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Gleichschaltung, coming to an institution near you. Faster than you can learn to spell "Gleichschaltung."
Libera te tutemet ex inferis, Carolus Fuscus.
Screws fall out all the time, the world's an imperfect place, Charlie Brown.
I’m not the guy you kill, Charlie Brown. I’m the guy you buy!
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Libera te tutemet ex inferis, Carolus Fuscus.
My advice to the DOGE boys is that there are no posthumous prosecutions.
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to haunt them with the possibility of criminal prosecutions.
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to haunt them with the possibility of criminal prosecutions.Worse still is their growing belief that the b...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
My advice to the DOGE boys is that there are no posthumous prosecutions.
VP Rubio would be an improvement, if only to watch Stephen Miller do the Goebbels thing at the end.
November 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
VP Rubio would be an improvement, if only to watch Stephen Miller do the Goebbels thing at the end.
You'd better hope Vance has been disposed of by the time the old man dies, because if he isn't, almost everything will get a lot worse.
November 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
You'd better hope Vance has been disposed of by the time the old man dies, because if he isn't, almost everything will get a lot worse.
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"So that's it? After 20 years, so long, good luck?"
"I don't recall saying good luck."
"I don't recall saying good luck."
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"So that's it? After 20 years, so long, good luck?"
"I don't recall saying good luck."
"I don't recall saying good luck."
Folks, Marjorie Greene is worth many millions of dollars. She did not time her resignation to get an $8,700 pension when she turns 62.
November 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Folks, Marjorie Greene is worth many millions of dollars. She did not time her resignation to get an $8,700 pension when she turns 62.
Hitler kept his generals in line with massive bribes.
This is not bright.
This is not bright.
On the patently unlawful boat strikes
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
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It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Hitler kept his generals in line with massive bribes.
This is not bright.
This is not bright.
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If the current SCOTUS majority is going to repeal not one, but two amendments, there needs to be a new majority.
There will be hand wringing, wailing, moaning, etc., but if those people were serious, they'd be writing op-eds encouraging a different path now.
There will be hand wringing, wailing, moaning, etc., but if those people were serious, they'd be writing op-eds encouraging a different path now.
"The Supreme Court may further erode the Voting Rights Act in an upcoming decision. Beyond affecting Congress, that would reverberate across local governments nationwide." boltsmag.org/voting-right...
Black Residents in West Tennessee Just Won Fairer Districts. Now Comes SCOTUS. - Bolts
The Supreme Court may further erode the Voting Rights Act in an upcoming decision. Beyond affecting Congress, that would reverberate across local governments nationwide.
boltsmag.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
If the current SCOTUS majority is going to repeal not one, but two amendments, there needs to be a new majority.
There will be hand wringing, wailing, moaning, etc., but if those people were serious, they'd be writing op-eds encouraging a different path now.
There will be hand wringing, wailing, moaning, etc., but if those people were serious, they'd be writing op-eds encouraging a different path now.
Egyptian artists actually knew how to make naturalistic depictions. The narrow range of human forms was because of religious restrictions. As these restrictions did not apply to animals, they had a freer hand with them.
A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.
The Met 📷 by me
#Archaeology
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.
The Met 📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Egyptian artists actually knew how to make naturalistic depictions. The narrow range of human forms was because of religious restrictions. As these restrictions did not apply to animals, they had a freer hand with them.
This is why Brendan Carr and the Ellisons need to die in prison.
New in PN: @mattgertz.bsky.social on the Orbanization of the press
"Everyone just accepts that of course the FCC will only allow a merger if it goes to a person that Trump wants to own it. That’s a very precipitous decline in our broad public assumptions of how govt power is supposed to be wielded"
"Everyone just accepts that of course the FCC will only allow a merger if it goes to a person that Trump wants to own it. That’s a very precipitous decline in our broad public assumptions of how govt power is supposed to be wielded"
The Orbanization of the American press
"The really unnerving thing is Trump using state power to influence who a company gets sold to," Matt Gertz tells us.
www.publicnotice.co
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This is why Brendan Carr and the Ellisons need to die in prison.
is it just like a mass of scar tissue
November 22, 2025 at 6:05 AM
is it just like a mass of scar tissue
Gonna have to mute some words that I know, but really don't need to see.
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Gonna have to mute some words that I know, but really don't need to see.
Madison argued for a national popular vote for president.
November 22, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Madison argued for a national popular vote for president.
One Direction's debut album Up All Night (2011) has a surprising amount of cowbell in it, which probably explains its commercial success.
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
One Direction's debut album Up All Night (2011) has a surprising amount of cowbell in it, which probably explains its commercial success.
Once in a while you should remember there's a guy who invented leaded gasoline and a guy who invented CFCs and they're the same guy.
November 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Once in a while you should remember there's a guy who invented leaded gasoline and a guy who invented CFCs and they're the same guy.
Nearly everyone in the world would be better off had he become mayor of New York City rather than president, including him.
November 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Nearly everyone in the world would be better off had he become mayor of New York City rather than president, including him.
JD may have the smoky eyeliner, but an emo guy is no substitute for a musical theater guy.
November 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
JD may have the smoky eyeliner, but an emo guy is no substitute for a musical theater guy.
I don't think our boy is beating the rap, here.
Trump on Mamdani: "I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."
November 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I don't think our boy is beating the rap, here.
The other way to look at this is that PMC class consciousness, and even the support of lesser billionaires, has opened an unlimited money spigot for the Democrats, and only the support of a unified oligarch caste has kept Republicans competitive.
The partisan divide has grown, too. The wealthiest 100 tended to give more to Republicans than to Democrats before last year. But giving to the GOP spiked in 2024, with *84%* of donations going to back Republicans or conservative PACs.
November 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The other way to look at this is that PMC class consciousness, and even the support of lesser billionaires, has opened an unlimited money spigot for the Democrats, and only the support of a unified oligarch caste has kept Republicans competitive.
And you see why Rubio is in such a rush. Putin is mostly running US foreign policy now. When Trump dies and Vance takes over, Putin will entirely run it.
Even the text of the alleged "peace agreement" between Russia and Ukraine being touted by the Trump administration betrays its Kremlin origins. They were in such a such a rush they didn't even have it properly translated.
November 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
And you see why Rubio is in such a rush. Putin is mostly running US foreign policy now. When Trump dies and Vance takes over, Putin will entirely run it.
Whoever writes New York Times headlines should be treated as an accessory to murder.
November 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Whoever writes New York Times headlines should be treated as an accessory to murder.
The Holocaust misleads people into thinking genocide is historically something done secretly, by perpetrators who know they are a criminal conspiracy.
This is not accurate. Plenty of genocides have been committed openly, with the world having a full, real-time view of what is happening.
This is not accurate. Plenty of genocides have been committed openly, with the world having a full, real-time view of what is happening.
November 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The Holocaust misleads people into thinking genocide is historically something done secretly, by perpetrators who know they are a criminal conspiracy.
This is not accurate. Plenty of genocides have been committed openly, with the world having a full, real-time view of what is happening.
This is not accurate. Plenty of genocides have been committed openly, with the world having a full, real-time view of what is happening.
What they're most afraid of is Mamdani being the same height as Trump.
Well folks, we might just have some must-see TV this afternoon. Trump told Brian Kilmeade that he might open up the Zohran meeting to the press.
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
What they're most afraid of is Mamdani being the same height as Trump.
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This is a level of blood libeling of immigrants (and their citizen children, being lumped in as 'illegals') comparable to the demonization of Tutsis in the time immediately preceding the Rwandan Genocide, or the libels against Jews in the buildup to the Holocaust.
Their intentions are clear.
Their intentions are clear.
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This is a level of blood libeling of immigrants (and their citizen children, being lumped in as 'illegals') comparable to the demonization of Tutsis in the time immediately preceding the Rwandan Genocide, or the libels against Jews in the buildup to the Holocaust.
Their intentions are clear.
Their intentions are clear.