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With a sky blue sky
This rotten time
Wouldn’t seem so bad to me now
Oh, if I didn’t die
I should be satisfied
I survived
That's good enough for now
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I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example.

Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)
December 29, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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“You guys, Hitler wants to see Poland succeed”
Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. It sounds a little strange but President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."
December 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press
December 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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60 Minutes, dead at 57. The murder weapon was Bari Weiss.
December 22, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Some of the same conservatives who constructed an entire worldview around a fear that someday the federal government would create a panopticon to persecute them ended up building one to use against their enemies the minute they got the chance.
Trump, Hunger Games, and the Kennedy Center
The dystopia everyone said was impossible is already here.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing

TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers

Me:
December 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Just as he did in the private sector, Donald Trump is slapping his name and face on everything he can—but the difference is that America’s institutions don’t belong to him, @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily:
The United States of Donald Trump
Donald Trump is slapping his name and face on everything he can, but America’s institutions don’t belong to him.
bit.ly
December 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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[Nixon voice] My God.

My reaction:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like
Donald Trump delivered a fear-drenched rant live from the White House.
www.theatlantic.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Trump tonight:

Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me
December 18, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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The Presidency was never intended to be a safe haven for criminals.
December 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more...

🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍
December 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.

They are openly saying this.

Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
December 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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The decline of democracy in the US means you can’t visit the US if you commented on the decline of democracy in the US
This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
December 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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No Habba job. Sad!
Breaking News: A federal court said that Alina Habba, a Trump-appointed lawyer, had been serving unlawfully as the U.S. attorney in New Jersey. She was neither confirmed by the Senate nor appointed by district trial court judges — the two traditional pathways.
Appeals Court Says Alina Habba, Former Trump Lawyer, Is Serving Unlawfully as U.S. Attorney
The judges wrote that the Trump Administration appeared to have become frustrated by legal and political barriers that have prevented its preferred U.S. attorneys from leading federal prosecutors’ offices.
nyti.ms
December 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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@markhertling.bsky.social warns the gravest threat to the U.S. military is the erosion of the values that keep our forces lawful and legitimate. He implores Congress to investigate whether unlawful orders were issued in the Caribbean, and hold every official to account.
December 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Funniest part of an NFL football game is when the defense gets a turnover and very briefly the football team turns into the theatre club and they do their little performance they rehearsed that week.
December 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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“In nearly all of the examples Judge Ellis cited in her 200-plus page opinion, she says the Department of Homeland Security narrative contradicts the reality of what can be seen on agents' body-worn cameras.”

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
Federal agents engaged in widespread misrepresentations to justify use of force: Judge
The ABC7 I-Team is taking a closer look at a trove of videos ordered released by a federal judge in her explanation of the preliminary injunction she issued earlier this month restricting use of force...
abc7chicago.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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I'll start dressing like they did in the 50's when airlines offer the cabin space they had in the 50's.
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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“Quiet, Piggy” would be fitting for his tombstone.
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM