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kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
February 7, 2026 at 10:25 PM
kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
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A painful one from @jvl.bsky.social on Bondi Beach, Rob Reiner, and USAID.
Read The Triad only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/america-un...
Read The Triad only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/america-un...
America Is an Unserious Country Filled With Unserious People
Stories about revealed preferences and who we really are.
www.thebulwark.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
A painful one from @jvl.bsky.social on Bondi Beach, Rob Reiner, and USAID.
Read The Triad only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/america-un...
Read The Triad only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/america-un...
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Reupping, from the weekend.
Folks should look a little more closely at Pam Bondi's re-ratification of Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer's so-called indictment.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/15/p...
Folks should look a little more closely at Pam Bondi's re-ratification of Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer's so-called indictment.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/15/p...
Pam Bondi Replaces Her Embarrassing Reading Comprehension Failure with a 4A Violation - emptywheel
On November 10, Jim Comey noted that when Pam Bondi read the transcript from the grand jury that indicted him, she may well have been exposed to unlawfully seized material. And then Bondi, who claims ...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Reupping, from the weekend.
Folks should look a little more closely at Pam Bondi's re-ratification of Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer's so-called indictment.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/15/p...
Folks should look a little more closely at Pam Bondi's re-ratification of Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer's so-called indictment.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/15/p...
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"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
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He really said "skill issue" at charlie's memorial
Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."
October 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
He really said "skill issue" at charlie's memorial
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Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.
The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein
YouTube video by The Onion
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October 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.
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The US could develop its own cheap, fast public payment rails. Instead, it’s threatening trade-related measures against Brazil for innovating.
Using financial statecraft to help incumbents continue squeezing out rents at consumers’ expense.
Using financial statecraft to help incumbents continue squeezing out rents at consumers’ expense.
Tired: Trump is punishing Brazil because they sentenced his pal Bolsonaro for attempting a coup
Wired: Trump is punishing Brazil because their useful central bank payment system is squeezing out PayPal
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w...
Wired: Trump is punishing Brazil because their useful central bank payment system is squeezing out PayPal
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w...
Brazil Has a New Digital Spending Habit. Now It’s a Trump Target.
www.nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The US could develop its own cheap, fast public payment rails. Instead, it’s threatening trade-related measures against Brazil for innovating.
Using financial statecraft to help incumbents continue squeezing out rents at consumers’ expense.
Using financial statecraft to help incumbents continue squeezing out rents at consumers’ expense.
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Just a reminder that the Commander-in-Chief of the Louisiana National Guard, who can call them out all by himself if they were actually needed, is … Governor Landry.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry: "Tonight, we're sending the Department of War a request to send the National Guard, asking them to deploy the National Guard here in Louisiana into our cities like New Orleans and Baton Rogue and others."
September 30, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Just a reminder that the Commander-in-Chief of the Louisiana National Guard, who can call them out all by himself if they were actually needed, is … Governor Landry.
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Trump just threatened to sue ABC again for allowing Jimmy Kimmel back on the air, which is SUPER weird, because all of these Republicans said that the decision to pull Kimmel’s show was a “business decision.”
September 24, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Trump just threatened to sue ABC again for allowing Jimmy Kimmel back on the air, which is SUPER weird, because all of these Republicans said that the decision to pull Kimmel’s show was a “business decision.”
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Some of us do.
September 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Some of us do.
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Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."
September 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."
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I came of political age hating the Bush guys and now I have to get in the trenches with them against the guy from the apprentice
I would like to file several complaints
I would like to file several complaints
September 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I came of political age hating the Bush guys and now I have to get in the trenches with them against the guy from the apprentice
I would like to file several complaints
I would like to file several complaints
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Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.
What America is going through is not unusual in historical terms. Plenty of examples like it today elsewhere in the world.
What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.
What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.
September 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.
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has there been a single piece of political rhetoric that has inspired more mass shootings than great replacement?
A story no one is talking about - last week's high school shooting in Denver.
16-year-old white boy radicalized online and promoting white supremacist and anti-Semitic conspiracies, inspired by - and a fan of - terrorists who promoted replacement theory.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
16-year-old white boy radicalized online and promoting white supremacist and anti-Semitic conspiracies, inspired by - and a fan of - terrorists who promoted replacement theory.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Evergreen H.S. shooter hinted at his plans online, ADL says
The attacker, who shot and wounded two students, reposted a photo of a revolver and a box of ammunition two hours beforehand, research by the group's Center on Extremism shows.
www.nbcnews.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
has there been a single piece of political rhetoric that has inspired more mass shootings than great replacement?
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“A democratic society needs people in Ezra Klein’s position to treat Charlie Kirk’s anti-democracy stances as disqualifying, rather than pretend they’re just another policy opinion…”
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social w/an excellent critique of Kirk hagiography
www.arcdigital.media/p/ezra-klein...
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social w/an excellent critique of Kirk hagiography
www.arcdigital.media/p/ezra-klein...
Ezra Klein Accidentally Shows How the Media Brought Us Trump
The prominent liberal pundit made up a fake version of Charlie Kirk to praise, laundering his reputation the way a lot of mainstream media launders MAGA
www.arcdigital.media
September 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
“A democratic society needs people in Ezra Klein’s position to treat Charlie Kirk’s anti-democracy stances as disqualifying, rather than pretend they’re just another policy opinion…”
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social w/an excellent critique of Kirk hagiography
www.arcdigital.media/p/ezra-klein...
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social w/an excellent critique of Kirk hagiography
www.arcdigital.media/p/ezra-klein...
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Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chair of the Intelligence Committee, says he was denied a meeting with career intelligence workers because Laura Loomer objected.
September 3, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chair of the Intelligence Committee, says he was denied a meeting with career intelligence workers because Laura Loomer objected.
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this is almost certainly under Title 32 authorities (meaning the TX guard will be nominally under TX state control but on a federal mission), meaning the posse comitatus issues that came up in California will not apply. that said, it raises a whole lot of other legal problems
BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago.
Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
this is almost certainly under Title 32 authorities (meaning the TX guard will be nominally under TX state control but on a federal mission), meaning the posse comitatus issues that came up in California will not apply. that said, it raises a whole lot of other legal problems
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In Batshit Rant Trump Seems to Beg John Roberts to Rule before Full Brunt of His Tariffs Hits
www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/01/i...
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In Batshit Rant Trump Seems to Beg John Roberts to Rule before Full Brunt of His Tariffs Hits - emptywheel
A month ago, Scott Bessent was counting on delay at SCOTUS to get them to agree to uphold Trump's illegal tariffs. Now, Trump is declaring that "TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE," perhaps because Congress might...
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September 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
In Batshit Rant Trump Seems to Beg John Roberts to Rule before Full Brunt of His Tariffs Hits
www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/01/i...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/01/i...
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This clip is worth watching
August 14, 2025 at 4:12 AM
This clip is worth watching
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What’s craaaazy to me is that a Minnesota state rep was ASSASSINATED and nothing even remotely close to this happened there
Police have set up a checkpoint and appear to be stopping every single car on 14th st NW, between W+V, here in northwest DC. Some cars are being pulled over after being stopped.
Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)
Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)
August 14, 2025 at 1:48 AM
What’s craaaazy to me is that a Minnesota state rep was ASSASSINATED and nothing even remotely close to this happened there
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He finally realized we were on to 2 weeks.
Trump on Putin: "I'm gonna make a new deadline of about 10 or 12 days from today."
July 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
He finally realized we were on to 2 weeks.
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I *am* a constitutional scholar and you are correct.
I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.
July 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I *am* a constitutional scholar and you are correct.
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Newt Gingrich: Resigned in shame.
Dennis Hastert: Child molester.
John Boehner: Chased out by Freedom Caucus.
Paul Ryan: Quit in disgust.
Kevin McCarthy: Forced out by Freedom Caucus.
Mike Johnson: Spineless “Christian.”
American politics isn’t broken, just the GOP.
Dennis Hastert: Child molester.
John Boehner: Chased out by Freedom Caucus.
Paul Ryan: Quit in disgust.
Kevin McCarthy: Forced out by Freedom Caucus.
Mike Johnson: Spineless “Christian.”
American politics isn’t broken, just the GOP.
July 23, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Newt Gingrich: Resigned in shame.
Dennis Hastert: Child molester.
John Boehner: Chased out by Freedom Caucus.
Paul Ryan: Quit in disgust.
Kevin McCarthy: Forced out by Freedom Caucus.
Mike Johnson: Spineless “Christian.”
American politics isn’t broken, just the GOP.
Dennis Hastert: Child molester.
John Boehner: Chased out by Freedom Caucus.
Paul Ryan: Quit in disgust.
Kevin McCarthy: Forced out by Freedom Caucus.
Mike Johnson: Spineless “Christian.”
American politics isn’t broken, just the GOP.
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More than two decades after his death, Elliott Smith still isn’t particularly well known, or well understood, but he is terribly loved.
The Lingering Beauty of Elliott Smith
Twenty years after his death, the singer-songwriter still isn’t particularly well known, or well understood, but he is terribly loved.
www.newyorker.com
July 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
More than two decades after his death, Elliott Smith still isn’t particularly well known, or well understood, but he is terribly loved.