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“One current senior Trump administration official and a former one tell Zeteo that since January, high-ranking officials at the State Department and the White House have viewed a government or ally’s treatment of X as one of the standards…
Oh, hey, that's my article.
The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech.

If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.
December 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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I was raised in the Midwest and, after 50 years in California, still believe the little thank-you wave is obligatory.
December 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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This is beyond Christian nationalism. Imagine worshipping Trump.
December 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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The DOGE-triggered brain drain has destroyed government science, endangered research, and left America fading to black.
When it comes to Trump's brain drain, “the damage is already done”
How the DOGE-triggered attack on government research left America in the dark.
www.motherjones.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Why is this currently on the front page of nytimes.com? (For me, at least. Placement might be different for you...)
December 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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No one did more to make the Epstein Files a hot topic more than Trump and the MAGA base.

But now it’s a “Democrat inspired Hoax”
I love the smell of panic in the evening. Smells like…victory
December 27, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Poor Donald. He's so stupid and confused.

He thinks Barack Obama (who was no longer in power) controlled the 2020 election.

And he thinks Joe Biden (who wasn't yet in power) authorized FBI agents to be sent to the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021, when DOJ reported to Trump.
December 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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God I love this.
This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.
December 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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December 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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AI data centers are straining electrical grids across the country so that our president can post an AI-generated video of himself dumping shit on protesters from a fighter jet.
Monster of 2025: AI slop
The drive for a frictionless existence has sloppified our offline lives, too.
www.motherjones.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth.

The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth.

When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
December 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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PARDONS FOR SALE

Trump has turned presidential pardons into a shopping experience, with lobbyists openly quoting a going rate of $1 million and a faster “track” if you can corner him at Mar-a-Lago or a White House event.
December 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Texas Universities are now like police departments who would prefer to pay out the inevitable lawsuits rather than stop breaking the law
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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At the start of 2025, some people questioned whether the resistance was dead. They doubted that Trump’s authoritarian agenda would be met with defiance and backlash.

You proved them wrong: indivisible.org/groups
December 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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271,000 people have lost their jobs and federal spending has ctually increased. So people get less services, while we added debt paying for private jets for Kristi Noem, bulletproof cars for Kash Patel. This is what the rust belt voters demanded.
December 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post published stories about Trump writing 200 unhinged posts on Christmas Day
You almost have to feel bad for an ugly old man with no family or friends to keep him company on Christmas Day that he makes 200 crazy posts ranting about everything under the sun.

Almost.
December 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Leo talks and acts a lot like Francis. But there are significant differences. One of them is that the first American pope follows the political developments in the US under Trump very closely and is distressed by what he sees. Hardly a day passed without comments which, though carefully worded,
Weihnachten 2025: Papst Leo XIV. gewinnt an Profil
Papst Leo XIV. zeigt Präsenz und setzt auf Traditionen. Während seines ersten Weihnachtsfestes thematisiert er Krieg, Frieden und soziale Ungleichheit. Erneuerung im Vatikan unter seinem Einfluss ist ...
www.sueddeutsche.de
December 26, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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From our family to yours, merry Christmas! We hope your day is filled with good people and good food.
December 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Nothing to see here. This is definitely a normal post that perfectly demonstrates appropriate behavior for a man with grave responsibilities to the nation and absolutely, positively does not show psychological derangement and incapacity to serve as president under section 4 of the 25th Amendment.
December 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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What the holy hell is this
Trump: We track Santa. We want to make sure that Santa is being good. We want to make sure that he's not infiltrated, that we're not infiltrating into our country a bad Santa. Santa loves Oklahoma like I do. You know, Oklahoma was very good to me in the election
December 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life

millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on

but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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O.M.G.
Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you?

Caller: I am eight
December 24, 2025 at 11:41 PM