Simon Talbot
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Things bad begun, make strong themselves by ill.
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NEW: EXCLUSIVE: I spoke to sources at FBI and DOJ that reviewed the Epstein files. It’s worse than the photos. I’ll let you know what they said today at 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET on @meidastouch.com. Link to show: www.youtube.com/live/hEi77Ib...
November 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
NEW: EXCLUSIVE: I spoke to sources at FBI and DOJ that reviewed the Epstein files. It’s worse than the photos. I’ll let you know what they said today at 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET on @meidastouch.com. Link to show: www.youtube.com/live/hEi77Ib...
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The Susan Sarandon method of steeling democracy. It worked so well when she declaimed for the exact process of refusing to support Clinton and saying a few years of Trump would push the country to the left.
Lose me on privilege that quits fighting. More vulnerable people than me will suffer.
Lose me on privilege that quits fighting. More vulnerable people than me will suffer.
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The Susan Sarandon method of steeling democracy. It worked so well when she declaimed for the exact process of refusing to support Clinton and saying a few years of Trump would push the country to the left.
Lose me on privilege that quits fighting. More vulnerable people than me will suffer.
Lose me on privilege that quits fighting. More vulnerable people than me will suffer.
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You need decent slogans: End the Drug War. Police The Police. Demilitarize The Police. End Mass Arrest. Change The Mission.
This is not hard. But yes, if you need your slogans to be hyperbolic and all-encompassing, then enjoy. But don't expect to capture political allies or create change.
This is not hard. But yes, if you need your slogans to be hyperbolic and all-encompassing, then enjoy. But don't expect to capture political allies or create change.
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
You need decent slogans: End the Drug War. Police The Police. Demilitarize The Police. End Mass Arrest. Change The Mission.
This is not hard. But yes, if you need your slogans to be hyperbolic and all-encompassing, then enjoy. But don't expect to capture political allies or create change.
This is not hard. But yes, if you need your slogans to be hyperbolic and all-encompassing, then enjoy. But don't expect to capture political allies or create change.
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Not going to blame the media for pretending that words don't mean what they do. Defund is definitive. Whoever came up with it was a political incompetent.
Plenty of other choices that told the truth in plain words but weren't a raw provocation.
Plenty of other choices that told the truth in plain words but weren't a raw provocation.
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Not going to blame the media for pretending that words don't mean what they do. Defund is definitive. Whoever came up with it was a political incompetent.
Plenty of other choices that told the truth in plain words but weren't a raw provocation.
Plenty of other choices that told the truth in plain words but weren't a raw provocation.
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Same horses. Better jockeys. And we are between races right now. This fight has collapsed. The next one will arrive shortly.
Other than that your metaphor kicks ass.
And I do not agree about the losing hand. I think we were defending Americans and it was resonating that the GOP was threat.
Other than that your metaphor kicks ass.
And I do not agree about the losing hand. I think we were defending Americans and it was resonating that the GOP was threat.
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Same horses. Better jockeys. And we are between races right now. This fight has collapsed. The next one will arrive shortly.
Other than that your metaphor kicks ass.
And I do not agree about the losing hand. I think we were defending Americans and it was resonating that the GOP was threat.
Other than that your metaphor kicks ass.
And I do not agree about the losing hand. I think we were defending Americans and it was resonating that the GOP was threat.
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Maybe a little little less cyncism about the necessity for good police work and the costs of bad police work and the possibility of changing the mission would do you a world of good.
End the drug war. Stop mass arrest. Police the police.
Target violence. Change the fucking mission.
End the drug war. Stop mass arrest. Police the police.
Target violence. Change the fucking mission.
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Maybe a little little less cyncism about the necessity for good police work and the costs of bad police work and the possibility of changing the mission would do you a world of good.
End the drug war. Stop mass arrest. Police the police.
Target violence. Change the fucking mission.
End the drug war. Stop mass arrest. Police the police.
Target violence. Change the fucking mission.
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Evidence okay. Baltimore was locking up 100,000 humans a year, but numbers of those arrested for violence dropped. Worst year in history for murder 2022. Two years ago, new approach. Now looking up maybe a fifth as many -- but twice as many for shootings, guns. Murder rate halved.
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Evidence okay. Baltimore was locking up 100,000 humans a year, but numbers of those arrested for violence dropped. Worst year in history for murder 2022. Two years ago, new approach. Now looking up maybe a fifth as many -- but twice as many for shootings, guns. Murder rate halved.
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Regrettably, there is apparently no law that says federal agents have to identify themselves. It was always simply taken as a premise of competent, ethical law enforcement. Which of course means nothing to anyone doing the work of ICE.
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Regrettably, there is apparently no law that says federal agents have to identify themselves. It was always simply taken as a premise of competent, ethical law enforcement. Which of course means nothing to anyone doing the work of ICE.
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In no way am I suggesting the performance of the FBI, as trained and purposed as they are, is comparable to the thuggery and mission of ICE. I am noting the FBI has itself been complicit in using anonymity to cover its collective ass rather than remain consistently accountable to the public.
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
In no way am I suggesting the performance of the FBI, as trained and purposed as they are, is comparable to the thuggery and mission of ICE. I am noting the FBI has itself been complicit in using anonymity to cover its collective ass rather than remain consistently accountable to the public.
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i'd even take "look, let's figure out a 100 year plan to get to a star trek future where we don't need prisons". i'm in, good goal, but you gotta at least have a napkin sketch of a plan for making that work
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
i'd even take "look, let's figure out a 100 year plan to get to a star trek future where we don't need prisons". i'm in, good goal, but you gotta at least have a napkin sketch of a plan for making that work
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i mean the main problem is they can't tell you what they would do instead of the police in any coherent way, and if pressed they typically reinvent woke lynch mobs as a form of justice.
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
i mean the main problem is they can't tell you what they would do instead of the police in any coherent way, and if pressed they typically reinvent woke lynch mobs as a form of justice.
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...bad police and bad police work and policy endure because no coalition can be built for actual reform. Just a bunch a self-purifying sloganeers yelling their favorite rant.
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
...bad police and bad police work and policy endure because no coalition can be built for actual reform. Just a bunch a self-purifying sloganeers yelling their favorite rant.
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But also, and empirically, those slogans are shit not because they lose the political center required to support real reform, but because they are lies. All cops are not bastards. And police agencies can't be defunded as a whole because better crime response is essential. Meanwhile...
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
But also, and empirically, those slogans are shit not because they lose the political center required to support real reform, but because they are lies. All cops are not bastards. And police agencies can't be defunded as a whole because better crime response is essential. Meanwhile...
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Moronic. Look at what those slogans achieved in actuality in terms of police reform? Look at the extraordinary number of center-left and centrist voters who walked away from those campaigns as fast as their legs could carry them. The messaging was a complete political pratfall. Still is.
November 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Moronic. Look at what those slogans achieved in actuality in terms of police reform? Look at the extraordinary number of center-left and centrist voters who walked away from those campaigns as fast as their legs could carry them. The messaging was a complete political pratfall. Still is.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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I don't care how Schumer himself votes. The bottom line is that as Senate Majority Leader, Lyndon Johnson would have last night had on his desk eight sealed mason jars with the severed hands of every senator who even thought about raising them to vote yes. As a majority leader should.
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I don't care how Schumer himself votes. The bottom line is that as Senate Majority Leader, Lyndon Johnson would have last night had on his desk eight sealed mason jars with the severed hands of every senator who even thought about raising them to vote yes. As a majority leader should.
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Could not agree with the FBI more on this.
But as a journalist I covered questionable shootings in which FBI agents shot citizens and as bureau policy withheld their names -- including one who had two separate bad shootings and was quietly shipped from Baltimore to another field office.
But as a journalist I covered questionable shootings in which FBI agents shot citizens and as bureau policy withheld their names -- including one who had two separate bad shootings and was quietly shipped from Baltimore to another field office.
Have a question regarding snatching up people.
Where is the line for self-defense if one is accosted by another or others claiming to be law enforcement with no visible official identification?
Where is the line for self-defense if one is accosted by another or others claiming to be law enforcement with no visible official identification?
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Could not agree with the FBI more on this.
But as a journalist I covered questionable shootings in which FBI agents shot citizens and as bureau policy withheld their names -- including one who had two separate bad shootings and was quietly shipped from Baltimore to another field office.
But as a journalist I covered questionable shootings in which FBI agents shot citizens and as bureau policy withheld their names -- including one who had two separate bad shootings and was quietly shipped from Baltimore to another field office.
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The BBC admitted its report was unsupportable and should not have been broadcast
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The BBC admitted its report was unsupportable and should not have been broadcast
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If right wing news doesn’t massively influence public opinion, why do right wing billionaires keep buying loss making media outlets? (I appreciate that this reality might be uncomfortable for many pundits working for those outlets.)
November 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
If right wing news doesn’t massively influence public opinion, why do right wing billionaires keep buying loss making media outlets? (I appreciate that this reality might be uncomfortable for many pundits working for those outlets.)
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Absolutely. And the BBC claimed that No 10 inserted the 45-minute intel in the dossier knowing it to be untrue – that did not reflect a “wider truth”
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Absolutely. And the BBC claimed that No 10 inserted the 45-minute intel in the dossier knowing it to be untrue – that did not reflect a “wider truth”
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The "wider truth" argument was used by Piers Morgan to justify fake photos of British soldiers abusing Iraqis on the front of the Mirror – not acceptable in any case but also wrong re Hutton
Hutton report — The last time two BBC leaders resigned for warped editorialising on a point of detail in exposing a wider truth
After the Chilcot report some years later, it became tough to recall exactly which claim about “sexing up” the dossier had been wrong
After the Chilcot report some years later, it became tough to recall exactly which claim about “sexing up” the dossier had been wrong
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The "wider truth" argument was used by Piers Morgan to justify fake photos of British soldiers abusing Iraqis on the front of the Mirror – not acceptable in any case but also wrong re Hutton
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Westminster this evening
November 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Westminster this evening
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All that fawning coverage of RefUK, Farage and Boris Johnson and 31% say biased in favour of the left... unbelievable.
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
All that fawning coverage of RefUK, Farage and Boris Johnson and 31% say biased in favour of the left... unbelievable.
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Wow. Even in the deepest, darkest moments any scriptwriter would surely struggle to come up with "the district court's order threatens significant and irreparable harm to the government which outweighs any claimed injury to plaintiffs."
November 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Wow. Even in the deepest, darkest moments any scriptwriter would surely struggle to come up with "the district court's order threatens significant and irreparable harm to the government which outweighs any claimed injury to plaintiffs."
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You prefer a fucking purist slogan and warm self-regard than actually winning. If you attempt to physically impede federal agents the result in courts will be military occupation, a greater suspension of civil liberties and more hell for vulnerable cohorts. But hey, you can feel enobled.
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
You prefer a fucking purist slogan and warm self-regard than actually winning. If you attempt to physically impede federal agents the result in courts will be military occupation, a greater suspension of civil liberties and more hell for vulnerable cohorts. But hey, you can feel enobled.