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"Somebody will surely stop this" says society based on sloughing off responsibility and accountability at any opportunity.
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i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
When the affair first broke I thought "that's weird, surely only a very dumb and gullible person would fall for a ridiculous oaf like RFK Jr" and now I think "yes."
I regret to inform you that Olivia Nuzzi's book appears to be Perfect
insane, stupid, comically overwritten, dishy, politically indefensible I cannot wait to get my hands on it I must accept this is who I am as a person at some deep level whether I like it or not www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
insane, stupid, comically overwritten, dishy, politically indefensible I cannot wait to get my hands on it I must accept this is who I am as a person at some deep level whether I like it or not www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
November 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
When the affair first broke I thought "that's weird, surely only a very dumb and gullible person would fall for a ridiculous oaf like RFK Jr" and now I think "yes."
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Good Afternoon, “Your Party” was a six month sociological study conducted by Royal Holloway, University of London. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.
November 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Good Afternoon, “Your Party” was a six month sociological study conducted by Royal Holloway, University of London. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.
Waiting for some enterprising journalist to ask about government's plans for asylum seekers with gold teeth.
November 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Waiting for some enterprising journalist to ask about government's plans for asylum seekers with gold teeth.
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The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The bigger issue is that Axios isn't reporting this as straightforward corruption.
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The bigger issue is that Axios isn't reporting this as straightforward corruption.
Fat guy in a little coat
This is exactly what I thought the nepo baby who wrote the Olivia Nuzzi article looks like
November 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Fat guy in a little coat
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The flagrant corruption of this administration is shocking and also totally out in the open
Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim
The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who — like the president — claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The flagrant corruption of this administration is shocking and also totally out in the open
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Everyone has forgotten that the proximate cause of her getting fired was that her editor asked her if the allegations were true and she lied to his face and said they weren’t.
November 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Everyone has forgotten that the proximate cause of her getting fired was that her editor asked her if the allegations were true and she lied to his face and said they weren’t.
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This is the most glamorous opening to an article about a white supremacist flattering journalist who lied to her readers and editors while having an affair with narcissistic crank who eats roadkill, swims in sewer water, will cause children to die, and is 50 years her senior that I've ever read.
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is the most glamorous opening to an article about a white supremacist flattering journalist who lied to her readers and editors while having an affair with narcissistic crank who eats roadkill, swims in sewer water, will cause children to die, and is 50 years her senior that I've ever read.
If I'm George Soros the funniest thing I could do right now is put in a ridiculously overvalued bid for the Telegraph.
November 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
If I'm George Soros the funniest thing I could do right now is put in a ridiculously overvalued bid for the Telegraph.
This is the key point - the sensibles in the US are always willing to insist that the evil people arguing in bad faith aren't evil and are arguing in good faith, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
Ultimately the problem is this: the paper is controlled not by scrupulous reporters but by a clique of Leonhardt types, who surround themselves with chattering class nitwits, cogitate on the news mostly through insular group chats and similar, and always think the GOP has at least half a point
November 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
This is the key point - the sensibles in the US are always willing to insist that the evil people arguing in bad faith aren't evil and are arguing in good faith, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
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Bruh this second paragraph is not even in the same galaxy as a fact! bsky.app/profile/lets...
I just remembered this from Glenn Kessler 3 months ago
November 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Bruh this second paragraph is not even in the same galaxy as a fact! bsky.app/profile/lets...
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Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
Mongolia.
What do we make of this email, sent from Epstein to himself a week before he was arrested with the subject line “List for Bannon Steve” with just a list of names.
November 13, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Mongolia.
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A very large faction of one of America's two major parties is about to start openly saying "well as long as she wasn't PRE-pubescent it's fine" with their whole chest.
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
A very large faction of one of America's two major parties is about to start openly saying "well as long as she wasn't PRE-pubescent it's fine" with their whole chest.
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Who's gonna tell him
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Who's gonna tell him
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It would be nice if a centre left government could respond to any criticism from the Telegraph simply by reading out the titles of a few of it's recent editorials, making a fart noise, and then just calling it a day.
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
It would be nice if a centre left government could respond to any criticism from the Telegraph simply by reading out the titles of a few of it's recent editorials, making a fart noise, and then just calling it a day.
And that's not ever going to happen. So the next question to him should be what do you do given that reality?
Zack Polanski Says He Would Try To Persuade Vladimir Putin To Give Up His Nuclear Weapons
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/zack-p...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/zack-p...
Zack Polanski Says He Would Try To Persuade Vladimir Putin To Give Up His Nuclear Weapons
"It would be sociopathic behaviour to say you wouldn't negotiate with a president or a prime minister."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
And that's not ever going to happen. So the next question to him should be what do you do given that reality?
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oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
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Laurence Fox is never again going to be able to threaten to sue anybody for calling him, an increasingly overt racist, racist
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Laurence Fox is never again going to be able to threaten to sue anybody for calling him, an increasingly overt racist, racist
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ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*
people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*
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Without DEI, we would only make merit-based hires, like the genius strategist who decided to pick a fight with his boss’s new young wife.
Dominic Cummings has this racialised take on David Lammy
There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Without DEI, we would only make merit-based hires, like the genius strategist who decided to pick a fight with his boss’s new young wife.