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Pagan Latin
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Classicist. Patriot. Opposer of Trump and all other fascists.
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.

I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Looks like it’s going to be another perfectly normal day from the American right-wing.
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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I’m sure these two things have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with each other.
November 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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you fire right back at them and you FIRE RIGHT AWAY.
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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When Trump admin officials get asked why a certain sector of the economy is so bad, 90% of the time their answers begin with “we inherited.” Did everyone forget what Biden inherited in Jan 2021? Or what Obama inherited in Jan 2009? When are Republicans ever responsible?
November 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.

Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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(1/X) A quick thing about the Heritage "uproar"To recap: Tucker Carlson did a softball interview with a Nazi and the head of Heritage wrote a defense of it filled with antisemitic dog whistles.

The "uproar" is like two people quit and someone criticized in National Review. Not much...
November 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Periodic reminder that the original head of Hillsdale College divorced his first wife to marry his mistress, an employee.

While married to wife #2 he was alleged to have had an affair with his own son’s wife who committed suicide on campus.

They’d prefer you not know all that though.
This is the academic institution that is playing the most significant role in shaping the official celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding. dc.hillsdale.edu/News/Hillsda...
Hillsdale College Partners with the White House America 250 Task Force to Produce a New Educational
dc.hillsdale.edu
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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when I was in law school everyone knew that joining the federalist society was like getting tsa precheck for a clerkship
I’m a law prof & a YLS grad and anyone familiar w elite law schools knows it is beyond laughable to describe these places as radicalism hotbeds. Cruz knows this, as does JD Vance. But they assume that their marks are too unsophisticated to know it too. It’s condescending as hell.
Ah yes. Harvard Law School in the early 1990s, well known for its Communist professors.
November 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Millions of Ukrainians were starved to death by the Soviet regime in less than a year – during the 1932–1933 Holodomor. It was a genocide to destroy the Ukrainian nation.
November 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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We need to stop calling it a ‘peace plan,’ even with sarcastic quotes around it. Call it the US-Kremlin plan or similar.
‘US-Kremlin plan’ shames the US and makes it sound deeply unappealing to the broader US and European publics.
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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The “peace plan” for Ukraine is just a framework for Russia & the US to take assets away from Ukrainian recovery, and to ensure Russia evades accountability for war crimes

Europe can, and must, craft better with Ukraine

A point by point analysis of the shambles:

www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
28 Points Later
A definitive guide to the Russian zombie diplomacy of Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine — aka what happens when you let the Russians eat your brains
www.greatpower.us
November 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
Insanity
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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The CDC’s new autism page reads like an anti-vax blog
The CDC’s new autism page reads like an anti-vax blog
RFK Jr. promised to change vaccine policy. This new website shows he has.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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They're so fucking stupid and don't realize it. The only reason many white students can afford graduate degrees is because foreign students pay for the programs and allow them to be economically efficient. Without foreign students, many programs will now simply collapse. Genius.
The White House just blasted this out under the headline "Good News You May Have Missed"
November 19, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Epstein survivor Sharlene Rochard talks with Jen Psaki in an exclusive interview tonight about how she, as a girl in her early teens, was brought to parties at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago.
November 19, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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This Trump judge recognizes that Trump has destroyed the Department of Justice.
The federal court that struck down Texas' redistricting plan says the letter from a Trump DOJ appointee that kicked off the whole thing is "challenging to unpack the DOJ Letter because it contains so many factual, legal, and typographical errors. "

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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There has never been a clearer example of the fact that we do not have a legislature in the United States right now. Trump tells them to vote no, so they all vote no. Then Trump changes his mind and they all change their votes. That is autocracy. Vote them out!
November 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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i think vance is only interesting inasmuch as he extremely unprincipled and thus a good guide to where the GOP is going (gift link)
Opinion | JD Vance Is Idling at the Edges of American Politics
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Another sign they're moving away from "he's innocent" to "raping young girls isn't a crime." The purpose of this is to imply everyone does it.

The smart reaction from the left, of course, is to say everyone who committed a crime should go to prison.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
Trump calls for DOJ probe into other Epstein ties, including Clinton
Trump is directing the DOJ to investigate Jeffrey Epstein's connections to high-profile Democrats.
abcnews.go.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 249. This is a big one, with the most comprehensive Epstein rundown you will find anywhere, plus everything else you need to know about what happened today. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Today in Politics, Bulletin 249. 11/13/25
… The latest batch of Epstein documents released by Democrats on House Oversight show how he weaved an intricate web of rich and powerful people around the globe to compromise them and use them for hi...
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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November 13 is World Kindness Day. There is always a place for kindness.

📹UNITED24
November 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM