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If the boat was on fire following a direct kinetic hit, there was no military justification for a second hit.
Q: So you didn't see any survivors after that first strike?
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
December 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
If the boat was on fire following a direct kinetic hit, there was no military justification for a second hit.
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FYI: the “disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan” was negotiated and begun by…. Donald Trump
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
FYI: the “disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan” was negotiated and begun by…. Donald Trump
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The threats against Mark Kelly are the Trump administration in miniature: wildly authoritarian ambitions limited by their own terrible strategic and tactical choices www.vox.com/politics/470...
Why is Trump accusing a former astronaut of treason?
How MAGA’s war on Mark Kelly is a sign of a deeper weakness.
www.vox.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The threats against Mark Kelly are the Trump administration in miniature: wildly authoritarian ambitions limited by their own terrible strategic and tactical choices www.vox.com/politics/470...
Sorry, can’t look at “ the numbers” as Trump has ended data collection by the federal government. Catch 22 - you need to verify by checking data, but you can’t because there is no data.
The subtext in JD Vance asking for "patience" on the economy: When leaders stop talking about current conditions and jump straight to rosy forecasts, they’re signaling the present isn’t defensible. That’s your cue to scrutinize the numbers, not just the narrative.
November 26, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Sorry, can’t look at “ the numbers” as Trump has ended data collection by the federal government. Catch 22 - you need to verify by checking data, but you can’t because there is no data.
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RFK Jr. is neither a joke nor a well-intentioned proponent of public health with a few kooky beliefs. He's a menace, evil even by the standards of Trump's inner circle, and the failure of the political press to convey this is maddening
I actually think it’s okay to take a ridiculous scandal seriously when it involves a wingnut conspiracy theorist in charge of things like vaccine policy and pandemic preparedness
Sorry to be a wet blanket 🤷🏻♀️
Sorry to be a wet blanket 🤷🏻♀️
She never misses a beat, of course, but Marina's first paragraph this week is *chef's kiss*
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
RFK Jr. is neither a joke nor a well-intentioned proponent of public health with a few kooky beliefs. He's a menace, evil even by the standards of Trump's inner circle, and the failure of the political press to convey this is maddening
Science conducts studies to answer questions. Ideology holds that it already has the answers, and doesn’t want to hear anything to the contrary. So ideology abhors anything resembling an actual scientific study.
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
October 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Science conducts studies to answer questions. Ideology holds that it already has the answers, and doesn’t want to hear anything to the contrary. So ideology abhors anything resembling an actual scientific study.
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If ICE agents are proud of what they're doing, then why do they cover their faces like cowards, refuse to identify themselves, and hide behind anonymity?
October 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
If ICE agents are proud of what they're doing, then why do they cover their faces like cowards, refuse to identify themselves, and hide behind anonymity?
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If the President can raise his own revenues and direct his own spending without congressional approval we are squarely in the only situation the Constitution was actually drafted to avoid: English civil war territory
October 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
If the President can raise his own revenues and direct his own spending without congressional approval we are squarely in the only situation the Constitution was actually drafted to avoid: English civil war territory
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ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants
Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"
October 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants
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Empires decline all the time, for all kinds of reasons, but our present moment will be remembered in history books for the sheer volume of *voluntary & pointless self-imposed damage*. We're systematically dismantling what made us great, for no reason! Genuinely, with no rationale! It's wild.
September 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Empires decline all the time, for all kinds of reasons, but our present moment will be remembered in history books for the sheer volume of *voluntary & pointless self-imposed damage*. We're systematically dismantling what made us great, for no reason! Genuinely, with no rationale! It's wild.
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The whole confederacy is getting in on it.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Louisiana becomes sixth GOP-led state to authorize troop deployment to DC as part of Trump show of force.
August 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The whole confederacy is getting in on it.
I’m not an expert as Mr. Boot is. However, in my amateur opinion, the explanation for the apparent shift is money. Once Putin finds a way to increase the bribes to the level Trump wants, we will be back on Russia’s side.
Putin still hopes that his army can defeat Ukraine, and he is willing to risk his relationship with Trump in order to give his military time to advance. Yet, despite the numerical advantage that Russian forces possess, there is no indication that they are close to a breakthrough. bit.ly/459TzBh
Opinion | Putin took Trump for granted. He’s going to pay for his mistake.
After the president’s startling, welcome shift on Ukraine, there’s more to do.
bit.ly
July 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I’m not an expert as Mr. Boot is. However, in my amateur opinion, the explanation for the apparent shift is money. Once Putin finds a way to increase the bribes to the level Trump wants, we will be back on Russia’s side.
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The Supreme Court should preserve the status quo until legal questions are resolved and explain the disposition of cases for the public. They are abdicating basic principles of equity and failing to fulfill their institutional role. They aren’t pretending to try. There isn’t even the veneer of law.
July 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The Supreme Court should preserve the status quo until legal questions are resolved and explain the disposition of cases for the public. They are abdicating basic principles of equity and failing to fulfill their institutional role. They aren’t pretending to try. There isn’t even the veneer of law.
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From a time when childhood vaccines were just a figment of imagination.
Row after row of baby headstones.
Row after row of baby headstones.
July 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
From a time when childhood vaccines were just a figment of imagination.
Row after row of baby headstones.
Row after row of baby headstones.
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... simply to please the master and gain the plaudits of his cultists by embellishing an alternative (non)reality, all to maintain their profitable seats on the lobbying and clickbaiting Trump grift train.
July 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
... simply to please the master and gain the plaudits of his cultists by embellishing an alternative (non)reality, all to maintain their profitable seats on the lobbying and clickbaiting Trump grift train.
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It's just remarkable that the president of the United States is running an extortion racket in broad daylight and not only is the nation apparently unable to stop it, hardly anyone will even call it what it obviously is.
Columbia University has discussed paying roughly $200 million as part of a deal with the Trump administration to settle allegations of civil-rights violations
Exclusive | Columbia Has Discussed $200 Million Payment in Civil-Rights Settlement With Trump Administration
The Ivy League school has been locked in battle with the government for months.
on.wsj.com
July 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
It's just remarkable that the president of the United States is running an extortion racket in broad daylight and not only is the nation apparently unable to stop it, hardly anyone will even call it what it obviously is.
Yes, if there is one category of humans I would categorize as “authentic,” it would certainly be real estate developers.
The odious Donny Deutsch rises again from the crypt to appear on Morning Joe and advertise his special brand of bullshit:
"I think authenticity is always critical. That's one thing you can say about Donald Trump, like him or not like him: He's authentic."
"I think authenticity is always critical. That's one thing you can say about Donald Trump, like him or not like him: He's authentic."
July 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Yes, if there is one category of humans I would categorize as “authentic,” it would certainly be real estate developers.
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The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” has cast very different shadows depending on which party holds the White House.
When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases.
For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.
When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases.
For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.
July 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” has cast very different shadows depending on which party holds the White House.
When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases.
For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.
When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases.
For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.
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My plan to revive American manufacturing is to: raise the price of inputs like steel, aluminum & copper; create shortages of rare earths; generate less electricity; invite retaliatory tariffs; cut R&D; raise borrowing costs by blowing out the budget; and to cover it all in a cloud of uncertainty.
July 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
My plan to revive American manufacturing is to: raise the price of inputs like steel, aluminum & copper; create shortages of rare earths; generate less electricity; invite retaliatory tariffs; cut R&D; raise borrowing costs by blowing out the budget; and to cover it all in a cloud of uncertainty.
Among the least surprising news tidbits of the day.
OCCRP gets Sergio Gor--the guy in charge of politicizing the US government--to confirm he was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
www.occrp.org/en/news/excl...
www.occrp.org/en/news/excl...
Exclusive: Top Trump Adviser Sergio Gor Was Born in the Soviet Union
The birthplace of U.S. President Donald Trump’s director of personnel has been the subject of media speculation — fuelled by his refusal to answer the question.
www.occrp.org
July 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Among the least surprising news tidbits of the day.
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The Senators that voted 'yes' on this disastrous bill represent more than 30 million FEWER Americans than the Senators that voted 'no.'
July 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The Senators that voted 'yes' on this disastrous bill represent more than 30 million FEWER Americans than the Senators that voted 'no.'
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We are decades into an ever-intensifying domestic right-wing terrorism campaign, supported rhetorically by all major right wing institutions and ignored as a structural issue by everyone else.
It’s getting worse but the conversation never changes.
It’s getting worse but the conversation never changes.
June 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We are decades into an ever-intensifying domestic right-wing terrorism campaign, supported rhetorically by all major right wing institutions and ignored as a structural issue by everyone else.
It’s getting worse but the conversation never changes.
It’s getting worse but the conversation never changes.
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He’s a mentally ill idiot and nobody in MSM is saying anything about it and instead they’re behaving as if all this is normal. This is not normal, we are all in danger.
June 24, 2025 at 4:17 AM
He’s a mentally ill idiot and nobody in MSM is saying anything about it and instead they’re behaving as if all this is normal. This is not normal, we are all in danger.