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ICE officers really don’t want you to see how they are assaulting US Citizens in NC
January 8, 2026 at 4:27 AM
ICE officers really don’t want you to see how they are assaulting US Citizens in NC
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Research tells us that it is not so much that we harm the people we hate, but that we find reasons to hate the people we have harmed. It's a psychological self-defense mechanism, by which we can maintain a belief that we are good people despite doing heinously bad things.
January 6, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Research tells us that it is not so much that we harm the people we hate, but that we find reasons to hate the people we have harmed. It's a psychological self-defense mechanism, by which we can maintain a belief that we are good people despite doing heinously bad things.
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FTSE 100 CEOs earn more than average worker’s yearly pay by noon on 6 January
FTSE 100 CEOs earn more than average worker’s yearly pay by noon on 6 January
High Pay Centre calculates bosses will pass milestone on third working day of 2026 with median pay of £1,353 an hour
The bosses of FTSE 100 companies will have made more money in 2026 before midday on Tuesday than the average worker will all year, according to figures laying bare the yawning income gap.
Median annual pay for FTSE 100 chief executives is £4.4m, the High Pay Centre thinktank calculated, 113 times higher than the £39,039 earned by the median full-time worker. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:18 AM
FTSE 100 CEOs earn more than average worker’s yearly pay by noon on 6 January
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"If you don't call me cool and give me my lil award I'll kill as many people as possible out of spite" really does appear to be the driving animus of everyone in this administration and its adjacent oligarchy.
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
January 5, 2026 at 3:28 AM
"If you don't call me cool and give me my lil award I'll kill as many people as possible out of spite" really does appear to be the driving animus of everyone in this administration and its adjacent oligarchy.
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During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.
January 4, 2026 at 2:36 AM
During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.
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some later shown to be incorrect.
David Hoch deleted his social media after we began making inquiries but we archived his posts where he wrote that Muslims were "demons" that "even the Blacks were sick of," and said "every Somali in MN is engaged in fraud. ALL of them."
David Hoch deleted his social media after we began making inquiries but we archived his posts where he wrote that Muslims were "demons" that "even the Blacks were sick of," and said "every Somali in MN is engaged in fraud. ALL of them."
January 3, 2026 at 12:19 PM
some later shown to be incorrect.
David Hoch deleted his social media after we began making inquiries but we archived his posts where he wrote that Muslims were "demons" that "even the Blacks were sick of," and said "every Somali in MN is engaged in fraud. ALL of them."
David Hoch deleted his social media after we began making inquiries but we archived his posts where he wrote that Muslims were "demons" that "even the Blacks were sick of," and said "every Somali in MN is engaged in fraud. ALL of them."
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this is all happening because 80,000 people in the 6 states where votes actually count googled "joe bidon still presdinant?" on election day morning
January 3, 2026 at 11:34 AM
this is all happening because 80,000 people in the 6 states where votes actually count googled "joe bidon still presdinant?" on election day morning
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It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize
January 3, 2026 at 7:06 AM
It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize
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I’ve long maintained that it was a mistake for Congress to have abolished itself.
January 3, 2026 at 10:57 AM
I’ve long maintained that it was a mistake for Congress to have abolished itself.
Pretty fucking exhausting never feeling like you fit in anywhere.
January 3, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Pretty fucking exhausting never feeling like you fit in anywhere.
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The Network State cult was conceived at Y Combinator.
Balaji Srinivasan gave his big anti-USA speech there in 2013. From the New York Times:
Balaji Srinivasan gave his big anti-USA speech there in 2013. From the New York Times:
January 2, 2026 at 6:37 PM
The Network State cult was conceived at Y Combinator.
Balaji Srinivasan gave his big anti-USA speech there in 2013. From the New York Times:
Balaji Srinivasan gave his big anti-USA speech there in 2013. From the New York Times:
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It's 2026.
Things Steve Herman probably doesn't know how to do:
* Mill grain
* Thatch a roof
* Harness an ox
* Plow a field
* Press cuneiform symbols onto a clay tablet
* Hollow out a log to create a dugout canoe
(Please add more below)
Things Steve Herman probably doesn't know how to do:
* Mill grain
* Thatch a roof
* Harness an ox
* Plow a field
* Press cuneiform symbols onto a clay tablet
* Hollow out a log to create a dugout canoe
(Please add more below)
January 2, 2026 at 4:30 PM
It's 2026.
Things Steve Herman probably doesn't know how to do:
* Mill grain
* Thatch a roof
* Harness an ox
* Plow a field
* Press cuneiform symbols onto a clay tablet
* Hollow out a log to create a dugout canoe
(Please add more below)
Things Steve Herman probably doesn't know how to do:
* Mill grain
* Thatch a roof
* Harness an ox
* Plow a field
* Press cuneiform symbols onto a clay tablet
* Hollow out a log to create a dugout canoe
(Please add more below)
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The someone she’s quoting is an old school MRA from the Roosh V forums who wrote a book called “Do the Philippines: How to Make Love with Filipino Girls in the Philippines.”
Here is the editor of Tablet agreeably reposting someone calling nonwhite NYC immigrants "worthless biotrash." It's astonishing how quickly this stuff has escaped containment
January 2, 2026 at 4:30 PM
The someone she’s quoting is an old school MRA from the Roosh V forums who wrote a book called “Do the Philippines: How to Make Love with Filipino Girls in the Philippines.”
This is fantastic!
In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I.
On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence.
www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...
On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence.
www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...
Guest Gist: 2026, Our Already Rotting Future
Seamus O'Reilly warns of AI maximum bubbledrive this year.
www.thegist.ie
January 2, 2026 at 6:57 PM
This is fantastic!
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You wanna read a new (hopefully improved, thanks to very helpful comments from a bunch of very smart colleagues) version of paper called "The Political Economy of Shitcoins"? Of course you do. @tompepinsky.com & I are at your service.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
January 2, 2026 at 5:54 PM
You wanna read a new (hopefully improved, thanks to very helpful comments from a bunch of very smart colleagues) version of paper called "The Political Economy of Shitcoins"? Of course you do. @tompepinsky.com & I are at your service.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”
We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:
We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:
“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
www.propublica.org
January 2, 2026 at 4:00 AM
“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”
We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:
We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:
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Why Are We Doing Dry January?
January 1, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Why Are We Doing Dry January?
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This ICE post is a reference to a Rhodesian Army recruiting poster ("Be A Man Among Men") that's very popular with white supremacists.
January 1, 2026 at 12:25 AM
This ICE post is a reference to a Rhodesian Army recruiting poster ("Be A Man Among Men") that's very popular with white supremacists.
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HERE Jack Smith sets out Trump’s direct culpability and complicity in the federal election interference case, including January 6th:
December 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
HERE Jack Smith sets out Trump’s direct culpability and complicity in the federal election interference case, including January 6th:
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Keir Starmer's expression is always that of a dog making eye contact while it's having a poo.
December 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Keir Starmer's expression is always that of a dog making eye contact while it's having a poo.
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Trump killed a lot of breast cancer research, making this point important to get widely distributed:
January 1, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Trump killed a lot of breast cancer research, making this point important to get widely distributed:
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orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing
December 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing