Windier E. Megatons
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It was the worst of times, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Darkness, it was the winter of despair
Really hard to overstate the extent to which the Democrats both betrayed and just generally failed their supporters
The bill to reopen the government sneaks in three changes that will cause harm:
A stricter ban on abortion nationwide
An end to FDA food safety regulations
A near total ban on hemp products that will outlaw THC and remove another pain control option from the market
They want to cause pain
A stricter ban on abortion nationwide
An end to FDA food safety regulations
A near total ban on hemp products that will outlaw THC and remove another pain control option from the market
They want to cause pain
November 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Really hard to overstate the extent to which the Democrats both betrayed and just generally failed their supporters
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"I write for the New York Times, and I can assure you that we've never buried stories on behalf of powerful people, many of those powerful people being part of NYT management. We only publish what's fit to print, like Zohran's application to Columbia that was leaked by a white nationalist"
I don't understand why people have to concoct wild conspiracy theories in order to critique the NYT. I say this as someone who writes for them: there is plenty to critique without making up wild scenarios and insisting they're true!
November 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"I write for the New York Times, and I can assure you that we've never buried stories on behalf of powerful people, many of those powerful people being part of NYT management. We only publish what's fit to print, like Zohran's application to Columbia that was leaked by a white nationalist"
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'the apparatus of power is mourning him, therefore he must be someone worth mourning.' this is made funnier by that the right was able to keep this up for all of a week before forgetting about Kirk.
November 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
'the apparatus of power is mourning him, therefore he must be someone worth mourning.' this is made funnier by that the right was able to keep this up for all of a week before forgetting about Kirk.
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Klein's "Charlie Kirk was doing politics the right way" line is particularly telling here. It had nothing to do with the facts of Kirk's life and actions, and everything to do with belief. If Kirk *wasn't* doing politics the right way, Klein's own interactions with him seem naive and foolish.
November 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Klein's "Charlie Kirk was doing politics the right way" line is particularly telling here. It had nothing to do with the facts of Kirk's life and actions, and everything to do with belief. If Kirk *wasn't* doing politics the right way, Klein's own interactions with him seem naive and foolish.
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If the GOP endorses racism, or transphobia, or dictatorship, they believe that these ideas must be, at least in part, acceptable ones - because to recognize them as unacceptable calls the whole process of power into question.
November 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
If the GOP endorses racism, or transphobia, or dictatorship, they believe that these ideas must be, at least in part, acceptable ones - because to recognize them as unacceptable calls the whole process of power into question.
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More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.
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Media literacy is low overall but it’s also very high among a lot of people now and we’re not stupid enough to believe that ~the rules of journalism~ - especially at powerful institutions like the NYT - are real anymore. They obviously put their finger on the scale or let up when they want to.
November 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Media literacy is low overall but it’s also very high among a lot of people now and we’re not stupid enough to believe that ~the rules of journalism~ - especially at powerful institutions like the NYT - are real anymore. They obviously put their finger on the scale or let up when they want to.
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It's not just that he's a pedophile, he was the least popular pedophile
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It's not just that he's a pedophile, he was the least popular pedophile
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it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are
"Enormous media conglomerate wants to make itself irrelevant" okay
Bob Iger says Disney+ will soon have AI-generated short form content from users
(via THR)
(via THR)
November 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"Enormous media conglomerate wants to make itself irrelevant" okay
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seems like the wrong time to come out in defense of the new york times’ editorial standards, transparency, and coverage decisions. ymmv but idk man just feels like you’re pissing in the wind on that one
November 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
seems like the wrong time to come out in defense of the new york times’ editorial standards, transparency, and coverage decisions. ymmv but idk man just feels like you’re pissing in the wind on that one
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in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies
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Racism is not just morally evil and corrupting to a functional society, it’s also just the dumbest, most simplistic worldview possible, the type of stuff that’s hard to say out loud without sounding like you’ve suffered a serious untreated brain injury
November 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Racism is not just morally evil and corrupting to a functional society, it’s also just the dumbest, most simplistic worldview possible, the type of stuff that’s hard to say out loud without sounding like you’ve suffered a serious untreated brain injury
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i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
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The US president is a proven, industrious pedophile but thanks to the system we have there’s a very good chance nothing of consequence happens to him.
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The US president is a proven, industrious pedophile but thanks to the system we have there’s a very good chance nothing of consequence happens to him.
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the biggest lesson from the emails today is that powerful people are so unafraid of consequences for crimes as bad as “raping children” that they will just talk about it openly in emails
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
November 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
the biggest lesson from the emails today is that powerful people are so unafraid of consequences for crimes as bad as “raping children” that they will just talk about it openly in emails
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true
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I would be utterly thrilled to rid the Democratic Party of everyone who was pals with Jeffrey fucking Epstein
why exactly would I want a child abuser to make government policy
why exactly would I want a child abuser to make government policy
"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
November 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I would be utterly thrilled to rid the Democratic Party of everyone who was pals with Jeffrey fucking Epstein
why exactly would I want a child abuser to make government policy
why exactly would I want a child abuser to make government policy
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Buckle up. The crowd that brought you "Fifteen is too young to transition" and "Fifteen is too young to terminate a rape baby" is about to bring you "Well, now, actually, fifteen year olds, historically, were married with children by now, so you know, it's not really pedophilia..."
(Some were 13.)
(Some were 13.)
in case you're wondering how the cope is going www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...
November 13, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Buckle up. The crowd that brought you "Fifteen is too young to transition" and "Fifteen is too young to terminate a rape baby" is about to bring you "Well, now, actually, fifteen year olds, historically, were married with children by now, so you know, it's not really pedophilia..."
(Some were 13.)
(Some were 13.)
Even aside from the pedophile stuff, if these emails don’t convince people that rich people have clearly done nothing to deserve their wealth I don’t know what could
genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Even aside from the pedophile stuff, if these emails don’t convince people that rich people have clearly done nothing to deserve their wealth I don’t know what could
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99% of Republicans understand nothing about intraleft politics. they’re still saying shit like “you won’t be so happy when BILL CLINTON is implicated will you?”
November 13, 2025 at 1:29 AM
99% of Republicans understand nothing about intraleft politics. they’re still saying shit like “you won’t be so happy when BILL CLINTON is implicated will you?”
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New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.
There are SO many declared candidates for this seat already, we just do not have to live like this
This man sounds wildly insufferable??? His career is “influencer”??? He has absolutely no qualifications???? He is running on the Kennedy name recognition alone???? The Times repeatedly calls him a prince??? Can we just fucking stop with this political dynasty nightmare????
Jack Schlossberg, Social Media Provocateur, Gives Politics a Try
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:34 PM
There are SO many declared candidates for this seat already, we just do not have to live like this
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i think peter thiel should have his fortune stripped on the way to prison and everyone who worked at gawker in 2014-16 should get $100 million
November 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
i think peter thiel should have his fortune stripped on the way to prison and everyone who worked at gawker in 2014-16 should get $100 million
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The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.