold money however they please regardless of appropriations or budgets. Why are we paying Congress if they’re going to be an irrelevant debating society?
“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”
Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT
October 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Thanks, New Yorker
October 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM