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Those NFL shop ads with the QR probably convert a lot of traffic. That might be a good way for Democratic campaigns to drive users to policy websites or videos. A common low-info claim about dem campaigns is that they have no policy. I disagree but it might help defuse that if its shoved in faces.
November 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Three day Special Redaction Operation
Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
FBI’s Frantic Scramble to Redact Epstein Files Revealed
A trove of emails shows all-nighters and almost $1 million in overtime as Trumpworld debated releasing the Epstein files.
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
And here I thought a magistrate was on the level of, like, an Achaemenid satrap or at least a guy who passed the civil service exam in Song China
oh Americans may not understand this, but a 'magistrate' in the UK is a local volunteer with typically no legal background. But it's ok, they receive about 10 days of training. And now they can send you to jail for two years without a jury!
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Oh yeah, one day before January 6th
Noting the congressional pension is based on service time, it kicks in at 5 years and her retirement date - Jan. 5, 2026 - will be the first business day after she passes five years since her first swearing in. bsky.app/profile/heli...
Any idea why she's quitting then? Her statement isn't very coherent (big surprise), although it would make more sense as an explanation of just not running for re-election.
November 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
How do these guys remember to breath
November 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Someday this will happen with trump.
lol absolutely delightful
November 15, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Fuck my stupid chungus life
November 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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FUCK THE THIN BLUE BYLINE
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Even cops wish they could circle the wagons like journalists
As a former member of NYT’s finance team & the co-author of this story exposing the relationship between Epstein & Bill Gates as well as one on Epstein & JPMorgan, I am really frustrated to see people claiming that NYT sat on publishable info about Trump and Epstein 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/b...
Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past (Published 2019)
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
So true!!
November 13, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Yeah this debacle has me thinking about what the NYT has done for me in my lifetime. So far I have:
1. Yellow Journalism'd us into Iraq
2. Covered up for the most high profile pedophile in the US
3. Helped that pedophile's best friend, a fascist, become president.

Man, idk about these guys
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 AM
George Martin, famous for his prolific output in recent years *sob*
November 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
You don't hate the media enough
This isn’t true. I was there.

(from The Argument)
November 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I hate that line about not having a country if you dont have borders that everyone started using all of a sudden (I guess it sounded good when Richard Spencer or whoever said it). It's a terrible time to believe in the freedom of movement for all humans if this is my Left.
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Usha clerked for Kavanaugh and Roberts!! She is fully aligned with the natcon agenda, even if JD is embarrassed to be seen with her.
I don't feel bad at all for JD Vance's wife, she's a dead-eyed Yale striver who wants this as bad as him and made a conscious choice to put on the populism skinsuit. But I do feel kinda bad for his kids. No matter how insulated, imagine being a brown kid named Vivek and that being your dad.
October 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Reposted by Jack Brandes
Relatedly: why did the thirty years war follow the invention of the printing press
“Why has virtually every country in the world seen an abrupt rise in extremist politics, especially on the far-right, starting at approximately the same date the iPhone was released”

The most important question in politics but maybe not a hard one
October 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Vladdy: "DAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE!"
October 9, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I'm willing to do both at the same time. That mf is dead
October 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Yeah, they're going to refuse to seat the Democratic Congress in 2027. It won't work, but they will try.
Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva hasn't been sworn in, so she has to roam Congress with an escort

I saw her this morning going through security along visitors — something lawmakers don't need to do when walking into the Capitol

More on her limbo status here:
www.notus.org/congress/ade...
Voters Elected Her to Congress. Mike Johnson Is Making Her Wait.
“At this point, I can’t hire staff. We don’t have an office. I can’t get around without being escorted,” Arizona’s incoming House Democrat, Adelita Grijalva, said Tuesday.
www.notus.org
September 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Napheesan al-Gaib
Napheesa Collier's full statement at the beginning of her exit interview.

She directly quotes conversations with Cathy Englebert that legitimately call into question how the WNBA is being led. (Part 1/2) #WNBASky
September 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The next president is going to have to ride around in a SCIF like Trotsky in his train while the WH is gutted, debugged, and rebuilt
Trump: “Some of the highest quality 24 Karat Gold used in the Oval Office and Cabinet Room of the White House. Foreign Leaders, and everyone else, “freak out” when they see the quality and beauty. Best Oval Office ever, in terms of success and look!!! President DJT”
September 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I'm not going to put up with this kind of tone policing from the left anymore. I hate the fascists that are destroying this country, and everything bad that happens to them is a victory for progress and decency
September 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I think he genuinely just has a hard time remembering who Kirk is or what happened to him
man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger
Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up?

TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.
September 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Hitler Stalin pact
September 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Why is nobody talking about republican on republican violence
Just in: The FBI has released images of the suspected Charlie Kirk shooter, asking people for help ID'ing
September 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM