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May 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Let freedom ring.
Bruce Springsteen just opened his European tour in Manchester with a powerful message about how things are going back home 🔥
May 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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When you look up "cancel culture" and "snowflakes" in the dictionary, you should see a picture of a Trump rally.
The Naval Academy cancelled a freakin' Ken Burns documentary showing, not because of the content, but because Burns had been critical of Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
April 27, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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This is, I think, the single greatest problem with the media's coverage of the last nine years of US politics.

Democrats are broadly assumed to be the adults in the room, and as a result, Democrats and Republicans are held to *wildly* different standards of behavior by the media.
Someone on X pointed out the scant coverage of Ron Johnson saying 9/11 was an inside job. The press assumes Republicans are crazy and malevolent, so when they say crazy stuff it doesn't get covered. But they assume Dems are competent & sane, so any data point to the contrary is treated as big news.
April 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Corporate Media destroyed Clinton over her document security & retention policy because she ran her own email through personal server. Musk has a bunch of non-government people accessing (stealing?) personally identifiable information on every person & company in US for unknown (nefarious) purposes.
Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …
February 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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WaPo is fully a joke publication. My heart goes out to the remaining reporters.
January 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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The best thing you can do is starve Meta for revenue. Never click on or buy anything through their ads. Never pay for an ad to sell a product or advertise an event. Never do anything again that will put one cent in Mark Zuckerberg's pocket!
January 8, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Most people do not think street executions of those they dislike are good. That voices to the contrary are loudest on social media platforms is largely a reflection of how such platforms are divorced from popular sentiment and algorithmically incentivize extremism and outrage.
December 5, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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Nancy Mace lied about being assaulted.

I keep saying this but she still hasn't sued me for defamation.
December 13, 2024 at 7:13 PM
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The incoming Trump administration is not sending their best. They’re sending people with big problems, and they’re bringing those problems to us. They’re rapists. They’re alcoholics. They’re criminals. And some, I assume, are good people 🤷🏽‍♀️
December 5, 2024 at 2:45 AM
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Out of roughly 153 million votes cast in this election, the presidency was decided by 230k across the three states of Wisconsin (30k), Michigan (80k) and Pennsylvania (120k). That's 00.15%.

This remains an extremely closely divided nation. Any agenda viewed as extreme is likely to face backlash.
November 19, 2024 at 11:58 PM