An “Is this really legitimate or is it AI?” moment
Of course, AI can be “legitimate” too! But there needs to be some clear disclosure on major digital platforms
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40 billion to some Argentine weirdo helping kill American farmers but not a penny to hungry Americans
30.10.2025 00:43 — 👍 62 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 1
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Would U.S. Generals Obey Illegal Trump Orders? | The David Frum Show
I'm kind of proud of myself today! I listened to a whole six minutes of David Frum talking on a podcast before I felt like I was about to throw up.
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30.10.2025 19:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Facts” in the Trump 2.0 era: Trump said it and I believe it!
Even in the Trumpist-“postmodern” world, reality actually does matter. And facts have a stubborn way of asserting themselves.
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Peace President Trump’s war threats against Venezuela and his illegal drone strikes (aka, murders) on Venezuelan fishermen
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WE FOUND THE WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE:
FBI Director Kash Patel used a $60 million government jet for a booty call during the shutdown.
Not the first time. In April, he made multiple trips to Nashville to see his 26-year-old country-singer girlfriend and even flew her around to hockey games.
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the video being projected behind all the performers on stage
lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight
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"Weg von mir, ihr Verfluchten, in das ewige Feuer....! Denn ich war hungrig und ihr habt mir nichts zu essen gegeben; ich war durstig und ihr habt mir nichts zu trinken gegeben; ich war fremd und obdachlos und ihr habt mich nicht aufgenommen" (Mt 25,40ff)
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29.10.2025 19:43 — 👍 98 🔁 24 💬 4 📌 1
Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
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Scary blast from the past that isn’t even past: Victor Davis Hanson
If you haven’t listened to some serious hackery lately, here’s your chance!
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It didn’t take a Reichstag Fire to burn down Congress | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, what’s troubling about Maine’s Nazi tattoo flap.
It didn't take a Reichstag Fire to shut down Congress - the cornerstone of the Founders' plan for an American democracy. Just a useful idiot named Mike Johnson
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🔴 Drei extrem rechte Parteien werden künftig in Tschechien die Regierung bilden. Sozialdemokratie und KP hatten die Themen der extremen Rechten übernommen, vor allem den Rassismus. Nun sind sie sogar aus dem Parlament geflogen - und die Rechten sind an der Macht. Das muss eine Lehre sein.
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One week after Trump pardoned Binance’s owner (for a stunning array of crimes related to terrorist and sex predator financing), Binance starts promoting Trump crypto.
The White House is a full time, 24/7 corruption machine.
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3 Scandals in 4 Days That Would Define Any Other Presidency
During the second Trump administration, corruption scandals that would typically define a presidency receive a day or tw
Last week:
-Trump pardoned Binance's founder after a $2B deal with his crypto firm
-Hegseth awards a DoD contract to a Don Jr.-backed firm
-Trump orders his DOJ cronies pay him $230M in "compensation"
We must not become numb to this. https://popular.info/p/3-scandals-in-4-days-that-would-define
27.10.2025 22:15 — 👍 3967 🔁 1636 💬 133 📌 64
The Democratic leaders' remarkable reluctance to fight for their own side has two important components: (1) fecklessness, and (2) big donor money. If the Party can't dump both of those bad habits, the US could be literally look at decades of fascist governance. 1/
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Conspiracy theory politics in a larger framework
Michael Butter has provided a useful way of thinking about conspiracy theories.
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27.10.2025 19:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rep. Burlison's congressional district (MO-7) gets about $4.8 billion in federal spending that comes from taxpayers, but if he wants to reject that on behalf of his truly independent and freedom-loving constituents, he can send it back anytime.
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Calling the part of Gaza occupied by Israel “Free Gaza” is incredible
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Und ich frage euch: was außer dem Acht-Stunden-Tag, der Sozialversicherung, betrieblicher Mitbestimmung, BaFÖG, Mutterschutz, Gleichberechtigung, Menschenrechten, Mindestlohn, Antidiskriminierung, Inklusion und höherer Bildung für alle hat linke Politik je für uns getan!?
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Compare this to how Whitmer just dismissed the idea of anyone caring about tearing down the White House
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Mamdani did this without tacking to the center by accepting republican framing and throwing marginalized people under the bus or even apologizing for being socialist; something that party operatives who actually want to win might learn from.
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The blatant politicization of disaster relief aid is yet another thing that should have immediately ended it in his first term.
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… postwar analyses for the government have been published. They were able to do good analyses of events in the Communist world because, well, they knew a lot about Marxism and the actual politics of the left. They notably predicted the post-Stalin turn to a ”peaceful coexistence“ policy. /End
27.10.2025 11:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There is a great book in German that includes details about the Frankfurt School figures Franz Neumann and Marcuse in the WWII-era Office of Strategic Services and afterwards in the State Department. Neumann“s wartime book on Nazism is still considered an important source. A number of their …/4
27.10.2025 11:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
… creating ”postmodernism,“ a claim that can be generously described as somewhere between illiterate and brain-dead. The most prominent living Frankfurt School figure, Jürgen Habermas, wrote a whole book trashing ”postmodern“ theories. He is also considered on of the leading democratic theorists. 3/
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… to make good Christian white folks feel guilty, or something. The reason the hardcore rightwingers hate the Frankfurt School is mainly their work on the ”authoritarian personality" in politics. One particularly dumb aspect of this is that the conspiracists like Rufo blame them for … 2/
27.10.2025 11:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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