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Nodding at this from @lioneltrolling.bsky.social in the context of the exchange about MAGA propaganda that's below:
www.unpopularfront.news/p/yeah-what-...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/yeah-what-...
December 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Nodding at this from @lioneltrolling.bsky.social in the context of the exchange about MAGA propaganda that's below:
www.unpopularfront.news/p/yeah-what-...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/yeah-what-...
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👇🎯 Moral hazard is the fundamental problem, with the homeless, accommodations, or anything else.
Also, again: this is yet another higher ed issue that would disappear if we just
Funded.
The.
Damn.
Public.
Universities.
Like.
We.
Used.
To.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Also, again: this is yet another higher ed issue that would disappear if we just
Funded.
The.
Damn.
Public.
Universities.
Like.
We.
Used.
To.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
this feels like another iteration of the "what if I give a homeless man money and he buys booze" thing. So then he bought booze, so what, you are not his personal life coach. You did your bit now go live your life.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
👇🎯 Moral hazard is the fundamental problem, with the homeless, accommodations, or anything else.
Also, again: this is yet another higher ed issue that would disappear if we just
Funded.
The.
Damn.
Public.
Universities.
Like.
We.
Used.
To.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Also, again: this is yet another higher ed issue that would disappear if we just
Funded.
The.
Damn.
Public.
Universities.
Like.
We.
Used.
To.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Paul Manafort, who briefly led Trump’s 2016 campaign, has “assembled a team of consultants who helped run…Trump’s 2024 effort & is looking to advise campaigns for opposition & far-right political factions in Latin America and Europe, according to documents and interviews.” (Latin America, eh?) 1/
Pardoned by Trump, Manafort Is Back and Looking for Foreign Work
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Paul Manafort, who briefly led Trump’s 2016 campaign, has “assembled a team of consultants who helped run…Trump’s 2024 effort & is looking to advise campaigns for opposition & far-right political factions in Latin America and Europe, according to documents and interviews.” (Latin America, eh?) 1/
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Here is the full series of @theonion.com's Encircled. You requested it and we still don't known why.
1 Onion Subscriber vs 20 Non-Subscribers | Encircled
YouTube video by The Onion
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Here is the full series of @theonion.com's Encircled. You requested it and we still don't known why.
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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
December 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
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Solid advice: If you see a masked man with a gun grabbing someone, call the cops. Unless, you know, it's the cops doing the grabbing...
O'Hara: "There's folks that are masked, they may be kidnapping people. We have had those reports. The community should know that if you see something like that, you should call 911. Let's not forget -- we very recently had tragedy in this state by someone who was purporting to be law enforcement."
December 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Solid advice: If you see a masked man with a gun grabbing someone, call the cops. Unless, you know, it's the cops doing the grabbing...
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Trump is making public corruption legal. He's building a kleptocracy.
Trump Says He's Pardoning Henry Cuellar
www.huffpost.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Trump is making public corruption legal. He's building a kleptocracy.
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Donald Trump and Republicans gave billionaire corporations a giant tax handout to "incentivize" investments they ALREADY MADE.
As far as I'm aware, they don’t have a time machine.
It's just the latest excuse to throw money at billionaires while Americans struggle to get by.
As far as I'm aware, they don’t have a time machine.
It's just the latest excuse to throw money at billionaires while Americans struggle to get by.
Corporations to claim $16B from retroactive GOP tax break, federal report says
The Republican tax law's bonus depreciation provision is expected to cost $362.7 billion over the next ten years, with corporations claiming $16 billion in new tax breaks this year.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Donald Trump and Republicans gave billionaire corporations a giant tax handout to "incentivize" investments they ALREADY MADE.
As far as I'm aware, they don’t have a time machine.
It's just the latest excuse to throw money at billionaires while Americans struggle to get by.
As far as I'm aware, they don’t have a time machine.
It's just the latest excuse to throw money at billionaires while Americans struggle to get by.
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Now he can’t wait to swear in the winner of a special election, huh.
Whistling past the graveyard.
Whistling past the graveyard.
December 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Now he can’t wait to swear in the winner of a special election, huh.
Whistling past the graveyard.
Whistling past the graveyard.
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Based on the president's antisemitism executive order, the entire GOP should be shut down.
Young Republicans chapter plans to host far-right German leader after ‘I love Hitler’ chat
Young Republicans chapter plans to host far-right German leader after ‘I love Hitler’ chat
The New York Young Republican Club will host Markus Frohnmaier, an AfD deputy chairman, at its annual gala after calling for a ‘new civic order’ in Germany.
dlvr.it
December 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Based on the president's antisemitism executive order, the entire GOP should be shut down.
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I think the morally deficient people ruling academia today tend to be MBAs who have been taught to enshittify anything they manage by squeezing out all value to consumers (students, that is), and by prioritizing bloated college sports budgets.
December 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I think the morally deficient people ruling academia today tend to be MBAs who have been taught to enshittify anything they manage by squeezing out all value to consumers (students, that is), and by prioritizing bloated college sports budgets.
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Imagine being the production staff member who found this footage?
NEW VIDEO: We uncovered footage showing Pete Hegseth in 2016 saying the military won’t follow unlawful orders — the same point he has recently criticized Democrats, including Sen. Mark Kelly, for making - and which Trump has said is punishable by death.
December 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Imagine being the production staff member who found this footage?
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I drove straight from the NOLA airport last night to a Union Migrante training session at a Canal Street church that was packed with 150 volunteers
This spunky city is ready to fight back!
This spunky city is ready to fight back!
The Department of Homeland Security formally announces the start of its new immigration enforcement crackdown in the New Orleans region, dubbed "Catahoula Crunch."
CBS News first reported the Trump administration’s "Catahoula Crunch" plans in mid November. | CBS News
CBS News first reported the Trump administration’s "Catahoula Crunch" plans in mid November. | CBS News
December 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I drove straight from the NOLA airport last night to a Union Migrante training session at a Canal Street church that was packed with 150 volunteers
This spunky city is ready to fight back!
This spunky city is ready to fight back!
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Powerful Friends: Sympathetic Officials and “Cultural Power” Help Ranchers Dodge Oversight, by @jamesctobias.bsky.social and Mark Olalde w/ @highcountrynews.org
Powerful Friends: Sympathetic Officials and “Cultural Power” Help Ranchers Dodge Oversight
Elected officials are quick to support public lands ranchers who are accused of breaking rules. As a result, federal agencies pull punches when enforcing regulations.
www.propublica.org
December 3, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Powerful Friends: Sympathetic Officials and “Cultural Power” Help Ranchers Dodge Oversight, by @jamesctobias.bsky.social and Mark Olalde w/ @highcountrynews.org
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Remember the part in the old Peter Pan play where Peter tells the boys and girls in the audience that if they all just clap harder they can save Tinkerbell?
That's what Trump's Cabinet Meeting reminded me of. A bunch of children wildly applauding him, all in an effort to bring him back to life.
That's what Trump's Cabinet Meeting reminded me of. A bunch of children wildly applauding him, all in an effort to bring him back to life.
December 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Remember the part in the old Peter Pan play where Peter tells the boys and girls in the audience that if they all just clap harder they can save Tinkerbell?
That's what Trump's Cabinet Meeting reminded me of. A bunch of children wildly applauding him, all in an effort to bring him back to life.
That's what Trump's Cabinet Meeting reminded me of. A bunch of children wildly applauding him, all in an effort to bring him back to life.
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"But, for the fourth year in a row, the huge charity failed to give away the minimum amount required by law — and the donations it did make went largely to charities closely tied to Mr. Musk himself."
So it's just tax evasion.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
So it's just tax evasion.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Elon Musk’s Foundation Grows to $14 Billion, but Gives Little to Outsiders
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"But, for the fourth year in a row, the huge charity failed to give away the minimum amount required by law — and the donations it did make went largely to charities closely tied to Mr. Musk himself."
So it's just tax evasion.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
So it's just tax evasion.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
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Rand Paul: "Secretary Hegseth said he had no knowledge of this and it did not happen. It was fake news. It didn't happen. And then the next day, from the podium of the WH, they're saying it did happen. So either he was lying to us on Sunday or he's incompetent and didn't know what had happened."
December 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Rand Paul: "Secretary Hegseth said he had no knowledge of this and it did not happen. It was fake news. It didn't happen. And then the next day, from the podium of the WH, they're saying it did happen. So either he was lying to us on Sunday or he's incompetent and didn't know what had happened."
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) warned Tuesday that the Pentagon’s conflicting public story on a reported follow-up Caribbean strike leaves a stark choice: either the defense secretary misled the country or he did not know what his own forces were doing.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/republican...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/republican...
Republican Senator Says Hegseth Is “Either Lying or Incompetent” on Reported Second Caribbean Boat Strike
The Kentucky Republican said conflicting accounts of a follow-up attack on suspected drug traffickers are driving bipartisan scrutiny of legality and chain-of-command oversight.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) warned Tuesday that the Pentagon’s conflicting public story on a reported follow-up Caribbean strike leaves a stark choice: either the defense secretary misled the country or he did not know what his own forces were doing.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/republican...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/republican...
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Not the biggest thing right now but my cheap La Quinta motel in Kenner - heart of the Latino community - blacks out MSNBC because we can’t expose visitors to the radical center-left
I forgot they do this in red states
I forgot they do this in red states
December 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Not the biggest thing right now but my cheap La Quinta motel in Kenner - heart of the Latino community - blacks out MSNBC because we can’t expose visitors to the radical center-left
I forgot they do this in red states
I forgot they do this in red states
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We’ve just stopped talking about the disgraceful complicity of every MSM outlet and reporter that has chosen to remain on a site that is an explicitly racist, Nazi cesspool.
It is unconscionable that they have CHOSEN to continue using it as their primary social media platform.
It is unconscionable that they have CHOSEN to continue using it as their primary social media platform.
it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
December 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
We’ve just stopped talking about the disgraceful complicity of every MSM outlet and reporter that has chosen to remain on a site that is an explicitly racist, Nazi cesspool.
It is unconscionable that they have CHOSEN to continue using it as their primary social media platform.
It is unconscionable that they have CHOSEN to continue using it as their primary social media platform.
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Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it’s another day where Mike Johnson admits he’s completely incompetent.
RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
December 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it’s another day where Mike Johnson admits he’s completely incompetent.
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Only in the Trump admin is archival footage of someone saying “don’t do illegal things” considered embarrassing
www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/u...
(Another good find from @kfile.bsky.social nonetheless)
www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/u...
(Another good find from @kfile.bsky.social nonetheless)
2016 video shows Hegseth saying the military cannot carry out unlawful orders | CNN
Hegseth described the refusal of illegal commands as part of the military’s ethos — a message he now condemns Democrats for spreading.
www.cnn.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Only in the Trump admin is archival footage of someone saying “don’t do illegal things” considered embarrassing
www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/u...
(Another good find from @kfile.bsky.social nonetheless)
www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/u...
(Another good find from @kfile.bsky.social nonetheless)
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As the President and his family grift billions via meme coin schemes, foreign deals, palaces in the sky etc, he calls America's affordability crisis a “fake narrative” and “con job” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Trump Calls Affordability a ‘Con Job’ as His Edge on the Economy Slips
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
As the President and his family grift billions via meme coin schemes, foreign deals, palaces in the sky etc, he calls America's affordability crisis a “fake narrative” and “con job” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
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Ushakov is claiming that Witkoff and Kushner ‘promised’ the Russians that they wouldn’t go to Ukraine, wouldn’t meet with Zelenskyy, and would return to Washington instead.
December 3, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Ushakov is claiming that Witkoff and Kushner ‘promised’ the Russians that they wouldn’t go to Ukraine, wouldn’t meet with Zelenskyy, and would return to Washington instead.