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Literally seeking to build a regime-supporting paramilitary force of tens of thousands of people - explicitly recruiting people based on their politics
December 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Literally seeking to build a regime-supporting paramilitary force of tens of thousands of people - explicitly recruiting people based on their politics
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US removal of panels honoring Black soldiers at WWII cemetery in the Netherlands draws backlash
US removal of panels honoring Black soldiers at WWII cemetery in the Netherlands draws backlash
US removal of panels honoring Black soldiers at WWII cemetery in the Netherlands draws backlash
www.independent.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 6:36 AM
US removal of panels honoring Black soldiers at WWII cemetery in the Netherlands draws backlash
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Sounds like a job for Ted Nugent, Lee Greenwood and Kid Rock
New Year’s Eve Concerts at Kennedy Center Are Canceled
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Sounds like a job for Ted Nugent, Lee Greenwood and Kid Rock
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Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.
December 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Hey now, My iTunes folder still contains over 2,000 downloads from the original Napster!
[Grandpa Simpson voice] it's like when there were all those freeloaders on Napster, taking files that other people downloaded without uploading any of their own.
Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go photocopy some Bitcoins, because my son is sure that's how that works. [/Grandpa Simpson]
Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go photocopy some Bitcoins, because my son is sure that's how that works. [/Grandpa Simpson]
December 21, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Hey now, My iTunes folder still contains over 2,000 downloads from the original Napster!
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Sen. Blumenthal making a very good point.
Sen. BLUMENTHAL: Was the U.S. Capitol attacked on January 6, 2021?
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol.
Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol.
Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?
December 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Sen. Blumenthal making a very good point.
Seems all the units were blinking 12:00, AI finds running a vending site is too complex for it's built-in skillset.
Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Seems all the units were blinking 12:00, AI finds running a vending site is too complex for it's built-in skillset.
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To be fair my years exclude pre-Civil RIghts America, the age of the robber barons and the grasping amorality of the Mexican-American War, but overall I've lived 65 years and on an everyday basis, i have never been more ashamed of my country than in the past eleven months.
My god.
My god.
NEWS: Trump officials are worried the ICC may try to prosecute them for war crimes once Trump's term ends, and are threatening sanctions against the ICC to change its founding document to grant them immunity. (via Reuters / link in reply)
December 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
To be fair my years exclude pre-Civil RIghts America, the age of the robber barons and the grasping amorality of the Mexican-American War, but overall I've lived 65 years and on an everyday basis, i have never been more ashamed of my country than in the past eleven months.
My god.
My god.
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There is trolling, and there is whatever grandious name we should give to this:
December 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
There is trolling, and there is whatever grandious name we should give to this:
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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Hm
Like many Americans, Scott Adams had insurance problems. But unlike most people he has powerful friends on social media, and when he asked President Trump for help, he got the cancer drug he needed.
Dilbert creator taps Trump to get cancer drug. Others wish they could, too
Like many Americans, Scott Adams had insurance problems. But unlike most people he has powerful friends on social media, and when he asked President Trump for help, he got the cancer drug he needed.
n.pr
November 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Hm
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This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.
November 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.
Where do we find their "Go Fund Me" page?
November 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Where do we find their "Go Fund Me" page?
Baseball hasn't been the same since they banned the beanball and spitter.
November 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Baseball hasn't been the same since they banned the beanball and spitter.
the mlb thread is running 45mins behind.
November 2, 2025 at 3:43 AM
the mlb thread is running 45mins behind.
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Mookie Betts, star of the LA Dodgers, doubled down on his remarks about Charlie Kirk. He said, “If you want people to speak kindly about you after you’re gone, then you should speak kindly while you’re alive.”
After receiving backlash, Betts responded with a follow-up: Be kind — now more than ever.
After receiving backlash, Betts responded with a follow-up: Be kind — now more than ever.
September 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Mookie Betts, star of the LA Dodgers, doubled down on his remarks about Charlie Kirk. He said, “If you want people to speak kindly about you after you’re gone, then you should speak kindly while you’re alive.”
After receiving backlash, Betts responded with a follow-up: Be kind — now more than ever.
After receiving backlash, Betts responded with a follow-up: Be kind — now more than ever.
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Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
September 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
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OMG "Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard" is exactly what you'd expect it to be, and it's brilliant.
Here's a short happy-go-lucky 🎶 parody about the way that
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now collapsing American healthcare - based off #PaulSimon's toe-tapping "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard".
youtu.be/FDiXrd-R68U
It's called: "Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard."
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now collapsing American healthcare - based off #PaulSimon's toe-tapping "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard".
youtu.be/FDiXrd-R68U
It's called: "Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard."
"Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard" - Marsh Family parody of Paul Simon "Me and Julio" on RFK
YouTube video by Marsh Family
youtu.be
September 8, 2025 at 4:44 AM
OMG "Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard" is exactly what you'd expect it to be, and it's brilliant.
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I swear, the number of people who rush in to declare things a "distraction" ... just stop it.
May 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I swear, the number of people who rush in to declare things a "distraction" ... just stop it.
Thanks for reminder, now updating my 7th gen also sans backup.
May 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Thanks for reminder, now updating my 7th gen also sans backup.
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Well… that’s just cool
March 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Well… that’s just cool