Frank Jordan
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Having flashbacks to this tedious discussion around Erdoğan a dozen years ago…
You can pragmatically pursue personalist authoritarian and an ideological project at the same time! Autocrats do it all the time!
You can pragmatically pursue personalist authoritarian and an ideological project at the same time! Autocrats do it all the time!
I’m not linking but I just read a columnist (one of my favorites) say Trump “has no ideology beyond his own power.”
Ten years in, this trope should die. Trump's ideology is white supremacist and that goes a long way in explaining his imperialism and protectionism.
Ten years in, this trope should die. Trump's ideology is white supremacist and that goes a long way in explaining his imperialism and protectionism.
January 9, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Having flashbacks to this tedious discussion around Erdoğan a dozen years ago…
You can pragmatically pursue personalist authoritarian and an ideological project at the same time! Autocrats do it all the time!
You can pragmatically pursue personalist authoritarian and an ideological project at the same time! Autocrats do it all the time!
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Will add that Trump being obsessed with his own power is not in conflict with his white supremacy, it is part of it.
I’m not linking but I just read a columnist (one of my favorites) say Trump “has no ideology beyond his own power.”
Ten years in, this trope should die. Trump's ideology is white supremacist and that goes a long way in explaining his imperialism and protectionism.
Ten years in, this trope should die. Trump's ideology is white supremacist and that goes a long way in explaining his imperialism and protectionism.
January 9, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Will add that Trump being obsessed with his own power is not in conflict with his white supremacy, it is part of it.
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you cannot blockade a country and bomb its capital cities and capture its leader without being at war with it, is the thing
Are we at war with Venezuela?!?
I don't know. You don't know either.
It sure would be nice to have a legitimate Pentagon press corps right about now.
I don't know. You don't know either.
It sure would be nice to have a legitimate Pentagon press corps right about now.
January 3, 2026 at 10:23 AM
you cannot blockade a country and bomb its capital cities and capture its leader without being at war with it, is the thing
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Some updates:
CNN: The Senate Armed Services Committee was not informed in advance of any potential US military action carried out tonight in Venezuela.
CNN: The Senate Armed Services Committee was not informed in advance of any potential US military action carried out tonight in Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Some updates:
CNN: The Senate Armed Services Committee was not informed in advance of any potential US military action carried out tonight in Venezuela.
CNN: The Senate Armed Services Committee was not informed in advance of any potential US military action carried out tonight in Venezuela.
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I just woke up and am already exhausted.
January 3, 2026 at 11:54 AM
I just woke up and am already exhausted.
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The median American has $8,000 in savings in the bank. In other words, this is like giving the median American an opportunity to make a massive, scandalous crime go away for a fine of $240.
December 29, 2025 at 5:10 AM
The median American has $8,000 in savings in the bank. In other words, this is like giving the median American an opportunity to make a massive, scandalous crime go away for a fine of $240.
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People say “Avatar had no cultural impact” as though teaching a whole generation about the sacrifice of our brave boys who died fighting on Pandora doesn’t count as a cultural impact
December 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
People say “Avatar had no cultural impact” as though teaching a whole generation about the sacrifice of our brave boys who died fighting on Pandora doesn’t count as a cultural impact
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Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you?
Caller: I am eight
Caller: I am eight
December 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you?
Caller: I am eight
Caller: I am eight
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The blatant selling of pardons is perhaps the clearest instance of criminal conduct authorized by SCOTUS. Pardons are a quintessential "official act." So, even when Trump takes a bribe to issue one, he is presumably above the criminal law.
The president’s own chief of staff was reportedly stunned by his pardon of a former Honduran president.
Trump’s Ice Maiden Blindsided by President’s Controversial Pardon
The president’s own chief of staff was reportedly stunned by his pardon of a former Honduran president.
trib.al
December 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The blatant selling of pardons is perhaps the clearest instance of criminal conduct authorized by SCOTUS. Pardons are a quintessential "official act." So, even when Trump takes a bribe to issue one, he is presumably above the criminal law.
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A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.
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Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.
December 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.
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What a lede:
"A heinous act of violence. A faceless killer on the loose. A desperate manhunt. An F.B.I. director with a finger poised over the “post” button on his social media account."
"A heinous act of violence. A faceless killer on the loose. A desperate manhunt. An F.B.I. director with a finger poised over the “post” button on his social media account."
FBI Director Kash Patel, Eager for Spotlight, Casts Aside Caution in Social Media Posts www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
Eager for Center Stage, Patel Casts Aside Caution in Statements as F.B.I. Leader
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:05 AM
What a lede:
"A heinous act of violence. A faceless killer on the loose. A desperate manhunt. An F.B.I. director with a finger poised over the “post” button on his social media account."
"A heinous act of violence. A faceless killer on the loose. A desperate manhunt. An F.B.I. director with a finger poised over the “post” button on his social media account."
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"Weissman was in her dorm room at Brown when a friend called to warn her that a shooting was under way. Her initial feelings of panic soon turned to anger, she told NBC. “I’m angry that I thought I’d never have to deal with this again, and here I am eight years later,” Weissman told NBC News."
Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"Weissman was in her dorm room at Brown when a friend called to warn her that a shooting was under way. Her initial feelings of panic soon turned to anger, she told NBC. “I’m angry that I thought I’d never have to deal with this again, and here I am eight years later,” Weissman told NBC News."
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conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
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Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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Ellis repeatedly accuses multiple CBP and ICE officials of lying (under oath) and says their "widespread misrepresentations call into question everything" they "say they are doing in their characterization of what is happening." She broadly discredits their testimony as objectively false.
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis just handed down the written opinion version of her preliminary injunction order, regarding use of force by federal agents in Chicago.
It's the one already put on hold by the 7th Circuit.
It's 233 pages.
Here you go: cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
It's the one already put on hold by the 7th Circuit.
It's 233 pages.
Here you go: cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
November 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Ellis repeatedly accuses multiple CBP and ICE officials of lying (under oath) and says their "widespread misrepresentations call into question everything" they "say they are doing in their characterization of what is happening." She broadly discredits their testimony as objectively false.
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Read David every week and marvel at boomers still putting shit in .edu emails in the Year of Our Lord 2025
Public records from one school's head coaching search committee accidentally revealed how they're planning to circumvent public records laws during their coaching search
You can probably guess the school from the art, but read it now in this week's FOIAball!
www.foiaball.com/p/virginia-t...
You can probably guess the school from the art, but read it now in this week's FOIAball!
www.foiaball.com/p/virginia-t...
Head coach search committees are dodging accountability
Public records reveal how schools circumvent public records. Oops!
www.foiaball.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Read David every week and marvel at boomers still putting shit in .edu emails in the Year of Our Lord 2025
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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Well, an acquaintance who relies on the ACA marketplace for insurance just received a notice explaining that their fee for coverage will be rising. Right now they pay $180 a month. The new price?
$2733.15 a month.
$2733.15 a month.
October 31, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Well, an acquaintance who relies on the ACA marketplace for insurance just received a notice explaining that their fee for coverage will be rising. Right now they pay $180 a month. The new price?
$2733.15 a month.
$2733.15 a month.
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As with Charlie Kirk, Republicans are fiercely loyal to the general idea of Donald Trump but will furiously refuse to grapple with anything specific that he actually says or does.
I didn't see the tweet. I didn't hear the comment. I didn't watch the speech.
Republicans have been feigning ignorance about their mad king for eight years now.
Republicans have been feigning ignorance about their mad king for eight years now.
October 2, 2025 at 12:57 AM
As with Charlie Kirk, Republicans are fiercely loyal to the general idea of Donald Trump but will furiously refuse to grapple with anything specific that he actually says or does.
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One pretty foolproof way to know your government is fascist is when your government tries to punish you for calling it fascist.
September 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
One pretty foolproof way to know your government is fascist is when your government tries to punish you for calling it fascist.
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Congratulations to Brazil, joining South Korea among the countries who successfully did what the United States could not
🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...
🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...
Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to more than 27 years in a Brazil prison for attempting a coup after losing the 2022 election.
Bolsonaro Convicted of Attempting a Coup in Brazil, Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison
Brazil’s Supreme Court convicted the former president of trying to cling to power after losing the 2022 election, including a plan to assassinate his opponent.
nyti.ms
September 12, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Congratulations to Brazil, joining South Korea among the countries who successfully did what the United States could not
🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...
🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...
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"He interprets the Antichrist not as a single figure but as a global, technological, authoritarian system. ... Such a system, he argues, can cloak itself in morality or even 'hyper-Christian' rhetoric, promising salvation while enslaving humanity"
No one has ever been more So Close To Getting It
No one has ever been more So Close To Getting It
OPINION: The alternative to the Antichrist system, Thiel argues, is “Armageddon” — the catastrophic collapse of civilization through global warfare and destruction.
religionnews.com/2025/09/09/a...
religionnews.com/2025/09/09/a...
Antichrist or Armageddon? Peter Thiel rethinks apocalypse from Silicon Valley.
(RNS) — A lone tyrant is less likely to succeed in leveraging fear to justify total control, but in Thiel's view: A centralized autocracy may well.
religionnews.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"He interprets the Antichrist not as a single figure but as a global, technological, authoritarian system. ... Such a system, he argues, can cloak itself in morality or even 'hyper-Christian' rhetoric, promising salvation while enslaving humanity"
No one has ever been more So Close To Getting It
No one has ever been more So Close To Getting It
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If you don’t believe that Trump’s authoritarianism can be defeated, look at how scared MAGA is of chalk:
FHP also arrested a man at a crosswalk near Pulse in Orlando last night. The bizarre story of the arrest is related below by Fox35 Orlando.
This is so pitifully embarrassing for the state.
via www.fox35orlando.com/news/man-arr...
This is so pitifully embarrassing for the state.
via www.fox35orlando.com/news/man-arr...
August 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
If you don’t believe that Trump’s authoritarianism can be defeated, look at how scared MAGA is of chalk: