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Damn. They actually did a Sicario from the movie Sicario
Two law-enforcement members said the FBI’s hostage rescue team were embedded with US military special operators in the operation to capture Maduro.-MS Now
January 3, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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Politico: "The Theory Behind Palpatine's Star Destroyer Diplomacy. Ghorman Has Become Palpatine's Test of Intergalactic Reengineering."
The "theory" is "I've got big guns and the Supreme Court said I'm immune from any criminal prosecution, and Congress lets me get away with everything, so I'm gonna murder brown people with big explosions and tell the public I'm saving them from drugs."

Saved you a click.
October 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.
October 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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"the speaker of the House is refusing to seat a duly elected member of Congress to protect the president from a vote to investigate his extensive connections the world's most notorious human trafficking pedophile" is one of those things you simply cannot put into New York Timesese
October 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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October 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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BlackRock will buy AES, one of the largest publicly traded utility companies in the U.S.

AES is a major power provider for Big Tech companies building out data centers.

Yes: while these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.
October 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Opinion | Democrats need to meet Republicans in the middle. Perhaps it’s time for abundance fascism.
September 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM