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To Trump, Words are a Signal to the Base
We all read a lot of words about how much Donald Trump lies, or how some assertion or other he makes is factually wrong. The formulation tends to be: “is he lying or stupid?”
While there is not any...
www.dailykos.com
Wrote this 7 years ago. Critical we understand the GOP and Trump don't use words to communicate facts, but that Trump’s posts and speech essentially are marching orders for followers. They don’t care about truth, not embarrassed by being wrong. It's a cult.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2018...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2018...
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On October 10th, 2025, Dayanne was assaulted and kidnapped by masked ICE agents. They gave no reason why.
She is beyond brave for sharing her story and reliving her trauma, in hopes that someone will listen—that there will be change. Do not turn a blind eye to her pain.
She is beyond brave for sharing her story and reliving her trauma, in hopes that someone will listen—that there will be change. Do not turn a blind eye to her pain.
December 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
On October 10th, 2025, Dayanne was assaulted and kidnapped by masked ICE agents. They gave no reason why.
She is beyond brave for sharing her story and reliving her trauma, in hopes that someone will listen—that there will be change. Do not turn a blind eye to her pain.
She is beyond brave for sharing her story and reliving her trauma, in hopes that someone will listen—that there will be change. Do not turn a blind eye to her pain.
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I've twice explained to spouse that there is no peace plan. Rather, there's a plan to limit the blowback when Trump capitulates to Russia.
Trump will do it anyway: Trump is going to reverse sanctions bc he wants the grift.
He's just trying to limit blowback for Russia Russia Russia.
Trump will do it anyway: Trump is going to reverse sanctions bc he wants the grift.
He's just trying to limit blowback for Russia Russia Russia.
I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
December 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I've twice explained to spouse that there is no peace plan. Rather, there's a plan to limit the blowback when Trump capitulates to Russia.
Trump will do it anyway: Trump is going to reverse sanctions bc he wants the grift.
He's just trying to limit blowback for Russia Russia Russia.
Trump will do it anyway: Trump is going to reverse sanctions bc he wants the grift.
He's just trying to limit blowback for Russia Russia Russia.
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The problem for Republicans is that they’ve never had a serious health care plan; they define themselves by what they’re against. So when they have to produce, nada. Their “ideas” come from creepy billionaire-funded “think tanks,” and would fail in practice.
Why Senate Republicans aren't uniting behind a health care plan
Voting on any alternative to Democrats' Obamacare extension is likely to highlight the divisions in the GOP.
www.politico.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The problem for Republicans is that they’ve never had a serious health care plan; they define themselves by what they’re against. So when they have to produce, nada. Their “ideas” come from creepy billionaire-funded “think tanks,” and would fail in practice.
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Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
The window has moved the debate to whether the second shot was illegal, which assumes the first strikes were legal. All of it is murder.
The question of whether one act of murder broke rules of war - when there is no war, when dozens of ppl have already been executed w/o trial, when there is attempt to overthrow a sovereign govt by force - is starting to feel less like an investigation than an act of imperial legitimation
December 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The window has moved the debate to whether the second shot was illegal, which assumes the first strikes were legal. All of it is murder.
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It has been painfully obvious for *decades* that far-right wanted force US to listen to far-right speech while making other speech illegal, but our insanely stupid & short-sighted & hateful Elite joined them in pretending their anti-free-speech agenda was actually free-speech.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
It has been painfully obvious for *decades* that far-right wanted force US to listen to far-right speech while making other speech illegal, but our insanely stupid & short-sighted & hateful Elite joined them in pretending their anti-free-speech agenda was actually free-speech.
Exactly. Putting someone on the air to lie and deflect is worse than nothing, your audience is misinformed.
They keep booking these guests thinking that they’re informing Americans by asking “tough questions” into the air, and having them ignored.
If you want answers, invite actual experts. Look some people up. Do some “reporting” and find someone knowledgeable. Come on, already.
If you want answers, invite actual experts. Look some people up. Do some “reporting” and find someone knowledgeable. Come on, already.
Kristi Noem refuses to directly answer a question about what Trump means by "remigration" -- a word that, as Kristen Welker notes, is often invoked by white nationalists in Europe
November 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Exactly. Putting someone on the air to lie and deflect is worse than nothing, your audience is misinformed.
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i mean what are these "western values" these guys are so hopped up about? they are directly antagonistic to western europe. they don't believe in civil liberties. they reject democracy. and don't get me started on christianity, they hate their white neighbors almost as much as the brown ones
November 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
i mean what are these "western values" these guys are so hopped up about? they are directly antagonistic to western europe. they don't believe in civil liberties. they reject democracy. and don't get me started on christianity, they hate their white neighbors almost as much as the brown ones
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It’s clear that the primary interest of the US in “peace negotiations” is to create opportunities for Trump, Witkoff, their family members, business partners and cronies to make billions from business deals with Russia, and Ukraine is just the annoying nuisance in the way.
November 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
It’s clear that the primary interest of the US in “peace negotiations” is to create opportunities for Trump, Witkoff, their family members, business partners and cronies to make billions from business deals with Russia, and Ukraine is just the annoying nuisance in the way.
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The myth of that a bunch of young hackers can solve any problem was debunked by DOGE. But the larger moral stain is that this was a heist.
Cost saving was a cover story to shutdown investigations into Elon’s companies, steal government data and engage in genocide by proxy via killing USAID.
Cost saving was a cover story to shutdown investigations into Elon’s companies, steal government data and engage in genocide by proxy via killing USAID.
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The myth of that a bunch of young hackers can solve any problem was debunked by DOGE. But the larger moral stain is that this was a heist.
Cost saving was a cover story to shutdown investigations into Elon’s companies, steal government data and engage in genocide by proxy via killing USAID.
Cost saving was a cover story to shutdown investigations into Elon’s companies, steal government data and engage in genocide by proxy via killing USAID.
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No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
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Oralè Resister
Attention WOMEN of
NEW ORLEANS!
One women stop 6 LICE
IN Hillsboro OREGON!
Imagine what all of you together can do for all our communities!
She Se Puede
#Women #Oregon #NewOrleans #USDemocracy #RoeRoeRoeVote26
Attention WOMEN of
NEW ORLEANS!
One women stop 6 LICE
IN Hillsboro OREGON!
Imagine what all of you together can do for all our communities!
She Se Puede
#Women #Oregon #NewOrleans #USDemocracy #RoeRoeRoeVote26
November 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Oralè Resister
Attention WOMEN of
NEW ORLEANS!
One women stop 6 LICE
IN Hillsboro OREGON!
Imagine what all of you together can do for all our communities!
She Se Puede
#Women #Oregon #NewOrleans #USDemocracy #RoeRoeRoeVote26
Attention WOMEN of
NEW ORLEANS!
One women stop 6 LICE
IN Hillsboro OREGON!
Imagine what all of you together can do for all our communities!
She Se Puede
#Women #Oregon #NewOrleans #USDemocracy #RoeRoeRoeVote26
Beyond comprehension that anyone can listen to this loathsome rotting copse of a human being, a compilation of every human vice, and think, "yeah, I want to follow that."
There has never been a more loathsome creature than him.
November 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Beyond comprehension that anyone can listen to this loathsome rotting copse of a human being, a compilation of every human vice, and think, "yeah, I want to follow that."
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Would be lovely if anyone learned the lesson of "saying Dems are as bad as the GOP gets the GOP in power, where they inevitably do a lot of stuff that is worse than even your parody version of the Dems would do" from last year, but it is more important to be mean to people you've decided are "libs."
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Would be lovely if anyone learned the lesson of "saying Dems are as bad as the GOP gets the GOP in power, where they inevitably do a lot of stuff that is worse than even your parody version of the Dems would do" from last year, but it is more important to be mean to people you've decided are "libs."
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This is a lie from @washingtonpost.com on behalf of Trump. Trump is pushing Russian demands that if Ukraine does not surrender Russia will continue to attack. This is not a peace plan, this is Trump working for Putin.
The Trump administration is renewing efforts to end the war in Ukraine, pitching a revised ceasefire proposal and giving a top military official an unusual diplomatic assignment.
U.S. pushes new Ukraine peace plan as Trump’s Army secretary visits Kyiv
The administration is renewing efforts to end the war, pitching a revised ceasefire proposal and giving a top military official an unusual diplomatic assignment.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
This is a lie from @washingtonpost.com on behalf of Trump. Trump is pushing Russian demands that if Ukraine does not surrender Russia will continue to attack. This is not a peace plan, this is Trump working for Putin.
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This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This! Just reporting something without context and immediately going on to something else is not real journalism.
NYT wants US to praise them for documenting Trump’s corruption despite fact they (1) normalize it, corruption not there in headline (2) don’t connect dots for US about how this hurts our foreign policy (3) don’t tie into $10+ billion ongoing corruption (4) they quickly move on, no sticky narrative
Saudi officials used President Trump’s state visit in May to pique his interest in a major real estate development, the latest example of Trump blending governance and family business, particularly in Persian Gulf countries. nyti.ms/4r7mboU
November 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This! Just reporting something without context and immediately going on to something else is not real journalism.
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This is a heist, plain and simple. Just nonstop grift and corruption from this crooked President and his administration.
They're doing nothing to make life more affordable for regular people, but they ARE working overtime to get rich using taxpayer dollars and resources.
They're doing nothing to make life more affordable for regular people, but they ARE working overtime to get rich using taxpayer dollars and resources.
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
www.propublica.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This is a heist, plain and simple. Just nonstop grift and corruption from this crooked President and his administration.
They're doing nothing to make life more affordable for regular people, but they ARE working overtime to get rich using taxpayer dollars and resources.
They're doing nothing to make life more affordable for regular people, but they ARE working overtime to get rich using taxpayer dollars and resources.
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“Anyone who helps me try to steal an election gets a pardon” is perhaps the most corrupt thing to happen in American history.
That “conservatives” have simply accepted this as the price of admission is the greatest moral and intellectual humiliation.
That “conservatives” have simply accepted this as the price of admission is the greatest moral and intellectual humiliation.
NEW: Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of allies in his bid to subvert the 2020 election including:
-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“Anyone who helps me try to steal an election gets a pardon” is perhaps the most corrupt thing to happen in American history.
That “conservatives” have simply accepted this as the price of admission is the greatest moral and intellectual humiliation.
That “conservatives” have simply accepted this as the price of admission is the greatest moral and intellectual humiliation.
Great thread. People whose world view is shaped by things other than facts can be persuaded to believe almost anything.
🧵Donald Trump is famous for being able to manipulate his supporters' opinions. But he comes from a long line of far-right oligarchs who mask radically pro-rich policies as "populist."
The only difference between today's billionaires & earlier ones is that Peter Thiel et al say the quiet part aloud.
The only difference between today's billionaires & earlier ones is that Peter Thiel et al say the quiet part aloud.
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Great thread. People whose world view is shaped by things other than facts can be persuaded to believe almost anything.
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Reductions in Force not required by shutdowns, have never happened in any previous shutdown, and a judge has ruled they are illegal.
The shutdown is an excuse, not a reason, for them to do what they wanted to do: destroy government.
The shutdown is an excuse, not a reason, for them to do what they wanted to do: destroy government.
Lee Zeldin announces on Fox that there will be "severe" layoffs at the EPA if the shutdown continues
November 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Reductions in Force not required by shutdowns, have never happened in any previous shutdown, and a judge has ruled they are illegal.
The shutdown is an excuse, not a reason, for them to do what they wanted to do: destroy government.
The shutdown is an excuse, not a reason, for them to do what they wanted to do: destroy government.
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Maybe Corporate Media could have, should have, spent less time reporting what voters thought Trump was going to do “lower prices” “help working families” and more time reporting on how voters were wrong, that his policies would *RAISE PRICES* *CRUSH WORKING FAMILIES*, would have been useful for US.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Maybe Corporate Media could have, should have, spent less time reporting what voters thought Trump was going to do “lower prices” “help working families” and more time reporting on how voters were wrong, that his policies would *RAISE PRICES* *CRUSH WORKING FAMILIES*, would have been useful for US.
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The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.