Michael Powell
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Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.
December 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.
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These people are gutter trash.
JD Vance: "They are not sending their best. Omar Fateh was Ilehan [sic] Omar's candidate for mayor of Mogadishu-- I mean Minneapolis. Little Freudian slip there."
December 22, 2025 at 4:33 AM
These people are gutter trash.
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It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
December 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
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December 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
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Honestly, it’s the perfect role for a VP. They’re usually the more partisan one and they usually need something to do.
Imagine the joy of Tim Walz in a hard hat, behind the wheel of a wrecking ball
Imagine the joy of Tim Walz in a hard hat, behind the wheel of a wrecking ball
There's a series of things (like the ballroom, Gulf of America) that we're going to have to *undo* the moment this guy is out of office.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
The president's name was added to the sign outside the performing arts center.
December 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Honestly, it’s the perfect role for a VP. They’re usually the more partisan one and they usually need something to do.
Imagine the joy of Tim Walz in a hard hat, behind the wheel of a wrecking ball
Imagine the joy of Tim Walz in a hard hat, behind the wheel of a wrecking ball
I would vote for Jon Stewart in a fucking second.
December 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I would vote for Jon Stewart in a fucking second.
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Wow, Charlie Kirk really did energize the youths
From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...)
December 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Wow, Charlie Kirk really did energize the youths
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Q: Do you stand by your statement from earlier this year that nobody has died from USAID cuts?
RUBIO: I'm very proud of the changes we've made in foreign aid
RUBIO: I'm very proud of the changes we've made in foreign aid
December 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Q: Do you stand by your statement from earlier this year that nobody has died from USAID cuts?
RUBIO: I'm very proud of the changes we've made in foreign aid
RUBIO: I'm very proud of the changes we've made in foreign aid
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Every time a Trumpist goes on TV and ritually humiliates themself to advance a stupid Trump point I remember the time that asshole Joe Francis was made to humiliate himself with a dildo on camera at gunpoint
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times
F: Not a 600% cut
L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Every time a Trumpist goes on TV and ritually humiliates themself to advance a stupid Trump point I remember the time that asshole Joe Francis was made to humiliate himself with a dildo on camera at gunpoint
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Merck will soon be paying you $300 every time you get one of their drugs that used to cost you $50
LOLLL Trump claims he’s cutting drug prices by 600 percent, which is not possible
December 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Merck will soon be paying you $300 every time you get one of their drugs that used to cost you $50
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We are days away from the appearance of a framed Calvin-peeing-on-a-picture-of-Biden on some White House wall.
Per @garretthaake.bsky.social, the extremely tacky "presidential wall of fame" that lines the colonnade to the West Wing now has obviously-Trump-penned plaques insulting or praising the presidents.
December 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
We are days away from the appearance of a framed Calvin-peeing-on-a-picture-of-Biden on some White House wall.
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everything is so fucking stupid
December 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
everything is so fucking stupid
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“On Dec. 4, four people who have been in the country lawfully for years had their oath ceremonies at Faneuil Hall canceled by Citizenship and Immigration Services officials.”
They don’t want legal immigration either.
They don’t want legal immigration either.
“A group of people who were ready to be sitting in these very seats, raising their right hand to swear an oath to become citizens were turned away at the door because of their countries of origin, stemming from the hateful policies of this federal administration,” said Mayor Wu.
Faneuil Hall immigrant oath ceremonies were canceled due to ‘hateful’ Trump policies, Boston mayor says - The Boston Globe
Michelle Wu spoke Tuesday at Faneuil Hall, where on Dec. 4 four people had their citizenship ceremonies canceled at the last minute.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
“On Dec. 4, four people who have been in the country lawfully for years had their oath ceremonies at Faneuil Hall canceled by Citizenship and Immigration Services officials.”
They don’t want legal immigration either.
They don’t want legal immigration either.
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This really is, as Sara says, INSANE memory-holing: Minutes after FCC Chairman Carr told Congress that the FCC "is not" an independent agency (see video below via @atrupar.com), the FCC website started getting scrubbed to remove that description.
December 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This really is, as Sara says, INSANE memory-holing: Minutes after FCC Chairman Carr told Congress that the FCC "is not" an independent agency (see video below via @atrupar.com), the FCC website started getting scrubbed to remove that description.
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Per @garretthaake.bsky.social, the extremely tacky "presidential wall of fame" that lines the colonnade to the West Wing now has obviously-Trump-penned plaques insulting or praising the presidents.
December 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Per @garretthaake.bsky.social, the extremely tacky "presidential wall of fame" that lines the colonnade to the West Wing now has obviously-Trump-penned plaques insulting or praising the presidents.
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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It’s crazy how the “Don’t tread on me!” and “Live free or die” crowd is fine with masked gangs of anonymous armed federal agents hassling, detaining, and assaulting people on the streets “papers please”-style.
This feels like the most basic freedom of not living in a fascist police state.
This feels like the most basic freedom of not living in a fascist police state.
Here's interview with US citizen scanned by ICE's facial recognition tech. Walking home from gym, authorities come over. He says he's a citizen. Put him in car. Only release after scanning his face
“Flagrant violation of rights and incompatible with a free society”
www.404media.co/how-a-us-cit...
“Flagrant violation of rights and incompatible with a free society”
www.404media.co/how-a-us-cit...
How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE's Facial Recognition Tech
Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he was a U.S. citizen. Only after they scanned his face, did the agents let him go.
www.404media.co
December 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
It’s crazy how the “Don’t tread on me!” and “Live free or die” crowd is fine with masked gangs of anonymous armed federal agents hassling, detaining, and assaulting people on the streets “papers please”-style.
This feels like the most basic freedom of not living in a fascist police state.
This feels like the most basic freedom of not living in a fascist police state.
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I'm not even going to repost a screengrab of his post about Rob Reiner but man it really needs to be said every single day: Trump truly is the biggest piece of shit in the world, a man of absolutely no good qualities and seemingly limitless bad ones. Support for him is just so damning.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I'm not even going to repost a screengrab of his post about Rob Reiner but man it really needs to be said every single day: Trump truly is the biggest piece of shit in the world, a man of absolutely no good qualities and seemingly limitless bad ones. Support for him is just so damning.
@brihreed.bsky.social If you’re going to “Question Everything”, maybe you should question whether wearing a live mic that goes straight to an AI data center is a shrewd move for yourself or your listeners.
December 13, 2025 at 5:40 AM
@brihreed.bsky.social If you’re going to “Question Everything”, maybe you should question whether wearing a live mic that goes straight to an AI data center is a shrewd move for yourself or your listeners.
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It is just deeply weird to me that Musk and others like him are worried about white people becoming a minority. Why the hell should I care if the world, or specific parts of it, have more people with darker skin than mine than they do people with the same color skin as mine?
Musk is just straight up white nationalist now.
(And helpfully decoding that Western Civilization=Whites)
(And helpfully decoding that Western Civilization=Whites)
December 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
It is just deeply weird to me that Musk and others like him are worried about white people becoming a minority. Why the hell should I care if the world, or specific parts of it, have more people with darker skin than mine than they do people with the same color skin as mine?
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“What most struck me is the brutality and physical violence involved in every story,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal. “This is stuff that should be unrecognizable as America. It should make everyday Americans outraged.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
Immigration Agents Have Often Grabbed and Mistreated Citizens, Congressional Investigators Find
Prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, an investigation by Senate Democrats documented the experiences of nearly two dozen citizens wrongly detained by immigration agents, contradicting the Trump adminis...
www.propublica.org
December 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“What most struck me is the brutality and physical violence involved in every story,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal. “This is stuff that should be unrecognizable as America. It should make everyday Americans outraged.”
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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Voters will pay the price if their representatives represent them.
December 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Voters will pay the price if their representatives represent them.