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Jesse Walker
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I wrote THE UNITED STATES OF PARANOIA and REBELS ON THE AIR, and now I'm writing THE ANARCHIST AND THE REPUBLICAN.
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"money left over"
Trump on Truth Social: "All money left over from the $2000 payments made to low and middle income USA Citizens, from the massive Tariff Income pouring into our Country from foreign countries, which will be substantial, will be used to SUBSTANTIALLY PAY DOWN NATIONAL DEBT."
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Your morning image
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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[𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦] "...or you know that warm feeling inside that you get when you remember the president is looking out for you? That's a sort of dividend too."
“The $2,000 dividend could come in lots of forms, in lots of ways, George,” Bessent said. “You know, it could be just the tax decreases that we are seeing on the president’s agenda. You know, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security.”
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Your morning image (Sabbath edition)
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November 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Mr. Roper: I'm not sleepy.
Mrs. Roper: That's the best time to come to bed. [𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘳]
Mr. Roper: Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. [𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦]
Someone claiming that "the worst sitcom on the dullard broadcasting channel in the 1970s was written at a level that presumed the audience was familiar with the majority of Proust, Faulkner, and Dickens"
November 8, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Your morning image
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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smh now they're letting hardened sandwich-throwers out on the street
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Your morning image
November 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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I'm old enough to remember when posts like this would put "eliminate the filibuster" next to "pack the Supreme Court" in their lists of things the Democrats were plotting to do.
Tweet from @tylerbowyer: "Trump is right in his post today. The Left will destroy every Constitutional precedent. ⚠️They will pack the Supreme Court ⚠️They will make DC & PR a state ⚠️ Illegals voting in every state ⚠️ They will institute ranked choice voting in select red states End the Filibuster!"
November 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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The modal member of the first group is a nonagenarian veteran of Social Democrats USA. The modal member of the second group is an intern at Compact.
Tweet from @broderly: "12 percent of self-described 'democratic socialists' backed Cuomo, but fortunately they were offset by pro-MAGA Mamdani supporters"
November 6, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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This seems right, but it's possible that Kramer is the guy who still voted for Eric Adams.
Tweet from @MurrayHillGuy1: Seinfeld cast voting for mayor: seinfeld: cuomo elaine: mamdani kramer: sliwa george: wears an i voted sticker, didn’t vote The whole episode would be about George trying to get the sticker just to get a date with a women who works at the polling place with indecipherable politics
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Your morning image (Fifth of November edition)
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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This, but the people in the bubble are Republicans who thought the big issue on Virginia voters' minds was trans people
The Bubble
November 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Since we're talking about New York mayors today, here is William Jay Gaynor, one of the few politicians Mencken admired.
Mencken: "Gaynor was that great rarity in American political history: a judge who actually believed in the Bill of Rights. When he sat on the bench in Brooklyn he tried to enforce it to the letter, to the natural scandal of his brethren of the ermine. Scarcely a day went by that he did not denounce the police for their tyrannies. He turned loose hundreds of prisoners, raged and roared from the bench, and wrote thousands of letters on the subject, many of them magnificent expositions of Jeffersonian doctrine. Unfortunately, his strange ideas alarmed the general run of respectable New Yorkers quite as much as they alarmed his fellow judges, and so he was always in hot water. When Tammany, with sardonic humor, made him mayor, he began an heroic but vain effort to give New York decent government. He might as well have tried to make the stockyards of Chicago smell like a field of asphodel. In the end, worn out and embittered by the struggle, he died unlamented, and today political historians scarcely mention him. Yet he was a great political philosopher and a great soul. It is the tragedy of the Republic that such men are so few, and that their efforts, when they appear, go for so little."
November 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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And I thought you had to be geriatric commie to have been blacklisted for being prematurely antifascist. x.com/emilybrooksn...
November 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Your morning image (Election Day edition)
November 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Two bottom-feeding siren-emoji accounts, just 11 seconds apart. This sums up so much of what's wrong with X these days.
One dude is relaying the news that there is no evidence of an active shooter while the other tweeter is still doing BREAKING NOW about an ACTIVE SHOOTER.
November 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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November 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Looking through old issues of the Black Panther Party newspaper, found an all-time classic headline.
"Pigs Want War/Panthers Cool/Reagan Attacks Eldridge"
November 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Best-case scenario: He pulls U.S. forces away from Venezuela to do this, then loses interest when they're halfway across the Atlantic.
Trump post on Truth Social: "If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria. We may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities. I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our cherished Christians! WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!"
November 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Your morning image
November 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Your morning image
November 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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EVERY SANE PUNDIT FOR THE LAST MONTH: The best plausible outcome for the Democrats is if the Republicans nuke the filibuster for them. But is anyone in the GOP dumb enough to play into their hands?
DONALD TRUMP:
Trump post calling on Republicans to get rid of the filibuster. In all-caps, natch.
October 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM