Ben
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Ben
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Yeah man this is the same Pete hegseth who added a journalist to a secret signal chat and that had another 15 secret signal chats and kept fucking forever.

That guy - would never be foolish enough to —-// k
GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "I don't think Secretary Hegseth would be foolish enough to make this decision to say, 'Kill everybody. Kill the survivors,' because that's a clear violation of the law of war."
November 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
If you cannot say this, don’t even run. We do not want you.
imo if you want to get back in power your slogan should be "If you elect us we will prosecute everyone in government who has violated the law"
November 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I will vote for democrats who want to punish fascists who have committed crimes even after they have left office , for democrats who want to create structures that will prevent future infinite grifting loopholes —-

Anyone who has plans that do not include this is not getting a vote.
November 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Listen to FDR’s fifth fireside chat:

millercenter.org/the-presiden...
November 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
You want to know why people like Luigi did what they did —- because billionaires do not believe that the average American is anything other than chattel and every system is this entire country is designed to prove billionaires right.
"President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Good - real cities are designed for people not cars.
November 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Writing a haiku that can be read by a dotard so that the dumbest people alive can accidentally end the world as a business plan
"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "

www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I was trying to articulate why I don’t like dancing with the stars and —- it’s an advertisement pretending to be a show.
November 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I would like to see a headline about how republicans in Congress are insistent in keeping a crazy fascist as president because they no longer believe in the power of impeachment for republicans thanks.
November 30, 2025 at 10:49 AM
This is a commitment to do nothing. They will 100% do nothing with even more energy.
BREAKING:

Republican-led House and Senate committees say they will amplify their scrutiny of the Pentagon after a WaPo report revealing that Pete Hegseth gave a spoken order to kill all crew members aboard a vessel suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean several weeks ago.
November 30, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The main explanation for the is is we have a lot of dumb executives and managers
The numbers in here are hilarious.

Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%

Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
November 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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i am very bullish on whoever buys anthropic when it runs out of runway, somewhat bullish on microsoft, perfectly neutral on goog, bearish on nvda, hyperbearish on meta, and do not have a word for how bearish i am on openai.
November 30, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Piss trickled down
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 30, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Dissonance is not the word you’re looking for bruh
November 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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I maintain that if Democrats could learn to talk with one-half of the plain spoken moral sense of Republicans who have turned on Trump, like this Indiana Republican who refuses to redistrict on the president’s command, they’d win 400 electoral votes dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
November 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Remember that Hegseth didn’t get kicked out after all the signal chats and remember that there is not a functioning rule of law in the United States currently.

Let’s not get our hopes up that there may be even an ounce of accountability.
November 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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"No one's going to build a factory based on a tariff that's on on Monday, off on... Tuesday, the president's changed his mind by Wednesday, he gets hormonal by Thursday and someone says something nasty in the middle school cafeteria on Friday and they're back on again."
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Cabinet of criminals.
November 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Higher education is one of the major reasons that people come to the US and a bunch of higher education leaders are like what if we ruined all of fucking higher education. Cool cool cool.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Mass pardons are coming. There will be no accountability without treating those as null and void. And that means a future administration taking an official position that Trump is not the legitimate president right now because he is disqualified by the 14th Amendment. The two things are inextricable.
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Also recognize that this unambiguous use of the military to commit murder of helpless noncombatants as they fought for life is a direct reflection of the virulent white supremacy that has seized our government, where every Latino man is a gangbanger in a de facto state of war against White America
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Here's a note I sent to our members about what we did with their money, and why we expect the Onion to outgrow the Washington Post.

We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.

Our members keep getting papers.
November 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Just cancel your Netflix subscription and stop buying avocados. You'll be fine
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM