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I would sing with the birds if I only knew the words.
Pinned
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What would happen if the countries of South America threatened to boycott the World Cup unless FIFA withdrew the award it invented for Trump?
January 6, 2026 at 2:57 AM
What would happen if the countries of South America threatened to boycott the World Cup unless FIFA withdrew the award it invented for Trump?
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Unfuckingbelievable
Matt Taibbi has smeared me for years:
- *cut emails in half* to lie ab my work
- cut quotes in half to make them the opposite of what I said
- lied ab the dates I worked at companies
- implied I worked on things I didn’t
- pretended I was a secret CIA agent
Now he’s a victim 🥲
Matt Taibbi has smeared me for years:
- *cut emails in half* to lie ab my work
- cut quotes in half to make them the opposite of what I said
- lied ab the dates I worked at companies
- implied I worked on things I didn’t
- pretended I was a secret CIA agent
Now he’s a victim 🥲
January 6, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Unfuckingbelievable
Matt Taibbi has smeared me for years:
- *cut emails in half* to lie ab my work
- cut quotes in half to make them the opposite of what I said
- lied ab the dates I worked at companies
- implied I worked on things I didn’t
- pretended I was a secret CIA agent
Now he’s a victim 🥲
Matt Taibbi has smeared me for years:
- *cut emails in half* to lie ab my work
- cut quotes in half to make them the opposite of what I said
- lied ab the dates I worked at companies
- implied I worked on things I didn’t
- pretended I was a secret CIA agent
Now he’s a victim 🥲
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It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
January 6, 2026 at 12:35 AM
It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
Maybe they thought they were burying it but instead they're getting the Barbra Streisand effect.
House Republicans Buried the Jack Smith Transcript on New Year’s Eve. I Read It So You Don’t Have To.
open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...
open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...
House Republicans Buried the Jack Smith Transcript on New Year’s Eve. I Read It So You Don’t Have To.
12 takeaways from Smith's closed-door testimony
open.substack.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Maybe they thought they were burying it but instead they're getting the Barbra Streisand effect.
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Bari Weiss’s CBS News directly attacking academics, subject matter experts, in the promo for her new CBS Evening News.
January 2, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Bari Weiss’s CBS News directly attacking academics, subject matter experts, in the promo for her new CBS Evening News.
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Right-wing media spent weeks in a bad faith (or deluded) effort to cast this obvious investigatory step as partisan and devious. Senators tried to award themselves half a mill for it!
SMITH says he had evidence that Trump directly ordered alleged co-conspirators to call senators on the evening of Jan. 6 to try to continue delaying the vote ceritification.
He also had evidence that Bannon said Trump was still "on fire" on evening of Jan. 6.
He also had evidence that Bannon said Trump was still "on fire" on evening of Jan. 6.
December 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Right-wing media spent weeks in a bad faith (or deluded) effort to cast this obvious investigatory step as partisan and devious. Senators tried to award themselves half a mill for it!
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Calling my mom to tell her I’m finally number two like she always said
Our 2nd most-read piece of 2025 is by the forever funny @mikedrucker.bsky.social, and we have no idea what he was getting at here, but it seemed to have struck a nerve with many, many readers.
Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t Mean I Approve of the Mayor Blowing Up the City
It’s so easy to label people these days. From the way folks have been talking, you’d think everyone falls into two buckets: those who voted against...
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December 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Calling my mom to tell her I’m finally number two like she always said
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I am going to try this again.
Read legal journalist Chris Geidner's reply to Jan Crawford of CBS News, whose "shocking statement" was interpreted by many as "going after her colleagues who cover the Supreme Court." www.lawdork.com/p/jan-crawfo...
Then consider what else is happening with CBS .
Read legal journalist Chris Geidner's reply to Jan Crawford of CBS News, whose "shocking statement" was interpreted by many as "going after her colleagues who cover the Supreme Court." www.lawdork.com/p/jan-crawfo...
Then consider what else is happening with CBS .
Jan Crawford's attack on SCOTUS "corruption" narrative was its own substance-free narrative
On Face the Nation, CBS News's chief legal correspondent went after Supreme Court critics as "dangerous." And yet, her court defense was completely lacking in specifics.
www.lawdork.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I am going to try this again.
Read legal journalist Chris Geidner's reply to Jan Crawford of CBS News, whose "shocking statement" was interpreted by many as "going after her colleagues who cover the Supreme Court." www.lawdork.com/p/jan-crawfo...
Then consider what else is happening with CBS .
Read legal journalist Chris Geidner's reply to Jan Crawford of CBS News, whose "shocking statement" was interpreted by many as "going after her colleagues who cover the Supreme Court." www.lawdork.com/p/jan-crawfo...
Then consider what else is happening with CBS .
Exactly. I'm going to annoy everyone about this until they watch it.
I really cannot emphasize enough how extremely worth your time this entire series is
December 31, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Exactly. I'm going to annoy everyone about this until they watch it.
I wonder if Perry and Matthew are on weekly zoom calls to decide how to next express their disappointment with Democrats.
December 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I wonder if Perry and Matthew are on weekly zoom calls to decide how to next express their disappointment with Democrats.
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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)
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
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)
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)
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“they are lying to your face about something you remember” is a perfect summary of this book as sharply offered by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social on @ifbookspod.bsky.social
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
“they are lying to your face about something you remember” is a perfect summary of this book as sharply offered by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social on @ifbookspod.bsky.social
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Walmart has long been a facilitator of fraud on a mass scale, a ProPublica investigation found.
More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022.
(Published Jan. 2024)
More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022.
(Published Jan. 2024)
How Walmart’s Financial Services Became a Fraud Magnet
Scammers have duped consumers out of more than $1 billion by exploiting Walmart’s lax security. The company has resisted taking responsibility while breaking promises to regulators and skimping on tra...
www.propublica.org
December 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Walmart has long been a facilitator of fraud on a mass scale, a ProPublica investigation found.
More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022.
(Published Jan. 2024)
More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022.
(Published Jan. 2024)
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Since my dad was both a radar man and in the FAA, I’ve always had a love of the NORAD Tracks Santa program run every Christmas Eve out of Colorado Springs
If you want to know more @hcrichardson.bsky.social just posted a fun video about its creation.
If you want to know more @hcrichardson.bsky.social just posted a fun video about its creation.
Tracking Santa’s Sleigh | Talk & Draw with Liza Donnelly and Heather Cox Richardson
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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December 24, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Since my dad was both a radar man and in the FAA, I’ve always had a love of the NORAD Tracks Santa program run every Christmas Eve out of Colorado Springs
If you want to know more @hcrichardson.bsky.social just posted a fun video about its creation.
If you want to know more @hcrichardson.bsky.social just posted a fun video about its creation.
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This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
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this is so depressing for a book that has widely been debunked by the actual experts
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
this is so depressing for a book that has widely been debunked by the actual experts
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
We all owe thanks to Chris Whipple if the Vanity Fair piece. Jonathan Karl would have saved it for his next book.
As is often the case these days, we are finding out in real time what in prior eras we would have discovered only through years-long investigations long after the events in question. It’s the Pentagon Papers every day!
December 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
We all owe thanks to Chris Whipple if the Vanity Fair piece. Jonathan Karl would have saved it for his next book.
This could break your heart.
I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.
December 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This could break your heart.
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"under an established WHO framework, zero deaths were deemed “certain” to have been caused by Covid-19 vaccines, two were judged to be “probable/likely,” while five were “possible.”" insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-fda-...
Scoop: FDA vaccine chief’s memo cited 10 pediatric Covid-19 vaccine deaths—but the agency’s own analysis found 0–7.
Dr. Vinay Prasad circulated a memo before FDA scientists finished their work. His conclusions overshot what the agency’s own analysts ultimately found.
insidemedicine.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
"under an established WHO framework, zero deaths were deemed “certain” to have been caused by Covid-19 vaccines, two were judged to be “probable/likely,” while five were “possible.”" insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-fda-...
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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?
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
December 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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?
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
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Mr. Rubio said switching back to Times New Roman would “restore decorum and professionalism to the department’s written work.” Calibri is “informal” when compared to serif typefaces like Times New Roman and “clashes” with the department’s official letterhead. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Rubio Deletes Calibri as the State Department’s Official Typeface
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
TOP TEN REJECTED STATE DEPT FONTS
10. Rubio
9. Tragic Sans
8. Covfefe
7. Fulgencio Handwriting
6. Soviet Underwood
5. Atlas Shrugged
4. Mussolini Neue
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10. Rubio
9. Tragic Sans
8. Covfefe
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6. Soviet Underwood
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