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Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

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A screenshot of an X post by Senator Alex Padilla (@SenA ..., 8h ago) stating: "BREAKING: The guy who sent the House home for the week claims he's praying government reopens without them." The post includes a quoted X post by NewsWire (@NewsWire_US , 10h ago) stating: "SPEAKER JOHNSON SAYS PRAYING FOR A VERY SHORT SHUTDOWN," with a NewsWire logo and verification badge.

Where are the House Republicans? NOT in D.C., that’s for sure. Speaker Johnson won’t even seat Rep. Grijalva because of the Epstein files.

A person who is used to covering for and enabling pedophiles would say this

He called Sen Mark Kelly a traitor
He called a guy rescuing kids a pedophile b/c it interfered with hawking his own BS company
He disowned his trans daughter
He supports neo-Nazis and other extremists.

What a great guy!

If a Democratic president said this we would be buried in an *avalanche* of takes about how out of touch they are. People got mad at Pelosi for having too much ice cream!!!!

I know it's cool to mock Aaron Sorkin's presidential fantasies as hopelessly naive, but it's easy to enjoy the fantasy of a president who can't buy his girlfriend flowers because he doesn't have a credit card, when the alternative is a president turning the White House into a Tesla dealership.

tesla car vehicles will have more legal protections than trans people

While it's fun to watch Tesla stock take a nose dive, keep in mind that Elon doesn't give a shit. He's about to make billions in government contracts and kickbacks.

To be clear, the U.S. is leveling punishing tariffs on its allies while discussing easing sanctions on Russia.

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

I literally reported this Wednesday.

I’m surprised there hasn’t been more outrage about Gretzky representing Canada as honorary captain at a time like this. Giving team Canada red “Be Great” hats? Disgusting. Not the time or the place to be promoting Gretzky or his political allegiances.

When these inaccuracies were first found, they could be called "mistakes."

When DOGE took efforts to cover them up, they can no longer be considered "mistakes."

Trump truth social post that reads: ELON IS DOING A GREAT JOB, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM GET MORE AGGRESSIVE. REMEMBER, WE HAVE A COUNTRY TO SAVE, BUT ULTIMATELY, TO MAKE GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE. MAGA!

Interesting thing for the President to say about a person who, according the government’s lawyers, “has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself” and “only has the ability to advise the President, or communicate the President’s directives.”

“I want you to thank me.”

💰Kristi Noem says Trump told her to spend $200 MILLION (taxpayer dollars) running ads thanking him for his immigration crackdown.

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Democrats should all start making the jerk off motion when asked about anything Trump-related, just to see how it gets described. “Controversial gesture that suggests self-pleasuring”

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

I am trying to imagine the reaction of Joe Biden or Barack Obama had spoken to a Republican governor in this way at a public event.

I just can’t. None of us can.

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

Doing this right before firing three top military leaders is so deranged. Source at DoD told me, “Disdain for Hegseth is a near-universal feeling even among the Trumpiest in the office.“

I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important:

Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?

GOP privacy hawks brush off concerns about DOGE data dives Republicans who have spent years railing against government intrusion on Americans' privacy are defending the latest DOGE efforts to access IRS data.

Tastes like hypocrisy www.politico.com/live-updates...

Elon Musk’s 28 False Claims Get 825.2 Million Views From $50 million taxpayer dollars for condoms in Gaza to a 40% pay increase for Congress, Musk is correct that some of his claims are “incorrect”

“Elon Musk’s 28 False Claims Get 825.2 Million Views.
From $50 million taxpayer dollars for condoms in Gaza to a 40% pay increase for Congress, Musk is correct that some of his claims are ‘incorrect’”

every single Republican in Congress is a massive cuck, never seen anything like this. we are in a constitutional crisis because these people are far more pathetic than the founding fathers could have ever imagined

He's not even trying to hide it Trump's Time Magazine interview exposes a malevolent fool.

The uncomfortable truth is the "Trump campaigned on egg prices" thing is something Dems tell themselves to rationalize what happened in November. Trump actually campaigned on hate and abusing power -- and won!

The sorry state of the American electorate is a difficult thing to come to terms with.

Musk Signals Willingness To Bid More Than $97 Billion To Acquire Respect WASHINGTON—Stressing that he was open to going far higher to close the deal, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced Wednesday that he had made an unsolicited $97.4 billion offer to acquire respect. “This is a ...

Musk Signals Willingness To Bid More Than $97 Billion To Acquire Respect

I was previously told by Republicans that the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan was one of history’s greatest scandals. But the chaotic withdrawal of *all* USAID from the whole globe?! Crickets.

this makes the other settlements look like arms-length, good-faith transactions.