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It’s been lovely but I have to scream now.
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We staffed the entire FBI with guys who only make memes and podcasts, hope that doesn't affect our ability to respond to major crimes
December 15, 2025 at 5:52 AM
We staffed the entire FBI with guys who only make memes and podcasts, hope that doesn't affect our ability to respond to major crimes
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Never forget that when conservatives couldn't win in a democracy they didn't abandon conservatism; they abandoned democracy.
Bush v. Gore was an unambitious declaration of war by Republicans against democracy and the rule of law. Republicans made clear they didn't view those principles merely as malleable concepts they could cynically bend; no, they see those principles as fundamentally incompatible with conservatism.
As one of those Democratic attorneys who was camped out in West Palm Beach - taking depositions from inconsolable grandmas swearing they hadn’t voted for Buchanan, I still have trauma. 🥺
25 years ago the right wing #SCOTUS coup begin archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
25 years ago the right wing #SCOTUS coup begin archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
December 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Never forget that when conservatives couldn't win in a democracy they didn't abandon conservatism; they abandoned democracy.
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October 22, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.
October 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.
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Bari Weiss, a mediocrity, built a lucrative career by riding the online right’s grievances, many of which are fictitious.
On the right, incessant whining and whataboutism pays.
On the right, incessant whining and whataboutism pays.
In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...
Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report
Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...
www.mediaite.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Bari Weiss, a mediocrity, built a lucrative career by riding the online right’s grievances, many of which are fictitious.
On the right, incessant whining and whataboutism pays.
On the right, incessant whining and whataboutism pays.
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Just a reminder: they were never actually against cancel culture. They were against the cancellation of people they agree with or like. They’ve always been enthusiastically in favor cancelling people they don’t like. If you took them at their word you’re a useful idiot.
Rand Paul: "People say, 'Oh, people have a right to say things.' Well, actually they don't necessarily have a right to say things. Many people have in their contract what we call a morals clause ... I think it is time for this to be a crackdown on people."
September 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Just a reminder: they were never actually against cancel culture. They were against the cancellation of people they agree with or like. They’ve always been enthusiastically in favor cancelling people they don’t like. If you took them at their word you’re a useful idiot.
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two of the four major networks are already right wing propaganda now.
Ultimately they'll start merging the bigger tech companies with telecoms and media, since we eliminated all regulatory oversight, media ownership limits, and antitrust reform of any kind
Ultimately they'll start merging the bigger tech companies with telecoms and media, since we eliminated all regulatory oversight, media ownership limits, and antitrust reform of any kind
With Looming CBS Hire Of Bari Weiss, Two Of The Four Major U.S. Networks Will Now Be Right Wing Propaganda Mills
For fifty years or so, U.S. media academics warned anybody who would listen about the perils of letting your media companies consolidate in the hands of a bunch of rich assholes and giant, amoral c…
www.techdirt.com
September 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
two of the four major networks are already right wing propaganda now.
Ultimately they'll start merging the bigger tech companies with telecoms and media, since we eliminated all regulatory oversight, media ownership limits, and antitrust reform of any kind
Ultimately they'll start merging the bigger tech companies with telecoms and media, since we eliminated all regulatory oversight, media ownership limits, and antitrust reform of any kind
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After Cox vetoed an anti-trans bill, and cited the high suicide rate among trans youth.
September 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
After Cox vetoed an anti-trans bill, and cited the high suicide rate among trans youth.
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"You've got to point out to them that if we don't take action, they won't be able to mind their own business because other people are going to come and maraud them.
There's genuine risk of rape and murder. And the destruction of the country. And dissolution of the entire way of life."
There's genuine risk of rape and murder. And the destruction of the country. And dissolution of the entire way of life."
September 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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“You thought my husband was craven, watch me use his literal corpse as a prop!”
September 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM
“You thought my husband was craven, watch me use his literal corpse as a prop!”
This is creepy as hell. It’s like profiting off someone’s death.
1. In her first social media post, Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s wife, posts video and photos from the last 48 hours and she adds…
September 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
This is creepy as hell. It’s like profiting off someone’s death.
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Y'know that Guardian article which cited an anonymous friend of Tyler Robinson claiming he was the only "leftist" in his family?
It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted
It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted
September 13, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Y'know that Guardian article which cited an anonymous friend of Tyler Robinson claiming he was the only "leftist" in his family?
It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted
It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted
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Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
September 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
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WSJ edit board spins a fantasy: "for Mr. Trump, while this is a moment of personal sadness, it is also an opportunity for leadership...he can help the country rise above this madness. He can say that this is the moment when the descent into political violence must stop.”
Meanwhile — no, he can’t:
Meanwhile — no, he can’t:
Trump: "For years those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism we're seeing in our country & it must stop right now. My admin will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity"
September 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
WSJ edit board spins a fantasy: "for Mr. Trump, while this is a moment of personal sadness, it is also an opportunity for leadership...he can help the country rise above this madness. He can say that this is the moment when the descent into political violence must stop.”
Meanwhile — no, he can’t:
Meanwhile — no, he can’t:
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In his Oval Office address on political violence, Trump lists the attempt on his life, the Scalise shooting, and attacks on ICE agents.
He does not mention Jan 6th, the attack on the Pelosi family, the Hortman murders, the kidnapping attempt on Gretchen Whitmer, or the fire at Gov Shapiro’s house.
He does not mention Jan 6th, the attack on the Pelosi family, the Hortman murders, the kidnapping attempt on Gretchen Whitmer, or the fire at Gov Shapiro’s house.
Trump: "For years those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism we're seeing in our country & it must stop right now. My admin will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity"
September 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
In his Oval Office address on political violence, Trump lists the attempt on his life, the Scalise shooting, and attacks on ICE agents.
He does not mention Jan 6th, the attack on the Pelosi family, the Hortman murders, the kidnapping attempt on Gretchen Whitmer, or the fire at Gov Shapiro’s house.
He does not mention Jan 6th, the attack on the Pelosi family, the Hortman murders, the kidnapping attempt on Gretchen Whitmer, or the fire at Gov Shapiro’s house.
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I've been talking for months about how our entire political class is addicted to Twitter and this couldn't be a better example
September 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I've been talking for months about how our entire political class is addicted to Twitter and this couldn't be a better example
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Who the fuck did the New York Times think Charlie Kirk was? He was a political provocateur, an organizer of activists, if described in the best imaginable terms.
He wasn't a damned national hero. 75% of Americans woke up today not knowing who he was at all. Of the remaining 25%, half disliked him.
He wasn't a damned national hero. 75% of Americans woke up today not knowing who he was at all. Of the remaining 25%, half disliked him.
September 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Who the fuck did the New York Times think Charlie Kirk was? He was a political provocateur, an organizer of activists, if described in the best imaginable terms.
He wasn't a damned national hero. 75% of Americans woke up today not knowing who he was at all. Of the remaining 25%, half disliked him.
He wasn't a damned national hero. 75% of Americans woke up today not knowing who he was at all. Of the remaining 25%, half disliked him.
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I was saying earlier IRL that I refuse to believe Charlie Kirk was so famous that he apparently was a household name.
Like he wasn’t.
My mom only knew who he was because of me and because I explained him as that guy with the tiny face that people photoshop to be even smaller
Like he wasn’t.
My mom only knew who he was because of me and because I explained him as that guy with the tiny face that people photoshop to be even smaller
September 11, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I was saying earlier IRL that I refuse to believe Charlie Kirk was so famous that he apparently was a household name.
Like he wasn’t.
My mom only knew who he was because of me and because I explained him as that guy with the tiny face that people photoshop to be even smaller
Like he wasn’t.
My mom only knew who he was because of me and because I explained him as that guy with the tiny face that people photoshop to be even smaller
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This is a friend of mine and the median normie voter and exactly why it's so weird people are flying flags at half mast and op-eds are being written.
September 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
This is a friend of mine and the median normie voter and exactly why it's so weird people are flying flags at half mast and op-eds are being written.
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It does not reflect well on a news organization to fire a commentator for offering their opinion, especially when it was accurate and needed to be said. Especially a contributor of dependable insights like Dowd.
Political analyst Matthew Dowd has been fired from MSNBC after his comments about the death of Charlie Kirk, Variety reports
Matthew Dowd Fired From MSNBC For Charlie Kirk Comments
Political analyst Matthew Dowd has been fired from MSNBC after his comments about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
variety.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
It does not reflect well on a news organization to fire a commentator for offering their opinion, especially when it was accurate and needed to be said. Especially a contributor of dependable insights like Dowd.
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He joked multiple times about Paul Pelosi getting smashed in the skull with a hammer.
This should go without saying, but Trump is not opposed to political violence. He’s opposed to violence against his political allies.
He is either silent about, or approving of, violence against his political enemies.
He is either silent about, or approving of, violence against his political enemies.
September 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
He joked multiple times about Paul Pelosi getting smashed in the skull with a hammer.