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Tim Dickinson
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Senior Writer & Editor, The Contrarian contrarian.substack.com

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I regret to inform you that Trump is back on his bullshit
November 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Take my hand, we'll make it, I swear...
November 23, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy....
November 22, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I breakdown the panic over Seattle's new socialist mayor Katie Wilson
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I think I broke Grok.
It went The Shining on me...
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Grok is really on one...
November 21, 2025 at 2:04 AM
This is a foul development:
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Trump 're-Truthing' a call for those lawmakers to be hanged.
November 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Jeffries responds:
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Here's that PSA that the President wants to punish by death
November 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Very normal Trump reaction to that PSA
November 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Sometimes in a 1-party (marginalized GOP) state like Oregon, policy fault lines are hard to spot.

But note the difference between AG Dan Rayfield who is busting up price-fixing landlords, and Portland city councilor Dan Ryan who is trying to rebrand price-fixing landlords as 'housing providers' 🤔
November 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Put a finger down if your dog gets nervous for no good reason and becomes your writing copilot for the afternoon
November 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Read my Q&A with the (recently arrested) Rev. Michael Woolf on why ICE's foul treatment of immigrants at Broadview is an affront to Judeo-Christian values:

open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
November 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Well this is gross.
Harvard prof. Writing Jeffrey Epstein about reading Lolita and recommending a similar text...
November 19, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Couple of Clinton references in the Epstein/Maxwell docs...
November 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
It's like a replay of this. It's his utter lack of decency on proud, nasty display.

And then the moral injury of living in a political environment where he gets away with it.
November 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
For my money, no image captures the moral upsidedown of the Trump era quite like this one:
November 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The no vote:
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
On Veterans Day, @contrariannews.org sent me and @thecierastour.bsky.social to cover nationwide protests -- of Vets saying "hell no" to the Trump administration's militarization of U.S. cities.

We met some extraordinary defenders of democracy:
November 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Shorter Trump:

The Epstein files are a "hoax" except for my enemies who are also in the files, for whom it real and must be prosecuted

you can almost smell the flop sweat
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Epstein clearly saw insecure nerds as marks in some way.

The way Larry Summers leans on Epstein for relationship counseling is... something
November 14, 2025 at 4:52 AM
"Dec visit me Caribbean"

(Politico also flagged this and got a response from a Thiel spox saying he never visited the island)
November 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
looks like Epstein also sent a version of this email to Wolff
November 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM