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I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
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November 18, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...
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the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
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The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to
November 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to
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In which I call for a Brown Scare and a left-wing McCarthyism.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-coming...
The Coming Purge
We're going to need a left-wing Joe McCarthy
www.unpopularfront.news
October 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
In which I call for a Brown Scare and a left-wing McCarthyism.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-coming...
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The alleged shooter in Michigan. Weird that Vance and Patel haven’t tweeted out this info. 🤷🏽♂️👇🏽
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
September 29, 2025 at 5:34 AM
The alleged shooter in Michigan. Weird that Vance and Patel haven’t tweeted out this info. 🤷🏽♂️👇🏽
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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Klein is also obsessed with solving Democrats’ “condescension problem” but it’s not condescending to talk about how your political opponents are wrong! That’s kind of how it works.
This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...
Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines
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September 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Klein is also obsessed with solving Democrats’ “condescension problem” but it’s not condescending to talk about how your political opponents are wrong! That’s kind of how it works.
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It's not just an acknowledgement but a legitimation of a (the?) core asymmetry of US politics: Democratic voters hate Republican politicians, but Republican voters hate Democratic *voters*. So Klein's "solution" is that all Dem voters must act like politicians.
This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...
Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It's not just an acknowledgement but a legitimation of a (the?) core asymmetry of US politics: Democratic voters hate Republican politicians, but Republican voters hate Democratic *voters*. So Klein's "solution" is that all Dem voters must act like politicians.
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What does Hafrada mean
No he wasn’t. One of the most demented things about Israel Palestine discourse is the lazy framing of so much analysis, projecting American racial dynamics into a totally different setting where it makes no sense instead of trying to understand it on its own terms.
September 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
What does Hafrada mean
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Even ignoring how the Dixie Chicks and “freedom fries” were more than 20 years ago, how do these people look at themselves in the mirror with dignity. Is this really it for punditry now? Is it just “you started it” until the end of time, are you all just nine fucking years old now
September 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Even ignoring how the Dixie Chicks and “freedom fries” were more than 20 years ago, how do these people look at themselves in the mirror with dignity. Is this really it for punditry now? Is it just “you started it” until the end of time, are you all just nine fucking years old now
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Let me put it this way: Mahmoud Khalil is a Palestinian immigrant with a green card who worked with deeply unpopular groups. My median follower is a white guy with a 401(k) who was born in this country. We all need to be a little braver than we have been; we can afford it.
Mahmoud Khalil is free right now because they don't actually have the juice to crack down on all dissent.
Maybe I’m naive, but this government hasn’t even meaningfully gone after the genuinely unpopular groups they could call domestic terrorists—PSL, In Our Lifetime—I’m not terribly confident they’re going to be successful going after National Organization for Women or whatever
September 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Let me put it this way: Mahmoud Khalil is a Palestinian immigrant with a green card who worked with deeply unpopular groups. My median follower is a white guy with a 401(k) who was born in this country. We all need to be a little braver than we have been; we can afford it.
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korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
September 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
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RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
Outcry grows after multiple trans users were targeted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire.
Bluesky silenced trans voices over J.K. Rowling, here’s why
Outcry grows after multiple trans users were targeted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire.
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August 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
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My biggest problem with Jeffries is not that he hasn’t endorsed Mamdani. It’s that he keeps carrying water for people like Cuomo or Adams.
Hakeem Jeffries says of Cuomo's attacks on Mamdani for living in a rent controlled apartment: "It's a legitimate issue that has been raised, and the [Mamdani] campaign is going to have to address it."
August 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
My biggest problem with Jeffries is not that he hasn’t endorsed Mamdani. It’s that he keeps carrying water for people like Cuomo or Adams.
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The DOJ says it will investigate a US citizen for saying “fuck Isr**l” to a guy in an IDF shirt.
Absolutely the most anti-free speech admin of my lifetime. Probably since the Red Scare, if not earlier.
Absolutely the most anti-free speech admin of my lifetime. Probably since the Red Scare, if not earlier.
August 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The DOJ says it will investigate a US citizen for saying “fuck Isr**l” to a guy in an IDF shirt.
Absolutely the most anti-free speech admin of my lifetime. Probably since the Red Scare, if not earlier.
Absolutely the most anti-free speech admin of my lifetime. Probably since the Red Scare, if not earlier.
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I spoke with 40+ sources for a look inside the Anti-Defamation League. Here’s some of what I found.
ADL’s gentle response to Elon Musk’s infamous salute was partially driven by his support of Israel. To ADL, that indicated he didn’t have “antisemitic tendencies.” (1/x)
nymag.com/intelligence...
ADL’s gentle response to Elon Musk’s infamous salute was partially driven by his support of Israel. To ADL, that indicated he didn’t have “antisemitic tendencies.” (1/x)
nymag.com/intelligence...
August 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I spoke with 40+ sources for a look inside the Anti-Defamation League. Here’s some of what I found.
ADL’s gentle response to Elon Musk’s infamous salute was partially driven by his support of Israel. To ADL, that indicated he didn’t have “antisemitic tendencies.” (1/x)
nymag.com/intelligence...
ADL’s gentle response to Elon Musk’s infamous salute was partially driven by his support of Israel. To ADL, that indicated he didn’t have “antisemitic tendencies.” (1/x)
nymag.com/intelligence...
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I remember awhile back we had to keep saying “there are going to be bad actors sharing Gaza stuff not because they care about Gaza but because they want to increase hatred towards Jewish people so please amplify other people who don’t do that” and I see the ed boards were not listening
Opinion: AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
by me
(related this WaPo piece by Zaid Jilani)
by me
(related this WaPo piece by Zaid Jilani)
Opinion | I might lean left — but Marjorie Taylor Greene is winning my respect
The congresswoman, who represents my district, has shown genuine political courage lately.
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July 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I remember awhile back we had to keep saying “there are going to be bad actors sharing Gaza stuff not because they care about Gaza but because they want to increase hatred towards Jewish people so please amplify other people who don’t do that” and I see the ed boards were not listening
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This is the through-line between the "anti-cancel culture" discourse of the last decade and the Trump Administration's overt use of the state as a censoring authority; both are rooted in resentment over what they see as their inferiors subverting the natural hierarchy.
"We all know that Colbert insulted President Trump a lot in an unfunny manner, but he also insulted his employers a lot."
"...have they ever expressed resentment at some of their talent for the defiant public posture they have, you know, biting the hand that feeds them?"
"...have they ever expressed resentment at some of their talent for the defiant public posture they have, you know, biting the hand that feeds them?"
July 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This is the through-line between the "anti-cancel culture" discourse of the last decade and the Trump Administration's overt use of the state as a censoring authority; both are rooted in resentment over what they see as their inferiors subverting the natural hierarchy.
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It remains utterly insane to me how much American discourse on Israel treats the fact that it has maintained 33% of its population under martial law without self-government or self-determination for fifty years as a completely incidental, minor detail that can mostly be ignored.
July 26, 2025 at 4:36 AM
It remains utterly insane to me how much American discourse on Israel treats the fact that it has maintained 33% of its population under martial law without self-government or self-determination for fifty years as a completely incidental, minor detail that can mostly be ignored.
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Contrapoints recently made a statement on Palestine, and I find this point the most interesting. That was really the only outcome of the outrage over Palestine over the last few years, nothing plus slightly hurting Kamala’s chances?
July 10, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Contrapoints recently made a statement on Palestine, and I find this point the most interesting. That was really the only outcome of the outrage over Palestine over the last few years, nothing plus slightly hurting Kamala’s chances?
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you know, if i were in the position of interviewing jeffries here, i would ask the congressman to specify exactly when and where mamdani used that language.
Hakeem Jeffries on Mamdani: "'Globalizing the intifada' by way of example is not an acceptable phrasing. He's gonna have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward."
June 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
you know, if i were in the position of interviewing jeffries here, i would ask the congressman to specify exactly when and where mamdani used that language.
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Every single Democratic elected who represents NYC should be proudly endorsing Zohran Mamdami, who won the primary fair & square. They should be helping him however he & his team ask.
If they mealy-mouth it or, worse, stand with Cuomo, *they* will be why people hate the party.
If they mealy-mouth it or, worse, stand with Cuomo, *they* will be why people hate the party.
NEW from me: Cuomo will NOT drop out tomorrow by the deadline to pull out of the general election.
Still deciding on keeping going on his own line, but he sees a path through a wider general electorate and more scrutiny on Mamdani.
www.cnn.com/2025/06/26/p...
Still deciding on keeping going on his own line, but he sees a path through a wider general electorate and more scrutiny on Mamdani.
www.cnn.com/2025/06/26/p...
Cuomo will stay in NYC mayor’s race after conceding Democratic primary to Mamdani, CNN has learned | CNN Politics
Andrew Cuomo will not drop out of the New York City mayoral race by the Friday deadline to remove himself from the general election ballot, CNN has learned. That leaves in place contingency plans he h...
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June 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Every single Democratic elected who represents NYC should be proudly endorsing Zohran Mamdami, who won the primary fair & square. They should be helping him however he & his team ask.
If they mealy-mouth it or, worse, stand with Cuomo, *they* will be why people hate the party.
If they mealy-mouth it or, worse, stand with Cuomo, *they* will be why people hate the party.