Vid Hardt
@vidhardt.bsky.social
Good Satire Is Prescient. But it's not enough.
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Vid Hardt
@vidhardt.bsky.social
· Aug 8
If you can see Dukes at Joe's Pub yet don't, you've made an incorrect choice.
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Kash Patel was a bottom half of the class student at New York's least prestigious law school. He went on scratching near the bottom for a job, developing a mediocre at best record as a public defender, before landing a job a the DOJ. His politics were Democratic and liberal. Then be became a Trump
Kash Patel’s Acts of Service
The F.B.I. director isn’t just enforcing the President’s agenda at the Bureau—he’s seeking retribution for its past investigations of Donald Trump.
www.newyorker.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Kash Patel was a bottom half of the class student at New York's least prestigious law school. He went on scratching near the bottom for a job, developing a mediocre at best record as a public defender, before landing a job a the DOJ. His politics were Democratic and liberal. Then be became a Trump
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Lizza wrote one of my favorite pieces of political journalism ever. AND he embarrassed Devin Nunes in court. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
Devin Nunes’s Family Farm Is Hiding a Politically Explosive Secret
Why did Devin Nunes's parents and brother cover their tracks after quietly moving their family farm to Iowa? Ryan Lizza went to Iowa in search of the truth—and strange things started happening.
www.esquire.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Lizza wrote one of my favorite pieces of political journalism ever. AND he embarrassed Devin Nunes in court. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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There’s a moment in the classic film “Paths of Glory” in which an artillery officer, told to commit a war crime, asks for the order in writing.
That is happening right now, in real life, among US troops in the Carribbean.
Except in the movie, the demand kept the crime from happening.
That is happening right now, in real life, among US troops in the Carribbean.
Except in the movie, the demand kept the crime from happening.
Gift link: wapo.st/43FXQfO
detailed WashPost account of how Trump and Stephen Miller sidelined serious lawyers so they could fabricate a justification for committing murder
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
There’s a moment in the classic film “Paths of Glory” in which an artillery officer, told to commit a war crime, asks for the order in writing.
That is happening right now, in real life, among US troops in the Carribbean.
Except in the movie, the demand kept the crime from happening.
That is happening right now, in real life, among US troops in the Carribbean.
Except in the movie, the demand kept the crime from happening.
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Holy f@$k!
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Holy f@$k!
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
I'm fond of the term 'despot'.
When Trump was asked about the release of the Epstein files, he called one reporter "piggy" and said another was "being insubordinate."
When Trump saw a video calling on the military to follow the constitution, he called for the death of the Democrats who made the video.
He's a tyrant.
When Trump saw a video calling on the military to follow the constitution, he called for the death of the Democrats who made the video.
He's a tyrant.
November 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I'm fond of the term 'despot'.
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Lindsey LITERALLY argued it was cool for the FBI to have the phone records OF EVERYONE IN THE UNITED STATES (there's reason to believe Members of Congress numbers were whitelisted). But not for the same to happen to him when he aided an insurrection.
Plus IIRC he voted to sustain it.
Plus IIRC he voted to sustain it.
November 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Lindsey LITERALLY argued it was cool for the FBI to have the phone records OF EVERYONE IN THE UNITED STATES (there's reason to believe Members of Congress numbers were whitelisted). But not for the same to happen to him when he aided an insurrection.
Plus IIRC he voted to sustain it.
Plus IIRC he voted to sustain it.
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Glad that @ericboehm87.bsky.social wrote a piece I've been meaning to write: all the times Lindsey Graham has championed surveillance far more intrusive than the phone records of his prosecutors analyzed.
Most important IMO is the way Graham championed phone dragnet.
reason.com/2025/11/19/l...
Most important IMO is the way Graham championed phone dragnet.
reason.com/2025/11/19/l...
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Glad that @ericboehm87.bsky.social wrote a piece I've been meaning to write: all the times Lindsey Graham has championed surveillance far more intrusive than the phone records of his prosecutors analyzed.
Most important IMO is the way Graham championed phone dragnet.
reason.com/2025/11/19/l...
Most important IMO is the way Graham championed phone dragnet.
reason.com/2025/11/19/l...
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I think about this every g-ddamn day.
Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I think about this every g-ddamn day.
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The grand jurors had to help Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer run Elmo.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The grand jurors had to help Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer run Elmo.
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The magical imaginary tariff number is now up to 21 trillion dollars.
If I were there:
'Isn't it true, Mr. President, Sir, that you've been understating the tariff numbers because in fact you've earned the US eleventy-twelve quadrillion dollars?'
If I were there:
'Isn't it true, Mr. President, Sir, that you've been understating the tariff numbers because in fact you've earned the US eleventy-twelve quadrillion dollars?'
Reporter: Is it appropriate for your family to do business with Saudi Arabia while you’re president? The us intelligence concluded you orchestrated the murder of a journalist…
Trump: Who are you with?
Reporter: ABC News
Trump: Who are you with?
Reporter: ABC News
November 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The magical imaginary tariff number is now up to 21 trillion dollars.
If I were there:
'Isn't it true, Mr. President, Sir, that you've been understating the tariff numbers because in fact you've earned the US eleventy-twelve quadrillion dollars?'
If I were there:
'Isn't it true, Mr. President, Sir, that you've been understating the tariff numbers because in fact you've earned the US eleventy-twelve quadrillion dollars?'
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Ponied up for a month of newspapers.com, went right to the New York Daily News and quickly found this gem from Feb 16, 1936.
November 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Ponied up for a month of newspapers.com, went right to the New York Daily News and quickly found this gem from Feb 16, 1936.
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Irony is truly dead!!!
Breaking from us:
As the Trump administration searches for more space to detain immigrants, it is approaching Washington tribes to see if they will participate.
Nisqually Indian Tribe is saying no.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
As the Trump administration searches for more space to detain immigrants, it is approaching Washington tribes to see if they will participate.
Nisqually Indian Tribe is saying no.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
ICE looks to WA tribes to house detained immigrants
The Nisqually Indian Tribe says it is turning down a request from ICE to house detained immigrants on tribal land.
www.seattletimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Irony is truly dead!!!
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Trump filed lawsuits over jokes, tweets, and news articles, but not once over any of the countless allegations of child rape. I feel like more people should mention that.
November 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Trump filed lawsuits over jokes, tweets, and news articles, but not once over any of the countless allegations of child rape. I feel like more people should mention that.
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it’s instructive to point out that not only did Matt Gaetz rape a homeless teenager, he raped a homeless teenager with former Florida state Rep Chris Dorworth, who was a coworker with Attorney General Pam Bondi at Ballard Partners
November 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
it’s instructive to point out that not only did Matt Gaetz rape a homeless teenager, he raped a homeless teenager with former Florida state Rep Chris Dorworth, who was a coworker with Attorney General Pam Bondi at Ballard Partners
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To be very clear, Virginia Giuffre was made to say she mistakenly identified Alan Dershowitz as one of the people who sexually abused her. Here is the proof from this week's Epstein files dropped by the House Oversight Committee.
November 14, 2025 at 4:53 AM
To be very clear, Virginia Giuffre was made to say she mistakenly identified Alan Dershowitz as one of the people who sexually abused her. Here is the proof from this week's Epstein files dropped by the House Oversight Committee.
Every White House correspondent with any decency ought to phrase questions to Leavitt like, 'How many little girls has the president raped and when did he rape them?' until the only reporters left are simpering sycophants.
this people have jumped the shark on self-parody
Karoline Leavitt claimed today that Trump was always "extremely professional" while hanging out with [checks notes] Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Every White House correspondent with any decency ought to phrase questions to Leavitt like, 'How many little girls has the president raped and when did he rape them?' until the only reporters left are simpering sycophants.
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When Epstein says, "im 75 % there," I'm pretty sure he's referencing being 75% of the way to the conclusion he'd later relay to Michael Wolff that Trump was the one who'd turned him in to Palm Beach authorities.
Per Michael Wolff, Epstein believed it to've been Trump who first reported his sex abuse to authorities in an attempt to get out in front of Epstein's disclosing financial illegalities in the Rybolovlev deal.
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
When Epstein says, "im 75 % there," I'm pretty sure he's referencing being 75% of the way to the conclusion he'd later relay to Michael Wolff that Trump was the one who'd turned him in to Palm Beach authorities.
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A thing I wrote about Schumer when Mamdani won the primary and kind of thinking about it a lot the last two days
Worth reminding everyone that the current highest ranking Democrat in America openly admits he bases his decisions on what he thinks an imaginary person would want and today he and most of his allies are struggling to understand how somebody like Mamdani won by talking to voters who actually exist
November 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
A thing I wrote about Schumer when Mamdani won the primary and kind of thinking about it a lot the last two days
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I'm thinking today of all my fellow veterans but especially the more than 5,000 trans service members and their families who were kicked out of the military this year despite being highly qualified and serving honorably. This injustice will be a stain on our nation's history.
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I'm thinking today of all my fellow veterans but especially the more than 5,000 trans service members and their families who were kicked out of the military this year despite being highly qualified and serving honorably. This injustice will be a stain on our nation's history.
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My latest.
I've been quiet recently, I know.
A lot of people have said that getting fired from the Washington Post is a "badge of honor".
It's....complicated.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
I've been quiet recently, I know.
A lot of people have said that getting fired from the Washington Post is a "badge of honor".
It's....complicated.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
Is getting fired from mainstream media a "badge of honor"?
On angel numbers, capture of the media and the purge of non-white journalists
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
My latest.
I've been quiet recently, I know.
A lot of people have said that getting fired from the Washington Post is a "badge of honor".
It's....complicated.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
I've been quiet recently, I know.
A lot of people have said that getting fired from the Washington Post is a "badge of honor".
It's....complicated.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
Most good news these days comes via courts.
Oh I remember this!
Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
November 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Most good news these days comes via courts.
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If you're not aware of your ability to do this to help, you can donate via @give-directly.bsky.social directly to SNAP recipients via a debit card they can use on anything, unlike SNAP that limits usage to politician-approved expenditures. So far they've raised $12.6M. (+$50 from me just now)
Donate to SNAP families missing food benefits | Propel & GiveDirectly
Millions are missing SNAP benefits during the shutdown. Donate now to send $50 emergency cash to families fast via the Propel app.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If you're not aware of your ability to do this to help, you can donate via @give-directly.bsky.social directly to SNAP recipients via a debit card they can use on anything, unlike SNAP that limits usage to politician-approved expenditures. So far they've raised $12.6M. (+$50 from me just now)