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New— Nazis with giant swastika flags marched in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday with two police escorts. They shouted “white power” and said to the woman who took this video (reshared here with her permission) “fuck you, n***** bitch.”
Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.
Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.
August 18, 2025 at 3:25 AM
New— Nazis with giant swastika flags marched in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday with two police escorts. They shouted “white power” and said to the woman who took this video (reshared here with her permission) “fuck you, n***** bitch.”
Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.
Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.
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The dc occupation is not about stopping crime, it’s about intimating journalists, judges, and legislators. We need to call things as we see them. Peace isn’t war. Up isn’t down.
August 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The dc occupation is not about stopping crime, it’s about intimating journalists, judges, and legislators. We need to call things as we see them. Peace isn’t war. Up isn’t down.
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There is no pro-crime caucus.
Trump has masked guards parading around some of the fanciest neighborhoods in dc. This has nothing to do with stopping crime.
Trump has masked guards parading around some of the fanciest neighborhoods in dc. This has nothing to do with stopping crime.
August 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
There is no pro-crime caucus.
Trump has masked guards parading around some of the fanciest neighborhoods in dc. This has nothing to do with stopping crime.
Trump has masked guards parading around some of the fanciest neighborhoods in dc. This has nothing to do with stopping crime.
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Watch this.
And as you do, remember that U.S. corporate media looked at the two presidential candidates in 2024 and decided to run one of them out of politics forever months before the election because he made no sense when he talked.
Trump was *not* that candidate.
And as you do, remember that U.S. corporate media looked at the two presidential candidates in 2024 and decided to run one of them out of politics forever months before the election because he made no sense when he talked.
Trump was *not* that candidate.
Trump Monologue 8 #politics #politicalhumor
YouTube video by Dave Columbo
youtube.com
August 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Watch this.
And as you do, remember that U.S. corporate media looked at the two presidential candidates in 2024 and decided to run one of them out of politics forever months before the election because he made no sense when he talked.
Trump was *not* that candidate.
And as you do, remember that U.S. corporate media looked at the two presidential candidates in 2024 and decided to run one of them out of politics forever months before the election because he made no sense when he talked.
Trump was *not* that candidate.
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Brett: Can I make a new rule here? If somebody asks for a Nobel Peace Prize — instant disqualification...and then if someone like Netanyahu nominates you—
Ben: Immediately rejected. Him nominating Nobel Peace Prizes is like Lawrence Taylor running a children's sports league
Ben: Immediately rejected. Him nominating Nobel Peace Prizes is like Lawrence Taylor running a children's sports league
August 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Brett: Can I make a new rule here? If somebody asks for a Nobel Peace Prize — instant disqualification...and then if someone like Netanyahu nominates you—
Ben: Immediately rejected. Him nominating Nobel Peace Prizes is like Lawrence Taylor running a children's sports league
Ben: Immediately rejected. Him nominating Nobel Peace Prizes is like Lawrence Taylor running a children's sports league
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The revisions are BRUTAL. May dropped from +144K to just +19K. June? From +147K to +14K.
Excluding healthcare, the U.S. LOST jobs for three straight months: down 53K in May, 45K in June, and 300 in July.
The U.S. lost 26K manufacturing jobs in May and June, and 11K in July.
Excluding healthcare, the U.S. LOST jobs for three straight months: down 53K in May, 45K in June, and 300 in July.
The U.S. lost 26K manufacturing jobs in May and June, and 11K in July.
August 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The revisions are BRUTAL. May dropped from +144K to just +19K. June? From +147K to +14K.
Excluding healthcare, the U.S. LOST jobs for three straight months: down 53K in May, 45K in June, and 300 in July.
The U.S. lost 26K manufacturing jobs in May and June, and 11K in July.
Excluding healthcare, the U.S. LOST jobs for three straight months: down 53K in May, 45K in June, and 300 in July.
The U.S. lost 26K manufacturing jobs in May and June, and 11K in July.
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So... it's not a history museum anymore?
What is it, then?
What is it, then?
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History last month removed a board that referenced President Donald Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit on the American presidency.
Smithsonian removes reference to Trump’s impeachments from presidency exhibit | CNN Politics
In a statement to CNN Thursday, The Smithsonian said the decision was made after a review of the museum’s “legacy content” this year.
www.cnn.com
August 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
So... it's not a history museum anymore?
What is it, then?
What is it, then?
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Lutnick two days ago: The Trump Economy has officially arrived!
Today: Economy shows weakest job growth over a 3-month period since the Great Recession, excluding 2020
Today: Economy shows weakest job growth over a 3-month period since the Great Recession, excluding 2020
August 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Lutnick two days ago: The Trump Economy has officially arrived!
Today: Economy shows weakest job growth over a 3-month period since the Great Recession, excluding 2020
Today: Economy shows weakest job growth over a 3-month period since the Great Recession, excluding 2020
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Meiselas: One of those headlines I had to reread. We’re not allowing the president of Taiwan into the U.S.? Our ally? Trump caved to China’s demand and blocked him. MAGA screamed Dems were weak on China—then did exactly what they fear-mongered about.
July 29, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Meiselas: One of those headlines I had to reread. We’re not allowing the president of Taiwan into the U.S.? Our ally? Trump caved to China’s demand and blocked him. MAGA screamed Dems were weak on China—then did exactly what they fear-mongered about.
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Funny how all that protect women’s sports energy went out the window as soon as WNBA players showed up with T-shirts bringing awareness to the lack of financial equity they have in their league.
July 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Funny how all that protect women’s sports energy went out the window as soon as WNBA players showed up with T-shirts bringing awareness to the lack of financial equity they have in their league.
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I was enough into superheroes that among the comics I taught as a prof were superhero ones—the few formally innovative ones I could find.
Now I can't stand to watch anything with a superhero in it. I get instantly bored.
It's a trope, a conceit, a rhetorical setpiece I think is played out.
YMMV.
Now I can't stand to watch anything with a superhero in it. I get instantly bored.
It's a trope, a conceit, a rhetorical setpiece I think is played out.
YMMV.
July 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I was enough into superheroes that among the comics I taught as a prof were superhero ones—the few formally innovative ones I could find.
Now I can't stand to watch anything with a superhero in it. I get instantly bored.
It's a trope, a conceit, a rhetorical setpiece I think is played out.
YMMV.
Now I can't stand to watch anything with a superhero in it. I get instantly bored.
It's a trope, a conceit, a rhetorical setpiece I think is played out.
YMMV.
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I refuse to call an American concentration camp the same thing it calls itself at its attached gift shop
Maybe American journalism should search in the garbage for its self-respect and start taking the same position?
Maybe American journalism should search in the garbage for its self-respect and start taking the same position?
July 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I refuse to call an American concentration camp the same thing it calls itself at its attached gift shop
Maybe American journalism should search in the garbage for its self-respect and start taking the same position?
Maybe American journalism should search in the garbage for its self-respect and start taking the same position?
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It is a bribe and the shame of this will outlive them. I’m not naive, but these people are not fit to own or run a media company. They’re so poor, all they have is money.
Details of the Paramount settlement with Trump over 60 Minutes lawsuit:
- $16 million for Trump presidential library
- Release of transcripts in the future
- No apology
- $16 million for Trump presidential library
- Release of transcripts in the future
- No apology
July 2, 2025 at 4:41 AM
It is a bribe and the shame of this will outlive them. I’m not naive, but these people are not fit to own or run a media company. They’re so poor, all they have is money.
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We can only assume that Trump goes fully "on the fritz" here and has no idea what is being said to him, so he comes up with a random question in his head that simply involves himself and the State of Florida.
The creepy thing is that the fake question he comes up with _doesn't even make any sense_.
The creepy thing is that the fake question he comes up with _doesn't even make any sense_.
July 2, 2025 at 11:24 AM
We can only assume that Trump goes fully "on the fritz" here and has no idea what is being said to him, so he comes up with a random question in his head that simply involves himself and the State of Florida.
The creepy thing is that the fake question he comes up with _doesn't even make any sense_.
The creepy thing is that the fake question he comes up with _doesn't even make any sense_.
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Multiple times, Trump is asked a simple question: how long the detainees in his new concentration camp will be kept there before they're deported to random foreign nations to suffer desperation, torture and death.
Trump—incredibly—believes he's being asked how long *he* will be spending in Florida.
Trump—incredibly—believes he's being asked how long *he* will be spending in Florida.
July 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Multiple times, Trump is asked a simple question: how long the detainees in his new concentration camp will be kept there before they're deported to random foreign nations to suffer desperation, torture and death.
Trump—incredibly—believes he's being asked how long *he* will be spending in Florida.
Trump—incredibly—believes he's being asked how long *he* will be spending in Florida.
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This is the sort of mental shutdown we *didn't* see from Biden—despite hyperventilating claims the contrary.
Biden would stutter, switch his train of thought in mid-sentence, and on rare occasion garble his words, as he has been prone to do for many years.
This is Trump *literally malfunctioning*.
Biden would stutter, switch his train of thought in mid-sentence, and on rare occasion garble his words, as he has been prone to do for many years.
This is Trump *literally malfunctioning*.
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell savaged Donald Trump for his baffling answer to a “simple” question from a reporter about the new “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center in Florida.
Lawrence O’Donnell: This Baffling Trump Answer Shows His Mind ‘Does Not Work
The MSNBC host unleashed a scathing on-air takedown of the president’s mental fitness.
trib.al
July 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
This is the sort of mental shutdown we *didn't* see from Biden—despite hyperventilating claims the contrary.
Biden would stutter, switch his train of thought in mid-sentence, and on rare occasion garble his words, as he has been prone to do for many years.
This is Trump *literally malfunctioning*.
Biden would stutter, switch his train of thought in mid-sentence, and on rare occasion garble his words, as he has been prone to do for many years.
This is Trump *literally malfunctioning*.
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The nation's fifth most populous county, San Diego, just chose its political future today—and appears to have chosen to have a Democratic local government—and it's crickets everywhere. Quite the eye-popping example of the NY/East-Coast-bias of how elections get covered.
July 2, 2025 at 5:50 AM
The nation's fifth most populous county, San Diego, just chose its political future today—and appears to have chosen to have a Democratic local government—and it's crickets everywhere. Quite the eye-popping example of the NY/East-Coast-bias of how elections get covered.
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JOBS PLUMMET: The U.S. private sector lost 33,000 jobs in June, badly missing expectations for a 100,000 increase, payrolls processing firm ADP says.
July 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
JOBS PLUMMET: The U.S. private sector lost 33,000 jobs in June, badly missing expectations for a 100,000 increase, payrolls processing firm ADP says.
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And if you wonder whether the report is actually blithe, take a gander at the real headline of the report once you click on it on social media
July 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
And if you wonder whether the report is actually blithe, take a gander at the real headline of the report once you click on it on social media
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I removed the words "from its records" from the end of the CNN subheadline here so that we can fully understand what is happening
And I am sure no one will object to me erasing three words from a news report that blithely discusses erasing an entire human being
And I am sure no one will object to me erasing three words from a news report that blithely discusses erasing an entire human being
July 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I removed the words "from its records" from the end of the CNN subheadline here so that we can fully understand what is happening
And I am sure no one will object to me erasing three words from a news report that blithely discusses erasing an entire human being
And I am sure no one will object to me erasing three words from a news report that blithely discusses erasing an entire human being
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AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."
July 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."
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The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
July 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
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Keep calling
MAGA Mike Johnson still doesn’t have the votes to pass Trump’s Tax Scam.
Keep lighting up the phone lines of your GOP representative: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Or join a phonebank to contact voters in key Republican districts: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...
Keep lighting up the phone lines of your GOP representative: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Or join a phonebank to contact voters in key Republican districts: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...
July 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Keep calling
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Someone who says this should be banished from
the WH.
the WH.
Good to know one of the U.S. President's main influencers on national security policy is calling for actual genocide (65 mil is the total Latino population of the U.S.)
July 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Someone who says this should be banished from
the WH.
the WH.
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The Miami Herald reports: “Rainfall seeped through the edges of the facility as the roofs and walls trembled. Drips leaked from above a door frame. The water spread under poles hoisting the Florida and U.S. flags.”
https://trib.al/esvxjNw
https://trib.al/esvxjNw
Trump’s “Alligator Alcatraz” Is Already Flooding
The immigrant detention center is underwater within a day of opening.
trib.al
July 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The Miami Herald reports: “Rainfall seeped through the edges of the facility as the roofs and walls trembled. Drips leaked from above a door frame. The water spread under poles hoisting the Florida and U.S. flags.”
https://trib.al/esvxjNw
https://trib.al/esvxjNw