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Want to see how they lie? I published this last week: Matt and his assistant Andrew Lowenthal cutting emails in half and lying about what they said to spin up the antivax rage machine. The Twitter Files were a propaganda campaign. And here we are now.
open.substack.com/pub/reneedir...
open.substack.com/pub/reneedir...
The Many Lies of Andrew Lowenthal
Pulling receipts: what a cropped email & sworn declaration reveal in the ongoing saga of a smear campaign
open.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Want to see how they lie? I published this last week: Matt and his assistant Andrew Lowenthal cutting emails in half and lying about what they said to spin up the antivax rage machine. The Twitter Files were a propaganda campaign. And here we are now.
open.substack.com/pub/reneedir...
open.substack.com/pub/reneedir...
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Hubble has imaged the largest planet-forming disk ever seen! At 400 billion miles wide, it is roughly 40 times the diameter of our solar system. The disk is unexpectedly chaotic and turbulent, offering new insights into how planetary systems form: https://bit.ly/477sQ9b 🔭 🧪
December 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Hubble has imaged the largest planet-forming disk ever seen! At 400 billion miles wide, it is roughly 40 times the diameter of our solar system. The disk is unexpectedly chaotic and turbulent, offering new insights into how planetary systems form: https://bit.ly/477sQ9b 🔭 🧪
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CANCELLED 60 MINUTES CECOT DOC
YouTube video by eoin higgins
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December 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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When you pardon people without vetting them—based on politics and $$$ instead of merit—what you get is a whole lot more crime. Just this year, we’ve seen three of Trump’s first-term clemency recipients commit new crimes and squander their second chances. youtube.com/shorts/uIk0H...
Three Trump clemency recipients headed back to prison
YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer
youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
When you pardon people without vetting them—based on politics and $$$ instead of merit—what you get is a whole lot more crime. Just this year, we’ve seen three of Trump’s first-term clemency recipients commit new crimes and squander their second chances. youtube.com/shorts/uIk0H...
I hope the camels were spitting and the zebras shitting.
Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas...$70 per ticket.
December 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I hope the camels were spitting and the zebras shitting.
The tech bros demand their own private cities.
Senate News: Republicans are trying to sneak a provision into their latest government funding bill that would make it easier to sell off public lands and national parks, and may have the votes to do it. If you care about protecting your public lands, now’s the time to make it known.
December 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The tech bros demand their own private cities.
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I wonder if it will be as scary as the first two?
December 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I wonder if it will be as scary as the first two?
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Government-wide efforts to access and aggregate unprecedented amounts of voter data and other personal info should raise significant concerns for every American. We outline the details and implications of the admin's latest privacy-invasion move with @cdt.org and @civilrightsorg.bsky.social ⬇️
Protect Democracy, CDT, and the Leadership Conference release new analysis of federal efforts to access voter data
In our explainer, we examine the potential harms associated with the Trump administration’s latest privacy-invasive actions.
protectdemocracy.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Government-wide efforts to access and aggregate unprecedented amounts of voter data and other personal info should raise significant concerns for every American. We outline the details and implications of the admin's latest privacy-invasion move with @cdt.org and @civilrightsorg.bsky.social ⬇️
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NEW: we recap the last oral arguments of the year, including decoding the WOLF references.
tl;dr - SCOTUS is going to give Trump more power & control over independent agencies.
We also chat the campaign finance case & other legal news crooked.com/podcast/scot...
tl;dr - SCOTUS is going to give Trump more power & control over independent agencies.
We also chat the campaign finance case & other legal news crooked.com/podcast/scot...
a close up of a wolf laying down with its eyes closed .
Alt: a close up of a wolf laying down with its eyes closed .
media.tenor.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
NEW: we recap the last oral arguments of the year, including decoding the WOLF references.
tl;dr - SCOTUS is going to give Trump more power & control over independent agencies.
We also chat the campaign finance case & other legal news crooked.com/podcast/scot...
tl;dr - SCOTUS is going to give Trump more power & control over independent agencies.
We also chat the campaign finance case & other legal news crooked.com/podcast/scot...
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When I was a judicial law clerk in Montana, Pres Bush flew into the Billings airport for a rally.
I wanted to see Air Force One and asked the judge I clerked for if I could go. He said no, that it wouldn’t be appropriate.
And I was just a clerk. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
I wanted to see Air Force One and asked the judge I clerked for if I could go. He said no, that it wouldn’t be appropriate.
And I was just a clerk. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
Judge Emil Bove Faces Ethics Complaint for Attending Trump Rally
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
When I was a judicial law clerk in Montana, Pres Bush flew into the Billings airport for a rally.
I wanted to see Air Force One and asked the judge I clerked for if I could go. He said no, that it wouldn’t be appropriate.
And I was just a clerk. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
I wanted to see Air Force One and asked the judge I clerked for if I could go. He said no, that it wouldn’t be appropriate.
And I was just a clerk. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
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Need a boost to take you into the weekend? Here you go.
Pls forward to your friends, repost, like, and subscribe.
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We are going to win
Trump is losing the race against time
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December 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Step 1: Recruit Donald Trump to topple your government
Step 2: Try not to get caught in the crossfire
Step 3: Profit
Step 2: Try not to get caught in the crossfire
Step 3: Profit
Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado’s escape from Venezuela was particularly risky because her team had to inform the US military that she was escaping so they wouldn’t mistake her boat for an alleged narco boat and bomb it.
Full Story: bit.ly/3XJXIsh
Full Story: bit.ly/3XJXIsh
December 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Step 1: Recruit Donald Trump to topple your government
Step 2: Try not to get caught in the crossfire
Step 3: Profit
Step 2: Try not to get caught in the crossfire
Step 3: Profit
See the guy in the back with the gun? That's us now. #CaptainPhillips
December 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
See the guy in the back with the gun? That's us now. #CaptainPhillips
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Let’s interview Sam Altman’s nannies about whether they’re using ChatGPT
December 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Let’s interview Sam Altman’s nannies about whether they’re using ChatGPT
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LISTEN -->>
Shared from Senator Peter Welch yesterday.
December 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
LISTEN -->>
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“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
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Supreme Court at any time may issue 2 orders on its emergency docket that will greatly affect how Americans live over the next few years: one on legality of national guard troops in American cities and one on whether States like Texas can re-redistrict and get away with it on timing grounds for 2026
December 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Supreme Court at any time may issue 2 orders on its emergency docket that will greatly affect how Americans live over the next few years: one on legality of national guard troops in American cities and one on whether States like Texas can re-redistrict and get away with it on timing grounds for 2026
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Putin wants peace, huh?
December 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Putin wants peace, huh?
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Did I miss when kushner got his security clearance?
WTF is he doing in the "peace" negotiations?
Oh that's right, to make sure the money 💰 gets to trumps and his and putins pockets.
WTF is he doing in the "peace" negotiations?
Oh that's right, to make sure the money 💰 gets to trumps and his and putins pockets.
December 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Did I miss when kushner got his security clearance?
WTF is he doing in the "peace" negotiations?
Oh that's right, to make sure the money 💰 gets to trumps and his and putins pockets.
WTF is he doing in the "peace" negotiations?
Oh that's right, to make sure the money 💰 gets to trumps and his and putins pockets.
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A great article in @foreignaffairs.com about the "toothless" Trump sanctions on Russian oil, that people have been getting wrong. China is still buying lots of oil, and without secondary sanctions, this will protect Moscow
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
America’s Toothless Sanctions on Russian Oil
Last month, the Trump administration imposed fresh sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, signaling a renewed desire to drive Moscow to the negotiating table in its war a...
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 AM
A great article in @foreignaffairs.com about the "toothless" Trump sanctions on Russian oil, that people have been getting wrong. China is still buying lots of oil, and without secondary sanctions, this will protect Moscow
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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Oh, and India's second largest refinery (I believe) bought record amounts of Russian crude to refine last month--and is opening up new markets for its products. oilprice.com/Energy/Crude...
India’s Nayara Energy Defies Sanctions With Record Russian Intake | OilPrice.com
Crude intake at Nayara’s 400,000-b/d Vadinar refinery plunged to just 240,000 b/d after EU and US sanctions hit in August, but rebounded to 420,000 b/d in November.
oilprice.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Oh, and India's second largest refinery (I believe) bought record amounts of Russian crude to refine last month--and is opening up new markets for its products. oilprice.com/Energy/Crude...
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Conservatives are often stubbornly illiterate, but never more so than when they've been given a pretentious robe and a cute little toy hammer.
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Conservatives are often stubbornly illiterate, but never more so than when they've been given a pretentious robe and a cute little toy hammer.
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This was posted 5 HOURS AGO before the meeting between US and RU officials even began in Abu Dhabi
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This was posted 5 HOURS AGO before the meeting between US and RU officials even began in Abu Dhabi
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Welker and Brennan ask questions like they’re sexting RFK Jr.
November 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Welker and Brennan ask questions like they’re sexting RFK Jr.