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Trump feels conflicted about the grown men he can’t intimidate.
Whether mad (at Mark Kelly) or starstruck (by Zohran Mamdani), the One Special Boy is contemptible.
A THREAD.
Whether mad (at Mark Kelly) or starstruck (by Zohran Mamdani), the One Special Boy is contemptible.
A THREAD.
1. US Senator Mark Kelly is one of six Democrats with national security backgrounds who released a video reminding military personnel they are obligated by law to refuse to obey illegal orders.
December 2, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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This administration is filled with the absolute dumbest, meanest, cruelest pieces of shit.
And they're so *proud* to be dumb, mean, cruel pieces of shit too. They delight in it. They brag about it.
It's vice signaling as a way of life.
And they're so *proud* to be dumb, mean, cruel pieces of shit too. They delight in it. They brag about it.
It's vice signaling as a way of life.
December 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
This administration is filled with the absolute dumbest, meanest, cruelest pieces of shit.
And they're so *proud* to be dumb, mean, cruel pieces of shit too. They delight in it. They brag about it.
It's vice signaling as a way of life.
And they're so *proud* to be dumb, mean, cruel pieces of shit too. They delight in it. They brag about it.
It's vice signaling as a way of life.
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The charges here mattered, because the arresting officers admitted that she was arrested for violating the segregation ordinance and not for some ostensibly race-neutral charge like "disturbing the peace"
70 years ago today, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama.
December 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The charges here mattered, because the arresting officers admitted that she was arrested for violating the segregation ordinance and not for some ostensibly race-neutral charge like "disturbing the peace"
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Costco should make each member sitting on the court of international trade carefully review the paper refund receipt before they can exit the courtroom or the cops will be called
Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs
Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs
The wholesaler is the latest company to sue a federal agency over the president's signature economic policy.
www.nbcnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Costco should make each member sitting on the court of international trade carefully review the paper refund receipt before they can exit the courtroom or the cops will be called
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Good morning, Bluesky.
Rabbit, rabbit.*
*I’m aware that some people say “rabbit, rabbit, rabbit,” but I’m superstitious about my stupid superstitions, as my closest friends know I have RIDICULOUS triskaidekaphobia.
Rabbit, rabbit.*
*I’m aware that some people say “rabbit, rabbit, rabbit,” but I’m superstitious about my stupid superstitions, as my closest friends know I have RIDICULOUS triskaidekaphobia.
December 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning, Bluesky.
Rabbit, rabbit.*
*I’m aware that some people say “rabbit, rabbit, rabbit,” but I’m superstitious about my stupid superstitions, as my closest friends know I have RIDICULOUS triskaidekaphobia.
Rabbit, rabbit.*
*I’m aware that some people say “rabbit, rabbit, rabbit,” but I’m superstitious about my stupid superstitions, as my closest friends know I have RIDICULOUS triskaidekaphobia.
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The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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A White House website with a dedicated Lügenpresse tab marks a pretty bleak moment in US history.
Don't know whether this is new or has been up for awhile. Either way, when the White House creates a hit list of journalists it doesn't like, the free press is in danger. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
November 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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On the one hand, Hegseth keeps ordering murders. On the other hand, that’s what he was appointed to do.
November 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
On the one hand, Hegseth keeps ordering murders. On the other hand, that’s what he was appointed to do.
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Faculty voted 595-4 on a resolution objecting to any agreement with Trump along these lines.
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You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Faculty voted 595-4 on a resolution objecting to any agreement with Trump along these lines.
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Meanwhile Harvard sued and got most of its funding restored and this has served as a model for precisely nobody www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Majority of Harvard’s Research Funding Has Been Restored
As of Tuesday, Harvard University had recouped most of the federal research funding it lost when the Trump administration froze its access to grants earlier this year, multiple local news organization...
www.insidehighered.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Meanwhile Harvard sued and got most of its funding restored and this has served as a model for precisely nobody www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
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Is Cocaine Having a Moment?
The powdered amphetamine seems to be enjoying a cultural cachet it hasn't had since the days of Mork & Mindy, early Aerosmith, and Lawrence Taylor's 1986 season.
The powdered amphetamine seems to be enjoying a cultural cachet it hasn't had since the days of Mork & Mindy, early Aerosmith, and Lawrence Taylor's 1986 season.
November 29, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Is Cocaine Having a Moment?
The powdered amphetamine seems to be enjoying a cultural cachet it hasn't had since the days of Mork & Mindy, early Aerosmith, and Lawrence Taylor's 1986 season.
The powdered amphetamine seems to be enjoying a cultural cachet it hasn't had since the days of Mork & Mindy, early Aerosmith, and Lawrence Taylor's 1986 season.
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I can’t help feeling that turkey is a stand-in for something.
JD Vance: "How many of you really like turkey?"
Many soldiers raise their hands.
Vance: "You're all full of shit."
Many soldiers raise their hands.
Vance: "You're all full of shit."
November 29, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I can’t help feeling that turkey is a stand-in for something.
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lol lots of vibes about “standing up for academic freedom” and no actual bite to that bark.
November 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM
lol lots of vibes about “standing up for academic freedom” and no actual bite to that bark.
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lol the capitulation of higher ed just makes clear that the academy is built on vibes.
November 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
lol the capitulation of higher ed just makes clear that the academy is built on vibes.
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I'm pretty sure this guy brought in 100 times the drugs of Venezuela as a whole, but what's important for the Trump family is that he kept cocaine prices down by flooding the zone. Sorry he had to murder about 80 fishermen to keep his tough guy image going.
trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”
also trump:
also trump:
November 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I'm pretty sure this guy brought in 100 times the drugs of Venezuela as a whole, but what's important for the Trump family is that he kept cocaine prices down by flooding the zone. Sorry he had to murder about 80 fishermen to keep his tough guy image going.
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Seems like a weird thing to tweet on the day when your boss said he’d pardon someone convicted of sending 400 tons of cocaine into the US.
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Seems like a weird thing to tweet on the day when your boss said he’d pardon someone convicted of sending 400 tons of cocaine into the US.
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Imagine getting ready for your daughter to come home from her freshman year of college for Thanksgiving, and the day of departure she goes MIA, and then 48 nightmarish hours later she calls you to tell her that ICE goons kidnapped her and shipped her to Honduras www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...
November 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Imagine getting ready for your daughter to come home from her freshman year of college for Thanksgiving, and the day of departure she goes MIA, and then 48 nightmarish hours later she calls you to tell her that ICE goons kidnapped her and shipped her to Honduras www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...
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A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 3:02 AM
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
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“Should we follow the Geneva Conventions?” Pete Hegseth asked in 2024.
It’s almost as if there were signs!
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It’s almost as if there were signs!
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November 29, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“Should we follow the Geneva Conventions?” Pete Hegseth asked in 2024.
It’s almost as if there were signs!
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It’s almost as if there were signs!
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The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
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Young people in the U.S. have been priced out of their dreams. Stop acting like it’s their fault.
November 28, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Young people in the U.S. have been priced out of their dreams. Stop acting like it’s their fault.
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There are no terse excuses for moral cowardice, gullibility, and breach of fiduciary duty.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:05 AM
There are no terse excuses for moral cowardice, gullibility, and breach of fiduciary duty.