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“For starters, the president claimed to have brought peace to the Middle East for the first time in “3,000 years.” It feels bizarre to even try to fact-check that, as it would be akin to fact-checking a president saying that the moon is made of Velveeta.”
December 18, 2025 at 4:54 AM
“For starters, the president claimed to have brought peace to the Middle East for the first time in “3,000 years.” It feels bizarre to even try to fact-check that, as it would be akin to fact-checking a president saying that the moon is made of Velveeta.”
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January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
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Ridiculous false equivalency
the president shouting economic statistics at voters instead of empathizing with them on the cost of living is the type of thing that turned people off of joe biden in 2024
December 18, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Ridiculous false equivalency
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Very weird feeling waiting for the president to announce an illegal war based on total bullshit that they made up right in front of our faces on TV, almost like I've lived through this moment before
December 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Very weird feeling waiting for the president to announce an illegal war based on total bullshit that they made up right in front of our faces on TV, almost like I've lived through this moment before
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Worth noting that @philinvestigates.com had reported on this back in March, which is also not really acknowledged by CNN: www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
'This isn't your granddad's KKK.' Inside the hate group expanding its presence in Tennessee
They are the largest hate group in America, wrapping themselves in the red-white-and-blue of the flag, marching into the middle of American cities and claiming to be patriots.
www.newschannel5.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Worth noting that @philinvestigates.com had reported on this back in March, which is also not really acknowledged by CNN: www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
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As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing
December 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing
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Absolutely bonkers that they got paid to make something like this lol it’s so awesome
December 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Absolutely bonkers that they got paid to make something like this lol it’s so awesome
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oh yeah americans will love this we are notoriously a patient people
Vance: Of course you're still struggling to get by. Rome was not built in a day
December 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
oh yeah americans will love this we are notoriously a patient people
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if mick foley can stand on business anyone can and should
December 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
if mick foley can stand on business anyone can and should
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Mick Foley is such a real one
December 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Mick Foley is such a real one
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I like that when I joined bluesky it was a place for sickos to not be bothered by Nazis but now it has a reputation for being super libbed up so when I say something like "do you think Wolverine got regular boners or did it pop in and out like his claws" someone will stop by to say "VOTE!"
December 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I like that when I joined bluesky it was a place for sickos to not be bothered by Nazis but now it has a reputation for being super libbed up so when I say something like "do you think Wolverine got regular boners or did it pop in and out like his claws" someone will stop by to say "VOTE!"
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So he's gonna use your tax money to bail himself and the other SV crypto assholes out when this shit goes south
President Trump announces his administration will move to evaluate the creation of a "national digital asset stockpile" — making good on a promise to support the use of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.
Trump orders administration to evaluate potential for 'national digital asset stockpile'
The price of bitcoin briefly soared, but the order appeared to fall short of crypto advocates' expecations.
www.nbcnews.com
January 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
So he's gonna use your tax money to bail himself and the other SV crypto assholes out when this shit goes south
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Statement from University of Louisville athletics director of media relations Rocco Gasparro on the indictment of a man who is alleged to have threatened Jeff Brohm and his family and U of L football players
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Statement from University of Louisville athletics director of media relations Rocco Gasparro on the indictment of a man who is alleged to have threatened Jeff Brohm and his family and U of L football players
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TPUSA have been at this long enough that the default assumption of their involvement in literally anything that has to do with college campuses should be an assumption of bad faith based on a long and well-documented history of bad faith actions
Assumption of good faith is a solid heuristic.
But also "assumptions" are guesses you make before you have the evidence. You are allowed to retract good faith once more evidence arises.
But also, you shouldn't assume good faith from folks who are your avowed enemies.
But also "assumptions" are guesses you make before you have the evidence. You are allowed to retract good faith once more evidence arises.
But also, you shouldn't assume good faith from folks who are your avowed enemies.
December 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
TPUSA have been at this long enough that the default assumption of their involvement in literally anything that has to do with college campuses should be an assumption of bad faith based on a long and well-documented history of bad faith actions
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We don’t see people ride in to defend their free speech principles in these cases, this is how you know some contrarianism and some sophistry may be at play.
"The professor will no longer be able to teach a class on diversity after she showed students a diagram that included the 'Make America Great Again' slogan as an example of white supremacy."
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
We don’t see people ride in to defend their free speech principles in these cases, this is how you know some contrarianism and some sophistry may be at play.
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This has been blowing me. I started covering issues about the former Mississippi State flag on the campus of Ole Miss post-Dylan Roof in 2015-16, and these people have been so loud for years and years, and then immediately looked the other way. Not that I expected more but damn we were all there!
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
This has been blowing me. I started covering issues about the former Mississippi State flag on the campus of Ole Miss post-Dylan Roof in 2015-16, and these people have been so loud for years and years, and then immediately looked the other way. Not that I expected more but damn we were all there!
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less interest in achieving ideological goals than maintaining a country club structure. all of this in the shadow of rahm emmanuel and his allies being against howard dean and the 50 state strategy in favor of blue fortresses and "demographics as destiny! our victory is guaranteed!" shit.
December 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
less interest in achieving ideological goals than maintaining a country club structure. all of this in the shadow of rahm emmanuel and his allies being against howard dean and the 50 state strategy in favor of blue fortresses and "demographics as destiny! our victory is guaranteed!" shit.
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"Red states are full of working people who are getting screwed by Republican policies yet vote Republican anyhow because they loathe the [Dems]...Those people can be won back by working class candidates who campaign on pro-worker issues, and are not Democrats."
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
How to Win Red States With a Labor Party
We can take political power without asking Democrats for it.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"Red states are full of working people who are getting screwed by Republican policies yet vote Republican anyhow because they loathe the [Dems]...Those people can be won back by working class candidates who campaign on pro-worker issues, and are not Democrats."
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
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I completely agree with the underlying assumption that rural Republicans are far more Progressive than their voting track lead you to believe. It's literally my whole job. However I think we have to tackle the brand issue of Democrats head on and relocalize politics, the right will use the same
"Red states are full of working people who are getting screwed by Republican policies yet vote Republican anyhow because they loathe the [Dems]...Those people can be won back by working class candidates who campaign on pro-worker issues, and are not Democrats."
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
How to Win Red States With a Labor Party
We can take political power without asking Democrats for it.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I completely agree with the underlying assumption that rural Republicans are far more Progressive than their voting track lead you to believe. It's literally my whole job. However I think we have to tackle the brand issue of Democrats head on and relocalize politics, the right will use the same
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The first federal investigation into Border Patrol corruption and “excessive violence” was launched in 1930; by 1933, every single working agent had been fired.
Fast forward to today, the agency's highly sexualized workplace leads to pervasive harassment and assault, as per dozens of former agents.
Fast forward to today, the agency's highly sexualized workplace leads to pervasive harassment and assault, as per dozens of former agents.
“He’s an agent. No one will believe me over him.”
The case of an alleged rape at the Border Patrol Academy, and the culture of silence that helped keep it from public view.
www.motherjones.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The first federal investigation into Border Patrol corruption and “excessive violence” was launched in 1930; by 1933, every single working agent had been fired.
Fast forward to today, the agency's highly sexualized workplace leads to pervasive harassment and assault, as per dozens of former agents.
Fast forward to today, the agency's highly sexualized workplace leads to pervasive harassment and assault, as per dozens of former agents.
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i'm also thinking about how the vision of the president as articulated by unitary executive theorists — a singular, vigorous individual — is belied by the simple observation that the presidency is an institution of many moving parts, with various people exercising power on behalf of the president
December 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
i'm also thinking about how the vision of the president as articulated by unitary executive theorists — a singular, vigorous individual — is belied by the simple observation that the presidency is an institution of many moving parts, with various people exercising power on behalf of the president
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Very Louis XVI-coded. Wants all the respect, grandeur and riches of the office, does not want any of the responsibility, more obsessed with golf and watching TV (Trump's version of what hunting and locksmithing was for Louis) and extremely susceptible to manipulation by any given advisor in the room
trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties
Trump’s echo chamber:
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Very Louis XVI-coded. Wants all the respect, grandeur and riches of the office, does not want any of the responsibility, more obsessed with golf and watching TV (Trump's version of what hunting and locksmithing was for Louis) and extremely susceptible to manipulation by any given advisor in the room
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thinking more about this: it is highly ironic that at the same time that it serves as a test case for the "unitary executive," this administration is all but being led by two subordinate officials with no immediate political accountability.
December 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
thinking more about this: it is highly ironic that at the same time that it serves as a test case for the "unitary executive," this administration is all but being led by two subordinate officials with no immediate political accountability.
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trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties
Trump’s echo chamber:
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Very little U.S travel
No rallies or contact with supporters
Right-wing media
Dinners with rich donors and billionaires
Truth Social
Lack of staff to tell him no www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Bubble-Wrapped President
Trump surrounds himself with those who flatter him in places where he is comfortable.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties
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it is the worst of all worlds. a "unitary *presidency*" insulated from judicial or congressional power and a weak president unable to do the job of governing
December 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
it is the worst of all worlds. a "unitary *presidency*" insulated from judicial or congressional power and a weak president unable to do the job of governing