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December 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Free the #AlabamaPenis
October 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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I wrote about this a few months ago. You have to scroll down a bit to get to the part about the MLB app. I think it is a righteous rant.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...
'The hell site' is everything now - Halifax Examiner
"It's like they want you to turn it off."
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
September 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Pro-tip: Don’t try to take on Gavin Newsom’s press team. Especially if you’re a dumb dumb.
A series of posts on X and an article preview. The first post by Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer ) from 3 hours ago states, "No. COVID jabs kill. You wish." This is a reply to a post by Governor Newsom Press Office (@CAgovernor ) from 7 hours ago, responding to @LauraLoomer and @LoomerUnleashed with "vaxxed?" followed by a second reply 29 minutes ago saying, "maybe the dog food made you sick again?" The conversation includes 219 replies, 253 retweets, 1.8K likes, and 122K impressions. Below is a preview of an Independent article by Ariana Baio, dated September 20, 2024, at 4:05 AM PDT, titled "Inside the pro-MAGA pet company that convinced Laura Loomer to eat dog food," with a 3-minute read time and 14 comments. The article image shows a person holding food near their mouth in a room with shelves and decorations.
September 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Republicans don’t need a single democratic vote to fund their regime. Here’s why. Please share widely.
September 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again.

These two gotta go.
September 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
“WE MAKE, THEY TAKE”

From @moreperfectunion.bsky.social — 50 billboards across 8 states are driving home the message that working Americans (teachers, nurses, etc) keep 🇺🇸 running, but billionaires keep taking more & more.

Share if you agree.

More: perfectunion.us/wemaketheyta...
September 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Jesus Houdini Christ, this is great.
September 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
gerg-ny.bsky.social
How long before the maker of Tylenol sues for defamation or slander or whatever?
September 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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If you have 30 minutes, I recommend watching this video. I explain what Trump has in store for 2026 and how we can fight back. If you find it helpful, please share it with others. youtu.be/7PXQfDHr9Aw
URGENT: Trump's Plan To Steal The 2026 Election Revealed
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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September 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
Every. Fucking. Word. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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As I write in my newsletter today, there are several reasons why the media is utterly failing in its coverage of Charlie Kirk. These are the big three, however. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
The fact that most media types still live on Elon Musk's fascist-promoting Twitter platform and thus fail to understand just how much of an extremist Kirk was. Post-Musk Twitter is a bubble which showcases and promotes the most extreme voices imaginable which, in turn, gives the media a warped sense of what constitutes normal political and social discourse. It causes them to overreport and underreport a lot of things under the mistaken belief that the online stew in which they marinate is real life and the people who marinate there alongside them are normal and common; Despite Kirk's extremism, a lot of people in journalism and punditry engage in a professional tribalism which causes them to identify with other people who also spend too much time on social media, who do podcasts, and who show up in cable news green rooms alongside them. On some level they saw Kirk as one of their own even though he was, actually, involved in a completely different sort of project than legitimate journalists or pundits are. It's a more extreme version of what I've observed in sports media over the past 20 years or so in which reporters will almost always overlook the faults of a "fellow scribe" because, above everything else, they belong in the same club. It's an object example of failing to understand that we are what we pretend to be; and Basic fear. The media's reticence to label Kirk an extremist has made it jarringly clear how afraid the media is of the people in power who share Kirk's extremist beliefs. How afraid of they are of drawing the ire of Trump, Vance, Loomer, Libs of TikTok, and the rest. Reporters and commentators are censoring themselves and are otherwise acting obsequiously so they aren't denied access, won't get sued, won't get fired, won't have their employer's broadcast licenses suspended or investigated, and won't have mobs turned on them. At first this might have been done in response to actual criticism, hostility, or active pushback from those in power, but it has quite obviously become an internalized fear that has dissuaded them from speaking criticially, let alone condemning, racism, misogyny, homophobia, antisemitism and the like. This may be the most significant and the most disturbing explanation of such behavior given the implications it has for democracy and free expression.
September 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Today's newsletter is free for everyone.

Here's what I wrote about Charlie Kirk. As I say in the piece, nothing honors the dead more than truth. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
Right wing political commentator Charlie Kirk was shot while appearing at an event at Utah Valley University yesterday. He was struck in the neck. He was pronounced dead at the hospital, but as anyone who was unfortunate enough to see the video of the shooting knows, his death was inevitable the moment the bullet hit him. He was 31 years old. Violence – including political violence – is always bad and it is always wrong. I hope it's not controversial for me to say that, but I truly believe that it's bad. I believe that it's bad no matter who commits it and no matter who the victim is or what the victim has said or has done in the past. It's bad even if, as was the case with Kirk, one makes it one's life‘s work to vehemently argue in favor of a deeply racist politics of which violence was both an essential part and an inevitable and desired outcome. I know that we're not supposed to mention any of that because it’s not seen as polite or respectful, but Kirk himself abhorred the very idea of empathy and I believe that nothing honors the dead more than honoring their truth. Violence is the antithesis of the sort of civic democracy which is already under attack in this country. It's bad because violence begets more violence, taking us even further away from those virtuous civic ideals than we have already strayed. It's bad in this particular instance because those who align themselves with Charlie Kirk are fascists who will no doubt use his murder as an excuse to incite and inflict even more pain, suffering, and persecution upon those whom they see as their enemy than they already are inciting and inflicting. As my friend Andrea Pitzer said yesterday in the immediate aftermath, "shooting Charlie Kirk was never going to help anyone except those who are already trying to destroy the country." She's right about that. Indeed, I suspect a great many of the people who are trying to destroy the country view Kirk's killing as a gift in this very regard. I truly do hope that Charlie Kirk rests in peace. A peace he'd never allow or abide, in life or in death, for those whom he made it his life's work to slander and attack.
September 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Writin' game recaps
Athletics 5, Red Sox 4:  Nick The Colonel Kurtz hit his 30th home run of the season and Lawrence Butler hit a walk-off single in the ninth to allow the A's to avoid being swept at home. Or I should say being swept at the baseball equivalent of a Fairfield Inn near the freeway with an "under new management" sign on it into which you had to move because your wife got tired of your shit and kicked you out and, look, it's not permanent but you just gotta figure some stuff out, OK?
September 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Hey Greg Abbott how about you call up your boy Donny in the White House and tell him that you get a lot of energy in Texas from solar and wind.... Donny is an idiot and doesn't know these facts so I included a chart you can give him.
September 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Cleta will get even madder if you read and share this article. So, please, don't do that...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Cleta Mitchell Thinks Trump Will Use Emergency Powers to Take Control of Elections
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
September 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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The response to this essay that was sent to premium members earlier today was so overwhelming that Democracy Docket decided to publish it for free on its website.

I am touched by all of your comments and kind words of support. Please, read, share and enjoy! www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...
What Gives Me Hope
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
August 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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🔥 wow — @ettingermentum picks his teeth with @andrewcuomo’s shitty campaign against @zohrankmamdani:

“What we are seeing play out is more than just a simply bad campaign… the kind of humiliation that only happens once every few generations.”

www.ettingermentum.news/p/has-there-...
August 17, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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This guy rocks. He has multiple Faulkner-style videos and they’re all amazing. He nails the cadence. And he’s way more interesting to me than the actual Faulkner. Of course that may be a me issue. bsky.app/profile/john...
johnxuandou.bsky.social Magnanimous @johnxuandou.bsky.social · Aug 13
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
It drives Jonathan Turley crazy when I remind everyone that he is just Mike Lindell with tenure. So, please make sure not to amplify this message.👇

Jonathan Turley is just Mike Lindell with tenure.
August 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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So now every civil servant compiling data in the Commerce and Labor departments for public reports will know if they put out numbers Trump doesn’t like they will be fired.
August 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Me sending Craig Calcaterra's Cup of Coffee newsletter to my kids every morning has become a way to tell them I didn't die in my sleep and they should go on with their day.

It's M-F though so I'm destined to stroke out on a Friday night
August 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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In a galaxy far, far away…
#legostarwars #starwars #ultimatecollectorseries #ohshit
May 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
gerg-ny.bsky.social
Wow that episode of Andor had me on edge all the way through! #andor #starwars
a cartoon character is sitting in a bed with a bloody hanger on the floor
ALT: a cartoon character is sitting in a bed with a bloody hanger on the floor
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May 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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there is a decent chance i never spend a single dime at target again in my life www.startribune.com/target-gave-...
Target gave $1M to Trump inauguration fund, a first for the company
President Donald Trump raised a record amount of cash for his inauguration, including donations from several companies with operations in Minnesota.
www.startribune.com
April 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM