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Merlin&Abu
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Basic human decency and empathy matter. Truth matters. Rationality and Reason matter. Right matters. Enlightenment values, including social and scientific progress, must prevail. 💡🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🌈
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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
-Seneca (4 BC - AD 65), Roman philosopher and playwright
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December 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Garcia: This is not a real release. This is continuing a coverup that's been going on now for months.
December 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Schiff: "I think we ought to bring Pam Bondi before the Senate Judiciary Committee demand answers as to why the DOJ has violated the law."
December 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting.
December 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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December 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
December 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Steve Bannon reportedly said: 'You raised a kid that slit your throat!' about the late Rob Reiner.

A reminder that not a single prominent Democrat or liberal pundit said anything even vaguely akin to this when Charlie Kirk was murdered.

Oh the hypocrisy.
Turning Point crowd boos Rob Reiner: 'You raised a kid that slit your throat!'
A crowd at Turning Point USA's AmFest event booed slain Hollywood director Rob Reiner after MAGA influencer Steve Bannon said liberals believed he had a larger impact on culture than Charlie Kirk."Jus...
www.rawstory.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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When this shitshow is over, all the assets of the Trump family should be seized to pay for the reconstruction of the USA.
December 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Phang: If Maxwell is so worried about the grand jury records coming out, can you imagine the treasure trove of information against Maxwell, Epstein, and others that’s being held in the total Epstein files?
December 19, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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You couldn't write A Christmas Carol today because half of people would root for Scrooge.
December 18, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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In case laws still matter…
December 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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The White House says the Kennedy Center board vote was “unanimous”…

BULLSHIT.

@repbeatty.bsky.social, a Congressional member of the board, was on the call. They muted her and didn't let her voice opposition.

This is beyond absurd, totally illegal, and a disgrace to the memory and legacy of JFK.
December 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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vanity fair photographer christopher anderson posts this story on his instagram, suggesting he intentionally posed stephen miller underneath a painting of native americans
December 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Renaming the Kennedy Center, our national fine arts center, after such a coarse, lowbrow, and ignorant buffoon is America at its very stupidest.
December 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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To be clear.
December 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Great piece about my dear friend Melissa Hortman.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
Melissa Hortman died in a shocking act of political violence. This is her story
www.rollingstone.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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So… he’s giving them their own money?

Where’s the tariff money?
December 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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He has seen the Epstein Files in their entirety.

Now he is fleeing before the shit hits the fan.

#bonginobust
December 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:

I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care. 

Your health care is still legal and protected. 

I'll always fight for you.
December 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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ATTN MILITARY: That $1776 you’re getting? He’s taking it out of your already approved BHA and putting his name on it. www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
Trump rebrands Congressionally-approved troop housing subsidy as ‘warrior dividend’ bonus
More than $2.9 billion in reconciliation funds was allocated to beef up troop housing allowances. Now it’s being used for $1,776 checks.
www.defenseone.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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One small way to try to re-establish social trust would be to transparently disclose *in this very column* that you hung out with Jeffrey Epstein.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Opinion | The Epstein Story? Count Me Out.
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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He never disclosed that he’d visited Epstein in that column and did a lot of hand waving to insist that he and his fellow elites had nothing, nothing at all to do with him.
December 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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I agree. Either he didn't disclose it to his editors either and this is a colossal violation of conflict-of-interest rules, or he did, in which case someone has a monumental amount of explaining to do.
David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.

He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
December 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM