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Mark G
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music lover, Twitter refugee, 🎸
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If blowing up survivors in the water was the right thing to do because they are “narco-terrorists” (trust us, bro) and deserve no quarter, why did we rescue two other survivors in a different strike, fly them home, and let them go free?
December 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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That’s a very attractive red shirt you’re wearing Admiral Bradley
If Admiral Bradley didn’t realize before that these cowards were setting him up to take the fall, he knows it now. Time to hire a good lawyer.
December 2, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Sorry to be a broken record but it's nuts to me that the New York Times would write an entire article summarizing a court ruling and refuse to provide a link to said ruling. This is a disservice to readers. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...

Here's the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Appeals Court Says Alina Habba Is Unlawful U.S. Attorney
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Get familiar with the “color revolution” meme because the people IN POWER are trying as hard as they possibly can to make it a thing, and they have been for years now. Their base is bought in. The background on this deep lore from a Substack post I wrote in May…

open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...
December 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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this is going to be a fucking shitshow, lmao
Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs
The wholesaler is the latest company to file a lawsuit against a federal agency over the president's signature economic policy.
www.nbcnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Trump’s echo chamber:

Very little U.S travel

No rallies or contact with supporters

Right-wing media

Dinners with rich donors and billionaires

Truth Social

Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Bubble-Wrapped President
Trump surrounds himself with those who flatter him in places where he is comfortable.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties
Trump’s echo chamber:

Very little U.S travel

No rallies or contact with supporters

Right-wing media

Dinners with rich donors and billionaires

Truth Social

Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Bubble-Wrapped President
Trump surrounds himself with those who flatter him in places where he is comfortable.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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schmitt’s derisive mention of “color revolution” is a good clue as to the nature of his information environment
Sen. Eric Schmitt: "This is the language of a color revolution where you're calling on military men and women to disobey orders."
December 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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This morning is oral argument at the Supreme Court in Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment.

Cox unfortunately isn't pressing this point but it is an enormously important First Amendment case involving online free speech.

Here's the amicus brief I wrote:

www.techdirt.com/2025/09/05/s...
Something Good The Supreme Court Could Do: Finally Fix The First Amendment Problems With Platform Liability For Copyright Infringement
Below is the brief, in Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment, I have been waiting my career to write, to finally tell the Supreme Court that when it comes to platform liability for their u…
www.techdirt.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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"The problem for the Government is the lack of textual support for its position."

Translation: the Government just made that shit up.
BREAKING: 1st appeals court decision on controversial temporary US Attorney installations goes against Trump, 3-0. 3rd Circuit rejects bid to make Trump lawyer Alina Habba acting US attorney. Restrepo/ Smith/Fisher (Obama/GWB/GWB) Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
HabbaOpn120125
www.documentcloud.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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For more on the CIA's lethal Afghan proxies -- the "Zero Units" -- make sure you revisit this essential reporting: theintercept.com/2022/11/20/t...
November 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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I'm really glad to see someone like Kelly finally saying this. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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On the horrific news that Pete Hegseth ordered the killing of boat bombing survivors, remember: The Trump Murder Memo "authorizing" the strikes preemptively clears those carrying them out. That's unusual. And we still haven't heard from the commander who resigned:

newrepublic.com/article/2032...
November 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Witkoff, Kushner and Trump sold out Ukraine and our allies.

Thank god the info was leaked.

www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Curious whether India counts as a "third world" country in these people's depraved little minds. China?
WELKER: Is the administration ending all legal immigration into the United States?

KRISTI NOEM: The president is absolutely determined to stop all processes at this point in time from third world countries
November 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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WELKER: Is the administration ending all legal immigration into the United States?

KRISTI NOEM: The president is absolutely determined to stop all processes at this point in time from third world countries
November 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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They keep booking these guests thinking that they’re informing Americans by asking “tough questions” into the air, and having them ignored.

If you want answers, invite actual experts. Look some people up. Do some “reporting” and find someone knowledgeable. Come on, already.
Kristi Noem refuses to directly answer a question about what Trump means by "remigration" -- a word that, as Kristen Welker notes, is often invoked by white nationalists in Europe
November 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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From the people who brought you "oh so it's racist to say that white people are better than black people?" comes "find me a single place in the law where it says not to commit murder."
Stephen Miller’s Wife @katiemiller : “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?”

@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
November 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Greg Bovino calls NANCY SINATRA "a main cause of violence"
November 29, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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🎯 @robsandia.bsky.social on Private School Vouchers (for the wealthy) — “CALL THEIR BLUFF… if they want public dollars, they should have to follow the same rules as public schools… it’s not a ‘COMPETITION’ when not everyone is playing by the same rules.”

(cc: Speaker Sexton)
November 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM