RG
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So it's official. Trump is enthusiastically using the powers of the state to target his political enemies. There's a word for that. The MSM can either enable him by not using it, or can speak the truth. Which will it be?
September 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
So it's official. Trump is enthusiastically using the powers of the state to target his political enemies. There's a word for that. The MSM can either enable him by not using it, or can speak the truth. Which will it be?
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Okay after the media freakout over Biden withdrawing from Afghanistan the wrong way- a courageous and popular project that the media conspired to use to destroy Biden’s presidency and elect Trump! - it would be an O Henry twist if Trump reinvaded Afghanistan for no discernible reason
President Trump threatens the Taliban, demanding that Bagram in Afghanistan be returned to U.S. control.
September 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Okay after the media freakout over Biden withdrawing from Afghanistan the wrong way- a courageous and popular project that the media conspired to use to destroy Biden’s presidency and elect Trump! - it would be an O Henry twist if Trump reinvaded Afghanistan for no discernible reason
When Karl Rove makes more sense than Ezra Klein
ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.”
@wsj.com
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@wsj.com
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September 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
When Karl Rove makes more sense than Ezra Klein
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Stop. The coverage you are following of the Kirk shooting and its aftermath has been, almost everywhere, deeply misleading and dangerous. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
Everyone Got the Story of the Murder of Charlie Kirk Wrong
It Was a Dangerous Week for America, But Not for the Reasons People Cited
open.substack.com
September 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Stop. The coverage you are following of the Kirk shooting and its aftermath has been, almost everywhere, deeply misleading and dangerous. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
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So Matthew Dowd was right.
Will MSNBC re-hire him?
Will MSNBC re-hire him?
September 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
So Matthew Dowd was right.
Will MSNBC re-hire him?
Will MSNBC re-hire him?
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Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative
September 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative
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hey the people that stormed the capitol and erected gallows to murder elected leaders want you to know that political violence is not ok
September 12, 2025 at 2:28 AM
hey the people that stormed the capitol and erected gallows to murder elected leaders want you to know that political violence is not ok
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Charlie Kirk was a 2020 election denier and conspiracy spreader. But he was a 2020 election denier and conspiracy spreader in the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
September 12, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Charlie Kirk was a 2020 election denier and conspiracy spreader. But he was a 2020 election denier and conspiracy spreader in the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
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If I were editing a column about Charlie Kirk’s political genius, I would tell the writer he needed to quote Kirk’s actual political beliefs. If the writer responded that doing so would weaken or distract from his argument, it’d be a pretty good sign that the column was not ready for prime time.
September 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
If I were editing a column about Charlie Kirk’s political genius, I would tell the writer he needed to quote Kirk’s actual political beliefs. If the writer responded that doing so would weaken or distract from his argument, it’d be a pretty good sign that the column was not ready for prime time.
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Charlie Kirk spent his last days manufacturing a lurid panic about “Black-on-White crime” and his final post on X was a call to politicize a murder. He was not “practicing politics the right way.“ You can oppose what happened yesterday without pretending he was One of the Good Ones.
September 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Charlie Kirk spent his last days manufacturing a lurid panic about “Black-on-White crime” and his final post on X was a call to politicize a murder. He was not “practicing politics the right way.“ You can oppose what happened yesterday without pretending he was One of the Good Ones.
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Whether it’s Republican politicians joking about the murder of Melissa Hortman or Democratic politicians expressing their condolences after the murder of Charlie Kirk, both parties have a extreme rhetoric problem.
September 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Whether it’s Republican politicians joking about the murder of Melissa Hortman or Democratic politicians expressing their condolences after the murder of Charlie Kirk, both parties have a extreme rhetoric problem.
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You can condemn murder and political violence without whitewashing Charlie Kirk's shameful history of hate, racism, white nationalism and promotion of dangerous conspiracies that radicalized Trump supporters to violence.
You can do both.
You can do both.
September 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
You can condemn murder and political violence without whitewashing Charlie Kirk's shameful history of hate, racism, white nationalism and promotion of dangerous conspiracies that radicalized Trump supporters to violence.
You can do both.
You can do both.
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really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency
June 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency
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Trump Has Never Been Anti-War; He’s Not Even Anti-War inside the USA talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
Trump Has Never Been Anti-War; He’s Not Even Anti-War inside the USA
The idea that Trump or MAGA is in any sense “anti-war” is...
talkingpointsmemo.com
June 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Trump Has Never Been Anti-War; He’s Not Even Anti-War inside the USA talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
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I shit you not, people
June 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I shit you not, people
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They're wrong about the polls but this is how political news works. Rather than continually updating or refining their understanding of the facts, ideas are repeated by commentators until they become baseline truths that can't be rebutted, and then wielded like talismans in performative debate.
BRENNAN: The public approval is so high of deportation
PADILLA: It depends how you ask the question. If you ask the same people, 'Do you think we should maintain due process in the US?' the answer is overwhelmingly yes
PADILLA: It depends how you ask the question. If you ask the same people, 'Do you think we should maintain due process in the US?' the answer is overwhelmingly yes
June 16, 2025 at 5:32 AM
They're wrong about the polls but this is how political news works. Rather than continually updating or refining their understanding of the facts, ideas are repeated by commentators until they become baseline truths that can't be rebutted, and then wielded like talismans in performative debate.
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Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."
June 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."
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Elon Musk exhorted Republican lawmakers to “KILL the BILL" on X, and he hasn't re-tweeted a neo-Nazi in weeks. Could he be the Resistance hero the Left so badly needs?
June 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Elon Musk exhorted Republican lawmakers to “KILL the BILL" on X, and he hasn't re-tweeted a neo-Nazi in weeks. Could he be the Resistance hero the Left so badly needs?
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Again, dozens & dozens of members of the US elite spent the last 10 years pretending that the left is the real threat to speech on campus. Are any of the revising their priors?
NEW—Rubio issues State Dept. cable instructing enhanced social media vetting for ALL people (students, faculty, etc) seeking travel visas to Harvard under guise of “antisemitism.”
All social media profiles must be public, otherwise seen “as an effort to evade or hide certain activity.”
Full cable:
All social media profiles must be public, otherwise seen “as an effort to evade or hide certain activity.”
Full cable:
May 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Again, dozens & dozens of members of the US elite spent the last 10 years pretending that the left is the real threat to speech on campus. Are any of the revising their priors?
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Trump could wander into the press briefing room in nothing but soiled underwear, mistake Karoline Leavitt for his ex-wife Marla Maples, and go on an extended rant about how he was sending SEAL Team 6 to execute George Clooney and half the media would still be asking about Biden's health.
May 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Trump could wander into the press briefing room in nothing but soiled underwear, mistake Karoline Leavitt for his ex-wife Marla Maples, and go on an extended rant about how he was sending SEAL Team 6 to execute George Clooney and half the media would still be asking about Biden's health.
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Perfect concise summary of how we have completely lost the plot in our National Conversation™️
Today Trump's main legislative initiative died *in committee*, his main domestic policy initiative was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, & his economic shenanigans got the whole country's credit downgraded.
Let's talk about what's important: Biden Old
Let's talk about what's important: Biden Old
May 17, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Perfect concise summary of how we have completely lost the plot in our National Conversation™️
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The White House is trying to hide Trump's dementia
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
'Most Transparent’ White House In History Keeps Majority Of Trump’s Remarks Secret
Trump's aides released just 20% of the transcripts of his speeches and interactions with the press over his first 100 days, excluding many of his most unhinged comments
www.huffpost.com
May 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The White House is trying to hide Trump's dementia
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Did you read the excerpt from the new Biden book where he pardoned 1,500 insurrectionists, made billions in a corrupt crypto scheme, and is being gifted a “palace in the sky” from a patron of Hamas? No wait, that’s the other guy. Maybe we should be talking about him more.
May 14, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Did you read the excerpt from the new Biden book where he pardoned 1,500 insurrectionists, made billions in a corrupt crypto scheme, and is being gifted a “palace in the sky” from a patron of Hamas? No wait, that’s the other guy. Maybe we should be talking about him more.