Tom Cairney
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It’s important to remember that Donald Trump doesn’t like even the people around him that praise him 24/7z The only people he ever seemed to genuinely like were Roy Cohn and Jeffrey Epstein
I am begging America to not be stupid enough to embrace a racist and an antisemite because Donald Trump thinks she's a meanie. Just grab some popcorn and watch the Nazis fight.
Trump: “I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of ‘Congresswoman’ Marjorie Taylor Greene…”
November 15, 2025 at 3:40 AM
It’s important to remember that Donald Trump doesn’t like even the people around him that praise him 24/7z The only people he ever seemed to genuinely like were Roy Cohn and Jeffrey Epstein
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the absolute best case scenario is trump becomes so unpopular that his own party loses faith in his ability to maintain governing power regardless of election rigging, troop deployment, etc, in which case they will cut him loose and make all that stuff even harder for him to pull off.
November 15, 2025 at 3:28 AM
the absolute best case scenario is trump becomes so unpopular that his own party loses faith in his ability to maintain governing power regardless of election rigging, troop deployment, etc, in which case they will cut him loose and make all that stuff even harder for him to pull off.
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Honestly, the default position of everyone ought to be that Trump is hiding some really horrific acts. No other rational reason to explain this bizarre behavior other than he fears it would end his presidency.
Marjorie Taylor Greene on Trump: “It’s astonishing really how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein files from coming out that he actually goes to this level.”
November 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Honestly, the default position of everyone ought to be that Trump is hiding some really horrific acts. No other rational reason to explain this bizarre behavior other than he fears it would end his presidency.
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Whatever Trump is desperately covering up about Epstein, it’s clearly so bad that he thinks it could destroy him
November 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Whatever Trump is desperately covering up about Epstein, it’s clearly so bad that he thinks it could destroy him
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Greene’s doing this for the same reason she was pandering to brainworms years ahead of when it became the GOP platform. She’s cynical but not actually stupid, and better than most at getting ahead of the curve. Knowing which way the wind is blowing. She’s placing her bets now for the post-Trump era.
November 15, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Greene’s doing this for the same reason she was pandering to brainworms years ahead of when it became the GOP platform. She’s cynical but not actually stupid, and better than most at getting ahead of the curve. Knowing which way the wind is blowing. She’s placing her bets now for the post-Trump era.
If I win the Powerball this weekend, I’m commissioning Raffi to cover “Killing in the Name”, and Zach de la Rocha to cover “Baby Beluga”
November 15, 2025 at 2:42 AM
If I win the Powerball this weekend, I’m commissioning Raffi to cover “Killing in the Name”, and Zach de la Rocha to cover “Baby Beluga”
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After the November 2021 elections Biden's people scrambled to find ways to reduce prices arising from a post-pandemic supply shock that implicated complex multinational economic relationships. Meanwhile Trump gets to switch off the RAISE PRICES switch that he flicked on in April.
President Trump's executive order comes after voters in off-year elections this month cited economic concerns as their top issue, resulting in big wins for Democrats in races in Virginia and New Jersey. n.pr/4oKzD0j
Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee, tropical fruit as pressure builds on consumer prices
President Trump's executive order comes after voters in off-year elections this month cited economic concerns as their top issue, resulting in big wins for Democrats in races in Virginia and New Jersey.
n.pr
November 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
After the November 2021 elections Biden's people scrambled to find ways to reduce prices arising from a post-pandemic supply shock that implicated complex multinational economic relationships. Meanwhile Trump gets to switch off the RAISE PRICES switch that he flicked on in April.
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feel like declining crypto prices are maybe the strongest indicator of future intrarepublican Trump-shivving
November 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
feel like declining crypto prices are maybe the strongest indicator of future intrarepublican Trump-shivving
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This will consume him. In some dim way, he understands this - and will be lashing out in increasingly grotesque ways as a result
Breaking news: Newly released documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate show that he appeared to be texting a member of Congress during a congressional hearing investigating Donald Trump, and that those texts may have influenced the lawmaker’s questions.
Epstein appeared to text with House member during Cohen hearing, documents show
Newly released documents from the convicted sex offender’s estate include text messages from him that appear to influence the lawmaker’s questions to President Donald Trump’s personal attorney at a 20...
wapo.st
November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
This will consume him. In some dim way, he understands this - and will be lashing out in increasingly grotesque ways as a result
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the astonishing thing about this wave of denialism is that we have more or less decidedly hit the point where clean energy is the *cheaper* option by some distance
I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
the astonishing thing about this wave of denialism is that we have more or less decidedly hit the point where clean energy is the *cheaper* option by some distance
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Saw a multiple post response to a multiple post thread about a podcast. You all need some hobbies. Or have a kid. Having kids is a great way to be less online.
November 15, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Saw a multiple post response to a multiple post thread about a podcast. You all need some hobbies. Or have a kid. Having kids is a great way to be less online.
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"Woke" is an AAVE term with a specific function that was deliberately hijacked by right wingers to spoil that function, and far too many of us let them do it and even enabled it
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"Woke" is an AAVE term with a specific function that was deliberately hijacked by right wingers to spoil that function, and far too many of us let them do it and even enabled it
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One of the great moments of this was Adam West's phone book entries:
November 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
One of the great moments of this was Adam West's phone book entries:
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I suspect a lot of the powerful people in Epstein's orbit who weren't direct participants in his crimes viewed his behavior through a Hugh Hefner kind of frame. Which, of course, is still dehumanizing and as we've learned, pretty horrific, but at the time, I'm guessing that's how they rationalized.
November 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I suspect a lot of the powerful people in Epstein's orbit who weren't direct participants in his crimes viewed his behavior through a Hugh Hefner kind of frame. Which, of course, is still dehumanizing and as we've learned, pretty horrific, but at the time, I'm guessing that's how they rationalized.
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Trump is opening an "investigation" because that precludes DOJ from being allowed to release the files.
November 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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the shamelessness emerges in part out of a DC/NY journalistic culture in which people are rarely fucking the people they *cover* but are often fucking *their staff.*.
Other examples exist but I do think Nuzzi is a prime candidate for the *media* figure who most exemplifies the total lack of shame in American elite culture circa 2025
Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...
November 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
the shamelessness emerges in part out of a DC/NY journalistic culture in which people are rarely fucking the people they *cover* but are often fucking *their staff.*.
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the story is about how the American elite is rotten to its very marrow, to the extent that half of it was plotting and scheming about how to use Trump to advance their own venal interests before he even won
November 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
the story is about how the American elite is rotten to its very marrow, to the extent that half of it was plotting and scheming about how to use Trump to advance their own venal interests before he even won
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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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Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject
you can’t be putting this in the paper (gift link but i do not recommend you use it www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...)
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject
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I'd say there's a 1/3 chance Larry Summers crashes out and retires from public life after these emails, a 1/3 chance he is investigated and convicted of money laundering or something, and a 1/3 chance he weathers it with no worse a reputation than he has today
November 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I'd say there's a 1/3 chance Larry Summers crashes out and retires from public life after these emails, a 1/3 chance he is investigated and convicted of money laundering or something, and a 1/3 chance he weathers it with no worse a reputation than he has today
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This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.
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One of the more upsetting things in this is that he wasn't blackmailing them: These men were part of this and protecting him not out of obligation or even particularly out of access, but out of solidarity.
Lots of people say: that’s because he’s blackmailing them, but I don’t think he’s blackmailing Kathy Ruemmler! I don’t think that’s what explains it.
November 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
One of the more upsetting things in this is that he wasn't blackmailing them: These men were part of this and protecting him not out of obligation or even particularly out of access, but out of solidarity.
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Oh no, if Bill Clinton goes down as a result of the Epstein files I’ll have to remove the Bill Clinton flag I have flying from the deck of my big ass truck.
November 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Oh no, if Bill Clinton goes down as a result of the Epstein files I’ll have to remove the Bill Clinton flag I have flying from the deck of my big ass truck.