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I love a meme targeted for my demographic
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I love a meme targeted for my demographic
I subscribed several months ago after canceling the NYT
The Philadelphia Inquirer continues to furnish a model that NYT can only aspire to live up to. The Times today is a pale image of what it once was.
November 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I subscribed several months ago after canceling the NYT
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I obtained ~dozens of hours~ of previously unreported recordings of Russ Vought's briefings from 2021 to 2024.
Want to hear the recordings yourself? Watch @propublica.org's
new mini-documentary about Vought 👇
THE SHADOW PRESIDENT www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Lu...
Want to hear the recordings yourself? Watch @propublica.org's
new mini-documentary about Vought 👇
THE SHADOW PRESIDENT www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Lu...
Russell Vought: The Shadow President
YouTube video by ProPublica
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I obtained ~dozens of hours~ of previously unreported recordings of Russ Vought's briefings from 2021 to 2024.
Want to hear the recordings yourself? Watch @propublica.org's
new mini-documentary about Vought 👇
THE SHADOW PRESIDENT www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Lu...
Want to hear the recordings yourself? Watch @propublica.org's
new mini-documentary about Vought 👇
THE SHADOW PRESIDENT www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Lu...
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A president who can tear down 1/3 of the White House can tear down the entire White House. A president who can steal $230M from the treasury can steal $1T from the Treasury. We have both legalized and tolerated Trump’s crimes, so they will only get bigger.
October 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
A president who can tear down 1/3 of the White House can tear down the entire White House. A president who can steal $230M from the treasury can steal $1T from the Treasury. We have both legalized and tolerated Trump’s crimes, so they will only get bigger.
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As I’ve been saying, what really attracts Trump to these attacks is that he has unlocked a new power to illegally smite his foes — like Zeus hurling thunderbolts from the heavens. He is addicted to absolute power and it won’t be long before tries to justify extrajudicial killings domestically.
Trump: "I don't think we're gonna necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we're just gonna kill people... Okay? We're gonna kill them. They're gonna be, like, dead."
October 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM
As I’ve been saying, what really attracts Trump to these attacks is that he has unlocked a new power to illegally smite his foes — like Zeus hurling thunderbolts from the heavens. He is addicted to absolute power and it won’t be long before tries to justify extrajudicial killings domestically.
Yep
Valuable reporting here. I think the key thing is the use of Venezuela to accustom American armed forces to lawless murder. The goal then is to get them to do the same thing inside the US.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Real Target of Trump’s War on Drug Boats
The Administration has blown up seven vessels in the Caribbean in recent weeks, but the President has been pushing for more dramatic military action in Latin America since his first term.
www.newyorker.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Yep
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I remember when my toddler reached the poopoo/peepee stage of humor. It was a really fun part of being a parent. Notably, we did not give him the nuclear codes.
The president needs your help! He's collecting diarrhea for his plane. He has a plane that's 99% toilet with other people's diarrhea in it and he wears a little crown when he drives it around. Brave patriots please send your loose stool to your favorite diarrhea president for his diarrhea plane.
October 19, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I remember when my toddler reached the poopoo/peepee stage of humor. It was a really fun part of being a parent. Notably, we did not give him the nuclear codes.
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This Supreme Court case in Louisiana is about one thing, and one thing only: reinstituting Jim Crow by way of ensuring that Black Americans are taxed without receiving representation in Congress.
Everything else is noise and bluster.
This stolen Supreme Court is going to send us back to the 1860s.
Everything else is noise and bluster.
This stolen Supreme Court is going to send us back to the 1860s.
October 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
This Supreme Court case in Louisiana is about one thing, and one thing only: reinstituting Jim Crow by way of ensuring that Black Americans are taxed without receiving representation in Congress.
Everything else is noise and bluster.
This stolen Supreme Court is going to send us back to the 1860s.
Everything else is noise and bluster.
This stolen Supreme Court is going to send us back to the 1860s.
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You can say amazing things if you know that the follow-up question will be "wow."
(Smith didn't plant anything at Mar-a-Lago because he was hired months after it was searched.)
(Smith didn't plant anything at Mar-a-Lago because he was hired months after it was searched.)
Eric Trump: "We found out that Jack Smith was actually planting classified folders in Mar-a-Lago"
October 15, 2025 at 2:23 AM
You can say amazing things if you know that the follow-up question will be "wow."
(Smith didn't plant anything at Mar-a-Lago because he was hired months after it was searched.)
(Smith didn't plant anything at Mar-a-Lago because he was hired months after it was searched.)
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They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.
If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.
If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.
Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."
October 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.
If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.
If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.
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The Middle East is being conned just like America has been conned.
None of what Trump is saying about the Israel-Gaza war being over is true.
None of the agreements he claims have been made have been made, besides a single hostage deal.
He’s lying to the world, and much of the world believes him.
None of what Trump is saying about the Israel-Gaza war being over is true.
None of the agreements he claims have been made have been made, besides a single hostage deal.
He’s lying to the world, and much of the world believes him.
October 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The Middle East is being conned just like America has been conned.
None of what Trump is saying about the Israel-Gaza war being over is true.
None of the agreements he claims have been made have been made, besides a single hostage deal.
He’s lying to the world, and much of the world believes him.
None of what Trump is saying about the Israel-Gaza war being over is true.
None of the agreements he claims have been made have been made, besides a single hostage deal.
He’s lying to the world, and much of the world believes him.
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All jokes aside, this is an incredible piece of analysis & the way it concludes by motioning to the growing phenomenon of RW billionaires buying & destroying anything that challenges their regime of unchecked profit & power should serve as a wake-up call to those of us still missing the thread.
October 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
All jokes aside, this is an incredible piece of analysis & the way it concludes by motioning to the growing phenomenon of RW billionaires buying & destroying anything that challenges their regime of unchecked profit & power should serve as a wake-up call to those of us still missing the thread.
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lots of people still don’t believe Team Trump want to crash the economy, likely because it’s hard for normal people to think like sociopaths
Sarah Kendzior is smart to invoke memories of 1980s corporate raiders. That should give many Boomers and some Gen X food for thought. We remember that crap.
Sarah Kendzior is smart to invoke memories of 1980s corporate raiders. That should give many Boomers and some Gen X food for thought. We remember that crap.
On strikes, boycotts, and rethinking leverage when the government WANTS the economy to collapse:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...
October 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
lots of people still don’t believe Team Trump want to crash the economy, likely because it’s hard for normal people to think like sociopaths
Sarah Kendzior is smart to invoke memories of 1980s corporate raiders. That should give many Boomers and some Gen X food for thought. We remember that crap.
Sarah Kendzior is smart to invoke memories of 1980s corporate raiders. That should give many Boomers and some Gen X food for thought. We remember that crap.
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New Orwellianism just dropped
Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”
October 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
New Orwellianism just dropped
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4 unnamed Co-conspirators.
Yup, the NYT literally hired a reporter to plant puff pieces on Epstein! The NYC/DC media abetted Epstein because they were from the same social circles, circles that apparently do not have a problem with child rape. A page from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (it gets worse from there...)
October 11, 2025 at 9:09 AM
4 unnamed Co-conspirators.
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when the people who shuttered USAID learn of a diabetic single mother and her disabled son starving to death 9,000 miles away because of aid cuts, they don't see failure or dereliction or tragedy, but rather success: the people they view as unworthy of life are dying
October 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
when the people who shuttered USAID learn of a diabetic single mother and her disabled son starving to death 9,000 miles away because of aid cuts, they don't see failure or dereliction or tragedy, but rather success: the people they view as unworthy of life are dying
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We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
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The endgame for all of this is constructing a military that will obey orders when ordered to fire on citizens. That's the throughline to half of what Trump is doing.
yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.
Hegseth: "We are overhauling an inspector general process that has been weaponized, putting complainers and poor performers in the driver seat. We are doing the same with the equal opportunity policies. No more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complains ... no more walking on eggshells."
September 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The endgame for all of this is constructing a military that will obey orders when ordered to fire on citizens. That's the throughline to half of what Trump is doing.
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Remember what happened with so-called crack babies? The harm of exposure was wildly overblown by pundits and policymakers. But it was effective for vilifying Black mothers and children and fueling the push for punitive cuts to welfare programs. And I worry he's following a similar playbook here.
September 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Remember what happened with so-called crack babies? The harm of exposure was wildly overblown by pundits and policymakers. But it was effective for vilifying Black mothers and children and fueling the push for punitive cuts to welfare programs. And I worry he's following a similar playbook here.
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Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.
September 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.
Yes, I quite agree
September 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Yes, I quite agree
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man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger
Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up?
TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.
TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.
September 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger
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HE FUCKING TURNED HIMSELF IN.
Kash Patel: "In 33 hours, we have made historic progress for Charlie."
September 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
HE FUCKING TURNED HIMSELF IN.
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Entire volumes of manosphere culture packed into these few words.
Kash Patel: "To my friend Charlie Kirk. Rest now, brother. We have the watch. And I'll see you at Valhalla"
September 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Entire volumes of manosphere culture packed into these few words.