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I mean she's very publicly standing behind him
Cheryl Hines shows off wedding ring in 2024 a week after news of the affair broke
November 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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I guess technically that came from a short video as well; it's just the still image that I cannot unsee
Ben Shapiro holding a single plank in a plastic grocery bag outside a Home Depot
November 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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"You should let me wet my beak a little."
Don Fannucio from Godfather 2
November 7, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Hey Jeanine, he who laughs last, laughs best!
Jeanine Pirro tweet after the arrest, stating, "Assault a law enforcement officer and you'll be prosecuted. This guy thought it was funny—well, he doesn't think it's funny today, because we charged him with a felony.
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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honestly think Jay Jones is militant, nor does anyone else. His opponent, by contrast, actually supports the MAGA political violence of January 6, ICE raids, etc. Jones's private texts aren't in the same ballpark as this and we shouldn't pretend otherwise to virtue signal.
'Approximately 1,000' assaults on law enforcement occurred during Capitol attack, DOJ review finds
November 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Nobody actually thinks Jay Jones will commit or support real political violence, including them. Meanwhile the NoVa right wingers support this actual violence against their neighbors:
'Approximately 1,000' assaults on law enforcement occurred during Capitol attack, DOJ review finds
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Endorsing three sexual predators is a lot, actually
Norman Rockwell "Freedom of Speech" painting of a man standing to speak at a local gathering
November 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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I love the smell of onions and mustard in the morning.
Robert Duvall as Kilgore in Apocalypse Now
November 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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And it's hard to find the right language, bc there were many sincere believers in conservatism in the 80s-90s. But the economic principles behind it have by now been totally debunked, and the whole thing was designed to launder racism using dog whistles that Trump simply found he could say openly:
Southern Strategy: Lee Atwater Quote • Y'all don't quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, "N*****, n*****, n*****." By 1968 you can't say "n*****"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "N*****, n*****."
October 31, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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If you're talking about these passages, it's the opposite of my point. The issue, imo, isn't Dems crafting the perfect message to break through the current media landscape, but addressing the media landscape itself. Where is the Dem answer to FoxNews & the rest of it? I'm a New Republic subscriber
That’s something Democrats have been slow to entertain: Picking big arguments designed to stoke conflict and controversy can jar low-information voters out of their algorithmic torpor and get them to take sides themselves. The alternative is giving right-wing propaganda more leeway to determine the prevailing political “weather,” as Brian Beutler puts it. And the report’s call for a bolder approach to communicating government successes will appeal to those who see our problem as partly informational—those who discern a massive imbalance between authoritarians who communicate via flood-the-zone propaganda and liberals who approach our biggest arguments as if they’re Brookings Institution seminars.
October 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Simpsons meme of Principal Skinner as Cuomo musing, "Is my TikTok content cringe and out of touch? No, it's China's algorithm that is suppressing me."
October 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Trump voter says this after voting for the guy who killed his market and gave him a bailout in his first term. Fuck em.
Matt Wyatt, who voted for President Trump and farms 1,500 acres of corn and soybeans in Hudson, Iowa, said he would rather have markets for his products than a bailout from Washington.
October 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Are they? Trump's approval floor is pretty stable at around 37%. There's been no sign of that floor cracking at all. It's a fool's errand and a waste of time. Even in the Great Depression, Hoover got 40% against FDR!
Trump approval rating showing low ceiling, high floor between around 37% low and 47% high Trump approval rating showing he's outperforming his first term by a few points and never below -20
October 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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As opposed to, you know, calling it "My Totenkopf" in a "cutesy little way," which I'm imagining as Platner singing it to the tune of My Sharona.
But according to a person who socialized with Platner when he was living in Washington, D.C., more than a decade ago, Platner had specifically acknowledged that the tattoo was a Totenkopf, the “death’s head” symbol adopted by an infamous Nazi SS unit that guarded concentration camps in World War II. “He said, ‘Oh, this is my Totenkopf,’” the former acquaintance told Jewish Insider recently, speaking on the condition of anonymity to address a sensitive issue. “He said it in a cutesy little way.” The exchange occurred in 2012 at Tune Inn, a popular dive on Capitol Hill where Platner later worked as a bartender and was a frequent patron while he attended The George Washington University on the G.I. bill, according to the former acquaintance. He would often take his shirt off drinking with friends late at night at the bar, and on at least one occasion had stated he knew what the tattoo represented, the former acquaintance recalled.
October 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Sadly we're on the alternative, bad timeline
Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise from Back to the Future 2
October 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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The Platner defenders can't even get their story straight. He doesn't claim growth; he claims he didn't know what it was until a few weeks ago.

And that's apparently a lie, because people heard him calling it "my Totenkopf" like 15 years ago, and lying shows the opposite of growth.
But according to a person who socialized with Platner when he was living in Washington, D.C., more than a decade ago, Platner had specifically acknowledged that the tattoo was a Totenkopf, the “death’s head” symbol adopted by an infamous Nazi SS unit that guarded concentration camps in World War II. “He said, ‘Oh, this is my Totenkopf,’” the former acquaintance told Jewish Insider recently, speaking on the condition of anonymity to address a sensitive issue. “He said it in a cutesy little way.” The exchange occurred in 2012 at Tune Inn, a popular dive on Capitol Hill where Platner later worked as a bartender and was a frequent patron while he attended The George Washington University on the G.I. bill, according to the former acquaintance. He would often take his shirt off drinking with friends late at night at the bar, and on at least one occasion had stated he knew what the tattoo represented, the former acquaintance recalled.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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That's his claim, but people heard him call it "my Totenkopf" for years
But according to a person who socialized with Platner when he was living in Washington, D.C., more than a decade ago, Platner had specifically acknowledged that the tattoo was a Totenkopf, the “death’s head” symbol adopted by an infamous Nazi SS unit that guarded concentration camps in World War II. “He said, ‘Oh, this is my Totenkopf,’” the former acquaintance told Jewish Insider recently, speaking on the condition of anonymity to address a sensitive issue. “He said it in a cutesy little way.” The exchange occurred in 2012 at Tune Inn, a popular dive on Capitol Hill where Platner later worked as a bartender and was a frequent patron while he attended The George Washington University on the G.I. bill, according to the former acquaintance. He would often take his shirt off drinking with friends late at night at the bar, and on at least one occasion had stated he knew what the tattoo represented, the former acquaintance recalled.
October 22, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Platner knew what it was when he got it and called it "my Totenkopf" for years. He's lying.
But according to a person who socialized with Platner when he was living in Washington, D.C., more than a decade ago, Platner had specifically acknowledged that the tattoo was a Totenkopf, the “death’s head” symbol adopted by an infamous Nazi SS unit that guarded concentration camps in World War II. “He said, ‘Oh, this is my Totenkopf,’” the former acquaintance told Jewish Insider recently, speaking on the condition of anonymity to address a sensitive issue. “He said it in a cutesy little way.” The exchange occurred in 2012 at Tune Inn, a popular dive on Capitol Hill where Platner later worked as a bartender and was a frequent patron while he attended The George Washington University on the G.I. bill, according to the former acquaintance. He would often take his shirt off drinking with friends late at night at the bar, and on at least one occasion had stated he knew what the tattoo represented, the former acquaintance recalled.
October 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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A theft of just $6,000 worth of goods made the NY Times?
The police said in a statement on Wednesday that Mr. Lopez had stolen more than $6,000 worth of the popular toys
October 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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But what, pray tell, was the satire?
Elaine on Seinfeld questioning what was the actual joke in the New Yorker cartoon
October 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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garnish your wages. At that point, you can probably sue the IRS saying, hey I paid, it's the state that is holding the money, but that could take a long time, you might not even win, and my guess is that you'd need a court order to halt the IRS garnishment process in the meantime.
Unlike private creditors, the IRS doesn't need a court order to start garnishing your paycheck. Once they've sent you the proper notices and deadlines have passed without payment or resolution, the IRS has the authority to begin taking a chunk of your earnings each pay period.
October 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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No, states holding the $ is just his leverage point to keep it from the feds. As he admits in this part, the Trump IRS is almost certain to deem our taxes unpaid and go after us individually. He doesn't address this other than to say we'll fight in court. It's not that easy & he's not a lawyer!
Importantly, this scheme does not purport to nullify federal taxes or claim state sovereignty over them. It functions as a conditional remittance mechanism, akin to an escrow arrangement in contract law. Of course, the Trump-controlled IRS, which has already been weaponized by the regime, would not quietly accept this. It would likely treat payments into the state trust as non-payment and impose penalties. Legal challenges would ensue. But that is precisely the point: to force a constitutional confrontation over whether the federal government can target states for political punishment while continuing to demand unquestioned fiscal obedience.
October 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Lmao, did Brian Stelter ever admit he was wrong about this?
Brian Stelter post at the time saying, "Amid the Disney boycott calls (which I don't expect will amount to much)"
October 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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The author doesn't seem to be an attorney & I don't follow how he so easily dismisses the threat of tax penalties on citizens. He seems to think the legal challenges that will ensue will be only state vs fed. Instead it will be the IRS seizing individual's property to pay tax penalties. That's bad!
Importantly, this scheme does not purport to nullify federal taxes or claim state sovereignty over them. It functions as a conditional remittance mechanism, akin to an escrow arrangement in contract law. Of course, the Trump-controlled IRS, which has already been weaponized by the regime, would not quietly accept this. It would likely treat payments into the state trust as non-payment and impose penalties. Legal challenges would ensue. But that is precisely the point: to force a constitutional confrontation over whether the federal government can target states for political punishment while continuing to demand unquestioned fiscal obedience.
October 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Inglorious Basterds "three fingers" scene
October 16, 2025 at 1:30 AM