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there’s some insane grifters out there - i’d hope people see through how stupid this “investigation” is … just two freaks with their camera crew and bodyguards demanding to be let into childcare facilities, thinking the idea of a medical suite building is unfathomable, harassing people etc
And, repeating myself just to be clear: The true story (Fraudsters stole money and pushed off accountability for a while by saying it was racist to probe it) is losing market share to a wilder, less true story (citizen journalists uncovered the scheme that Dems covered up to steal elections)
December 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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But step back and look at the machinery and you see how sturdy this media/WH infrastructure is. If they want to make a humiliating Democratic scandal the biggest story in the country, they can do it. Dems who think it'll go away if they "win" with local media are going to lose.
December 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
do you need more reasons?
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.”

www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable…
www.404media.co
December 29, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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By the way, Gavin Newsom is apparently raising money to fight AGAINST the billionaire tax. So thoughtful of him to come to their aid at this particular time in history,
December 29, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Post a Random picture or else everything else will go bad in 2025
Post a Random picture or else everything will go bad in 2026
December 28, 2025 at 4:58 AM
was just reminded of the fact that there are a lot people now that don’t remember trayvon martin - almost 14 years ago, fucking crazy
December 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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“Like prime, but with human beings”
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
first puts herself on primetime tv with an extremely unlikable person and an absurd level of bible humping, then back to (blatant) government propaganda
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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We've heard from these Venezuelan CECOT survivors multiple times, in human rights reports and written testimony.
The NYTimes version of it got a WH quote. This is the useless kind of thing Bari needed?
www.propublica.org/article/vene...
www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
December 22, 2025 at 6:41 AM
turns out that reducing prices by 500% means that you are going from $100 to $20, since you have to go up 500% or 5 times to get back to $100

it’s called new math or arithmetic revisionism
December 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM
so the us is going to become the petri dish of every disease that we had previously entirely/almost entirely eradicated. make america hazardous again
December 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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One reason the NYT has burned its credibility with trans people is that they still cite the discredited Cass report in reporting on trans healthcare. Never the German, Utah, or other systematic reviews supporting care. They also never provide the political context behind restrictions in care.
December 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
a reminder that margie titan green is not any less insane/fucked in the head
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 11d
The House has voted to pass a bill that could imprison health care providers for providing gender-affirming care for minors. Its path in the Senate is unclear. https://cnn.it/4qlzkcJ
December 18, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
WASHINGTON—Touting his latest executive order as a historic win for the U.S. economy, President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was mandating a 5,000% increase in all numbers nationwide. “Effect...
theonion.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Actually if someone says they work at Meta, credibility or respect is not what comes to mind.
December 18, 2025 at 4:25 AM
yeah fuck those companies - we/they stole it from the people of venezuela and then somehow the people who lived there "stole it" vs took back what was theirs
I love that American nationalists think other countries should give America their oil.
Trump on Venezuela: "Getting land, oil rights, whatever we had -- they took it away because we had a president that maybe wasn't watching. But they're not gonna do that. We want it back. They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out. And we want it back."
December 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
its my oil, and i want it now

go fuck yourself you dipshits. cant wait for another iraq. we get to install our puppet "piss prize" winner that is going to sell off all of venezuelas natural resources to billionaires. but the people of venezuela will be "better off" somehow... riiight
December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television
December 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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"The current disinformation and slop phenomenon on the internet today makes the days of ‘Russian bot farms’ seem quaint; the problem is now fully decentralized and distributed across the world and is almost entirely funded by social media companies themselves."

www.404media.co/americas-pol...
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
www.404media.co
November 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
peak woke
December 16, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Breaking Points’ Krystal Ball responds to overtures from Nick Fuentes urging the progressive left to ally with him against establishment elites.

“I feel like my bar for allyship is very low. My bar is you have to view all human beings as fundamentally equal and deserving of rights. That’s my...
December 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Anyone send us a screenshot of your cancelled Spotify and we will send you a bunch of music!

❤️ no reason to.include personal
Info just be honest and we got you. Not shaming anyone keeping it but happy to offer a gift to folks who make the jump.
December 10, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”

Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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no idea
December 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
every one of these demons (especially you steven “gobbles” miller) needs to be prosecuted at the first opportunity
December 4, 2025 at 8:40 AM