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Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025.

Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan.

Legacy media failed the country.
October 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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This short passage from a Politico afternoon newsletter captures a huge amount of the advantage gained by lying at scale and the why the DC press corps remains wired for the GOP.
October 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
September 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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is that dude seriously walking around $50k richer in taxpayer money bc the doj was seeing if he would take a giant bribe and then he took a giant bribe and he just gets to keep it?!?!? please tell me this is not the case
September 21, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.
In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal.

Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.
September 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe.

And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.
September 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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He still thinks/claims that “asylum seekers” come from insane asylums
Trump threatens war against Venezuela
September 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".
September 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Just so I'm clear:

TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal

TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft.

TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism.

Free speech, everyone.
September 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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The Free Speech President has now pulled two of the three major late night hosts off the air through threats and intimidation because of their jokes. Obviously I’m behind Jimmy Kimmel 100% in the face of this fascist garbage. Speech against this admin isn’t just being chilled, they’re freezing it.
September 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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ah, well
a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason
September 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.
September 13, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Old Soviet joke for today:

A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.

After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”

“I’m looking for the obituaries.”

“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”

“Not the one I’m looking for.”
August 30, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Joe Biden outliving him would be objectively hilarious.
August 30, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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This is evil -- the kind of evil you read about in history books, the kind of evil you would never mistake for a single second if you saw it in another country. When you ask, of historical evils, "how could they let that happen?" That's us. We're letting this happen.
August 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Again, these groups are attempting to retcon the 2024 election *we all lived through* to claim Dems overly catered to Big Trans or The Groups or whatever.
In fact, Republicans—and via them the media—are the ones who zeroed in on the culture war while we focused on economic issues. We still lost.
EXCLUSIVE: A top Democratic strategist has launched new policy research and messaging hub, called Searchlight, with a goal of pushing the party toward the most effective, broadly popular positions.
Dems are quietly forming a think tank to help them win again
Searchlight, a name inspired by the birthplace of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, comes at a precarious moment for a Democratic Party.
www.politico.com
June 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Politics and public opinion didn’t suddenly disappear over night because 3 out of 100 voters switched their votes.

youtu.be/i4dlZrRwa0A?...
‘Pry them from our hands’: Chris Hayes shares post-election message
YouTube video by MSNBC
youtu.be
November 7, 2024 at 2:23 AM
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jan 6 was every bit as horrible as it looked and i have nothing but derision and contempt for people who downplay it
Remember seeing Jan 6th news coverage in real time, it felt unreal.
August 22, 2024 at 12:41 AM
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Remember that DOJ sought expedited review of this issue from the Court last year (skipping the circuit courts). They refused and punted it to the DC Circuit, which took months; then dilly dallied all this time after the DC Circuit’s decision, before finally issuing a grant. It’s pretty transparent.
February 28, 2024 at 10:26 PM
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February 8, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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Imagine if cable news and the Times treated voters like this with the same obsessive focus that they treated asshole Trump voters with. There are so many good sane people out there that they've preemptively decided don't make a good story.
January 23, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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"you can commit all the crimes you want in office including attempting to end self-government and then you're immune from prosecution if you're somehow forced to leave office" is basically anti-constitutional but that, of course, won't stop at least three members of the court from siding with Trump.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Smith asks the Supreme Court to rule quickly on whether ex-President Trump is immune from prosecution.
December 11, 2023 at 5:51 PM
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Back in 2016, the idea that Trump's worst impulses would be tempered by more experienced appointees seemed plausible enough. It even held true, to a degree.

No-one is saying that now, because the people around Trump will be like this guy.
Leaving aside the nakedly authoritarian nature of what Kash is saying here, it's also really fucking illegal. Like not even a stretch. Just balls-out illegal.
December 6, 2023 at 4:33 AM