C.C. Gent
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C.C. Gent
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Husband, parent, dog walker ex-Michigander now in Virginia.
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Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
BOSTON—Stressing that the move would help keep digital currencies liquid through the coming year, crypto leaders called for an infusion of 20 million dopes Thursday to stabilize the market. “We’re cal...
theonion.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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The new PTFO is a big one.

The full 61-page document we exclusively obtained has layers upon layers upon layers. It's a truly fascinating journey behind the NFL and NFLPA’s locked doors.

And it's right here, for anyone who wants to see and/or support our journalism: www.pablo.show/p/the-holy-g...
The "Holy Grail" of NFL Secrets
EPISODE 256: Exclusives (and, now, paid PTFO subscriptions).
www.pablo.show
June 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Please read this story, and share. Here is a free link again. With Inspectors General fired, Congress controlled by GOP that is aligned with Trump, top federal ethics lawyers removed, newspaper efforts like this are largely what's left of accountability. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
Elon Musk’s Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up (Gift Article)
Government investigations into Mr. Musk’s companies are stalling amid President Trump’s firings and Biden administration resignations.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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February 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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The main argument for a Strategic BItcoin Reserve seems to be that Bitcoin holders worry about an impending shortage of greater fools and need the US government to act as the greatest fool of last resort.
December 21, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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very, very sympathetic to this argument from @ryanlcooper.com prospect.org/politics/202...
Democrats Lost the Propaganda War
The party used up about $5 billion on political ads in 2024. There’s a better way.
prospect.org
December 12, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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this is the equivalent of thinking that a magic 8ball is really talking to you
December 6, 2024 at 12:55 PM
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"While I had seen online that tough-guy MAGA types were pissing their pants about entering any major American city, I had never seen it play out in person." bad-faith-times.ghost.io/my-dads-righ...
My Dad's Right-Wing Bubble Was Popped
"I thought blue states had banned the pledge of allegiance," he said. "Because they hate the country."
bad-faith-times.ghost.io
December 4, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention
November 26, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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When you start a phrase with, “If you think about it,” you lose half the country at the comma.
November 25, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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Thank you to the Made by History series at TIME magazine for publishing my latest—on the importance of academic freedom in Western history.

Opponents of Academic Freedom Get the History of Classical Education Wrong

time.com/6995389/acad...
Opponents of Academic Freedom Get History Wrong
The classical education that conservatives claim to be protecting actually necessitates academic freedom.
time.com
August 16, 2024 at 2:08 PM
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"Donald Trump is a billionaire and JD Vance is a scumbag venture capitalist from Yale who is the protege of a billionaire named Peter Thiel ... Which one is the working class champion who wants to rein in the power of billionaires, again?" www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-patsy
You Patsy
We don't have time for this bullshit.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
July 16, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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I hope people understand that what we are seeing is the systematic destruction of the civil war amendments by the Supreme Court, which are what made America and actual democracy and upon which all minority rights in the United States rely
May 23, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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Homeland Security Doesn't Want You to Know Who Its New University Intelligence Advisors Are
Homeland Security Doesn't Want You to Know Who Its New University Intelligence Advisors Are
Hey all, please become a paid subscriber so I can keep doing this work — Ken In a little-noticed disclosure this past week, Homeland Security announced the creation of a new intelligence advisory boar...
www.kenklippenstein.com
May 22, 2024 at 1:19 AM
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wrote about precisely what Republicans mean by "American People" (also "Real Americans") & how that rhetoric connected to violence

tl;dr - it's using language of authoritarianism in a republic, and so it'll use authoritarian violence to enact its goals

--> prof-gabriele.medium.com/on-guillotin...
March 8, 2024 at 12:57 PM