Aozora
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“All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.”
-George Orwell
-George Orwell
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Yesterday Tom Nichols went into a snit when someone asked him if there was any woman politician he would support for President. As if it was an unreasonable question to a guy who has bemoaned the lack of "pro-life" Dem candidates and portrayed Harris as some kind of crazy leftist w/in last few days
Next person who interviews Carvile needs to ask him to define ”woke.”
“With all this rage, we must also have a bold, simple policy plan — one that every American can understand,” James Carville writes. “We should not fear that running on a platform of seismic economic scale will cost us a general election.”
Opinion | Carville: How About a Sweeping, Aggressive, Unvarnished Platform of Pure Economic Rage
Democrats also have to shed the last vestiges of woke.
nyti.ms
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Next person who interviews Carvile needs to ask him to define ”woke.”
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Carville is a classic Louisiana politico, so he operates in two modes: Huey Long and David Duke
November 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Carville is a classic Louisiana politico, so he operates in two modes: Huey Long and David Duke
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Our nation is run by men who don’t give a Flying F***k about the grandchildren.
The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
November 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Our nation is run by men who don’t give a Flying F***k about the grandchildren.
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The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot.
Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders
All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders
All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot.
Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders
All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders
All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.
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Friends, we gather to honor the dearly departed icons of the early web. 🖥️⚰️ Though they have vanished from our screens, their spirit endures both in our memory & in the Wayback Machine, preserved across 1 trillion pages of web history.
Pay your respects ⤵️
archive.org/details/in-m...
#Wayback1T
Pay your respects ⤵️
archive.org/details/in-m...
#Wayback1T
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Friends, we gather to honor the dearly departed icons of the early web. 🖥️⚰️ Though they have vanished from our screens, their spirit endures both in our memory & in the Wayback Machine, preserved across 1 trillion pages of web history.
Pay your respects ⤵️
archive.org/details/in-m...
#Wayback1T
Pay your respects ⤵️
archive.org/details/in-m...
#Wayback1T
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President Criminal arrested the former FBI chief but his case got dismissed because he hired a bimbo he wants to bang as the prosecutor and she had no idea wha the fuck she was doing,
November 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
President Criminal arrested the former FBI chief but his case got dismissed because he hired a bimbo he wants to bang as the prosecutor and she had no idea wha the fuck she was doing,
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If your commander goes completely nuts and tells you to shoot a detainee who's not in combat, is in a detention center, and isn't posing any threat, a junior service member is supposed to recognize that as an unlawful order and refuse to follow it, not presume legality.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
If your commander goes completely nuts and tells you to shoot a detainee who's not in combat, is in a detention center, and isn't posing any threat, a junior service member is supposed to recognize that as an unlawful order and refuse to follow it, not presume legality.
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
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siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
I’m old enough to remember when the press went crazy with “wag the dog” stories about Bill Clinton in 1998 (of course, it turned out that Osama bin Laden was a threat to the US).
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I’m old enough to remember when the press went crazy with “wag the dog” stories about Bill Clinton in 1998 (of course, it turned out that Osama bin Laden was a threat to the US).
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Oddly enough, in media coverage of Dems' video warning against carrying out illegal orders, there's very little discussion of *whether it's actually reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal commands or not.*
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Oddly enough, in media coverage of Dems' video warning against carrying out illegal orders, there's very little discussion of *whether it's actually reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal commands or not.*
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
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thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation
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They should dump Nuzzi and bring back the Teen Vogue political reporters group.
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 AM
They should dump Nuzzi and bring back the Teen Vogue political reporters group.
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From Le Monde's interview with Fiona Hill
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 AM
From Le Monde's interview with Fiona Hill
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interesting fact: noah smith is part of an ongoing experiment designed to see how much you could smooth a person’s brain out before they can no longer function
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
interesting fact: noah smith is part of an ongoing experiment designed to see how much you could smooth a person’s brain out before they can no longer function
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70+ free printable "How to Report ICE" zines with info on the SALUTE protocol and local hotline numbers for all over the country! Including some in Spanish!
There is an info sheet on how to fold and cut the zines and a form to request a zine for your area.
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
There is an info sheet on how to fold and cut the zines and a form to request a zine for your area.
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
November 17, 2025 at 12:14 AM
70+ free printable "How to Report ICE" zines with info on the SALUTE protocol and local hotline numbers for all over the country! Including some in Spanish!
There is an info sheet on how to fold and cut the zines and a form to request a zine for your area.
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
There is an info sheet on how to fold and cut the zines and a form to request a zine for your area.
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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Honestly the relationship was refreshingly simple. She'd go out at night to bash a few raccoons to death with a tire iron and leave them in a storm drain to ripen for a few days, then he'd gobble them up and say "thAnK yOu seXy LaDy" like a horny cement mixer
November 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Honestly the relationship was refreshingly simple. She'd go out at night to bash a few raccoons to death with a tire iron and leave them in a storm drain to ripen for a few days, then he'd gobble them up and say "thAnK yOu seXy LaDy" like a horny cement mixer
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Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY
November 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY
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NEW: Peter Thiel, JD Vance’s top donor and one of Silicon Valley’s most powerful men, recently called Pope Leo XIV a tool of the Antichrist — and directly told the vice president not to listen to him.
NEW: JD Vance’s Top Donor Suggests Pope Leo XIV is Antichrist
In a leaked lecture, Peter Thiel says he’s urged Vance to ignore the pope on moral questions — and simply pray for him.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM
NEW: Peter Thiel, JD Vance’s top donor and one of Silicon Valley’s most powerful men, recently called Pope Leo XIV a tool of the Antichrist — and directly told the vice president not to listen to him.
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Vance asks for a "little bit of patience." Sound familiar? Hoover plunged the nation into Depression asking Americans "if you will have patience".
Meanwhile, a taxi driver with cancer in Arizona has premiums go up from $44 to $2,600 a month.
Meanwhile, a taxi driver with cancer in Arizona has premiums go up from $44 to $2,600 a month.
November 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Vance asks for a "little bit of patience." Sound familiar? Hoover plunged the nation into Depression asking Americans "if you will have patience".
Meanwhile, a taxi driver with cancer in Arizona has premiums go up from $44 to $2,600 a month.
Meanwhile, a taxi driver with cancer in Arizona has premiums go up from $44 to $2,600 a month.
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Probably some kind of joke you could make about how even manufacturing consent has been moved overseas
November 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Probably some kind of joke you could make about how even manufacturing consent has been moved overseas
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I’m reading a book about former congressman Mark Foley but it’s just got too many pages for me to handle.
I’m reading a book on anti gravity. It’s impossible to put down
November 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I’m reading a book about former congressman Mark Foley but it’s just got too many pages for me to handle.
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With its hateful rhetoric, the right seeks to cast gender identity not as something you are, but as something dangerous that you believe. We aren’t against trans people, just their ideology.
Yet the end goal is the same: to wipe out transness itself. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Yet the end goal is the same: to wipe out transness itself. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How the right uses "gender ideology" to blame trans people for everything
MAGA learned from global autocrats the language needed to push fear.
www.motherjones.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
With its hateful rhetoric, the right seeks to cast gender identity not as something you are, but as something dangerous that you believe. We aren’t against trans people, just their ideology.
Yet the end goal is the same: to wipe out transness itself. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Yet the end goal is the same: to wipe out transness itself. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud | Arizona Mirror
Austin Smith election fraud guilty plea: Former GOP Rep admits forging 100+ signatures on ballot petitions in Arizona
azmirror.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
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Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
NEWS: Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors
A stunning development over the past 24 hours.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?