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“I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself:
“All right, then, I’ll go to hell.” – and tore it up. —The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“All right, then, I’ll go to hell.” – and tore it up. —The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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The only orange monarch I’ll ever recognize 🧡
Hatched the evening of 9/25/2025, Central Vermont
#NoKings #monarchs #butterflymigration
Hatched the evening of 9/25/2025, Central Vermont
#NoKings #monarchs #butterflymigration
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Our government is a joke and not a funny one. Hopefully she sues. The White House posted a video of Sabrina Carpenter promoting deportations just days after she blasted the Trump administration for using her song as “evil and disgusting.”
December 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Our government is a joke and not a funny one. Hopefully she sues. The White House posted a video of Sabrina Carpenter promoting deportations just days after she blasted the Trump administration for using her song as “evil and disgusting.”
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MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
December 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
In fiction, this kind of blind hubris from a character would stand out as almost embarrassingly obvious foreshadowing.
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
In fiction, this kind of blind hubris from a character would stand out as almost embarrassingly obvious foreshadowing.
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This is how my local paper in the swing state of Nevada covered it: Huge picture, AP story with nary a hint that this was weird or corrupt.
As low as Trump’s approval ratings are, they’d be much lower if he didn’t have the help of large swaths of the media
As low as Trump’s approval ratings are, they’d be much lower if he didn’t have the help of large swaths of the media
December 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is how my local paper in the swing state of Nevada covered it: Huge picture, AP story with nary a hint that this was weird or corrupt.
As low as Trump’s approval ratings are, they’d be much lower if he didn’t have the help of large swaths of the media
As low as Trump’s approval ratings are, they’d be much lower if he didn’t have the help of large swaths of the media
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Absolutely humbled for Assigned to be in the company of outlets like @404media.co, @liberalcurrents.com, and @prisonjournalism.bsky.social, not to mention the incredible @marisakabas.bsky.social!!!
NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
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The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Absolutely humbled for Assigned to be in the company of outlets like @404media.co, @liberalcurrents.com, and @prisonjournalism.bsky.social, not to mention the incredible @marisakabas.bsky.social!!!
Sickening.
December 5, 2025
Late last night, the Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America.
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Sickening.
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Unfuckingbelievable.
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Unfuckingbelievable.
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So Bondi and Kash make a big deal out of arresting the J6 pipe bomber then the guy confesses that he is a Trump supporter who thought the 2020 election was stolen and his lawyer is arguing that Trump’s broadly-worded J6 blanket pardon applies to him and he should go free. Poetry.
December 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
So Bondi and Kash make a big deal out of arresting the J6 pipe bomber then the guy confesses that he is a Trump supporter who thought the 2020 election was stolen and his lawyer is arguing that Trump’s broadly-worded J6 blanket pardon applies to him and he should go free. Poetry.
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FUCK ICE
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
FUCK ICE
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This ⬇️
December 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This ⬇️
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Indiana state house Republicans just approved a new 9-0 gerrymandered map ousting two US House Democrats, giving Republicans 100% of seats in state where Trump got 58% of vote
December 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Indiana state house Republicans just approved a new 9-0 gerrymandered map ousting two US House Democrats, giving Republicans 100% of seats in state where Trump got 58% of vote
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Presidential Walk of Fatigue
December 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Presidential Walk of Fatigue
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I wrote this for the @nytimes.com: Scammers are calling seniors more than 50 times a day. Some who get scammed wind up with weird charges on their Medicare and mysterious packages on their porches
Medicare Scammers Are Calling Seniors 50 Times a Day, Trying to Trap Them
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I wrote this for the @nytimes.com: Scammers are calling seniors more than 50 times a day. Some who get scammed wind up with weird charges on their Medicare and mysterious packages on their porches
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Hegseth says the IG report “totally exonerates” him. That is a lie. The IG says “the Secretary’s actions created a risk to operational security that could have resulted in failed U.S. mission objectives and potential harm to U.S. pilots.” #holdfast
Why the new ‘Signalgate’ IG report is so damning for Pete Hegseth | CNN Politics
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s bad week just got worse. That’s after the long-awaited release Thursday of an inspector general’s report on his sharing of highly sensitive military attack plans on th...
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Hegseth says the IG report “totally exonerates” him. That is a lie. The IG says “the Secretary’s actions created a risk to operational security that could have resulted in failed U.S. mission objectives and potential harm to U.S. pilots.” #holdfast
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The term "Orwellian" is as abused as "peace," but this use of "peace" is as fully Orwellian as anything outside 20th century fascism or Stalinism.
NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY DROPPED
There is a LOT here, but omg NATO allies are going to seethe at this paragraph
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
There is a LOT here, but omg NATO allies are going to seethe at this paragraph
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The term "Orwellian" is as abused as "peace," but this use of "peace" is as fully Orwellian as anything outside 20th century fascism or Stalinism.
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“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present…we cannot escape history…The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.”
~President Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, 12/1/1862.
Image: Library of Congress.
~President Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, 12/1/1862.
Image: Library of Congress.
December 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present…we cannot escape history…The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.”
~President Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, 12/1/1862.
Image: Library of Congress.
~President Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, 12/1/1862.
Image: Library of Congress.
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3 Questions:
1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
December 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
3 Questions:
1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
December 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
CARTOON OF THE DAY
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what the fucking fuck FUCK
The Secretary of Defense taking extrajudicial killing requests from podcast hosts
December 5, 2025 at 3:32 AM
what the fucking fuck FUCK
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the irony of hegseth saying this the same day trump stood inside an institute that he renamed for himself and declared world peace
December 5, 2025 at 6:49 AM
the irony of hegseth saying this the same day trump stood inside an institute that he renamed for himself and declared world peace
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there is no more shared reality. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
December 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
there is no more shared reality. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
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Ukraine was not told what happened.
"Our task now is to obtain complete information about what has been said in Russia and what other reasons Putin has found to prolong the war and to pressure Ukraine, to pressure us, our independence," Volodymyr Zelensky said in an evening address from Kyiv"
"Our task now is to obtain complete information about what has been said in Russia and what other reasons Putin has found to prolong the war and to pressure Ukraine, to pressure us, our independence," Volodymyr Zelensky said in an evening address from Kyiv"
Two days after Witkoff and Kushner met Putin, the Treasury Department partially suspended sanctions on Russia announced last October
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Trump envoys press plan with Ukraine as sanctions eased on Russia
President Donald Trump's envoys were to meet Thursday with Ukrainian negotiators for the third time in two weeks to press his plan to end the war as his administration eased economic pressure on Russi...
www.france24.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Ukraine was not told what happened.
"Our task now is to obtain complete information about what has been said in Russia and what other reasons Putin has found to prolong the war and to pressure Ukraine, to pressure us, our independence," Volodymyr Zelensky said in an evening address from Kyiv"
"Our task now is to obtain complete information about what has been said in Russia and what other reasons Putin has found to prolong the war and to pressure Ukraine, to pressure us, our independence," Volodymyr Zelensky said in an evening address from Kyiv"
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The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
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Can we all finally admit that tax cuts are never going to trickle down?
December 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Can we all finally admit that tax cuts are never going to trickle down?