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Chris Berez
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Liverpool, Freiburg, Red Sox, Patriots, Bruins, Celtics, Lynx, tennis. I love comics and cats. Slava Ukraini. Am Yisrael Chai. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱
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December 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Also ew.
Photo of a placard reading “Trump condom $4.50 FINALLY” placed next to a rust colored packet with a drawing of Donald Trump’s face, under which is text reading “I’m HUUUUGE!”
December 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Some highlights from @jvl.bsky.social’s vital newsletter yesterday.

www.thebulwark.com/p/what-if-it...
Secretary Scott Bessent blustered. He attacked the media and claimed that he no longer reads the New York Times because it dared to say that Donald Trump—the most powerful, virile, dynamic man since Liberace—is old and slowing down. Then, when asked about affordability, Bessent made things up. Here’s the exchange: Bessent: [I]n a blue state, affordability is worse than a red state. Ross Sorkin: We can debate that, but keep going— Bessent: No, no, there’s no debate. The number is 50 basis points higher inflation. The ten highest inflation rates are in blue cities. Ross Sorkin: But just so you know, because I went to look at this—this is the Joint Economic Committee—since 2021 the highest inflation of the past four years has been in red states, especially Florida. Bessent: I’m talking about current. Current. Current, not over the past four years. . . . Today. At this point, the audience laughed at the U.S. treasury secretary. I’m not sure people realize how dangerous it is for the SecTreas to be a laughingstock. We’ll talk about why in a minute, but first I want you to consider the future. In May, President Trump will nominate the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. Bessent might get that job. If he does not, the gig could go to Kevin Hassett, who is a political hack like Bessent, only dumber. What happens if Trump breaches the wall between the presidency and the central bank? What happens if the world understands that American fiscal policy is no longer being decided by an apolitical group of serious economists, but dictated by a geriatric conman through his puppet? No one knows. But stay with me, because that’s only the first danger. Let’s pretend that our MAGA Fed chairman manages to get through the rest of Trump’s term without blowing up the economy. What happens if a Democrat wins the White House in 2028? Would this poltroon mismanage the central bank, or attempt to use the Fed to inflict political damage on Democrats? If so, what could Democrats do? Could they remove a blatantly political Fed chair? On what grounds? How would they accomplish that after arguing that Trump should not have been allowed to remove members of the Federal Reserve Board? And that’s how institutional rot happens. Now imagine this process taking place throughout the government. What would a Democratic president do about FBI Director Kash Patel and the senior people he promoted throughout the bureau during his tenure? How about a judiciary stocked with unapologetic partisans like Emil Bove? Or the military? Pete Hegseth has been busily pushing out senior officers who are committed to the Constitution and replacing them with officers considered to be more loyal to Trump. What would a Democratic administration do with a military that has been politicized throughout the senior ranks? These are scenarios we contemplate in Third World countries. Even under the best of circumstances, three years from now we are going to be confronted with them in America. And this is to say nothing about departments like HHS, which have been disfigured by dangerous cranks, and Homeland Security, which have gone completely rogue.
December 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Image from Tommy Boy showing David Spade’s car with the driver’s side door replaced with a wooden gate.
December 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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New Trump pardon imminent.
Headline: Live updates: FBI makes arrest in investigation into pipe bombs placed in DC on eve of Jan. 6, AP source says
December 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Who could have possibly predicted this would happen as a result of announcing open recruitment with no qualifications needed.

Congrats, everyone. We’re being beleaguered by fat Nazi sexual predators who can’t read or walk.
An exhaustive Daily Mail investigation has exposed how Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lowered standards so dramatically that the new cohort now includes everything from recent high school graduates and applicants who can 'barely read or write', to recruits who lack basic physical fitness and even have pending criminal charges. Most of the new hires in the $30 billion initiative are retired law enforcement who are receiving virtual training and being repurposed for desk duty. Meanwhile, total novices are being fast-tracked into the Federal Law Enforcement Training Academy in Georgia, where instructors have been left astounded at the levels of incompetence. 'We have people failing open-book tests and we have folks that can barely read or write English,' one Department of Homeland Security official told the Daily Mail.  'We even had a 469-lb man sent to the academy whose own doctor certified him not at all fit for any physical activity.' Insiders say the vetting process has been so rushed that officials didn't even wait for drug test results to come back before hiring recruits and flying them off to Georgia, only to discover afterward that tests came back positive.  In one shocking incident, staff were left shaking their heads when one student asked to be excused from class so he could attend a court date on a gun charge. In one shocking incident, staff were left shaking their heads when one student asked to be excused from class so he could attend a court date on a gun charge. Reports from FLETC include incidents of violence, disruptive behavior, and allegations of sexual misconduct on campus, most handled internally. One recruit, 29-year-old Darien Coleman, was arrested by county police for allegedly exploding at a FLETC bus driver and smashing his phone, according to records obtained by the Daily Mail. Records described him as a ‘known problem’ on campus who had just resigned when he demanded the driver give him a ride. Sources say another male recruit, after hitting the bars, was caught barging into a female dorm and hitting on the occupants. Another groped a woman in class. 'It wasn't like, "oops, I touched your boob",' one source said. 'Nope, he went full on to predator mode while he was doing the defensive tactics training.' Since the recruitment campaign began in July, 584 recruits have failed out of the academy as of December 1, according to records reviewed by the Daily Mail. Over the same period, records show that just under 558 had graduated, and another 620 were still in training. Sources tell the Daily Mail that many of these recruits won't be street ready or even trained to fully process arrests. 'Even those who identify as former law enforcement, they're not being properly vetted and require basic training,' one official said.  'We're getting folks that are not going to be truly operational because they can't be placed on at large teams to make arrests. 'People are also coming from other law enforcement agencies where they don't have the experience to do detailed immigration work,' the source added. But those older recruits, often returning after years of absence, do serve a greater purpose as far as the leadership is concerned. 'They can come onboard without the training or the check so that we can say that we're getting close to meeting the goal,' the source said. Applicant age is both older and younger than ever before, after ICE decided to widen the range to meet this year's hiring goals. The minimum age has been lowered from 21 to 18 and capped at 65 from 40. 
December 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.
Globally, a third of all forced regime changes by all countries led to civil wars in the targeted nation within 10 years, Downes, the researcher, found. One frequent path to disaster is when regimes collapse outright, leaving armed and disaffected security forces at loose ends. Another is when a foreign-installed new leader finds himself “pulled like Gumby,” Downes said, between the conflicting wants of his people and the foreign power that installed him. “The whole problem with regime change is you tend not to think about what comes after. Like, ‘What’s the plan there?’” Downes told me. “And it’s amazing just how prevalent that is,” he said. “Countries just keep doing it, and either they don’t think about what will happen next, or they think … that won’t happen to us.”
December 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Close enough
November 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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I was going to say this, and I googled it to grab an image of the case art, and holy shit the studio is way ahead of me!
Pre-order page on Best Buy’s website for a remake of the 2003 PlayStation 2 game Fatal Frame II.
November 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Hey the Red Sox actually did something good!
From Ari Alexander: Sonny Gray trade is official: Red Sox get: RHP Sonny Gray Cash Cardinals get: LHP Brandon Clarke RHP Richard Fitts Cash or PTBNL
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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There is a whole lot more in this article that is vastly more objectionable than this (like, say, comments on women and minorities), but writing this to a pedophile is… hoo boy!
Near the conclusion of Bach’s second 2016 email, he commented on Epstein’s indifference to prevailing social norms. “I find your ‘political incorrectness’ very fascinating,” Bach wrote. “In the beginning, I thought it is a form of costly signaling, but now I think you are simply entirely unconstrained in your thoughts.” He added, “I wonder what kind of person you want to transform into.”
November 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Oh lord not this guy again.

Was trying to remember why I knew that name and yeah it’s this
Tom Steyer at the Democratic January 2020 primary debate standing awkwardly while Bernie Sanders argues with Elizabeth Warren after she accused him of misogyny.
November 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Appears to be widespread. Ironically, Downdetector appears to be having issues as well.
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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How do people that are this insane even function on a day-to-day basis? And they all rag Elon’s Hitler-worshipping AI like they’re pulling their mommies in to fight their battles.
November 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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The sheer audacity of this is infuriating

www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/west...
November 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Ok so there’s definitely something extremely incriminating on Trump being covered up. I don’t know any other way to read this. Also seems like a textbook example of why Trump has no business being given a top level security clearance.
Epstein, according to the email, responded, “if we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?” Wolff answered, “I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency. You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt. Of course, it is possible that, when asked, he’ll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.”
November 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Oh my god we really are just straight up going to rerun the subprime crisis again I can’t believe it.
Nightingale Associates on X: Fannie Mae set to drop its 620 credit score minimum. Mortgage giant will instead use its own analysis of risk factors. Officials say they're easing barriers to borrowing. "It's just the latest in a series of policy changes aimed at creating home ownership opportunities in the United States."
November 12, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Trump keeps promising he’s sending checks he doesn’t have the authority to cut.

And pledging to replace all the air traffic controllers he’s mad at with loyalists is… not even sure how that’s supposed to work, but if he was somehow able to do it then air travel is going to be extremely dangerous.
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Donald Trump is probably going to pardon convicted pedophile and sex trafficker Ghislane Maxwell; and they’re giving her the star treatment in prison. This at the same time that republicans are blocking release of the Epstein files that clearly implicate Trump. thehill.com/homenews/559...
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Welp. That’s NH. WMUR originally reported all NH SNAP recipients received their benefits on Friday. Going to need to see how Ayotte responds.
November 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Meanwhile Donald Trump has gone from pretend billionaire to multibillionaire in nine months; and Elon Musk, who gleefully eliminated hundreds of thousands of jobs while waving around a gold chainsaw, was just awarded a trillion compensation package.

Oh and also our jobs are being eliminated by AI.
From unusual_whales on X: “Income for Americans, adjusted for inflation, is essentially the same as it was five years ago, meaning many U.S. workers are not getting any richer, per JPMorgan.”
November 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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The cover for Swallow the Sun’s “Emerald Forrest and the Blackbird.” It depicts a charcoal drawing of a blackbird. In the center of the blackbird is a bird eye reflecting an image of a forrest bathed in green light.”
November 6, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Amazon Web Services. Again. (And other stuff to).
November 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Oh hey look new illegal war just dropped.

You know, MAGA’s defense, putrid as it is, for betraying Ukraine has been, “We don’t want to be involved in foreign affairs! America first!”

Fuck every single one of those fucking people.

“Trump hasn’t started any wars!”

Fuck you, it’s all he does.
“Trump threatens military action in Nigeria over treatment of Christians”
November 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM