Stephen Kuusisto

This is so pathetic it has no analogy…

Are Most Americans Even Paying Attention? In this week’s Elie v. U.S., The Nation’s justice correspondent digs into the latest legal news, Trump news, and Nuzzi news—along with a look at how few people actually follow said news.

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Trump Attacks CNN's Kaitlan Collins as 'Stupid and Nasty' for Questioning His New Ballroom Plans in Weekend Truth Social Rant Donald Trump called Kaitlan Collins 'stupid and nasty' in a Truth Social post after she inquired about the cost of his White House ballroom project. The president also misspelled the CNN White House c...

Its all reaction formation for Cheetolini....

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A phone call speaks to all that’s wrong with American medicine - The Boston Globe I treat patients in a hospital. You’re a doctor who works for an insurance company. Are we really "peers"?

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Hegseth declares end of US 'utopian idealism' with new military strategy The Defense secretary, speaking at the Reagan Defense Forum, outlined defense priorities that focus on the Western Hemisphere and reevaluate the U.S. relationship with Europe.

Translation: Out with Human Rights...

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MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°

Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

Resurgence of a slur: Local parents, intellectual disability advocates condemn Trump’s use of the ‘R-word’ Once a common schoolyard insult, the R-word had largely vanished from mainstream speech until recently. Donald Trump has helped its resurgence.

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Auntie History collects Edison cylinders… Auntie History collects Edison cylinders She can hear them without a machine Good old Mother Machree And the lovely sound Of hay scratching hay Like all hobbies One can’t get away from it There’s n…

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Opinion | Trump wants to recreate a white America that never existed — Guardian US The persecution of brown people and mass deportations will not create the white country of far-right fantasy

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December 4, 2025 “What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service,” Representative Jim Himes (D-CT), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence committee, said.

"What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service,”
[Rep Jim Himes]

"You have two individuals in clear distress without any means of locomotion, with a destroyed vessel,... killed by the United States."

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Plant Planh My grandmother made thistle soup Therefore my father ate it According to epigenetic theory Thistles are still working their ways Through my unconscious Sometimes in the night I feel a tickle Those …

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Donold Snorleone Falls Asleep During Peace Signing Don't wake up.

Thou shalt not call others “sleepy” when you fall asleep on the job every single day.

If trump is not implicated in the Epstein files, why is DOJ taking so long to doctor the evidence?

And he’s stolen Dr. Phil’s mustache!

You left out the disabled! They really hate us!

Preparation HeHe I grew up on a steep divide but it wasn’t geographical. Instead it was a ridge or chain of mountains both inside and outside me. I didn’t wish to be blind. I wanted to play baseball. And perhaps, m…

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Dickens Again When the Victorians read Dickens they read for plot and confirmation–they could see their world. When we read Dickens we still read for plot but less for confirmation as we think we are super…

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Sec 18.3.2.1 of Dept of Defense Law of War Manual requires military personnel to refuse to obey illegal orders... The manual specifically lists firing upon shipwrecked personnel as illegal.
#MomSky

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For a Certain Friend All morning I drink bitter coffee And try to rescue my private dead Plumbing rattles I hear my mother Inside walls My father beneath the floor The refrigerator hums I can’t guess what it says Snow …

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The Four Schmucks of the Apocalypse — The Dispatch The curious case of Vance vs. Rubio vs. Kushner vs. Witkoff.

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Woman gives birth on side of highway minutes after hospital turns her away Videos of a pregnant Indiana woman in visible pain after being turned away from the hospital have gone viral online, triggering outrage across social media.

Racism, misogyny and cruelty walk into a bar…

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How many burdens do you carry daily? How many burdens do you carry daily? If I ask myself this question I admit I don’t know the answer. It’s like asking “what should I be doing?” It’s a fool’s game. Here’s the problem: I carry some b…

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Rising levels of hate forcing women out of Swedish public life, says equality agency Country seen as champion of equal rights faces reckoning after senior politician says she felt compelled to quit

The forces of misogyny are gaining ground everywhere. Their flag should depict Trump saying "Shut up piggy...."

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Yes, shame on CNN for giving this woman room to clatter around in...

You have to imagine yourself as not somebody very special, but somebody very ordinary. If you imagine yourself as somebody really normal and if it makes you laugh, it's going to make everybody laugh. If you think of yourself as something very special, you'll end up a pedant and a bore. Carl Reiner

Congratulations to all the Senators that voted to put Hegseth in his position

What you’ve done is put an ISIS or al-Qaeda commander that tells his terrorist soldiers to Kill all Americans and execute survivors of actions, in charge of the Pentagon.

Killing survivors of a military strike is Murder

All in the Family And so it comes down to this— My grandfather loved dynamite His hobby Blowing up his world Houses, telegraph poles, A neighbor’s motorboat Even a privy He knew his business Now, at seventy I see ta…

And so it comes down to this—
My grandfather loved dynamite
His hobby
Blowing up his world
Houses, telegraph poles,
A neighbor’s motorboat
Even a privy
He knew his business

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The Pilgrims Were Doomsday Cultists — The Nation The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution. They left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas.

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College freshman is deported flying home for Thanksgiving surprise, despite court order A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was deported to Honduras in violation of a court order.

College freshman is deported flying home for Thanksgiving surprise, despite court order

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