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NYT (Jan. 1963): MOSCOW REPORTS BOOMING ECONOMY
"Every three months, statistics on results of the state plan are published. The statistics are unfailingly optimistic. Each time they raise questions ... about the relationship of statistics to reality."
www.nytimes.com/1963/01/28/a...
"Every three months, statistics on results of the state plan are published. The statistics are unfailingly optimistic. Each time they raise questions ... about the relationship of statistics to reality."
www.nytimes.com/1963/01/28/a...
MOSCOW REPORTS BOOMING ECONOMY; But Observers Find Facts Unsupported by Figures 9.5% Growth Asserted Local Statistics Questioned Soviet Maintains Industry Showed 9.5% Growth in '62 (Published 1963)
www.nytimes.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
NYT (Jan. 1963): MOSCOW REPORTS BOOMING ECONOMY
"Every three months, statistics on results of the state plan are published. The statistics are unfailingly optimistic. Each time they raise questions ... about the relationship of statistics to reality."
www.nytimes.com/1963/01/28/a...
"Every three months, statistics on results of the state plan are published. The statistics are unfailingly optimistic. Each time they raise questions ... about the relationship of statistics to reality."
www.nytimes.com/1963/01/28/a...
another classic abuser tactic: find a threat you can wield over and over, punish with no semblance of predictability, claim victory/superiority whenever is convenient
Congrats everyone, we now have 35% tariffs on Canada for no apparent reason
July 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
another classic abuser tactic: find a threat you can wield over and over, punish with no semblance of predictability, claim victory/superiority whenever is convenient
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It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
June 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
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So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?
June 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?
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fox is setting the stage for mass approval of the killing of protestors
even the senator from louisiana had to rein him in. christ
even the senator from louisiana had to rein him in. christ
Fox anchor John Roberts suggests law enforcement is showing a lot of restraint by not shooting protesters
Roberts: "There are plenty of democratic countries ... where doing something like that would get you shot, so there would seem to be a fair degree of restraint being practiced"
Roberts: "There are plenty of democratic countries ... where doing something like that would get you shot, so there would seem to be a fair degree of restraint being practiced"
June 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
fox is setting the stage for mass approval of the killing of protestors
even the senator from louisiana had to rein him in. christ
even the senator from louisiana had to rein him in. christ
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Strangely, Roberts doesn’t name the “democracies” that, he says, shoot protesters.
Fox anchor John Roberts suggests law enforcement is showing a lot of restraint by not shooting protesters
Roberts: "There are plenty of democratic countries ... where doing something like that would get you shot, so there would seem to be a fair degree of restraint being practiced"
Roberts: "There are plenty of democratic countries ... where doing something like that would get you shot, so there would seem to be a fair degree of restraint being practiced"
June 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Strangely, Roberts doesn’t name the “democracies” that, he says, shoot protesters.
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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
June 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
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i have said this before but this is why it was and is important not to ignore the “NPC” language. these people really believe that other human beings are not real, with all the consequences that flow from this
May 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
i have said this before but this is why it was and is important not to ignore the “NPC” language. these people really believe that other human beings are not real, with all the consequences that flow from this
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I no longer have the right to free speech and I have to show my papers to heavily armed ICE officers every time I cross the street. But I can still own an AR-15 and that is what freedom really means.
May 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I no longer have the right to free speech and I have to show my papers to heavily armed ICE officers every time I cross the street. But I can still own an AR-15 and that is what freedom really means.
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Legality aside, how pathetic for the American head of state to fly around in the plane he got as a valentine from the Emir of Qatar. A kept little man.
May 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Legality aside, how pathetic for the American head of state to fly around in the plane he got as a valentine from the Emir of Qatar. A kept little man.
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“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration
May 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration
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It’s not impossible that the pope has read one of your tweets, and perhaps even enjoyed a sensible chuckle over it.
May 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
It’s not impossible that the pope has read one of your tweets, and perhaps even enjoyed a sensible chuckle over it.
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Just so we’re clear, everybody calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “terrorist” or a “gang member” are lying, and they know they’re lying, and they repeat it for purposes of confusing people who don’t follow this stuff closely into accepting what was done to him.
April 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Just so we’re clear, everybody calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “terrorist” or a “gang member” are lying, and they know they’re lying, and they repeat it for purposes of confusing people who don’t follow this stuff closely into accepting what was done to him.
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Opinion | I am part of the Resistance inside the penguin colony on Heard Island.
by Anonymous
by Anonymous
April 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Opinion | I am part of the Resistance inside the penguin colony on Heard Island.
by Anonymous
by Anonymous
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Props to George Soros. Hundreds of thousands of paid protestors yesterday, and yet not a single copy of a check or any evidence of electronic transfers to them.
April 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Props to George Soros. Hundreds of thousands of paid protestors yesterday, and yet not a single copy of a check or any evidence of electronic transfers to them.
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Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen
It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world
It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction
It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world
It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction
April 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen
It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world
It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction
It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world
It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction
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How it started // how it's going
April 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
How it started // how it's going
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As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies.
The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits.
Maybe it's not the judges?
The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits.
Maybe it's not the judges?
March 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies.
The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits.
Maybe it's not the judges?
The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits.
Maybe it's not the judges?
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These notes from universities aren't just useless and cowardly, they're actively dangerous at this point! Your university isn't a "community" if it's allowing people to be abducted off the street because of an op-ed.
Real answer is to reallocate all university resources until the student is freed.
Real answer is to reallocate all university resources until the student is freed.
March 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
These notes from universities aren't just useless and cowardly, they're actively dangerous at this point! Your university isn't a "community" if it's allowing people to be abducted off the street because of an op-ed.
Real answer is to reallocate all university resources until the student is freed.
Real answer is to reallocate all university resources until the student is freed.
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we believe we are special and we simply are not
March 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
we believe we are special and we simply are not
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It's been several hours since I first watched this clip of billionaire Howard Lutnick ruminating about Social Security, and I still can't believe it.
It's a rub-your-eyes-in-disbelief moment.
It's a rub-your-eyes-in-disbelief moment.
Trump’s Commerce Secretary just said seniors shouldn’t “call and complain” if they stop getting their Social Security checks: “A fraudster always makes the loudest noise screaming and complaining.”
March 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
It's been several hours since I first watched this clip of billionaire Howard Lutnick ruminating about Social Security, and I still can't believe it.
It's a rub-your-eyes-in-disbelief moment.
It's a rub-your-eyes-in-disbelief moment.
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BIG TENT PARTY 🔥💙🇺🇸
March 22, 2025 at 4:25 AM
BIG TENT PARTY 🔥💙🇺🇸
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Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.
March 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.
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The United States government under Trump by all accounts is shipping these people into indefinite involuntary servitude in El Salvador without even the pretense of any judicial process, much less duly convicting them of a crime. It’s an enslaving operation.
March 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The United States government under Trump by all accounts is shipping these people into indefinite involuntary servitude in El Salvador without even the pretense of any judicial process, much less duly convicting them of a crime. It’s an enslaving operation.