Frostreads
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whilst you and I struggle with imposter syndrome
SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role
Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”
www.thehandbasket.co
December 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
whilst you and I struggle with imposter syndrome
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The amount of time I have to talk about segregation these days is disorienting
Higher education is on the front like of the new lost cause. Far right groups are using what they see as public concerns about the relevance and cost of higher education to wage a segregationist campaign to return the US to pre-civil rights conditions. Albeit with less freedom within universities.
December 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The amount of time I have to talk about segregation these days is disorienting
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main economic message from
the president is that you will be poorer and you will like it
the president is that you will be poorer and you will like it
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
main economic message from
the president is that you will be poorer and you will like it
the president is that you will be poorer and you will like it
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I love the way he brags about being the only president whose doctors keep giving him dementia screening tests.
December 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I love the way he brags about being the only president whose doctors keep giving him dementia screening tests.
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This Georgia flip is in a district that the GOP drew to drown Democratic voters in Athens into a neighboring red county, Oconee.
But tonight, Dems in Athens were out in FULL FORCE to swamp that gerrymander.
But tonight, Dems in Athens were out in FULL FORCE to swamp that gerrymander.
December 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
This Georgia flip is in a district that the GOP drew to drown Democratic voters in Athens into a neighboring red county, Oconee.
But tonight, Dems in Athens were out in FULL FORCE to swamp that gerrymander.
But tonight, Dems in Athens were out in FULL FORCE to swamp that gerrymander.
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I was in Europe a while back and people were talking a lot about digital identity rights, but to come to the US, you have to hand over your personal information to the US government, which will then be handed over to a 22 year old DOGEr whose dream gig is Palantir
December 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I was in Europe a while back and people were talking a lot about digital identity rights, but to come to the US, you have to hand over your personal information to the US government, which will then be handed over to a 22 year old DOGEr whose dream gig is Palantir
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as a kid I heard a lot about how the USSR kept foreigners from visiting, this was said to be a totalitarian thing
December 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
as a kid I heard a lot about how the USSR kept foreigners from visiting, this was said to be a totalitarian thing
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This campaign to completely destroy business travel and tourism from Europe seems, and in fact is, completely insane and entirely counter-productive. Just unfathomable.
December 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
This campaign to completely destroy business travel and tourism from Europe seems, and in fact is, completely insane and entirely counter-productive. Just unfathomable.
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love to get lectured on the virtues of spartanism from the guy with the gold toilets
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
love to get lectured on the virtues of spartanism from the guy with the gold toilets
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Calibri is a "wasteful" "diversity" move? What??
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Calibri is a "wasteful" "diversity" move? What??
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We've been saying AI is a tool of facism but I really didn't expect them to make it so clear and obvious to EVERYONE
jesus christ
December 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
We've been saying AI is a tool of facism but I really didn't expect them to make it so clear and obvious to EVERYONE
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Nothing to see here, just the President of the United States having absolutely no idea who he is pardoning, nor why.
POLITICO: You pardoned the former president of Honduras even though he was convicted in a massive intl drug trafficking scheme. How is that 0 tolerance on drug trafficking?
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
December 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Nothing to see here, just the President of the United States having absolutely no idea who he is pardoning, nor why.
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"Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments."
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments."
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I want capital to understand what is happening here.
A company with much more capital offered a higher bid than a rival bidder was willing or able to match.
Now the rival bidder is attempting to undercut the deal with a worse price on grounds of ideology and closeness with a lawless regime.
A company with much more capital offered a higher bid than a rival bidder was willing or able to match.
Now the rival bidder is attempting to undercut the deal with a worse price on grounds of ideology and closeness with a lawless regime.
This is just how we do mergers now.
"Paramount executives also plan to argue their deal will have a much shorter regulatory approval process given the company’s smaller size and friendly relationship with the Trump administration."
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/p...
"Paramount executives also plan to argue their deal will have a much shorter regulatory approval process given the company’s smaller size and friendly relationship with the Trump administration."
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/p...
Paramount Skydance launches hostile bid for WBD after Netflix wins bidding war
Netflix won a bidding war for the Warner Bros. film studio and HBO Max streaming service, but it doesn't plan to buy WBD's TV networks.
www.cnbc.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I want capital to understand what is happening here.
A company with much more capital offered a higher bid than a rival bidder was willing or able to match.
Now the rival bidder is attempting to undercut the deal with a worse price on grounds of ideology and closeness with a lawless regime.
A company with much more capital offered a higher bid than a rival bidder was willing or able to match.
Now the rival bidder is attempting to undercut the deal with a worse price on grounds of ideology and closeness with a lawless regime.
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I still think the framework of the Constitution grants the MOST power to Congress of the three branches, which makes sense also as the closest representation of the people, and it’s extraordinary how the modern US has upended this to make it the weakest in practice.
December 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I still think the framework of the Constitution grants the MOST power to Congress of the three branches, which makes sense also as the closest representation of the people, and it’s extraordinary how the modern US has upended this to make it the weakest in practice.
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One thing about "original intent" is that the original Constitution was so hostile to the President that their rival was made Vice President, but now we have SCOTUS "originalists" happily giving the President absolute power over everything.*
* So long as they're a Republican.
* So long as they're a Republican.
the whole structure of this argument — independent agencies are politically unaccountable therefore the president must have removal power — treats congress as if it were a total nullity, or as if only the president truly represents the public.
December 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
One thing about "original intent" is that the original Constitution was so hostile to the President that their rival was made Vice President, but now we have SCOTUS "originalists" happily giving the President absolute power over everything.*
* So long as they're a Republican.
* So long as they're a Republican.
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The thing about court reform that I wish prominent Democrats would understand is that it is not hard. Just start making noise about the Justices' lawlessness and corruption and they will fall in line. You don't have to get all the way to enacted legislation to push them off their nonsense.
December 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The thing about court reform that I wish prominent Democrats would understand is that it is not hard. Just start making noise about the Justices' lawlessness and corruption and they will fall in line. You don't have to get all the way to enacted legislation to push them off their nonsense.
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This is also how I feel about everyone getting veneers at the same time
Whenever I see stories about Mar-a-Lago face I think about the part of the Hunger Games books where Katniss muses that don't the people in the Capitol with all of their surgeries and modifications know how grotesque they look to the rest of us?
December 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This is also how I feel about everyone getting veneers at the same time
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Based on TV ads, there are two products for sale in America: pharmaceuticals you should ask your doctor about and AI that does, uh, something.
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Based on TV ads, there are two products for sale in America: pharmaceuticals you should ask your doctor about and AI that does, uh, something.
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We need to develop an understanding that climate denial is first and foremost ideological and not driven by the supposed ‘non-ideology’ of rational self-interest/greed
“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”
December 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
We need to develop an understanding that climate denial is first and foremost ideological and not driven by the supposed ‘non-ideology’ of rational self-interest/greed
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Hospitals being like "we take your privacy with the utmost seriousness and fully comply with all HIPPA laws in every way" also "we're just going to record our session with a super powered stealing machine that we have no control over and splatters data all across the world to the highest bidder!"
December 6, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Hospitals being like "we take your privacy with the utmost seriousness and fully comply with all HIPPA laws in every way" also "we're just going to record our session with a super powered stealing machine that we have no control over and splatters data all across the world to the highest bidder!"
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9,000 human made-books banned from public schools for supposed pornography, but the horny freakmachine that uses 100 gallons of water per slop image is fine for kids
This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
December 6, 2025 at 3:34 AM
9,000 human made-books banned from public schools for supposed pornography, but the horny freakmachine that uses 100 gallons of water per slop image is fine for kids
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They are running the government according to the logic of right-wing grievance media. I cannot emphasize that enough. The point is to create content, and they don't see an actual difference between dunking on Sabrina Carpenter, passing legislation, and bombing other countries.
I don't really know what the administration hopes to gain by picking fights with the most well-liked pop artists in the United States. You're just generating backlash for no discernible reason outside of owning the libs.
Sabrina Carpenter ratioed the White House after it used her song in an ICE video.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
December 6, 2025 at 4:11 AM
They are running the government according to the logic of right-wing grievance media. I cannot emphasize that enough. The point is to create content, and they don't see an actual difference between dunking on Sabrina Carpenter, passing legislation, and bombing other countries.
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If you or a loved one has gone through it, you know how many years, how much paperwork, how much money, and how much stress goes into arriving at your citizenship ceremony. This is so pointedly racist and cruel.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
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Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 3:58 AM
If you or a loved one has gone through it, you know how many years, how much paperwork, how much money, and how much stress goes into arriving at your citizenship ceremony. This is so pointedly racist and cruel.