They key takeaway here is actually that he's a cheapskate who puts in a nominal initial bid then lets the actual rich people spend money
after bidding $100,000 for a painting during an auction at Mar-a-Lago, Trump describes $2 million as "peanuts" for another bidder and the painting eventually goes for over $2.5 million
January 1, 2026 at 6:48 AM
They key takeaway here is actually that he's a cheapskate who puts in a nominal initial bid then lets the actual rich people spend money
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Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
December 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
Jake Tapper is live on air.
what would be the funniest way to find out It happened
like via Jeff Passan or something
like via Jeff Passan or something
December 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Jake Tapper is live on air.
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My last story for the year - the third in a sort of trilogy about the energy crisis. This one is about about the unmanaged, unfunded, messy transition away from gas and the impact on businesses.Feels like a perfect example of where we really really could be doing better www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
Lost in transition: The businesses trapped by New Zealand’s energy crisis
Behind the nation's energy crisis are businesses quietly fighting to survive - many feel they have nothing but bad options.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
My last story for the year - the third in a sort of trilogy about the energy crisis. This one is about about the unmanaged, unfunded, messy transition away from gas and the impact on businesses.Feels like a perfect example of where we really really could be doing better www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
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🇪🇺‼️ Over the past 100 years, Russia has attacked more than 19 countries, some of them even three or four times, — Kallas
None of these countries has ever attacked Russia.
None of these countries has ever attacked Russia.
November 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
🇪🇺‼️ Over the past 100 years, Russia has attacked more than 19 countries, some of them even three or four times, — Kallas
None of these countries has ever attacked Russia.
None of these countries has ever attacked Russia.
Uh oh 😳
FA-18s' transponders have been turned off.
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Uh oh 😳
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The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
Omg now that's a headline AND post 💀🔥
Faux-chicken and tofu sausage producers die a cruelty-free death as younger demographics strive for higher meat consumption.
Alt meat brands up in flames as high protein hype sweeps NZ
newsroom.co.nz
October 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Omg now that's a headline AND post 💀🔥
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Trump's AI video, showing himself as a pilot dumping shit on Americans, fits right in to a long authoritarian tradition
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Why Trump Turned to the Sewer
The president’s disturbing, excremental propaganda campaign
www.theatlantic.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Trump's AI video, showing himself as a pilot dumping shit on Americans, fits right in to a long authoritarian tradition
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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This kinda stuff used to depress me, but now
October 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This kinda stuff used to depress me, but now
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"Trump’s anti-anti-fascism orders distort not just words like terrorism, violence, and fascism, but also the law, how the federal government is organized, and what the Constitution establishes as the foundational principles of this country."
Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America
But don’t call that fascism. That would be bad.
www.theverge.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
"Trump’s anti-anti-fascism orders distort not just words like terrorism, violence, and fascism, but also the law, how the federal government is organized, and what the Constitution establishes as the foundational principles of this country."
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As an internet culture journalist, I think it’s important for me to continue to observe the depravity that goes viral on X, but one of the reasons I’m glad I stopped posting there is because I think it helps me avoid normalizing the rhetoric celebrating the political brutality in America right now
October 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
As an internet culture journalist, I think it’s important for me to continue to observe the depravity that goes viral on X, but one of the reasons I’m glad I stopped posting there is because I think it helps me avoid normalizing the rhetoric celebrating the political brutality in America right now
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DHS posts an antisemitic meme about keeping "globalists" out of the US.
One of the internet's most influential white nationalists, the British white supremacist known as "Raw Egg Nationalist," responds with a groyper meme.
The DHS account RESPONDS, calling him "Patriot."
One of the internet's most influential white nationalists, the British white supremacist known as "Raw Egg Nationalist," responds with a groyper meme.
The DHS account RESPONDS, calling him "Patriot."
October 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
DHS posts an antisemitic meme about keeping "globalists" out of the US.
One of the internet's most influential white nationalists, the British white supremacist known as "Raw Egg Nationalist," responds with a groyper meme.
The DHS account RESPONDS, calling him "Patriot."
One of the internet's most influential white nationalists, the British white supremacist known as "Raw Egg Nationalist," responds with a groyper meme.
The DHS account RESPONDS, calling him "Patriot."
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reject modernity (Sora), embrace tradition (JibJab)
September 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
reject modernity (Sora), embrace tradition (JibJab)
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Flights have been halted to Copenhagen Airport after multiple drones were spotted over the Øresund Strait, Reuters reports.
September 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Flights have been halted to Copenhagen Airport after multiple drones were spotted over the Øresund Strait, Reuters reports.
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What the picture doesn't show is Lee Greenwood singing "Proud to be an american" in the background as the pyro goes off. This is the tackiness singularity
Fireworks for Trump at Charlie Kirk's memorial service.
September 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
What the picture doesn't show is Lee Greenwood singing "Proud to be an american" in the background as the pyro goes off. This is the tackiness singularity
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Danish Prime Minister Frederiksen:
"We do not want either a conflict or a war with Russia. No one in Europe wants that. There is only one aggressive party, and that is Russia…
If we do not dare to stand up for ourselves&do what needs to be done,we will simply be too easy a target at some point”
"We do not want either a conflict or a war with Russia. No one in Europe wants that. There is only one aggressive party, and that is Russia…
If we do not dare to stand up for ourselves&do what needs to be done,we will simply be too easy a target at some point”
September 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Danish Prime Minister Frederiksen:
"We do not want either a conflict or a war with Russia. No one in Europe wants that. There is only one aggressive party, and that is Russia…
If we do not dare to stand up for ourselves&do what needs to be done,we will simply be too easy a target at some point”
"We do not want either a conflict or a war with Russia. No one in Europe wants that. There is only one aggressive party, and that is Russia…
If we do not dare to stand up for ourselves&do what needs to be done,we will simply be too easy a target at some point”
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This from former President Obama mirrors the typical response from Democrats. It is starkly different from the finger pointing and threats coming from the right.
We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.
September 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This from former President Obama mirrors the typical response from Democrats. It is starkly different from the finger pointing and threats coming from the right.
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This is newsworthy
September 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This is newsworthy
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It’s essential NATO responds strongly, with increased aid to democratic Ukraine and more sanctions on fascist Russia.
If it doesn’t, Putin will see this as a sign of weakness and will test the alliance further - increasing the risk of a more dangerous escalation of the conflict with the West.
If it doesn’t, Putin will see this as a sign of weakness and will test the alliance further - increasing the risk of a more dangerous escalation of the conflict with the West.
September 10, 2025 at 4:08 AM
It’s essential NATO responds strongly, with increased aid to democratic Ukraine and more sanctions on fascist Russia.
If it doesn’t, Putin will see this as a sign of weakness and will test the alliance further - increasing the risk of a more dangerous escalation of the conflict with the West.
If it doesn’t, Putin will see this as a sign of weakness and will test the alliance further - increasing the risk of a more dangerous escalation of the conflict with the West.
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I may be oversensitive, but this seems troubling. And you don't have to think too hard to see an economic angle here, too.
This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.
Leavitt: "These are the bad guys that we are picking up in Washington DC every day. The president would love to do this in every Democrat-run city across the country."
September 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I may be oversensitive, but this seems troubling. And you don't have to think too hard to see an economic angle here, too.
I recently spent four days at a public hospital. Marshmallows with the hot chocolate was about the only bright spot on terms of food. The main hospital cafe was like a dystopian film with a wall of plain water bottles and the bleakest bland sandwiches you've ever seen 1/
Sweet relief for lovers of hot chocolate.
Marshmallows, briefly banned, are back in hospital cafés after minister’s intervention
They are now available on request after the health minister asked for a review of a new food policy which would have stopped them being added to hot drinks at hospitals. Have your say in the comments.
www.thepost.co.nz
September 9, 2025 at 5:52 AM
I recently spent four days at a public hospital. Marshmallows with the hot chocolate was about the only bright spot on terms of food. The main hospital cafe was like a dystopian film with a wall of plain water bottles and the bleakest bland sandwiches you've ever seen 1/
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This is exactly what the European far-right does: pretend that advocates for Ukraine want us to be "dying in Russia." The point is to scare people into doing nothing at all (as if letting Russia win would make us safer)
I missed the part where Democrats said they wanted to send US troops into Russia. And why is it necessary for him to always debate fictitious Democratic positions that he invents in his twisted brain rather than actual ones? Too tough to argue against the real ones?
September 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This is exactly what the European far-right does: pretend that advocates for Ukraine want us to be "dying in Russia." The point is to scare people into doing nothing at all (as if letting Russia win would make us safer)
The most Wellington thing that has ever Wellingtoned 🫠
September 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The most Wellington thing that has ever Wellingtoned 🫠