Raleigh Forrester
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Detached from Reality.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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I would rather have a world where we all trust each other and accept that a few people will take advantage of it than a world where folks have to perform disability constantly in order to get the help they need. Let kids have an extra 30 minutes on the test, jesus fucking christ
December 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I would rather have a world where we all trust each other and accept that a few people will take advantage of it than a world where folks have to perform disability constantly in order to get the help they need. Let kids have an extra 30 minutes on the test, jesus fucking christ
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this is a blasphemy.
Heard the same; this is what I mean by inches from the finish line; scheduled for the final citizenship oath ceremony and now suddenly that date is cancelled and people don't know what will happen next.
Our office has clients caught up in this. Hearing from colleagues nationwide about people having their naturalization oath ceremonies canceled. Some of the affected people aren't even subject to the travel ban due to other acquired citizenship, but they are still being caught up.
December 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM
this is a blasphemy.
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Gone completely is the notion that every nation has people of genius, talent, and energy, who can contribute to the American project. Instead, if you’re Muslim, you’re presumptively a terrorist. If you’re Chinese, you’re presumptively a spy. If you’re Mexican, you’re in a cartel. Race trumps all.
December 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Gone completely is the notion that every nation has people of genius, talent, and energy, who can contribute to the American project. Instead, if you’re Muslim, you’re presumptively a terrorist. If you’re Chinese, you’re presumptively a spy. If you’re Mexican, you’re in a cartel. Race trumps all.
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maga wants to destroy america. it's what they live for. they hate this country with every drop of their blood
Apparently every Chinese academic in any field of “interest” to the PLA is getting their visa rejected for, more or less, presumptively being a spy. My friend’s visa is denied because she studies “neuroscience.” What she actually studies is jaw pain - but ICE is flatly rejecting all appeals.
Just got the word that the Trump administration is throwing a brilliant medical researcher friend of mine out of the country because they’re Chinese. Insane and unreal. Literally doing research in the US to help the US
December 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
maga wants to destroy america. it's what they live for. they hate this country with every drop of their blood
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representative cammarck is clearly struggling to assimilate to american culture. very sad. but something must be done
Rep. Kat Cammarck: "Today, one in six people in the US is foreign born. That quite frankly is not sustainable to maintain a culture that we are known for here in the United States."
December 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
representative cammarck is clearly struggling to assimilate to american culture. very sad. but something must be done
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white people are so privileged we got the only kind of genocide in which the targets are active and enthusiastic participants
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
white people are so privileged we got the only kind of genocide in which the targets are active and enthusiastic participants
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the whole concept of "white genocide" is very funny because unlike a regular genocide where people try to butcher you with machetes or gas your family in white genocide your cousin marries an Indian guy
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
the whole concept of "white genocide" is very funny because unlike a regular genocide where people try to butcher you with machetes or gas your family in white genocide your cousin marries an Indian guy
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At some point you just run out of things to say, right? There’s no argument to make. There’s nothing to discuss. The executive branch is saying “We make our own law and obey no one” and either you say “Okay, I guess you do” or you put down the whole administration and salt the earth where it stood
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
At some point you just run out of things to say, right? There’s no argument to make. There’s nothing to discuss. The executive branch is saying “We make our own law and obey no one” and either you say “Okay, I guess you do” or you put down the whole administration and salt the earth where it stood
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sports at universities should be treated like every other extra-curricular: they get their share of the student activities budget just like the drama club and the movie club. if they want more, hold a bake sale.
November 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
sports at universities should be treated like every other extra-curricular: they get their share of the student activities budget just like the drama club and the movie club. if they want more, hold a bake sale.
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While this usually isn't the intent, "no one will ever be held accountable for this" doomerism is an excuse not to try.
There'll be at least some accountability if enough Americans work for it. And this time really is different. Doesn't guarantee the aftermath will be, but it increases the chances.
There'll be at least some accountability if enough Americans work for it. And this time really is different. Doesn't guarantee the aftermath will be, but it increases the chances.
November 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
While this usually isn't the intent, "no one will ever be held accountable for this" doomerism is an excuse not to try.
There'll be at least some accountability if enough Americans work for it. And this time really is different. Doesn't guarantee the aftermath will be, but it increases the chances.
There'll be at least some accountability if enough Americans work for it. And this time really is different. Doesn't guarantee the aftermath will be, but it increases the chances.
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and you know what? these students should also be judged, and judged harshly for this. running to the admins and state legislators and the press because you got a fairly earned failing grade on an assignment is and should be seen as a mark of extremely poor character. it makes you a very bad person.
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
and you know what? these students should also be judged, and judged harshly for this. running to the admins and state legislators and the press because you got a fairly earned failing grade on an assignment is and should be seen as a mark of extremely poor character. it makes you a very bad person.
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this is just rank cowardice, the student very obviously disregarded the instructions and the assignment to antagonize her peers and instructors and provoke this exact reaction, society simply can’t function when the people in charge scurry like kicked dogs every time some troll bully says boo
November 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
this is just rank cowardice, the student very obviously disregarded the instructions and the assignment to antagonize her peers and instructors and provoke this exact reaction, society simply can’t function when the people in charge scurry like kicked dogs every time some troll bully says boo
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I am so ready for Me Too, Chapter Two
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
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Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
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November 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I am so ready for Me Too, Chapter Two
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the thing that indoctrinated fundamentalist students like this simply do not get is that people actually believe things and observe the world, which is a thing they've been taught to never do because it would involve challenging dogma. this is a specific pathology of fundamentalism
November 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
the thing that indoctrinated fundamentalist students like this simply do not get is that people actually believe things and observe the world, which is a thing they've been taught to never do because it would involve challenging dogma. this is a specific pathology of fundamentalism
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America has to be redeemed with blood. That is the driving force of my politics at this point. A lot of people need to be buried in shallow graves or spend the rest of their lives in prison, and a lot of people need to live the rest of their lives in penance and ostracism
November 29, 2025 at 1:10 AM
America has to be redeemed with blood. That is the driving force of my politics at this point. A lot of people need to be buried in shallow graves or spend the rest of their lives in prison, and a lot of people need to live the rest of their lives in penance and ostracism
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Don't fine ICE, put ICE agents who did crimes in jail.
Don't fine companies, put CEOs who gave the president obvious bribes in jail.
And so on.
Don't fine companies, put CEOs who gave the president obvious bribes in jail.
And so on.
November 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Don't fine ICE, put ICE agents who did crimes in jail.
Don't fine companies, put CEOs who gave the president obvious bribes in jail.
And so on.
Don't fine companies, put CEOs who gave the president obvious bribes in jail.
And so on.
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The aim should be for individual, not institutional, accountability.
Did a university obviously violate the first amendment rights of its faculty to suck up to Trump? Don't seek to fine the university, *seek to jail its president and trustees.*
People make decisions, people bear consequences.
Did a university obviously violate the first amendment rights of its faculty to suck up to Trump? Don't seek to fine the university, *seek to jail its president and trustees.*
People make decisions, people bear consequences.
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The aim should be for individual, not institutional, accountability.
Did a university obviously violate the first amendment rights of its faculty to suck up to Trump? Don't seek to fine the university, *seek to jail its president and trustees.*
People make decisions, people bear consequences.
Did a university obviously violate the first amendment rights of its faculty to suck up to Trump? Don't seek to fine the university, *seek to jail its president and trustees.*
People make decisions, people bear consequences.
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If Trump proactively pardons Hegseth, the solution is to signal either to the ICC or the country of origin of the murdered men that we will honor extradition requests on this point.
And then, in something of an irony, Noem him out of the country before anyone can react.
And then, in something of an irony, Noem him out of the country before anyone can react.
November 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If Trump proactively pardons Hegseth, the solution is to signal either to the ICC or the country of origin of the murdered men that we will honor extradition requests on this point.
And then, in something of an irony, Noem him out of the country before anyone can react.
And then, in something of an irony, Noem him out of the country before anyone can react.
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Miller and his cabal of criminal toadies are turning us into a rogue nation whose foreign policy is guided not by the rule of law, or even national interest, but a lurid vision of society as a constant struggle between the white man and the subhuman races, against which all violence is permitted
November 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Miller and his cabal of criminal toadies are turning us into a rogue nation whose foreign policy is guided not by the rule of law, or even national interest, but a lurid vision of society as a constant struggle between the white man and the subhuman races, against which all violence is permitted
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“Literal Nazis are running our national security and using its agencies to advance a Nazi agenda” seems like a scandal that merits some ongoing drumbeat coverage, especially when there’s some new evidence of it on a near-daily basis
November 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
“Literal Nazis are running our national security and using its agencies to advance a Nazi agenda” seems like a scandal that merits some ongoing drumbeat coverage, especially when there’s some new evidence of it on a near-daily basis
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From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
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teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
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Also a category that includes his mother, paternal grandparents, and two of his three wives. But of course that's different, because neither he nor de facto President Miller actually care about immigration as such. They care about racism, and it's a farce to concede the pretense it's anything else.
Trump makes the outrageous claim that “most” immigrants, which include over 25 million U.S. citizens, “are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.”
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
Trump calls Tim Walz “seriously retarded”
November 28, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Also a category that includes his mother, paternal grandparents, and two of his three wives. But of course that's different, because neither he nor de facto President Miller actually care about immigration as such. They care about racism, and it's a farce to concede the pretense it's anything else.
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“Your empty intellectual property blockbuster is not as good as or as fun as or as smart as the movie made about the plastic Mattel doll” is both a valid and a damning criticism of most modern blockbusters.
“Barbie” is not, say, “Andrei Rublev” or “Come and See.”
“Barbie” is not, say, “Andrei Rublev” or “Come and See.”
a blonde woman wearing a white cowboy hat and a pink bandana
ALT: a blonde woman wearing a white cowboy hat and a pink bandana
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November 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
“Your empty intellectual property blockbuster is not as good as or as fun as or as smart as the movie made about the plastic Mattel doll” is both a valid and a damning criticism of most modern blockbusters.
“Barbie” is not, say, “Andrei Rublev” or “Come and See.”
“Barbie” is not, say, “Andrei Rublev” or “Come and See.”
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I don't know what to call it, but there is a very common and annoying social media phenomenon where people demand validation for mildly antisocial behaviour, instead of just feeling mildly guilty about it like a normal person.
These are pretty naked -- and therefore instructive -- examples of the sorts of defenses that people offer to try and get off the hook
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I don't know what to call it, but there is a very common and annoying social media phenomenon where people demand validation for mildly antisocial behaviour, instead of just feeling mildly guilty about it like a normal person.