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· Nov 17
Why are we giving Flynn $50 million?
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Trump and Stephen Miller are actually failing in crucial ways. Deportations are lagging behind their goals, courts are mostly functioning, and their fascist, ethnonationalist cruelties have unleashed a countermobilization of unexpected scope and power.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2046...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2046...
December 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Trump and Stephen Miller are actually failing in crucial ways. Deportations are lagging behind their goals, courts are mostly functioning, and their fascist, ethnonationalist cruelties have unleashed a countermobilization of unexpected scope and power.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2046...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2046...
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
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In one fell swoop, Trump has successfully achieved his goal of fucking up voting by mail.
As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
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December 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
In one fell swoop, Trump has successfully achieved his goal of fucking up voting by mail.
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Sarah Cooper is back. 👏
December 30, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Sarah Cooper is back. 👏
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This is excellent. Do read.
A year-end special from me:
The 25 Worst Villains of the Trump Admin, in ranking order. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
The 25 Worst Villains of the Trump Admin, in ranking order. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
25 Worst Villains of the Trump Admin
The worst of the worst, ranked 1-25.
open.substack.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This is excellent. Do read.
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This is so ridiculous, even for this absurd administration.
Burgum: "Today we're sending notifications to the 5 large offshore wind projects that are under construction that their leases will be suspended due to national security concerns ... the Dept of War has come back conclusively that these large offshore wind programs create radar interference"
December 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This is so ridiculous, even for this absurd administration.
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Trump to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research. one of the world’s leading Earth science research institutions.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...
Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Trump to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research. one of the world’s leading Earth science research institutions.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...
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Enten highlights that Trump is underwater on every key issue: "The report card is negative. Every single day since March 12 Trump has been in the red. 281 days in a row. The bottom line is Americans don't like what Trump is doing and they haven't liked what Trump's doing for a long period of time."
December 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Enten highlights that Trump is underwater on every key issue: "The report card is negative. Every single day since March 12 Trump has been in the red. 281 days in a row. The bottom line is Americans don't like what Trump is doing and they haven't liked what Trump's doing for a long period of time."
No more grants relating to work on birth defects. Surely we must be close to greatness now?
I'm told that HHS has just terminated all funding agreements with the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"
Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"
December 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM
No more grants relating to work on birth defects. Surely we must be close to greatness now?
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After four years of Democrat Party chaos, America is finally under the resolute leadership of President Donald J. Trump, who reminds me of my alcoholic father.
by Susie Wiles
by Susie Wiles
December 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
After four years of Democrat Party chaos, America is finally under the resolute leadership of President Donald J. Trump, who reminds me of my alcoholic father.
by Susie Wiles
by Susie Wiles
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This is wild!
You know the Vanity Fair article with Susie Wiles that everyone’s talking about?
Yeah. This is basically the audio version Narrated by Nicolle Wallace, and it’s not “taken out of context”. ☠️😭
You know the Vanity Fair article with Susie Wiles that everyone’s talking about?
Yeah. This is basically the audio version Narrated by Nicolle Wallace, and it’s not “taken out of context”. ☠️😭
December 17, 2025 at 3:07 AM
This is wild!
You know the Vanity Fair article with Susie Wiles that everyone’s talking about?
Yeah. This is basically the audio version Narrated by Nicolle Wallace, and it’s not “taken out of context”. ☠️😭
You know the Vanity Fair article with Susie Wiles that everyone’s talking about?
Yeah. This is basically the audio version Narrated by Nicolle Wallace, and it’s not “taken out of context”. ☠️😭
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As the Supreme Court ponders letting Trump and his henchmen stack supposedly non-partisan government agencies with their lackeys, my Nation column explains just how bad an idea this is. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
It Would Be Madness to Give Trump and His Toadies Even More Power
And yet, that’s what the Supreme Court appears prepared to do.
www.thenation.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
As the Supreme Court ponders letting Trump and his henchmen stack supposedly non-partisan government agencies with their lackeys, my Nation column explains just how bad an idea this is. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism."
- Hannah Arendt
- Hannah Arendt
December 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism."
- Hannah Arendt
- Hannah Arendt
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I actually think it's pretty offensive that the president uses the military like a child playing army
December 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I actually think it's pretty offensive that the president uses the military like a child playing army
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Only 31% of U.S. adults now approve of how Trump is handling the economy, per a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Expect GOP supporters to start jumping ship as they try to salvage their own careers. Too late, IMO.
Expect GOP supporters to start jumping ship as they try to salvage their own careers. Too late, IMO.
Trump's handling of the economy is at its lowest point in AP-NORC polling
A new AP-NORC poll finds President Donald Trump’s approval on the economy has fallen substantially since he reentered the White House.
apnews.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Only 31% of U.S. adults now approve of how Trump is handling the economy, per a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Expect GOP supporters to start jumping ship as they try to salvage their own careers. Too late, IMO.
Expect GOP supporters to start jumping ship as they try to salvage their own careers. Too late, IMO.
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To complete a perfect circle of hypcrisy, today would be an excellent day for other U.S. warships to fire a salvo of missiles into Yemen to punish the Houthis for targeting ships in international waters. American exceptionalism demands it, in fact.
🚨*US SEIZES OIL TANKER OFF THE COAST OF VENEZUELA
December 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
To complete a perfect circle of hypcrisy, today would be an excellent day for other U.S. warships to fire a salvo of missiles into Yemen to punish the Houthis for targeting ships in international waters. American exceptionalism demands it, in fact.
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Trump Appears To Doze During Stroke
December 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Trump Appears To Doze During Stroke
It was gold and everything
December 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
It was gold and everything
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Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
December 6, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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3 Questions:
1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
December 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
3 Questions:
1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
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He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”
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Trump's MRI raises new questions about Biden's health.
December 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Trump's MRI raises new questions about Biden's health.
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Oxford University Press has chosen “rage bait” as its 2025 Word of the Year. The open-compound word, which beat out “biohack” and “aura farming,” goes back at least to 2002. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/a...
November 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Oxford University Press has chosen “rage bait” as its 2025 Word of the Year. The open-compound word, which beat out “biohack” and “aura farming,” goes back at least to 2002. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/a...
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"The team hypothesized that men “require more explicit vocalizations to notice and respond to the needs of their cats.” In other words, the researchers are suggesting that many cats have concluded that men don’t always listen, and adjusted their behavior accordingly."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/s...
To Get a Man’s Attention, Meow Harder
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
"The team hypothesized that men “require more explicit vocalizations to notice and respond to the needs of their cats.” In other words, the researchers are suggesting that many cats have concluded that men don’t always listen, and adjusted their behavior accordingly."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/s...