Bribleck
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(He/him) Dem politics, sci-fi, law, humor. I repost a lot of stuff.
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So the streamer Ludwig recently found out that one of his earliest regular viewers, who was trans, passed away and tonight he's doing a charity stream for the Trevor Project. So far he's raised over $46,000 in about 5 hours. www.twitch.tv/ludwig
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 AM
So the streamer Ludwig recently found out that one of his earliest regular viewers, who was trans, passed away and tonight he's doing a charity stream for the Trevor Project. So far he's raised over $46,000 in about 5 hours. www.twitch.tv/ludwig
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Waging war without congressional approval to distract from the Epstein emails was on my bingo card. Entirely expected.
November 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Waging war without congressional approval to distract from the Epstein emails was on my bingo card. Entirely expected.
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the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”
JD Vance: "Democrats' idea was the way you get more prosperity is that you import more and more low wage servants."
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”
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anyone who talks about birthrate decline in the West without mentioning immigration as a solution is a white supremacist.
Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 AM
anyone who talks about birthrate decline in the West without mentioning immigration as a solution is a white supremacist.
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Pretty wild watching mainstream outlets trying so hard not to say the obvious Epstein-related conclusion out loud
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Pretty wild watching mainstream outlets trying so hard not to say the obvious Epstein-related conclusion out loud
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Forty years of study by economists around the world come to the same conclusion: high tariffs coupled with a discretionary regime of exemptions is a growth matrix for the crudest sort of corruption.
Trump Administration Prepares Tariff Exemptions in Bid to Lower Food Prices
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Forty years of study by economists around the world come to the same conclusion: high tariffs coupled with a discretionary regime of exemptions is a growth matrix for the crudest sort of corruption.
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Deporting millions of undocumented immigrants who have built lives in America (a) is morally indefensible, and (b) will probably make the housing shortage *worse* because so much of the construction workforce is undocumented.
everyone keeps dancing around it but JD Vance keeps trotting out the “immigrants are taking our housing“ because it’s a nativist blood libel he’s engineering alongside eg “they eat our pets” but, more specifically, it is to legitimize the dispossession, en masse, of an entire sub-population.
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Deporting millions of undocumented immigrants who have built lives in America (a) is morally indefensible, and (b) will probably make the housing shortage *worse* because so much of the construction workforce is undocumented.
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Folks, we are truly through the looking glass here.
This statement - from Senator Jim Banks - could have been taken verbatim from an article lamenting the censorious left.
This statement - from Senator Jim Banks - could have been taken verbatim from an article lamenting the censorious left.
November 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Folks, we are truly through the looking glass here.
This statement - from Senator Jim Banks - could have been taken verbatim from an article lamenting the censorious left.
This statement - from Senator Jim Banks - could have been taken verbatim from an article lamenting the censorious left.
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Trump’s HHS put me on “non-disciplinary” admin leave today. This was retaliation for speaking up. Moves like this are designed to silence us. Let’s not let.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dteoop/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dteoop/
I guess I am hitting a nerve, because they just put me on admin leave.
TikTok video by Jenna
www.tiktok.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Trump’s HHS put me on “non-disciplinary” admin leave today. This was retaliation for speaking up. Moves like this are designed to silence us. Let’s not let.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dteoop/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dteoop/
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I have some fresh questions about how Wolff got almost 18 months of unrestricted access to both the Trump campaign and, later, the West Wing to write his book (that curiously doesn't mention this at all to my knowledge)
November 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I have some fresh questions about how Wolff got almost 18 months of unrestricted access to both the Trump campaign and, later, the West Wing to write his book (that curiously doesn't mention this at all to my knowledge)
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Don't get me wrong you shouldn't lie when you are reporting... but it's possible to perform the act of journalism without pretending you're a cipher who respawns every morning with a baby's brain and zero clue about how the world actually works.
www.welcometohellworld.com/youre-perfor...
www.welcometohellworld.com/youre-perfor...
November 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Don't get me wrong you shouldn't lie when you are reporting... but it's possible to perform the act of journalism without pretending you're a cipher who respawns every morning with a baby's brain and zero clue about how the world actually works.
www.welcometohellworld.com/youre-perfor...
www.welcometohellworld.com/youre-perfor...
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In addition to being straight-up Nazi rhetoric, the "undocumented immigrants caused the housing crisis" lie seems designed to drive me, personally, insane.
November 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
In addition to being straight-up Nazi rhetoric, the "undocumented immigrants caused the housing crisis" lie seems designed to drive me, personally, insane.
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The Status Interview – Or How To Write Up a Senate Purge List talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...
The Status Interview – Or How To Write Up a Senate Purge List
Over the last couple days I’ve argued both that the denouement of...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:51 PM
The Status Interview – Or How To Write Up a Senate Purge List talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...
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Absolutely hilarious to me that Donald Trump’s going after everyone for “mortgage fraud.”
lmao nobody has committed more of that than him! every accusation continues to be a confession.
lmao nobody has committed more of that than him! every accusation continues to be a confession.
FOX: Fox can now confirm that Eric Swalwell has been criminally referred to the DOJ accused of mortgage fraud.
November 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Absolutely hilarious to me that Donald Trump’s going after everyone for “mortgage fraud.”
lmao nobody has committed more of that than him! every accusation continues to be a confession.
lmao nobody has committed more of that than him! every accusation continues to be a confession.
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everyone keeps dancing around it but JD Vance keeps trotting out the “immigrants are taking our housing“ because it’s a nativist blood libel he’s engineering alongside eg “they eat our pets” but, more specifically, it is to legitimize the dispossession, en masse, of an entire sub-population.
November 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
everyone keeps dancing around it but JD Vance keeps trotting out the “immigrants are taking our housing“ because it’s a nativist blood libel he’s engineering alongside eg “they eat our pets” but, more specifically, it is to legitimize the dispossession, en masse, of an entire sub-population.
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Pete Hegseth announces Operation Southern Spear.
There doesn’t seem to be reporting yet on what this means. But I assume it’s not good.
There doesn’t seem to be reporting yet on what this means. But I assume it’s not good.
November 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Pete Hegseth announces Operation Southern Spear.
There doesn’t seem to be reporting yet on what this means. But I assume it’s not good.
There doesn’t seem to be reporting yet on what this means. But I assume it’s not good.
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Damn it's times like these when I wish the Framers had included a legislature with co-equal powers. Power of the purse, responsibility for declaring war. Chambers that might demand to know what's going on and, if it was as stupid as it looks, stop it. Such a foolish oversight by Madison et al.
"Senior military officials on Wednesday presented President Trump with updated options for potential operations in Venezuela, including strikes on land, according to multiple sources familiar with the meetings at the White House. "
Top officials present Trump with military options for Venezuela in the coming days
The potential operations for Venezuela presented to Trump included options for strikes on land, multiple sources said.
www.cbsnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Damn it's times like these when I wish the Framers had included a legislature with co-equal powers. Power of the purse, responsibility for declaring war. Chambers that might demand to know what's going on and, if it was as stupid as it looks, stop it. Such a foolish oversight by Madison et al.
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A reporter friend said Bov8
Ino and his special strike force have definitely left Chicago for now. Charlotte and NYC, stock up on whistles.
Ino and his special strike force have definitely left Chicago for now. Charlotte and NYC, stock up on whistles.
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
A reporter friend said Bov8
Ino and his special strike force have definitely left Chicago for now. Charlotte and NYC, stock up on whistles.
Ino and his special strike force have definitely left Chicago for now. Charlotte and NYC, stock up on whistles.
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They really are going to smash the “Invade Venezuela” button to distract from things huh.
I’m sure this will work out wonderfully for everyone.
I’m sure this will work out wonderfully for everyone.
November 13, 2025 at 10:32 PM
They really are going to smash the “Invade Venezuela” button to distract from things huh.
I’m sure this will work out wonderfully for everyone.
I’m sure this will work out wonderfully for everyone.
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Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves
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this whole paragraph is an exercise in the pose of knowingness, and illustration of how making being "more reasonable than the extremists" the whole core of your intellect leads inexorably to believing in nothing at all
This paragraph especially!
If I understand him right, he's saying "moral clarity it good" and the right has been utterly immoral so it might sound weird to criticize moral clarity. HOWEVER, because the left is bad [unspecified reasons], "moral clarity is an obstacle to insight." ???
If I understand him right, he's saying "moral clarity it good" and the right has been utterly immoral so it might sound weird to criticize moral clarity. HOWEVER, because the left is bad [unspecified reasons], "moral clarity is an obstacle to insight." ???
November 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
this whole paragraph is an exercise in the pose of knowingness, and illustration of how making being "more reasonable than the extremists" the whole core of your intellect leads inexorably to believing in nothing at all
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The political reporting at the NYT has left a bad taste in readers' mouths for years where Trump is concerned and with good reason: it tastes like shit. There have been too many indefensible pieces about Hillary Clinton, about Biden, and about Trump himself that put a thumb on the scale.
November 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The political reporting at the NYT has left a bad taste in readers' mouths for years where Trump is concerned and with good reason: it tastes like shit. There have been too many indefensible pieces about Hillary Clinton, about Biden, and about Trump himself that put a thumb on the scale.
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I continue to disagree with this. The goal of mass detention is mass deportations. A private prison company leasing 100 beds to ICE gets paid the same if the beds are filled by 100 people for a year each or 1,000 people for a few days each. They don't earn more with long-term detention.
It's not about deporting them. It's about detaining them indefinitely and enriching Prisons for Profiteers and the grift the Convict in the Oval Office collects per detainee.
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I continue to disagree with this. The goal of mass detention is mass deportations. A private prison company leasing 100 beds to ICE gets paid the same if the beds are filled by 100 people for a year each or 1,000 people for a few days each. They don't earn more with long-term detention.
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According to a source, Jenna Norton, who led a letter criticizing Trump's decimation of the NIH (see below), has been placed on administrative leave. She's the first at NIH to be put on leave, joining EPA officials who criticized Trump policies.
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
NIH scientists publish letter criticizing Trump's deep cuts in public health research
The letter addresses the termination of 2,100 research grants valued at more than $12 billion and some of the human costs that have resulted, such as cutting off medication regimens to participants in...
www.pbs.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
According to a source, Jenna Norton, who led a letter criticizing Trump's decimation of the NIH (see below), has been placed on administrative leave. She's the first at NIH to be put on leave, joining EPA officials who criticized Trump policies.
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...