Andrew Scheil
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MAGA patting Hegseth on the head today thanking him for not leaking secret war plans for once have been some of the more pathetic takes. Give him a participation trophy. Trump admin Employee of the Month.
June 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
MAGA patting Hegseth on the head today thanking him for not leaking secret war plans for once have been some of the more pathetic takes. Give him a participation trophy. Trump admin Employee of the Month.
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Personality cult authoritarianism
A giant banner of Trump is now ominously hanging at the front of the Dept. of Agriculture. It's not the kind of thing American presidents do. It's more in line with what you typically see in places like North Korea -- and it's the latest sign that America might be sliding into autocracy. #Velshi
Big Donald Is Watching You: Sliding into autocracy under Trump 2.0
A giant banner featuring Donald Trump’s photo just went up at the front of the Department of Agriculture. A military parade is being planned for his birthday, which coincides with the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army. His cabinet members shower him with praise every time they have a meeting. These are not the kinds of things that normally happen in the United States. It’s more in line with how autocratic leaders display their power in oppressive nations like North Korea and Iran to constantly remind people who’s in charge. But now that it’s starting to happen here, we have to acknowledge it and recognize it as a sign that America is sliding into autocracy.
www.msnbc.com
May 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Personality cult authoritarianism
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Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, Kristi Noem and a whole lot of ICE/DHS types is will discover a Strange New Respect for habeas corpus and the rule of law when the 2029 Truth and Reconciliation Commission arrests them for human trafficking, conspiracy, kidnapping, and child abuse.
May 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, Kristi Noem and a whole lot of ICE/DHS types is will discover a Strange New Respect for habeas corpus and the rule of law when the 2029 Truth and Reconciliation Commission arrests them for human trafficking, conspiracy, kidnapping, and child abuse.
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And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
April 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
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If Oct. 7 had never happened, Trump would right now be pulling funding from Columbia and Harvard because of DEI policies or admissions requirements or what research they were doing or all of the above. The right hates universities and that’s it.
April 1, 2025 at 3:59 AM
If Oct. 7 had never happened, Trump would right now be pulling funding from Columbia and Harvard because of DEI policies or admissions requirements or what research they were doing or all of the above. The right hates universities and that’s it.
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This is the most dystopian shit I’ve ever seen
Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
March 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
This is the most dystopian shit I’ve ever seen
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Trump threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador
March 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Trump threatens to put American citizens on deportation flights to a slave prison in El Salvador
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Today Donald Trump attacked me by name in a speech at the Department of Justice. Of course I am worried, but courage comes from acting in spite of being worried. I have made my choice: I will continue to speak out, I will continue to litigate, I will continue to stand tall.
I will never bow down.
I will never bow down.
March 14, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Today Donald Trump attacked me by name in a speech at the Department of Justice. Of course I am worried, but courage comes from acting in spite of being worried. I have made my choice: I will continue to speak out, I will continue to litigate, I will continue to stand tall.
I will never bow down.
I will never bow down.
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“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.
March 6, 2025 at 2:23 AM
“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.
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This feels like a sort of carnival-week funeral for the US republic. Beneath deep anger at Trump's orgy of vandalism and self-worship, I feel deep sadness. What a train wreck of a superpower.
March 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
This feels like a sort of carnival-week funeral for the US republic. Beneath deep anger at Trump's orgy of vandalism and self-worship, I feel deep sadness. What a train wreck of a superpower.
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If I were a Democratic (or Republican, or independent member of Congress), I would not attend Trump’s speech tonight.
But disrupting seems foolish.
Just don’t go. Let Democratic “leadership” attend, since for some reason they’ve decided they have to. But let leadership be there alone.
But disrupting seems foolish.
Just don’t go. Let Democratic “leadership” attend, since for some reason they’ve decided they have to. But let leadership be there alone.
March 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
If I were a Democratic (or Republican, or independent member of Congress), I would not attend Trump’s speech tonight.
But disrupting seems foolish.
Just don’t go. Let Democratic “leadership” attend, since for some reason they’ve decided they have to. But let leadership be there alone.
But disrupting seems foolish.
Just don’t go. Let Democratic “leadership” attend, since for some reason they’ve decided they have to. But let leadership be there alone.
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he thinks he’s king. he issues executive orders (royal decrees) and the entire society is expected to obey
March 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
he thinks he’s king. he issues executive orders (royal decrees) and the entire society is expected to obey
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It would be good if the UK canceled Trumps visit. He’s an international pariah and a source of shame to all upstanding Americans
This is the most right wing newspaper in the UK.
Extraordinary.
Extraordinary.
March 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
It would be good if the UK canceled Trumps visit. He’s an international pariah and a source of shame to all upstanding Americans
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The reason this is such a big deal is that Trumpism, an ideology of pathological insecurity and bullying, requires you to submit. When you don’t submit, it calls everything about them into question, and they can’t handle that. So don’t submit. Defy the fascist scum.
Zelensky should apologize for his dispute with Trump and Vance at the White House, says U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio: “He didn’t need to go there and be hostile. I think he should apologize for wasting our time on a meeting that was bound to end this way.”
March 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The reason this is such a big deal is that Trumpism, an ideology of pathological insecurity and bullying, requires you to submit. When you don’t submit, it calls everything about them into question, and they can’t handle that. So don’t submit. Defy the fascist scum.
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While watching that horrifying, globe-shifting exchange with Zelenkskyy, I couldn't help but think about what a deliberately staged reality-TV moment it was, with two people ganging up on one and screaming a classic, totally petulant reality-TV accusation: They hadn't been thanked enough.
February 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
While watching that horrifying, globe-shifting exchange with Zelenkskyy, I couldn't help but think about what a deliberately staged reality-TV moment it was, with two people ganging up on one and screaming a classic, totally petulant reality-TV accusation: They hadn't been thanked enough.
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No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.
February 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.
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Everyone knows what happened here. Trump can only exist around people he can causally humiliate. Guys lie JD and Rubio. He wanted to do a ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine but Zelensky wouldn’t accept that and so Trump reacted like a stung bitch.
February 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Everyone knows what happened here. Trump can only exist around people he can causally humiliate. Guys lie JD and Rubio. He wanted to do a ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine but Zelensky wouldn’t accept that and so Trump reacted like a stung bitch.
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Trump: You don’t have the cards
Zelenskyy: I’m not playing cards
Trump: You’re playing cards
Zelenskyy: What are you talking about?
Zelenskyy: I’m not playing cards
Trump: You’re playing cards
Zelenskyy: What are you talking about?
February 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Trump: You don’t have the cards
Zelenskyy: I’m not playing cards
Trump: You’re playing cards
Zelenskyy: What are you talking about?
Zelenskyy: I’m not playing cards
Trump: You’re playing cards
Zelenskyy: What are you talking about?
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The guy who asked Zelensky if he owned a suit, Brian Glenn, is a reporter for the pro-Trump media network Real America’s Voice and also Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend. He got one of the rare Oval Office interviewer spots only after the White House blocked the Associated Press.
February 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The guy who asked Zelensky if he owned a suit, Brian Glenn, is a reporter for the pro-Trump media network Real America’s Voice and also Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend. He got one of the rare Oval Office interviewer spots only after the White House blocked the Associated Press.
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This whole thing was a deliberate set-up, and the real audience for it was not the American people. It was the global fascist movement.
No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.
February 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This whole thing was a deliberate set-up, and the real audience for it was not the American people. It was the global fascist movement.
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In light of the disgraceful behavior by the president and vice president, every elected official, Republicans and Democrats alike, should step up to speak for freedom and the truth. If you're elected by the American people, you have some standing to try to save what can be saved of America's honor.
February 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
In light of the disgraceful behavior by the president and vice president, every elected official, Republicans and Democrats alike, should step up to speak for freedom and the truth. If you're elected by the American people, you have some standing to try to save what can be saved of America's honor.
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That was the most shameful performance by any American president in a century.
I want to fucking throw up.
I want to fucking throw up.
February 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
That was the most shameful performance by any American president in a century.
I want to fucking throw up.
I want to fucking throw up.
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The politicization and weaponization of both the CIA and the FBI at the same time sets the country up for another intelligence failure on the scale of Pearl Harbor or 9/11. A joint essay by me and @tim-weiner.bsky.social: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/patel-ratc...
Patel, Ratcliffe Set Up U.S. for a National Catastrophe
A rare joint essay on the dangers inside the battle for the soul of the FBI and CIA
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The politicization and weaponization of both the CIA and the FBI at the same time sets the country up for another intelligence failure on the scale of Pearl Harbor or 9/11. A joint essay by me and @tim-weiner.bsky.social: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/patel-ratc...
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Trumpism and Muskism are similar in that both rely on a shitposting ethos: just spout stuff and keep spouting stuff, don’t think about whether it’s true, the point is to keep spouting stuff. It’s a nihilistic worldview that treats truth with contempt.
Elon Musk falsely accused prominent lawyer and CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen of leading a “crime family” after he discovered a woman with the same last name who worked for an organization that accepted funds from USAID.
The only problem? The woman, Tamar Eisen, is of no relation to Norm Eisen.
The only problem? The woman, Tamar Eisen, is of no relation to Norm Eisen.
Musk Makes Big Mistake While Trying to Smear CNN Legal Analyst
The billionaire DOGE chief found a woman with the same last name as a lawyer he hates. Cue the conspiracy.
www.thedailybeast.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Trumpism and Muskism are similar in that both rely on a shitposting ethos: just spout stuff and keep spouting stuff, don’t think about whether it’s true, the point is to keep spouting stuff. It’s a nihilistic worldview that treats truth with contempt.