CRobertBuchanan
@crobertbuchanan.bsky.social
Performative utterances & political commentary. I value rational discourse; I sing the body electric; I post about music I love and music I produce. Also, too, Denver Nuggets obsessive.
Links to my musical endeavors: https://linktr.ee/longplaya
Links to my musical endeavors: https://linktr.ee/longplaya
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i will kind of accept this from some random person who barely pays attention. ben shapiro though? he's just lying
Ben Shapiro: “When the president said deport all the illegal immigrants, I never thought that he meant that literally”
November 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
i will kind of accept this from some random person who barely pays attention. ben shapiro though? he's just lying
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Trump has many terrible qualities - maybe all of the terrible qualities? — but one of the under-discussed ones is what a pathetic coward he is
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Trump has many terrible qualities - maybe all of the terrible qualities? — but one of the under-discussed ones is what a pathetic coward he is
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AOC: Trump has been saying the economy is booming, but it’s really only seven tech companies. They’re driving this growth in just one sector: AI.
So the entire economic growth can be tracked down to seven companies and their AI expansion…
So the entire economic growth can be tracked down to seven companies and their AI expansion…
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
AOC: Trump has been saying the economy is booming, but it’s really only seven tech companies. They’re driving this growth in just one sector: AI.
So the entire economic growth can be tracked down to seven companies and their AI expansion…
So the entire economic growth can be tracked down to seven companies and their AI expansion…
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I lost a job for calling Charlie Kirk a Nazi, but this is cool.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I lost a job for calling Charlie Kirk a Nazi, but this is cool.
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Great news that the Senate has passed the bill forcing the DOJ to release its Epstein file. Now Bondi must comply. But our work cannot stop there. We need to force the Treasury to release the Epstein bank records too. I have a bill to make that happen. FOLLOW THE MONEY.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Great news that the Senate has passed the bill forcing the DOJ to release its Epstein file. Now Bondi must comply. But our work cannot stop there. We need to force the Treasury to release the Epstein bank records too. I have a bill to make that happen. FOLLOW THE MONEY.
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Let me tell you about the other Epstein files the Trump administration is STILL HIDING — records that aren’t affected by the bill Congress passed today.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Let me tell you about the other Epstein files the Trump administration is STILL HIDING — records that aren’t affected by the bill Congress passed today.
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The reason we have laws* against bribery is that companies will absolutely bribe politicians at the very first opportunity if it is good for the bottom line, because they see it as a sound business decision, not a civilizational betrayal.
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Coinbase donated to Trump's $300 million White House ballroom project as an appeal to the administration, Emilie Choi, the cryptocurrency exchange's president and COO, said at Axios' BFD event today.
Exclusive: Coinbase explains donation to Trump's ballroom
Tech firms like Google, Amazon, and Nvidia also donated to Trump's ballroom fund.
www.axios.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The reason we have laws* against bribery is that companies will absolutely bribe politicians at the very first opportunity if it is good for the bottom line, because they see it as a sound business decision, not a civilizational betrayal.
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This is not my first rodeo with retaliatory false accusations. An "activist group" claimed I have a history of domestic abuse in the Dallas Express. I later found that Crowds on Demand had been hired by the publisher of the Dallas Express to create the group.
www.texasobserver.org/dallas-hero-...
www.texasobserver.org/dallas-hero-...
The GOP Megadonor Behind the Bid to Break Dallas City Government
Conservative hotelier Monty Bennett and a California-based company that offers protesters-for-hire have seeded an “astroturf” right-wing influence network that has kicked into overdrive to push contro...
www.texasobserver.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This is not my first rodeo with retaliatory false accusations. An "activist group" claimed I have a history of domestic abuse in the Dallas Express. I later found that Crowds on Demand had been hired by the publisher of the Dallas Express to create the group.
www.texasobserver.org/dallas-hero-...
www.texasobserver.org/dallas-hero-...
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You can oversee the bloody dismemberment of a Washington Post journalist with a bone saw, and the president of the United States will smile, shake your hand and threaten to pull the license of a news outlet whose reporter asks you a question about it.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Trump defends Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi killing
The de facto Saudi ruler was branded a pariah in 2018 after the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Now, U.S.-Saudi relations are approaching a high point.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
You can oversee the bloody dismemberment of a Washington Post journalist with a bone saw, and the president of the United States will smile, shake your hand and threaten to pull the license of a news outlet whose reporter asks you a question about it.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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As the NY Times reported this weekend, ICE has drastically reduced its sex trafficking investigations, and I guess at least one ICE employee may have seen an opportunity. Note it was the locals who arrested him.
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
As the NY Times reported this weekend, ICE has drastically reduced its sex trafficking investigations, and I guess at least one ICE employee may have seen an opportunity. Note it was the locals who arrested him.
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So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Stereogum says Google's switch to AI Overviews reduced its ad revenue by *70 percent* www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
Stereogum soldiers on in the era of streaming and AI
Stereogum Founder Scott Lapatine on the importance of independent media in the age of AI slop and algorithms.
www.theverge.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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you liberal pussies say that being evil is bad but it actually works super well
November 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
you liberal pussies say that being evil is bad but it actually works super well
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There is no batshit far-right idea that the NYT's "reasonable" conservatives will not launder into polite discourse.
November 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
There is no batshit far-right idea that the NYT's "reasonable" conservatives will not launder into polite discourse.
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Christian Nationalist, Doug Wilson, confirms that children who don’t accept and follow their parent’s religious beliefs should be turned over to the State for capital punishment (be put to death). This fanaticism is real:
November 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Christian Nationalist, Doug Wilson, confirms that children who don’t accept and follow their parent’s religious beliefs should be turned over to the State for capital punishment (be put to death). This fanaticism is real:
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Pete Hegseth’s church is part of Wilson’s sect, and Hegseth has praised Wilson.
Christian Nationalist, Doug Wilson, confirms that children who don’t accept and follow their parent’s religious beliefs should be turned over to the State for capital punishment (be put to death). This fanaticism is real:
November 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Pete Hegseth’s church is part of Wilson’s sect, and Hegseth has praised Wilson.
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The thing about the "Quiet Piggy" thing isn't so much that he's a sexist scumbag. We knew that already.
But he would have caught himself in the past. He did with Megyn Kelly with "blood coming out of her... whatever."
Classic case of onset dementia. Losing all self-censorship. Disinhibition.
But he would have caught himself in the past. He did with Megyn Kelly with "blood coming out of her... whatever."
Classic case of onset dementia. Losing all self-censorship. Disinhibition.
November 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The thing about the "Quiet Piggy" thing isn't so much that he's a sexist scumbag. We knew that already.
But he would have caught himself in the past. He did with Megyn Kelly with "blood coming out of her... whatever."
Classic case of onset dementia. Losing all self-censorship. Disinhibition.
But he would have caught himself in the past. He did with Megyn Kelly with "blood coming out of her... whatever."
Classic case of onset dementia. Losing all self-censorship. Disinhibition.
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"It’s a goddamn disgrace. Especially when so many worthy journalists, who dedicated their lives to their profession with ethics and seriousness, are being cast onto the ash heap." www.unpopularfront.news/p/we-are-not...
We Are Not Amused
The Olivia Nuzzi Return is a Disgrace
www.unpopularfront.news
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"It’s a goddamn disgrace. Especially when so many worthy journalists, who dedicated their lives to their profession with ethics and seriousness, are being cast onto the ash heap." www.unpopularfront.news/p/we-are-not...
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Also, in the course of other atrocities in Yemen, his forces bombed a *school bus full of kids* with a U.S. PGM.
The U.S. intelligence community concluded Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the killing and dismemberment of a Post columnist, making President Trump's formal dinner for the prince on Tuesday a dramatic step in public rehabilitation. https://wapo.st/3LOwEFn
November 16, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Also, in the course of other atrocities in Yemen, his forces bombed a *school bus full of kids* with a U.S. PGM.
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“The greatest risk won’t necessarily be the Republican Party, which has sold its soul to MAGA and Silicon Valley fascism. Instead, I think the greater danger is that tech fascism will also corrupt the (easily corruptible) Democratic Party.”
A former Palantir exec just published an extortion letter in the Washington Post: Democrats must fund tech oligarchs, abandon antitrust, and create 15 deregulated corporate zones—or “lose.”
When I challenged her, she blocked me.
Tech’s moral rot, exposed:
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
When I challenged her, she blocked me.
Tech’s moral rot, exposed:
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
Silicon Valley’s Extortion Letter to Democrats
Ex-Palantir Exec Warns Democrats to Bow Down or Lose the Future
www.thenerdreich.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
“The greatest risk won’t necessarily be the Republican Party, which has sold its soul to MAGA and Silicon Valley fascism. Instead, I think the greater danger is that tech fascism will also corrupt the (easily corruptible) Democratic Party.”
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Don't recall this kind of greeting for President Zelensky, a democratically elected leader who does not dismember his critics.
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Don't recall this kind of greeting for President Zelensky, a democratically elected leader who does not dismember his critics.
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"Crackdowns" being described as legitimate immigration policy in mainstream discourse has helped get us where we are today. I wrote about it for BFT: badfaithtimes.com/bad-faith-an...
Bad Faith And The Legitimizing Of An Immigration 'Crackdown'
Right-wing framing of immigration depends on us accepting "crackdowns" as reasonable and even necessary
badfaithtimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"Crackdowns" being described as legitimate immigration policy in mainstream discourse has helped get us where we are today. I wrote about it for BFT: badfaithtimes.com/bad-faith-an...
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"Absent a philosophical revolution that is nowhere in evidence, however, American conservatives will never have a health care plan worthy of the name. There is no way to improve the system without some combination of regulations, subsidies, or expansion of public programs."
Republicans Will Never Find a Health Care Replacement - The American Prospect
The GOP is too wedded to free markets and scornful of the welfare state to ever make anything in health care work.
prospect.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"Absent a philosophical revolution that is nowhere in evidence, however, American conservatives will never have a health care plan worthy of the name. There is no way to improve the system without some combination of regulations, subsidies, or expansion of public programs."
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These agents had better be saying "Merry Christmas," and not "Happy Holidays" as they drag brown people and their children out of church pews.
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The Trump Department of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over the holiday season.
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
These agents had better be saying "Merry Christmas," and not "Happy Holidays" as they drag brown people and their children out of church pews.
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