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She’s absolutely suffered the kind of reputational damage that would support a defamation lawsuit.
Vanity Fair Is Reviewing Its Ties to Olivia Nuzzi The magazine, which recently hired the journalist, said it had been “taken by surprise” by new claims in an essay by her former fiancé, Ryan Lizza.
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Brazil’s not out of the woods yet.
Bolsonaro remains a key figure in Brazilian politics, despite being ineligible to run for office until at least until 2030 after a separate ruling by Brazil’s top electoral court. The first day of his prison sentence should mark an extension of that deadline to 2033. Polls show he would be a competitive candidate in next year’s vote if allowed to run.
November 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Might makes right for me but not for thee
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Republican state lawmakers and upheld laws limiting the power of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers. The state's December 2018 lame-duck session of the legislature passed a number of laws curbing Evers' power, including one that barred him from authorizing the state's departure from a federal lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act. Evers campaigned on leaving that lawsuit. Lawmakers also limited Evers' ability to change existing state laws through executive action, including Wisconsin's voter ID and right-to-work laws. The governor's power to appoint board members to the state's economic development agency, which is overseeing the state's $4 billion tax incentives deal with tech giant Foxconn, was scaled back as well. The court ruled 4-3 in favor of the GOP on Friday, dismissing an argument that the session was called unconstitutionally. The plaintiffs in the case, the League of Women Voters, argued the state constitution does not ascribe the power to call an extraordinary session of the legislature to lawmakers, thereby making the December session and all actions therein unconstitutional and invalid. The court's majority opinion, written by conservative Justice Rebecca Bradley, rejected that. "The Wisconsin Constitution itself affords the legislature absolute discretion to determine the rules of its own proceedings," Bradley wrote. The court's liberal justices offered a dissenting opinion, saying the majority "subverts the plain text of ... the Wisconsin Constitution." "The Legislature's ability to determine the rules of its proceedings pursuant to Article IV, Section 8 does not swallow up the meeting requirements of Article IV, Section 11 or allow it to wield unbridled power," wrote Justice Rebecca Dallet.
November 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Let’s not bicker and argue about who killed who.
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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How are we still doing this 2017 bit in 2025?
The White House has postponed its rollout of a new proposal to address health care costs aimed at averting a spike in premiums driven by the expiration of key Affordable Care Act subsidies, a White House official said. President Donald Trump was originally expected to unveil the plan on Monday, but now that is not happening. The official did not provide a reason for the delay.
November 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Simpsons meme - “the meanest episode so far”
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Eat it, John Roberts
Brown began the panel’s ruling on the Texas maps by quoting Chief Justice John Roberts in a 2007 opinion: “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”
November 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Wolf wearing glasses
November 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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These guys have ruined lives because simply being ultra-wealthy was not enough
Roger Goodell Adam Silver
November 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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All the News That’s Fit to Print
“I heard on the radio that there is a Cabinet mtg this am,” she wrote aides on June 8, 2009. “Is there? Can I go? If not, who are we sending?” (It turned out it was not a cabinet meeting but one for lower-level officials.) Four days later, she emailed aides after showing up for a 10:45 a.m. meeting at the White House only to be told it was canceled. “This is the second time this has happened,” she wrote. “What’s up???”
November 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Is this throat clearing necessary? This was a US senator. Do Luigi Mangione articles caveat that he is not from New York and it’s unclear if he was aware murder is a crime in that state?
It’s unclear whether Lankford, who has no formal legal training, was aware of the legal age of consent at the time of his deposition.
November 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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I personally don’t think it reflected poorly on liberals to roll their eyes during the “obvious right-wing ratfucking operation” phase of this. Liberals cared about actual developments. MAGA types are the ones who assiduously ignored the painfully obvious Trump connection.
November 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Journalists: We have journalistic standards! None of this was newsworthy!

Also journalists: Dear public, here is a 2009 email from Hillary asking if there was a meeting today

archive.ph/2025.04.10-0...
“I heard on the radio that there is a Cabinet mtg this am,” she wrote aides on June 8, 2009. “Is there? Can I go? If not, who are we sending?” (It turned out it was not a cabinet meeting but one for lower-level officials.) Four days later, she emailed aides after showing up for a 10:45 a.m. meeting at the White House only to be told it was canceled. “This is the second time this has happened,” she wrote. “What’s up???”
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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I don’t know. I think Epstein having pictures of Trump posing in Epstein’s kitchen with girls in bikinis is at least as publishable as Hillary asking if there is a Cabinet meeting or not.
would you like photo of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen. Yes!! New Trove of Hillary Clinton’s Emails Highlights Workaday Tasks at the State Department Hillary Rodham Clinton in Washington in January 2009, before she took office. In emails, aides asked if they could share her address with members of the Obama administration.Credit...Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images By Peter Baker and Steve Eder June 30, 2015 WASHINGTON — The State Department released a trove of email messages on Tuesday night from Hillary Rodham Clinton’s first year as secretary of state amid deep curiosity in both parties about what they will show as she mounts her second campaign for the White House. Many of the messages concern simple logistics and scheduling, with Mrs. Clinton confirming meetings at the White House or seeking to rearrange her calendar to accommodate various demands. Others are messages from aides or other administration officials praising her public performances or checking to see if she minded her email address being given out. “I heard on the radio that there is a Cabinet mtg this am,” she wrote aides on June 8, 2009. “Is there? Can I go? If not, who are we sending?” (It turned out it was not a cabinet meeting but one for lower-level officials.) Four days later, she emailed aides after showing up for a 10:45 a.m. meeting at the White House only to be told it was canceled. “This is the second time this has happened,” she wrote. “What’s up???”
November 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Check this out, dawg. First of all, you throw in’ too many big words at me, and because I don’t understand them, I’m gonna take ‘em as disrespect
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Don’t underestimate her
Google search for boebert gun
November 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Easy
January 6 storming of the Capitol
November 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Meet your new health insurance spokesman:
The General Insurance
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Or getting saved because actually the Democrats don’t want to surrender
At Thursday’s meeting, they told their caucus colleagues that they now had ten votes to re-open the government in exchange for no real Republican concessions. At that, much of the rest of the caucus went ballistic, and some of the supposed ten said that, in fact, they were not willing to vote for any such deal
November 9, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Boy, that escalated quickly… I mean, that really got out of hand fast.
November 8, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Exact same vote share?
Mayor first choice (Minneapolis) - Jacob Frey 41.71% New York mayor - Mamdani 50.4%
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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lol
2025 turkey “$0.97/lb -lowest price since 2019 2024 turkey - $0.88/lb
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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It’s not clear this would even do what they say. If “laws as in effect on January 3, 2025” refers to Senate rules, do the rules relating to the parliamentarian also survive? So can the parliamentarian decide a thing meets reconciliation rules? Can the parliamentarian be overruled by majority vote?
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States: “Article — “The debate on any measure or motion pending before the Senate, excluding Presidential nominations, shall not be brought to a close except as provided under laws as in effect on January 3, 2025, unanimous consent, or the concurrence of a minimum of three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn.”.
November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM