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The Ayatollah’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.
June 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Vance's Easter visit to Rome clogged its streets with a 40-vehicle entourage. He also demanded the Coliseum be closed so he and his family could tour it alone. Tourists who properly booked slots in advance got screwed.

He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.
JD Vance and his forty 4x4s visit the Vatican during trip to Rome
The US vice-president, a self-styled ‘baby Catholic’ who was baptised in 2019, and his family met senior officials from the Catholic Church
www.thetimes.com
April 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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April 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private server or Pete Hegseth using the nuclear codes as his password on Pornhub, both parties have ignored our nation's security.
April 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government may not use federal benefits or funds to coerce parties to surrender their constitutional rights. This is what the Administration is doing ..”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
April 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”
April 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Nothing has prepared you to live under Trump 2 as much as growing up in 1980s/90s Latin America. It was exactly like that! The sudden announcements changing everything, the overwhelming uncertainty, the sheer vertigo and whiplash. Plus, the sense that democracy is fragile and could collapse...
April 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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The best part of a Trump presidency is watching his fans be forced to do constant 180s on fundamental political beliefs in order to continue to agree with a man who changes his mind every 45 seconds.
February 28, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me
April 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Tariffs will be lifted on penguins who agree to be completely white.

by Stephen Miller
April 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this
February 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”
To repeat: "A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for."
Today's university slashing and burning is Edinburgh, where about 10% of the budget will be cut. There'll be another case every single day until UK govts actually do something. A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
February 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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My five accomplishments last week

* Defeated King Darius’ Empire

* Founded dozens of cities

* Spread Hellenistic culture across the Middle East

* Never lost a battle

* Wept for there were no more worlds to conquer
February 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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The great Yale historian, Timothy Snyder, expert on fascism and on Ukraine and Russia
February 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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February 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children
I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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i think opponents of trump also have to resist the temptation of intellectualizing his outbursts or attributing them to some recognizable goal. the fact is that trump is obsessed with greenland because it is big on a map. he wants canada because it is also big on a map. that's it.
January 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Don't look at rhetoric to get U.S. foreign policy. Look at budget allocations, industrial capacity, and available manpower, i.e., revealed preferences.

Otherwise, you won't be able to keep up with this second-run movie theatre version of Nixon's madman strategy.
January 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Incredible to think that Henry VIII never ate a potato. Never has a guy looked so much like someone who eats chips and yet couldn't have
December 15, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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November 24, 2024 at 8:35 PM