Thos.
@sizzlechest5.bsky.social
I'll see you in hell, Mr Thorn
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It's so true. This is why I'm often a bit surprised when I meet immigrants from western Europe these days. Like why'd you come? I mean, they're welcome & it's great. But uprooting yourself from everything you know is a big deal. You need to be driven and need to.
January 1, 2026 at 6:04 PM
It's so true. This is why I'm often a bit surprised when I meet immigrants from western Europe these days. Like why'd you come? I mean, they're welcome & it's great. But uprooting yourself from everything you know is a big deal. You need to be driven and need to.
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Stephen Miller's argument that the U.S. shouldn't take immigrants from "failed societies" overlooks the fact that the failure of other societies is what drives people to seek a better life here. It's what Miller's own ancestors did.
January 1, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Stephen Miller's argument that the U.S. shouldn't take immigrants from "failed societies" overlooks the fact that the failure of other societies is what drives people to seek a better life here. It's what Miller's own ancestors did.
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These dumb takes always go one way.
They never run a photo of a billionaire in Central Park, calling out a capitalist for hypocritically enjoying a public park like some kind of commie
They never run a photo of a billionaire in Central Park, calling out a capitalist for hypocritically enjoying a public park like some kind of commie
January 1, 2026 at 5:57 PM
These dumb takes always go one way.
They never run a photo of a billionaire in Central Park, calling out a capitalist for hypocritically enjoying a public park like some kind of commie
They never run a photo of a billionaire in Central Park, calling out a capitalist for hypocritically enjoying a public park like some kind of commie
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I went to all 10 of the daycares Nick Shirley featured in his viral video. I got inside 4 and found children. Lots of children: www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...
We went to some of the day cares Nick Shirley did. Here’s what we found.
Some of the 10 day cares the YouTube content creator blasted for having “no children” invited reporters in to see for themselves.
www.startribune.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:22 AM
I went to all 10 of the daycares Nick Shirley featured in his viral video. I got inside 4 and found children. Lots of children: www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...
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like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”
uhhh yeah I can see why these childcare properties weren't eager to let in some rando dudes asking "where are the kids?"
January 1, 2026 at 2:49 PM
like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”
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Happy New Year.
We’re going to win.
We’re going to win.
January 1, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Happy New Year.
We’re going to win.
We’re going to win.
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It is kind of wild that no big media outlet has busted open the story of who is making DHS' posts on X. Whoever that may be is certainly plugged into hardcore white supremacist internet propaganda with a harder edge. "Groyper" would be underselling it. This is Daily Stormer-tier sludge.
January 1, 2026 at 2:01 AM
It is kind of wild that no big media outlet has busted open the story of who is making DHS' posts on X. Whoever that may be is certainly plugged into hardcore white supremacist internet propaganda with a harder edge. "Groyper" would be underselling it. This is Daily Stormer-tier sludge.
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2026 is midterms and it’s the year we get going on putting these assholes in the dumpster of history where they belong
December 31, 2025 at 11:52 PM
2026 is midterms and it’s the year we get going on putting these assholes in the dumpster of history where they belong
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They want to wipe out almost a third of the country. It’s got nothing to do with illegal immigration.
It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.
It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.
December 31, 2025 at 11:29 PM
They want to wipe out almost a third of the country. It’s got nothing to do with illegal immigration.
It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.
It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.
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When "confused" Trump supporters say "I thought he was just gonna deport the criminals" you need to remember we arent talking about criminals as a legal term. We are talking about criminals as a *social* classification.
December 31, 2025 at 9:39 AM
When "confused" Trump supporters say "I thought he was just gonna deport the criminals" you need to remember we arent talking about criminals as a legal term. We are talking about criminals as a *social* classification.
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either Trump is breaking the law ordering illegal strikes or Trump has reached an undeniable level of cognitive decline
both stories would be headline news above the fold, and yet
both stories would be headline news above the fold, and yet
Since I first posted on Sunday about Trump's radio spot alleging a land strike on Venezuela, I've gotten a surprising amount of hand waving in response. No matter what the explanation is here, it's important to understand what actually did (or didn't) happen.
www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-us-b...
www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-us-b...
![But what struck me most [no pun intended] was the incuriousness and the learned helplessness; the permeation of this idea that Trump’s words and actions are so often inscrutable that trying to divine meaning from them is useless. I think this is wrong. Not only does it let Trump off the hook from explaining himself, but it also lets journalists off the hook from doing our jobs.
If Trump is lying about ordering a land strike on Venezuela, that is important information. If Trump did, in fact, order his first land strike on Venezuela, that is important information. If Trump believes the US carried out a land strike on Venezuela based on social media rumors or his own cognitive deficiencies and his team is running cover for him, that is important information. This isn’t Trump running his mouth about how the economy is really great, actually, and how America is back, baby. No, this is a question of whether or not the US just escalated a war.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ejihld4sywvvqwe67cdkn4jq/bafkreibr5goyfmlq7ixngscguajpmjyhypjrcuraaifutoniwxbvs7iggy@jpeg)
December 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
either Trump is breaking the law ordering illegal strikes or Trump has reached an undeniable level of cognitive decline
both stories would be headline news above the fold, and yet
both stories would be headline news above the fold, and yet
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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Read this. Merry Christmas indeed
December 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Read this. Merry Christmas indeed
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Joe Biden did the foreign policy thing everyone said for a decade that they wanted, & they really didn’t, & it destroyed his presidency & the media did this 👇
Trump is literally walking America away from the world, & we don’t see framing like this on CNN & in the Papers of Record
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Trump is literally walking America away from the world, & we don’t see framing like this on CNN & in the Papers of Record
🤷♂️
December 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Joe Biden did the foreign policy thing everyone said for a decade that they wanted, & they really didn’t, & it destroyed his presidency & the media did this 👇
Trump is literally walking America away from the world, & we don’t see framing like this on CNN & in the Papers of Record
🤷♂️
Trump is literally walking America away from the world, & we don’t see framing like this on CNN & in the Papers of Record
🤷♂️
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I never again want to hear about how the Republican Party is the party of national security. You don’t incinerate our diplomatic capacity & violate all of our treaty commitments if you care about national security.
Context for Trump withdrawing dozens of ambassadors
*China has invested heavily in expanding diplomacy
*The US has significantly degraded soft power
*The US already has scores of diplomatic vacancies
*China has invested heavily in expanding diplomacy
*The US has significantly degraded soft power
*The US already has scores of diplomatic vacancies
December 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I never again want to hear about how the Republican Party is the party of national security. You don’t incinerate our diplomatic capacity & violate all of our treaty commitments if you care about national security.
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Mark Cuban is a funny case of getting hit by the lucky stick. He sold his streaming company at the peak of the bubble and the company never amounted to anything in the long run. Bless his heart he made a crap ton of money but he doesn’t have any special insight that the average Joe doesn’t.
December 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Mark Cuban is a funny case of getting hit by the lucky stick. He sold his streaming company at the peak of the bubble and the company never amounted to anything in the long run. Bless his heart he made a crap ton of money but he doesn’t have any special insight that the average Joe doesn’t.
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"The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so easily into today’s pro-Trump censors is that their definition of free speech never included the right of others to talk back." @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Triumph of Free-Speech Hypocrisy
What the 60 Minutes scandal reveals
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so easily into today’s pro-Trump censors is that their definition of free speech never included the right of others to talk back." @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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The AG is *supposed* to be the people’s lawyer, not the president’s. This is outrageous.
It also indicates Trump feels that he needs protection from Epstein file disclosures.
It also indicates Trump feels that he needs protection from Epstein file disclosures.
Axios has learned the White House has begun managing the DOJ's account on X to respond to posts highlighting mentions of Trump in the Epstein files.
In typical administrations, there is a wall between the White House and what is supposed to be an independent Justice Department.
In typical administrations, there is a wall between the White House and what is supposed to be an independent Justice Department.
Scoop: Trump administration expects Epstein files release could last another week
The White House has begun managing the DOJ's account on X, an effort to finish out the year and the Epstein file disclosure requirements set by Congress.
www.axios.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The AG is *supposed* to be the people’s lawyer, not the president’s. This is outrageous.
It also indicates Trump feels that he needs protection from Epstein file disclosures.
It also indicates Trump feels that he needs protection from Epstein file disclosures.
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This dipshit put Erika Kirk, the wife of a murdered guy that most of America didn't even know existed, on a Town Hall on CBS News and no one fucking watched because no one cares. How on earth is that kind of behavior 'working to win back American viewers'. Do you hear yourself
CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss said she held back a “60 Minutes” segment earlier this week because it needed additional reporting and she is working to win back the trust of American viewers.
Bari Weiss defends held “60 Minutes” story in email to CBS News staff
CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss shelved a “60 minutes” segment because she said it needed additional reporting, including an interview with a Trump administration official.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This dipshit put Erika Kirk, the wife of a murdered guy that most of America didn't even know existed, on a Town Hall on CBS News and no one fucking watched because no one cares. How on earth is that kind of behavior 'working to win back American viewers'. Do you hear yourself
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there is one and only one political strategy, and that is: “hang trump like an anchor around the neck of every single elected republican and the party itself.” no ‘friends across the aisle.’ no ‘the fever will break.’ anyone not on board with that has to go. no exceptions
![Gallup poll | 12/1-12/15
President Trump approval crosstabs (%)
🟥Overall (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥Democratic (93/3 disapprove) [-90]
🟩Republican (89/8 approve) [+81]
🟥Independent (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥18-34 (68/25 disapprove) [-43]
🟥35-54 (59/36 disapprove) [-23]
🟥55+ (53/43 disapprove) [-10]
🟥No college (55/37 disapprove) [-18]
🟥College graduate (59/37 disapprove) [-22]
🟥Male (53/42 disapprove) [-11]
🟥Female (64/30 disapprove) [-34]
🟥White (52/46 disapprove) [-6]
🟥Non-white (71/21 disapprove) [-50]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreifnv6vxufu6icjvsd5toirz3lmqkzertdpdnlqh7q44momevhfjqq@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
there is one and only one political strategy, and that is: “hang trump like an anchor around the neck of every single elected republican and the party itself.” no ‘friends across the aisle.’ no ‘the fever will break.’ anyone not on board with that has to go. no exceptions
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An enraging trend right now, from CBS to the CDC, of people actively undermining institutions, then taking the reins of those institutions and claiming they need to rebuild the trust they helped destroy. (Also, people already trusted 60 Minutes.) bsky.app/profile/just...
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
December 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
An enraging trend right now, from CBS to the CDC, of people actively undermining institutions, then taking the reins of those institutions and claiming they need to rebuild the trust they helped destroy. (Also, people already trusted 60 Minutes.) bsky.app/profile/just...
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If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
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Here’s one thing to point out whenever the trump wh and gop do this: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Here’s one thing to point out whenever the trump wh and gop do this: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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It's interesting that people don't seem to notice that the fight we are in right now is: how are the major parties going to realign themselves?
December 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
It's interesting that people don't seem to notice that the fight we are in right now is: how are the major parties going to realign themselves?