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Hep
@diplomoto.bsky.social
Paris dweller. Wonk Wrangler, for now.
JFC the purity tests. We always eat our own.
Reminder: it is not correct to refer to Conway as a "Never Trumper."

He was, in fact, a Trumper before he became a not-Trumper. He was literally a top pick to run Trump's DOJ in the first term. He was absolutely a Trumper.
December 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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“When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of ‘gold standard’ reputation for a single week of political quiet.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
December 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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The joy one feels whilst eating the penultimate pancake, knowing that there is yet another to come, is balanced in equal measure by the despair at the realization that there is but one more remaining.
December 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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I shouldn’t have to share this article as much as I do. Sending condolences to all friends and family and loved ones from the Brown Shooting today.

www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...
Why Flavor Flav says the US must ban firearms now | Opinion
The lack of U.S. gun laws has created a violence epidemic unlike anywhere else on Earth. This is domestic errorism
www.newsweek.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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December 13, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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New theory: The one person missing from the Netflix-Warner-Paramount deal is Elon Musk. He is close to the Ellisons, would love to get his grubby hands on CNN to wreck it and it will garner this attention sponge much needed notice. I would not be surprised if he came in as an investor.
elon musk speaking into a microphone with his eyes closed
ALT: elon musk speaking into a microphone with his eyes closed
media.tenor.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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In 2021, Jared Kushner claimed he was leaving politics. Instead, armed with billions in funding from Middle East autocrats, he is brokering “peace” deals for Trump that double as real estate ventures and positioning himself at the center of Trump's media ambitions. None of it is an accident.
The Disturbing Return Of The Prodigal Son-In-Law
Jared Kushner is so back, and what he's up to should concern us all.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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USA was the only state to vote against a resolution on protecting humanitarian staff

Also, for the first time in 33 years, a omnibus motion on humanitarianism didn’t pass by consensus.

press.un.org/en/2025/ga12...
December 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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From 2024:

Gangsters, money and murder: How Chinese organized crime is dominating Oklahoma’s illegal medical marijuana market
Gangsters, money and murder: How Chinese organized crime is dominating Oklahoma's illegal medical marijuana market
A quadruple murder in Oklahoma shows how the Chinese underworld has come to dominate the booming illicit trade, fortifying its rise as a global powerhouse with alleged ties to China’s authoritarian re...
www.readfrontier.org
December 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Duffy wants pull-up bars in airports, but won’t require airlines to compensate passengers when their flights are disrupted by carriers??

America: Open your eyes and see what this Administration truly is.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/15/u...
December 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Redlining was absolutely trash the first time, no one asked for a reboot.

Public comment is open through 12/15: www.regulations.gov/commenton/CF...
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
December 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Trump is letting NVIDIA export cutting-edge AI chips that his own DOJ revealed are being illegally smuggled into China.

His own DOJ called these chips "building blocks of AI superiority."

Trump and Lutnick need to answer to Congress on why they are selling out US security.
December 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Scaling back U.S. instruments of soft power, like USAID, is unilateral disarmament. It reduces our ability to compete for influence globally and creates vacuums for Russia and China to fill.
December 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Yup. The Belgians need to STFU
December 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Wealth inequality is eating this country alive. Concentrated wealth is already endangering our democracy. Wealth doesn’t just beget more wealth — it begets more power.

It’s a vicious cycle that destroys our economy and democracy at the same time.
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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December 3, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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A really nice figure of population and partisan malapportionment in national legislatures around the world

from Beramendi, Boix, Guinjoan, and Rogers (yassified by The Economist) priceschool.usc.edu/wp-content/u...
December 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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One of the four elements of malignant narcissism is sadism.
December 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”

Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
December 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".

Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Psychotic Trump made 162 posts last night on Truth Social, one more deranged than the other.
December 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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@billscher.bsky.social is so right about this ➡️ Trump’s Murderous Hypocrisy on Drug Trafficking Is Bone-Chilling. A president killing boaters on specious claims of “narcoterrorism” while pardoning major drug traffickers should be a major scandal.   washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/02/t...
Trump’s Murderous Hypocrisy on Drug Trafficking Is Bone-Chilling
Killing boaters on specious claims of “narcoterrorism” while pardoning major drug traffickers would be a scandal bloodier than Watergate.
washingtonmonthly.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM