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Lunchtime Open Tab mockpaperscissors.com/2025/12/29/l...
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If you can get past the sociology academic-speak, this is a really profound analysis of the most haunting question: Why did Americans fall into MAGA. I think the analysis mostly gets it right, but …
mockpaperscissors.com
December 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Lunchtime Open Tab mockpaperscissors.com/2025/12/29/l...
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Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. It sounds a little strange but President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."
December 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. It sounds a little strange but President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."
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this might be the first time i've seen a community note on x that serves as a punch line to the tweet
December 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
this might be the first time i've seen a community note on x that serves as a punch line to the tweet
Freedom of the Press Is at Stake www.mahablog.com/2025/12/22/f...
Freedom of the Press Is at Stake - The Mahablog
At the last minute 60 Minutes pulled a segment covering the experiences of detainees at CECOT in El Salvador. This was done by Bari Weiss, the CBS News editor in chief. She wanted to avoid controversy...
www.mahablog.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Freedom of the Press Is at Stake www.mahablog.com/2025/12/22/f...
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To all marveling at photos of NYT columnist David Brooks dining with Jeffrey Epstein, 2 years after Epstein finished his sentence for procuring a child for prostitution, here's what it was: the 2011 "Edge Billionaire's Dinner". Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos were there too. 1/
www.edge.org/event/the-ed...
www.edge.org/event/the-ed...
December 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
To all marveling at photos of NYT columnist David Brooks dining with Jeffrey Epstein, 2 years after Epstein finished his sentence for procuring a child for prostitution, here's what it was: the 2011 "Edge Billionaire's Dinner". Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos were there too. 1/
www.edge.org/event/the-ed...
www.edge.org/event/the-ed...
Hello! I, Vladimir Putin, Command The Russian People: Get To F*cking!
open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...
open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...
Hello! I, Vladimir Putin, Command The Russian People: Get To F*cking!
Gotta get that birthrate up.
open.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Hello! I, Vladimir Putin, Command The Russian People: Get To F*cking!
open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...
open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...
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In a world full of Archie Bunkers, be a Meathead.
R.I.P. Rob Reiner
R.I.P. Rob Reiner
December 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
In a world full of Archie Bunkers, be a Meathead.
R.I.P. Rob Reiner
R.I.P. Rob Reiner
digbysblog.net
December 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
digbysblog.net
November 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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I always wince a little when I see graphs and charts on the homepage of some news outlet, but this one was really well done and conveyed a lot of interesting and timely information in very few words.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/24/sp500-stock-market-tech-nvidia/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/24/sp500-stock-market-tech-nvidia/
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I always wince a little when I see graphs and charts on the homepage of some news outlet, but this one was really well done and conveyed a lot of interesting and timely information in very few words.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/24/sp500-stock-market-tech-nvidia/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/24/sp500-stock-market-tech-nvidia/
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Rightwing MAGA Christianity has about as much relation to the gospels as MAGA politics does to the Constitution.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Rightwing MAGA Christianity has about as much relation to the gospels as MAGA politics does to the Constitution.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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At this point X is like 1950s Vienna, a whole place made up entirely of spies, running ops against other spies, with no non-spy people. Or maybe like a 1971 Black Panthers convention where 3/4 of the attendees are conintelrpo.
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 AM
At this point X is like 1950s Vienna, a whole place made up entirely of spies, running ops against other spies, with no non-spy people. Or maybe like a 1971 Black Panthers convention where 3/4 of the attendees are conintelrpo.
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AOC: Should this AI bubble pop, we should not be entertaining a bailout of these corporations while healthcare is being denied to Americans and SNAP is being denied to Americans —
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
AOC: Should this AI bubble pop, we should not be entertaining a bailout of these corporations while healthcare is being denied to Americans and SNAP is being denied to Americans —
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Stephanie MIller uses her appearance on Hannity to say Trump is all over the Epstein Files to the Fox audience..
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Stephanie MIller uses her appearance on Hannity to say Trump is all over the Epstein Files to the Fox audience..
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If (knock on wood) Dems sweep Tuesday’s elections handily, can we ease discourse away from its obsession over whether Dems are too left wing to win, and take greater notice of the fact that Republicans are in a civil war over whether to be Nazis or merely lesser fascists?
Exploit The GOP's Nazi Meltdown
Are we really going to accept the conceit that the central issue in politics is whether DEMOCRATS are too extreme?
www.offmessage.net
November 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
If (knock on wood) Dems sweep Tuesday’s elections handily, can we ease discourse away from its obsession over whether Dems are too left wing to win, and take greater notice of the fact that Republicans are in a civil war over whether to be Nazis or merely lesser fascists?
