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So let’s get this straight:
Trump’s DOJ buried Epstein’s crimes but kept flight logs on Julie K. Brown, the reporter who exposed them. Her 2019 American Airlines booking shows up in the files.
That’s not a data glitch or an oversight.
Trump’s DOJ buried Epstein’s crimes but kept flight logs on Julie K. Brown, the reporter who exposed them. Her 2019 American Airlines booking shows up in the files.
That’s not a data glitch or an oversight.
December 30, 2025 at 3:54 AM
So let’s get this straight:
Trump’s DOJ buried Epstein’s crimes but kept flight logs on Julie K. Brown, the reporter who exposed them. Her 2019 American Airlines booking shows up in the files.
That’s not a data glitch or an oversight.
Trump’s DOJ buried Epstein’s crimes but kept flight logs on Julie K. Brown, the reporter who exposed them. Her 2019 American Airlines booking shows up in the files.
That’s not a data glitch or an oversight.
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Calling out a fascist for taking a hypocritical position is easy. It's also a complete waste of time. Fascist rhetoric is aesthetics— pathos, never logos.
You'll never get anywhere pointing out a fascist's hypocrisy. Fascism is not to be debated, it's to be smashed. Get comfortable using power.
You'll never get anywhere pointing out a fascist's hypocrisy. Fascism is not to be debated, it's to be smashed. Get comfortable using power.
December 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Calling out a fascist for taking a hypocritical position is easy. It's also a complete waste of time. Fascist rhetoric is aesthetics— pathos, never logos.
You'll never get anywhere pointing out a fascist's hypocrisy. Fascism is not to be debated, it's to be smashed. Get comfortable using power.
You'll never get anywhere pointing out a fascist's hypocrisy. Fascism is not to be debated, it's to be smashed. Get comfortable using power.
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ICE agent recognized out Christmas shopping—throws tantrum when citizens profile him.
"We're trying to prevent you from kidnapping our neighbors," they say.
"I'm not doing anything but walking, leave me alone!" he yells.
"Not right now you're not—but the past 5 days you have."
Philadelphia, PA
"We're trying to prevent you from kidnapping our neighbors," they say.
"I'm not doing anything but walking, leave me alone!" he yells.
"Not right now you're not—but the past 5 days you have."
Philadelphia, PA
December 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
ICE agent recognized out Christmas shopping—throws tantrum when citizens profile him.
"We're trying to prevent you from kidnapping our neighbors," they say.
"I'm not doing anything but walking, leave me alone!" he yells.
"Not right now you're not—but the past 5 days you have."
Philadelphia, PA
"We're trying to prevent you from kidnapping our neighbors," they say.
"I'm not doing anything but walking, leave me alone!" he yells.
"Not right now you're not—but the past 5 days you have."
Philadelphia, PA
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here we go (police incident report follows)
December 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
here we go (police incident report follows)
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Remember when Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, wrote an op-ed trying to justify having sex with kids?
Seems relevant now.
Seems relevant now.
December 24, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Remember when Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, wrote an op-ed trying to justify having sex with kids?
Seems relevant now.
Seems relevant now.
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Khanna: You’ve got the DOJ releasing the names of survivors—which they are not allowed to do by law—but not releasing the FBI interview files with those same survivors. Those FBI interviews contain the names of other men: Wall Street tycoons and politicians…
December 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Khanna: You’ve got the DOJ releasing the names of survivors—which they are not allowed to do by law—but not releasing the FBI interview files with those same survivors. Those FBI interviews contain the names of other men: Wall Street tycoons and politicians…
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This victim told a driver that she couldn't report Trump raping her because "They will kill me." In 2021, another victim said that Epstein told her girls who don't behave are fed to alligators and took her where they die. He threatened to kill her and her son.
December 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
This victim told a driver that she couldn't report Trump raping her because "They will kill me." In 2021, another victim said that Epstein told her girls who don't behave are fed to alligators and took her where they die. He threatened to kill her and her son.
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Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
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CBS NEWS: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”
December 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
CBS NEWS: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”
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“Would you acknowledge [bad faith spin from the administration’s toadies which I will present as an objective fact]?”
BRENNAN: This isn't everything you asked for just yet, but would you acknowledge that they are complying with the spirit if not the intent of your law?
MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.
MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.
December 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“Would you acknowledge [bad faith spin from the administration’s toadies which I will present as an objective fact]?”
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🎯PRECISELY! Harris had a HUGE upwelling of grassroots support & an obvious winning campaign theme: Prosecutor vs. Criminal. EVERYTHING in the campaign could have been built around that theme.
BUT NO! She let herself be misled by a consultant class steeped in cultish kitchen-table popularism.
BUT NO! She let herself be misled by a consultant class steeped in cultish kitchen-table popularism.
“Politicians should do what wins elections” is asinine for moral reasons but also, no one knows what will win an election! Yglesias et al keep acting like there’s some obvious set of policies or words that will guarantee victory but Harris basically did what they wanted and she lost.
4. Yglesias instead seems to implicitly argue that politicians should only do what wins elections, virtue be damned. One wonders what he thinks of those foolish 1850s abolitionists. As Condleeza Rice once said, politics is the art of making the impossible inevitable. That ain't this.
December 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
🎯PRECISELY! Harris had a HUGE upwelling of grassroots support & an obvious winning campaign theme: Prosecutor vs. Criminal. EVERYTHING in the campaign could have been built around that theme.
BUT NO! She let herself be misled by a consultant class steeped in cultish kitchen-table popularism.
BUT NO! She let herself be misled by a consultant class steeped in cultish kitchen-table popularism.
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One reason the NYT has burned its credibility with trans people is that they still cite the discredited Cass report in reporting on trans healthcare. Never the German, Utah, or other systematic reviews supporting care. They also never provide the political context behind restrictions in care.
December 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
One reason the NYT has burned its credibility with trans people is that they still cite the discredited Cass report in reporting on trans healthcare. Never the German, Utah, or other systematic reviews supporting care. They also never provide the political context behind restrictions in care.
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"Are we still capable of talking to each other," asks the woman hired by billionaires whose economic model is predicated on fomenting polarization to install an actual criminal who dismantles the regulatory state that kept them from fully extracting what remaining wealth there was from the lower 99%
December 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"Are we still capable of talking to each other," asks the woman hired by billionaires whose economic model is predicated on fomenting polarization to install an actual criminal who dismantles the regulatory state that kept them from fully extracting what remaining wealth there was from the lower 99%
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The first American known to undergo gender reassignment surgery did so in 1951. People with gender-crossing identities have existed in many cultures as far back as we can check—to antiquity.
This is a campaign of hate against a vulnerable group. It’s dictatorshit.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christi...
This is a campaign of hate against a vulnerable group. It’s dictatorshit.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christi...
December 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The first American known to undergo gender reassignment surgery did so in 1951. People with gender-crossing identities have existed in many cultures as far back as we can check—to antiquity.
This is a campaign of hate against a vulnerable group. It’s dictatorshit.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christi...
This is a campaign of hate against a vulnerable group. It’s dictatorshit.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christi...
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A California mayor told high school students her daughter is a lesbian due to childhood trauma, that MLK’s activism was "not really helpful," and that church/state separation is a "myth."
One kid secretly recorded her.
The fallout has been intense.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/mayor-crit...
One kid secretly recorded her.
The fallout has been intense.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/mayor-crit...
Mayor criticized for preaching bigotry during secretly recorded speech to high school club
Holly Andreatta’s comments on race, religion, and LGBTQ identity went viral after students documented the talk and challenged her in real time
www.friendlyatheist.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
A California mayor told high school students her daughter is a lesbian due to childhood trauma, that MLK’s activism was "not really helpful," and that church/state separation is a "myth."
One kid secretly recorded her.
The fallout has been intense.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/mayor-crit...
One kid secretly recorded her.
The fallout has been intense.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/mayor-crit...
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This is now the third time this year the Cowardly Speaker has sent the House home early when things weren't going his way.
Deciding when to recess the House to "district work periods" isn't some inherent or longstanding power of the Speaker. It was only added to the rules for the first time in this Congress. Otherwise this would have required the full House to vote on it, which could have been defeated.
As expected, in order to avoid a vote on extension of the ACA, Mike Johnson is gaveling the House into recess.
December 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This is now the third time this year the Cowardly Speaker has sent the House home early when things weren't going his way.
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Chicago Police Chief Snelling needs to be grilled by all elected officials and journalists about why the *Hell* this is happening.
If he ordered it, if he allows it to go on, he must be replaced with someone who won't.
If he ordered it, if he allows it to go on, he must be replaced with someone who won't.
In Chicago, a man on Facebook Live was following the Border Patrol north on Lake Shore Drive. At the end of the drive, a bunch of city cop cars cut off the man who was following and live-streaming Border Patrol.
December 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Chicago Police Chief Snelling needs to be grilled by all elected officials and journalists about why the *Hell* this is happening.
If he ordered it, if he allows it to go on, he must be replaced with someone who won't.
If he ordered it, if he allows it to go on, he must be replaced with someone who won't.
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BREAKING: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ discharge petition has reached 218 signatures, clearing the threshold needed to force a vote on a clean, three-year extension of Obamacare premium subsidies.
December 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
BREAKING: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ discharge petition has reached 218 signatures, clearing the threshold needed to force a vote on a clean, three-year extension of Obamacare premium subsidies.
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To those thinking Russia is winning in Ukraine:
Imagine if when we invaded Iraq, we were almost four years into it, only occupied 20 percent, and lost a million men.
Not a soul would call that “winning.”
Imagine if when we invaded Iraq, we were almost four years into it, only occupied 20 percent, and lost a million men.
Not a soul would call that “winning.”
December 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
To those thinking Russia is winning in Ukraine:
Imagine if when we invaded Iraq, we were almost four years into it, only occupied 20 percent, and lost a million men.
Not a soul would call that “winning.”
Imagine if when we invaded Iraq, we were almost four years into it, only occupied 20 percent, and lost a million men.
Not a soul would call that “winning.”
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This Day in Labor History: December 16, 1977. Eight women bank workers at Citizens National Bank in Willmar, Minnesota went on strike, charging sex discrimination they faced on the job. Let's talk about these brave women and their fight for justice!
December 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This Day in Labor History: December 16, 1977. Eight women bank workers at Citizens National Bank in Willmar, Minnesota went on strike, charging sex discrimination they faced on the job. Let's talk about these brave women and their fight for justice!
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Fascist activist Bari Weiss is doing what her billionaire benefactors recruited her for: to turn CBS News into an ongoing infomercial for Hitler Youth.
December 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Fascist activist Bari Weiss is doing what her billionaire benefactors recruited her for: to turn CBS News into an ongoing infomercial for Hitler Youth.
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Stephen Miller is to blame for the evil ICE is doing. Trump is to blame for listening to Miller. The Republican party is to blame for supporting Trump. MAGA voters are to blame for re-electing Trump. There's enough blame for all of them to share.
December 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Stephen Miller is to blame for the evil ICE is doing. Trump is to blame for listening to Miller. The Republican party is to blame for supporting Trump. MAGA voters are to blame for re-electing Trump. There's enough blame for all of them to share.
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Trump threatened Indiana Republicans that if they didn't do what he wanted, he'd block all federal funds to their state but they ignored his threats and told him to pound sand.
Take notes, college presidents.
Take notes, college presidents.
December 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Trump threatened Indiana Republicans that if they didn't do what he wanted, he'd block all federal funds to their state but they ignored his threats and told him to pound sand.
Take notes, college presidents.
Take notes, college presidents.
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MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
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Racism.
The answer is racism.
The answer is racism.
December 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Racism.
The answer is racism.
The answer is racism.