Yuletide-Ed
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Yuletide-Ed
@sandmanesq.bsky.social
· Jul 28
Nothing will come of it.
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I heard there was a Cohen song,
And all the Christians got it wrong,
But you don’t really get the meaning do ya?
‘Cause you see its about getting laid,
It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith,
But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”
And all the Christians got it wrong,
But you don’t really get the meaning do ya?
‘Cause you see its about getting laid,
It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith,
But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I heard there was a Cohen song,
And all the Christians got it wrong,
But you don’t really get the meaning do ya?
‘Cause you see its about getting laid,
It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith,
But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”
And all the Christians got it wrong,
But you don’t really get the meaning do ya?
‘Cause you see its about getting laid,
It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith,
But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”
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Dimwit Hegseth just opened the door to demands to see the video. Because this is what WaPo reported:
December 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Dimwit Hegseth just opened the door to demands to see the video. Because this is what WaPo reported:
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After a "double-tap" strike was ordered to kill survivors of an initial attack on a so-called "drug boat," the White House has tried to gaslight the American people by fabricating their own reality. This spin is the latest in a pattern of denial and distortion at the highest levels of government.
Double-Tap Gate: A Case Study in Gaslighting
We’re all trapped in Trump’s fabricated world and need to pull ourselves up out of it.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
After a "double-tap" strike was ordered to kill survivors of an initial attack on a so-called "drug boat," the White House has tried to gaslight the American people by fabricating their own reality. This spin is the latest in a pattern of denial and distortion at the highest levels of government.
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This seems like the kind of declaration by a U.S. president that should be mentioned *somewhere* on the front page of CNN or the NY Times, but the fact that it isn't (as of right now) tells us so much both about how this president is covered and the credibility of the U.S. government.
November 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This seems like the kind of declaration by a U.S. president that should be mentioned *somewhere* on the front page of CNN or the NY Times, but the fact that it isn't (as of right now) tells us so much both about how this president is covered and the credibility of the U.S. government.
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"quadrupling down on being a pain in the ass, politically"
Let's all make that a 2026 goal!
Let's all make that a 2026 goal!
Here's a note I sent to our members about what we did with their money, and why we expect the Onion to outgrow the Washington Post.
We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.
Our members keep getting papers.
We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.
Our members keep getting papers.
November 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"quadrupling down on being a pain in the ass, politically"
Let's all make that a 2026 goal!
Let's all make that a 2026 goal!
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the oval office now looks like a clearance table at hobby lobby
A video of all the gold adornments Trump added to the Oval Office
November 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
the oval office now looks like a clearance table at hobby lobby
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To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
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NORAD won’t be “tracking” #Santa this year, but intercepting him
From Mar-a-Lago, President Trump says Santa and his “filthy reindeer” will enter U.S. airspace illegally w/ “mystery substances” in candy canes. “Bad man. We will locate, identify, destroy the sleigh. It’s for the kids. I love 👧 kids.”
From Mar-a-Lago, President Trump says Santa and his “filthy reindeer” will enter U.S. airspace illegally w/ “mystery substances” in candy canes. “Bad man. We will locate, identify, destroy the sleigh. It’s for the kids. I love 👧 kids.”
November 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
NORAD won’t be “tracking” #Santa this year, but intercepting him
From Mar-a-Lago, President Trump says Santa and his “filthy reindeer” will enter U.S. airspace illegally w/ “mystery substances” in candy canes. “Bad man. We will locate, identify, destroy the sleigh. It’s for the kids. I love 👧 kids.”
From Mar-a-Lago, President Trump says Santa and his “filthy reindeer” will enter U.S. airspace illegally w/ “mystery substances” in candy canes. “Bad man. We will locate, identify, destroy the sleigh. It’s for the kids. I love 👧 kids.”
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The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
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There’s a moment in the classic film “Paths of Glory” in which an artillery officer, told to commit a war crime, asks for the order in writing.
That is happening right now, in real life, among US troops in the Carribbean.
Except in the movie, the demand kept the crime from happening.
That is happening right now, in real life, among US troops in the Carribbean.
Except in the movie, the demand kept the crime from happening.
Gift link: wapo.st/43FXQfO
detailed WashPost account of how Trump and Stephen Miller sidelined serious lawyers so they could fabricate a justification for committing murder
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
There’s a moment in the classic film “Paths of Glory” in which an artillery officer, told to commit a war crime, asks for the order in writing.
That is happening right now, in real life, among US troops in the Carribbean.
Except in the movie, the demand kept the crime from happening.
That is happening right now, in real life, among US troops in the Carribbean.
Except in the movie, the demand kept the crime from happening.
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what a terrible time to be literate
i can't believe the capstone to this fucking week in american politics is ryan lizza dishing/implying that RFK jr ate his own cum out of olivia nuzzi
November 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
what a terrible time to be literate
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The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
www.wpri.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
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For what it’s worth, as a commander and officer it was my duty, moral obligation, and legal requirement to first question and then to not obey any illegal order I was given.
The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.
Hope that clears things up.
The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.
Hope that clears things up.
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
For what it’s worth, as a commander and officer it was my duty, moral obligation, and legal requirement to first question and then to not obey any illegal order I was given.
The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.
Hope that clears things up.
The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.
Hope that clears things up.
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It's almost Thanksgiving! Got an ICE member coming for dinner at your house? No you don't! Can't stop them because you're not the one hosting? No problem. You can shun them, mock them, shame them, cough in their food. They get the weird chair. No weird chair? Make a weird chair.
November 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
It's almost Thanksgiving! Got an ICE member coming for dinner at your house? No you don't! Can't stop them because you're not the one hosting? No problem. You can shun them, mock them, shame them, cough in their food. They get the weird chair. No weird chair? Make a weird chair.
Read the fucking bill. It allows for any mention of this fucker to be redacted or withheld. Fucking report accurately, fucking hell.
President Trump has signed a bill to compel the Justice Department to make public its files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Now, there's a 30-day countdown for the DOJ to produce those records. n.pr/3LTpu2E
What's next now that Trump has signed a bill releasing the Epstein files
President Trump has signed a bill to compel the Justice Department to make public its files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Now, there's a 30-day countdown for the DOJ to produce those records.
n.pr
November 20, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Read the fucking bill. It allows for any mention of this fucker to be redacted or withheld. Fucking report accurately, fucking hell.
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Trump's administration is close to implementing a rule that would end long-standing legal protections for whistleblowers among senior federal employees, per Reuters.
November 20, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Trump's administration is close to implementing a rule that would end long-standing legal protections for whistleblowers among senior federal employees, per Reuters.
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When you’re fine and not at all concerned about the Epstein files:
November 20, 2025 at 1:44 AM
When you’re fine and not at all concerned about the Epstein files:
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It’s good to explain that the CDC is lying and vaccines still unequivocally do not cause autism, even if it just reaches one person on here who has doubts. But the fight is out there, not in here; and the time to let go of the information deficit model of science communication was decades ago
November 20, 2025 at 5:40 AM
It’s good to explain that the CDC is lying and vaccines still unequivocally do not cause autism, even if it just reaches one person on here who has doubts. But the fight is out there, not in here; and the time to let go of the information deficit model of science communication was decades ago
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Curb Your Authoritarianism
staring Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche and Kash Patel
staring Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche and Kash Patel
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Curb Your Authoritarianism
staring Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche and Kash Patel
staring Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche and Kash Patel
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damn -- Jason Crow demolished Martha MacCallum to the point where she had to get extremely defensive before wrapping up the interview
November 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
damn -- Jason Crow demolished Martha MacCallum to the point where she had to get extremely defensive before wrapping up the interview
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Let me get this straight: The Trump admin. is taking in billions of dollars from tariffs—which are paid for by Americans in the form of higher prices—and are now talking about giving the money back, but people shouldn’t spend it?
What is the point of all this?
What is the point of all this?
November 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Let me get this straight: The Trump admin. is taking in billions of dollars from tariffs—which are paid for by Americans in the form of higher prices—and are now talking about giving the money back, but people shouldn’t spend it?
What is the point of all this?
What is the point of all this?
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Underrated thing that's been flying under the radar: ICE's hiring spree, by necessity since there are so few others willing and able, has been hiring away local cops, which infuriates the departments by causing manpower problems and is, ironically, removing the worst of the worst from their ranks.
The more local police see ICE assholes as criminals, the better it will be for us.
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
November 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Underrated thing that's been flying under the radar: ICE's hiring spree, by necessity since there are so few others willing and able, has been hiring away local cops, which infuriates the departments by causing manpower problems and is, ironically, removing the worst of the worst from their ranks.
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