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Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!

19.12.2025 20:03 — 👍 9924    🔁 1894    💬 750    📌 204
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Kind of darkly funny that the government's defense of the well thought out plan for Trump's bigly beautiful ballroom looks like this

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

15.12.2025 22:30 — 👍 909    🔁 216    💬 44    📌 42
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Hands down least “masculine” person I met covering tech. One lunch I had with him in Palo Alto (he was urging me to run for mayor and wanted to give me $) I recall thinking what an incredibly whiny boy (I think I told someone at the time: what a limp dick) and could not get away fast enough.

07.12.2025 00:08 — 👍 1153    🔁 156    💬 115    📌 21
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U.S. Flips History by Casting Europe—Not Russia—as Villain in New Security Policy An annual strategy document, which has described threats from China to Russia, directs some of its harshest language at NATO allies.

“It essentially declares outright opposition to the European Union. It’s JD Vance’s notorious speech in Munich but on steroids, and as official U.S. policy.”

Which is to say: This document is also a Kremlin-originated talking points memo.

www.wsj.com/world/europe...

06.12.2025 19:17 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Opinion | There’s Still a Shared American Story, and JD Vance’s Blood-and-Soil Vision Isn’t It

There’s Still a Shared American Story, and JD Vance’s Blood-and-Soil Vision Isn’t It www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

03.11.2025 16:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I think we just found the mole.

19.10.2025 16:43 — 👍 20    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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After Centuries, a Woman Will Lead the Church of England

After Centuries, a Woman Will Lead the Church of England www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/w...

This is a huge step forward for the Church of England and the Anglican Communion. Well done. 👏 👏

03.10.2025 13:16 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Essay | Why Putin Can’t Afford to Let Ukraine Prosper A free and thriving Ukraine would make it undeniable that Putin’s rule has been an economic disaster for Russia.

Since at least 2014, the possibility that Ukraine might join these other former Soviet satellites in joining the E.U. has been a substantial threat to the Putin regime’s grip on Russia itself.

It’s not that *Russia* can’t abide Ukraine joining the E.U.—Putin and his KGB cronies can’t abide it.

18.09.2025 20:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Russia, China and Iran Use Kirk’s Murder to Stoke Conspiracy Theories and Division

Didn’t see this one coming!

Russia, China and Iran Use Kirk’s Murder to Stoke Conspiracy Theories and Division www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

18.09.2025 00:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says He Is Removing Lisa Cook From Federal Reserve Board

It’s hard to overstate how big a deal this is - for the economy (ours and globally), for the rule of law, and for the proper and efficient function of government.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

26.08.2025 01:08 — 👍 3878    🔁 1123    💬 135    📌 74

I should clarify: the “good cause” I had in mind was abortion.

09.05.2025 03:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I mean they’re cold metal clamps, prying open a vagina. But it’s all for a good cause!

09.05.2025 03:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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How the G.O.P. Fell in Love With Putin’s Russia What explains the Trump administration’s radical reversal toward Moscow?

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/m...

“[Putin] is, in essence, forming a kind of Far-Right International, similar to the Communist International, which promoted the Soviet revolution in the first half of the 20th century.”

14.04.2025 05:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good morning.

Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.

It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

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Testicles usually drop at around nine months of age.

Mike Pence’s took 65 years.

19.02.2025 18:41 — 👍 9470    🔁 1609    💬 535    📌 123
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Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

19.02.2025 19:52 — 👍 62099    🔁 18833    💬 2097    📌 1483
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Tulsi Gabbard's intel chief nomination clears key Senate hurdle Senators voted to limit debate on Gabbard's nomination, paving the way for a final vote later this week.

Not a single Republican senator stood against Gabbard -- ignoring the law requiring the director of national intelligence to have deep national-security experience. She has none. She represents the disastrous rise of misplaced power, and a danger to the United States. www.axios.com/2025/02/10/t...

11.02.2025 03:41 — 👍 4015    🔁 1254    💬 307    📌 107
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Trump administration disbands taskforce targeting Russian oligarchs US attorney general issues memo to break up effort started after 2022 Ukraine invasion to target those close to Kremlin

huh, i wonder what this is about www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

07.02.2025 05:59 — 👍 9165    🔁 2496    💬 336    📌 192

Politicize everything you fucking cowards. Decency is dead.

30.01.2025 05:58 — 👍 314    🔁 51    💬 4    📌 3

This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance.

Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.

22.01.2025 01:24 — 👍 23188    🔁 4728    💬 311    📌 161