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Yastreblyansky
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There is no peace without justice.
Old Democratic blogger at yastreblyansky.blogspot.com and yastreblyansky.substack.com. He/him. Is this where the party is?
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Here's some of what he's hiding from

Give me a break
Dershowitz, who helped Jeffrey Epstein get this sweetheart deal, knows full well that there were almost three dozen dozen girls, ages 13 to 17, who were named in a list that accompanied this plea deal. The final plea PAPERWORK was manipulated to pick just one victim -- and his lawyers made sure they chose the oldest one so that it didn't look so bad. But the girl who came forward first to police was 14 -- and the list of other victims attached to that deal included many young girls.
November 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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breathtakingly dishonest or breathtakingly stupid?

The president is constitutionally forbidden to do this. It cannot possibly "remove narco-terrorists" or "secure our homeland from drugs that are killing..." because these travel by land through Mexico. At most it may kill a few cocaine dealers...
Tweet from "Secretary of War Pete Hegseth" (a nonextistent title) President Trump ordered action — and the Department of War is delivering. Today, I’m announcing Operation SOUTHERN SPEAR. Led by Joint Task Force Southern Spear and @SOUTHCOM , this mission defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people. The Western Hemisphere is America’s neighborhood – and we will protect it.
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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That's the Times Style Manual, and it doesn't make any exceptions. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New...
Requires that the surnames of subjects be prefixed with a courtesy title (such as Dr., Mr., Ms., or Mrs.). Since about 2015, courtesy titles have not been used in sports pages, pop culture, or fine arts. After the first use of honorifics denoting posts (such as President or Professor, but not Dr.) in an article, the person is subsequently referred to by an egalitarian courtesy title[clarify] (e.g. 'President Biden' then 'Mr. Biden').
November 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Vance is absolutely the convert in the meme who's deeply attuned to the disputationes but completely untouched by the faith
Every lifelong Catholic I've ever met is like "I think we're supposed to give this food to poor people" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states women shouldn't have driver's licenses." 2:48 PM · Jun 17, 2022
November 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Well, duh, Jamie. Monarchist mercantilism is for kings.
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Mashup from 2017--(I knew it was too well done to be AI slop) of portraits of George III in uniform and Donald Trump's face.
November 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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No, no, no, maybe they got bald in similar ways, but Eichmann wasn't a fanatic like Miller. He represents the "banality of evil", remember? Who Miller resembles most morally is Heinrich Himmler, and physically too.
AI image (sorry!) from StableDiffusion, caricaturing Miller and Himmler in military uniforms, standing in a spotlight holding hands and smiling wistfully. https://stablediffusionweb.com/image/39689822-caricature-of-stephen-miller-and-heinrich-himmler
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Ask Grokipedia, Joe
grokipedia.com/page/Measles
Transmission occurs primarily through airborne spread of respiratory droplets from coughing or sneezing by infected persons, who remain contagious from approximately four days before rash onset through four days afterward; the basic reproduction number (R₀) ranges from 12 to 18, underscoring its exceptional infectivity in susceptible populations.[4][1] Although a safe and effective live-attenuated vaccine, usually administered as the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) combination, provides 93% efficacy after one dose and 97% after two doses against clinical measles, global under-vaccination has led to persistent outbreaks and an estimated 140,000 deaths in 2023, predominantly among unvaccinated children under five years old in low-income regions.
October 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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wonderful passage by Adam Gopnik in New Yorker today: the American greatness of the Lincoln Memorial is modesty, and "egoless" democratic openness
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
John Ruskin, the greatest of architectural critics, observed that a nation writes its history in many books, but that the book of its buildings is the most enduring. The faith in order and proportion embodied in the Alhambra, the romance of modernity caught in the Eiffel Tower’s lattice of iron—these are not ideas imposed on buildings but ideals that the buildings themselves express, more lastingly than words can. Among them, not least, is the modest, egoless ideal of democratic tradition captured so perfectly in such American monuments as the Lincoln Memorial, which shows not a hero but a man, seated, in grave contemplation.
October 26, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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I mean Trump's literally saying that!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The president wants the arch to be based on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France, and to welcome people into the nation's capital from Arlington National Cemetery as they cross the Memorial Bridge. "Every time somebody rides over that beautiful bridge to the Lincoln Memorial, they literally say something is supposed be here. We have versions of it… This is a mock-up," Trump told donors on Wednesday night, referring to a grassy, circular area at the end of the bridge. At a dinner to unveil his plans for the ballroom, Trump said there were three versi
October 26, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Imagine if Obama was running around the Oval Office saying "My monument needs to be four times as big as Lincoln's.
October 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Arc de Trumphe.

Not clear where to put it, but it needs to be four times the size of the Lincoln Memorial, Donald feels. www.bbc.com/news/article... Photo by BBC
One small Trumphal Arch across the river in Arlington, another one, huge, not yet placed, the Lincoln Memorial in its circle, dwarfed.
October 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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The "Arctic Frost" investigation decided a grand jury to indict Trump on the following. None of the senator and representative conspirators were indicted, on the basis of the Speech and Debate clause, but they were certainly active conspirators
firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/jack...
The specific charges for which the grand jury found probable cause to indict Trump were: “conspiring to obstruct the government function of selecting and certifying the President of the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371; obstructing and attempting to obstruct the official proceeding on January 6, 2021, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(1); conspiring to obstruct the official proceeding, in violation of 18 U.S. C. § 1512(k); and conspiring to violate the federal rights of citizens to vote and have their votes counted, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 241.” (p. 33 of Smith Report).
October 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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I'm not totally convinced. Yes, the question was about other White House plans www.yahoo.com/news/article... but Leavitt didn't really answer. Rather, she mounts a self-defense for not knowing the answer with a general statement of how Trump is obsessed "heart and mind" with the White House grounds.
Not to my knowledge, no. But *he’s a builder at heart, clearly. And so his heart and his mind is always churning about how to improve things here on the White House grounds*. But at this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president’s main priority.
October 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Related to Father Liber, The Roman god of the working classes and winemaking, among other lovable things. We should start celebrating his holiday, Liberalia, on March 17 (Irish priests tried to appropriate the date but Irish people kept its nature) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liber
In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Liber (/ˈlaɪbər/ LY-bər, Latin: [ˈliːbɛr]; "the free one"), also known as Liber Pater ("the free Father"), was a god of viticulture and wine, male fertility and freedom. He was a patron deity of Rome's plebeians and was part of their Aventine Triad. His festival of Liberalia (March 17) became associated with free speech and the rights attached to coming of age. His cult and functions were increasingly associated with Romanised forms of the Greek Dionysus/Bacchus, whose mythology he came to share.
October 23, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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At bottom, it's really what the word has always meant:
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/l...
liberal, generous, bountiful, munificent mean giving or given freely and unstintingly. liberal suggests openhandedness in the giver and largeness in the thing or amount given. a teacher liberal with her praise generous stresses warmhearted readiness to give more than size or importance of the gift. a generous offer of help bountiful suggests lavish, unremitting giving or providing. children spoiled by bountiful presents munificent suggests a scale of giving appropriate to lords or princes. a munificent foundation grant
October 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Dear ordinary conservatives, we disagree with you about almost everything, but we don't call you "deplorable". That's reserved for people who are literally deplorable, and I don't mean "working class" either.
Gutted East Wing of White House, making room for a gigantic "ballroom" where King Trump plans to make like Emperor Franz Joseph, I guess, except more Lloyd Webber than Strauss.
October 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Economist/liar Kevin Hassett is pretty special that way too, but I'm starting to think of Chief Justice Roberts as the champ
Hassett, very tight at corners of the mouth, with this chipmunk grin he gets when he's lying Roberts, relentless opponent of Voting Rights Act, with his crinkly-eyed smile of plain-spoken wisdom
October 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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The story about Imam Siraj Wahhab being involved in the 1993 WTC attack was thoroughly debunked nine years ago by the Asian American Journalists Association. NBC published a correction of its version. www.aaja.org/2018/08/16/a...
The Asian American Journalists Association’s MediaWatch Committee and Muslim American Task Force are troubled by recent coverage of the New Mexico compound raid where authorities charged Siraj Ibn Wahhaj and four others with child abuse. Wahhaj is the son of Siraj Wahhaj, a Muslim cleric who leads a well-known Brooklyn mosque. An online story by CBS News on Aug. 8 reported that the imam “was on a list of people who ‘may be alleged as co-conspirators’ to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing,” as cited in court documents. NBC’s Today Show on Aug. 9 stated the mosque “has been linked to radicals in the past” and the imam himself “was actually indirectly linked to the 1993 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.” We find this oversimplification problematic. NBC fails to mention that Wahhaj was never charged in the WTC attack. And CBS’s description of the imam as a possible co-conspirator can leave readers with the wrong impression. Even the United States Attorneys’ Manual generally recommends against naming unindicted co-conspirators. Both NBC and CBS point to Wahhaj’s past links to radicals but do not say anything about his work in the community as well as with the New York Police Department.
October 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Young Republicans on Telegram: just really not the kind of people you want to hang with
nomoremister.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
And yet in recent years it's been liberals and progressives who've been chided for intolerance. They're more likely to end friendships based on ideology! They won't date right-wingers! Is it possible that conventional wisdom has this all wrong? Is it possible that liberals and progressives avoid right-wingers not because we're more intolerant, but because we know how much right-wingers hate us and how evil they think we are?
October 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Folks, that's no irony. It's the whole point.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
At the IRS, for example, staff reductions have fallen particularly heavily upon auditors and revenue agents, whose numbers were down by 31 percent in the first three months of this year. (It is no small irony that few government investments offer a higher rate of return than tax audits on upper-income filers, which can yield as much as $12 for every dollar spent.)
October 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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that's basically what conservatives have been doing at least since the W. Bush administration, trying to "create their own reality", because the real one doesn't work for them
The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'
October 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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eat your heart out
wordle garbage, sorry. really only directed at those who played this one, which was hard, dance of triumph.
September 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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That's what the so-called "Ballroom" is really for. It's going to be the Trumpoleum
Architect's rendering of the White House Ballroom, with the White House itself skulking insignificantly behind
September 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM