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Is Donald Trump putting his thumb on the scale for Paramount-Skydance CEO David Ellison in this bidding war?
Perhaps because of Paramount's $16 MILLION donation to Trump's Presidential Library?
This reeks of corruption.
Perhaps because of Paramount's $16 MILLION donation to Trump's Presidential Library?
This reeks of corruption.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Is Donald Trump putting his thumb on the scale for Paramount-Skydance CEO David Ellison in this bidding war?
Perhaps because of Paramount's $16 MILLION donation to Trump's Presidential Library?
This reeks of corruption.
Perhaps because of Paramount's $16 MILLION donation to Trump's Presidential Library?
This reeks of corruption.
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Not even hiding the grift
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim
The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who — like the president — claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Not even hiding the grift
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Years ago I was suspended on Twitter for inviting Marco Rubio to swallow ten D batteries, which I don’t see how it could be a threat; he and I were not even in the same room and I have at most six D batteries on hand
November 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Years ago I was suspended on Twitter for inviting Marco Rubio to swallow ten D batteries, which I don’t see how it could be a threat; he and I were not even in the same room and I have at most six D batteries on hand
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The median home price in the United States is more than $440K - a high -
despite 2025 being the first year the US has had net negative immigration since the 1960s
despite 2025 being the first year the US has had net negative immigration since the 1960s
HUD Secretary Scott Turner: "I want to get to the root: over 12 million illegal aliens came into our country, which has put a great strain on our housing supply and affordability."
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The median home price in the United States is more than $440K - a high -
despite 2025 being the first year the US has had net negative immigration since the 1960s
despite 2025 being the first year the US has had net negative immigration since the 1960s
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The article also never interrogates the *incredibly* bad judgement of this woman who entered a relationship with not only a professional source but a known liar and crank whose life’s work is getting kids killed. It’s all told from her perspective, like he’s just some work crush that went sideways.
‘The *mutual* infatuation that consumed *her*. Either there is some bizarre misunderstanding as to what the word ‘mutual’ means, or that shift from plural to singular is intended to allow Nuzzi to impose her narrative by elision.
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The article also never interrogates the *incredibly* bad judgement of this woman who entered a relationship with not only a professional source but a known liar and crank whose life’s work is getting kids killed. It’s all told from her perspective, like he’s just some work crush that went sideways.
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The piece quotes Kara Swisher — later identified as a friend of Nuzzi's — saying her piece about Biden's age was "the best political reporting out there."
But it wasn't! It came out two weeks after the debate and is just a bunch of anonymous quotes from insiders. Replacement-level stuff.
But it wasn't! It came out two weeks after the debate and is just a bunch of anonymous quotes from insiders. Replacement-level stuff.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The piece quotes Kara Swisher — later identified as a friend of Nuzzi's — saying her piece about Biden's age was "the best political reporting out there."
But it wasn't! It came out two weeks after the debate and is just a bunch of anonymous quotes from insiders. Replacement-level stuff.
But it wasn't! It came out two weeks after the debate and is just a bunch of anonymous quotes from insiders. Replacement-level stuff.
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Yeah it’s doing the NYT thing where the writer wants you to read between the lines to discover his quietly devastating critique but:
a) that is obnoxious, say what you mean
b) it accepts as facts numerous things of which there’s no evidence, including that she is a good journalist
a) that is obnoxious, say what you mean
b) it accepts as facts numerous things of which there’s no evidence, including that she is a good journalist
Eg, there is no good reason to go outside the book to treat as declarative fact what she said in an interview when we already know she contemporaneously lied to her editor and concealed from the public both the existence and details of her liaison.
November 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Yeah it’s doing the NYT thing where the writer wants you to read between the lines to discover his quietly devastating critique but:
a) that is obnoxious, say what you mean
b) it accepts as facts numerous things of which there’s no evidence, including that she is a good journalist
a) that is obnoxious, say what you mean
b) it accepts as facts numerous things of which there’s no evidence, including that she is a good journalist
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The atmospheric CO₂ growth rate was off the chart in 2024!
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The atmospheric CO₂ growth rate was off the chart in 2024!
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"I feel like I have this front row seat to the destruction of our democracy. We are seeing it in real time with a president who is asking us to do things that are illegal and harmful to the American public." @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social
Jenna Norton was placed on administrative leave from NIH
Jenna Norton was placed on administrative leave from NIH
Jenna Norton has spoken critically about the Trump administration's funding cuts and mass firings at the National Institutes of Health. At the end of the shutdown, she says she was put on leave. n.pr/4oFYdPL
She criticized President Trump during the shutdown. Now she's been put on leave
Jenna Norton has spoken critically about the Trump administration's funding cuts and mass firings at the National Institutes of Health. At the end of the shutdown, she says she was put on leave.
n.pr
November 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
"I feel like I have this front row seat to the destruction of our democracy. We are seeing it in real time with a president who is asking us to do things that are illegal and harmful to the American public." @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social
Jenna Norton was placed on administrative leave from NIH
Jenna Norton was placed on administrative leave from NIH
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Something funny about Larry Summers musing about how clever he was in calling women dumb while asking Mr Sex Crimes about how to run game
November 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Something funny about Larry Summers musing about how clever he was in calling women dumb while asking Mr Sex Crimes about how to run game
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This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate.
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate
Easily find every mention of Trump, Clinton, blackmail, and potential sex crimes in the thousands of private messages between Epstein and his close associates.
couriernewsroom.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate.
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
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i know we won't, but we have got to understand that a keystone of the republican project is to both categorize whole classes of people as criminal to justify locking them up, or to make them so broken and desperate that lawbreaking is all but certain to happen.
Justice Sam Alito was v disturbed yesterday by the mere possibility that judges might be using the federal compassionate release statute to *checks notes* grant incarcerated people's requests for compassionate release
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ferna...
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ferna...
Sam Alito Very Concerned About the Possibility of People Not Being In Prison For As Long As Possible
Interesting to which issues prompt judges to get worked up about other judges deciding cases in line with their personal ideological agendas.
ballsandstrikes.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
i know we won't, but we have got to understand that a keystone of the republican project is to both categorize whole classes of people as criminal to justify locking them up, or to make them so broken and desperate that lawbreaking is all but certain to happen.
I want to make a joke that Vance being a Yale graduate will of course hate Harvard...
But come on... he's an Ivy League grad.
Is this just another case of a guy having made it through now wanting to kick the ladder so no one else can make it?
But come on... he's an Ivy League grad.
Is this just another case of a guy having made it through now wanting to kick the ladder so no one else can make it?
“Harvard University’s $120B endowment is ammunition for our enemies, & we can’t let the enemy have that much ammunition or we’re gonna lose” - JD Vance, May 2021, at the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life (Vance launched his US Senate campaign less than 2 months later. 1/
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I want to make a joke that Vance being a Yale graduate will of course hate Harvard...
But come on... he's an Ivy League grad.
Is this just another case of a guy having made it through now wanting to kick the ladder so no one else can make it?
But come on... he's an Ivy League grad.
Is this just another case of a guy having made it through now wanting to kick the ladder so no one else can make it?
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“Harvard University’s $120B endowment is ammunition for our enemies, & we can’t let the enemy have that much ammunition or we’re gonna lose” - JD Vance, May 2021, at the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life (Vance launched his US Senate campaign less than 2 months later. 1/
November 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This is why we can't get rid of the Humanities. People will just make stuff up....
Michelangelo studied grammar and art in Florence. He apprenticed under a number of artists including Domenico Ghirlandaio.... He didn't wake up one day and was able to sculpt.....
Michelangelo studied grammar and art in Florence. He apprenticed under a number of artists including Domenico Ghirlandaio.... He didn't wake up one day and was able to sculpt.....
Thiel Fellowship co-founder Michael Gibson says that, “There is an American renaissance waiting for us if we stop funding higher ed and abolish public schools” … 1/ x.com/william_blak...
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This is why we can't get rid of the Humanities. People will just make stuff up....
Michelangelo studied grammar and art in Florence. He apprenticed under a number of artists including Domenico Ghirlandaio.... He didn't wake up one day and was able to sculpt.....
Michelangelo studied grammar and art in Florence. He apprenticed under a number of artists including Domenico Ghirlandaio.... He didn't wake up one day and was able to sculpt.....
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The Renaissance, which was famously about opposing education, study, and higher learning
Thiel Fellowship co-founder Michael Gibson says that, “There is an American renaissance waiting for us if we stop funding higher ed and abolish public schools” … 1/ x.com/william_blak...
November 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The Renaissance, which was famously about opposing education, study, and higher learning
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NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends.
It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.
It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends.
It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.
It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.
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Cree writer and actor Todd Houseman talks about his new play, Children of the Bear performing at the Native Earth Performing Arts.
The play is inspired by Dungeons and Dragons and follows a Cree family rising above colonial structures.
The play is inspired by Dungeons and Dragons and follows a Cree family rising above colonial structures.
Cree writer and actor talks new play inspired by Dungeons and Dragons | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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November 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Cree writer and actor Todd Houseman talks about his new play, Children of the Bear performing at the Native Earth Performing Arts.
The play is inspired by Dungeons and Dragons and follows a Cree family rising above colonial structures.
The play is inspired by Dungeons and Dragons and follows a Cree family rising above colonial structures.
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Letting these freaks escape real accountability was always going to be a problem
The next best time to finish Reconstruction is right now
Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
November 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Letting these freaks escape real accountability was always going to be a problem
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Michael Flynn pleaded guilty - on multiple occasions - to lying to Trump’s FBI to cover up his dealings with Russia and other foreign agents, who already paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes
November 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Michael Flynn pleaded guilty - on multiple occasions - to lying to Trump’s FBI to cover up his dealings with Russia and other foreign agents, who already paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes
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So he has a private Yahoo account and also a separate “vacations” Gmail account. How many other accounts?
Epstein, a university dropout, was an avid reader with eclectic tastes—or at least a voracious purchaser of books, according to receipts from Amazon that were sent to his private Yahoo account.
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
So he has a private Yahoo account and also a separate “vacations” Gmail account. How many other accounts?
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In case you missed it, Trump is still spiraling about the ‘Epstein Hoax.’
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
In case you missed it, Trump is still spiraling about the ‘Epstein Hoax.’
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This is a very good case in point - if BlueSky wants to moderate heavily, then moderate heavily, but you gotta hit all the offenders, *especially* the powerful ones
this is a far more explicit death threat from people with the actual means to carry it out
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This is a very good case in point - if BlueSky wants to moderate heavily, then moderate heavily, but you gotta hit all the offenders, *especially* the powerful ones
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Bill Clinton had his first two nominees for attorney general fail because they hadn't paid Social Security taxes on their kids' nannies.
Donald Trump had his nominee for attorney general fail because he was raping homeless teenagers.
Donald Trump had his nominee for attorney general fail because he was raping homeless teenagers.
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Bill Clinton had his first two nominees for attorney general fail because they hadn't paid Social Security taxes on their kids' nannies.
Donald Trump had his nominee for attorney general fail because he was raping homeless teenagers.
Donald Trump had his nominee for attorney general fail because he was raping homeless teenagers.