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vance’s personal communication style is to behave like a preening, belligerent oaf in order to impress two 14 year old boys in one of the most racist group chats in history
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
vance’s personal communication style is to behave like a preening, belligerent oaf in order to impress two 14 year old boys in one of the most racist group chats in history
A distinction is sometimes made between the spirit and the letter of a law. But what does she mean by contrasting the spirt and the intent? These seem to be essentially or very close to the same thing.
BRENNAN: This isn't everything you asked for just yet, but would you acknowledge that they are complying with the spirit if not the intent of your law?
MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.
MASSIE: No. They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law. It's very troubling the posture that they've taken.
December 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A distinction is sometimes made between the spirit and the letter of a law. But what does she mean by contrasting the spirt and the intent? These seem to be essentially or very close to the same thing.
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I do believe the USA is redeemable and I absolutely don’t think we’re doomed -
but nothing condemns our current system and our culture more than the fact we have *chosen* to elevate the nation’s most genuinely disgusting and worthless people to positions of supreme power
but nothing condemns our current system and our culture more than the fact we have *chosen* to elevate the nation’s most genuinely disgusting and worthless people to positions of supreme power
December 21, 2025 at 4:57 AM
I do believe the USA is redeemable and I absolutely don’t think we’re doomed -
but nothing condemns our current system and our culture more than the fact we have *chosen* to elevate the nation’s most genuinely disgusting and worthless people to positions of supreme power
but nothing condemns our current system and our culture more than the fact we have *chosen* to elevate the nation’s most genuinely disgusting and worthless people to positions of supreme power
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Oh no, I'm having that dream again
December 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Oh no, I'm having that dream again
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There’s room for somebody on the left to wrap themselves in the flag a little & make a point that the right’s rejection of America as a creedal nation—and their ad hoc, ahistorical effort to make it an ethnonationalist project instead—is distinctly *unamerican,* a rejection of the national project.
If immigrating from England makes you a "heritage American" then I guess I'm one too.
December 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
There’s room for somebody on the left to wrap themselves in the flag a little & make a point that the right’s rejection of America as a creedal nation—and their ad hoc, ahistorical effort to make it an ethnonationalist project instead—is distinctly *unamerican,* a rejection of the national project.
“Heritage American” makes her sound like some expensive breed of chicken.
Also, I do not think these people mean “proud” or “pride” the way normal people do. You didnt do anything to be born! It’s not an accomplishment!
Also, I do not think these people mean “proud” or “pride” the way normal people do. You didnt do anything to be born! It’s not an accomplishment!
If immigrating from England makes you a "heritage American" then I guess I'm one too.
December 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
“Heritage American” makes her sound like some expensive breed of chicken.
Also, I do not think these people mean “proud” or “pride” the way normal people do. You didnt do anything to be born! It’s not an accomplishment!
Also, I do not think these people mean “proud” or “pride” the way normal people do. You didnt do anything to be born! It’s not an accomplishment!
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it must now be renamed the Donald J Trump's Frankenstein's Monster
December 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
it must now be renamed the Donald J Trump's Frankenstein's Monster
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go
December 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go
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he's the guy in Idiocracy who repeats "brought to you by Carls Jr" over and over again as things seem to be crumbling around him, in hopes of one last cash-in... only instead it's "brought to you by Donald J Trump"
December 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
he's the guy in Idiocracy who repeats "brought to you by Carls Jr" over and over again as things seem to be crumbling around him, in hopes of one last cash-in... only instead it's "brought to you by Donald J Trump"
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
Trump dances on graves the right way, by ezra klein.
December 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Trump dances on graves the right way, by ezra klein.
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i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job
December 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job
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It's because she doesn't know how to be the head of CBS News. Just no clue what a person in this role does. Similar to how Pete Hegseth and Sean Duffy don't know how to be cabinet secretaries.
A hallmark of this movement is people being out of their depth. It says, "expertise is unnecessary."
A hallmark of this movement is people being out of their depth. It says, "expertise is unnecessary."
I’m sorry but why is the head of cbs news on tv herself
December 14, 2025 at 2:12 AM
It's because she doesn't know how to be the head of CBS News. Just no clue what a person in this role does. Similar to how Pete Hegseth and Sean Duffy don't know how to be cabinet secretaries.
A hallmark of this movement is people being out of their depth. It says, "expertise is unnecessary."
A hallmark of this movement is people being out of their depth. It says, "expertise is unnecessary."
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They voted for Trump due to his “no tax on tips” pledge. Now, with family members deported and health insurance out of reach, they regret their votes. Still, they say they wouldn’t hesitate to give Trump an illegal third term if he promises no taxes on sports betting parlays.
December 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
They voted for Trump due to his “no tax on tips” pledge. Now, with family members deported and health insurance out of reach, they regret their votes. Still, they say they wouldn’t hesitate to give Trump an illegal third term if he promises no taxes on sports betting parlays.
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
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More people need to just call them on their lies immediately. They melt like this guy.
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
More people need to just call them on their lies immediately. They melt like this guy.
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generational discourse can be solved once and for all by distinguishing between "remembers no computers", "remembers no personal computers", and "remembers no cell phones". everything before that fought in wars. everything after that is, best case scenario, inventing the borg
December 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
generational discourse can be solved once and for all by distinguishing between "remembers no computers", "remembers no personal computers", and "remembers no cell phones". everything before that fought in wars. everything after that is, best case scenario, inventing the borg
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There's a Hill bubble narrative, posing as savvy realism, in treating impeachment as some radioactive poison and so Democrats must squash any talk of it. But there's zero evidence for that. No polls back it up, nor recent history. It's all just pundit-brained conventional wisdom eating its own tail.
December 11, 2025 at 4:21 AM
There's a Hill bubble narrative, posing as savvy realism, in treating impeachment as some radioactive poison and so Democrats must squash any talk of it. But there's zero evidence for that. No polls back it up, nor recent history. It's all just pundit-brained conventional wisdom eating its own tail.
Brexit, brought to you by dead people.
I found this today (from Peter Kellner/YouGov) which answers part of your query.
December 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Brexit, brought to you by dead people.
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The unit cost of each Hellfire missile is ~$100k btw. That not even taking into account at all the expense of flying the mission, the pay of operators, fuel, etc etc. That’s why this is so degrading: it is for nothing. Nothing at all. They are so many more Robert Sanchez’s than there are Hellfires.
By the way this is why I know they’re lying when they say they knew who was on the boats and they’re all on a military list. The US military had somehow built a dossier on Robert Sanchez, the boat pilot living in a cinderblock house and earning $100 a month? He was next on the kill list after Osama?
Everyone seems to have forgotten but the AP actually went to Venezuela and found some of these men. They aren’t terminator-like cartel warriors, ready to give their life to ship kilos. They’re random dudes from small towns - bus drivers, fishermen - recruited for a payday. apnews.com/article/trum...
December 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The unit cost of each Hellfire missile is ~$100k btw. That not even taking into account at all the expense of flying the mission, the pay of operators, fuel, etc etc. That’s why this is so degrading: it is for nothing. Nothing at all. They are so many more Robert Sanchez’s than there are Hellfires.
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the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism
December 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism
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Who has made this 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Who has made this 🤣
