Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱
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Yes he was handsome. But give some credit to the meticulous attention his wife Anna Murray Douglass paid to his care, his home, & the presentation of his garments. It was Anna, a free woman who he met in Baltimore, who out of her meager savings gave FD the money for his train ride to escape.
February 14, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Yes he was handsome. But give some credit to the meticulous attention his wife Anna Murray Douglass paid to his care, his home, & the presentation of his garments. It was Anna, a free woman who he met in Baltimore, who out of her meager savings gave FD the money for his train ride to escape.
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Tapper cannot do interviews. Interrupt people who aren’t answering!
Markwayne Mullin on a grand jury declining to indict Dems over the "illegal orders" video: "I know the president is focused on the rule of law"
February 15, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Tapper cannot do interviews. Interrupt people who aren’t answering!
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Please keep repeating that we're in a perfect economy. That will resonate with everyone and ensure election victory.
Peter Navarro: "The media's gotta take some responsibility here, and the Democrats. To the extent they keep bashing us irrespective of the data, that's gonna drag down confidence. Be real. Trump economy -- perfect. Best year since '98. We'll top that."
February 15, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Please keep repeating that we're in a perfect economy. That will resonate with everyone and ensure election victory.
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This is what an authoritarian police state does
SCOTUS effectively OK’ed third-country removals as the Trump admin is using them on the shadow docket, staying lower court orders reining them in. Further, the specific questions raised here — about refoulement — have come up before, like in this case: www.lawdork.com/p/ghana-refo...
NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...
February 15, 2026 at 5:15 AM
This is what an authoritarian police state does
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Kaja Kallas:
The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield
Russia is no superpower.After more than a decade of conflict,including 4yrs of full-scale war in Ukraine,Russia has barely advanced beyond the 2014 lines
The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield
Russia is no superpower.After more than a decade of conflict,including 4yrs of full-scale war in Ukraine,Russia has barely advanced beyond the 2014 lines
February 15, 2026 at 8:58 AM
Kaja Kallas:
The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield
Russia is no superpower.After more than a decade of conflict,including 4yrs of full-scale war in Ukraine,Russia has barely advanced beyond the 2014 lines
The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield
Russia is no superpower.After more than a decade of conflict,including 4yrs of full-scale war in Ukraine,Russia has barely advanced beyond the 2014 lines
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Novus ordo seclorum.
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
www.state.gov/releases/off...
February 15, 2026 at 3:24 AM
Novus ordo seclorum.
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“i would rather die than vote for gavin newsom in the 2028 election” good news? since you live in scotland, you cannot vote in the 2028 election
February 15, 2026 at 5:48 AM
“i would rather die than vote for gavin newsom in the 2028 election” good news? since you live in scotland, you cannot vote in the 2028 election
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every day we see some account saying “the democrats don’t represent me!” well of course they don’t, you live in australia
February 15, 2026 at 5:44 AM
every day we see some account saying “the democrats don’t represent me!” well of course they don’t, you live in australia
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To be clear, in this asinine analogy, Larry Summers is a lady being burned at the stake.
February 15, 2026 at 4:57 AM
To be clear, in this asinine analogy, Larry Summers is a lady being burned at the stake.
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Our court system is largely working, with the exception of the most important court
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely.
www.reuters.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:53 AM
Our court system is largely working, with the exception of the most important court
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i dislike that the world seems to be slowly but inexorably polarizing into straightforward 'pro tyranny/anti tyranny' political spectrum
February 15, 2026 at 7:40 AM
i dislike that the world seems to be slowly but inexorably polarizing into straightforward 'pro tyranny/anti tyranny' political spectrum
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Good piece. This works—and works ONLY—because these people do not take their faith remotely seriously. It wasn’t real before him. It’s not now. It probably won’t ever be.
New in PN: Trump is clowning his evangelical base
"Trump now knows religious conservatives and their motivations well enough that he doesn’t feel a need to perform anymore. Like his supporters, he’s stopped pretending he’s anything but his worst self."
"Trump now knows religious conservatives and their motivations well enough that he doesn’t feel a need to perform anymore. Like his supporters, he’s stopped pretending he’s anything but his worst self."
Trump is clowning his evangelical base
He's not even bothering to pretend anymore.
www.publicnotice.co
February 15, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Good piece. This works—and works ONLY—because these people do not take their faith remotely seriously. It wasn’t real before him. It’s not now. It probably won’t ever be.
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Southcom strikes which illegally kill people on boats in the Carribean that three months ago elicited shocked headlines in US news media are now being reported in low priority spaces buried deep in news outlet websites.
Normalisation of what are in effect US military death squads.
Normalisation of what are in effect US military death squads.
February 15, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Southcom strikes which illegally kill people on boats in the Carribean that three months ago elicited shocked headlines in US news media are now being reported in low priority spaces buried deep in news outlet websites.
Normalisation of what are in effect US military death squads.
Normalisation of what are in effect US military death squads.
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They talk and act exactly like Nazis in pursuit of the exact same objectives as Nazis using the exact same tactics and rationales as Nazis but it would be wrong to call them Nazis until they grow the little mustache.
White House stands by State Department nominee who complains that "white Americans are increasingly second-class citizens," warns of "white erasure" and says "the Jews love to see themselves as oppressed." @camcgrady.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...
Trump Nominates an Apostle of ‘White Erasure’ for the State Department
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2026 at 12:43 AM
They talk and act exactly like Nazis in pursuit of the exact same objectives as Nazis using the exact same tactics and rationales as Nazis but it would be wrong to call them Nazis until they grow the little mustache.
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Ted Bundy, the serial killer did stuff like this.
This is profound sociopathy.
This is profound sociopathy.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 14, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Ted Bundy, the serial killer did stuff like this.
This is profound sociopathy.
This is profound sociopathy.
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Yeah, slavery is substantially watered down in schools bc they don't like teaching kids about an entire society based on mass rape.
slavery is one of the rare things historically where the more you learn about it the more you realize your initial assessment was correct and it was in fact one of the most evil things ever to occur
Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
February 15, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Yeah, slavery is substantially watered down in schools bc they don't like teaching kids about an entire society based on mass rape.
Tough guy Preston Brooks attacked the much older Sumner with a weapon while Sumner was sitting at a desk.
I’m sure the badass would have fought super hard for the Confederacy but he “died of an attack of croup” before the war.
I’m sure the badass would have fought super hard for the Confederacy but he “died of an attack of croup” before the war.
The reason Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner half to death while he was pinned in his desk was because Sumner gave a speech which criticized Brooks’s cousin Andrew Butler for his support of slavery and heavily (and correctly!) implied Butler was fucking his slaves
February 15, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Tough guy Preston Brooks attacked the much older Sumner with a weapon while Sumner was sitting at a desk.
I’m sure the badass would have fought super hard for the Confederacy but he “died of an attack of croup” before the war.
I’m sure the badass would have fought super hard for the Confederacy but he “died of an attack of croup” before the war.
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Rural people are a sort of Noble Savage. Distant and pure, incapable of agency, they can’t be judged or helped.
It really is amazing how much of political punditry, *especially* elite outfits in NYC and Washington, still embrace this bizarre idea that rural spaces represent the "Real America" while metropolitan areas, where most (presumably real) Americans actually live, should be held in contempt.
Just going to point out again that our arbitrary political rules permit Republicans to attack urban areas with impunity but strictly forbid the faintest whiff of condescension toward rural areas by Democrats
February 14, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Rural people are a sort of Noble Savage. Distant and pure, incapable of agency, they can’t be judged or helped.
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Ted Bundy lured his victims by feigning a need for help.
February 14, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Ted Bundy lured his victims by feigning a need for help.
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CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
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The problem is the information environment is shit because the news is evil.
February 14, 2026 at 11:45 PM
The problem is the information environment is shit because the news is evil.
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Degenerate gamblers is putting it kindly.
The only goal in the antebellum south was to be a planter. Every enterprise, all learning and skills, were acquired in the effort to become a planter.
Despite this, they were all terrible at running plantations with no-cost labor. Nigh universally in debt.
The only goal in the antebellum south was to be a planter. Every enterprise, all learning and skills, were acquired in the effort to become a planter.
Despite this, they were all terrible at running plantations with no-cost labor. Nigh universally in debt.
"the elite of the antebellum South were degenerate gamblers who financed their lifestyles with industrialized rape and would kill you for pointing this out" is a straightforwardly accurate statement
February 14, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Degenerate gamblers is putting it kindly.
The only goal in the antebellum south was to be a planter. Every enterprise, all learning and skills, were acquired in the effort to become a planter.
Despite this, they were all terrible at running plantations with no-cost labor. Nigh universally in debt.
The only goal in the antebellum south was to be a planter. Every enterprise, all learning and skills, were acquired in the effort to become a planter.
Despite this, they were all terrible at running plantations with no-cost labor. Nigh universally in debt.
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This is why I will never trust tankies nor take them seriously.
February 14, 2026 at 8:18 PM
This is why I will never trust tankies nor take them seriously.
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This is incredible. You couldn’t make this up. Literally saying that the most powerful thing you could do in electoral politics is to act exactly like a person who is only vaguely aware of who Donald Trump is.
February 14, 2026 at 4:16 AM
This is incredible. You couldn’t make this up. Literally saying that the most powerful thing you could do in electoral politics is to act exactly like a person who is only vaguely aware of who Donald Trump is.