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Trevor Noah had Jon Stewart on his podcast for an interesting interview. Ultimately It made me feel a little more sympathetic about him as an Entertainer, but left me thinking he’s another politically clueless affluent white guy. Not a Nazi like the TechBros, but clueless white moderate.

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

Also: if you love your country -- your actual country, not some airbrushed fantasy -- you will want to know about ALL its past, good and bad. If you insist on only allowing the good parts to be discussed, you are demonstrating that you do not love your country, as it is, which has flaws.

Yeah I've about had it with the 'critics.'

How it goes:

CRITIC: 'Stop being hyperbolic you have TDS.'

*Trump does exact thing you warned about.

CRITIC: 'Lol triggered much?'

Holy ****.
For months —years — I have warned that Trump’s assault on federal statistics was beginning to resemble actions taken by authoritarian governments in China, Venezuela, Stalin-era USSR. Critics said I was being hyperbolic. How do they feel about this threat below?

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It genuinely is haunting me that so many people are turning over their lives to OpenAI without thinking for a moment about "huh, what would happen if this company turns out to be evil."

Often these are even people who do think that Meta is evil - they're just totally unable to extrapolate!

Again, one of the more marked changes between 2015 and 2025 is that nobody any longer feels there’s any need to convincingly pretend that it isn’t exactly what it looks like.

She's also the only child rapist in history to be moved to a minimum security camp with potential work release one week after meeting with the Deputy Attorney General.

Alaska has always been part of Russia.

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Come on. Really? The Bismarck? F^<$ing losers.

‘I’ve been spat on’: gender non-conforming women tell of toilet abuse in aftermath of supreme court ruling Support groups report that women and non-binary people are increasingly being challenged in toilets and changing facilities – but others call it scaremongering

When I said the various Rowlings and Linehans of Britain were assuming and hoping for the public to act as the unpaid enforcement arm of their crank movement, this is precisely what I meant.

Don’t mess with South Park.

When asked if they’d like a self-imposed trade embargo, a majority of the English electorate said yes please.

You don’t need to be an economist to instinctively understand that making it hard to sell stuff means you sell less stuff.

We haven’t found a cure for stupidity. Yet.

RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’ HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

Oh no. That’s insane. Like, dude that’s not how those logs work. You shouldn’t need to be a full blown Foucault fan to understand that.

Alternate phrasing: "Having dulled our initial shock by deploying armed troops into LA and DC, the Trump administration plans to create the infrastructure for doing this on a regular basis."

guys it’s really not funny that the fbi agent took a footlong to the chest. stop laughing. it’s NOT FUNNY that an fbi agent in head to toe tactical gear tried to chase the guy who hucked a sandwich straight at his bulletproof vest but couldn’t outrun him

He can’t be serious. Like a week of watching the 10pm local news should disabuse anyone— even software developers— from believing this. … OK, maybe a month of local news for some of the hard cases. He really thinks this?!?

Do elites see Trump as “what the masses want”, or do they just play along to keep their heads in the trough? The elites like Schulzberger NYTimes, love to tell everyone else what they should want, especially culture war stuff like trans panic, or Greater Israel, mass famine in Gaza, WMDs in Iraq etc

Donald Trump has personally incited more crime in Washington DC than perhaps anyone else living. He pardoned violent criminals who attacked our Capitol and put them back in American communities. He even made a man who was filmed urging the crowd to kill DC police officers a senior adviser at DOJ.

How the world now sees America: Display at Trinity College Dublin of words discouraged by US federal agencies in 2025.

The military takeover of Washington is not a “distraction” from Epstein. It’s a military takeover of Washington, which is an even bigger deal, and those of us who kill brain cells reporting on this stuff knows it’s been an explicit goal since before the election.

I would like to cordially invite Trump to federalize deez nuts.

Those who were outraged at the federal government using its lethal power at the Waco siege of 1993 are not bothered when in 2025 Trump sends in federal troops into US cities.

It is a fascinating contrast.

So Reagan Democrats?

The geopolitically defining moment of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is here

Donald Trump is planning to agree a deal where Ukraine cedes heavily fortified territory to Russia for what will be a temporary ceasefire

Ukraine will want to say no, but the EU will have to stand up

Alan Dershowitz Sues Farmers Market Vendor For Refusing To Sell Him Child WEST TISBURY, MA—Following through on his threat of legal action, civil liberties lawyer Alan Dershowitz confirmed Monday that he had filed a lawsuit against a Martha’s Vineyard farmers market vendor ...

Alan Dershowitz Sues Farmers Market Vendor For Refusing To Sell Him Child

Oh no! How sad! How surprising!

Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."

Cryptocurrencies and the Political Economy of Money At a time when the U.S. government has floated the idea of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and tech oligarchs question the viability of the sovereign state in the age of blockchains, there is a need f…

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