Jon
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The entire White House press corps is built around the premise that what the President and his spokespeople say is real-world news, not complete fantasy.
The premise has become fatally flawed.
The premise has become fatally flawed.
December 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The entire White House press corps is built around the premise that what the President and his spokespeople say is real-world news, not complete fantasy.
The premise has become fatally flawed.
The premise has become fatally flawed.
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The Kremlin likes to exercise rhetorical dominance over Trump and they say this in the safe knowledge that we won’t invade or that if we do it will be a disaster. Trump might think of Putin as a friend but that’s not how Russia sees the US. The US is to be humiliated, fragmented, and weakened.
I’m totally lost. I thought we were invading Venezuela. And now allies with Russia. So the friend of my “friend”
is…?
is…?
"The Russian President expressed solidarity with the Venezuelan people and confirmed his support for [the Maduro] government's course in defense of the country's sovereignty."
December 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The Kremlin likes to exercise rhetorical dominance over Trump and they say this in the safe knowledge that we won’t invade or that if we do it will be a disaster. Trump might think of Putin as a friend but that’s not how Russia sees the US. The US is to be humiliated, fragmented, and weakened.
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A lot of my friends get mad when I point out that it will be literally impossible to maintain any semblance of democracy without ‘moderate conservatives’ buying in. Sorry, loves, I want a system where it’s just liberals and leftists sitting at the table too, but that’s not real life.
December 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
A lot of my friends get mad when I point out that it will be literally impossible to maintain any semblance of democracy without ‘moderate conservatives’ buying in. Sorry, loves, I want a system where it’s just liberals and leftists sitting at the table too, but that’s not real life.
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Ok this looks very cool (youtu.be/-YoFJV9m_5Y?...) as a different kind of gameplay system to model WWII grand tactics / operations.
Battleplan | Gameplay Trailer
YouTube video by SlitherineGames
youtu.be
December 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Ok this looks very cool (youtu.be/-YoFJV9m_5Y?...) as a different kind of gameplay system to model WWII grand tactics / operations.
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also known as “letting voters experience the consequences of their choices”
December 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
also known as “letting voters experience the consequences of their choices”
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Kommissar is pleased to announce generous allocation of two pencils per child. Thank the kommisar for his bounty!
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Kommissar is pleased to announce generous allocation of two pencils per child. Thank the kommisar for his bounty!
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this is a stupid idea and they’re going to realize it’s a stupid idea immediately except for the small handful of people at the top who are in all the society-ruining groupchats
I’m sure some of the lawyers are already sighing and preparing to deal with a flood of videos of Mickey doing 9/11
I’m sure some of the lawyers are already sighing and preparing to deal with a flood of videos of Mickey doing 9/11
BREAKING: Disney is making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI, and will allow its iconic characters to be on the company's Sora AI video generator.
December 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
this is a stupid idea and they’re going to realize it’s a stupid idea immediately except for the small handful of people at the top who are in all the society-ruining groupchats
I’m sure some of the lawyers are already sighing and preparing to deal with a flood of videos of Mickey doing 9/11
I’m sure some of the lawyers are already sighing and preparing to deal with a flood of videos of Mickey doing 9/11
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“The Trump administration used diplomatic capital to free sex traffickers and rapists”
December 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“The Trump administration used diplomatic capital to free sex traffickers and rapists”
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this isn't even a moral thing, sports gambling just sucks that bad and makes the entire experience worse both for gamblers and non-gamblers
Everywhere you look there is an opening for leadership.
What an irony that the Democratic consultant-pundit class fell into a poll-following Popularist obsession at a time of such volatility
What an irony that the Democratic consultant-pundit class fell into a poll-following Popularist obsession at a time of such volatility
December 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
this isn't even a moral thing, sports gambling just sucks that bad and makes the entire experience worse both for gamblers and non-gamblers
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As a climate scientist, the most charitable thing I can say is that this guy's a fucking moron.
Trump: "Remember -- global warming! And then the temperature started going down like a rock. Remember? Remember?"
December 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
As a climate scientist, the most charitable thing I can say is that this guy's a fucking moron.
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
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It's not ignorance. It's not malice. It's not that he's owned by petrostates and polluters.
It's ALL of these things!
#ScienceUnderSiege
It's ALL of these things!
#ScienceUnderSiege
December 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
It's not ignorance. It's not malice. It's not that he's owned by petrostates and polluters.
It's ALL of these things!
#ScienceUnderSiege
It's ALL of these things!
#ScienceUnderSiege
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i sometimes have a little sympathy for the median voter, because when you lay out the arc of donald trump’s life, with all of his malice and incompetence and cruelty and stupidity, it’s basically impossible to imagine how he could become president, your brain just starts throwing errors
i think all the time about how trump is one of the most singular, atypical people in america, whose entire life experience, going back at least him as a teenager, is so profoundly different from and unrelatable to almost anyone, including his own social class peers
something you have to understand about Trump & his weird comments about the economy is that the dude hasn't paid for anything like a normal person in decades - never pumps gas, never buys groceries - so he's completely & utterly out of touch with what life is like for most of us
December 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
i sometimes have a little sympathy for the median voter, because when you lay out the arc of donald trump’s life, with all of his malice and incompetence and cruelty and stupidity, it’s basically impossible to imagine how he could become president, your brain just starts throwing errors
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one way the media really fucked us over when it came to trump was portraying him as a big-time, powerful exec who had a ton of world class executive experience, when in reality he was an LLC king who got most of what he had by ripping off people he hired to do the work and cheating on his taxes
he went from having never held any office at any level straight to the presidency. he’s never even run a very large company — all of the trump org scams have been tightly held with a pretty small number of actual employees, they’ve always farmed everything to contractors who they then ripped off
December 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
one way the media really fucked us over when it came to trump was portraying him as a big-time, powerful exec who had a ton of world class executive experience, when in reality he was an LLC king who got most of what he had by ripping off people he hired to do the work and cheating on his taxes
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i think all the time about how trump is one of the most singular, atypical people in america, whose entire life experience, going back at least him as a teenager, is so profoundly different from and unrelatable to almost anyone, including his own social class peers
something you have to understand about Trump & his weird comments about the economy is that the dude hasn't paid for anything like a normal person in decades - never pumps gas, never buys groceries - so he's completely & utterly out of touch with what life is like for most of us
December 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
i think all the time about how trump is one of the most singular, atypical people in america, whose entire life experience, going back at least him as a teenager, is so profoundly different from and unrelatable to almost anyone, including his own social class peers
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this is absolutely correct, i think
anyways just more evidence for my own bugbear that we're entering a new era of global ideological struggle, with the conflict lines running within nations as much as between them
December 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
this is absolutely correct, i think
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One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
Everything else aside, the idea that this is a model for many men of *masculinity* is so wild. This? This is "manly"? This is how people think it's cool to act?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
Dave Portnoy Demands NFL Investigate Pete Carroll & Raiders For Rigging
YouTube video by Clasher Sports
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
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Biden was the best we’re ever going to do on student loans because a very clear lesson there was that there is apparently absolutely no electoral benefit to moving heaven and earth to try and help student debtors
Congrats again to the people who continuously said Biden did nothing about student loans for four years! www.cnbc.com/2025/12/09/s...
Trump officials move to end student loan payment pause for millions of borrowers
The Trump administration announced a proposed joint settlement with Missouri that would soon force millions of student loan borrowers into repayment.
www.cnbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Biden was the best we’re ever going to do on student loans because a very clear lesson there was that there is apparently absolutely no electoral benefit to moving heaven and earth to try and help student debtors
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I don’t write the headlines but I do like this one (post-Slaughter argument roundtable for @nytimes.com with @stevevladeck.bsky.social & @williambaude.bsky.social)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
Opinion | Looks Like the Supreme Court Will Continue to Overturn the 20th Century
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I don’t write the headlines but I do like this one (post-Slaughter argument roundtable for @nytimes.com with @stevevladeck.bsky.social & @williambaude.bsky.social)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
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What the US is doing to Europe it is also doing to its one time allies in the Indo-Pacific. There is one rule of action for the US government now. If you are a democracy, you will be abandoned; if you are a dictatorship, you will be praised and supported.
Japan has urged the US to give Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi more public support after expressing frustration at the level of backing she received following comments about Taiwan that enraged China: on.ft.com/4ppLWPW
Japan frustrated at Trump administration’s silence over row with China
Tokyo asks US to be more vocal in its support after Beijing reacted furiously to prime minister’s comments about Taiwan
on.ft.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
What the US is doing to Europe it is also doing to its one time allies in the Indo-Pacific. There is one rule of action for the US government now. If you are a democracy, you will be abandoned; if you are a dictatorship, you will be praised and supported.
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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It is really, really hard to get your head around the raw hubris of the majority. They really will be destabilizing the operating structure of the entire U.S. government. Why? Because they believe they have a better idea about how the past century should've been done.
December 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It is really, really hard to get your head around the raw hubris of the majority. They really will be destabilizing the operating structure of the entire U.S. government. Why? Because they believe they have a better idea about how the past century should've been done.
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Paramount's entire sales pitch is the US government will do our bidding AND they are paying the president's son-in-law: Trump Family's corruption is magnitudes more than anything else in US history.
Jared Kushner's involvement was "not mentioned in Paramount's press release on Monday morning about its $108 billion bid, nor were participating sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar."
fancy that
fancy that
Jared Kushner is part of Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix.
www.axios.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Paramount's entire sales pitch is the US government will do our bidding AND they are paying the president's son-in-law: Trump Family's corruption is magnitudes more than anything else in US history.
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I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS
December 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS