Frannie Bananas
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DAYUM‼️Ana Navarro does not mince words when she calls out Trump’s vile Truth Social post about Rob Reiner. Reiner was no fan of the president but he was a staunch defender of Democracy. Trump doubled down on his post this afternoon so I’m sure Ana will have more to say tomorrow.
December 15, 2025 at 9:53 PM
DAYUM‼️Ana Navarro does not mince words when she calls out Trump’s vile Truth Social post about Rob Reiner. Reiner was no fan of the president but he was a staunch defender of Democracy. Trump doubled down on his post this afternoon so I’m sure Ana will have more to say tomorrow.
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Propping Trump up in front of some uniformed troops and like Jenny McCarthy for some reason to sign the Prosperity And Excellence Act, which mandates that vehicular homicide is legal and retroactively awards him an Emmy and a Stanley Cup. He starts talking about how Bette Midler "really went down."
December 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Propping Trump up in front of some uniformed troops and like Jenny McCarthy for some reason to sign the Prosperity And Excellence Act, which mandates that vehicular homicide is legal and retroactively awards him an Emmy and a Stanley Cup. He starts talking about how Bette Midler "really went down."
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🤔Yes, Yes, Yes
We definitely need to see the crimes that TrumpIsAFelon committed and was not prosecuted for. It will definitely tell us how badly our national security has been voluntarily breached.
We definitely need to see the crimes that TrumpIsAFelon committed and was not prosecuted for. It will definitely tell us how badly our national security has been voluntarily breached.
Epstein files ain’t the only scandal Blondi is covering up for her mafia boss. #JackSmith www.courthousenews.com/house-democr...
House Democrats demand Bondi release special counsel report on Trump classified documents case
Though the classified documents case is long defunct, an order from a Trump-appointed judge earlier this year has kept Jack Smith’s report on the president’s handling of such material under wraps.
www.courthousenews.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
🤔Yes, Yes, Yes
We definitely need to see the crimes that TrumpIsAFelon committed and was not prosecuted for. It will definitely tell us how badly our national security has been voluntarily breached.
We definitely need to see the crimes that TrumpIsAFelon committed and was not prosecuted for. It will definitely tell us how badly our national security has been voluntarily breached.
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Donny's operatives are proceeding with (possibly correct) assumption that media will pay absolutely no attention to M.C. Escher logic-staircase used to justify their actions
🙃 Jack Smith must testify, but
😶🌫️ behind closed doors, and
🤫 nobody can see his report, also
👹 how dare you question us
🙃 Jack Smith must testify, but
😶🌫️ behind closed doors, and
🤫 nobody can see his report, also
👹 how dare you question us
December 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Donny's operatives are proceeding with (possibly correct) assumption that media will pay absolutely no attention to M.C. Escher logic-staircase used to justify their actions
🙃 Jack Smith must testify, but
😶🌫️ behind closed doors, and
🤫 nobody can see his report, also
👹 how dare you question us
🙃 Jack Smith must testify, but
😶🌫️ behind closed doors, and
🤫 nobody can see his report, also
👹 how dare you question us
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piece by @benjaminweiss.bsky.social for @courthousenews.bsky.social is very good and I will add: Loose Cannon's stated justification for concealing the report was "oh jeez, we can't taint cases against Nauta and De Oliveira!"
which were (corruptly) dismissed by Bondi's DOJ* 10 months ago, so... ??
which were (corruptly) dismissed by Bondi's DOJ* 10 months ago, so... ??
December 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
piece by @benjaminweiss.bsky.social for @courthousenews.bsky.social is very good and I will add: Loose Cannon's stated justification for concealing the report was "oh jeez, we can't taint cases against Nauta and De Oliveira!"
which were (corruptly) dismissed by Bondi's DOJ* 10 months ago, so... ??
which were (corruptly) dismissed by Bondi's DOJ* 10 months ago, so... ??
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squint long enough and you might reasonably deduce Pamela Jo Bondi and Aileen Cannon (remember her?!?) are conspiring to suppress Jack Smith's report 👀
December 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
squint long enough and you might reasonably deduce Pamela Jo Bondi and Aileen Cannon (remember her?!?) are conspiring to suppress Jack Smith's report 👀
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"He’s 62, and she’s 64; she’s going to get on Medicare next year. Their premium is going to $3,000," Congressman Flood said...
“$3,000 a month is obscene. That buys you the best house in Butler County, Nebraska.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
“$3,000 a month is obscene. That buys you the best house in Butler County, Nebraska.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Analysis | Rank-and-file Republicans feel heat from constituents on health care
As efforts to address expiring Obamacare subsidies stall in Congress, members of Trump’s party say it’s time to find a way to help millions afford health insurance.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"He’s 62, and she’s 64; she’s going to get on Medicare next year. Their premium is going to $3,000," Congressman Flood said...
“$3,000 a month is obscene. That buys you the best house in Butler County, Nebraska.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
“$3,000 a month is obscene. That buys you the best house in Butler County, Nebraska.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump doubles down on Rob Reiner criticism after killing.
December 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Trump doubles down on Rob Reiner criticism after killing.
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Miller’s use of “fifth column” refers to a group of people within a country seeking to undermine it from within. It has been used by right-wing groups and governments to attack Muslims and other groups they deem subversive. trib.al/IHPvohx
December 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Miller’s use of “fifth column” refers to a group of people within a country seeking to undermine it from within. It has been used by right-wing groups and governments to attack Muslims and other groups they deem subversive. trib.al/IHPvohx
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How we gonna use a WMD in a hospital?
State Dept. source speculated to me in March that the purpose of making fentanyl a WMD "is a combination of designating fentanyl cartels as terrorist organizations and creating justification for conducting military operations in Mexico and Canada" and "deporting drug users who are not citizens."
Trump to declare 'illicit' fentanyl 'Weapon of Mass Destruction,' per draft EO
A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
How we gonna use a WMD in a hospital?
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It's not a conspiracy theory to say that Douthat's primary role in our political culture today is to tell fairy tales to rich centrist NYT readers about how the far right extremists who have taken over the brands of the GOP and "conservatism" are totally fine and are nothing to be concerned about.
December 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
It's not a conspiracy theory to say that Douthat's primary role in our political culture today is to tell fairy tales to rich centrist NYT readers about how the far right extremists who have taken over the brands of the GOP and "conservatism" are totally fine and are nothing to be concerned about.
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It's notable to me that one of the main guys the NYTimes pays to be on the "conservatism" beat has long seemed to have almost no understanding of the movement he's paid to analyze.
December 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It's notable to me that one of the main guys the NYTimes pays to be on the "conservatism" beat has long seemed to have almost no understanding of the movement he's paid to analyze.
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Kolvet leads a McCarthyite organization that encourages students to spy on their professors so as to get them fired. He also loves it when Muslim Americans get harassed and mocked. Almost none of the media he produces would pass muster with NYT fact checkers. Good job Ross. bsky.app/profile/seth...
It’s also notable that TPUSA employs rabid Islamophobes like this person. Imagine what the Trump admin would do to a university if they allowed an organization that said this about Jews and pork to establish themselves on campus.
December 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Kolvet leads a McCarthyite organization that encourages students to spy on their professors so as to get them fired. He also loves it when Muslim Americans get harassed and mocked. Almost none of the media he produces would pass muster with NYT fact checkers. Good job Ross. bsky.app/profile/seth...
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I suspect Kolvet walked out of that interview and gave himself a massive high five about how he'd snowed Douthat into allowing him to garner a ton more normie "conservative" subscribers and donors for TPUSA under the completely false pretenses that TPUSA is just like your grandpa's conservatism.
December 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I suspect Kolvet walked out of that interview and gave himself a massive high five about how he'd snowed Douthat into allowing him to garner a ton more normie "conservative" subscribers and donors for TPUSA under the completely false pretenses that TPUSA is just like your grandpa's conservatism.
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If Ross Douthat wants to interview this TPUSA propagandist then fine...but at least he could just DO HIS FUCKING JOB as a journalist and actually ask the guy meaningful questions that would not allow him to present himself to NYT readers as something ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT HE ACTUALLY IS.
December 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
If Ross Douthat wants to interview this TPUSA propagandist then fine...but at least he could just DO HIS FUCKING JOB as a journalist and actually ask the guy meaningful questions that would not allow him to present himself to NYT readers as something ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT HE ACTUALLY IS.
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Douthat also totally pushed Kolvet on the fact that the frequent co-host of Charlie Kirk's show that Kolvet produced was white nationalist and proud McCarthyite, Pizzagate Jack, a serial promoter of bullshit conspiracy theories and antisemitic tropes. Right? bsky.app/profile/seth...
That would be this, antisemitic and white nationalist activist, who was a cohost of The Charlie Kirk show.
December 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Douthat also totally pushed Kolvet on the fact that the frequent co-host of Charlie Kirk's show that Kolvet produced was white nationalist and proud McCarthyite, Pizzagate Jack, a serial promoter of bullshit conspiracy theories and antisemitic tropes. Right? bsky.app/profile/seth...
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And when Kolvet tells Ross this fairy tale about how the 18th century founders of the US were inspired by Kolvet's brand of 21st century non-denominational evangelical Protestantism that none of them believed in...and that Kolvet's God is Providentially steering the country, Ross pushes back, right?
December 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
And when Kolvet tells Ross this fairy tale about how the 18th century founders of the US were inspired by Kolvet's brand of 21st century non-denominational evangelical Protestantism that none of them believed in...and that Kolvet's God is Providentially steering the country, Ross pushes back, right?
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The dude has a long track record of circulating complete bullshit lies that ruin other Americans lives, and then he comes on Ross's NYT show and is like "it's important to be fact-based" and so of course Ross was ready with a follow up about all of this guy's lies...right? RIGHT?
Of course not.
Of course not.
December 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The dude has a long track record of circulating complete bullshit lies that ruin other Americans lives, and then he comes on Ross's NYT show and is like "it's important to be fact-based" and so of course Ross was ready with a follow up about all of this guy's lies...right? RIGHT?
Of course not.
Of course not.
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Last month Kolvet either just made up or fell for a made up story about Arizona math teachers supposedly wearing t-shirts to mock Charlie Kirk's death. It 100% did not happen, but he ran with it, and those teachers got barraged with MAGA death threats. bsky.app/profile/jare...
Absolutely disgusting response from Turning Point USA's spokesperson here, who targeted some random teachers and rained hell on their lives because he couldn't fathom not trying to squeeze some more engagement bait out of his dead boss.
December 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Last month Kolvet either just made up or fell for a made up story about Arizona math teachers supposedly wearing t-shirts to mock Charlie Kirk's death. It 100% did not happen, but he ran with it, and those teachers got barraged with MAGA death threats. bsky.app/profile/jare...
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When I saw that conspiracies were on the topic list my curiosity was piqued. It turns out that this guy whose entire worldview is built around a wacko conspiracy theory about "the left" and its domination of US culture isn't a big believer in conspiracies now that his org is the subject of one.
![Douthat: Good. [Laughs.] We'll do a show about those subjects.
But it is also the case that there is a wildness to conspiracizing on the right, in the era of Trump, in the era of Covid, with the 2020 election and so on, that it's just a distinctive part of conservative culture.
Do you regard that more critically, now that you've been on the receiving end of theories about yourself that you know not to be true?
Kolvet: Well, I've never been a hugely conspiratorial person in general, but I'm very sympathetic to why people are. When you think about the conservative mind-set and the conservative wiring, you realize, I think, even more why this is happening.
What we are living through is an era where conservatives have this bent to conserve our tradition, conserve our culture, conserve our heritage. But those institutions that are supposed to be doing the heavy lifting for us are not in alignment. The institutional capture by the left in America is pretty dramatic. And so I understand that that's actually fueling a lot of this.
And then you throw in J.F.K., you throw in 9/11, you throw in Covid
- all of these things that people question. They question: Are they getting the real narrative or not?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:miczfsfixolk42l7343z3bpd/bafkreidgmdho5kyhyvy4xtbbukgqfz3cutidbamqk3gmnc6z2usmxf7hw4@jpeg)
December 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
When I saw that conspiracies were on the topic list my curiosity was piqued. It turns out that this guy whose entire worldview is built around a wacko conspiracy theory about "the left" and its domination of US culture isn't a big believer in conspiracies now that his org is the subject of one.
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Apologies for yet another thread with a hate read of a Douthat joint, but we need to talk about the role the credulous "center-right" is playing in normalizing fascistic illiberalism in the US. Kolvet is a rabid Islamophobe and anti-trans hatemonger, but you'd never know that from this interview.
December 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Apologies for yet another thread with a hate read of a Douthat joint, but we need to talk about the role the credulous "center-right" is playing in normalizing fascistic illiberalism in the US. Kolvet is a rabid Islamophobe and anti-trans hatemonger, but you'd never know that from this interview.
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Imagine calling someone else "deranged" while speaking of yourself in the third person, like you're Gollum talking about Sméagol, as you make a man and his wife's murder at the hands of their severely ill son all about yourself.
Q: A number of Republicans have denounced your statement on Rob Reiner. Do you stand by it?
TRUMP: Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.
TRUMP: Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.
December 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Imagine calling someone else "deranged" while speaking of yourself in the third person, like you're Gollum talking about Sméagol, as you make a man and his wife's murder at the hands of their severely ill son all about yourself.
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The president’s remarks about the murder of the filmmaker and his wife cast him as petty and callous.
Rob Reiner was a mensch. In death, he showed us Trump’s a schmuck.
The president's remarks about the murder of the filmmaker and his wife cast him as petty and callous.
www.motherjones.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The president’s remarks about the murder of the filmmaker and his wife cast him as petty and callous.
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"In recent weeks, nearly two dozen elected officials on both sides of the aisle said they were targeted after getting caught in the president's crosshairs."
Important reporting on our violent politics by Dareh Gregorian and Jiachuan Wu for @nbcnews.com.
Important reporting on our violent politics by Dareh Gregorian and Jiachuan Wu for @nbcnews.com.
Trump attacks on political opponents spur a surge of threats, NBC News review finds
In recent weeks, nearly two dozen elected officials on both sides of the aisle said they were targeted after getting caught in the president's crosshairs.
www.nbcnews.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"In recent weeks, nearly two dozen elected officials on both sides of the aisle said they were targeted after getting caught in the president's crosshairs."
Important reporting on our violent politics by Dareh Gregorian and Jiachuan Wu for @nbcnews.com.
Important reporting on our violent politics by Dareh Gregorian and Jiachuan Wu for @nbcnews.com.
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For better or worse, public figures are judged when they die — their character, contributions, beliefs. It's undeniable that millions have mourned Rob Reiner's tragic death, celebrating his talent and contributions. I suspect when a certain public figure kicks the bucket, sentiments wont be the same
December 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
For better or worse, public figures are judged when they die — their character, contributions, beliefs. It's undeniable that millions have mourned Rob Reiner's tragic death, celebrating his talent and contributions. I suspect when a certain public figure kicks the bucket, sentiments wont be the same