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Tried to get the right screen grab for this.
November 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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So this clip from Trump's Great Gatsby party on Halloween is cringe worthy for any number of reasons, but I'm honestly struck by how bad the music and choreography is. All the money in the world and this is still just a shit party.
November 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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No idea who this costumer is but utterly fantastic work with this one.
October 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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I just love how no matter how many times people try pandering to Trump, he only degrades them more.
Headline reads: "Trump bemoans his Time magazine cover. ‘The picture may be the Worst of All Time’ Picture of trump's balding head from behind.
October 15, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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@warren.senate.gov was right about having to address corruption first, to reform government and hold businesses accountable.
Credit to genericartdad on instagram.
October 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Feed delivered today.
Top post reads from Aaron Rupar quoting Trump: Q: Are you concerned about the delays at airports? TRUMP: Oh sure. They're all Democrats delays. There are delays at the airport. That's standard ... I look at people with very low IQs like Crockett, this woman Crockett. I've never met her but she's a low IQ individual. Second post screenshotted in the same frame from Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett: Let me be clear: It’s ILLEGAL to deny federal workers back pay after a shutdown. There’s a 2019 law that guarantees it, but Trump is once again trying to break the law. You don’t get to punish people for doing their jobs just because you’re failing at yours.
October 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Gov. Pritzker doing an excellent job here of highlighting how irresponsible an agency ICE without creating more disinformation.
Pritzker when asked about reports of law enforcement officers firing at a woman who 'rammed' their vehicle: "Well, we don't have a lot of facts. What happens in these sorts of incidents is, typically, ICE puts out a press release before anybody else can speak with the press, and then it gets reported on social media and elsewhere. Remember, these are the same folks who killed a person, an unarmed person, just a couple of weeks ago in Franklin Park. At first, they said that the officer had been threatened with his life. The reality of it and the truth of it has now come out, and that wasn't the case. They killed somebody. So, here, it's really hard to know exactly what the facts are. And they won't let us access the facts. They are just putting out their propaganda, and then we have got to later determine what actually happened."|
October 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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No, you said no warrants for genocide, but that just indicates you're being willfully ignorant, as well as pedantic. The idea that it's just 'war crimes' that have nothing to do with Bibi committing genocide is both demonstrable in the clip, and literally what you got wrong.
He also seems unaware that there is no ICC warrant for genocide for bibi.
October 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Tyler, why do you want to see women's virginity on-screen? This is the man named one of the top intellectuals by @foreignpolicy.com? This reads an Ashley Madison profile.

AI fans really just outing themselves left, right, and center as obsessed with women's 'purity' as an excuse to creep on teens.
My Favorite Actress Is Not Human “Not everyone is happy about this gorgeous innovation,” writes Tyler Cowen. Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI. By Tyler Cowen 10.02.25 — Tyler Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and also faculty director of the Mercatus Center. He received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1987. His book The Great Stagnation: How America Ate the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better was a New York Times bestseller. He was named in an Economist poll as one of the most influential economists of the last decade and Bloomberg Businessweek dubbed him “America's Hottest Economist.” Foreign Policy magazine named him as one of its “Top 100 Global Thinkers” of 2011. He co-writes the blog Marginal Revolution, hosts the podcast Conversations with Tyler, and is co-founder of an online economics education project, MRU.org. He is also director of the philanthropic project Emergent Ventures. Tilly Norwood is the actress I most want to see on the big screen, or perhaps the little screen, if she gets her own TV show. She is beautiful, but not too intimidating. She has a natural smile, and is just the right amount of British—a touch exotic but still familiar with her posh accent. Her Instagram has immaculate standards of presentation.
October 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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October 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Discord is trying to enforce mandatory arbitration. We have 30 days to opt out by emailing an opt out notice to arbitration-opt-out@discord.com.
#discord #lawfare #generalstrike #arbitration
Opt-out. You can decline this Agreement to Arbitrate–and no other provision of these terms–by emailing an opt-out notice to arbitration-opt-out@discord.com within 30 days of September 29, 2025 or when you first register your Discord account, whichever is later; otherwise, you shall be bound to arbitrate Disputes in accordance with the terms of these paragraphs. If you opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate, Discord also will not be bound by it and there shall be no arbitration agreement existing between you and Discord, whether under these or prior arbitration provisions. If you opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate, you may exercise your right to a trial by jury or judge, as permitted by applicable law, but any prior existing agreement to arbitrate Disputes will not apply to claims not yet filed. If you opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate, you will not be opting out of any other provision of these terms and you agree to be bound by all other provisions of these terms, which shall remain in effect as allowable by law. What is forced arbitration? Forced arbitration clauses are hidden in the fine print of agreements. They take away your access to the courts and give companies that violate the law a get-out-of-jail-free card. If you have a dispute, you cannot file a lawsuit in court and have the case heard in public. You also typically cannot join together with other people whose rights have been violated, even if the company harmed thousands of people. Instead, you must bring the case individually before a private arbitrator in a secretive forum where you typically have less access to information to prove your case and the arbitrator is not subject to review if they ignore the facts or the law. In most consumer arbitrations, the company decides which arbitration provider to use and pays almost all the arbitration costs, so that there is an incentive to rule for the company, which might bring them repeat business, and not for a consumer the arbitration provider will never see again. You can read more at FairArbitrationNow.org. Why should I opt out of a forced arbitration clause? Even if you don’t currently have a dispute with the company, it is a good idea to opt out of the forced arbitration clause to preserve your options. You can always agree later to use an arbitrator to resolve any dispute. Moreover, if you have opted out, you will have more negotiating power if there is a problem. How do I opt out of a forced arbitration clause? Some contracts give you the right to opt out of the forced arbitration clause within a certain period of time, often 30 to 60 days, after signing the agreement by notifying the company that you wish to opt out. Check your contract for the deadline and for specific instructions for opting out. Keep a copy of the letter and proof that you sent it in time, such as by using express mail or regular mail with proof of mailing.
September 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Sartre writes here about antisemites specifically, but he is referring to the fascist ethos, overarchingly. They key is very much to take them seriously, at their word, when they say ridiculous things, and that's what liberals like Newsom and Jeffries get wrong: they are never just "playing".
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre
September 29, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Same guy who was going to put a TPUSA chapter in every high school as of yesterday is resigning, today, to be the new CEO of the "Teacher Freedom Alliance", a GOP sponsored lawfare org with a whopping 2,617 members nationwide who antagonizes schools and unions.
Ryan Walters to resign as Oklahoma state superintendent for private sector job State Superintendent Ryan Walters announced Wednesday that he will resign from office and take a job in the private sector. The TFA Solution Viable Alternative to the Unions FREE $2M Liability Insurance Professional Development Credit Hours Alternate Curriculums & Pedagogies Engaged Community of Educators Membership is FREE for all Teachers The Teacher Freedom Alliance exists to assist educators in their mission to develop free, moral, and upright American citizens. 2,617 Teachers Enrolled nationwide. The Problem With Teachers Unions The National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) prioritize funding left-wing causes over advocating for teachers and the betterment of the American education system. With a recent Supreme Court ruling, Public-school teachers are finally free to make their own decisions about union membership.
September 25, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Follow-up for how the Right-Wing's bad faith arguments for free-speech are always a pretext to totalitarianism: www.salon.com/2025/09/22/g...
How fake “cancel culture” led to real censorship in Ohio For a classic example of how Republican claims to love “free speech” were always in bad faith, look at Tatyana Tandanpolie’s reporting on the widespread censorship on Ohio college campuses of ideas that conservatives don’t like, such as “racism is real” or “misogyny is bad.” As Tatyana notes, Republicans passed this censorship law by claiming it was somehow a defense of “free speech.” In reality, it’s about silencing professors, intimidating students and forcing schools to ban clubs and events that promote racial diversity or LGBTQ rights. None of that makes sense outside the idiotic “cancel culture” narrative, which holds that even seeing a Pride flag or learning the history of slavery is somehow oppressive conservatives. A right-wing student might see or hear these things and feel troubled or confused — and then might be less likely to speak their bigoted opinions out loud, for fear of hearing criticism or having people dislike them. So they feel “canceled,” even though no one is actually forcing them to shut up. Being an oversensitive baby who can’t defend your positions is not the same thing as being censored. And that’s what the vast majority of MAGA panic over “cancel culture” amounts to. They fear being challenged, because they know their arguments are paper-thin and will collapse when subjected to any serious scrutiny. So rather than building better arguments or, heaven forbid, changing their minds, they invented “cancel culture” as a pretext to silence critics. The good news is that we can fight back. Trump’s war on free speech is not popular and it’s not legal. We don’t have to obey in advance. The more people speak the truth, the harder it will be for him to censor us. When people rose up to defend Jimmy Kimmel in significant numbers, we won.
September 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Always great perspective from @amandamarcotte.bsky.social with @salon.com. I can't recommend Standing Room Only enough if you want commentary from someone incisive and uplifting where it comes to the US right-wing and where they're at with themselves and the country.
“Cancel culture” was always a pretext for fascist censorship The censorship of Jimmy Kimmel was just the most high-profile event in a wave of MAGA efforts to exploit Kirk’s death to silence and punish people who speak the truth about who Kirk was and what he stood for — including his opposition to free speech. In response, a lot of centrists are attempting a hypocrisy “gotcha” on the right, claiming they’re “now” the ones promoting “cancel culture.” There is no “now” here, of course. Like Kirk, the MAGA movement has always opposed free speech. Complaints about “cancel culture” were always shorthand for what they really wanted: Conservatives asserting the right to say bigoted things about anyone, anytime, without getting called out or criticized for it. Liberals have no speech rights they respect. In fact, “cancel culture” was always a pretext for fascist censorship. Once you accept the notion that bigots have a right to speak without criticism, that necessarily means opposing opinions must be silenced by force. There is no way to establish the “right” to be free of criticism without censoring critics. To avoid being “canceled,” conservatives must actually silence anyone who would speak out against them. I’m exhausted with centrists who are too dumb to learn this lesson — or who were always arguing in bad faith when they complained about “cancel culture.” I won’t deny that there are annoying, sanctimonious liberals. Or that sometimes they dogpile people on social media. I’ve been a victim of that. People shouldn’t do that. But it’s a lie to claim that the left started that, or does more of it. These tactics started with the right, during Gamergate. Mob harassment has always been practiced more by the right. Renaming that as “cancel culture” and blaming the left was always a falsehood created to justify actual censorship. Fortunately, the restoration of Kimmel suggests that people are waking up to this reality.
September 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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“The culture over there is terrible” the administration official told me. “People are scared shitless of Corey.”

Lewandowski has been integral to Noem’s rise her right hand as they run roughshod over the rule of law and, like so many in Trump’s Cabinet, position themselves for a post-Trump future.
Noem will be among those at the forefront of any such effort, surrounded by a tight inner circle that can be difficult to penetrate and often impossible to work with. “The culture over there is terrible,” the administration official told me. “People are scared shitless of Corey.” Lewandowski has been integral to Noem’s rise, her right hand as they run roughshod over the rule of law and, like so many in Trump’s Cabinet, position themselves for a post-Trump future.
September 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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September 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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And now you've disabled quote posts while demanding I quote you to you, so here you go, moron:

You demanded to use the legal definition and then argued that Kyle is not a murderer, then tried to pivot to say he was not "guilty of the crime of murder". Which is the point, he's just a murderer
clipping of facts by jimmy trying to claim Kyle Rittenhouse never murdererd anyone. user factsbyjimmy tries to say murder in self-defense isn't murder.
September 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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@factsbyjimmy.bsky.social this is so fucking funny, because it doesn't even say ad hominem attacks would be wrong. That's not even how fallacies work XD

Easy block if you're not a glutton for dunking on the ill equipped like I am.
September 22, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Kilmeade only talks about killing homeless people. @governor.ca.gov 's homeless encampment sweeps actually cost lives and livelihood of Californians caught up in them.
September 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Astronaut looking at the earth asking "Media piracy is a civic duty?" Astronaut pointing a gun at them from behind replying: "Always has been."
September 18, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Honestly, it just seems like US farmers /aren't/ any such thing. They're poor business managers sublimating their ideology through a rustic aesthetic.
Politico Article headline reads: 'Farmers in deep-red Pennsylvania struggle to find workers'.
September 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Shot. Chaser.
Fox News' Marc Thiessen, without a hint of irony: "Imagine if – we didn’t see this on the right, but imagine if after the George Floyd killing, people had gone on in saying he was a POS and that I’m glad he's dead... do you think anybody would have employed them ever again?!" Headline reads "Right-wing celeb Charlie Kirk thinks George Floyd is a 'scumbag'.
September 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Just a different kind of civil war
September 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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It's a Helldivers 2 meme.
September 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM