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January 9, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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Our perceptions of security are out of alignment with the reality of our adversaries.

We have failed to imagine what we may lose — and what we can gain.

This will define the coming time of darkness — unless we reverse course.

My latest:

www.greatpower.us/p/2025-the-a...
2025, the atomization of reality, and the failure of imagination… (part 1)
The free world is thinking small. Our adversaries are not.
www.greatpower.us
December 31, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This...these motherf$@#ers ain't going anywhere. They never do.
Every time billionaires say they’re gonna leave if you raise their taxes, outlets like the Times credulously regurgitate the propaganda. Meanwhile they don’t move cause these guys WANT to live in California and Manhattan and not Podunk and Bumfuck where the taxes are nonexistent.
December 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Thou shalt not rape and impregnate children and then throw their babies into Lake Michigan.

Thou shalt not let a person who does such things rule your country.

Feels like this should go without saying.
December 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Shithead democrats, Hakeem Jeffries Division
December 16, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Just for those who may be a little confused: “Pro-life” would be 20 Sandy Hook students being college sophomores this year.
December 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Affordability seems like such a stupid talking point and reeks of something created at the feckless democratic industrial complex. But damn it has gotten under Trumps skin.
In bizarre, self-pitying tirade, unraveling Trump admits his polling is actually pretty bad and not at record highs, as he keeps claiming
December 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Jeanne Shaheen and the other cowards get played today on this day 11 Dec 2025.
December 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Today's newsletter is out! And it's Free Thursday!

Inside: Alonso is an O, Yaz to Atlanta, Buck wins the Frick, the Rule 5 Draft, Mexico City, the Nice List, the AI Plagiarism Industry, "The Knowledge," and Electric Football.

www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
Cup of Coffee: December 11, 2025
Alonso is an O, Yaz to Atlanta, Buck wins the Frick, the Rule 5 Draft, Mexico City, the Nice List, the AI Plagiarism Industry, "The Knowledge," and Electric Football
www.cupofcoffeenews.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Chucklehead
Trump: "Under the new rules issued today by Secretary Duffy, the Dept of Transportation will rescind the Biden fuel economy prices. And I hate to say that because they were really not economy, they were anti-economy. They were horrible what they were doing to the costs."
December 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Dear god
December 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
My Goodness
December 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This is us
"We followed everything we were supposed to do"

Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Gender-affirming care saves lives
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.

It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.

Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
2025 is the gift that keeps on giving
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Has Schumer stepped down yet?
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.

If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Screw her
Reporter: What do you say to your colleagues who say this isn't a fight, this is a capitulation?

Shaheen: We have a guaranteed vote by a guaranteed date…

Reporter: There is no guarantee that this will become law.

Shaheen: There was never a guarantee that it would be become law.
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Cowards at best, sniveling shitheads at worst.
so currently defectors are:

Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Dems giving into the 0.1% since 1973, when 0.1% had 7% share of US wealth, ......in 2025 31%, FIFTY YEARS of capitulation.
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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people on the local reddit are saying they all got their SNAP benefits paid onto their cards late last night but nobody knows if the feds released that money because the judge ordered them to or if just oregon figured something out or what happened
November 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:

'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."

chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S.
“Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM