Taylor Pepper
@tpepper27.bsky.social
Former Mavs fan until the stupidest trade in our lifetime. Now just waiting for the empire to crumble. Until then resist. Give a little more, take a little less.
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“I don’t give a sh*t whether there’s a ballroom or not… the point is Trump has no mandate for this.”
In this week’s ‘Ask the Editor,’ Mehdi and Swin discuss how the media is rolling over for Trump in their coverage of the White House ballroom.
In this week’s ‘Ask the Editor,’ Mehdi and Swin discuss how the media is rolling over for Trump in their coverage of the White House ballroom.
October 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
“I don’t give a sh*t whether there’s a ballroom or not… the point is Trump has no mandate for this.”
In this week’s ‘Ask the Editor,’ Mehdi and Swin discuss how the media is rolling over for Trump in their coverage of the White House ballroom.
In this week’s ‘Ask the Editor,’ Mehdi and Swin discuss how the media is rolling over for Trump in their coverage of the White House ballroom.
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"And as millions face the prospect of starving, the president is obsessed over the fun minutiae of party-planning... Trump has spoken to senior administration officials about the idea of putting his name or image (like a bust) in the ballroom." - @swin24.bsky.social
Trump to the Poor: Let Them Eat Ballroom
Millions of Americans are about to lose food aid from the government, but the man in charge is focused on his ‘MAGA-Saddam,’ multi-million-dollar White House ballroom.
zeteo.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
"And as millions face the prospect of starving, the president is obsessed over the fun minutiae of party-planning... Trump has spoken to senior administration officials about the idea of putting his name or image (like a bust) in the ballroom." - @swin24.bsky.social
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Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."
She was 78.
She was 78.
Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died
Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
www.whatimreading.net
September 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."
She was 78.
She was 78.
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If you voted for him, you've done this.
September 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
If you voted for him, you've done this.
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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
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I hope the majority realizes you can't win over the right wing with civility or the old ways. Doesn't work. Its a dangerous, violent, hypocritical cult without shame.
They want power by any illegal means necessary.
Choose your fighters accordingly. The current Dem leadership ain't it.
They want power by any illegal means necessary.
Choose your fighters accordingly. The current Dem leadership ain't it.
September 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I hope the majority realizes you can't win over the right wing with civility or the old ways. Doesn't work. Its a dangerous, violent, hypocritical cult without shame.
They want power by any illegal means necessary.
Choose your fighters accordingly. The current Dem leadership ain't it.
They want power by any illegal means necessary.
Choose your fighters accordingly. The current Dem leadership ain't it.
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Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now.
Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.
Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.
currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter
September 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now.
Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.
Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.
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Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
September 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
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"Either you stay and perish, or you leave."
“Perish or Leave”: Hundreds of Thousands Flee as Israeli Military Invades Gaza City
Israeli forces are pushing deeper into Gaza City as the full-fledged military ground invasion continues despite mounting international condemnation. Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee Gaza City, where nearly 1 million Palestinians ...
www.democracynow.org
September 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
"Either you stay and perish, or you leave."
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This is Hollywood's McCarthy Moment.
This is the litmus test.
Learn from history.
Who will step up and fight?
Who will bend the knee and be complicit?
History will remember.
This is the litmus test.
Learn from history.
Who will step up and fight?
Who will bend the knee and be complicit?
History will remember.
September 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This is Hollywood's McCarthy Moment.
This is the litmus test.
Learn from history.
Who will step up and fight?
Who will bend the knee and be complicit?
History will remember.
This is the litmus test.
Learn from history.
Who will step up and fight?
Who will bend the knee and be complicit?
History will remember.
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Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
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ICE can now deploy a robot capable of letting off smoke grenades and navigating obstacles in its raids.
ICE Just Bought A Robot That Can Climb Stairs And Open Doors
ICE can now deploy a robot capable of letting off smoke grenades and navigating obstacles in its raids.
www.forbes.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
ICE can now deploy a robot capable of letting off smoke grenades and navigating obstacles in its raids.
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Read your piece @adamliptak.bsky.social. My two cents is that we, in the media, shouldn't give a rat's ass about what the Supreme Court would like us to call the docket.
Our goal should be to inform the people, not repeat what makes the Nine feel comfortable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
Our goal should be to inform the people, not repeat what makes the Nine feel comfortable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
The Supreme Court’s Fast Track Needs a Name, and the Justices Are Split
www.nytimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Read your piece @adamliptak.bsky.social. My two cents is that we, in the media, shouldn't give a rat's ass about what the Supreme Court would like us to call the docket.
Our goal should be to inform the people, not repeat what makes the Nine feel comfortable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
Our goal should be to inform the people, not repeat what makes the Nine feel comfortable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
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Washington Post fires their last remaining Black opinion writer @karenattiah.bsky.social over the most benign comments in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's murder...
Meanwhile Fox still has Brian Kilmeade who casually said all homeless people should be killed.
Its all unfair & unbalanced. Wake up.
Meanwhile Fox still has Brian Kilmeade who casually said all homeless people should be killed.
Its all unfair & unbalanced. Wake up.
September 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Washington Post fires their last remaining Black opinion writer @karenattiah.bsky.social over the most benign comments in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's murder...
Meanwhile Fox still has Brian Kilmeade who casually said all homeless people should be killed.
Its all unfair & unbalanced. Wake up.
Meanwhile Fox still has Brian Kilmeade who casually said all homeless people should be killed.
Its all unfair & unbalanced. Wake up.
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The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
September 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
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🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump and his allies are intensifying their dangerous and anti-democratic threats to use Charlie Kirk’s murder to suppress progressive political activity. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
After Kirk Murder, Trump and Allies Vow to ‘Destroy’ Progressive Groups
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump and his allies are intensifying their dangerous and anti-democratic threats to use Charlie Kirk’s murder to suppress progressive political activity. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for.
But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem
But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for.
But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem
But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem
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Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
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To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people.
Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.
Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.
This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:
September 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people.
Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.
Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.
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#SCOTUS all-but overruled a unanimous, 90-year-old precedent through an unexplained "administrative" stay this morning, and that's only the second-most-problematic thing it did before lunchtime.
September 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
#SCOTUS all-but overruled a unanimous, 90-year-old precedent through an unexplained "administrative" stay this morning, and that's only the second-most-problematic thing it did before lunchtime.
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It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah.
September 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah.
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🚨BREAKING: The Supreme Court through an unexplained order Monday allowed Donald Trump to, for now, remove the last Democratic commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission in a decision that represents a grave threat to the independence of federal agencies. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Supreme Court Allows Trump to Fire FTC Commissioner
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
September 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
🚨BREAKING: The Supreme Court through an unexplained order Monday allowed Donald Trump to, for now, remove the last Democratic commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission in a decision that represents a grave threat to the independence of federal agencies. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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The only way the Epstein abuse could have gone on for decades is to have the "right people" in place. The right people have always been in place. The right people are STILL in place.
September 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The only way the Epstein abuse could have gone on for decades is to have the "right people" in place. The right people have always been in place. The right people are STILL in place.
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last night was a bleak one for TX legislature history. dan patrick literally denied senate democrats the ability to filibuster redistricting, even though rules allow it. roland gutierrez asked what precedent there was for this. patrick didn't even bother to answer. that's how the map passed.
August 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
last night was a bleak one for TX legislature history. dan patrick literally denied senate democrats the ability to filibuster redistricting, even though rules allow it. roland gutierrez asked what precedent there was for this. patrick didn't even bother to answer. that's how the map passed.