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After this weekend's racist attacks on the EU, I've written a column about the moral obligation to stop posting on X.

Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
December 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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THREAD: It was supposed to be a routine surgery. So when the doctor stepped out, Sandra Parker wasn’t sure she heard right.

Her husband’s heart couldn’t have stopped for more than 5 or 6 minutes, the doctor was saying.

“That’s not a lot of time,” Mrs. Parker thought. “Is it?”
December 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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This is what drives techno fascism. Raging anger at democracy, liberties, due process, women's progress - everything we have achieved in the past 4-5 centuries.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.

“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.

This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:

www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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"Authoritarianism, fascism, and feudalism are old hat. But today's tech titans seem to think that pursuing these ideologies qualifies as some new invention. If you scratch the surface, however, they are just rehashing old fallacies and ideas." (via @gilduran.com) www.thenerdreich.com/the-sovereig...
The Sovereign Individual: Radical Bible of Tech's 'Cognitive Elite'
How a 1997 Book Predicted Tech’s War on Democracy
www.thenerdreich.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Covid fraud under the Tories cost the UK taxpayer £10.9bn.

VIP lanes and crony contracts.

Lack of anti-fraud controls in Covid scheme.
Money handed out for non-existent employees
Newly formed companies got public money
No competitive tenders
Poor checks on quality.

How much would be recovered?
Covid fraud under the Tories cost the taxpayer £10.9 billion
The counter-fraud and error measures during the pandemic under the Conservative Government were accused of being 'so lax they may as well have left the door wide open'
www.mirror.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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All across Europe, as well as in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, US allies are reading Trump's national security strategy and realizing that it was authored by people who view them as enemies while idolizing Vladimir Putin and plagiarizing from his recent speeches.
December 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Saturday Morning
Good morning
Yesterday here in my city . Our Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva attacked and pepper sprayed by ICE for doing her Congressional Duty by helping her constituents
Try to intervene and stop 40 ICE AGENTS who once again attack innocent people with NO DUE PROCESS
December 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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I have been trying to dive into this after reading HCR but need more coffee. FYI www.cfr.org/expert-brief...
Unpacking a Trump Twist of the National Security Strategy
The Trump administration released its much-anticipated National Security Strategy this week. CFR convened seven of its experts to discuss the implications of a document that could reorient the United…
www.cfr.org
December 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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We’ve seen that American capitalism is one of the harshest forms of capitalism on the planet. How did it get so bad?
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Netflix is planning to buy Warner Bros for $72 billion, allowing it to acquire its major competitor HBO Max.

This corporate monopoly will be great for Netflix’s executives and a raw deal for everyone else.

Lina Khan explains the danger of corporate concentration.
The Illusion of Choice: How Big Business Controls Your Life (ft. Lina Khan)
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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WATCH: A CDC panel voted to end the recommendation that newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine, despite a 99% drop in cases since in the 30 years since it was implemented. Chris Hayes and Brandy Zadrozny react. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6REM...
CDC Panel ends recommendation for newborn hepatitis B shot
YouTube video by MS NOW
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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"It appears we're in a situation where there's a possible war crime without an actual war having been declared," said @sbg1.bsky.social.

"It's like we've skipped over the important question of what exactly the U.S. is doing in the Caribbean."
December 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Thank you NYPD for standing up for the people. We’re doubling it down in January when @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in office,

Stand for democracy. Stand for your rights. Stand for the Constitution.

Stand up to fascism, to the brown-shirts, to the Nazis.
THIS is how it’s done. ✊🏾🇺🇸
NY Finest. I ❤️ NY
December 6, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies.

This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.

This is almost everything the government is doing.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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So not only were we busy telling the world what we were doing on insecure Signal chats, we were shooting down our own people at the same time. It has costs to put incompetent people in charge of national security, and I fear we are just beginning to pay them.
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...
A Navy warship mistook US fighter jets for enemy missiles and opened fire. The targeted pilot saw his life flash before his eyes.
New documents reveal how the USS Gettysburg shot down an F/A-18 and nearly hit a second one above the Red Sea last year.
www.businessinsider.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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The Caribbean incident is a very familiar story. Democrats like Jim Himes tell you what they actually saw, while Republicans like Tom Cotton tell you what they want you to think they saw.

Just like Jan 6th.

So now show us all the video so we can see it for ourselves.
December 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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December 6, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Biden never slept through meetings but Jake Tapper wrote a whole book about how he was too old.
December 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Kressly: So let’s talk about the contagiousness of hepatitis B. It can live on surfaces, and it can be spread through touch—from someone who is shedding the virus to someone else.

So when we’re in situations where we can’t know 100% who is at risk, the right answer is to protect everyone.
December 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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BREAKING: Election Advocates Demand Recount in Tennessee
open.substack.com/pub/narativ/...
BREAKING: Election Advocates Demand Recount in Tennessee
They’re questioning how 31,000 additional votes appeared with 99.4% votes counted - and that's not all.
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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If true, whatever happened here looks like what happened in NC to generate 80k votes that had a vote cast for only 1 race - for Trump for president
December 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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The legal pundits and reporters explaining the Supreme Court will never understand DC unless the understand Leonard Leo’s faith. The only DC investigation into Leo’s faith driven politics, so far, @garethgore.bsky.social and his book Opus.

Gore cracked the code.

open.substack.com/pub/garethgo...
Opus Dei and the Moneybags Kid
Leonard Leo, the Supreme Court — and the Opus Dei network connecting them
open.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM