John Fetterman's Memoir Is As Low-Effort As His Senate Tenure | Defector
John Fetterman’s just-released memoir, Unfettered, argues that he’s turned a corner and has everything under control. Fetterman was a “stubborn asshole” (his words), he was clinically depressed, he wa...
A former Fetterman advisor texted me: “I think what comes across is the reality of who he is, which is a petulant child who never became a man and is always the victim of his own narrative—even though he’s never had a real job and lives off his dad’s money. It's all pretty sad and pathetic."
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I can’t get over how giddy Trump was in the company of Prince Mohammed bin Salman. He only really happy when he’s in the company of rich murderers (MBS) and rapists (Epstein). Just sickening.
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Polymarket tweets: "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals."
Laura Loomer replies: "You know things are bad when you can't tell if this is real or a joke.
Dear God. It's real. Isn't it?"
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
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i first heard this argument in my high school history class. it didnt go well for the people making the argument.
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damn -- Jason Crow demolished Martha MacCallum to the point where she had to get extremely defensive before wrapping up the interview
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Thriving in independent media for 25 years, without a) getting hoovered into some larger media org & subsequently axed, b) getting ruined by some hedge fund guy, c) falling afoul of any short-lived "pivot to video" style trends, or d) going broke...
... is a genuinely remarkable achievement! Kudos.
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This is super interesting
link.newyorker.com/view/5be9fdb...
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I'm no law-talking guy but I don't think "SOROS DID IT!!1!1!!!" is sound jurisprudence
bsky.app/profile/marc...
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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
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How Dare You Embarrass My Esteemed Guest, Jason Voorhees
“President Trump assailed an American journalist in the Oval Office on Tuesday for asking Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, about t...
"Look, things happen. And what happens at Camp Crystal Lake should stay at Camp Crystal Lake. We can’t hold everyone accountable for every little thing they’ve ever done."
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Now we find out the grand jury...never saw the final indictment to vote on? Sometimes when things get worse, they somehow get even funnier
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Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office.
He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people.
Release the transcript.
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He gets a lot of low information, one-issue voters.
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Great news that the Senate has passed the bill forcing the DOJ to release its Epstein file. Now Bondi must comply. But our work cannot stop there. We need to force the Treasury to release the Epstein bank records too. I have a bill to make that happen. FOLLOW THE MONEY.
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Fox chyron reads "ANTI-ICE PROTESTS ROCK CHARLOTTE" while in the background on their liveshot you can see people in frog and dinosaur costumes
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Here is a man who has no friends and worships authoritarians and wealthy people. What is with that weird tongue action??
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“.. The United States is now a nation run by public servants who behave no better than internet trolls ..
“.. Trump’s sexist comments are an attack on women’s dignity — and by making them, he strips the presidency of its dignity too.”
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@marisakabas.bsky.social ??? "And through Lizza’s salacious blog post published Monday night, he reminded us of another player: former ESPN and MSNBC host Keith Olbermann who dated Nuzzi when before Lizza while he was in his 50s."
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@marisakabas.bsky.social ??? "And through Lizza’s salacious blog post published Monday night, he reminded us of another player: former ESPN and MSNBC host Keith Olbermann who dated Nuzzi when before Lizza while he was in his 50s."
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Covering Jamal Khashoggi's murder was one of the most disturbing things I've worked on. Hearing Trump say he was "extremely controversial" and people "didn't like him" is chilling. Hard to take any other way than he thinks there is moral ambiguity in the murder of a journalist.
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I haven’t seen him this happy since those Epstein party pics.
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Rep. Clay Higgins’ racist tweet is only the tip of the iceberg
His record includes allegedly putting a gun to the head of one his three ex-wives, voting for a neo-Nazi, and assaulting an unarmed Black man.
Clay Higgins was the only member of the House to vote against releasing the Epstein files.
His record also includes allegedly putting a gun to the head of one of his ex-wives, voting for a neo-Nazi, and assaulting an unarmed Black man while working as a cop.
@nlanard.bsky.social's post from Sept:
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There is no batshit far-right idea that the NYT's "reasonable" conservatives will not launder into polite discourse.
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My god. My god.
Oh fucking hell.
God.
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Mind-boggling grift and lawlessness
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Bone Spurs yucking it up with Bone Saw in the Oval.
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