Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press
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A Pair of Billionaire Preachers Built the Most Powerful Political Machine in Texas. Thatβs Just the Start.
Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks are poised to take their Christian nationalist agenda nationwide.
Like the Koch brothers and other conservative billionaires, Dunn and Wilks want to slash regulations and taxes.
Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule.
(Published Oct. 2024)
14.11.2025 04:00 β π 496 π 220 π¬ 49 π 28
Kash Patelβs Girlfriend Is Driving MAGA Nuts
Sheβs litigious. Theyβre sexist. Itβs a miasma of loathing.
"Far-right commentator Elijah Schafferβs Rift TV colleague Sarah Stock, whom people may remember as the racist blonde woman from one of those Jubilee chair-debate videos, isnβt helping either." You're missing a lot if you're not reading False Flag: www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel...
14.11.2025 04:01 β π 75 π 16 π¬ 1 π 1
The mythology of Russia having the second most powerful military in the world was crushed when Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It alerted Xi to the fact that he too has a house of cards. Dictatorships are so corrupt that even the dictator gets fooled by their own propaganda.
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Fox: If you have high school or less as your education, 59% voted for Donald Trump. But it seems the more educated you are, the more you go over to the Democratic column.
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FIGARO: βIs Trump going to admit he made a mistake (with the tariffs)?β
BORELLI: βItβs not a mistake, itβs a change of tactics.β
PANEL: BAHAHAHAHAHA
14.11.2025 04:08 β π 655 π 116 π¬ 27 π 8
Can we ditch the metaphor that you should think of ChatGPT and similar LLMs as "like an intern."
If your intern is habitually confidently lying to you, you should fire them, and if they're constantly hallucinating then you should help them find medical help. AI is not like an intern.
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Gee, what motivation would she have to say that?
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According to the NYT, when they fired Landon Thomas for soliciting a $30k donation from Epstein, they were completely, entirely negligent in looking at the communications between the two of them involving Thomasβ official NYT email account.
14.11.2025 04:17 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
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'Russians are striking residential buildings' β 1 person killed, 24 injured in Kyiv amid massive missile, drone attack
At least 11 apartment buildings throughout the city were struck in the overnight attack, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
β‘οΈ'Russians are striking residential buildings' β 1 person killed, 24 injured in Kyiv amid massive missile, drone attack.
Russia targeted the capital with cruise and ballistic missiles as well as hundreds of drones in a massive overnight attack that left apartments throughout the city in flames.
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This is the kind of repulsive opinion we're up against when we talk about Trump in the Epstein files. Many Republicans honestly will think its no big deal and have no ethical problem with what any of these child rapists did.
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π Mediaβs Big Bad Wolff; Piers On The Breaker Pod; News Corp Comms Confab
MarketWatch Layoffs; Journo Jobs; Media Holiday Parties Kick-off
Michael Wolff tried to get a Daily Beast reporter fired for ...
... accurately reporting on "a series of previously undisclosed meetings between Wolff and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein."
www.breakermedia.com/p/media-s-bi...
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Inciting hatred among voters for immigrants is the essence of modern populism. Middle class people are incited to place the blame for their failure to realize all social and economic aspirations on immigrants. H/t Bruce Bartlett
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This is an important point. Both Pam Bondi and William Barr have made false or evasive statements on this point.
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BTW, I recall Bannon talking about how "Democrats are in the Epstein files" and here this piece of shit is besties with Epstein and emailing him about idle thoughts and for advice.
14.11.2025 00:01 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
Steve Bannon emailing Jeffrey Epstein as a favor to Brett Kavanaugh to get advice on how to discredit a rape victim SURE IS SOMETHING π¬
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Russian spies are legitimate collection targets.
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That "SS" is there for a reason.
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No wonder Limp Bizkit sucks so much...
They're traitors.
13.11.2025 23:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
No wonder Limp Bizkit sucks so much...
They're traitors.
13.11.2025 23:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Nah, you're just an intellectually dishonest thrall to one of the dead fascist creeds.
FYI, international socialism and national socialism started World War II together for the same reasons, one of which is why you have that flag in your bio!
13.11.2025 23:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Megyn Kelly suddenly finds pedophilia very hard to define
When a 16-year-old accused Russell Brand of rape, Kelly begged conservatives to condemn him. Now she's splitting hairs about men "into the barely legal type."
When a 16-year-old accused Russell Brand of rape, Kelly begged conservatives to condemn him. Now sheβs splitting hairs about men βinto the barely legal type.β
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To rebuild collective identification across difference, people must first have other reasons to work with and trust one another. Only then can social identity begin to shift, bringing diversified media consumption, epistemic openness, and ultimately a revised political consciousness, along with it.
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This means: βrather than flooding swing states with a tidal wave of talking points, effective campaigns of democratic renewal will focus on reshaping the meaning of identities that have been captured by anti-democratic forcesβeg rurality or masculinityβand shifting the salience of othersβeg class.β
13.11.2025 01:23 β π 86 π 14 π¬ 2 π 1
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