Nick Carper
@ncarper.bsky.social
Politics, policy, and heavy metal nerd. Lover of the Steelers and Rays. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼🇨🇦
The Union forever, hurrah, boys, hurrah!
Down with the traitors, up with the stars
The Union forever, hurrah, boys, hurrah!
Down with the traitors, up with the stars
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The Trump Justice Department has roughly 5.2 million pages of Epstein files documents still to be reviewed and released to the public.
All documents were supposed to be released on December 19.
The Department is in violation of the law Trump himself signed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/u...
All documents were supposed to be released on December 19.
The Department is in violation of the law Trump himself signed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/u...
Justice Dept. Is Now Said to Be Reviewing 5.2 Million Pages of Epstein Files
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The Trump Justice Department has roughly 5.2 million pages of Epstein files documents still to be reviewed and released to the public.
All documents were supposed to be released on December 19.
The Department is in violation of the law Trump himself signed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/u...
All documents were supposed to be released on December 19.
The Department is in violation of the law Trump himself signed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/u...
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"It is really hard to describe what Trump's foreign policy is," observes @frankfukuyama.bsky.social, "since much of it is dictated by his personal needs and his desire for personal glory rather than any concept of national interest." writing.yaschamounk.com/p/francis-fu...
Francis Fukuyama on 2025
Yascha Mounk and Francis Fukuyama look back at this year—and make predictions for 2026.
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December 30, 2025 at 10:14 AM
"It is really hard to describe what Trump's foreign policy is," observes @frankfukuyama.bsky.social, "since much of it is dictated by his personal needs and his desire for personal glory rather than any concept of national interest." writing.yaschamounk.com/p/francis-fu...
What exactly did Hillary Clinton do to these people?
Net-Favorability Of:
🔵 Bernie Sanders: +1%
🔵 AOC: -11%
🔵 Gavin Newsom: -11%
🔴 JD Vance: -13%
🔴 Marco Rubio: -15%
🔴 Donald Trump: -16%
🔵 Hillary Clinton: -28%
🔴 Marjorie Taylor Greene: -31%
🔴 Mitch McConnell: -50%
YouGov / Dec 29, 2025
🔵 Bernie Sanders: +1%
🔵 AOC: -11%
🔵 Gavin Newsom: -11%
🔴 JD Vance: -13%
🔴 Marco Rubio: -15%
🔴 Donald Trump: -16%
🔵 Hillary Clinton: -28%
🔴 Marjorie Taylor Greene: -31%
🔴 Mitch McConnell: -50%
YouGov / Dec 29, 2025
December 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
What exactly did Hillary Clinton do to these people?
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Why were Toonami ad segments so good? www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLwF...
Broken Promise (Dreams) | Toonami 25th Anniversary
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December 27, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Why were Toonami ad segments so good? www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLwF...
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the zoom interviews were unbelievably bad
NFL broadcasts basically only work because TV has been a unionized business for a long time so naturally Netflix and Amazon look like children comparatively
December 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
the zoom interviews were unbelievably bad
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In an internal memo, seen by CNN, Sharyn Alfonsi predicted that "the public will correctly identify this" as corporate censorship. WaPo has more from Alfonsi here >>>
‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations
CBS News pulled a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about a prison in El Salvador one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:13 AM
In an internal memo, seen by CNN, Sharyn Alfonsi predicted that "the public will correctly identify this" as corporate censorship. WaPo has more from Alfonsi here >>>
I don't get why the broadcast is making it sound so complicated. Offensive penalty, time had expired.
December 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I don't get why the broadcast is making it sound so complicated. Offensive penalty, time had expired.
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I wonder how much of this is Instagram and TikTok convincing kids that they're poor because they don't have a penthouse apartment with a car elevator like their favorite influencer
Americans in their 20s and 30s may not feel that they’re richer than their equivalents 60 years ago, but they’re objectively wrong.
It’s fascinating how important it is to some people not to say “I’m struggling, it’s hard” or “I need help”—objectively true—but to instead insist they have it worse.
It’s fascinating how important it is to some people not to say “I’m struggling, it’s hard” or “I need help”—objectively true—but to instead insist they have it worse.
December 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I wonder how much of this is Instagram and TikTok convincing kids that they're poor because they don't have a penthouse apartment with a car elevator like their favorite influencer
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not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.
December 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.
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I really miss “Jesus is the reason for the season” as a conservative Christmas take
December 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I really miss “Jesus is the reason for the season” as a conservative Christmas take
This is Spinal Tap 1984 Black Album
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December 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
One day, you'll get to watch the video of these letters being ripped down.
December 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
One day, you'll get to watch the video of these letters being ripped down.
Serious question: where are these kids' parents? If my kid started talking like this I would smash their phone with a hammer and never let them have unsupervised internet access again.
From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...)
Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.
Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.
December 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Serious question: where are these kids' parents? If my kid started talking like this I would smash their phone with a hammer and never let them have unsupervised internet access again.
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That's really what seems to be happening with Puka sadly.
I saw someone say he's on an Antonio Brown speed run
December 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
That's really what seems to be happening with Puka sadly.
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The internet sucks now because everything needs to result in the maximal outcome so instead of seeing the Coldplay couple and going “lol pretty funny” we end up with this, everything is Qanon, everything is the Inquisition, when the fun of it should be “well, never have to think about this again!”
It was a perfect viral moment, a 5 second video snippet that appeared to tell an entire story. Then the country got way, way, way too invested.
December 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The internet sucks now because everything needs to result in the maximal outcome so instead of seeing the Coldplay couple and going “lol pretty funny” we end up with this, everything is Qanon, everything is the Inquisition, when the fun of it should be “well, never have to think about this again!”
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"At least three kids who are bereaved siblings of cancer victims and one pediatric cancer survivor sat in the Senate gallery. And then, it failed. A single senator stood in the way. It was Bernie Sanders."
New from @samsteindc.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4qg5TZn
New from @samsteindc.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4qg5TZn
A Pediatric Cancer Bill Fell One Vote Short. Bernie Cast It.
The Vermont senator is holding out for a bigger health care package. Advocates are asking: Is the price worth it?
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December 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"At least three kids who are bereaved siblings of cancer victims and one pediatric cancer survivor sat in the Senate gallery. And then, it failed. A single senator stood in the way. It was Bernie Sanders."
New from @samsteindc.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4qg5TZn
New from @samsteindc.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4qg5TZn
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People obsessively defend the most noxious ethnonationalist slogans of the anti-Israel camp because they enjoy forcing Jews to tolerate them, not because they have some magical effect towards Palestinian liberty. They add no votes, no money, no bullets.
It is ritual community shaming & abasement.
It is ritual community shaming & abasement.
It is an act of profound contempt where forcing you to pretend the evidence of your own eyes and mind are absurdities is part of how they demonstrate your powerlessness.
Jews are a favorite target because there aren't enough of us to mount a counter offensive & they like rubbing our noses in it.
Jews are a favorite target because there aren't enough of us to mount a counter offensive & they like rubbing our noses in it.
December 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
People obsessively defend the most noxious ethnonationalist slogans of the anti-Israel camp because they enjoy forcing Jews to tolerate them, not because they have some magical effect towards Palestinian liberty. They add no votes, no money, no bullets.
It is ritual community shaming & abasement.
It is ritual community shaming & abasement.
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hell, I think it's perfectly reasonable for someone *not to have known who Epstein was* in 2010. It wasn't a massive story then! But you've got to disclose that you met him *when you write about him now*.
you know, I'd understand if someone said "okay well before any photos come out, I had dinner with Jeffrey Epstein in 2010. I knew he was a scumbag but I wanted to meet Woody Allen. It was stupid and I regret it." but now it's just like oh there's David Brooks in a photo dump with some poor teenager
See the newly released photos here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/cl62l...
December 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
hell, I think it's perfectly reasonable for someone *not to have known who Epstein was* in 2010. It wasn't a massive story then! But you've got to disclose that you met him *when you write about him now*.
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These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
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Dude has contracted what is know as WR1 disease
Puka Nacua did an antisemitic little dance: defector.com/puka-nacua-d...
Puka Nacua Did An Antisemitic Little Dance | Defector
We need to keep all NFL players away from streamers. Or, at the very least, one streamer in particular: Adin Ross. When we last checked in with Ross he was hanging out in what was surely a crazy-smell...
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December 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Dude has contracted what is know as WR1 disease
With the playoff being 12 teams, and the NIL/transfer portal era in full swing, I feel like some of these smaller bowl games are on borrowed time.
December 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
With the playoff being 12 teams, and the NIL/transfer portal era in full swing, I feel like some of these smaller bowl games are on borrowed time.
Yeah I'm confused by this too. If I'd whipped out a Game Boy, even during lunch, any school I went to it would have been taken.
"Other students have discovered vintage technology like Game Boys and mp3 players."
Game Boys and other video game consoles weren't allowed at my school either, and I think that was quite common?
Game Boys and other video game consoles weren't allowed at my school either, and I think that was quite common?
December 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Yeah I'm confused by this too. If I'd whipped out a Game Boy, even during lunch, any school I went to it would have been taken.
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Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...