mle
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· Nov 17
So few mainstream analyses of why the right is winning now get into the real reason:
Because they are better at lying.
On the current internet, lying gets ahead. Neither our tools nor our instincts are equipped to distinguish online truth from fiction.
Forget politics. Just look at Amazon.
Because they are better at lying.
On the current internet, lying gets ahead. Neither our tools nor our instincts are equipped to distinguish online truth from fiction.
Forget politics. Just look at Amazon.
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People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .
January 13, 2026 at 10:38 PM
People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .
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One basic lesson from political research is that secret police generally rely on mediocre men willing to do the dirty work of authoritarian regimes in order to advance their careers.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
January 11, 2026 at 3:17 PM
One basic lesson from political research is that secret police generally rely on mediocre men willing to do the dirty work of authoritarian regimes in order to advance their careers.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
So he is admitting that when ICE guys are "infuriated" they murder people?
Since when is "infuriating" someone a capital offense?
Since when is "infuriating" someone a capital offense?
Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."
January 11, 2026 at 9:31 PM
So he is admitting that when ICE guys are "infuriated" they murder people?
Since when is "infuriating" someone a capital offense?
Since when is "infuriating" someone a capital offense?
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A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
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In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.
January 9, 2026 at 7:24 PM
In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.
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Renee was not a threat!
January 8, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Renee was not a threat!
Is he seriously suggesting that law enforcement has the right to use lethal force on anyone who they see as impeding them? Isn't it supposed to be reserved for self defense?
Jennings: "I hate that this lady is dead but we have to ask hard questions about why people are putting themselves in this position..."
[Navarro says they're Americans protesting what they find objectionable]
Jennings: "Does that mean you can *impede* a law enforcement officer?"
[Navarro says they're Americans protesting what they find objectionable]
Jennings: "Does that mean you can *impede* a law enforcement officer?"
January 8, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Is he seriously suggesting that law enforcement has the right to use lethal force on anyone who they see as impeding them? Isn't it supposed to be reserved for self defense?
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FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history.
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
January 6, 2026 at 4:37 PM
FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history.
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
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Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image
January 3, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image
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Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
It's so bizarre to me that this headline is the norm, that everyone knows Trump lies like he breathes, and yet people still listen to what he says, and even believe it sometimes? Why???
www.cnn.com/2025/12/27/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/27/p...
Analysis: Donald Trump’s top 25 lies of 2025 | CNN Politics
It was hard to pick only 25. But it was easier than it used to be.
www.cnn.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
It's so bizarre to me that this headline is the norm, that everyone knows Trump lies like he breathes, and yet people still listen to what he says, and even believe it sometimes? Why???
www.cnn.com/2025/12/27/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/27/p...
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One of the most successful propaganda campaigns of our time is the right-wing claim that liberals dominate the media. The right has pushed this myth for decades on Fox and other outlets. You know about it because RIGHT-WING MEDIA HAVE A HUGE MEGAPHONE. My thread. 1/10 🧵
December 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
One of the most successful propaganda campaigns of our time is the right-wing claim that liberals dominate the media. The right has pushed this myth for decades on Fox and other outlets. You know about it because RIGHT-WING MEDIA HAVE A HUGE MEGAPHONE. My thread. 1/10 🧵
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I love how Pam Bondi and the MAGA DOJ openly, shamelessly, and maliciously go after Trump's enemies, but Merrick Garland sat paralyzed for four years, terrified that prosecuting Trump for literally treasonable offenses would violate norms, precedent, and decorum. He must be so proud.
December 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I love how Pam Bondi and the MAGA DOJ openly, shamelessly, and maliciously go after Trump's enemies, but Merrick Garland sat paralyzed for four years, terrified that prosecuting Trump for literally treasonable offenses would violate norms, precedent, and decorum. He must be so proud.
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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"
How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
December 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"
Reading up on the original post and what it means and, you know, sometimes I think maybe the world would be better off if the human race went extinct. It would be a better world than the one these men apparently want.
December 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Reading up on the original post and what it means and, you know, sometimes I think maybe the world would be better off if the human race went extinct. It would be a better world than the one these men apparently want.
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The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
‘I heard 40, 50 shots’: Witnesses fled Bondi Beach as gunmen targeted Jewish event
‘I heard 40, 50 shots’: Witnesses fled Bondi Beach as gunmen targeted Jewish event
Gunshots ripped through a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, killing at least 12 people
www.irishtimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
Driving on Texas highways and the average speed limit was 15-20 mph higher than where I live. Saw 3 different semi trucks crashed on the side of the road in one day's drive. Have only seen that a handful of times here.
Have been much more grateful of our local "slow highways" since...
Have been much more grateful of our local "slow highways" since...
found the guy doing 90 in a 35
It's not life and death if I do speed, you're blowing the problem out of proportion to feel artificially safe.
December 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Driving on Texas highways and the average speed limit was 15-20 mph higher than where I live. Saw 3 different semi trucks crashed on the side of the road in one day's drive. Have only seen that a handful of times here.
Have been much more grateful of our local "slow highways" since...
Have been much more grateful of our local "slow highways" since...
AFAICT, from a small representative sample of the elementary school crowd, at least 67% of the joy of it is that adults are so baffled and bothered. So I am sure to roll my eyes and groan "kids these days!" when they do it, but honestly I think it's cute in its harmless absurdism
the 6-7 phenomenon is in no way different from any other catchphrase that kids have yelled out at any point in the last hundred years, there's no daylight between that and when i was in high school, the year straight where every guy kept yelling "i'm rick james bitch"
December 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
AFAICT, from a small representative sample of the elementary school crowd, at least 67% of the joy of it is that adults are so baffled and bothered. So I am sure to roll my eyes and groan "kids these days!" when they do it, but honestly I think it's cute in its harmless absurdism
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We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
Well we have corollary:
Well we have corollary:
December 12, 2025 at 2:25 AM
We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
Well we have corollary:
Well we have corollary:
Putting aside the rest, wtf is the gaslighting in the first sentence? Trump calling people from one particular, named nation "garbage" is undeniably "arguing that people from this or that national origin are better than others." There's no room for interpretation there.
“What the president gets right about Europe: blood and soil politics are correct and white nationalists are generally right about everything.”
-The New York Times
-The New York Times
December 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Putting aside the rest, wtf is the gaslighting in the first sentence? Trump calling people from one particular, named nation "garbage" is undeniably "arguing that people from this or that national origin are better than others." There's no room for interpretation there.
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
It's tragic how much better the world might be now if just a few fathers had given their sons less money and more hugs.
This is a time in our nation's history that will be remembered for all the broken fools who needed so much attention.
December 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
It's tragic how much better the world might be now if just a few fathers had given their sons less money and more hugs.
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I’m surprised more people aren’t talking about Don Jr receiving a massive loan for his startup from the Pentagon. I guess when there’s so much corruption some things fly under the radar?
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I’m surprised more people aren’t talking about Don Jr receiving a massive loan for his startup from the Pentagon. I guess when there’s so much corruption some things fly under the radar?