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JD Vance has the nerve to say that Tik Tok - under U.S. ownership - will NOT be used as a propaganda weapon against Americans.
*cackles into the abyss*
If 2025 is any indication: the billionaire class will ABSOLUTELY use their toys as propaganda weapons against Americans.
Over & over again.
*cackles into the abyss*
If 2025 is any indication: the billionaire class will ABSOLUTELY use their toys as propaganda weapons against Americans.
Over & over again.
![“[TikTok US] will be majority-owned and controlled by United States persons and will no longer be controlled by any foreign adversary,” Trump said. “We have American investors taking it over, running it [who are] highly sophisticated, including Larry Ellison. Great investors, the biggest. They don’t get bigger. This is going to be American-operated all the way.”
TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, will retain a 19.9% stake in the US operation.
China has not publicly made clear whether it will approve the deal, although Trump said that he had “had a good talk” with the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, who “gave us the go-ahead”.
JD Vance, the US vice-president, said the deal valued TikTok US at $14bn. “There was some resistance on the Chinese side,” Vance said. “But the fundamental thing that we wanted to accomplish is that we wanted to keep TikTok operating but we wanted to make sure that protected Americans’ data privacy as required by law.”
He added: “This deal really does mean that Americans can use TikTok, but actually use it with more confidence than in the past. Because their data is going to be secure and it’s not going to be used as a propaganda weapon against our fellow citizens.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dozrbbuzuojdwr2psqkapfxo/bafkreifwozg4z4sasoevi6kjxadpkfebmdoao23pn7mrfwulrsimwu4pim@jpeg)
September 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
JD Vance has the nerve to say that Tik Tok - under U.S. ownership - will NOT be used as a propaganda weapon against Americans.
*cackles into the abyss*
If 2025 is any indication: the billionaire class will ABSOLUTELY use their toys as propaganda weapons against Americans.
Over & over again.
*cackles into the abyss*
If 2025 is any indication: the billionaire class will ABSOLUTELY use their toys as propaganda weapons against Americans.
Over & over again.
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He’s been talking for about 2 minutes. I’ve yet to hear one true statement.
September 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
He’s been talking for about 2 minutes. I’ve yet to hear one true statement.
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Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
August 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/a...
Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship
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July 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/a...
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how? how is he so cute??
May 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
how? how is he so cute??
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Today was so busy, I forgot to post that my firm is suing Kansas on behalf of three advocacy groups that are challenging a new law, Senate Bill 4, which disqualifies mail ballots that arrive after election day. www.democracydocket.com/cases/kansas...
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May 6, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Today was so busy, I forgot to post that my firm is suing Kansas on behalf of three advocacy groups that are challenging a new law, Senate Bill 4, which disqualifies mail ballots that arrive after election day. www.democracydocket.com/cases/kansas...
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Bravo, young man! www.comicsands.com/autistic-boy...
Autistic 4th Grader Goes Viral For Powerful Rebuke To RFK Jr.: 'I'm Not Broken'
Beautifully stated, young man!
www.comicsands.com
May 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Bravo, young man! www.comicsands.com/autistic-boy...
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No matter how bad you imagine smallpox was, it was worse than that.
Ben Franklin on inoculation, after his son died from smallpox.
“In 1736, I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation”.
“In 1736, I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation”.
May 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
No matter how bad you imagine smallpox was, it was worse than that.
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May 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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HUNT: Is Rubio still working on the Abrego Garcia case?
TAMMY BRUCE: I'm not going to speak to his work in detail
HUNT: You're the spokesperson for the State Department!
TAMMY BRUCE: I'm not going to speak to his work in detail
HUNT: You're the spokesperson for the State Department!
May 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
HUNT: Is Rubio still working on the Abrego Garcia case?
TAMMY BRUCE: I'm not going to speak to his work in detail
HUNT: You're the spokesperson for the State Department!
TAMMY BRUCE: I'm not going to speak to his work in detail
HUNT: You're the spokesperson for the State Department!
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I wonder if Republican House Rep. Mike Lawler is gonna talk about how he couldn’t handle a couple of older ladies asking questions at his town hall and had them forcibly removed?
May 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I wonder if Republican House Rep. Mike Lawler is gonna talk about how he couldn’t handle a couple of older ladies asking questions at his town hall and had them forcibly removed?
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