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“In moments when the country looks up for orientation, Trump does not steady the room. He destabilizes it. He does not merely break norms; he erodes the conditions that make shared meaning possible.”
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Trump Widens the Breach
The country mourned a beloved filmmaker. Trump’s first instinct was to desecrate.
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December 16, 2025 at 12:38 AM
“In moments when the country looks up for orientation, Trump does not steady the room. He destabilizes it. He does not merely break norms; he erodes the conditions that make shared meaning possible.”
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Donald Trump is proving Rob Reiner right every single day.
December 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Donald Trump is proving Rob Reiner right every single day.
“If ‘TDS’ is the tendency to become irrationally obsessed with Donald Trump and project that obsession onto everyone else, then somebody is indeed deranged,
and it wasn’t Rob Reiner.”
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and it wasn’t Rob Reiner.”
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Trump Blames Rob Reiner for His Own Murder
This morning’s Truth Social post was nauseating even by the president’s standards.
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December 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
“If ‘TDS’ is the tendency to become irrationally obsessed with Donald Trump and project that obsession onto everyone else, then somebody is indeed deranged,
and it wasn’t Rob Reiner.”
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and it wasn’t Rob Reiner.”
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“When people chant “intifada revolution,” they are revealing something important about their goals and methods. Yet in many Western countries, public authorities have been reluctant—or unwilling—to hear the message.”
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The Intifada Comes to Bondi Beach
A Hanukkah massacre of Australian Jews
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December 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
“When people chant “intifada revolution,” they are revealing something important about their goals and methods. Yet in many Western countries, public authorities have been reluctant—or unwilling—to hear the message.”
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“Of all those regime changes affected by the U.S. government, how many worked out well?” Tucker Carlson asked last month on his show. “It never works. But we’re doing it again, apparently.”
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Trump Knows What He Wants, Just Not How to Get There
Mystery surrounds planning for what happens if Maduro falls.
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December 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
“Of all those regime changes affected by the U.S. government, how many worked out well?” Tucker Carlson asked last month on his show. “It never works. But we’re doing it again, apparently.”
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🎶 Where I live, there are rainbows…🌈🎶
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About last night... #clarklittle 🆑
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December 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
🎶 Where I live, there are rainbows…🌈🎶
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“Trump has never displayed the temperament to serve as president, and now he is showing signs that he’s lost the physical stamina too.”
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The Enfeebling of the President
Trump is showing signs that he’s lost the physical stamina to do the job.
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December 10, 2025 at 4:45 AM
“Trump has never displayed the temperament to serve as president, and now he is showing signs that he’s lost the physical stamina too.”
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Addressing the affordability crisis became a centerpiece of Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.
“Starting the day I take the oath of office, I will rapidly drive prices down, and we will make America affordable again!”
But Trump has not delivered on that promise.
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“Starting the day I take the oath of office, I will rapidly drive prices down, and we will make America affordable again!”
But Trump has not delivered on that promise.
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Trump Is Making the Same Mistake as Biden
Downplaying voters’ economic pain will backfire.
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December 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Addressing the affordability crisis became a centerpiece of Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.
“Starting the day I take the oath of office, I will rapidly drive prices down, and we will make America affordable again!”
But Trump has not delivered on that promise.
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“Starting the day I take the oath of office, I will rapidly drive prices down, and we will make America affordable again!”
But Trump has not delivered on that promise.
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“Since taking office, Hegseth has had few defenders in internal White House deliberations, even as Trump has backed him publicly. But the past week has been rocky even by Hegsethian standards…”
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Pete Hegseth Is Seriously Testing Trump’s ‘No Scalps’ Rule
Lawmakers are finally waking up to the problems the defense secretary has created.
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December 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
“Since taking office, Hegseth has had few defenders in internal White House deliberations, even as Trump has backed him publicly. But the past week has been rocky even by Hegsethian standards…”
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“Like many other components of our constitutional system meant to restrain an overreaching executive, the Senate power of “advice and consent” on the president’s nominees is in a state of disrepair.”
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The Trump Lawyer Scandal Is About Something Much Deeper Than Legal Technicalities
The saga is emblematic of Trump’s most dangerous and self-serving tendencies.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“Like many other components of our constitutional system meant to restrain an overreaching executive, the Senate power of “advice and consent” on the president’s nominees is in a state of disrepair.”
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“The Pentagon’s Inspector General’s conclusions are unequivocal and brutal: Pete Hegseth endangered the success of a U.S. military operation and put the lives of American military personnel at risk.”
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Pete Hegseth’s Weak Excuses
His evasive responses to Signalgate are shameful nonsense.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“The Pentagon’s Inspector General’s conclusions are unequivocal and brutal: Pete Hegseth endangered the success of a U.S. military operation and put the lives of American military personnel at risk.”
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“The ambiguity of the Tennessee results—Behn lost, but she over-performed, but she probably under-over-performed—has reignited an interminable intra-party debate.”
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Republicans Are in Trouble, but Democrats Could Blow It
Last night’s Tennessee special election gave both Democrats and Republicans something to worry about.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:22 AM
“The ambiguity of the Tennessee results—Behn lost, but she over-performed, but she probably under-over-performed—has reignited an interminable intra-party debate.”
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“The inspector general’s conclusions seem likely to create an impression among the military rank and file that there are two sets of rules: one for the Defense Department’s presidentially appointed leadership, and one for everyone else.”
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Hegseth Risked Endangering Troops With Signal Messages
An inspector-general report finds that the defense secretary violated his department’s policies.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
“The inspector general’s conclusions seem likely to create an impression among the military rank and file that there are two sets of rules: one for the Defense Department’s presidentially appointed leadership, and one for everyone else.”
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“The United States’ justice and political systems have shown that they can’t hold President Donald Trump and his allies to account for trying to steal the 2020 election. The failure will invite future attempts.”
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The Last Big Case Against Trump Has Been Dropped
The U.S. justice and political systems have shown that they can’t hold the president and his allies to account for trying to steal the 2020 election.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:37 AM
“The United States’ justice and political systems have shown that they can’t hold President Donald Trump and his allies to account for trying to steal the 2020 election. The failure will invite future attempts.”
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If, as reports say, Hegseth ordered the killing of the survivors of the first strike against the “terrorist-controlled drug boats,” then he issued a “no quarter” order, and he could be guilty of murder and war crimes according to American and international law.
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Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
If, as reports say, Hegseth ordered the killing of the survivors of the first strike against the “terrorist-controlled drug boats,” then he issued a “no quarter” order, and he could be guilty of murder and war crimes according to American and international law.
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“The world that ChatGPT built is a world defined by a particular type of precarity. It is a world that is perpetually waiting for a shoe to drop.“
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The World Still Hasn’t Made Sense of ChatGPT
OpenAI’s chaos machine turns three.
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November 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
“The world that ChatGPT built is a world defined by a particular type of precarity. It is a world that is perpetually waiting for a shoe to drop.“
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Hawai’i Independence Day
Bishop Museum: On November 28, 1843, the Anglo-Franco Proclamation was signed. With this joint declaration by Britain and France, the Hawaiian Kingdom was officially recognized as the first non-Western independent and sovereign state.
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Bishop Museum: On November 28, 1843, the Anglo-Franco Proclamation was signed. With this joint declaration by Britain and France, the Hawaiian Kingdom was officially recognized as the first non-Western independent and sovereign state.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Hawai’i Independence Day
Bishop Museum: On November 28, 1843, the Anglo-Franco Proclamation was signed. With this joint declaration by Britain and France, the Hawaiian Kingdom was officially recognized as the first non-Western independent and sovereign state.
www.instagram.com/p/DRm13hlE5H...
Bishop Museum: On November 28, 1843, the Anglo-Franco Proclamation was signed. With this joint declaration by Britain and France, the Hawaiian Kingdom was officially recognized as the first non-Western independent and sovereign state.
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Youcis has demonstrated that far-right creators can use AI to make good-enough entertainment without needing to go through any gatekeeping institutions…And proven even those who don’t see themselves as bigots will watch this content—and in some cases laugh along.
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The Racist, AI-Generated Future of Entertainment
The bigotry of a new animated series demonstrates the alarming possibilities of artificial intelligence.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Youcis has demonstrated that far-right creators can use AI to make good-enough entertainment without needing to go through any gatekeeping institutions…And proven even those who don’t see themselves as bigots will watch this content—and in some cases laugh along.
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“As long as Zelensky is president, no one should count on us giving up territory. He will not sign away territory…The constitution prohibits this. Nobody can do that unless they want to go against the Ukrainian constitution and the Ukrainian people.”
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Ukraine Says It Won’t Give Up Land to Russia
Ukraine’s chief negotiator, in an exclusive interview, says conceding sovereign territory is off-limits in peace talks.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
“As long as Zelensky is president, no one should count on us giving up territory. He will not sign away territory…The constitution prohibits this. Nobody can do that unless they want to go against the Ukrainian constitution and the Ukrainian people.”
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Gratitude is so effective that if you could bottle it you’d be a billionaire. But as with so many beautiful parts of life, gratitude is not something you can market like a drug or nutritional supplement: It happens to be completely free—but not so easy to attain.
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The Right Attitude to Gratitude
Being thankful is the ultimate win-win: If the person being thanked feels happy, the person doing the thanking feels happier still.
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November 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Gratitude is so effective that if you could bottle it you’d be a billionaire. But as with so many beautiful parts of life, gratitude is not something you can market like a drug or nutritional supplement: It happens to be completely free—but not so easy to attain.
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“In a more sensible and serious world (and, yes, I know this is not the one we live in right now), Hegseth would be fired—and Kelly would take Hegseth’s job as secretary of defense.”
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Senator Mark Kelly Is in the Wrong Job
He should be secretary of defense.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
“In a more sensible and serious world (and, yes, I know this is not the one we live in right now), Hegseth would be fired—and Kelly would take Hegseth’s job as secretary of defense.”
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November 26, 2025 at 1:40 AM