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Just your run-of-the-mill sock puppet with useless opinions. Never mind me.
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Your annual reminder that if you get this cracker joke and are confused by it, it's apparently because "ffi" is a special character in some fonts and when the typeface is changed to one that doesn't have it, those letters disappear. It's supposed to be "coffin medicine".
December 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Your annual reminder that if you get this cracker joke and are confused by it, it's apparently because "ffi" is a special character in some fonts and when the typeface is changed to one that doesn't have it, those letters disappear. It's supposed to be "coffin medicine".
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DOJ's Epstein excuses on Xitter and the responding community notes are turning into Matryoshka dolls.
December 21, 2025 at 6:59 AM
DOJ's Epstein excuses on Xitter and the responding community notes are turning into Matryoshka dolls.
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The Trump family has generated at least $4 billion since Donald’s re-election, thanks to crypto businesses, merchandising deals, and other ventures. It’s unprecedented.
The Trump family has turned the presidential office into a hotbed of corruption, purely for their own gain.
The Trump family has turned the presidential office into a hotbed of corruption, purely for their own gain.
December 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The Trump family has generated at least $4 billion since Donald’s re-election, thanks to crypto businesses, merchandising deals, and other ventures. It’s unprecedented.
The Trump family has turned the presidential office into a hotbed of corruption, purely for their own gain.
The Trump family has turned the presidential office into a hotbed of corruption, purely for their own gain.
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Campaigns toss out wage numbers like $1,300 here, $1,800 there, $3,300 for someone else. If independent economists and official data can’t reproduce them, treat them like a bad check: sounds nice, but it doesn’t clear. Evidence beats applause lines.
December 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Campaigns toss out wage numbers like $1,300 here, $1,800 there, $3,300 for someone else. If independent economists and official data can’t reproduce them, treat them like a bad check: sounds nice, but it doesn’t clear. Evidence beats applause lines.
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The faction of the GOP that pretends to like Jews to send them to hell is at war with the faction that wants to skip the "pretends to like" part.
FoxNews: Deepening MAGA rift comes to a head at TPUSA's AmericaFest 2025
www.foxnews.com/media/rift-m...
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Rift in MAGA movement on full display at TPUSA's AmericaFest as Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson battle it out
Conservative personalities clashed at TPUSA's AmericaFest 2025 with Ben Shapiro condemning Tucker Carlson for platforming Nick Fuentes and other controversial figures.
www.foxnews.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The faction of the GOP that pretends to like Jews to send them to hell is at war with the faction that wants to skip the "pretends to like" part.
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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‘It’s Just Us’: The Firefighter, His Son and a Treacherous Choice
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Nothing to see here, just a right wing hyper-nationalist government going to their party’s youth event sponsored by a group with a martyred leader they’ve pledged to avenge, recruiting people to join their masked police force devoted to removing auslanders from ze homeland.
December 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Nothing to see here, just a right wing hyper-nationalist government going to their party’s youth event sponsored by a group with a martyred leader they’ve pledged to avenge, recruiting people to join their masked police force devoted to removing auslanders from ze homeland.
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Authoritarianism isn’t subtle. It’s a president joking about paying himself $1 billion from the public treasury and expecting subordinates to make it happen.
www.mediaite.com/media/tv/tru...
www.mediaite.com/media/tv/tru...
Trump Brags About Suing the Government and Declares, ‘I Hereby Give Myself $1 Billion’
Speaking at a rally on Friday night, President Donald Trump bragged about his demand that the U.S. government give him a huge payout, and said he would be the ultimate arbiter of whether he will recei...
www.mediaite.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Authoritarianism isn’t subtle. It’s a president joking about paying himself $1 billion from the public treasury and expecting subordinates to make it happen.
www.mediaite.com/media/tv/tru...
www.mediaite.com/media/tv/tru...
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The term "heritage American" being bandied about is irritating b/c of its imprecision. Is it based on length of time in the US of your ancestors, being from England, whiteness, legal citizenship, or some other unspoken category? Because the migration trends in the colonial period & early republic 1/
December 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The term "heritage American" being bandied about is irritating b/c of its imprecision. Is it based on length of time in the US of your ancestors, being from England, whiteness, legal citizenship, or some other unspoken category? Because the migration trends in the colonial period & early republic 1/
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Early this year, Erik Prince told Breitbart that he had helped put the “Letter of Marque” idea in Senator Mike Lee’s head. Lee has now introduced a bill to make the idea a reality... www.breitbart.com/politics/202...
December 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Early this year, Erik Prince told Breitbart that he had helped put the “Letter of Marque” idea in Senator Mike Lee’s head. Lee has now introduced a bill to make the idea a reality... www.breitbart.com/politics/202...
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For those keeping track at home: in addition to ruining every industry by monopolizing markets, taking over small businesses, and making homes unaffordable, venture capitalists also target college students directing death threats their way. It’s not the first time either.
Neither Shaun Maguire, nor Sequoia, responded to interview requests for this story. Natalie Miyake, Sequoia Capital’s communications partner, was not available when Fast Company called the firm’s offices.
Sequoia's Shaun Maguire accused an innocent Palestinian of being the Brown shooter. Then he doubled down.
Online sleuthing is not, it turns out, among the noted VC's talents.
www.fastcompany.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
For those keeping track at home: in addition to ruining every industry by monopolizing markets, taking over small businesses, and making homes unaffordable, venture capitalists also target college students directing death threats their way. It’s not the first time either.
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The lack of empirical evidence in the “anti-conservative bias in higher education” panic is really striking.
We’ve had more than a decade of elite consternation about this so-called crisis based on a handful of anecdotes.
We’ve had more than a decade of elite consternation about this so-called crisis based on a handful of anecdotes.
Clear evidence that at universities conservatives don't face higher obstacles than liberals to establish student groups + invite outside speakers.
"These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."
"These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."
December 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The lack of empirical evidence in the “anti-conservative bias in higher education” panic is really striking.
We’ve had more than a decade of elite consternation about this so-called crisis based on a handful of anecdotes.
We’ve had more than a decade of elite consternation about this so-called crisis based on a handful of anecdotes.
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NPR identified more than a dozen Epstein files released by the DOJ on Friday that are no longer available Saturday afternoon, including one that shows President Trump's photo.
Available to download Friday, some Epstein files no longer there Saturday afternoon
An NPR analysis of the Epstein files shows some documents, originally available on Friday, are no longer on the Department of Justice's "Epstein Library" website as the DOJ releases more files.
www.npr.org
December 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
NPR identified more than a dozen Epstein files released by the DOJ on Friday that are no longer available Saturday afternoon, including one that shows President Trump's photo.
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Reup of this public resource we created
Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell Law Enforcement Failures (1996-2025)
with links to all the publicly available documents
Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell Law Enforcement Failures (1996-2025)
with links to all the publicly available documents
Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell Law Enforcement Failures (1996-2025)
A comprehensive timeline of the failure of federal law enforcement to address Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's crimes.
www.justsecurity.org
December 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Reup of this public resource we created
Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell Law Enforcement Failures (1996-2025)
with links to all the publicly available documents
Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell Law Enforcement Failures (1996-2025)
with links to all the publicly available documents
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The heavy hitter liars of X are pushing Georgia stolen election rumors equating procedural violation around election workers signing tabulator machine tapes, to missing signatures on mail-in ballots.
They’re playing clips of the Trump-Raffensperger call as if it was normal.
No Community Notes.
They’re playing clips of the Trump-Raffensperger call as if it was normal.
No Community Notes.
December 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The heavy hitter liars of X are pushing Georgia stolen election rumors equating procedural violation around election workers signing tabulator machine tapes, to missing signatures on mail-in ballots.
They’re playing clips of the Trump-Raffensperger call as if it was normal.
No Community Notes.
They’re playing clips of the Trump-Raffensperger call as if it was normal.
No Community Notes.
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Fascinating insights from @wsj.com re how Putin has manipulated Trump and Witkoff. U.S. billionaires who know nothing of Russia are easy marks for the wily former KGB officer. www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
December 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Fascinating insights from @wsj.com re how Putin has manipulated Trump and Witkoff. U.S. billionaires who know nothing of Russia are easy marks for the wily former KGB officer. www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
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But so much of this makes send when you consider the prosperity gospel. These white wealthy women were taught that if you lead a good life then good will follow. So when bad things happen they need something to blame.
I have college educated friends who are thrilled with RFKs rollback in vaccines because they’ve become convinced that “chronic illness” is the *actual* problem. That so many suffer from chronic illness as a result of C19 hasn’t moved the needle for them. Propaganda works, man.
December 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
But so much of this makes send when you consider the prosperity gospel. These white wealthy women were taught that if you lead a good life then good will follow. So when bad things happen they need something to blame.
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I wrote about Trump's paramilitary forces for @zeteo.com
The Growing Threat of Trump’s Paramilitary Forces
Experts worry we’ll see more violence in the streets as we get closer to the midterms.
zeteo.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I wrote about Trump's paramilitary forces for @zeteo.com
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This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
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I know people are rightly going to be worried about child health, their own health. But we also can't afford this. Like, John Hopkins did an estimate (next link) and every measles case during outbreaks cost on average $43,000 to treat. That kid who got tetanus cost $1 million dollars to treat /1
BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Under RFK Jr., U.S. plans to stop recommending most vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I know people are rightly going to be worried about child health, their own health. But we also can't afford this. Like, John Hopkins did an estimate (next link) and every measles case during outbreaks cost on average $43,000 to treat. That kid who got tetanus cost $1 million dollars to treat /1
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NEW: I Started Covering the COVID-19 Crisis in Albany, Georgia. This Moment Made Me Realize There Was a Bigger Story to Tell.
The virus had killed about 38 people, most of them Black, by April 2020. But when a white judge died, local officials made sure to announce her name.
The virus had killed about 38 people, most of them Black, by April 2020. But when a white judge died, local officials made sure to announce her name.
I Started Covering the COVID-19 Crisis in Albany, Georgia. This Moment Made Me Realize There Was a Bigger Story to Tell.
The virus had killed about 38 people, most of them Black, by April 2020. But when a white judge died, local officials made sure to announce her name.
www.propublica.org
December 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: I Started Covering the COVID-19 Crisis in Albany, Georgia. This Moment Made Me Realize There Was a Bigger Story to Tell.
The virus had killed about 38 people, most of them Black, by April 2020. But when a white judge died, local officials made sure to announce her name.
The virus had killed about 38 people, most of them Black, by April 2020. But when a white judge died, local officials made sure to announce her name.
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AI Image Generators Default to the Same 12 Photo Styles, Study Finds
AI Image Generators Default to the Same 12 Photo Styles, Study Finds
Anything your imagination desires, as long as it's one of just a few options.
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December 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
AI Image Generators Default to the Same 12 Photo Styles, Study Finds