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Truth in cartoons, 1932/2025: John Heartfield’s cartoon explained the “meaning of the Hitler salute” (“millions stand behind us!”). Grateful we have someone in our age with Ann Telnaes’ courage to show us how wealth capitulates to Trump
[credits: Metropolitan Museum of Art; anntelnaes@substack]
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The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips
The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies,
www.whitehouse.gov
December 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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More Trumponomic success! Layoffs highest since 2020
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/l...
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/l...
Layoff announcements top 1.1 million this year, the most since 2020 pandemic, Challenger says
The firm said layoff plans totaled 71,321 in November, a step down from October but still enough to bring the 2025 total up to 1.17 million.
www.cnbc.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
More Trumponomic success! Layoffs highest since 2020
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/l...
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/l...
More Trumponomic success! Layoffs highest since 2020
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/l...
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/l...
Layoff announcements top 1.1 million this year, the most since 2020 pandemic, Challenger says
The firm said layoff plans totaled 71,321 in November, a step down from October but still enough to bring the 2025 total up to 1.17 million.
www.cnbc.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
More Trumponomic success! Layoffs highest since 2020
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/l...
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/l...
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I am a woman who joined the Let’s Rethink Chicks Having The Right To Vote Party and I am concerned they do not take me completely seriously, somebody please help me
A member of the House Republican caucus said this.
Oh. So things are BAD bad.
Oh. So things are BAD bad.
December 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I am a woman who joined the Let’s Rethink Chicks Having The Right To Vote Party and I am concerned they do not take me completely seriously, somebody please help me
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Virginia state Senator Louise Lucas' answer to the SCOTUS ruling on Texas.
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Virginia state Senator Louise Lucas' answer to the SCOTUS ruling on Texas.
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Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
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This is not a legitimate Supreme Court. This is a court that wants to lock in white-supremacist, right-wing rule.
Supreme Court Conservatives Reinstate Texas’ Gerrymandered House Maps talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...
Supreme Court Conservatives Reinstate Texas’ Gerrymandered House Maps
The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 order, has put on hold a...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
This is not a legitimate Supreme Court. This is a court that wants to lock in white-supremacist, right-wing rule.
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This was not Amazon’s preferred plan, I’m told.
Talks broke down with USPS over its plan to auction off last-mile delivery contracts rather than ink an extension with Amazon.
It’s a very aggressive move from the new postmaster general, Davis Steiner.
We scooped on his hiring back in May.
Talks broke down with USPS over its plan to auction off last-mile delivery contracts rather than ink an extension with Amazon.
It’s a very aggressive move from the new postmaster general, Davis Steiner.
We scooped on his hiring back in May.
At Trump’s urging, USPS board to name FedEx official as postmaster general
David Steiner is a member of FedEx’s board and was previously the leader of sanitation company Waste Management.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
This was not Amazon’s preferred plan, I’m told.
Talks broke down with USPS over its plan to auction off last-mile delivery contracts rather than ink an extension with Amazon.
It’s a very aggressive move from the new postmaster general, Davis Steiner.
We scooped on his hiring back in May.
Talks broke down with USPS over its plan to auction off last-mile delivery contracts rather than ink an extension with Amazon.
It’s a very aggressive move from the new postmaster general, Davis Steiner.
We scooped on his hiring back in May.
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This exchange provides some key reasons why *neither* of these pols should be the 2028 nominee: the next Dem President needs to know how to to build alliances and avoid useless public spats like this
www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...
www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...
‘She’s Trying to Sell Books and Cover Her A**’: 2028 Dem Hopeful Josh Shapiro Nukes Kamala Harris From Orbit
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D) nuked former Vice President Kamala Harris from orbit in an interview with The Atlantic's Tim Alberta.
www.mediaite.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This exchange provides some key reasons why *neither* of these pols should be the 2028 nominee: the next Dem President needs to know how to to build alliances and avoid useless public spats like this
www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...
www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...
This exchange provides some key reasons why *neither* of these pols should be the 2028 nominee: the next Dem President needs to know how to to build alliances and avoid useless public spats like this
www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...
www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...
‘She’s Trying to Sell Books and Cover Her A**’: 2028 Dem Hopeful Josh Shapiro Nukes Kamala Harris From Orbit
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D) nuked former Vice President Kamala Harris from orbit in an interview with The Atlantic's Tim Alberta.
www.mediaite.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This exchange provides some key reasons why *neither* of these pols should be the 2028 nominee: the next Dem President needs to know how to to build alliances and avoid useless public spats like this
www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...
www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...
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I approve this message. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
December 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I approve this message. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
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It's now been two weeks and they still haven't released the Epstein files because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."
December 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
It's now been two weeks and they still haven't released the Epstein files because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."
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it is crazy that the president is essentially just the project manager for a medium-sized hotel ballroom who tweets things which would yet someone with that actual job fired instantaneously
December 3, 2025 at 7:04 AM
it is crazy that the president is essentially just the project manager for a medium-sized hotel ballroom who tweets things which would yet someone with that actual job fired instantaneously
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I’m gonna leave this race up to Mainers, but we shouldn’t just reflexively apply an ageist narrative. Mills is 77, an age when some (not all!) candidates have a lot to offer. Mills has actually stood up to Trump and won statewide races; Platner is electorally untested + already has some negatives
December 3, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I’m gonna leave this race up to Mainers, but we shouldn’t just reflexively apply an ageist narrative. Mills is 77, an age when some (not all!) candidates have a lot to offer. Mills has actually stood up to Trump and won statewide races; Platner is electorally untested + already has some negatives
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Important thread. Congress when the House regains majority needs to investigate as constantly and persistently as Comer Pyle did the bogus charges against Hunter Biden.
1. Jared Kushner's trip to Moscow yesterday was not just unethical; it was illegal.
You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.
It says it right in the Constitution.
You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.
It says it right in the Constitution.
Kushner’s Moscow mission wasn’t just corrupt. It was unconstitutional.
Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, has been traveling the world to participate in high-stakes foreign policy negotiations on behalf of the president.
popular.info
December 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Important thread. Congress when the House regains majority needs to investigate as constantly and persistently as Comer Pyle did the bogus charges against Hunter Biden.
Important thread. Congress when the House regains majority needs to investigate as constantly and persistently as Comer Pyle did the bogus charges against Hunter Biden.
1. Jared Kushner's trip to Moscow yesterday was not just unethical; it was illegal.
You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.
It says it right in the Constitution.
You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.
It says it right in the Constitution.
Kushner’s Moscow mission wasn’t just corrupt. It was unconstitutional.
Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, has been traveling the world to participate in high-stakes foreign policy negotiations on behalf of the president.
popular.info
December 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Important thread. Congress when the House regains majority needs to investigate as constantly and persistently as Comer Pyle did the bogus charges against Hunter Biden.
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Mention this op-ed to get a 5% discount on guacamole at Whole Foods!
Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post are at it again.
December 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Mention this op-ed to get a 5% discount on guacamole at Whole Foods!
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There was a 13 point swing last night in TN-07.
If we see a 13 point swing in South Carolina in Nov 2026 Lindsey Graham will be retired and I will be the first ever pediatrician Senator.
If we see a 13 point swing in South Carolina in Nov 2026 Lindsey Graham will be retired and I will be the first ever pediatrician Senator.
December 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
There was a 13 point swing last night in TN-07.
If we see a 13 point swing in South Carolina in Nov 2026 Lindsey Graham will be retired and I will be the first ever pediatrician Senator.
If we see a 13 point swing in South Carolina in Nov 2026 Lindsey Graham will be retired and I will be the first ever pediatrician Senator.
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It’s impossible to ignore the double standard.
When it’s someone their side wants, the process moves at lightning speed. Doors open, rules bend, and suddenly the “machinery of government” is capable of running like a NASCAR pit crew.
When it’s someone their side wants, the process moves at lightning speed. Doors open, rules bend, and suddenly the “machinery of government” is capable of running like a NASCAR pit crew.
December 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
It’s impossible to ignore the double standard.
When it’s someone their side wants, the process moves at lightning speed. Doors open, rules bend, and suddenly the “machinery of government” is capable of running like a NASCAR pit crew.
When it’s someone their side wants, the process moves at lightning speed. Doors open, rules bend, and suddenly the “machinery of government” is capable of running like a NASCAR pit crew.
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RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
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The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami.
They are lying to us.
They are lying to us.
December 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami.
They are lying to us.
They are lying to us.
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Sometimes I think about how Harvard is older than the federal government
Same team that has run ongoing, blind-sourced "Harvard About to Cave" series since July now follows up, on why Harvard has not "Reached a Deal" with Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Story is framed as just another negot that has gone awry, rather than as basic challenge to acad independence
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Story is framed as just another negot that has gone awry, rather than as basic challenge to acad independence
Why Trump and Harvard Have Not Reached a Deal
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Sometimes I think about how Harvard is older than the federal government
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The US economy during the Trump regime's second term:
November 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The US economy during the Trump regime's second term:
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The whole “Weekend at Bernie’s” vibe of this administration out on display
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The whole “Weekend at Bernie’s” vibe of this administration out on display
The whole “Weekend at Bernie’s” vibe of this administration out on display
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The whole “Weekend at Bernie’s” vibe of this administration out on display