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FBI Ousts Leader as Patel Fumes Over Attention to Agency Jet Use The FBI forced out a senior official overseeing aviation shortly after Director Kash Patel grew outraged about revelations of his publicly-available jet logs indicating he’d flown to see his musician ...

Scoop: FBI ousts senior official after Kash Patel’s fury over news of his use of government jet to see girlfriend perform. The removed head of critical incident response group was 27-year FBI veteran who oversaw aviation sections.
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I think about how someone could write "Hilary the Hawk, Donald the Dove," and remain employed a decade later at the most influential opinion page in the anglophone world despite that. Or perhaps because of it.

The messaging debates are disconnected from the fact that bills that Democrats brought to the floor of Congress have provisions that poll extremely well, whereas the bills that the GOP brought to the floor in Trump I and Trump II are among the least popular bills ever seen in modern polling

As I've said many times, the most sensible way to determine what the party wants & prioritizes is by looking at what it does when it has power to act, namely, when it has a trifecta at the state level. Take Minnesota:

My 3yr old was streaming a Turning Point event when she turned to me gravely and asked “Daddy, why is JD making out with Charlie Kirk’s widow?” And when I told her “Because he’s smart enough to not get trapped in a loveless marriage and instead get himself a younger and hotter wife” She began to cry

Team Trump Is Serious About Launching a ‘Neocon’ War on Venezuela Trump, the warmonger who once laughably vowed to stop “endless wars,” will not stop waging war on this South American nation. He’s got the target list to prove it.

This march to war is arguably even more illegal and appalling than Trump’s several other marches to war this year, Christ alive zeteo.com/p/team-trump...

idea for an alternate history show: British imperialism never changed or fell. the East India Company remains mighty today. they created the first powerful processed opiates and use them to maintain control over their far flung colonies

title: The Sun Never Percocets on the British Empire

At Broadview ICE detention facility for Mass today, Fr. David Inczauskis, SJ reveals “tragic” and “devastating” news that a member of group bearing Guadalupe Banner to Mass today, was detained by ICE this morning in procession to detention facility.

right, it’s a horrendous idea on about seventeen different levels and shouldn’t actually happen

but I still want to see how it would turn out

“wife mad at you? DEI”

he’s still got it, folks

I’m not going to lie, there’s a tiny part of me that wants to see them pull this third term shit in a way that lets Trump run against Obama the way he always wanted to and get absolutely obliterated

The Firewall Against Nick Fuentes Is Crumbling The white-supremacist influencer is entering the MAGA mainstream.

America has no idea what's about to hit them. "Young Republicans" are fully steeped in neo-Nazi edge lord talking points. Fuentes is the present and future of the GOP. After Trump, this is the new form of MAGA. The establishment isn't built for this fight.

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At a Lebanese halal place in West Springfield, Massachusetts waiting for shawarma shoulder to shoulder with a bunch of white people with horrible western Mass accents and Iraqis. I love America

Trump says it’s “probably illegal” for seth meyers to be anti-Trump

(Hard to imagine a better endorsement of Seth’s show)

“Rubio’s Ideological Project”: What’s Driving Trump’s Campaign Against Venezuela? The Trump administration has now killed at least 43 people in 10 strikes against so-called drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean. The threat of war against Venezuela and the surrounding region...

What's behind the Trump administration's renewed drug war in Latin America? "It’s primarily Marco Rubio’s ideological project," says historian Alejandro Velasco.

You Should Blame Merrick Garland Garland's incompetence gave the Supreme Court the chance to set Trump free

My latest is about the latest revelations on the failed prosecution of Donald Trump, and why you should blame Merrick Garland more than the Supreme Court.

Box of German beers

List of German beers

Just an FYI to everyone that Costco sells weeks worth of classic Octoberfest beers in a box.

I’m a third of the way through and they’ve all been delightful.

genuinely crazy-making how much the national press is indifferent to the verifiable fact that jd vance is buddy buddy with internet nazis, and the degree to which this is almost certainly a form of solidarity among people with a similar institution pedigree

fwiw: 49% of Americans APPROVING of a protest movement as it happens is... historically almost unheard of.
keep going.

A killer merman and a drowned sailor for Halloween this year 🧜🏻‍♂️☠️

I really can't thank you all enough for the help and support. It means everything to me, this crisis I'm in has completely blindsided me. It's literally left me with nothing but donations I've received and a little bit of money from what I could sell. I'm so close to my goal and it's thanks to you🖤

the party now cared more about climate change and various academic fixations than cheap energy and good-paying jobs.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

For some reason they think cheap energy means some combination of coal, fracking and oil drilling when in reality cheap energy is wind and solar.

Alt text: A post on X by Brianna Wu reads: “Trans sisters. I’m pretty sure I was wrong. I am sorry. I genuinely thought that as a trans woman, if I ceded some points with the gender critical crowd we could have a healthier conversation and arrive at better public policy. The problem is, they are getting crazier and more extreme. If you admit ‘trans women don’t belong in women’s sports,’ they agree, but call you a man the whole time. If you admit, ‘I understand I am a biological man, but this is how I want to live my life and talking about me like this is degrading,’ they scream about free speech. If you admit that hurtful language is part of free speech but you don’t have to associate with people that degrade you, they act like the victim and call you a man and then say you should be thrown in an insane asylum. It’s like this on everything. They are incapable of looking for a middle ground on bathrooms. They want maximalist policies on everything. They’d throw a fully transitioned, fully passing trans woman in male prison genpop and laugh as she got aids from being raped. I want a middle ground on so many of these policies. BUT THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM IS THEY DO NOT. They enjoy degrading us, it’s fun for them. So, sisters. I genuinely don’t know what to do. I think many of our most extreme ideas are bad. But theirs are worse. So if I have to pick, I choose us. I wish there were a political vehicle for compromise and medical safeguarding. But that just simply does not exist.” The post timestamp reads 6:52 AM, Nov 1, 2025, with 39.6K views.

WHAT DO YOU THINK WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU???!!!

it really should not and can not be forgotten that this type of technocratic liberal did so much heavy lifting and legitimizing of JD Vance in the public zeitgeist and is partially responsible as to why he is where he is now

Lies, damn lies, and shoplifting statistics For 32 years, the National Retail Federation (NRF) — the lobbying group representing major retailers in the United States — has produced the "National Retail Security Survey." The survey, widely cited...

"The new NRF report acknowledges that retailers do not 'have a unified industry database collecting retail crime data,' and many retailers lack 'the resources or capabilities to collect and track retail theft.' Yet the NRF still issued a report claiming shoplifting has increased 93% in four years."

Last night, the National Guard chased children who were out enjoying Halloween in Navy Yard.

There is no valid reason for armed soldiers to terrorize children like this. End Trump’s occupation of DC. National Guard out NOW.

U.S. Postal Service Cuts Funding for a Phoenix Mail Room Assisting Homeless People The loss of support comes at a time of uncertainty for one of Arizona’s largest homeless services providers as the Trump administration calls for reducing and restructuring homelessness assistance gra...

Paul Babcock is one of thousands of homeless people who rely on a Phoenix mail room that’s losing funding from the U.S. Postal Service.

He’s received mail from Social Security, replacement ID cards and chocolate chip cookies from his mother. “I’ve gotten everything from here,” he said.

Literally laughed out loud at this one. Incredible stuff from the local #teslatakedown folks

This thing is just a few extra parts away from being the G-Bull from the original Gundam!