TPope
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It’s the saddest day of the year: the day that the wait for a new Slow Horses season begins.
October 30, 2025 at 2:55 AM
It’s the saddest day of the year: the day that the wait for a new Slow Horses season begins.
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In the Boston Globe this morning.
October 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
In the Boston Globe this morning.
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You’d think a decade into all of this, the NYT would have figured out how to stop lauding the arsonist for helping to extinguish the fire.
there was a ceasefire when trump came in. he let israel blow that up, let famine spread, let his goons murder starving people, before using the power he'd had since he took office. grotesque to call this peacemaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/trump-mideast-visit-israel-gaza.html
October 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
You’d think a decade into all of this, the NYT would have figured out how to stop lauding the arsonist for helping to extinguish the fire.
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NEW: Sen. Tammy Duckworth is calling for Pete Hegseth to resign.
"If this PR stunt proved anything, it's that the best thing Pete Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace immediately."
"If this PR stunt proved anything, it's that the best thing Pete Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace immediately."
September 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
NEW: Sen. Tammy Duckworth is calling for Pete Hegseth to resign.
"If this PR stunt proved anything, it's that the best thing Pete Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace immediately."
"If this PR stunt proved anything, it's that the best thing Pete Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace immediately."
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Judge Young launches into a tirade against ICE; Acting Director Lyons' testimony was "disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable," that "ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence," and that "ICE brings indelible [disgrace] to this admin[] and everyone who works in it."
![And there’s the issue of masks. This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for maskingup and has heard the same reasons advanced by the defendant Todd Lyons, Acting Director of ICE. It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard them as they go about implementing our immigration laws. It should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily wear masks. Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor -- and honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it. “We can not escape history,” Lincoln righty said. “[It] will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.” Abraham Lincoln, Second Annual Message to Congress (Dec. 1, 1862).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifdibcmgjgha2hq3v5sf5kxim342dql3kzboym4ylfpo6jxkunke4@jpeg)
September 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Judge Young launches into a tirade against ICE; Acting Director Lyons' testimony was "disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable," that "ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence," and that "ICE brings indelible [disgrace] to this admin[] and everyone who works in it."
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NEW
WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened.
This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it
www.wired.com/story/oral-h...
WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened.
This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it
www.wired.com/story/oral-h...
The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.
www.wired.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
NEW
WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened.
This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it
www.wired.com/story/oral-h...
WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened.
This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it
www.wired.com/story/oral-h...
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"The video has taken on a life beyond the life that was taken. His murder is marketed as martyrdom and pushed as proof: of every theory and every rationale, of every worst assumption and every lost cause."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/tunnel-vis...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/tunnel-vis...
September 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
"The video has taken on a life beyond the life that was taken. His murder is marketed as martyrdom and pushed as proof: of every theory and every rationale, of every worst assumption and every lost cause."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/tunnel-vis...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/tunnel-vis...
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And now for something completely different: youtu.be/1hiKvi6BDcw?...
Why Is The Right Obsessed With Lord of The Rings?
YouTube video by The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini)
youtu.be
September 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
And now for something completely different: youtu.be/1hiKvi6BDcw?...
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But though we can't be certain, what's seemingly the biggest tell that he probably isn't a radical lefty is the orange dog that isn't barking.
September 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
But though we can't be certain, what's seemingly the biggest tell that he probably isn't a radical lefty is the orange dog that isn't barking.
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“US antiaircraft gunners at Pearl Harbor appear to have launched a sudden war with Japan yesterday” — NYT headline, December 8, 1941.
“Polish border guards launch surprise war with Adolf Hitler” — NYT, September 1, 1939
“Polish border guards launch surprise war with Adolf Hitler” — NYT, September 1, 1939
Trump writes one of the most unhinged letters ever produced by an American president, demanding the right to interfere with Brazil’s case against Bolsinaro and threatening huge tariffs if they don’t let him walk free, and this your lede?
July 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
“US antiaircraft gunners at Pearl Harbor appear to have launched a sudden war with Japan yesterday” — NYT headline, December 8, 1941.
“Polish border guards launch surprise war with Adolf Hitler” — NYT, September 1, 1939
“Polish border guards launch surprise war with Adolf Hitler” — NYT, September 1, 1939
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Hard to take seriously the red-white-and-blue rhetoric of freedom on a 4th of July where the US president has cut off aid to a democracy fighting for its independence against ferocious attack by a foreign tyrant.
July 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Hard to take seriously the red-white-and-blue rhetoric of freedom on a 4th of July where the US president has cut off aid to a democracy fighting for its independence against ferocious attack by a foreign tyrant.
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"Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity."
June 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity."
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It really is a cosplay…
Has anyone else wondered why those that get close enough haven’t just begun ripping off the masks?
Has anyone else wondered why those that get close enough haven’t just begun ripping off the masks?
June 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
It really is a cosplay…
Has anyone else wondered why those that get close enough haven’t just begun ripping off the masks?
Has anyone else wondered why those that get close enough haven’t just begun ripping off the masks?
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Elle Cordova is absolutely brilliant.
May 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Elle Cordova is absolutely brilliant.
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I'm still wondering.
May 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I'm still wondering.
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All those Republican cowards who’ve been so scared of Donald Trump are now realizing that they should have been afraid of their actual voters instead.
April 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
All those Republican cowards who’ve been so scared of Donald Trump are now realizing that they should have been afraid of their actual voters instead.
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I’m sorry, but c’mon. Pay attention, people. That’s why you get the big money.
Business leaders all across America are freaking out that Trump's tariffs will kneecap their firms.
“There’s an overriding sense of helplessness” among executives. “CEOs are feeling stunned, and they’re not used to feeling like they don’t have good moves.”
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“There’s an overriding sense of helplessness” among executives. “CEOs are feeling stunned, and they’re not used to feeling like they don’t have good moves.”
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Corporate America’s Euphoria Over Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ Is Giving Way to Distress
CEOs and investors are fretting over what they see as whipsaw policy changes and complacency about the risks of recession.
www.wsj.com
March 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I’m sorry, but c’mon. Pay attention, people. That’s why you get the big money.
Watch the business media (CNBC, even Fox Business) for what is really going on in the world. Money is at stake so good data and analysis of domestic and world events have real impacts on business. More objective. All affected by the politics, uncertainty and “risk” created by this Administration.
March 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Watch the business media (CNBC, even Fox Business) for what is really going on in the world. Money is at stake so good data and analysis of domestic and world events have real impacts on business. More objective. All affected by the politics, uncertainty and “risk” created by this Administration.