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The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Here's the best thing I ever read about Gene Hackman, by @rbuas.bsky.social at @flaminghydra.com
flaminghydra.com/gene-hackman...
flaminghydra.com/gene-hackman...
Gene Hackman Has a Pie
by John Saward
A recent photo of Gene Hackman was going around last month. He’s exiting a Speedway in New Mexico, in an outfit you might describe as, “your dad coming to jump your car in the middle o...
flaminghydra.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Here's the best thing I ever read about Gene Hackman, by @rbuas.bsky.social at @flaminghydra.com
flaminghydra.com/gene-hackman...
flaminghydra.com/gene-hackman...
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It’s just bleak that there’s a considerable amount of people who are like “thank goodness the worlds richest human being is stopping the tyranny of the consumer financial protection bureau and that guy who collects atmospheric data”
February 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
It’s just bleak that there’s a considerable amount of people who are like “thank goodness the worlds richest human being is stopping the tyranny of the consumer financial protection bureau and that guy who collects atmospheric data”
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“USAID is a CIA front” is basement-tier Adbusters leftism and if you run around repeating it you’re an idiot
February 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
“USAID is a CIA front” is basement-tier Adbusters leftism and if you run around repeating it you’re an idiot
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I very much doubt anyone in the world would have any interest in a flood of CIA agents forced into early retirement, embittered, and short on retirement funds.
WSJ reporting that the CIA is ... *checks notes* ... *double checks notes* ... offering buyouts to its entire workforce. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
The CIA Is About to Get a Trump Makeover
The spy agency’s workforce received a buyout-style offer on Tuesday.
www.wsj.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I very much doubt anyone in the world would have any interest in a flood of CIA agents forced into early retirement, embittered, and short on retirement funds.
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Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work
February 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work
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This is a crisis response app. If a diplomat is in danger, for any reason, this sends their whereabouts to diplomatic security in country and DC
USAID employees overseas are no longer able to access their government security app, which gives them this error code (images provided to me by USAID worker)
February 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This is a crisis response app. If a diplomat is in danger, for any reason, this sends their whereabouts to diplomatic security in country and DC
Democrats should not do anything until it’s restored!!!
Senator Schatz puts a hold on all State Dept. nominees until USAID is restored. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | Democratic Senator Says He Will Stall Trump Nominees Until USAID Is Back
The move would require Senate Majority Leader John Thune to use precious floor time to advance the president’s nominees through the confirmation process.
www.wsj.com
February 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Democrats should not do anything until it’s restored!!!
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What the Constitution did not foresee is the president doing whatever he wants, saying “What are you gonna do about it dork,” *and that both the legislature and the judiciary would be on board with it*.
That last part is crucial. The Founders didn’t think other branches would forfeit so much power.
That last part is crucial. The Founders didn’t think other branches would forfeit so much power.
February 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
What the Constitution did not foresee is the president doing whatever he wants, saying “What are you gonna do about it dork,” *and that both the legislature and the judiciary would be on board with it*.
That last part is crucial. The Founders didn’t think other branches would forfeit so much power.
That last part is crucial. The Founders didn’t think other branches would forfeit so much power.
I went to the Lynch shrine in Burbank today.
February 1, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I went to the Lynch shrine in Burbank today.
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I'm struck by the near-total failure of leadership across civil society, in a country that fetishizes the concept. Whole sections of leadership books at every bookstore. Named, endowed "leadership" institutes and curricula across higher ed. Awards and special recognition for "leaders." AND YET
February 1, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I'm struck by the near-total failure of leadership across civil society, in a country that fetishizes the concept. Whole sections of leadership books at every bookstore. Named, endowed "leadership" institutes and curricula across higher ed. Awards and special recognition for "leaders." AND YET
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I get why Lynch considered it a mess but dammit if he didn’t give us about 10 wonderful things in it
January 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I get why Lynch considered it a mess but dammit if he didn’t give us about 10 wonderful things in it
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The man would make Mulholland Drive and then be on the Cleveland Show because it sounded fun to him. You want him to tell you the weather every day? You got it. You want him to interrogate a monkey? You bet. Just a unique soul where art, any art, was a big playground.
January 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The man would make Mulholland Drive and then be on the Cleveland Show because it sounded fun to him. You want him to tell you the weather every day? You got it. You want him to interrogate a monkey? You bet. Just a unique soul where art, any art, was a big playground.
Hopefully Trump will channel William Henry Harrison www.foxweather.com/weather-news...
Inauguration Day could be coldest in decades as arctic air plunges millions across US into deep freeze
Frigid arctic air due to a polar vortex is about to send temperatures plunging for millions of Americans across the U.S., and that could lead to one of the coldest Inauguration Days seen in decades.
www.foxweather.com
January 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Hopefully Trump will channel William Henry Harrison www.foxweather.com/weather-news...
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Racists begging their billionaires to be so racist that it cuts into their capitalism is one of the best displays of how one side is fundamentally stupid and the other is cynically greedy
December 28, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Racists begging their billionaires to be so racist that it cuts into their capitalism is one of the best displays of how one side is fundamentally stupid and the other is cynically greedy
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*Werner Herzog voice*
now, the Jingle Hop has begun
now, the Jingle Hop has begun
December 20, 2024 at 10:17 AM
*Werner Herzog voice*
now, the Jingle Hop has begun
now, the Jingle Hop has begun
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Randomly remembered this galaxy brain take
December 14, 2024 at 12:51 AM
Randomly remembered this galaxy brain take
This just sounds like Paul Simon having trouble taking a shit.
This is the voice of DAVID DRAIMAN from the band Disturbed. So haunting and beautiful
December 13, 2024 at 1:26 PM
This just sounds like Paul Simon having trouble taking a shit.
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This seems like the start of something big.
BREAKING: Brian Thompson, CEO of United Healthcare, was shot and killed outside a Manhattan hotel in an apparent targeted attack, law enforcement official says
United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in midtown Manhattan, official says | CNN
The CEO of UnitedHealthcare was shot and killed in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning, a law enforcement official tells CNN.
www.cnn.com
December 4, 2024 at 7:57 PM
This seems like the start of something big.
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A lot of people are alleging nepotism, but actually, President Biden was unaware of their relationship at the time he signed the pardon papers.
Breaking: President Biden has pardoned his son Hunter Biden, wiping away his criminal convictions on tax and gun charges.
December 2, 2024 at 1:13 AM
A lot of people are alleging nepotism, but actually, President Biden was unaware of their relationship at the time he signed the pardon papers.