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November 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Senate Dems Throw Teetering Trump a Lifeline Posted on November 12, 2025 by Nat Wilson Turner Senate Democrats threw a teetering Trump administration a lifeline by folding on the U.S. government shutdown. The move has divided the national Democratic party and taken the spotlight off a teetering Trump administration’s troubles. Eight Senators abandoned the Democratic caucus to join Republicans voting to reopen the government “in exchange for a couple of months of government funding and a vote on healthcare that they are bound to lose.”
November 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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In Trump 2.0 Not All the Fights Happen Inside the Cage The AI hogs tend to get especially loud when they meet up cage side at The UFC Octagon. The word is out about the deals cut there after UFC’s Hollywood billionaire owner Ari Emanuel brought Larry Ellison’s nepo-baby son David to meet POTUS Donald Trump, not once but twice, to get his acquisition of Paramount past the president. Elon Musk attended at least one of those fight cards before Scott Bessant reportedly physically kicked Musk out of the MAGA 2.0 entourage. Violent hogs brawling in the West Wing.
October 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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From Nat Wilson Turner's latest for Naked Capitalism www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/10/ice-...
Coffee Break: Ice Barbie on the Bleeding Edge of Trump Era Conflict & Corruption Posted on October 29, 2025 by Nat Wilson Turner The MSM calls her ICE Barbie, but Kristi Noem, and the sprawling empire she rules as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security is on the front lines of Trump 2.0 era conflict and corruption. I’ve been covering the action at DHS as part of my effort to parse who’s drugged, who’s delusional, and who’s disnformed in the Trump 2.0 era and also when dissecting what Matt Stoller calls “The Amway Oligarchy. And while I hate to go back to the well so soon when there are so many other topics to cover, these fools just can’t keep they names out of the papers. So let’s dive into their latest antics.
October 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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From Nat Wilson Turner's latest for Naked Capitalism www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/10/foll...
Follow the Money to the Power Under the East Wing Ballroom There’s been a fair amount of MSM handwringing over Trump’s new ballroom which is being built over the rubble of the East Wing of the White House. Most of it irrelevant boo hoo about the brilliant architecture of the Roosevelt era. CNN accidentally mentions something far more important going on underground in the demolition zone: Initially a carriage entrance during the term of President Theodore Roosevelt in 1902, it became the modern East Wing as millions of tourists see it each year — or did — under his distant cousin, President Franklin Roosevelt some 40 years later. The build-out was a practical matter: With World War II raging, an emergency underground bunker had been constructed on the spot and needed the building to hide it. … The East Wing was not totally separated from more dire business. The bunker below — officially called the Presidential Emergency Operations Center — is where Vice President Dick Cheney went during the 9/11 attacks, and where Trump was taken during protests in his first term. President George W. Bush used the East Wing to practice his State of the Union address in 2004.
October 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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The bittersweet part of joining ICE is giving up the uniform.

On the other hand you no longer have to wear a ridiculoous costume to abduct strangers under false premises.
Officer Dick Udown costume
October 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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from Nat Wilson Turner at www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/10/main...
The D.C. consensus is becoming clear, the gerontocrats, led by Chuck Schumer, are on the verge of crushing the pesky “viral fantasy” of progressive Maine lobsterman turned U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner. Or are they? More on that below. U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has been largely AWOL from politics this year, seemingly lost after Trump’s 2024 electoral win. But nothing stirs the ancient Democratic establishment leader like the need to crush a promising progressive campaign for U.S. Senate so when Bernie Sanders’ supported war veteran Graham Platner started raising millions and getting called “The Maine Mamdani”, Schumer lept strollered into action and drafted 77-year-old Governor Janet Mills into the race.
October 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Nat Wilson Turner grappling with WTF? www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/10/trum...
October 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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The star of today's $915 million insider deal. Read all about it from Nat Wilson Turner www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/10/trum...
October 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Nat Wilson Turner's latest for Naked Capitalism www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/10/bad-...
Last week economically progressive California gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter got the bad jacketing treatment from establishment Democrats who seized on a snippy interview she gave a local CBS station. Bad Jacketing, Proven COINTELPRO Tactic For those not familiar with the term, Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall defined it thusly in their book Agents of Repression: The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement: “Snitch-jacketing” or “bad-jacketing” refers to the practice of creating suspicion — through the spread of rumors, manufacture of evidence, etc — that bona fide organizational members, usually in key positions, are FBI/police informers, guilty of such offenses as skimming organizational funds and the like. The purpose of this tactic was to “isolate and eliminate” organizational leadership; such efforts were continued — and in some instances accelerated — when it became known that the likely outcome would be extreme physical violence visited upon the “jacketed” individual(s).
October 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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From Nat Wilson Turner for Ian Welsh www.ianwelsh.net/im-told-blac...
Clyburn and Obama rigged the 2020 primary for Biden and then kept quiet when AIPAC systematically kept out or took out the best young Black leaders in bought election after bought election. How is Nina Turner not in Congress? Cori Bush? Jamal Bowman? How is Richie Torres in? Hakeem Jeffries? The Democrats were so dazzling and efficient at preventing a competitive 2024 primary, despite 2/3 of their voters not wanting Biden to run for re-election, but Obama and Pelosi couldn’t manage to stop Kamala Harris from seizing the nomination and pissing away $1.5 billion in 15 weeks in a campaign that completed the discrediting of establishment Democrats. And now here we are, being fed into the wood chipper, divided we fall.
October 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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The Democrats seem oblivious to the nature of kinetic reality and incapable of going beyond ineffectual rhetoric and lawsuits, so far. The legal angle is egregiously pointless and impotent given the corrupt courts in the Trump 2.0 era. But what if things escalate out of anyone’s control? What if Trump or the Democrats “work themselves into a shoot?”
October 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Texas AG Ken Paxton ready to go undercover after antifa trans terror cells www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/10/texa...
Doing his part to help the Trump administration get their civil war on, Texas Attorney General (and U.S. Senate candidate) Ken Paxton has announced under­cov­er oper­a­tions to “infil­trate and uproot left­ist ter­ror cells in Texas.” “Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people,” said Attorney General Paxton. “The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk marks a turning point in America. There can be no compromise with those who want us dead. To that end, I have directed my office to continue its efforts to identify, investigate, and infiltrate these leftist terror cells. To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming.” The radical Left has incubated an environment where political violence is not only justified but celebrated and praised. In July, nearly two dozen armed leftists connected to various Texas-based Antifa-like groups ambushed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) facility in Alvarado, Texas.
October 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Fight the power
They tracked our bathroom breaks. Now nobody talks to management about anything. My company installed badge scanners at every door about six months ago. Said it was "for security purposes" but we all knew what it was really for. Two weeks later management starts having one on ones asking why certain people are "away from their desks so frequently." Turns out they were tracking our bathroom breaks, how long we took for lunch, everything. My coworker got pulled aside because she was "spending too much time in the break room." She has IBS. That was a fun HR complaint. But here's where it backfired spectacularly. People stopped talking to management about ANYTHING. Before, if you saw a problem or had an idea, you'd just walk over and mention it. Now? Nobody moves unless absolutely necessary. That means nobody's catching issues before they become expensive disasters. Last month a machine broke down because nobody wanted to walk across the building to tell the supervisor about a weird noise. Cost the company $50k in repairs and lost production. When management asked why nobody said anything, the response was "didn't want it to look like I was away from my desk too long." Now they're doing mandatory "collaboration sessions" trying to figure out why communication has completely died. We all just sit there in silence. Nobody's explaining that we're doing exactly what they wanted - staying at our desks and not moving around unnecessarily. The tracking is still active. Communication is still dead. It's honestly beautiful to watch.
October 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Nat Wilson Turner's latest at Naked Capitalism www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/10/tina...
TINA remains in full effect. “There is no alternative,” was the slogan of neo-liberal patron saint UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher, who, along with US President Ronald Reagan, architected the wealth pump that has dramatically increased income and wealth inequality for the last 45 years. Unfortunately, all mainstream Western political parties continue to insist there is no alternative to ever increasing inequality. The Western center left seems willing to try, and do, virtually anything in response to the polycrisis, anything, that is, except address financial inequality. There have been some exceptions in the past decade, but both Bernie Sanders in the U.S. and Jeremy Corbyn in the U.K. were utterly crushed by 2020. Now that both the Democratic party establishment and Keir Starmer’s Labour are plummeting in popularity, is there any hope for a revival of redistributionist politics?
October 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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October 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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October 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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With the United States federal government shutting down over a funding dispute in Congress even as POTUS Donald Trump sends troops into more U.S. cities and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth claims to be remaking the U.S. military, is it possible to tell clampdown from clownshow? And that’s not even mentioning increasing signs of expanding threats of war in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and possibly South America. I’m going to try to apply the lens of deliberate deception, delusion, and dipshittery that I’ve recently applied to Israel’s hasbara war on its 8th front and the European powers’ attempts to control popular opinion to the Trump administration’s recent actions, propagandistic, kinetic, and financial. Let’s put things in context before we dive in. Trump and his administration are moving fast because it is clear the current financial bubble may be about to pop. That is the kind of pressure that drives desperate moves.
October 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Last week, Paramount finalized negotiations with TKO to sign a Zuffa Boxing media rights deal. The official announcement was made at 8 AM Eastern USA time on Monday morning before the New York Stock Exchange opened. Initial terms of the PSKY-Zuffa Boxing agreement, as noted in this press release: 12 Zuffa Boxing events in 2026, with a potential event increase in future years; Paramount will have Zuffa Boxing rights for America, Canada, and Latin America Adam Stern of Sports Business Journal is reporting that Dana White is aiming to sign 400-450 boxers. Eric Fisher at Front Office Sports is reporting that the PSKY-Zuffa Boxing deal is five years in length. Brian Campbell at CBS Sports has the full details, including a one-on-one interview with Dana White. When asked if he needed the Ali Revival Act to pass to run Zuffa Boxing, Mr. White said “no.”
September 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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The latest from Nat Wilson Turner at Naked Capitalism. www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/09/pala...
Peter Thiel, Jeffrey Epstein Acquaintance, and The Antichrist Now that we’ve looked a little more at what Palantir is actually selling, to whom, and how, let’s tie them back into the 2025 zeitgeist. For example, Thiel even has a bizarre business connection with the new head of the CDC, something about man-made islands beyond national borders. Now on to the sex scandal and crazy religious stuff: Jeffrey Epstein and the Antichrist. The former is not something Palantir wants to be associated with in 2025, but they wouldn’t be embodying the zeitgeist if they stayed out of that mess would they? The Antichrist, on the other hand is something Thiel very much wants to be associated with.
September 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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From Nat Wilson Turner at Naked Capitalism www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/09/trum...
September 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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The latest from Nat Wilson Turner www.ianwelsh.net/late-nite-of...
September 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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September 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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September 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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David Ellison is going to take ~$45 billion out of daddy's wallet to buy Warner Bros while Oracle stock is wildly inflated.
September 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM