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"Evil has come to America. The present administration is engaged in barbarism."
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This administration needs to just fucking burn in hell.
You know, these are still goddamn human beings.
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
You know, these are still goddamn human beings.
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
DOJ orders prison inspectors to stop considering LGBTQ safety standards
A memo obtained by NPR shows the Justice Department is telling inspectors to stop evaluating prisons using standards designed to protect trans and other LGBTQ community members from sexual violence.
www.npr.org
December 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This administration needs to just fucking burn in hell.
You know, these are still goddamn human beings.
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
You know, these are still goddamn human beings.
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
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But taking it rarely feels clever or morally superior. We want to feel above violence, to feel Civilized. And frankly my most regressive opinion is that he who wants to be Civilized must be willing to use violence to uphold his ideals (gender inclusive).
December 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
But taking it rarely feels clever or morally superior. We want to feel above violence, to feel Civilized. And frankly my most regressive opinion is that he who wants to be Civilized must be willing to use violence to uphold his ideals (gender inclusive).
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The air campaign over Yemen wasn’t a failure of execution; it was a failure of strategy. Biden and Trump both bet on airpower to coerce the Houthis, despite decades of evidence that it can’t force political change. Tactical success, strategic futility. My latest⬇️
Bombing Because You Can: Yemen
Part V: Another Victim to Robert Pape?
secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The air campaign over Yemen wasn’t a failure of execution; it was a failure of strategy. Biden and Trump both bet on airpower to coerce the Houthis, despite decades of evidence that it can’t force political change. Tactical success, strategic futility. My latest⬇️
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lying is the tool of the enemy. your first duty is to the truth
December 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
lying is the tool of the enemy. your first duty is to the truth
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Hegseth: Actually, I said "Kill them all? No, survivors!"
December 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Hegseth: Actually, I said "Kill them all? No, survivors!"
lmao get the fuck outa here dawg
Jeffries claims the charges against Cueller were "very thin" and says Trump's pardon was "exactly the right outcome"
December 4, 2025 at 5:18 AM
lmao get the fuck outa here dawg
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1. This is not how anyone talks to an O-10.
2. This is certainly not how a 40 year-old ex-O-4 talks to an O-10.
3. This is the most dumbshit company grade officer crap imaginable. No competent commander tells a senior officer not to ask questions.
4. He may as well have called Holsey "boy."
2. This is certainly not how a 40 year-old ex-O-4 talks to an O-10.
3. This is the most dumbshit company grade officer crap imaginable. No competent commander tells a senior officer not to ask questions.
4. He may as well have called Holsey "boy."
December 4, 2025 at 4:24 AM
1. This is not how anyone talks to an O-10.
2. This is certainly not how a 40 year-old ex-O-4 talks to an O-10.
3. This is the most dumbshit company grade officer crap imaginable. No competent commander tells a senior officer not to ask questions.
4. He may as well have called Holsey "boy."
2. This is certainly not how a 40 year-old ex-O-4 talks to an O-10.
3. This is the most dumbshit company grade officer crap imaginable. No competent commander tells a senior officer not to ask questions.
4. He may as well have called Holsey "boy."
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Absolutely. Good writing and clear thinking amplify one another.
Unfortunately, the same is true of bad writing and muddled thinking.
Unfortunately, the same is true of bad writing and muddled thinking.
i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.
Oh man! This paragraph is brutal. The best thing about this review is it's not trying to be mean. It's just listing how bad the writing is.
December 4, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Absolutely. Good writing and clear thinking amplify one another.
Unfortunately, the same is true of bad writing and muddled thinking.
Unfortunately, the same is true of bad writing and muddled thinking.
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Erika Kirk turned her husband’s murder into the business opportunity of a lifetime. She has a lot to teach us about deals.
Why is Andrew Ross Sorkin hosting Erika Kirk at the Dealbook Summit?
Honest line of inquiry - what could she possibly elevate about macroeconomic factors that's so important it crowds out her organization's relentless bigotry?
Honest line of inquiry - what could she possibly elevate about macroeconomic factors that's so important it crowds out her organization's relentless bigotry?
December 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Erika Kirk turned her husband’s murder into the business opportunity of a lifetime. She has a lot to teach us about deals.
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He decided to do the Cumtown bit but for real
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
He decided to do the Cumtown bit but for real
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The degree mill for Hilton night managers signed a QB named Marriott?!
December 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The degree mill for Hilton night managers signed a QB named Marriott?!
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I suppose I ought to remember to self-promote.
This is me roasting Noah Smith's remarkably shallow understanding of how history works back in 2022: acoup.blog/2022/08/29/n...
This is me roasting Noah Smith's remarkably shallow understanding of how history works back in 2022: acoup.blog/2022/08/29/n...
New Acquisitions: On the Wisdom of Noah Smith
I generally try to avoid having Twitter disputes spill on to the blog. Generally what happens on Twitter is best left on Twitter and in some cases not even that. However this past week I was pulled…
acoup.blog
December 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I suppose I ought to remember to self-promote.
This is me roasting Noah Smith's remarkably shallow understanding of how history works back in 2022: acoup.blog/2022/08/29/n...
This is me roasting Noah Smith's remarkably shallow understanding of how history works back in 2022: acoup.blog/2022/08/29/n...
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A fucked up thing I constantly think about is how we haven’t even discussed all the shit ICE is probably stealing from people
December 3, 2025 at 3:21 AM
A fucked up thing I constantly think about is how we haven’t even discussed all the shit ICE is probably stealing from people
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Something I’ve thought about a lot is that the WH has decided to govern the country like Missouri or Brownback’s Kansas, and most people have never lived in a deep red state so this is all a fairly new experience for them
Cosmically funny that, the American public has had less than a year of uncut republican governance, and they’ve decided that they absolutely hate this shit, spit it out
December 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Something I’ve thought about a lot is that the WH has decided to govern the country like Missouri or Brownback’s Kansas, and most people have never lived in a deep red state so this is all a fairly new experience for them
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Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.
NEW: Republican-led states, in a new filing at the D.C. Circuit, say D.C. residents are irrelevant, D.C. belongs to everyone else. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
December 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.
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we’ve got to Cask of Amontillado these people
Hillary come check out my wine cellar, I have new polling data down there which says you should totally run again in 2028. bring your husband and James Carville
Hillary come check out my wine cellar, I have new polling data down there which says you should totally run again in 2028. bring your husband and James Carville
December 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
we’ve got to Cask of Amontillado these people
Hillary come check out my wine cellar, I have new polling data down there which says you should totally run again in 2028. bring your husband and James Carville
Hillary come check out my wine cellar, I have new polling data down there which says you should totally run again in 2028. bring your husband and James Carville
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i'm wondering when the bigger dissident right-wing guys are going to feel brave enough to start advocating against interracial relationships on main
can't keep that rhetoric contained to just immigrants; the internal contradictions are too strong and eventually the cuck brainworms will take over
can't keep that rhetoric contained to just immigrants; the internal contradictions are too strong and eventually the cuck brainworms will take over
the whole concept of "white genocide" is very funny because unlike a regular genocide where people try to butcher you with machetes or gas your family in white genocide your cousin marries an Indian guy
December 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
i'm wondering when the bigger dissident right-wing guys are going to feel brave enough to start advocating against interracial relationships on main
can't keep that rhetoric contained to just immigrants; the internal contradictions are too strong and eventually the cuck brainworms will take over
can't keep that rhetoric contained to just immigrants; the internal contradictions are too strong and eventually the cuck brainworms will take over
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Penn State’s AD managed to generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual tithing increases for the LDS church in like 24 hours. That’s more than most people can pull off on an entire 2 year mission
December 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Penn State’s AD managed to generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual tithing increases for the LDS church in like 24 hours. That’s more than most people can pull off on an entire 2 year mission
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The official policy of the Trump Administration is ignorant bigotry. We’re asked, under principles including charity, to assume that people support the administration despite that policy, not specifically because of it. I am increasingly unwilling to extend that charity.
December 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The official policy of the Trump Administration is ignorant bigotry. We’re asked, under principles including charity, to assume that people support the administration despite that policy, not specifically because of it. I am increasingly unwilling to extend that charity.
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Like everyone else in this administration, the Norwegian corporal is too cucked and cowardly to do anything himself. He just likes to watch.
December 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Like everyone else in this administration, the Norwegian corporal is too cucked and cowardly to do anything himself. He just likes to watch.
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"We've had lies and stonewalls before. One’s tempted to say first time tragedy, this time farce.
But war crimes aren’t a farce. Congress should investigate them. And a broader war—unjustified, unauthorized, unlawful—wouldn’t be a farce. Congress should stop it."
www.thebulwark.com/p/lies-cover...
But war crimes aren’t a farce. Congress should investigate them. And a broader war—unjustified, unauthorized, unlawful—wouldn’t be a farce. Congress should stop it."
www.thebulwark.com/p/lies-cover...
Lies, Coverup, and Videotape
Congress must thoroughly investigate the boat strikes.
www.thebulwark.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"We've had lies and stonewalls before. One’s tempted to say first time tragedy, this time farce.
But war crimes aren’t a farce. Congress should investigate them. And a broader war—unjustified, unauthorized, unlawful—wouldn’t be a farce. Congress should stop it."
www.thebulwark.com/p/lies-cover...
But war crimes aren’t a farce. Congress should investigate them. And a broader war—unjustified, unauthorized, unlawful—wouldn’t be a farce. Congress should stop it."
www.thebulwark.com/p/lies-cover...
Fucking others over to advance their own interests has always worked out for them, so why would this time be any different?
not just morally but it seems obvious politically that underbusing the admiral is a mistake.
December 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Fucking others over to advance their own interests has always worked out for them, so why would this time be any different?
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i'm actually struck by how pete hegseth isn't just a cowardly man but a capital-c Coward. a guy who gets off on abusing and hurting people he thinks are weaker than him and then tries to run and hide when there might be consequences
December 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
i'm actually struck by how pete hegseth isn't just a cowardly man but a capital-c Coward. a guy who gets off on abusing and hurting people he thinks are weaker than him and then tries to run and hide when there might be consequences
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I wrote much of this several months ago, about Ezra Klein's response to the Kirk assassination, and then never ended up publishing it, but I think this UO "controversy" is a such a perfect example of how TPUSA et al actually advance conservative power that I decided to revive and rewrite it.
What Liberals Can Learn from Charlie Kirk
Over the last few days, if you’re active on political media, you have probably seen references to the “controversy” over a student’s failing grade on an essay at Oklahoma Un…
nathangoldwag.wordpress.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I wrote much of this several months ago, about Ezra Klein's response to the Kirk assassination, and then never ended up publishing it, but I think this UO "controversy" is a such a perfect example of how TPUSA et al actually advance conservative power that I decided to revive and rewrite it.