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Bankman-Fried will be a heck of a good test.
And there it is. Per the WSJ piece on pardons a couple days ago, Trump pardoned Cuellar to try and get him to flip parties

It won’t get much oxygen now, but that might approach Trump’s first impeachment territory in terms of trying to use his powers for naked political gain
December 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).
December 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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My thought of the day is that Trump appears to think that battleships are still the primary capital ship of a modern navy. And that is not the case.
December 25, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Putin needs no disinformation campaign of his own. He has the Trump gang.
December 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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I know you're being facetious but honestly I wonder what happened to Margaret Brennan. Has she always been a hack or did she decide to sell her soul to a Bari Weiss or Ellison shaped devil?
December 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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December 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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December 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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This is Narcisisstic Personality Disorder on display. This is the President of the United States.
December 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
For those arguing it was never about Dem policy positions.
Increasing opioid overdose death rates were associated with an increase in Republican votes. surveys show Independents became more likely to support stricter border security & higher spending on law enforcement as drug death rates increased.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Drug Crisis and Voting Behavior | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
The Drug Crisis and Voting Behavior
www.cambridge.org
December 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Here I go again. If you want small and diverse businesses to bid on government work, the RFP cannot by 48 pages with 12 appendices and 17 attachments.
December 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.)

Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...
December 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Bongino saying the quiet--and cynical--part out loud.

In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that.

What a confession.
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Hey @chadfinn.bsky.social how long is the waiting period before we can start referencing "the Cleveland game"?
December 1, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Best choice for 2028
Listen, Trump. Your continued threats will not intimidate me or keep me from doing my job, which includes oversight of the executive branch.

Stop the threats of execution, hanging, and sending a mob before someone gets hurt.

America deserves better.
New threats from Trump:

The president just endorsed a post reading, "Go get all those traitorous sons of bitches for sedition at the very least. Those pompous traitorous communists should be impeached and prosecuted."
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
And if he did he wouldn't have his cult.
The thing that's always frustrated the right wing ideologues who've glommed onto Trump is that he doesn't have the attention span to actually be a committed ideological warrior. He can scream all the right culture war shit, but it's just WWE pugilistic showmanship. He basically has no belief system.
Trump frickin' loves this guy lmao
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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“The real failure here is not the seedy behavior of one unethical central banker, it is the failure of the entire Biden Administration to take central bank appointments seriously.” petercontibrown.substack.com/p/the-biden-...
The Biden Administration’s Federal Reserve Failures
The Biden Administration did not send the best central bankers. What will the Democrats learn from the experience?
petercontibrown.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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This Thanksgiving please remember to give thanks to the Lord that Trump and his people are so unbelievably incompetent 🙏🏼🦃
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.

Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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“.. The United States is now a nation run by public servants who behave no better than internet trolls ..

“.. Trump’s sexist comments are an attack on women’s dignity — and by making them, he strips the presidency of its dignity too.”

@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
November 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Almost the entire House Democratic Caucus is united against Marie Gleusenkamp Perez for accurately pointing out that one of their members resurrected Chicago machine politics to pull a fast one on his district. Just gross levels of hypocrisy on election integrity. www.axios.com/2025/11/18/m...
Scoop: House Democrats' infighting is poised to get even worse
Progressive Caucus members are privately discussing a retaliatory measure against Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.
www.axios.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Let's do this.
November 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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every epstein email is some creep complaining about MeToo and then being like “oh before i forget, any advice on how to use my position of authority to force women into sleeping with me?”
November 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM