Aozora
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“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
-LBJ
-LBJ
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"You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up." -HRC
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Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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ezra klein: noam chomsky was disgusting the right way
December 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
ezra klein: noam chomsky was disgusting the right way
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Have it ready on your phone. Print out a hard copy for them. Blow it up on a piece of poster board. Shove it in their faces and demand a comment. Make them own this shit.
None of this shit "I haven't seen it," you read it to Mike Johnson or Vance or whoever and tie it to their lecturing on not saying Charlie Kirk was a hatemonger
December 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Have it ready on your phone. Print out a hard copy for them. Blow it up on a piece of poster board. Shove it in their faces and demand a comment. Make them own this shit.
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Trump officials celebrated with cake after slashing aid. Then people died of cholera. [via @propublica.org]
Trump officials celebrated with cake after slashing aid. Then people died of cholera.
ProPublica uncovered that after USAID funding cuts, cases of cholera in South Sudan spiked.
www.motherjones.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Trump officials celebrated with cake after slashing aid. Then people died of cholera. [via @propublica.org]
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
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Erika Kirk and Bari Weiss will be co-hosting the CBS NFL halftime show during the play-offs. Here's why America has a liberal media bias problem.
December 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Erika Kirk and Bari Weiss will be co-hosting the CBS NFL halftime show during the play-offs. Here's why America has a liberal media bias problem.
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"Meta calculated that about 19% of that money – more than $3 billion – was coming from ads for scams, illegal gambling, pornography and other banned content, according to internal Meta documents reviewed by Reuters." www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta tolerates rampant ad fraud from China to safeguard billions in revenue
A Reuters investigation reveals the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp decided to accept high levels of fraudulent advertisements from China. Internal company documents show Meta wanted to mini...
www.reuters.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"Meta calculated that about 19% of that money – more than $3 billion – was coming from ads for scams, illegal gambling, pornography and other banned content, according to internal Meta documents reviewed by Reuters." www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
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ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray.
The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter.
These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby.
We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter.
These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby.
We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
December 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray.
The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter.
These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby.
We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter.
These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby.
We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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4% of the US population is 13.8 million. Also most estimates of Obamacare users are at least double that.
December 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
4% of the US population is 13.8 million. Also most estimates of Obamacare users are at least double that.
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
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I feel the need to draw some attention to this. www.instagram.com/reel/DSNw268...
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December 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I feel the need to draw some attention to this. www.instagram.com/reel/DSNw268...
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Incredible, not in a good way, how many academics, journalists, and policy folks continue to actively attend the Nazi Bar on a daily basis.
The richest man on the planet has a pinned tweet that's just straight up white nationalism. I can't say I miss Twitter!
December 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Incredible, not in a good way, how many academics, journalists, and policy folks continue to actively attend the Nazi Bar on a daily basis.
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Fiddler on the roof, but with ICE agents playing the part of Cossacks. I know people think of Fiddler as a heartwarming story about a funny man doing Ya-ba-dibba-dibbas, but it's literally about pogroms like this
Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
December 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Fiddler on the roof, but with ICE agents playing the part of Cossacks. I know people think of Fiddler as a heartwarming story about a funny man doing Ya-ba-dibba-dibbas, but it's literally about pogroms like this
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Armed ICE agents trapped U.S. citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers.
Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN.
They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers.
Every single person was a U.S. citizen.
Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN.
They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers.
Every single person was a U.S. citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Armed ICE agents trapped U.S. citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers.
Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN.
They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers.
Every single person was a U.S. citizen.
Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN.
They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers.
Every single person was a U.S. citizen.
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i’ll add that what substantively seems to annoy silver is the existence of people with principles
December 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
i’ll add that what substantively seems to annoy silver is the existence of people with principles
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TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit
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""merit is apparently tossed aside for woke ideology.""
So they're suing the 49ers, the team that benched Colin Kaepernick for excessive wokeness.
Make it make sense.
So they're suing the 49ers, the team that benched Colin Kaepernick for excessive wokeness.
Make it make sense.
December 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
""merit is apparently tossed aside for woke ideology.""
So they're suing the 49ers, the team that benched Colin Kaepernick for excessive wokeness.
Make it make sense.
So they're suing the 49ers, the team that benched Colin Kaepernick for excessive wokeness.
Make it make sense.
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I think there's not enough focus given to the fact that he's demanding US citizens carry immigration papers.
The majority of citizens aren't immigrants, and thus don't have immigration papers.
The majority of citizens aren't immigrants, and thus don't have immigration papers.
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I think there's not enough focus given to the fact that he's demanding US citizens carry immigration papers.
The majority of citizens aren't immigrants, and thus don't have immigration papers.
The majority of citizens aren't immigrants, and thus don't have immigration papers.
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When you can’t say “sorry we capitulated to bigots” because you’re afraid the bigots might hear you, so you just throw some glitter around and hope for the best.
The chain unveiled its first-ever concept store in SoHo this week, adorned with stylish apparel, designer collaborations, and beauty products — all key areas that its incoming CEO hopes will revive its former "Tar-zhay" glory.
https://cnn.it/48W8CAk
https://cnn.it/48W8CAk
December 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
When you can’t say “sorry we capitulated to bigots” because you’re afraid the bigots might hear you, so you just throw some glitter around and hope for the best.
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Working on a piece about how 2025 is the year all MAGA's accusations about indoctrination in public schools became confessions via their state and federal education initiatives.
Wow, there's a lot.
Wow, there's a lot.
December 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Working on a piece about how 2025 is the year all MAGA's accusations about indoctrination in public schools became confessions via their state and federal education initiatives.
Wow, there's a lot.
Wow, there's a lot.
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AP on Trump now, and Biden in June 2022.
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
December 12, 2025 at 7:39 AM
AP on Trump now, and Biden in June 2022.
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”
For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.”
For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”