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Democracy Dies in Darkness (or with new ownership).
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New technologies now under development will enable the GOP to do to intellectual discourse in academia what Rupert Murdoch and Bari Weiss have done to reasoned debate in the media.

𝘣𝘺 𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
𝘝𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘋𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘥 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘯

hat tip: Elton Beard
November 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Stephen Miller says Afghan immigrant Rahmanullah Lakanwal was incapable of assimilating to American culture. But a factcheck shows that Lakanwal used a gun to assault and kill multiple innocent people. Four Pinocchios.
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Via @michaeldweiss.bsky.social

Polish cartoon

“The peace talks were attended by Ushakov and Witkoff.”

“And from the American side?”
November 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
New technologies now under development will enable the GOP to do to intellectual discourse in academia what Rupert Murdoch and Bari Weiss have done to reasoned debate in the media.

𝘣𝘺 𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
𝘝𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘋𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘥 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘯

hat tip: Elton Beard
November 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Trump and the GOP are driving the country off a cliff and Democrats should seize the moment by getting in front of them to cushion the fall.

𝘣𝘺 𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵
𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵 𝘉𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | It’s time to end the filibuster
Senate Republicans should not shy from doing what Democrats are certain to do.
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November 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The job of conservatives is to obstruct the creation of the liberal society that most Americans really want.
𝘣𝘺 𝘎𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | A great nation is reduced to fanciful hoping
America used to borrow for emergencies. Now it is mired in a perpetual debt emergency.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

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Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. History has stopped … .”
Orwell (1984)
November 4, 2025 at 5:25 AM
I don't like Mr. Trump nearly as much as I once did, but I really loathe people who dislike him more than I do now.

𝘣𝘺 𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵 ⁣
𝘋𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘥 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴
November 4, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?

great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
If you don't acknowledge a foreign-policy mistake by the administration, then there is no need for the Congress to fix it.
𝘣𝘺 𝘋𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘥 𝘐𝘨𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘶𝘴

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Opinion | Trump and Xi flexed. Who won?
The leaders share an affinity for great-power-style foreign policy. That’s working — for now.
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November 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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A pointless, punitive, and hopelessly-bungled trade policy is still better than no trade policy at all.
𝑏𝑦 𝑆𝑐𝑜𝑡𝑡 𝐵𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡
August 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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In my day sure we had an idiot in the White House, but Reagan at least 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 presidential - damn I miss the Cold War.
 𝑏𝑦 𝐷𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑑 𝐼𝑔𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑢𝑠

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Opinion | How the national security bureaucracy blocked Reagan’s ballistic missile ban
The president embraced a vision for a safer world. Declassified documents show what happened next.
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August 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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DC has Letitia James to blame for Trump's militarization of their entire city because she had the temerity to try and get back for New Yorkers the money stolen by the third generation head of a four generation crime family.

𝑏𝑦 𝑀𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑐𝐴𝑟𝑑𝑙𝑒
August 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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It's a good thing Mr. Trump trusted economic experts like Peter Navarro and Ron Vara over those complete losers from the Federal Reserve or he would like 𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 not have imposed wildly scattershot tariffs on our allies, and then where would we be?

𝑏𝑦 𝑃𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑁𝑎𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑜
August 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Jonah Goldberg an expert? The guy who wrote 𝐿𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝐹𝑎𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑚? The guy who was a promoter of and cheerleader for the Iraq War? The AEI Senior Fellow and holder of the Asness Chair in Applied Liberty?

Jonah Goldberg has been a problem since the mid-90s. Fuck Jonah.
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Trump's true 'goal' is 'worse' than a dictatorship: expert
In an article for the Los Angeles Times published Tuesday, columnist Jonah Goldberg argued that President Donald Trump’s claims of emergency powers to impose tariffs reflect a dangerous strain of “Cae...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

10/10 response, no notes
October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
My omnipotent deity of choice has created some people He wishes me to hate, and He has informed me as to their identity.

𝘣𝘺 𝘒𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘳

hat tip Elton Beard
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Opinion | Is this the president we’ve been waiting for?
Trump’s “miraculous” Israel-Hamas peace deal is a moment of triumph.
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October 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Good thing the demolition is hardly noticeable. Barely a flesh wound!
October 21, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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ACECO doesn't list the White House on their projects page but it's their logo on the excavator. Surely they would welcome some local feedback on their choices. 3/
acecoworld.com/projects/
October 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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A normally relialble news website has revealed that young Republican males have Nazi leanings and alarming attitudes about women, people of color, and LGBTQ folks, which is a very bad thing for that website to have done.

𝘣𝘺 𝘈𝘳𝘪 𝘍𝘭𝘦𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘒𝘢𝘳𝘭 𝘙𝘰𝘷𝘦

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
A normally relialble news website has revealed that young Republican males have Nazi leanings and alarming attitudes about women, people of color, and LGBTQ folks, which is a very bad thing for that website to have done.

𝘣𝘺 𝘈𝘳𝘪 𝘍𝘭𝘦𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘒𝘢𝘳𝘭 𝘙𝘰𝘷𝘦

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
stepping out of character:

Joe Rogan is a bit like David Brooks in that he's a dumbass whose views I don't really care about, but he is, sadly, an influential dumbass.

𝘋𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬

www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...
Joe Rogan on Trump's mass deportations: "I really thought they were just going to go after the criminals"
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October 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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We are witnessing a purposeful gutting of and consequent failure to perform by America's governing institutions, all of which are administered by a leader, party, and philosophy whose names elude us at the moment.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘌𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘉𝘰𝘢𝘳𝘥

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Opinion | Why the White House might dial up the shutdown pain
Democratic leaders play a dangerous game as Trump threatens not to pay furloughed federal workers.
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October 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Bullshit.
Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."
October 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM