Babiatch
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Professional archaeologist and procrastinator.
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Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
December 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
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The two most common predictors in the modern era of the success of a modern welfare state are the level of homogenity of the population and the size of the country.
Europe is a constant demonstration that you change no. 1 and the entire socialist paradise you've built goes entirely insane.
Europe is a constant demonstration that you change no. 1 and the entire socialist paradise you've built goes entirely insane.
Also, European voters keep coming very close to electing “kill all the $slurs race war now” parties and so Americans pretending that that’s normal or that they are somehow Wise and not at all TurboReactionary is insane. The AFD is the 2nd largest party in the Bundestag!
as far as I can tell, the only piece of evidence that "Democrats would be center-right in Europe" is that Democrats mostly don't want to nationalize big chunks of the economy and there are some countries in Europe where major parties on the left still at least pretend to want it
December 23, 2025 at 5:22 AM
The two most common predictors in the modern era of the success of a modern welfare state are the level of homogenity of the population and the size of the country.
Europe is a constant demonstration that you change no. 1 and the entire socialist paradise you've built goes entirely insane.
Europe is a constant demonstration that you change no. 1 and the entire socialist paradise you've built goes entirely insane.
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One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.
December 21, 2025 at 7:19 AM
One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.
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told my landlord he no longer has to apologize for being white and he lowered my rent by 25%. told the grocer it's now the trump kennedy center and he sold me potatoes for $1. told PG&E it's a christian nation now and electricity is free. try it sometime
December 22, 2025 at 2:38 AM
told my landlord he no longer has to apologize for being white and he lowered my rent by 25%. told the grocer it's now the trump kennedy center and he sold me potatoes for $1. told PG&E it's a christian nation now and electricity is free. try it sometime
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There’s a good chance Bari Weiss running CBS News will create a new, more confusing version of FOX that further erodes the news landscape but it’s also just as likely that she pockets the cash and dive bombs it into the ground like an Osprey.
October 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
There’s a good chance Bari Weiss running CBS News will create a new, more confusing version of FOX that further erodes the news landscape but it’s also just as likely that she pockets the cash and dive bombs it into the ground like an Osprey.
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Honestly it's going to be pretty fun watching her try to run a national news organization that is 100 percent united in hating her guts
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
www.404media.co
December 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Honestly it's going to be pretty fun watching her try to run a national news organization that is 100 percent united in hating her guts
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[first day as a shepherd]
boss: where are you going?
me: [pointing] star
boss: what? why
me: [shrugging] baby
boss: where are you going?
me: [pointing] star
boss: what? why
me: [shrugging] baby
December 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
[first day as a shepherd]
boss: where are you going?
me: [pointing] star
boss: what? why
me: [shrugging] baby
boss: where are you going?
me: [pointing] star
boss: what? why
me: [shrugging] baby
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It’s fascinating.
The notion that your economic challenges are real, and should be addressed, but are not greater than economic challenges of various times in the past really bothers some people.
This has to be the worst economy ever. As if 20th century ads and sitcoms were the common experience.
The notion that your economic challenges are real, and should be addressed, but are not greater than economic challenges of various times in the past really bothers some people.
This has to be the worst economy ever. As if 20th century ads and sitcoms were the common experience.
December 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
It’s fascinating.
The notion that your economic challenges are real, and should be addressed, but are not greater than economic challenges of various times in the past really bothers some people.
This has to be the worst economy ever. As if 20th century ads and sitcoms were the common experience.
The notion that your economic challenges are real, and should be addressed, but are not greater than economic challenges of various times in the past really bothers some people.
This has to be the worst economy ever. As if 20th century ads and sitcoms were the common experience.
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not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.
December 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.
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If you put every American with pre-1776 ancestors in North America in one room, it would look a lot different than these people imagine it would.
If immigrating from England makes you a "heritage American" then I guess I'm one too.
December 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
If you put every American with pre-1776 ancestors in North America in one room, it would look a lot different than these people imagine it would.
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“Politicians should do what wins elections” is asinine for moral reasons but also, no one knows what will win an election! Yglesias et al keep acting like there’s some obvious set of policies or words that will guarantee victory but Harris basically did what they wanted and she lost.
4. Yglesias instead seems to implicitly argue that politicians should only do what wins elections, virtue be damned. One wonders what he thinks of those foolish 1850s abolitionists. As Condleeza Rice once said, politics is the art of making the impossible inevitable. That ain't this.
December 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“Politicians should do what wins elections” is asinine for moral reasons but also, no one knows what will win an election! Yglesias et al keep acting like there’s some obvious set of policies or words that will guarantee victory but Harris basically did what they wanted and she lost.
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data is important, measurement of public opinion is important, but politics also isn't a machine. there are a vast number of qualitative factors at work. and people themselves are unpredictable.
December 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
data is important, measurement of public opinion is important, but politics also isn't a machine. there are a vast number of qualitative factors at work. and people themselves are unpredictable.
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she's making shit up, but anyway: my family's been here since the 17th century. one of them seemingly was buds with washington. family fought in all the wars through korea. who the fuck cares
If immigrating from England makes you a "heritage American" then I guess I'm one too.
December 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
she's making shit up, but anyway: my family's been here since the 17th century. one of them seemingly was buds with washington. family fought in all the wars through korea. who the fuck cares
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BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
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December 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
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Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
www.nola.com/news/educati...
December 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
www.nola.com/news/educati...
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Because I do a lot of takedowns of DW Griffith, I think people assume that I demand moral perfection from old movies and movie people. I don’t. What I am after is intellectual honesty from modern viewers.
Griffith is often painted as a naive sweetie who accidentally made a KKK recruitment film.
Griffith is often painted as a naive sweetie who accidentally made a KKK recruitment film.
December 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Because I do a lot of takedowns of DW Griffith, I think people assume that I demand moral perfection from old movies and movie people. I don’t. What I am after is intellectual honesty from modern viewers.
Griffith is often painted as a naive sweetie who accidentally made a KKK recruitment film.
Griffith is often painted as a naive sweetie who accidentally made a KKK recruitment film.
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one thing that is important to know is that BIRTH OF A NATION is so racist that people at the *time*, in 1915, were like, “holy shit this is racist”
When the slightest bit of research shows he was consistently racist and a daddy issues Confederate fanboy.
People try to paint BIRTH OF A NATION as a masterpiece with some unfortunate racism. The whole movie is racist, the “masterpiece “ thing was backfilled to excuse it.
People try to paint BIRTH OF A NATION as a masterpiece with some unfortunate racism. The whole movie is racist, the “masterpiece “ thing was backfilled to excuse it.
December 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
one thing that is important to know is that BIRTH OF A NATION is so racist that people at the *time*, in 1915, were like, “holy shit this is racist”
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what's scaring me right now isn't the threat of a dictatorship. it's just that so many load-bearing aspects of society are coming apart at once
December 19, 2025 at 4:47 AM
what's scaring me right now isn't the threat of a dictatorship. it's just that so many load-bearing aspects of society are coming apart at once
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Noem is using the Brown University shooter to end an entire visa program, but it should be noted that Pete Hegseth, just today, murdered more than twice as many people
December 19, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Noem is using the Brown University shooter to end an entire visa program, but it should be noted that Pete Hegseth, just today, murdered more than twice as many people
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There has been one (1) period of sustained deflation (eg prices down for multiple years in a row) since the 1910s. That was the Great Depression. I understand why people (not Chris, he gets it) naively think prices should fall but I cannot emphasize enough how Bad that would be.
December 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
There has been one (1) period of sustained deflation (eg prices down for multiple years in a row) since the 1910s. That was the Great Depression. I understand why people (not Chris, he gets it) naively think prices should fall but I cannot emphasize enough how Bad that would be.
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A story I found about Haiti:
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
December 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
A story I found about Haiti:
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
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Trump’s primetime diatribe against immigrants is straight up unvarnished Nazi stuff
December 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Trump’s primetime diatribe against immigrants is straight up unvarnished Nazi stuff
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When you get interviewed multiple times over the course of a year and the interviews are recorded and you sit for formal photographs with a well known national magazine you definitely know it’s on the record.
December 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
When you get interviewed multiple times over the course of a year and the interviews are recorded and you sit for formal photographs with a well known national magazine you definitely know it’s on the record.
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the way my mood lifted on hold at the third pharmacy today trying to fill a paxlovid Rx when this was the hold music
December 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
the way my mood lifted on hold at the third pharmacy today trying to fill a paxlovid Rx when this was the hold music