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I just rewatched Glass Onion and this is exactly the kind of nonsense they threw in as a gag to signal to the audience that the character everyone thinks is a genius is actually extremely stupid.

I'm Colin McRoberts, running for Congress in the Kansas First District. And I approve the hell out this message.

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

Exclusive | Fannie Mae Watchdogs Probed How Pulte Obtained Mortgage Records of Key Democrats FHFA’s acting inspector general handed the probe report to the U.S. attorney office that had indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James.

1) Ethics officials at Fannie Mae investigate how Bill Pulte got Letitia James mortgage docs
2) They send findings to Inspector Gen. of FHFA, which Pulte heads
3) IG sends it to Lindsay Halligan, new USA prosecuting James
4) IG and ethics officials are all fired.

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Hannity: When did you notice Biden’s cognitive decline?

Miller: I think it was through all of the times that Trump has fallen asleep in public and talked about magnets getting wet.

In Explaining His Gaffe, Heritage Foundation Leader Pleads Ignorance

A Conservative view of mine: Hume was spot on to criticize the Stoics for disregarding reputation.

We need to bring back shame, fear for reputation.

Like: giving a public speech to defend promoting a proud, sneering NAZI—then mumbling “I don’t know much about him”—is craven and filthy.

a “Space Force”, if you will

Artisanal sass

Donald Trump was Practicing Paraphilia the Right Way

When Ivanka Trump was 17 years old, she reportedly set an age limit for the women that dad Donald Trump was allowed to date. "I have a deal with her," Trump said of his daughter during a taping of The Howard Stern Show in June 1999. "She's 17 and doing great - Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her, that I would never date a girl younger than her." The New York Daily News pointed out that 17 is the age of consent in New York, "so Trump essentially told Ivanka that he wouldn't violate statutory rape law."

So this is around the time Ivanka asked her dad not to date anyone younger than her.

Five Questions for IRS CEO Frank Bisignano The IRS has a new leader – maybe he can tell us whats happening

New at Can We Still Govern: The IRS is a key agency and its decline is emblematic of Trump-era mismanagement.

@vanessawilliamson.bsky.social & Eliis Chen lay out the questions that Democrats should be asking its new leader.

Incredibly informative piece.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/five-quest...

WSJ: Fannie Mae watchdogs who were removed from their jobs had been probing if Trump appointee Bill Pulte had improperly obtained mortgage records of key Democratic officials, including New York Attorney General Letitia James.

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Judge who authorized Kansas newspaper raid escapes discipline with secret conflicting explanation • Kansas Reflector Laura Viar, the magistrate who authorized last year’s police raid on the Marion County Record, escaped discipline from a state panel with contradictory claims.

No discipline. Not clear if there was an investigation.

kansasreflector.com/2024/08/04/j...

Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.

Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...

What’s crazy is that this is functionally what’s happening with the ACA tax credits. You’ve basically got a certain amount of subsidy from the credit and you pick a policy off the exchange; the credit reduces the premium.

history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting

I keep bringing it up but Julia Ioffe’s fantastic feminist history of Russia discusses how men in Russia basically saw any decline in their station as a personal affront and reacted accordingly (by drinking and doing nothing else)

Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.

The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.

It's my favorite day in the negotiation class I teach: the Kobayashi Maru exercise.

It's a hell of a fun negotiation. To watch. From a distance.

This is lifted from the novels of Iain M. Banks, which Musk has claimed as an inspiration before. It wasn't stupid in the novels, because they're sci-fi.

Banks famously wrote a villain eerily similar to Musk; he covets ideas and advances he doesn't understand.

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If I'd voted for this the aftermath would haunt me for the rest of my life.

I doubt the people who did vote for it have looked at the numbers even once, or experienced a second of empathy.

He straight up Roger Marshalled it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKP6...

In related headlines, was the eponymous Ian Betteridge tragically killed in a blimp accident in 2009?

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I just wish the CEO of Novo Nordisk would have turned to President Trump and said “that would be very communist of you to force a company to ‘give a piece’ to the government when it demands it” -or something like that.

Should we refrain from forcibly tattooing Betteridge's Law of Headlines on the torso of every pundit and thought leader, upside down so they can read it before they sin again?

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Trump’s Politicized Prosecutions May Hit a Roadblock When the president puts his political enemies on trial on pretextual grounds, jurors have the option of refusing to convict.

A reminder that if you are called to be part of a jury in a political prosecution you have a right to refuse to convict on the grounds the prosecution is unjust. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is why Facebook is leading the way in workplace well-being with the installation of Meta Menstrual Hubs conveniently located in the parking facilities of corporate offices, so that employees can safely isolate the causes gossip, indirectness, frivolity, and other KPI afflictions

Saw that as I was leaving work--bit of a forgone conclusion. Enjoyable, though.