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Again, sometimes my mind is elsewhere, like on trial, and then I refocus and come roaring back to a “reality” where the Republicans are in thrall to a complete idiot with a totally incoherent policy.
Trump: "I don't think a beautiful baby girl that's 11 years old needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls ... they don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five."
May 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Again, sometimes my mind is elsewhere, like on trial, and then I refocus and come roaring back to a “reality” where the Republicans are in thrall to a complete idiot with a totally incoherent policy.
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you wanna talk about waste and fraud? trump went all the way to rome just to take a nap
April 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
you wanna talk about waste and fraud? trump went all the way to rome just to take a nap
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You know what Biden didn’t do? Fall asleep at the Pope’s funeral. He was there. Wide awake. Who’s the doddering old man again?
April 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
You know what Biden didn’t do? Fall asleep at the Pope’s funeral. He was there. Wide awake. Who’s the doddering old man again?
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Who's the woman next to Trump who looks like Melania in only vaguest possible way?
Wearing a bright blue suit, texting, and then sleeping at Pope Francis’s funeral. What an embarrassing mess.
April 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Who's the woman next to Trump who looks like Melania in only vaguest possible way?
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60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
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Life comes at you ... at exactly the rate it promised to come at you during its 4-year re-election campaign where it told you exactly what it planned to do literally thousands of times.
April 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Life comes at you ... at exactly the rate it promised to come at you during its 4-year re-election campaign where it told you exactly what it planned to do literally thousands of times.
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The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered.
April 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered.
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Sen. Chris Coons: "Every single one of the government officials on this text chain have now committed a crime – even if accidentally."
FLAG: Top Trump officials including JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard planned military strikes on Yemen's Houthis in a Signal messaging group — a group to which they accidentally added The Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Sen. Chris Coons: "Every single one of the government officials on this text chain have now committed a crime – even if accidentally."
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With an opposition party like this, what is the point?
March 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
With an opposition party like this, what is the point?
Leave Trans People Alone: A Rant
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Leave Trans People Alone: A Rant
“Trans sports” isn’t an actual problem in the real world. The problem is that life is hard. Don’t make it harder.
open.substack.com
March 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Leave Trans People Alone: A Rant
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Conservative Christian values? MAGA Trump supporter, UFC CEO Dana White, warmly welcomes accused sex traffickers and rapists Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate to Las Vegas event.
March 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Conservative Christian values? MAGA Trump supporter, UFC CEO Dana White, warmly welcomes accused sex traffickers and rapists Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate to Las Vegas event.
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What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
March 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
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Key takeaway from DOGE:
There’s less government fraud/waste than expected.
There’s less government fraud/waste than expected.
March 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Key takeaway from DOGE:
There’s less government fraud/waste than expected.
There’s less government fraud/waste than expected.
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NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two.
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...
March 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two.
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...
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"In his first month, Donald Trump is yanking the rug out from under open, honest government and signaling a complete reversal to a time of rank corruption. There may be no historical analogue to the level of corruption Trump is inaugurating."
Trump 2.0: Open for Corruption
Firing watchdogs, rolling back reforms, and using government to reward friends and punish opponents.
www.thebulwark.com
March 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"In his first month, Donald Trump is yanking the rug out from under open, honest government and signaling a complete reversal to a time of rank corruption. There may be no historical analogue to the level of corruption Trump is inaugurating."
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"Vance associates immigrants with separatism, crime, and disease. He knows that many Americans don’t like the languages and customs these people bring, and he’s happy to exploit that friction."
This is key - people like Vance work by making us worse.
This is key - people like Vance work by making us worse.
Vance Gets Creepy About Immigrants, Again
Last time he spun a yarn about Haitians eating people’s pets, this time he’s mocking Ukrainian Americans who oppose Putin’s war.
www.thebulwark.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"Vance associates immigrants with separatism, crime, and disease. He knows that many Americans don’t like the languages and customs these people bring, and he’s happy to exploit that friction."
This is key - people like Vance work by making us worse.
This is key - people like Vance work by making us worse.