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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

13.11.2025 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 28515    πŸ” 5911    πŸ’¬ 377    πŸ“Œ 208
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It's driving me batty that nobody except Heather Cox Richardson, the Washington Monthly, and myself is covering Trump's race to sell off (for likely demolition) "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal," w/ murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, etc. I've furnish links below to help reporters get started.

10.11.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 749    πŸ” 413    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 11

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

10.11.2025 02:31 β€” πŸ‘ 15284    πŸ” 4141    πŸ’¬ 263    πŸ“Œ 208

I thought the shutdown was the fight, did I get that wrong

10.11.2025 03:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2927    πŸ” 317    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 5

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

10.11.2025 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 25971    πŸ” 6447    πŸ’¬ 250    πŸ“Œ 212
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My statement on the proposed Senate deal

10.11.2025 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5416    πŸ” 1448    πŸ’¬ 175    πŸ“Œ 123

Any statement from @abigailspanberger.com yet?

10.11.2025 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 223    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0
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Updating my LEGO White House

23.10.2025 02:51 β€” πŸ‘ 47423    πŸ” 11124    πŸ’¬ 786    πŸ“Œ 439

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

19.10.2025 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 8363    πŸ” 1980    πŸ’¬ 132    πŸ“Œ 63

Examples of how fascist untruths get regurgitated as fact by LLMs are ubiquitous, but this one is really jarring. The Harvard Kennedy School article Gemini scraped is entirely about how the claim is false. Gemini cannot parse this, instead sharing DHS propaganda as fact when you search her name.

18.10.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 746    πŸ” 335    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 15

The Trump administration is seeking emergency relief at #SCOTUS againβ€”this time in the Chicago / National Guard federalization case.

This is the 29th application the administration has filed since January 20.

It’s No. 25A443, and should be up on the website shortly.

17.10.2025 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 617    πŸ” 183    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 9
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Echoes of a very dark past.

From the Chicago Sun Times: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

11.10.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 4188    πŸ” 1289    πŸ’¬ 141    πŸ“Œ 92
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BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

10.10.2025 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 15193    πŸ” 8467    πŸ’¬ 1384    πŸ“Œ 1179
@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence. 

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

photo of three people in inflatable frog costumes

@MrAndyNgo Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes. The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence. In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons. photo of three people in inflatable frog costumes

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

10.10.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4498    πŸ” 674    πŸ’¬ 403    πŸ“Œ 283

We could hear them laughing

07.10.2025 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 499    πŸ” 169    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 3
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University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED!

Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.

Please click below, sign, & share.

#DefendHigherEd

07.10.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 169    πŸ” 112    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5

Where are the commanding officers of those sailors in the background. How are they letting this happen?

05.10.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5703    πŸ” 1172    πŸ’¬ 377    πŸ“Œ 66
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SOUTH CAROLINA… β€œJudgeΒ Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started.Β Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

05.10.2025 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 9269    πŸ” 4708    πŸ’¬ 929    πŸ“Œ 810

Fascism occurs twice: first as the tragedy of a Second World War started by men who fought the First and knowingly chose slaughter, then as the farce of an ignorant draft dodger trying to provoke a war against his own people.

05.10.2025 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3174    πŸ” 942    πŸ’¬ 145    πŸ“Œ 41
Danger sign with figure slipping on steps, jazz hands.

Danger sign with figure slipping on steps, jazz hands.

Danger: Old-time Hollywood movie musical stairway dancing.

04.10.2025 02:12 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Stephen Miller Implies He Intended for Trump's Nutjobs to Kill Democrats - emptywheel Stephen Miller just confessed on Fox News that when he uses dehumanizing language -- when he calls Democrats "fascists" or "Marxists" or "radical" -- he intends it as a message to "all the crazies and...

Stephen Miller Implies He Intended for Trump's Nutjobs to Kill Democrats

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/02/s...

02.10.2025 11:52 β€” πŸ‘ 614    πŸ” 295    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 18

A friend writes:

I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their
nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI"
instead of "I don't believe you."

Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight."
Kid: "That's AI."

29.09.2025 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1026    πŸ” 268    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 18
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Missouri Gov. Signs Extreme Gerrymander, Ballot Initiative Crackdown Into Law Read more here.

BREAKING: Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) just signed Trump’s gerrymander into law.

If courts do not intervene, a referendum effort fails or the GOP again ignores the will of voters, the GOP will have locked in a 7–1 majority in the U.S. House for the rest of the decade.

28.09.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 455    πŸ” 241    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 17
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Amid rising tensions, Poland urges citizens to 'immediately' leave Belarus "In the event of a drastic deterioration in the security situation, border closures, or other unforeseen circumstances, evacuation may prove significantly more difficult or even impossible," Poland's ...

⚑️Amid rising tensions, Poland urges citizens to 'immediately' leave Belarus.

Poland's Embassy in Minsk called on Polish citizens to "immediately leave" Belarus on Sept. 25, amid rising tensions stemming from Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

26.09.2025 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 381    πŸ” 130    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 12
Mario Guevara

Mario Guevara

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you…

Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest.

The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvadorβ€”where he fled from 21 years ago.

24.09.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 6371    πŸ” 3747    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 70

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Wild bird numbers continue to fall in UK with some species in β€˜dramatic freefall’ Species index fell by 4% between 2019 and 2024 – although data shows woodland populations beginning to stabilise

A 7% decline in English birds in just 5 years is astonishing

The web of life is unravelling fast

24.09.2025 07:55 β€” πŸ‘ 547    πŸ” 304    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 22
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Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

23.09.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 165    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 6

In this Ohio diner, ABC are the grades on a valedictorian’s report card. But they do know this: Canceling Kimmel was a good start, and next Disney has to pull any movies where women work outside of the home.

18.09.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 880    πŸ” 104    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 1

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

15.09.2025 12:30 β€” πŸ‘ 24688    πŸ” 7699    πŸ’¬ 452    πŸ“Œ 285

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